"A film comedy is assembled with the same precision as the inner working of a watch."
With his trademark porkpie hat, floppy shoes, and deadpan facial expression, Buster Keaton (1895-1966) is one ...więcej »
Each one of us wants to protect and nurture our loved ones. But if a friend or family member is grappling with a mental illness, it's likely there will have been times when you have felt powerle...więcej »
An epic first hand account of high adventure
The Victorian age was notable for the appearance of gentleman soldiers of fortune in the imperial world and there could be no more exotic and e...więcej »
This book is by a musician who worked in every major recording and television studio in London during that wonderful musical period of the 1960s and 1970s.
One of the first call session guitarists...więcej »
A titan of the Victorian age, Sir Richard Francis Burton was a scholar, linguist, explorer, and swordsman - and was feted as one of the most important British polymaths ever to have lived.więcej »
It all started with a bet thrown down by my husband, Jimmy. If I ran thirteen miles, I could bring home our first family dog-any kind of dog I wanted. The perfect dog.Like ever...więcej »
Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebte...więcej »
Considered one of Marx’s most profound monographs and a brilliant history of the proletariat, this 1852 essay—which originally appeared in Die Revolution magazine—is Marx’s commentary on the 1851 F...więcej »
Steve Klem was a legend in the Florida Keys. Given the nickname "The Pied Piper of Pennekamp Park" by Skin Diver Magazine, he trained and hand-fed the park's underwater inhabitants, which included ...więcej »
Are you ready to leave the hurts of your past behind you where it belongs? Are you willing to allow yourself, to live a life filled with peace, joy and happiness?For as long as we are bre...więcej »
IRONMAN is a sports phenomenon that has come to symbolize the very best of human striving, achievement and excellence. And race announcer Mike Reilly is known throughout the endurance sports wor...więcej »
A concise account of Finland's foreign affairs and domestic politics as a close neighbour of Soviet Russia during the Cold War period between the end of the Second World War and the end of Kekko...więcej »
It Began in a Simple Garden . . . and Led to a Spiritual Path. Susan West Kurz's earliest memories began in a garden, where she nurtured herbs and colorful flowers, n...więcej »
Are you still trying to figure out what went wrong with your life? Was it a job loss that started the downward spiral you feel helpless to escape? Was it divorce? Was it abuse? Perha...więcej »
As Far As The I Can See is a fast-paced memoir set in a top-rated hotel in the Yucatan jungle, Mexico.The crazy year begins after the author heads to help her friends Molly and Luis Felip...więcej »
This true story follows the remarkable and unlikely friendship that develops between two strangers - a London housewife bringing up four children and a British prisoner incarcerated in Thailand....więcej »
Reading Hunting the Way it Was is like lingering around a campfire 50 miles deep in the Snag River country, or at Wolf Lake, and hearing the fascinating and entertaining stories told by...więcej »
A fine work by a highly regarded historian of the Napoleonic AgeEvery period in history has-in its turn-produced great scholars to chronicle it. The names of fine historians are linked with...więcej »