Social & Urban History Biographies

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

By Peter Galison

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

By Ray Monk

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James, James, Lawrence

The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

Bertrand Russell: v.2: 1921-70 The Ghost of Madness

By Ray Monk

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

The Memoirs of Madame Roland: Witness to the French Revolution

By Marie-Jeanne Roland De La Platiere, Evelyn Shuckburgh

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

By Patrick Coffey (Visiting Scholar, Office for the History of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley)

Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings

By Rosa Luxemburg, Helen C. Scott, Paul Le Blanc incorrect

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

By Heilbroner, Robert L.

Little Gloria - Happy at Last: Biography of Gloria Vanderbilt

By Barbara Goldsmith

All The King's Women

By Wilson, Derek

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation

By Wrong, Michela

The Lives of Michel Foucault

By Macey, David

Women of the French Revolution

By Kelly, Linda

Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile

By Eugene Sheppard

The Legacy of Leo Strauss

By Tony Burns, James Connelly

The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy

By Catherine H. Zuckert, Michael P. Zuckert

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

John Lennon: The Life

By Norman, Philip

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross

Nervous Splendour: Vienna, 1888-89

By Frederic Morton

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

By Jeffrey E. Garten

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

Walking Tall

By Weston, Simon