Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN :
Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 1965-09
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0714616907
First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Michael Bliss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1487516746
The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink of death, and it was no surprise that in 1923 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the Canadian research team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod. In this engaging and award-winning account, historian Michael Bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin – a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and scientific genius. Originally published in 1982 and updated in 1996, The Discovery of Insulin has won the City of Toronto Book Award, the Jason Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Author : FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Publisher : PURE SNOW PUBLISHING
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
- This book contains custom design elements for each chapter. This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom. Its shocking first-hand account of the horrors of slavery became an international best seller. His eloquence led Frederick Douglass to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. • Douglass rose through determination, brilliance and eloquence to shape the American Nation. • He was an abolitionist, human rights and women’s rights activist, orator, author, journalist, publisher and social reformer • His personal relationship with Abraham Lincoln helped persuade the President to make emancipation a cause of the Civil War.
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Jan Lindsten
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789810234102
Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520315227
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
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Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1913
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1652 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Victor Hugo collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic Movement. And he is also considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. This meticulously edited collection will bring you closer to his true persona. You will find out the amazing circumstances and true events in his incredible life full of turmoil, great success as well as great defeats. Contents: Biography Victor Hugo: His Life and Work Autobiography The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Essays Medley of Philosophy and Literature Napoleon the Little William Shakespeare The History of a Crime Speeches: "In Defense of His Son" Address to the Workman's Congress at Marseille Oration on Voltaire Letters: Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Letter to the London News Regarding John Brown Letter to Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman on American Slavery
Author : Adrian Fort
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Frederick Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, is one of the most influential yet least known figures of the twentieth century. Born in 1886 into a rich family of German origin, he became Winston Churchill's scientific adviser and close friend and reached the very pinnacle of political, scientific and social life in Britain. Lindemann - or Prof as he was widely known - was raised in Devonshire and educated in Berlin and Paris. A gifted musician and sportsman, as a young man he played tennis against both the Kaiser and the Czar. He went on to become one of the world's leading figures in science's heroic age. He championed and befriended Einstein. He repeatedly risked his own life - and saved many others - in demonstrating how to escape from aeroplane spin. And, between wars, he established almost from scratch Oxford University's international reputation in physics. During the 1930s Lindemann campaigned strenuously against appeasement and moved to the centre of policy-making when he joined the Cabinet. He was described by R A Butler as 'that sharp-witted, sharp-tounged, pertinacious and more than slightly conspiritorial character who has long been Churchill's closest friend and con
