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Biografier giver dig adgang til ægte livsfortællinger og skæbner, der har sat deres præg på verden. Her finder du bøger om både nulevende og historiske personer - fra de magtfulde til de misforståede, fra kendte navne til hverdagens helte. Vores udvalg rummer inspirerende historier om mod, passion og vilje, hvor virkelighedens stemmer får plads. Uanset om du søger en biografi med indhold til samlingen, en rørende gave eller blot ønsker at læse om mennesker, der har ændret verden, er der masser at vælge imellem. Find din næste biografi hos WilliamDam.dk og oplev fortællinger, der berører og sætter sig fast.
Sir Robert Robinson was among the last of the great organic chemists in the chemical tradition, achieving brilliant results with extremely simple apparatus. This work examines his early student days to the years of his success.
John Evelyn ranks with his friend Samuel Pepys as one of the best loved of English diarists. This is a study of a... Læs mere
A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The first biography of one of the twentieth century's leading internationalists, Sir Norman Angell, author of The Great Illusion, Labour MP, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, which reveals that his life has hitherto been much misrepresented and misunderstood.
This volume presents the biography of the archaeologist Tessa Verney Wheeler through an examination of her written work, archives, sites,... Læs mere
Denis Sampson explores John McGahern's discovery of art as a young man and traces the development of his signature vision and style. Sampson considers McGahern's... Læs mere
Chief ministers in 18th century Britain, the Pelham brothers guided Britain through the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. The volume also includes information on material, such as microfilmed manuscripts, outside the United Kingdom.
This book examines the career of Philip Skippon, commander of the infantry in parliament’s New Model Army during the British Civil War, to elucidate new conclusions on historical debates surrounding the Civil Wars and understand how military events impacted upon broader themes.
A fascinating collection of eighteenth century biographies of street robbers, pickpockets, burglers, horse thieves and confidence tricksters. Background historical information and footnotes are provided.
Meshing archival research with interviews with Rank's contemporaries and family, this definitive study charts every aspect of the 1940s "golden era" of the British Film Industry that Rank helped to create.
Charts the astonishing correspondence between these two great thinkers to reveal much about the intellectual culture of the period. Previously unpublished material details their extraordinary personal and professional relationship.
`An authoritative and accessible study of Elizabeth I's marriage negotiations.' Christopher Durston. Doran views the question of the Queen's celibacy within a wider political and religious context.