Biography: general

';It takes courage to be an empathetic leader.

In 1995 Bank of Scotland celebrated 300 years as Britain's oldest commercial bank.

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century.

New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens.

Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

Reconciliation and remembering are the forces at work in Inheritance of Horses.

In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E.

No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland.

Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America.

John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You destroys our complacency about who among us can commit unspeakable atrocities, who is subjected to them, and who can stop them.

Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity.

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade.

In Separate Pasts Melton A.

New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens.

Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist.

On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself.

Reconciliation and remembering are the forces at work in Inheritance of Horses.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

George Washington Carver (ca.

Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "e;soul food"e; gained common use.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life.

In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk ingeniously combines into a living whole the private and the public Burke.

How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a make-or-break 1980 baseball season unfolded for the Philadelphia Phillies under a new, often-unpopular manager who sought to shape a collection of All-Star talent into champions.

The Definitive Biography of a Coaching Legend Hanging high atop the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, is the name ';Holzman' and the number ';613.

For more than forty seasons, Jim Boeheim has been one of college basketball's most successful and compelling figures with the second-most victories of all time behind only Mike Krzyzewski.

At 6-foot-7 and 285 pounds, Aaron Judge emerged as the biggest story in baseball in 2017 with his monstrous home runs and record-breaking ability.

In Don Shula: A Biography of the Winningest Coach in NFL History, acclaimed sports historian Carlo DeVito captures the story of one of the greatest coaches in sports history.

With 363 victories, Warren Spahn is the winningest left-handed pitcher in baseball history.

The autobiography of a baseball great.

James Hillman, who died in 2011 at the age of eighty-five, has been described by poet Robert Bly as ';the most lively and original psychologist' of the twentieth century.

Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century literature, yet he remains misunderstood.

Who was the first goaltender to wear a mask in a game?

Now a feature film produced by Academy Award-nominee Howard Baldwin and featuring Dylan Playfair, Jack Mulhern, Trevor Gretzky, and Elektra Kilbey!

An Original Six NHL member, the Broadway Blueshirts boast one of the most renowned histories in the last hundred years of North American professional hockey.

In 2005, the National Hockey League adopted the shootout to settle ties in regular season games.

The city of Columbus, Ohio, had always struggled to support any professional sports franchise.

During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson).

Hammerin Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where hed hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hit 40 or more homers (and one of only four players to have 40 or more home runs and 175 or more RBIs in a season).

How did an untrained former college football player end up in the middle of a ring, wrestling during the highest-rated segment during the WWEs acclaimed Attitude Era?

Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people.

After an over 50-year drought, the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks in a dramatic seven-game series to capture the Stanley Cup in 1994.

In his forthright and honest autobiography, former St.

With five Division I national championships to its creditmost recently in 2012the mens hockey program at Boston College is a force to be reckoned with year after year.