Mary Ann Fay, "Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0312219660 | PDF | pages: 248 | 30.9 mb
Ranging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including the notorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century Palestinian activist Kulthum Auda. The book also draws on the biographical tradition of Arab historical writing, including biographical dictionaries, for an understanding of the region s social and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope and theoretically informed, this volume brings to light individual lives which are essential to an understanding of Middle Eastern history.

Arun Tiwari, "DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER SO ARE MORALS: Autobiography of Govind Dholakia"
English | ISBN: 0670095729 | 2022 | 380 pages | EPUB | 779 KB
Diamonds Are Forever is a tongue-in-cheek narrative,which is penned meticulously by an engineer-scientist and an educationalist. This book is going to be a modern roll-in-one ofLaw of Successby Napoleon Hill,How to Win Friends and Influence Peopleby Dale Carnegie, andWings of Fireby APJ Abdul Kalam.

Robert Schultz, "Autobiography of a Baby Boomer"
English | ISBN: 1611530490 | 2013 | 424 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
From the beaches of Formentera to prison in Afghanistan to seeking Nirvana in India and back, Schultz shares in a delightful writing style anecdotes of pleasure, humor, suspense, fear, and reflection that ultimately transformed him into a well-respected orthopaedic surgeon. In Autobiography of a Baby Boomer you ll follow the journey of a postmodernist baby-boomer from Father Knows Best middle class Fair Lawn, New Jersey to the hippy trail through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The overland journey in search of something more than he could find at Cornell University Medical College covers four years during a time when dropping out, turning on, and free-love were the gospel. Through his travels, drugs, séances, very far-out Road People, and his parents unremitting love, author Robert Schultz comes to truly appreciate the American way of life. In an admittedly unconventional way, Schultz discovers the rather conventional joy of having a family and the awesome responsibility that comes with it.

Jon E. Lewis, "Ancient Rome: The Autobiography"
English | ISBN: 0762437367 | 2010 | 578 pages | EPUB | 796 KB
The great events of Roman history are represented here, from the Battle of Mylae to the triumph of the Barbarians, and Rome's social, cultural, and religious life in all its sophistication, luxury, and depravity. Using memoirs, letters, and official reports, inscriptions, and household accounts, this new collection draws from life sketches of the Roman way of war, empire building, civilization, and the pax romana.

Hakuin Ekaku, Norman Waddell, "Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1590308093, 1570624356 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.0 mb
A fiery and intensely dynamic Zen teacher and artist, Hakuin (1685-1768) is credited with almost single-handedly revitalizing Japanese Zen after three hundred years of decline. As a teacher, he placed special emphasis on koan practice, inventing many new koans himself, including the famous "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" This English translation of Hakuin's intimate self-portrait includes reminiscences from his childhood, accounts of his Zen practice and enlightenment experiences, as well as practical advice for students.

Sonja Boon, "The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada "
English | ISBN: 1032044381 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to give teachers and students the tools they need to study both canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives are and how they work, and offers an historical overview of key moments in Canadian auto/biography. Not sure what life writing in Canada is, or how to study it? This critical introduction covers the tools and approaches you require in order to undertake your own interpretation of life writing texts. You will encounter nonfictional writing about individual lives and experiences―including biography, autobiography, letters, diaries, comics, poetry, plays, and memoirs. The volume includes case studies to provide examples of how to study and research life narratives and toolkits to help you apply what you learn. The

Singing Away the Hunger : The Autobiography of an African Woman By Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya, K Limakatso Kendall (editor)
1997 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0253333520 | PDF | 12 MB
A compelling and unique autobiography by an African woman with little formal education, less privilege, and almost no experience of books or writing. Mpho's voice is a voice almost never heard in literature or history, a voice from within the struggle of ""ordinary"" African women to negotiate a world which incorporates ancient pastoral ways and the congestion, brutality, and racist violence of city life. It is also the voice of a born storyteller who has a subject worthy of her gifts - a story for all the world to hear.

Helen Lawrence, "CALLED BEFORE BIRTH: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HELEN LAWRENCE"
English | ISBN: 1477251332 | 2013 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1419 KB
As Helen grew from infancy to childhood, she is aware something is not right in her family. The family problem only became clear as Helen reached school years. Much of her appreciation of life as a whole came to her as she spends many hours alone in the fields and woods in the area where the family was living. It is here that Helen observes the beauty and wonder of creation. An avid reader from a young age, she finds solace in the stories of children and adults in a similar situation as herself and finds satisfaction in their triumph over adversity. After the Second World War is over and the family moves to South Africa, life becomes fuller as Helen begins to discover who she is as a person. Through the love and nurture of Christians, she comes to a spiritual awakening of God’s love for her and that he has a purpose and future for her. Helen discovers she has a calling from God; she follows that calling as she is led by the Spirit of God and, eventually, becomes an ordained minister in the Church of England.

Pearl Sunshine, "Becoming Pearl: An Autobiography of Love (Three) "
English | ISBN: 0974646482 | 2020 | 292 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This third book in the Loved Back to Life Series, reveals Pearl's personal search for meaning and Purpose in life today when death was the only option she thought existed. She wanted to believe in hope buried very deep in her heart, but that meant trusting in a God she no longer believed. She had survived her traumas and SRA abuses from family and cults through a survival mechanism known as Dissociative Identity (Disorder or DID). Learning why God allowed this is the point of her autobiography...not in the how but in the Who. She cries out to God through Jesus to explain why she should keep on living carrying these memories of abuse, pain and suffering that still controlled her choices in life. If He would or could heal her with a reason and will to continue then they would keep talking. How God brings healing to all in her system of people...culminating in one person living today is poignantly revealed in her journaled conversations from the beginning with Jesus, to understand God's love for her and all of His children. She shouts, denies, gives up, submits, challenges, obeys and finally chooses to trust in God's love as He overcomes her fears to live renewed again. As seen in the introductions in each book, God's desire is to give back hope to all who have lost it or had it stolen and empower each of us to rise above our circumstances in life through His eternal love living within and through us.

Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History By David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn
2004 | 333 Pages | ISBN: 025321727X | PDF | 21 MB
What does it mean to narrate the story of a life, whether one's own or someone else's, orally or in writing? Which lives are worth telling, and who is authorized to tell them? This volume considers these questions through close examination of a range of biographies, autobiographies, diaries, and oral stories from India.