Biography and non-fiction prose

Why does the self first arrive as an image?

Growing Up With Uncle Bob – The True Story Of A Boyhood Filled With Hoodlums, Hustlers, & Hijinx

The Broken Heart of an Addict is a powerful memoir of addiction, loss, recovery and hope.

For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.

 From his rebellious Parisian youth to the blood-soaked battlefields of the Algerian War, Jacques Mesrine forged an uncompromising path defined by anti-authority rage and tactical military precision.

Henriette, garde-barriere au milieu d'aucune route, Eugene, suiveur de voies ferrees, arrivent un jour de 1903 a Sainte-Madeleine.

This book starts with me mouthing "e;fuck you"e; at the ceiling of a casino.

What did I just do?

Before Melanie Klein, many analysts doubted that very young children could be analysed at all.

Bil Gilbert is one of America's most preeminent and popular essayists and nature writers.

He proved Einstein wrong.

A cannon that gets hotter the longer it is drilled, no matter how dull the drill bit becomes.

Why don't more women run for office?

For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.

This groundbreaking and important book explores how women of different ethnic/racial groups conceive of feminism.

Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14.

An extraordinary blend of memoir and science writing, about how one woman learned to see the world through a dog's eyes, by a New Yorker writer and animal behaviour expert'The canine answer to Raising Hare or H is for Hawk' THE TIMES'A touching memoir .

Why don't more women run for office?

What if the problems we keep treating separately are actually connected?

"e;Behind every unanswered question lies a hidden piece of the truth.

'This is not normal.

'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' - The Sunday Times'As lively to the ear as prose can be' - Adam PietteA Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of our greatest living English poets.

They did not seem arrogant or entitled.

'A powerful guide to claiming your power and using it to build a better, more just world' - Hillary Rodham ClintonWhen Sanna Marin became prime minister of Finland at just thirty-four years old, she captivated the world's attention with her progressive ideas and her boldness amidst major crises.

Celebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this ebook tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered.

Despite sustained global attention, policy development, and research investment, the prevalence of intimate partner abuse (IPA) worldwide has not diminished.

Betrayed can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.

Winner, New Hampshire PBS Award for Literary Excellence 2023Examining the life and career of Harriet Dame, Civil War battlefield nurse, and her major contributions to the Union causeIn June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron.

Imagine spending 85 days living in a 10-foot popup tent camper while driving 8,000 miles around the American West in search of a place to call home.

This book contributes to the growing body of literature on the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war against women.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - DISCOVER THE MOUTHWATERING FOLLOW-UP TO HIS BESTSELLING MEMOIR, TASTE Sharing food is one of the purest human acts'Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime.

What does it mean to be a woman who dares to challenge the status quo?

Drawing on primary empirical research, this book considers the democratic outcomes of political news avoidance, selective news exposure, and misinformation.

Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "e;A Jury of Her Peers"e; and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, and of American modernism.

Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.

Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.

For my first 10 years as a sportswriter I was living the dream.

Lovely, funny and moving.

The southern womens reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.

The southern womens reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.

Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "e;A Jury of Her Peers"e; and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, and of American modernism.