The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of a...
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Beith goes deep inside the hunt for the most powerful, feared, and charismatic drug lord in the world, Mexico's Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, and tells the full story of the drug trade over th...
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India has perhaps the oldest living philosophical tradition in the world. Though both Buddhism and Jainism began in India, its primary influence is the Vedic tradition. The Vedas are the ...
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for bare printed circuit board manufacturing across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent dem...
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On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn ("Mac") McDole, one of eleven young men who escaped and the last man ou...
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As made famous in the popular Lost Girls blog, three 20-something friends at a crossroads make a pact to quit their high-pressure New York media jobs; leave their friends, boyfriends, and...
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Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work paints a detailed, intimate portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and provides a ...
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New from AMP In his self-professed quest to "become the smartest person in the world," A.J. Jacobs undertook the daunting task of reading all 44 million words of the Encyclopedia Britanni...
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In 2004, the author and his six-year-old son, Alex, were in a horrific accident that left Alex paralyzed. When Alex awoke from a coma, not only had the most severe of his spinal injuries ...
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In 1695, counterfeiter William Chaloner was rapidly rising in London's underworld. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new Warden of His Majesty's Mint--renowned scientist Isaac New...
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Filled with exclusive interview material granted through unprecedented access to Allen Iverson, the iconic basketball superstar himself, "Crossover" provides an in-depth look at the truth...
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Almost 200 years after her death, Jane Austen remains a hot topic. Harman presents a complete biography--of both the author and her lasting cultural influence--making this essential readi...
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Kershaw tells the epic and heroic story of how Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Adolph Eichmann and saved more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest from the Nazi death camps.
The author of "Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin" returns with this dual biography that restores authors Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney to their rightful places in the rich cultural tapestr...
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Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees? This is t...
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Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical respect and extraordinary co...
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Drawing on newly released documents and an uncanny ability to separate the facts from the overblown reputation, Toye provides the first comprehensive analysis of Winston Churchill's relat...
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A sweeping historical narrative of the life of Carl Akeley, the famed explorer and taxidermist who changed the way Americans viewed the conservation of the natural world.
The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler's armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, "Louis Rehr "was the best there was" flying it. This memoir, w...
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From the author of "Hidden Power" comes the story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, ...
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Her most personal book to date, Insight is Sylvia Browne's candid exploration of her fifty years of psychic readings. Covering a wide variety of subjects, Insight is Sylvia's generous ref...
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Mother Theresa. Princess Diana. Tom Clancy. Johnnie Cochran. Betty Shabazz. These are just a few of the people you'll find biographical information on in the Encyclopedia of World Biograp...
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This second and final volume of Derek Beales's magisterial biography of the emperor Joseph II describes the period when he was sole ruler of the Austrian Monarchy. Influenced partly by En...
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Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogi...
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By exploring Mach's views on science as well as philosophy, this book attempts to wrest him free from his customary association with logical positivism and to reinterpret him on his own t...
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Over sixty years after his death in 1931, Vincent d'Indy is still a much misunderstood and maligned figure in French music. Previous biographers have left a portrait of the academic figur...
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"This dictionary is a model of its genre in both form and content and will likely become for all large libraries the standard source on the subject in any language for decades to come." RQ
In "The World of William Byrd", John Harley builds on his previous work, "William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997)", in order to place the composer more clearly in his ...
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Statesmen Who Changed the World provides extensive essays on more than 70 statesmen of the Western world, covering the time period from the 15th century to the present. Some of the states...
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