Poetry Month!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Textbooks


spacer

Textbooks
Biography


There are 691 books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Textbooks - Biography
Page 1 of 35 next

Into the Wild
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Publisher Comments
Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, Krakauer searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled 24-year-old Chris McCandless to leave civilization behind and head into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Four months later, McCandless'... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


A Child Called It
A Child Called It
by Dave Pelzer
Publisher Comments
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played... (read more)

List Price $11.95
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Staff Pick
My to-read list is long as it is, so I usually put off reading bestsellers until (a) the hype dies down and used copies start to become available or (b) someone chastises me for not having read something that came out forever ago. And so it was that 10... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Worldly Philosophers 7TH Edition
Worldly Philosophers 7TH Edition
by Robert L Heilbroner
Publisher Comments
The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as... (read more)

List Price $18.00
Your price: $8.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester
From Powells.com
Erudite noir. "A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary," as the book's subtitle explains, The Professor and the Madman tells the true story of Dr. W. C. Minor, a convicted murderer who from his book-lined cell at... (read more)

List Price $13.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher Comments
Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about [Shakespeare] than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented... (read more)

List Price $16.95
Your price: $7.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
by David Foster Wallace
Publisher Comments
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This Is Water. How does one keep from going through... (read more)

List Price $14.99
Your price: $8.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


The Starship and the Canoe
The Starship and the Canoe
by Kenneth Brower
Publisher Comments
The story of a father and son who search for life's meaning in very different ways. "In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats."--Kirkus... (read more)

List Price $13.95
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Sacred Journey : a Memoir of Early Days (91 Edition)
Sacred Journey : a Memoir of Early Days (91 Edition)
by Frederick Buechner
Publisher Comments
Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will... (read more)

List Price $13.99
Your price: $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
by Ralph Helfer
Publisher Comments
Raised together in a small German circus town, Modoc, the elephant, and Bram, his faithful boyhood companion and later trainer, formed a bond that lasted their entire lives. It was an extraordinary friendship that was tested time and again until, in the... (read more)

List Price $14.99
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden
by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer
Publisher Comments
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard... (read more)

List Price $26.95
Your price: $14.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
Publisher Comments
New York Times Bestseller “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.50
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Don't Shoot (12 Edition)
Don't Shoot (12 Edition)
by David M. Kennedy
Publisher Comments
"Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,"* Don't Shoot is David M. Kennedy's chronicle of his decades-long crusade to solve one of America's most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the 1990s... (read more)

List Price $18.00
Your price: $10.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Washington Papers #68: America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
Washington Papers #68: America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
by Carlos Bulosan
Publisher Comments
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West... (read more)

List Price $16.95
Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


River of Shadows (04 Edition)
River of Shadows (04 Edition)
by Rebecca Solnit
Publisher Comments
This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is a fitting companion to her beloved A Field Guide for Getting Lost In this exquisitely written new book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca... (read more)

List Price $18.00
Your price: $10.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Lytton Strachey
Synopsis
In this biography, Strachey exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, he looks at the public-school system and the whole structure of... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Classical Music
Classical Music
by Phil G. Goulding
Publisher Comments
MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy... (read more)

List Price $20.00
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Garcia: An American Life
Garcia: An American Life
by Blair Jackson
Publisher Comments
He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock... (read more)

List Price $22.00
Your price: $9.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Henry Thoreau : Life of the Mind (86 Edition)
Henry Thoreau : Life of the Mind (86 Edition)
by Robert D. Richardson
Publisher Comments
In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.... (read more)

List Price $38.50
Your price: $23.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Autobiography of a Yogi (46 Edition)
Autobiography of a Yogi (46 Edition)
by Paramahansa Yogananda
Publisher Comments
Designated One of the 100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th century, here is a verbatim reprinting of the 1946 first edition, with all its inherent power intact.Read about real-life saints and masters, how yogis perform miracles, the science of... (read more)

List Price $12.50
Your price: $7.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


1 3 4 5 ... 35 next»


There are 691 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Textbooks
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.