Operation Carder Kaos offers a rare inside look at the murky world of cybercrime, where deception is currency and exposure can be deadly. Its a high-stakes, real-world thriller about betrayal, digital warfare, and the price of living two lives....More info...
It focuses on the life writings of three Colombian social movement leaders and contrasts them with the memoirs of a hegemonic ex-president. These autobiographies and their representation of nonviolence are analyzed examining the emplotment the struc...More info...
A biography of the Molteno family, political reformers, activists, and civil servants, who helped shape South African history. From the Cape Colonys first prime minister to anti-segregation crusaders, a story of public service, anti-racism, and prog...More info...
This book was published in 1966, when it was a 100 years since a young man of 20 arrived in London on his way from Dublin to China. A change of plan delayed his departure and, instead of becoming a missionary in the foreign field, he stayed here to...More info...
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV. Edward IV remains essential reading for all students of late medieval England, the Wars...More info...
Dr. Jonny Acheson, an Emergency Medicine Consultant in one of the UKs busiest departments, loved his job. Diagnosed with Parkinsons in 2016, his once-thriving environment worsened his symptoms. When Your Neurons Dance explores his adaptation, suppor...More info...
First published in 1956, The Life of Ludwig Mond is one of the earliest biographies to present the story of Dr. Mond. It throws light on the progressive changes that have taken place in chemical knowledge....More info...
Charting the life and writings of Wadysaw Biekowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Wadysaw Gomuka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Polan...More info...
The Nine Magazines of Kodansha (1934) is the autobiography of the Japanese publisher Seiji Noma, owner of the Kodan Company, publishing several million-selling magazines and a daily paper. He details his upbringing in post-feudal Japan, and the mode...More info...
Horace Walpole (1964) was widely acclaimed when it first appeared as the best life of Walpole yet written. It is scholarly and thorough, and since then there is no reason to believe that it has been displaced....More info...
Series: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - CEU Press
(Pub. Date: 14-Apr-2025, Publisher: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003718208)
This book is a detailed biography of the writer and journal editor who probably changed the literary culture of the Soviet Union more than any other person in the two decades after Stalins death....More info...
The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four womenConstance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antiochand an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, i...More info...
With newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated, this book gives a lively account of an undocumented story of WWII, Black American, and Dutch military history....More info...
Originally published in 1988, Rotten to the Core? asks who was the real Neville Heath? The author deals with Heath the psychopath, but it also depicts the curious post-war society which allowed him to take root and to flourish, showing that Heath th...More info...
Originally published in 1987, in this new approach to the case of William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Francis Selwyn looks both at the career of Joyce, the Irish-American-cum-Fascist bully-boy, and the changing nature of treason, altered by the events of...More info...
Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis. Through it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, charts his own development...More info...
This book explores how we can re-constitute our approach to analysing and empirically investigating the organisation of white-collar and corporate crimes, with a view to building fuller theoretical and empirical accounts. It investigates mechanisms,...More info...
First published in 1988, Triumph over Darkness is a stirring story of determination and tenacity in the face of adversity. Lennard Bickel researched this story in Paris and in the small village where Louis Braille was born....More info...
This biography provides a well-rounded analysis of Queen Charlotte by considering her own perspectives on queenship and her role in Britain....More info...
This book shares the life narrative of Deysi Quiñones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic....More info...
This book, the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, shows how key turns in Goffmans career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history.The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffmans scholarship which has...More info...
This book offers an analysis of the many stories celebrating the life and deeds of Cyrus the Great over millennia and what they reveal about Cyrus and contemporary societies who wrote about him. Suitable for students and scholars working on the Acha...More info...
Barbara Bray was an English translator from French to English. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious minds of the 20th century: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Losey, Franco Zeffirelli and Marguerite Duras. This literary biog...More info...
Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth. It is a remarkable...More info...
First published in 1939, Marshal Pilsudski presents a comprehensive biographical history of Jσzef Klemens Pisudski (1867-1935). This book discusses various facets of his life and is an important historical reference work....More info...
Originally published in 1939, The Diary of Dudley Ryder 17151716, comprises an early diary and a few related notes by Sir Dudley Ryder when he was a student at the Middle Temple. The diary is a fascinating record of the character and life of a moder...More info...
This first full-length study of sister-queens Kleopatra II and Kleopatra Thea explores the roles and ideology of ancient queensship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. Suitable for st...More info...
The first scholarly treatment of the life of William Maginn, David Latanιs meticulously researched biography follows Maginns life from his early days in Ireland through his career in Paris and London as political journalist, editor and writer and fi...More info...
