The first thing that caught my eye was the geezer with the gold tooth - the second was that he was holding a shooter - and the third that he was pointing it at me.
"e;The History of Mary Prince"e;, a life narrative written by Mary Prince, is the first account published in Great Britain of a black woman's life; at a time when anti-slavery agitation was growing, her first-person account touched many people.
TRUE CRIME - Ultimate Collection gathers Cleveland Moffett's accounts of criminal investigation, detection, and social transgression into a compelling panorama of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century crime writing.
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'Reads like a wondrous mixture of Heart of Darkness and In Cold Blood.
From the website Women Scorned comes Snapshots of Infidelity, a collection of stories from women across the world who have faced infidelity in some way - from lovers taking a secret mistress, to being "e;the other woman"e;, and a startling surprise revealed after the death of a loved one.
This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5.
'As a child I would sit on the stone wall as if hypnotised, imagining that the world ended where the moutains and the sky met and wishing I could stand at the top and touch the heavens.
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.
The Murder of Martin Luther King is a meticulously researched and thought-provoking book that delves into the assassination of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.
'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIANA near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death-and what might follow-by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.
El Presente libro pretende ser un aporte significativo para la reorientación de las políticas de desarrollo que buscan eliminar la pobreza extrema tanto en el Perú como en el mundo.
The definitive book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort, con artist, and blackmailer connected to gangsters like ';Legs' Diamond and Arnold Rothstein, whose death exposed the dark underbelly of police corruption throughout the cityfrom the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist who is one of the foremost Mafia experts writing today.
This volume examines the global media coverage of the armed conflict in Ukraine, focusing on the marginalization of dissident perspectives in the West and the information quality and diversity on social media.
This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of 'global heritage' and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must take an active role in the pursuit of cultural equality.
This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of 'global heritage' and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must take an active role in the pursuit of cultural equality.
"e;Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman"e; is a biography of Harriet Tubman, written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War.
