Is this the age of the short biography series? It began with Penguin Lives, which was, in part, a reaction to the brawny biographies reviewers have been complaining about for a generation or more. The ...

HEmploying both history and myth in a steady yet open style, Strong has very admirably achieved his goal of producing a "middle way" biography of the Buddha for interested generalists and students ...

A short account of the life of a prominent exiled Russian anarcho-syndicalist, perhaps best known for his compilation of Bakunin's writings and also The Guillotine At Work - his epic survey of ...