Biography: general

In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars.

James Habersham was an early American success story.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

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

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

I didn't invite him.

This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814).

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

George Washington Carver (ca.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe.

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era.

"e;How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,"e; the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child.

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice.

Als Zehnjähriger floh Caro Matzkos Vater aus Ostpreußen.

Over the course of the last decades, there has been an increasing demand by people for spiritual experience - whether it involves elemental beings, past incarnations or encounters with angels.

On the eve of the 33rd anniversary of its publication, The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century remains an exceptional work.

'That is the ideal towards which Ahriman is striving: to destroy the individuality of human beings in order, with the power of human thinking, to transform the earth into a web of gigantic thought spiders - but real spiders.

In Founding Federalist, Michael C.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

For the first time, go behind the scenes of the beloved TV show Gavin and Stacey with the must-read memoir from the BAFTA award-winning writers Ruth Jones and James Corden.

THIS IS THE MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES GAVIN AND STACEY

When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between is the story of how Ruth and James turned their little show about ordinary life into a full-on cultural phenomenon.

As they recount the highs and lows they faced along the way, Ruth and James explore the journey of their real-life friendship, the making of the show and the relationship between Nessa and Smithy that had the nation glued to their screens.

Full of revelations and anecdotes to working scripts and never-before-seen photographs including:

•The story behind Nessa’s iconic look
•The original treatment for the show
•And maybe pictures from that fishing trip…

This one-of-a kind memoir takes you behind the scenes of one of the most iconic and beloved shows in British television history. Here are the details of what’s occurred every step of the way, from initial pitch to final day of filming, and all the love that followed.

When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between is the perfect final chapter in this incredible story and is essential reading for all Gavin and Stacey fans.

READERS LOVE WHEN GAVIN MET STACEY AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN:

‘I couldn’t stop smiling and laughing all the way through’ *****

'A fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of the show' ******

'Brings that feeling of being part of something so precious, the magic of Gavin & Stacey' *****

I didn't invite him.

In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

The classic, full-length biography of Hawaii's first king by the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Guadalcanal Diary.

Aristocrat.

This book is a comprehensive study of the history of pew-renting in the church of England, from the first known rented sittings in the fifteenth century to the system's collapse in the twentieth.

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.

Offering fans an extensive look at the artist's own words throughout the past four decades, Springsteen on Springsteen brings together Q & A-formatted articles, speeches, and features that incorporate significant interview material.

A new cultural icon strode the world stage at the turn of the twenty-first century: the celebrity scientist, as comfortable in Vanity Fair and Vogue as Smithsonian.