Henry David Thoreau 
Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes and Ditches [EPUB ebook] 

Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His pe …

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost. Under President Eisenhower the US pursued a policy of support for dictators, the economic …

In the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Crawford F. Sams led the most unprecedented and unsurpassed reforms in public health history, as chief of the Public Health and Welfare Sect …

A rare feminist perspective on a people and a culture in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, Nadia, Captive of Hope is the autobiography of Fay Afaf Kanafani, an Arab Muslim woman born i …

A leading figure in the Theosophical Society, Leadbeater was a prolific author, writing on subjects ranging from Buddhism, Masonic history and the origins of Christianity through to the power of thou …

To understand Anna Karenina, Mellors, Molly Bloom, Dante, Romeo, Juliet and Bridget Jones you must also have loved and lost and won. To understand sport in the greatest arenas of them all you too mus …

How a family-run business from humble Bikaner transformed Haldiram into a global, much-loved brand In the early twentieth century, a young man, Ganga Bhishan Agarwal, aka Haldiram, gained a reputatio …

Scott Quinnell’s book is called The Hardest Test . It is the story of how he became a successful rugby player, in spite of having to fight against learning difficulties at school. When he retired in …

The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg »s work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smit …

It was the case that shocked the nation. On the evening of 20 April 2011, Tina Nash »s life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings and domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenk …