Rich Villodas 
Deeply Formed Life [EPUB ebook] 

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 the 1970s Kevin Threlfall built up the chain of Lo-Cost discount stores from a single grocery stall on Cannock market. Having sold out to RCA of America he then went on to build an empire of 1, 21 …

A collection of real-life stories from people who have improved their lives through better literacy.  Foreword by Scott Quinnell Some people take the power of words for granted. But for the thou …

This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individual …

man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to fi nd universal patterns in the lives of all men. …

When super-tough cop Sergeant Harry Keeble announced he was joining Hackney”s ailing Child Protection Team in 2000, his colleagues were astounded. Known as the ”Cardigan Squad”, its officers were …

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753? – 1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman-of …

‘When the famous Royal Professor of Philosophy and Eloquence Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) gave a lecture, one of his most promising pupils stood by, ready to tug on his coat if he made a mistake. That pu …

A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and b …