NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe FBI’s former head of counterintelligence reveals the seven secrets of building and maintaining organizational excellence"e;A must read for serious leaders at every level.
Although he called himself merely a "e;printer"e; in his will, Benjamin Franklin could have also called himself a diplomat, a doctor, an electrician, a frontier general, an inventor, a journalist, a legislator, a librarian, a magistrate, a postmaster, a promoter, a publisher-and a humorist.
Challenging the notion of the nonreligious in Japan being religious through tradition and institution, this book demonstrates how negativity and antipathy for religion relate to religious decline in Japan today.
This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement.
The New York Times bestseller-"e;a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity"e; by the black granddaughter of a Nazi depicted in Schindler's List (Booklist, starred review).
On the centennial of Amlcar Cabrals birth, and fifty years after his passing,Claim No Easy Victoriesbrings to life the resonance of his thought for todays freedom movements.
The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse, and the surviving literary works are biased towards the Roman point of view, much as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica.
The Spirit of an Activist chronicles the life and distinguished career of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985), a Protestant pastor, civil rights leader, and South Carolina statesman.
Rasputin's relationship with Russia's last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas.
Two of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures, Ernest Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh, grappling with a world in which Western culture and their respective governments were failing them, came to Paris at the same time in the 1920s.
Geboren in den Zwanzigern in Wien in eine jüdische Familie, 1938 Kindertransport nach England, Emigration in die USA - ein Schicksal, das Eva Kollisch so oder so ähnlich mit vielen teilt.
This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end the fifty-year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims.
The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite.
This is the biography of a nineteenth-century gentleman whose career in the diplomatic service of his country contributed greatly to the worldwide expansion of American trade and commerce.
