Joseph Harris 
Stars that Never Shine: The Making of a Superbowl Football Player [EPUB ebook] 

As he was carried off on a stretcher at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Welsh swimmer David Davies was celebrating his success. His exhausting performance in the first ever 10 km open water race earned …

The year is 1942, the British are stoical but fearful, the war could go either way. A boy is born in middle England on a small tenanted farm that might be lost to the Germans. He knows nothing of thi …

In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence. Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road …

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or …

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 …

The Titles of Jesus in Christology was recognised as a major contribution to Christological study when it was first published in German in 1963. Its translation into English a few years later cemente …

John Snow was a Victorian physician who helped to establish that cholera was spread by contaminated water (not bad air, as theory had it). He traced the source of a deadly cholera outbreak to one pum …

“A fascinating personal document written with much sympathy, yet an admirable candour.“ Joyce Carol Oates “[A] richly personal portrait…Replete with compelling inside-literature tales, this is a l …

In the medieval Castilian village of Guzmán (population: 80), villagers have gathered for centuries in the “telling room“ to share stories and drink the local wine. It was here, in the summer of 20 …