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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

A " Who' s Who" of World History Whether you need to know the year George W. Bush was born, the year Bill Gates founded Microsoft, the birth names of Este e Lauder and Ralph Lauren, or the titles of William Faulkner' s most successful books, turn to the "Random House Dictionary of World Biography," ... More

Published annually since 1935, The International Whos Who is now in its seventy-first edition. Providing hard-to-find biographical details for over 20,000 of the worlds most prominent and influential personalities, this outstanding reference work records the lives and achievements of men and women f... More

Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land empire ever. On his death in 1227, this extended from the Near East to the Yellow Sea, and was expanded by his successors to include what is now Iran, Iraq and southern Russia. By 1206, Genghis Khan had completed the unif... 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

Offering dynamic coverage of the battles of a superior tactician, this study of Alexander the Great looks at the strategies and techniques of one of the most successful military commanders in history.In this book, Waldemar Heckel provides a revisionist overview of the conquests of Alexander the Grea... More

"Julia Augusti" studies the life of Augustus' only child, Julia, in a time of radical social, political and dynastic change which brought her from successful marriage and motherhood to disgrace and exile. This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society... 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

"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 what made me decide that my life should always be abo... More

Since 1849, "Who's Who" has offered an international listing of the most prominent and important people in politics, the arts, business, the sciences, sports--in short, virtually every field of endeavor. "Who's Who "gives the reader instant access to the backgrounds, life histories, and interests of... More

In this accessible biographical guide, relive Europe's most exciting of periods - the time of the Renaissance and the Reformation, the time of da Vinci and Erasmus, and the time of Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell.In this accessible biographical guide, relive Europe's most exciting of periods - the t... More

Residue analysis in food is an essential science in terms of the number of laboratories and analysts involved worldwide and the range of analytical techniques available. This text uniquely combines the principles and applications of the various techniques employed in residue analysis, so as to provi... 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

The most current and comprehensive, single-volume, biographical reference of living and dead Americans available. The book contains nearly 9,000 entries written for general readers in fluid narrative style. Each entry is self-contained and does not assume any historic knowledge. What sets this book ... 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

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From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient philosophical riddles of light and motion; he effective... More