One minute Jim Zervanos was carrying his one-year-old boy to a baseball game; the next, he was in the ER, where for days he lay in limbo, being strangled...
American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards' Almanack, helped found the University of Pe...
A true-life story of my upbringing as a girl living with cerebral palsy and the discrimination that I've faced, not only by members of the public but worse still, by my own family, leaving me wi...
"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history.
On the 18th B...
If you want to know what being an engineer is like, then you need answers from someone who has worked in the field and been successful.
Tim Strecker, Ph.D., looks back at an engineering career spa...
Every person has experienced a moment that changed them forever. Whether it was positive or negative, when it happened, you were never the same as you we...
The Girl From Mumbai is an inspiring migrant story of purpose, people and passion. It outlines and incredible journey in India and Australia in the communit...
Noted film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed Bette Davis extensively in the last decade of her life, resulting in a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. Chandler also sp...
He's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of young girls to wear black outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on hi...
The author says “It has been my object in these pages of astronomer biography to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the ma...
The world is full of many great black men and women who changed the course of history. Because of their contributions, they are rightfully considered heroes...
The House I Left Behind tells the captivating and moving life story of Dr Daniel Shayesteh.
Dr Shayesteh was raised a practicing Muslim in Iran. While studying in Tehran he became involved in the I...
Vivian Keeler is an intelligent, attractive and determined white woman from a traditional Nova Scotia family who risks it all by falling in love with a B...
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...
The Life Of Otto, Apostle Of Pomerania, 1060-1139. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are re...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in afforda...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in afforda...
Inside the pages of this compelling read, Barton credits Jesus with his meteoric rise. More to the point, he portrays Jesus as the world's greatest business executive and master entrepreneur who...
Submarine stories have a long and rich tradition of harrowing escapes and the sinking of enemy ships.When I first saw the boat I would be serving on for the next three and a half y...