Douglas Brinkley & Ronald Reagan 
Reagan Diaries, Volume 1 [EPUB ebook] 
January 1981-October 1985

Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat in 1815 came at an inconvenient time for John Monk, an ambitious young naval officer. Forced to rethink his plans, John turned to the merchant service, where he encountere …

Bhikkhuni Dhammananda defied convention to become the first woman fully ordained in the Thai Theravada Buddhist tradition. Dubbed "Rebel Monk" by the Thai press, she faced enormous oppositi …

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 …

This book introduces students to African-American innovators and their contributions to art, entertainment, sports, politics, religion, business, and popular culture. While the achievements of such i …

When he was six years old, he declared to the hearing of some friends: "I want to be a pilot when I grow up, " and it generated mocking laughter from them. The laughter became louder when a …

Ploughing through peat bogs, rescuing sheep, walking alone in the dark; this book has it all. It is full of riveting adventures of walking solo in the glorious British countryside. ‘Just Another Pile …

The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to …

For nearly 40 years ‘among the glades of Epping Forest’ Churchill found a base for his parliamentary life. This book relates with anecdotal and archival evidence the attempt to unseat him after what …

David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations among the Palestinians, a bomb ripped open Hebrew Uni …