[ART Vol. a96 v.1] A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: ... With a preface, shewing the utility of a collection of engraved portraits ... By the Rev. J. Granger, ...

Louis Pierre Couffignal (1902-1966), a French Mathematician and Cybernetics pioneer, was born in Monflanquin, Fâcheries, on 16 March 1902, in a humble family: his father Guillaume Couffignal (born ...

The group biography has been around for centuries: There was Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, written some 1,900 years ago and a staple of classical education ever since; the Bishop ...

This zesty romp through millennia of biographical portraits comes from \t\t the pen of a master biographer (JFK: Reckless \t\t Youth). Hamilton's a friendly spectator to his own art, undaunted by \t\t ...

Abstract Biography is one of the most popular categories of books—and indeed the most popular category among nonfiction books, according to one British poll. Thus, biography offers historians of ...

Ever been asked to write a “biographical memoir” of a recently deceased scientist? Robert P Crease explains why such articles are so tricky to get right Life story Composing a decent written memorial ...