Social & Urban History Biographies

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By David Remnick

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

By Patricia Bell-Scott

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

By Suzy Hansen

The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Native nostalgia

By Jacob Dlamini

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time

By Griffiths, Jay

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

I'll Be There For You: The ultimate book for Friends fans everywhere

By Kelsey Miller

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

By Stuart Isacoff

The Glass Mother: A Memoir

By Rosie Jackson

Thomas Clarkson: A Biography

By Ellen Gibson Wilson

Strong Female Character

By Hanna Flint

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Jerilderie Letter

By The Jerilderie Letter Ned Kelly

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions

By John Mitchell

The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin

By Mark Lilla, Ronald William Dworkin, MD, Robert Silvers

Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

By E.M. Standing, Standing, E. M.

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

By Alisdair D.F. Macrae (Senior Lecturer, University of Sterling)

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea

By Junger, Sebastian

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

Meister Eckhart , Vol. 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith

George Lucas: A Biography

By John Baxter

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

By Luce Irigaray, Gillian Gill

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

By Mark Gevisser

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung