Margaret A. Oppenheimer 
Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel [PDF ebook] 
A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic

Sir Oliver Popplewella”s career goes a long way to explode myths and to show what judges are really like: impartial, skilled in the law, above party politics certainly, but essentially human. He was …

‘‘Bed.’ I patted it. ‘Bed.’ We both looked at the bed like schoolkids staring at the Rosetta Stone. I crouched down and curled up in the bed, with my legs hanging out and my head over the side. Dash …

I am 30 years old, still single, following a dream, wallowing in self pity; yet I manage to briefly mask my self-loathing with wine, random flings with B list celebrities, professional athletes, dati …

David Foster learned at a young age he was different and when the medical world was ready to throw him away he found salvation and love of his life in climbing the Sierra Nevada Mountain trails in Ca …

Can you imagine waking up one day while you”re still in high school and realize that you can”t walk? That”s what happened to me.At only 14, I was diagnosed with a disease that no one else in the w …

We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it”s their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law”s sudde …

M Cherif Bassiouni was a towering figure in international law. He was personally connected to some of the most historically relevant moments of the past century: the Suez War; the Camp David Accords; …

Voyages with my Grandfather tells the story of Robert Boyd, a leading Irish missionary of the first half of the 20th century. It draws on his influential books and previously unpublished memoirs and …