In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible.
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible.
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.
From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the ebook edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it.
An inspiring and life-affirming story of a difficult childhood transformed into happy adulthood through the power of nature and gardensBeloved author Marc Hamer writes about finding refuge in his tiny back garden in this highly original story of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of gardens.
This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles na gCopaleen (real name Brian O'Nolan, though also known as Flann O'Brien), from 1940 to 1966.
This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles na gCopaleen (real name Brian O'Nolan, though also known as Flann O'Brien), from 1940 to 1966.
The Ultimate AMB-BC® Exam Prep Guide: Your All-In-One Resource for Certification SuccessPassing the Ambulatory Care Nurse is a significant milestone that validates your expertise and enhance AMB-BCs your professional credibility.
Monster of Mayport, Nine Days, Seven Deaths, and the Making of a Florida KillerIn May 2003, William Edward Wells III sealed a bedroom door with duct tape, piled dirty laundry over the bodies of his wife and two of her family members, and waited.
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.
A rare eyewitness account of a journey from Spain to the Americas during the Spanish colonial periodAmong documents of Floridas Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist.
A Times Book of the Year'A superb work of history' JAMES HOLLAND'A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history' DAN SNOWA landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMESVera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers' rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her ruined ancestral home.
A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL.
A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 'AFFECTING' TELEGRAPH'ENGROSSING' ECONOMIST'MIRACULOUS' WIRED'MORE THAN CRIME REPORTAGE' WALL STREET JOURNAL When his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to send gold bars to their Madrid apartment, Carlos Barrag n found himself with an unexpected window into the shadowy world of online romance fraud.
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history.
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east.
An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture.
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago.
A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer.
