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Stalin's Singing Spy follows the life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, who achieved fame as one of Nicholas II's favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin's agents. The first Western biography and the first to reconstruct her sensationalized trial for kidnapping a White Army general, this book provides a fascinating window into Soviet-era espionage.

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Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics from the early 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Educated in Melbourne and Cambridge, Bruce, as a businessman, was alive to the importance of international commerce, and Anglo-Australian trade. This title presents Bruce as a consistent internationalist.

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Moving away from the domain of idolization and veneration, Tendayi Sithole situates Steve Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. Through an exploration of Biko's meditations, Sithole introduces Biko to readers as a decolonial philosopher, someone more than just a biographical subject.

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Moving away from the domain of idolization and veneration, Sithole situates Steve Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. Through an exploration of Biko's meditations, Sithole introduces Biko to readers as a decolonial philosopher, someone more than just a biographical subject.

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A thorough and effectively executed study, this biography will appeal to anyone interested in Stonewall Jackson and the military history of the Civil War.

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The definitive biography of the legendary conservative Senator from South Carolina, with new revelations about his life and career.

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Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life.

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Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person and influential as a politician. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches in the First World War and by his work as an MP during the Depression, he was a Tory rebel - an outspoken backbencher. This book tells his story.

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A penetrating memoir on forty years of fighting for civil liberties, human rights, and justice by the former executive director of the ACLU and Human Rights Watch and the current President of the Open Society Institute

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Originally published in hardcover in 2017 by Threshold Editions.

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A life in service, from nursery maid to head nanny, in Victorian and Edwardian England.

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Useful for student research assignments, this title features important figures - contemporary and historical - drawn from a range of curriculum subject areas, including history, science, politics, literature, and the arts. It includes timeline highlighting significant biographical events and career contributions.

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Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud is a beautifully written account of Sun Shuyuns journey to retrace the steps of one of the most popular figures in Chinese history the monk Xuanzang, who travelled to India searching for true Buddhism.

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In this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, whose leadership and aggressive tactics helped win the Civil War, crush the marauding Plains Indians-and save Yellowstone.

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A day to day glimpse into the regular life of a soldier in the United States Army.

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"[This book] is the definitive account of [Eisenhower's] presidency, drawing extensively on declassified material... that explains why this "do-nothing" president is... regarded as one of the best leaders our country has ever had"--Amazon.com.