Maria Popova 
Figuring [EPUB ebook] 

The activist and author of A People’s History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.   During the Civil Rights Movement …

At a time when governors have been sent to jail, presidents have been impeached, and legislatures seem dedicated to gridlock, and adherence to blind partisanship trumps all else, it’s not hard to fat …

Josephine was born on February 7th, 1917, in the small village of Little River Harbor, Nova Scotia. Her childhood was spent on the family farm with her five other siblings. There was little money but …

This is a girl”s guide to emotional baking.We”ve all been there.The blind date from hell.The Big Hurt.The guy who details his various surgeries over Caesar salad on the first date.Who needs a pint …

Sangharakshita has established a successful Buddhist movement, pioneering a living Buddhism that seems well suited to our times. Here Subhuti, one of his closest disciples, offers a comprehensive acc …

John S. Peart-Binns brings us a fresh and distinctive view of Herbert Hensley Henson, the eighty-sixth Bishop of Durham, who is shown here to have formed his own character and forged his own way amid …

At age two, one December day in 1943, Eric is handed over to a stranger, the Reverend Brightman. The Reverend is here to help Eric’s unmarried mother, who cannot keep Eric as she has to work in the c …

The New York Times bestseller Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adv …

”Emer O”Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature … Compelling, informative and fascinating” – Stephen Fry The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a me …