Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion ...więcej »
January 2020. Coronavirus and Wuhan are fast becoming the latest media buzzwords as Louisa Kamal, blissfully unaware of what is to come, returns to her beloved Nepal for two months. It will be D...więcej »
With time, our life experiences can reveal insights that first elude us. In A Reflection of My Journey, Desmond Tomlinson reflects on the events recounted in his four-volume aut...więcej »
I knew I was different, but didn't kow why. I didn't have the skills I needed to fit in with my peers.
My parents wanted to help but didn't know how. I wasn't diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome unt...więcej »
To know the story of the life and times of Judge Gilbert Merritt is to understand modern U.S. politics of the mid to late 20th century-how it came to be, and how it worked-particula...więcej »
Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illustration that captivated him - a cutaway diagram ...więcej »
'Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.' John 14:6One of Deb's biggest regrets was the time wasted when sh...więcej »
R. A. Ward reveals from his memoirs the grave experience he had as a young boy, the character developing moments while growing into manhood, and near-death experiences as a soldier on the street...więcej »
In 1918, Tahir Shah's grandfather, The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, published the small volume of 'poetry in prose' - Eastern Moonbeams. The book marked not only the beginning of a glitt...więcej »
For more than a century, three authors from one celebrated literary family - a grandfather, father, and son - have written hundreds of books, many of which seek to bridge West with East.<...więcej »
Tomato sandwiches. Tobacco barns. Cooking collards. A shopping list left on a desk for 40 years at a deceased grandparent's house. Traditions that die as families age. What it means to "be count...więcej »
A light-hearted memoir of a career in 20th century astrophysics, its challenges, its participants, and the fascinating places they worked. With humor and in...więcej »
Carl Boggess Honaker's thoughtful, playful, and at times transcendent memoir gives readers a delightfully vivid and nostalgic picture of life growing up...więcej »
A brilliantly conceived biography of Joseph Paxton, horticulturist to the Duke ' Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth, architect of the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and one of t...więcej »
Ryan Hadley began a new chapter of his life in the summer of 2011 when he packed his belongings into the back of his truck and moved to the mountains of North Carolina. A few weeks later his parent...więcej »
Part manual of handy hints, part practical guide, and above all a humorous personal diary, A Tin of Tomatoes and a Tiny Scooter is a tale of what typically befalls those who choose to restore a ...więcej »