Joseph McCabe 
Crisis in the History of the Papacy [EPUB ebook] 

A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent films to tal …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Since 1994, the UK”s National Lottery has created 2, 300 millionaires. Expensive cars, big houses and dream holidays are all top of the wish list for those ordinary people whose lives are changed wi …

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 …

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter profess …

An important addition to the Profiles in Power series, this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt led the United States …

This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view— and Jewish too perhaps—- of a man and times so familiar to us and yet which acquires another …