Books about Biography

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

Michael J. Franklin

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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

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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

Sarah Kaminsky

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Agricola

Tacitus

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Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Paula Findlen

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Avicenna

Lenn E. Goodman

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

David Alan Parnell

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Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns

Owen Connelly

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Bonaparte: 1769–1802

Patrice Gueniffey

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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Carl Friedrich Gauss: A Biography

Tord Hall

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Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell

Georgina Howell

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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

Robert K Massie

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

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Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

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

Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon

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

Jessica Hooten Wilson

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Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker

Thomas Kunkel

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Gregory the Great and his World

R. A. Markus

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Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

Jacob Soll

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Jonas Salk: A Life

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

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Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Leonard Warren

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Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Peter Sarris

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

Greg Grandin

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Life of Mashtots

Koryun

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

Siren Celik

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

Giles Milton

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Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life

Bruce T. Moran

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Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon

Katherine Frank

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

Avril Pyman

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

Gary Weiss

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Semmelweis

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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

Raleigh Trevelyan

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein

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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

Maya Jasanoff

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The Emperor Elagabalus: Fact or Fiction?

Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

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

Loren Graham

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The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

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The Life of St. Anthony

Athanasius of Alexandria

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The Lives of the Artists

Giorgo Vasari

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The Lives of the Monks of Palestine

Cyril of Scythopolis

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The Mafia Encyclopedia

Carl Sifakis

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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

Simon Winchester

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The Meaning of Hitler

Sebastian Haffner

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The Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon

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

Robert Caro

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

Alan Brinkley

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

Mihai Iuliu Spariosu

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The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

Massimo Mazzotti

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Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans

Hans-Ulrich Wiemer

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Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Natalie Zemon Davis

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Wallenstein, His Life Narrated

Golo Mann

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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

David Edmonds & John Eidinow

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