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Biography
A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film.
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Memoirs of a Mongol without a Pony
by R.G. Stern (Goodreads Author)
by R.G. Stern (Goodreads Author)
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
by Michael Sims
by Michael Sims
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date: Jan 24, 2017
In ARTHUR AND SHERLOCK, Michael Sims traces the circuitous development of Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery, from his early days in
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The Last of the Lascars: Yemeni Muslims in Britain 1836-2012
by Mohammed Siddique Seddon
by Mohammed Siddique Seddon
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Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
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― Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
― Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
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Broad-Based Education:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.… I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.… It
was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical
application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
—Commencement address, Stanford
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― George Beahm, I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words
― George Beahm, I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words
This group is for anyone who enjoys Non Fiction. Genres discussed here are Histories, Autobiogra…more
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This group will explore the realm of people's lives through space and time with the help of memo…more
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