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 ...

This playful animated short gives an overview of the inventor's life, while pointing out that he might have been more of an exceptional businessman than a creative genius.

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 ...