Mark Hayes 
PreDumb: Before I Came To LA [EPUB ebook] 

This collection of published and unpublished creative non-fiction essays represents the lifelong reflections of a creatively afflicted mind, from humorous to serious, extraordinary to ordinary, biogr …

Frances Bowar lived in Ethan, South Dakota, a smallfarming community. She kept a diary from 1938 to1970, recording the activities of her family, her ownthoughts, feelings, and judgments, and the birt …

He Liyi belongs to one of China”s minorities, the Bai, and he lives in a remote area of northwestern Yunnan Province. In 1979 his wife sold her fattest pig to buy him a shortwave radio. He spent eve …

Throughout America”s history, lawyers with a crusading zeal have, through their moral stance, intellectual integrity, and sheer brilliance, made use of the law to fight social injustice. In short bi …

In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts rangin …

This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential …

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 …

Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: ‘There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but …

First published in 1987. A biographical look into the character and career of Austen Chamberlain. ‘Chamberlain’, thought Lord Beaverbrook, ‘will be a fascinating subject for a biography.’ These pages …

France entered the North African world in 1830. Its overt political role there ended in 1962. The interpenetration of cultures and languages which resulted from the colonial conquest has not ended ye …