In Stripped Naked , Stratford tells, with humor, heart, and honesty, how she and her therapists met each of her multiple personalities. The book addresses the key issues of recognizing abuse and alternative selves and describes...

This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about one of the greatest poets of our time weaves an unforgettable drama of friendship, grace, and courage, through long years of heartbreak and hunger.

A book about Sir Henry Irving

This study of Chiang Ching-kuo, the last President of the Republic of China on Taiwan, begins with the author's visit to Taiwan over 30 years ago, and ends at President Chiang's funeral in January 1988. It provides an account of a...

The devastation of the November 1938 pogrom, euphemistically known as 'Crystal Night', introduced a new level of Nazi horror that ended the author's family's happy life. This work describes the daily struggle to survive:...

For a century the new religion of Islam had exploded across the world driven by the passion of the jihad the armed struggle to conquer the world for God until it stretched from Morocco to China. Then the expansion ground to a halt...

This study of Ahmed Resmi, servant and critic of the state, offers new insights into Ottoman eighteenth-century society, emphasizing the impact of the 1768-74 Russo-Turkish war on an outmoded world-view, and the call for the...