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Spurred by a career crisis and a serendipitous relationship, a workaholic professional questions the course her life has taken. While on an African sabbatical she discovers a self she's never met and a home she's never known.Spurred by a career crisis and a serendipitous relationship, a workaholic p... More

The many books written about Mackenzie King concentrated on him mainly as a politician. No wonder the question 'But what about King, the man?' was posed. Here, in Friends and Lovers, is a close look at that man in his intimate personal relationships, male and female.The many books written about Mack... More

History is the story of interconnected lives. Threads of Time brings historical figures to life. "Scheidies takes the reader beyond basic facts and into the heart of historical people, highlighting how faith guided, developed character and produced perseverance." -- Lori Scott, former elementary tea... More

What is it like to spend your final years in a place with all of the amenities of a fine resort, yet with no family and few if any friends?What is it like to spend your final years in a place with all of the amenities of a fine resort, yet with no family and few if any friends?... More

The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist and a successful author. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This engaging and readable biography recounts the colourful and gripping story of Franklin's long action- and idea-filled life. It skillfull... More

efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poign... More

In the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over 50 years, leading historian R. F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of his extraordinary life as he experienced it. 62 halftones, 19 linecuts.William Butler Yeats h... More

""Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that. There are things that are only in my heart, that no one knows."-Diego Maradona Soccer superstar Diego Armando Maradona was a poor boy from a Buenos Aires shantytown. His genius with a ball took... More

The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth-century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the root motives underlying traditional Western philosophy, morality, and religion have deeply affect... More

This beautifully illustrated text captures the energy drama, and excitement of the luminaries who make up the world of fashion. Alphabetical biographies of over 300 major designers, illustrators, photographers, and fashion editors include information on their clothes categories, design influences an... More

"To my mind already a classic, Mr. Coleman had access to the great actor's archives, but obviously had his heirs' permission to tell his story fearlessly."--Richard Schickel, "The Wall Street Journal" Sir Laurence Olivier met everyone, knew everyone, and played every role in existence. But the centu... More

In Lubianka's Shadow chronicles the extraordinary life of a young American Catholic priest, Father Leopold Braun, who, as pastor of a small Catholic church near the Lubianka political prison in the heart of Moscow, witnessed Stalin's purges, the Soviet government's campaign against organized religio... More

Benjamin Disraeli remains a commanding figure in the history and ideology of the British Conservative party, and a remarkable example of ascent to high office from outside the traditional elite. This is the first book to bring together specialists in history, literary studies and psychiatry to offer... More

This concise study of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) focuses on the substantial reassessment of Disraeli's career and personality that is currently taking place. Particular reference is made to the role played in Disraeli's conception of life and politics by his Jewishness and his romanticism. The book... More

The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists is an invaluable one-stop reference book for anyone wanting a quick but reliable account of the life and work of those whose contributions have changed the course of science throughout history. This alphabetically organized, illustrated biographical dictionary ... More

With a user-friendly A to Z layout, this volume contains 1,200 entries on the men and women who have influenced the course of Christian history. Founding fathers, monarchs, Popes, saints, philanthropists, heretics, theologians, and missionaries are profiled with detailed bibliographic information on... More

How Thomas Coryate Walked from England to India in the Year 1613 In the early seventeenth century, Thomas Coryate, an eccentric Englishman, a writer and a wanderer, decided to walk from his village of Indies—to the court of the Great Mogul, Jehangir, and onwards to Chin, the land from where t... More

Anyone who enjoys modern fiction will be captivated by this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference. Taking in novelists from all over the globe, and from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most thorough survey of the great practitioners of twentieith century fiction... More