Mark Twain 
Roughing It [EPUB ebook] 

Carolyn Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward personal, autobiographical writing as a strategy for academic research. In addition to her landmark books Final Negotiations and The Ethnographi …

Society of Midland Authors Literary Award Finalist in Biography & Memoir Award-winning journalist Michele Weldon provides a potent antidote to the harried single mom stereotype in this beguiling memo …

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 title of this intriguing book derives from Edward Gibbon”s description of the second century AD as the time of the greatest happiness and prosperity in the history of the world. Jock Macdonald p …

At a time when female architects were still as rare as hen’s teeth, a seemingly unlikely entrant to the profession, a middle-aged vicar’s wife – Annabel Dott, was taking tentative steps on building p …

‘‘Bed.’ I patted it. ‘Bed.’ We both looked at the bed like schoolkids staring at the Rosetta Stone. I crouched down and curled up in the bed, with my legs hanging out and my head over the side. Dash …

First published in 1979. We associate Professor Kennan, with what came to be known as a doctrine of containment, the first serious theoretical attempt within the American foreign policy establishment …

Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of …

This is the third of a three-volume set on medieval scholarship that presents original biographical essays on scholars whose work has shaped medieval studies for the past four hundred years. A compan …