More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revol...
The Void Between WordsShame and inadequacy were an intrinsic part of growing up in the 1970s with dyslexia. Self-doubt and high anxiety cast long shadows over a boy ...
My journals over the years produced publication for two books. The first book was The Memoir of a Schizophrenic.It offers a glimpse into the life and struggles before the world learned wh...
'This book is about one of my all-time heroes, Mr Nelson Riddle. It makes for fascinating reading and I am enjoying it very much.' SIR MICHAEL PARKINSONNELSON RIDDLE was possibly the grea...
A condottiero, nobleman, politician and cardinal, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history's great quest...
A moving account of a child's removal from family and his institutionalised growing up in Australia, interwoven with a fascinating vignette of his father's life - from enlistment in WWI to his t...
This is more than the author's memoir of his participation in Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Desert Calm, as a member of the 42nd Field Artillery Brigade in 1990-91. Bill Cain provides background ...
Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africa's greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear to live in a leadership vacuum.
Unafraid ...
This book is dedicated to the bush pilot's wives. Women were part of the exciting bush flying. Women worked alongside their men and endured the same hardships. They laughed, loved, and gave birt...
"This band should carry a Government health warning!" Michael Black, London Impresario.Vividly and vibrantly brought to life, the story of one boy's...
Boccaccio's "On Famous Women" ("De claris mulieribus") is a remarkable work that contains the lives of one hundred and six women in myth and history, ranging from Eve to Boccaccio's contemporary, Q...
"Dr Wize said, 'When I was a young man, a long time ago...' He laughed, trying to lighten the subject. 'I was given the best advice a man could receive, and I am going to pass it on to you.'"
The Real true story of Charles Atlas, how he started, the Bob Hoffman wars, and the Famous Trade Commission court case. In this biography, We have attempted to reveal a little more of the intens...
Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five ...
Shane and Brinny had everything they could have wished for when they unexpectedly fell pregnant for the third time.They were thrust into a world of disability as Joshua was bor...
General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of the German East-Africa campaign shares his narrative of the war, and his effective use of guerilla warfare to keep a far larger Allied army in check.
In search of the American dream, young Severine and her French-Haitian family move from France to the United States. They quickly discover success com...
Through the Brazilian Wilderness is Theodore Roosevelt's biographical account of hunting, camping and "zoogeographical reconnaissance" with his son Kermit in the Brazilian jungle.
Following his p...