Jeffrey Gusfield 
Deadly Valentines [PDF ebook] 
The Story of Capone’s Henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, His Blonde Alibi

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page Mc Bee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while strugglin …

Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Had it not been for Morello, the world may never have heard of ”men of …

Julian Vosper-Smith is a cad and a seducer, a wit and a raconteur. Every man wants to be him and every girl wants to shag him, and now you too can share in his success. Follow his amusing stories and …

Breathing Books is a final year University of Cumbria project, that consists of a compilation of short, autobiographical stories, produced by real people, about their personal experiences.Every so of …

______________________ ”A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family” – NIGELLA LAWSON SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE Y …

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 …

The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes, who managed to combine a rock star”s lifestyle wit …

Written and compiled by friends and former students, The Idea of Social Structure honors Robert K. Merton, considered one of the premier sociologists of the twentieth century. Along with Talcott Pars …

This is the first scholarly biography of Cecily Neville, duchess of York, the mother of Edward IV and Richard III. She was said to have ruled Edward IV ”as she pleased” and Richard III made his bid …