Biography Books

• '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 St. Anthony

  Athanasius of Alexandria

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• The Lives of the Artists

  Giorgo Vasari

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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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