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By the author of the classic bestseller The Godfather From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, the immigrant families struggle with an adopted life - none more so than the Angeluzzi-Corbos. At their head stands Lucia Santa, wife, widow and mother of two families. It is he... More

Taking a global approach and covering political leaders from the beginning of the 20th century up through the end of the cold war, Biographical Dictionary of Modern World Leaders: 1900 to 1991 provides approximately 400 detailed biographical sketches outlining the major events and achievements in th... More

Reconstructs early Mongol society, recounts how Genghis Khan organized the Mongol tribes into one powerful empire, and examines the reasons for his success... More

Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and Pipes went on to earn a college degree, join the U.S. Air Corps, serve as professor of Russian history at Harvard for nearly forty years,... More

Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) was an important British historian and religious thinker whose ideas, in particular his concept of a "Whig interpretation of history," remain deeply influential. In this intellectual biography--the first comprehensive study of Butterfield--C.T. McIntire focuses on the... More

Malcolm Cowley Hart Crane's life was notoriously turbulent, persistently nonconformist, and tragically short. This new biography presents for the first time a full, frank portrait of the real Hart Crane, a poet attractive both for his flamboyance and passion for life, and for the magnificent sonorit... More

This volume offers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by eighteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. This fourth edition adds five new Nobel laureates to its list of contributors: Gary S. Becker, recipient in 1992; John C. Harsanyi, co-recip... More

"I realized I was willing to die for Java." –– KIM POLESE, MARIMBA "I was the opposite of a party animal.I had this thing where if I was signed up for a [college] class, I wouldn’t go to the class, ever." –– BILL GATES, MICROSOFT "I don’t know w... More

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Identifies important men and women in politics, education, business, the arts, the sciences, and publishing... More

A reference containing some five thousand entries, alphabetically organized for easy access, features concise profiles of notable figures in the fields of science, art, history, politics, sports, and entertainment.... More

This A-Z reference covers over 1000 major personalities who lived during some of the most eventful years in European history. In biographical entries of up to 300+ words, Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 spans an era which saw the Renaissance and baroque periods in art, the Reformation and ensuing blo... More

The 63rd edition of a reference book classic, this book provides information on the most eminent and distinguished men and women in the, world today. With nearly 20,000 reliable and detailed entries, almost 1,000 completely new entries are included. Exclusive to this edition is a special pictorial j... More