The New York Times bestselling true story of an Australian ultramarathon runner and a little dog who formed an unbreakable bond in the middle of the Gobi desert.
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-oneNew York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix showMindhunterdelves deep into the lives and crimes offour of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategiesused to crack some of Americas most challenging cases.
This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century.
Sextus Iulius Frontinus is best known as author of the military handbook Strategems but, in addition to writing this and other works (now lost), he also had a varied and surprisingly influential career in military and civil posts around the Roman Empire.
Written near the end of Sadako Sawamura's remarkable life, My Asakusa (Watashi co Asakusa) is a charming collection of autobiographical essays by a truly self-made woman.
Irish Anglican clergymen played an important role in the creation of a nineteenth-century "e;Greater Ireland,"e; a term denoting a diasporic movement in which the Irish transformed into a global people, actively participating in British imperial expansion and colonial nation building.
Judaic Spiritual Psychotherapy is in the contemporary mode of utilizing the profound insights present in spiritual literature for psychotherapeutic use.
Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists and health reformers.
Growing up as an adoptee and identical twin, Julie McGue will take you on her journey for identity and individuality, searching for answers through tragedy and adversity.
A brilliant polymath and part of the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Thomas Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture.
The Antichrist, though mentioned a mere four times in the Bible, and then only obscurely, has exercised a tight hold on popular imagination throughout history.
William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and professor of music.
Published in association with the Japan Society and containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role in a wide variety of different spheres relating to the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered.
An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQWINGATE LITERARY PRIZE ';A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost foreverand a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget.
Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana.
Héritière d’une véritable dynastie musicale, fille des légendes folk Kate McGarrigle et Loudon Wainwright III et sœur du célèbre et inimitable Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright a grandi au sein d’un univers peuplé d’extraordinaires artistes : Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Anna McGarrigle, Richard et Linda Thompson, Pete Townshend, Donald Fagen et Emmylou Harris, pour n’en nommer que quelques-uns.
A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field.
The first major Hawthorne biography to be published in two decades, featuring original scholarship on both unpublished and published sources The Life of the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a rich and nuanced portrait of one of America s greatest writers, exploring the thoughts and ideas of a man whose profound insights about the human condition continue to resonate in the modern day.
A century before Lance Armstrong captured headlines around the world by winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France, another American dominated the world of competitive cycling.
In the first major study of women in an Arab countrys Jewish community, Rachel Simon examines the changing status of Jewish women in Libya from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1967, when most Jews left the country.
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.
