Lynn Michelsohn 
Lowcountry Confederates: Rebels, Yankees, and South Carolina Rice Plantations [EPUB ebook] 

This is a simple tale of a family of eight children (six girls and eventually two boys) who lived in a village in South Devon.There are some aspects of this story that will make you laugh and plenty …

‘The Lump’ started back in the 1950s and possibly even further back in Ireland whereby men worked many hours in tough conditions and were paid cash in hand thus avoiding payment of tax. Bricklaying w …

This volume explores the extraordinary life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology to zoology to medicine. These essays-wri …

The brilliant and influential statesman, Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan’s modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight …

In this introspective exploration of former boxer Joey Torrey»s life, his past, his murder conviction, and his more than 30-year incarceration in a California state prison are each fine-tooth combed …

This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period. Attracting the patronage of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk early in his care …

A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zippers and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. A recent graduate, dres …

Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood, exposing the dark side of e …