This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. ...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 »
Everybody knows John Altman's music, but not so many people know his name. Yet he is one of the most prolific composers, conductors and arrangers in history, and his saxophone playing has been 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 »
Within this book you'll meet some of Philadelphia's fiercest black women leaders. They range from the first black woman known to be born in Philadelphia (1694)-who ran a ferry business during co...więcej »
Foxhole is a deeply personal story of a young man's experience in World War II. George Mullins takes us on his journey as he travels from his isolated home in the Appalachian Mount...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 »
The three Conley boys, Jack, Jim and Frank were sons of an Irish immigrant family, raised along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Maryland. After the death of their father when Frank was but...więcej »
This book is a record in the lives of the Polich - Katavich families who struggled with a meagre existence in Yugoslavia before migrating to Australia.
It details their lives in Australia and the ...więcej »
This book tells the story of a unique life, of one who was part of a turning point in history and left his indelible imprint on it. It encompasses the sweeping story of ...więcej »
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, when his debut novel won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. His fame continued ...więcej »
Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review
"[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say tha...więcej »
William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and profes...więcej »
After Magdalena's family leave Nigeria escaping the growing civil unrest, she has no reason to believe she will ever return. Yet 10 years later she is back, this time wi...więcej »
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 »
1981. Rich with promise and possibility, the post-Stonewall era saw queer Americans standing up for themselves and each other like never before. With the rise of gay newspapers, bars, clubs, and...więcej »
If you have a father, mother, sister, brother, grandmother, auntie or any close relative or friend incarcerated in any form of secure lockdown, one of yo...więcej »