Sharon Lee & Steve Miller 
Writing Neep: Short Essays on the Writing Life [EPUB ebook] 

A definitive biography of the man who coined the expression ‘conspicuous consumption’. Based on newly released archival sources, this book sets the facts straight on more than 60 years of myths and m …

Robert Stephenson, the leading engineer of the mid-nineteenth century whose substantial public works brought about considerable social change is now the subject of this excellent new biography: Rober …

I also highly recommend Anne R. Dick s The Search for Philip K. Dick for anyone interested in the life of the writer. Lavie Tidhar, Washington Post Offering an intimate perspective on the life of an …

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne»s memoir, The Devil»s Defender , recounts his tortuous educat …

Frances Bowar lived in Ethan, South Dakota, a smallfarming community. She kept a diary from 1938 to1970, recording the activities of her family, her ownthoughts, feelings, and judgments, and the birt …

The activist and author of A People’s History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.   During the Civil Rights Movement …

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award »A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. Mac Lean must surely be the outstanding, and mos …

M Cherif Bassiouni was a towering figure in international law. He was personally connected to some of the most historically relevant moments of the past century: the Suez War; the Camp David Accords; …

Around the world there are thousands of pet statues and memorials with fascinating stories behind them. Some reveal insights into our social history, such as the little brown dog in Battersea that wa …

Best known for the progressive school he founded in Dessau during the 18th century, Johann Bernhard Basedow was a central thinker in the German Enlightenment. Since his death in 1790 a substantial bo …