Jack Kent (1920-1985) had two distinct and successful careers: newspaper cartoonist and author of children's books. For each of these he drew upon different aspects of his personality and life expe...więcej »
Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid is the haunting story of a young girl, Tanya Kach, lost in the cracks of the system, forced to spend more than a decade as the prisoner of her middle school's sec...więcej »
The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidentswięcej »
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work...więcej »
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowd...więcej »
One Step Beyond is an authentic account of a teenage girl's journey through a devastating health diagnosis in the prime of her adolescence and of a mother's unwavering determination to save her dau...więcej »
Consuelo (Chelo) Cordero was born in Havana, Cuba. She attended the American Dominican Academy in Havana for the first ten years of her education. Chelo arrived in the USA in 1961 and finished h...więcej »
In this fascinating chronicle of an African American family, Jewel Waller Davis and Joyce Waller Baden trace the roots of their Waller-Dungee family of Richmond, Virginia. In 1900, their tr...więcej »
Offers you, the reader, a glimpse of the subject's background and family structure as it relates to the social and economic pressures that existed during...więcej »
One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of...więcej »
A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in Robert Williams: Conversations a...więcej »
When the most unpredictable happens.....
Parenting is challenging under the best of circumstances. If your child suddenly begins exhibiting strange behaviors and appears to be contracti...więcej »
The Well-Grounded AviatorJune 1, 1998: While flying as a passenger, I survived a plane crash with traumatic head injuries and a loss of smell, taste, and sight.<...więcej »
From its basic chapter on cinematographic principles to the actual tables, charts and formulas used by professional cinematographers, this unique volume gives the film student authoritative fact...więcej »
A Drama Graphic Novel on the factual ills of 'white rapper' and Hip-Hop phenomenon, Eminem before the Eminem Kamikaze CD. 'Shady Bizzness' tell about real life events of his public and priv...więcej »
This book tells a story of Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe whose journey started at his birth in Rwanda. In his life, he has experienced so many acts of exclusion, discrimination and racism, so many times t...więcej »
Lowell Tarling recorded Martin Sharp's life, and his effect on his friends, over twenty years. Now two volumes in one, in advance of the film of these books - GHOST TRAIN...Sha...więcej »
The greatest war that you will ever fight against is who? Yup! You! Mind Vs. Heart. Flesh Vs. Spirit. Past Vs. Future. In my case, it was SHE VS. ME. Listen! Life became different when...więcej »
This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman...więcej »