D.O - Biography & Memoir 6

James Hunt was a towering personality with a commanding presence, a hugely glamorous public figure who brought Formula One motor racing to the attention of a whole new audience. Triumphing against a……続きを見る

From the award-winning director and star of American Hemp Farmer comes “an antic and engaging account of one man’s giant step toward a smaller carbon footprint” (St. Petersburg Times). “If you’re a ……続きを見る

"Is it a true story?" is the perennial query of children at their mother or father's knee. These well-told thrilling tales about real children by Mrs. Hayden will fascinate both young and old throug……続きを見る

Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgar's unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco's worker-owned ……続きを見る

This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His ……続きを見る

Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents’ beginnings in the Ukraine to her own chil……続きを見る

Leon cons his agent into booking six weeks of gigs. But he doesn't have a band. Suitcase and I are looking to gig. Leon hooks up with us, and the tour is on. High Life's the name - Rock and roll's t……続きを見る

Teresa Renata Posselt, O.C.D. was the Novice Director, then Mother Prioress of the Cologne Carmel when Edith Stein lived there. This is Posselt’s tribute to Saint Edith Stein, a wreath of recollecti……続きを見る

Of funerals, weddings and other parties is the third of a series of 'Fleeting Moments'. These stories take the reader on a journey through the remarkable life and times of Walter Gordon Fischer. The……続きを見る

Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming th……続きを見る

This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword. 続きを見る

Denied college, Beverly Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and rebelling against authority. She got married and divorced and finally ended up ……続きを見る

'I fear we shall never see another Tozer. Men like him are not college-bred but Spirit-taught.' Leonard Ravenhill, 20th century British evangelist. Pastor A. W. Tozer, author of the Christian classi……続きを見る

Published just in time for Father's Day, this engagingly witty discourse takes readers along on Owen's golfing adventures--playing the Masters course in Augusta, touring Ireland's greatest greens, m……続きを見る

“It’s tempting Providence, it is!” he kept saying. “Sail this here ship on Friday the thirteenth? With all them blinkin’ mines still loose in the sea? It’s only askin’ for trouble, that’s all!” This……続きを見る

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kellogg, Gerber. Now……続きを見る

Join historian Roberts Liardon on a riveting journey through the life of Kathryn Kuhlman, one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. In this study of a miraculous healing ministry that s……続きを見る

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high q……続きを見る

Fernando Torres is one of the hottest properties in world football. From local Madrid idol to Kop hero and European Championship winner, he talks here for the first time about the unique challenges ……続きを見る

Black Knights of the Panhandle is a memoir about life, seen through eyes of youngsters growing up in the panhandle town of Dumas, Texas during the 1950s and early 1960s. It captures lifestyles short……続きを見る

Roots of Style is a rare look into the mind, life, and journey of one of our generation’s most coveted fashion designers, Isabel Toledo. From the nostalgic and permanent influence of her upbringing ……続きを見る

The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was dangerously bold and deeply enigmatic. This controversial biography opens up the secrets and contradictions of this globally renowned Polish journalist a……続きを見る

A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella. The visionary choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan (……続きを見る

Lights Of The Spirit is a groundbreaking work that uncovers a piece of history that until now has gone unwritten-the role played by Black people in the emergence of the Bahai Faith in North America.……続きを見る

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy……続きを見る

“Las mujeres en la vida y obra de Cervantes", es una investigación que el autor hace sobre los nexos que unen las mujeres más significativas en la vida de Miguel de Cervantes (su madre, sus hermanas……続きを見る

The story of Canadian Ice Dancing Champions Tessa Virture & Scott Moir as told in the pages of The London Free Press, including over 40 colour photographs! 続きを見る

Alfredo Gutierrez's father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown-the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the……続きを見る

Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career a……続きを見る

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kellogg, Gerber. Now……続きを見る