Biography Books

• 'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794

  Michael J. Franklin

   Amazon

• 1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World

  Laurentino Gomes

   Amazon

• Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

  Sarah Kaminsky

   Amazon

• Agricola

  Tacitus

   Amazon

• Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

  Paula Findlen

   Amazon

• Avicenna

  Lenn E. Goodman

   Amazon

• Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian

  David Alan Parnell

   Amazon

• Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns

  Owen Connelly

   Amazon

• Bonaparte: 1769–1802

  Patrice Gueniffey

   Amazon

• Carl Friedrich Gauss: A Biography

  Tord Hall

   Amazon

• Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell

  Georgina Howell

   Amazon

• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

  Alfred Lansing

   Amazon

• Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics

  Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon

   Amazon

• Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress

  Jessica Hooten Wilson

   Amazon

• Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker

  Thomas Kunkel

   Amazon

• Gregory the Great and his World

  R. A. Markus

   Amazon

• Jonas Salk: A Life

  Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

   Amazon

• Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

  Leonard Warren

   Amazon

• Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

  Peter Sarris

   Amazon

• Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

  Greg Grandin

   Amazon

• Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult

  Siren Celik

   Amazon

• Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

  Giles Milton

   Amazon

• Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life

  Bruce T. Moran

   Amazon

• Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown da Vinci

  Avril Pyman

   Amazon

• Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

  Gary Weiss

   Amazon

• Semmelweis

  Louis-Ferdinand Céline

   Amazon

• Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier

  Raleigh Trevelyan

   Amazon

• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

  Gertrude Stein

   Amazon

• The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

  Maya Jasanoff

   Amazon

• The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union

  Loren Graham

   Amazon

• The Lives of the Artists

  Giorgo Vasari

   Amazon

• The Meaning of Hitler

  Sebastian Haffner

   Amazon

• The Pillow Book

  Sei Shonagon

   Amazon

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

  Robert Caro

   Amazon

• The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

  Alan Brinkley

   Amazon

• The Seventh Letter: A Philosophical Mystery at Plato's Academy

  Mihai Iuliu Spariosu

   Amazon

• The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

  Massimo Mazzotti

   Amazon

• Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans

  Hans-Ulrich Wiemer

   Amazon

• Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

  Natalie Zemon Davis

   Amazon

• Wallenstein, His Life Narrated

  Golo Mann

   Amazon

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