logo
Home / Humanities / Biographies

Biographies - Page 26

Filters

Availability
Select availability
Author
Select author
Publisher
Select publisher
Release year
Select release year
506 products
Filters
Sort by:
Newest
Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about...
€30.00 -10%
€27.00
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins

Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins

The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the...
€38.00 -11%
€34.00
The Work I Did: A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels

The Work I Did: A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels

I know no one ever believes us nowadays – everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing. It wa...
€14.00 -10%
€12.60
Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher

Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher

An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences...
€28.00 -11%
€25.00
Claude Levi- Strauss: A Critical Study of his Thought

Claude Levi- Strauss: A Critical Study of his Thought

One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropolo...
€42.00 -10%
€37.80
The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg

The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg

The cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the pitched pol...
€21.00 -10%
€18.90
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell

Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell

Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. B...
€24.00 -10%
€21.60
The Lives of Michel Foucault

The Lives of Michel Foucault

When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential F...
€28.00 -11%
€25.00
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West’s grea...
€14.00 -10%
€12.60
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography

Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography

Rosa Luxemburg is one of the most controversial and important figures in the development of Marxism....
€55.00 -10%
€49.50
Oscar: A Life

Oscar: A Life

'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar' TLS, Books of the Y...
€35.00 -10%
€31.50
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential...
€24.00 -10%
€21.60
Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask

Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask

A magnificent new biography of Henrik Ibsen, among the greatest of modern playwrightsHenrik Ibsen (1...
€40.00 -10%
€36.00
The Medici

The Medici

Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici...
€20.90 -10%
€18.90
A Mind at Play: The Brilliant Life of Claude Shannon, Inventor of the Information Age

A Mind at Play: The Brilliant Life of Claude Shannon, Inventor of the Information Age

This is the extraordinary story of the little-known man who influenced every computer built, email s...
€24.00 -10%
€21.60

Newsletter

Subscribe to the newsletter to be the first to receive our new releases and offers
Your account Your wishlist