Jack Jefford shares stories of his gripping rescues, white-knuckle crackups, and wild adventures that come from flying the not always friendly skies of Alaska.
No Return Address is a vivid memoir of a life in exile and a poignant meditation on pleasure and loss, repression and transgression, and the complexities of love under harsh human conditions.
The Bookmarked series focuses on a famous work of literature that left a powerful impression on an author (hence the name, Bookmarkeda book that left its mark).
Join New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln's spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that's sure to inspire us all.
Four-plus years of classes, tests, research papers, pop quizzes, bottomless cups of coffee, and tons of late night studying have culminated in a gathering of family and friends to celebrate the graduate's solemn-and joyous-march across the platform to receive the coveted "e;parchment.
Born in Central Europe during the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, three ';vonderful vimmen'Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda Gabortransferred their glittery dreams and gold-digging ambitions to Hollywood.
In 1994, as his country descended into the madness of genocide, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana underwent the mind-numbing pain of having members of his church and family butchered.
The tempestuous, scandalous love affair of the 20th century's Romeo and Juliet was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and by many accounts, even more corrupt.
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to todayand the courageous countervoicesBetween 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies.
The thesis of this book is to examine and explain Mahatma Gandhis Sarvodaya as a realistic and realizable utopia in India of today in particular and in the world at large.
The scientific study of all forms of human and animal behaviour, sometimes concerned with the methods through which behaviour can be modified is collectively known as psychology.
This encyclopaedia presents biographical entries on internationally renowned scientists-biologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians, who have made important contribution to science.
A delightful and illuminating journey through the early years of Winston Churchill, From Winston with Love and Kisses:The Young Churchill weaves together strands of Churchill's early writing, mature recollections and reflections on childhood, and the comments of the author, Churchill's granddaughter.
The first biography to appear in more than a generation on the most influential Tejano leader of the nineteenth century, Jose Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas fills one of the most glaring gaps in the current historical literature on Texas.
This deeply researched and informative book traces the biographies of thirty "e;typical"e; perpetrators of the Holocaust-some well known, some obscure-who survived World War II.
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes.
