“Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink.
I’ve been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I’ve never been called ‘a slant.’&rd...więcej »
Barbara Washburn never set out to become a mountaineering pioneer, but she wasn't content to be a stay-at-home wife, either. In 1947, defying social convention, Washburn became the first woman to c...więcej »
Shortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentia...więcej »
The author takes the reader on a journey from the sheltered suburban life of a white girl-through trying marijuana and dancing to Janis Joplin during the Summer of Love in San Francisco, having ...więcej »
What if you had a crystal ball that revealed the future of the healthcare landscape?Wouldn’t you want that ball?Think of how that information could...więcej »
Alan Hale was a policeman for 31 years from 1966-1997. The Musings of a Retired Policeman shares the social history of his childhood and his personal development toward...więcej »
Regardless of our race, sex, ethnicity, color, religion or philosophical beliefs, music is a universal tie that binds us as human beings. Every note a nod to history, ev...więcej »
The Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most par...więcej »
Ruby J. Gonzales moved forward while she cared for the multiple-colored irises, wide bright sunflower plants, and other colorful bright splashes of nature's infinite beauty."You pl...więcej »
What if you uncovered a cache of buried Nazi documents that revealed your father as a man very different than the one you knew-or thought you knew? In this poignant memoir, Mel Laytner, a former re...więcej »
We've all seen him. The wild dancing guy throwing shirts at major sporting events from the Olympics to the NBA Finals. And we've all wondered..."Who IS that guy?" THAT guy is...Cameron Hughes. A...więcej »
The Tomahawk Warriors, a crew of nine who perished in a 1944 B-17 Flying Fortress crash in England, was a mystery of WWII until explained in this book. I...więcej »
In this heartbreaking memoir, the author describes what it was like to lose his older brother and only sibling, Lee, to paranoid schizophrenia. The story be...więcej »
An ancient African word meaning "humanity to others". It is often described as reminding us that "I am what I am because of who we all are".When we live in a world that c...więcej »
In 1912, against a backdrop of growing feminist and national movements, the Australian public united behind a fundraising campaign to send two female swimmers to Stockholm to compete, for the first...więcej »