Lenin's Laureate Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

An Ordinary Soldier

On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in

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A book of secrets

The author shares the stories of unknown women who played significant roles in the lives of prominent figures, including a mistress shared by the second

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Maeve's Times

'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I

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Mistress and Maid (Jiaohong ji)by Meng Chengshun

In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have

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Aaronsohn's Maps

Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at

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Invisible

'She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white

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Emissaries of Satan

Michael Ross. Kenneth Bianchi. John Scripps. These are truly the servants of hell, three savage killers without a shred of soul between them. Michael Ross

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Banksy

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is

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Targeter

A revealing and utterly engrossing account' (Joby Warrick) of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets

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Touch and Go

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian author of The Good War recounts his hard-working early childhood in Chicago, his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War

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Raoul Wallenberg

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the

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The Murray Edwards Duse Collection

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection is the best record of the literary background of Eleonora Duse, one of the foremost Italian aesthetes. It proves that

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Trump on Trump

Un lucru nu poate fi negat despre Donald Trump, faptul că spune ce gândește... și rezultatele sunt fascinante! Aflați cum funcționează această minte citindu-i cuvintele....

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Scratched

'Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest

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Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common

Architect William Wurster envisioned Greenwood Common as a development that combined an idealistic sense of community with a modernist aesthetic and an awareness of regi...

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The Day That Changed My Life

Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable collection of stories of Ireland's women and the extraordinary moments...

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Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton

The first modern biography of this notable politician 'Mach's detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressiv...

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Running the Voodoo Down

RUNNING THE VOODOO DOWN

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Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments

Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses

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The late child and other animals

Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the

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Here We Are: To Migrate to America

The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of Casablanca--in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival

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Why I Left America And Other Essays

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

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Langston Hughes

A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

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The Rat That Got Away : A Bronx Memoir

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional

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The Kremlin's Geordie Spy

Born a 'geordie,” a native of Britain’s Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Willie Fisher became one of the KGB’s most celebrated agents. Sent to spy in New York, where

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Alger Hiss

Documents the story of a State Department official charged with spying for the Soviets, arguing the case was shaped by missed chances and poor judgments,

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Labyrinths

Emma Jung era inteligentă, ambițioasă și extrem de bogată, una dintre cele mai bogate moștenitoare din Elveția când, la vârsta de șaptesprezece ani, l-a cunoscut

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The Brother

'The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003?including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet

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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank

În această nouă biografie definitivă, Carol Ann Lee oferă răspunsul la una dintre cele mai sfâșietoare întrebări ale timpurilor moderne: cine a trădat-o pe Anne

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Goodbye to All That

Într-unul dintre cele mai sincere și mai deschise autoportrete care au fost puse vreodată pe hârtie, Robert Graves spune povestea extraordinară a trăirilor sale ca

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The Poisoner

Taking a fresh look at the infamous doctor's life and disputed crimes, and drawing on previously undiscovered letters and new forensic evidence, this first major

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O the clear moment

The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with

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Joyce

James Joyce (1882-1941) a fost unul dintre cei mai mari scriitori ai secolului XX. În tinerețe, și-a respins țara și religia, dar a continuat să

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The Man Who Founded the Anc

It is well known that the African National Congress was formed in 1912 and is considered the oldest political organisation on the African continent. What

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Forget About Today

Forget About Today shows a side of Bob Dylan that most people - from fans to skeptics - have never seen. Rather than another gossipy

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A Daughter of the Middle Border

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the sequel to Garland's autobiography A Son of the Middle Border.

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Neglected

Micul Jamey, în vârstă de 21/2 ani, este plasat la asistenta maternală cu experiență, Cathy Glass, în regim de urgență. Poliția și serviciile sociale nu

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Edward Albee

In 1960, Edward Albee electrified the theater world with the American premiere of The Zoo Story, and followed it two years later with his extraordinary

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Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy

A striking feature of ancient Greek literature is its preoccupation with old age. Yet scholars have been slow to explore the subject, a possible reflection

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Dickens and Thackeray

Attitudes toward punishment and forgiveness in English society of the nineteenth century came, for the most part, out of Christianity. In actual experience the ideal

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The Sixth Man

**The Instant National Bestseller** The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors. Andre Iguodala is one

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Looking for Chengdu

Memoir of the author's trips to the Sichuan Province of China during the late 1980s. Her intention was to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese

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A Numerate Life

Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky 'meta-memoir' raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What

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Whiskey breakfast

Whiskey Breakfast is Lindberg’s captivating tale of life as a first-generation baby-boomer Swedish American, caught between the customs of a land he had never been

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Bear Island

'Weaving together strands of myth, memory, legend, and history, Bear Island lyrically conveys a historical event that has been forgotten not only by the majority

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Secrets of a Stewardess

People always seemed amused whenever Gretchen Ryan recounted anecdotes of her transformative experiences as an air hostess in days gone by. Many even suggested she

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Love, Africa

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against on...

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MY MAM SHIRLEY

Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or

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Snowball oranges

How a Scotsman and his family lived the dream, making their vacation home permanent?and how the local neighbors helped them endure that 'dream' I could

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Jacob Adler

(Applause Books). Jacob Adler, with his performances in the Yiddish King Lear , Uriel Acosta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , became first

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A dip in the ocean

4,000 miles of unpredictable ocean 500 Chocolate bars 124 days of physical exertion 3 Guinness World Records set 1 incredible journey. On 1 April 2009,

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Hotel on the Roof of the World

The very aptly named Mr Pong had the kind of breath that could stun at over ten feet... This wasn't just bad - there was

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Head over heels in France

Just when life seemed its darkest, Samantha found happiness—Pascal, and his 10-year-old son, and the rigors of country life—in an unexpected trip to France When

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Midnight's gate =

Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square.'Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate.'Bei Dao Bei Dao

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Letting Go

The stunning and heartbreaking story of the young son of Rachel Nickell - who witnessed the brutal attack on his mother and whose childhood was

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Translation and the Transmission of Culture Between 1300 and 1600

Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600 is a companion volume to Medieval Translators and their Craft (1989) and, like Medieval Translators,

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Shallow Graves in Siberia

Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland and was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final

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Queen of bebop

'Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and

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Things Get Better

To look and listen to the extraordinary Katie Piper, it is difficult to comprehend the severe trauma she suffered from a brutal rape and acid

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Travels with Macy

After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author Bruce Fogle decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his

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