The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D.
The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvellous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare.
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Anna Akhmatova & Her Circle
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.
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All But My Life: A Memoir
Klein's openness and warmth are reflected everywhere in her famous book, from the opening account of her family in prewar Poland to her three-year imprisonment in German work camps. On May 7, 1945, she was liberated by the U.S....
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The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh
Tara Singh Bains is one of those rare people who sees the hand of God in every facet of his life. A man of strong convictions, he has consistently refused to compromise his beliefs. The Four Quarters of the Night is as much the...
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Running the Blockade: Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks and Escapes During the Civil War
Entertaining yet highly accurate, this narrative recounts a renegade English gentleman's role as a blockade runner.
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Comenius: A Critical Re-assessment of His Life and Work
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The Salmon P.Chase Papers v. 2; Correspondence, 1823-57
Salmon P. Chase first gained prominence during the 1840s and 50s as a leader in the anti-slavery movement and as a founder of the Liberty, Free-Soil and Republican parties, before becoming a Senator. This book sets out his...
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The Great Melody
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Gyorgy Ligeti: Eine Monographie
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Die Geschichte Der Bunten (1948-1988): Die Entwicklung Einer Illustrierten Wochenzeitschrift Mit Einer Chronik Dieser Zeitschriftengattung
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Meunster (Westfalen), 1991).
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Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant
This highly literate and engrossing autobiographical account of survival as a wetback or mojado , to use the author's own words, affords the reader an unexpurgated look at the United States, its economy and culture from the...
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Guest of an Ally: Veterans of the First World War
Shot down near Dresden, the author became a guest of the Russians.
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Picture Book of Rosa Parks, a (1 Paperback/1 CD)
An excellent introduction to the life of the woman who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, A Picture Book of Rosa Parks covers much more than her crucial role in initiating the Montgomery bus boycott. Such issues as school...
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Picture Book of Rosa Parks, a (1 Hardcover/1 CD)
An excellent introduction to the life of the woman who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, A Picture Book of Rosa Parks covers much more than her crucial role in initiating the Montgomery bus boycott. Such issues as school...
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Torn by Light: Selected Poems
This is the first collection of Joanne de Longchamps's poetry and collages to span her entire writing and artistic career.
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The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States between 1829 and 1837. This text presents a review of the major events of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
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Summer Meditations
In a work written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Havel offers profound reflections upon the nature and practice of politics throughout the world, and extends a stirring call for a moral political system, a responsible...
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William Salesbury
William Salesbury is a seminal figure in the literary history of Wales. This text provides an introduction to the life and work of Salesbury (c.1520-1584), a scholar and translator of the New Testament into Welsh.
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The Smell of Humans
Szep's tone is a meld of stupefaction and irony. Without overtly condemning or succumbing to despair, he describes a series of events of progressively grosser infamy.
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Robert Adam
This is an issue of our annual journal Architectural Heritage.
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Joe Morgan
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Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream
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Edmund Gosse: Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments
Edmund Gosse: Father and Son
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Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life
This exceptional biography, Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius.
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Theatre, Culture and Society: Essays, Addresses and Lectures
A book about Sir Henry Irving
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Waiting for World’s End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
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Spathumanismus in Schlesien: Caspar Dornau (1577-1631). Leben Und Werk
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Walter Hasenclever
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An African Experience: An Education Officer in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
An illuminating account of the life of an education officer in Northern Rhodesia during the period leading up to Zambian independence. T.E. Dorman was brought up in New Zealand and brings a distinct viewpoint on the colonial...
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Coleridge: The Early Family Letters
This volume of previously unpublished and uncited letters presents a remarkable, often moving, and extraordinary image of the Coleridge family during Samuel Taylor Coleridge's youth, particularly between 1772 and 1793, when the...
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Chiang Ching-kuo Remembered: The Man and His Political Legacy
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...
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Mahatma Gandhi & His Apostles
Aims to bring Mahatma Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes, his ideas and his actions. The book reconstructs details of Gandhi's daily routine, recounts the story of...
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Madame de Stael - Charles de Villers - Benjamin Constant: . Correspondance.: Etablissement Du Texte, Introduction Et Notes Par Kurt Kloocke Avec Le Concours D'Un Groupe D'Etudiants
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Women of Fair Hope
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Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
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Barrett Willoughby: Alaska’s Forgotten Lady
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Correspondance
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Marynia, Don’t Cry: Memoirs of Three Polish-Canadian Families
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Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist
Biography of Harriet Brooks (1876-1933), one of the first Canadian researchers in the field of radioactivity, and her works. It follows her struggle to overcome conventions, to pursue a college education and an academic career.
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Fighting in the Air: In the Trenches with Television News
The first female television correspondent in Vietnam, US journalist Liz Trotta, traces her career in a male-dominated industry. This work recounts some of her most interesting stories - from Chappaquiddick to the campaign trail of...
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End of the Jihad State, The: The Reign of Hisham Ibn ‘Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads
Demonstrates for the first time that the cause of the Umayyad caliphate's collapse came not just from internal conflict, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond.
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In the Shadow of the Flame
The foremost commentator on contemporary experimental theater turns her focus to her own critical nature, describing three epiphanies in her search for greater self-awareness. Croyden is the author of Lunatics, Lovers & Poets: The...
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Erinnerungen Und Erfahrungen
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Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabi
Biography of Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1249), recognized in his lifetime as al-Shaykh al-Akbar, the supreme spiritual Master. This study by Claude Addas is based on a detailed analysis of a whole range of Ibn 'Arabi's own writings as well...
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Lower than Angels: A Memoir of War and Peace
It's one of the great literary mysteries of all time
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Portrait of Elgar
The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime, but, in reality, it concealed a highly complex, sometimes baffling, private individual. This study of the composer's life uncovers a man who...
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Retrospect: The Story of an Analysis
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An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783
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...
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