National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering 
Memorial Tributes [PDF ebook] 
Volume 8

Behind closed doors, my mother’s emotional, psychological, and physical abuse created a living nightmare that remained hidden from the world. Yet, to outsiders, she exuded charm and charisma, casting …

Two months after his twenty-first birthday, a young Harvard student arrived to join his father the American Ambassador in London. Jack, as he was known to family, had no idea how his journey to Engla …

‘A Tale of Four Hemispheres’ is a highly engaging, thoughtful and extremely readable memoir about a man orphaned in infancy, who survived a childhood bedevilled by ill-health and went on to achieve w …

Travelling is one of the great pleasures in life. You are completely anonymous which means you can act like an idiot, say stupid things, wear a big ugly T-shirt, then go home and brag about how savvy …

Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-res …

As sister of Henry III and aunt of the future Edward I, Eleanor de Montfort was at the heart of the bloody conflict between the Crown and the English barons. At Lewes in 1264 Simon de Montfort captur …

From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled …

Chris Corcoran opens his mind to share every thought he”s ever had, in his own random order. There are insights into his life as he takes readers back to his Eighties school disco days to reveal how …

In a life dedicated to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust, Otto Dov Kulka has set to one side his experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings …

”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 …