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One of the greatest chess legends of all time, Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), is best known for founding the Hypermodernism school of chess, which emerged after World War I to challenge the chess ideologies of traditional central European masters. This first full-scale biography of Nimzowitsch...

During his 20-year career as a federal prosecutor, the author worked hundreds of criminal cases, from a botched attempted bank robbery to high profile death penalty cases. In this collection of stories, the author recounts tales of trauma, drama and criminal minds. While many...

The Boston Police Department was formed by a man who had twice failed in business, ran a bar in the poorest district of Boston, and was charged with two assaults. When Francis Tukey became City Marshal in 1846, he faced off against some of...

How did legendary football coach George Allen (1918-1990) consistently build winning teams at both the college and professional levels? This first full-length biography examines his applied philosophy of coaching through comprehensive coverage of his tenures at the collegiate level. His stormy relationships with team...

The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.Author: Nicolas SlonimskyISBN-10: 1438491638ISBN-13: 9781438491639Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2023Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

The first and best biography of this pioneering comic duo and Broadway Stars--in a new edition!Author: Felix IsmanISBN-10: 1438490518ISBN-13: 9781438490519Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2022Pages: 218Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Natalie Joy Woodall is the author of several books, including Oswego County and the Civil War: They Answered the Call; Men of the 110th Regiment: Oswego's Own; and Of Blood and Battles: Oswego's 147th Regiment.Author: Natalie Joy WoodallISBN-10: 1438489668ISBN-13: 9781438489667Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of...

Judith Chazin-Bennahum is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Theatre and Dance at the University of New Mexico. Her many books include René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life.Author: Judith Chazin-BennahumISBN-10: 1438487983ISBN-13: 9781438487984Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2022Pages:...

Providing a fresh perspective on the work of Paulo Freire, this book includes a detailed overview of his biography, major publications, and key ideas, and adds to existing conversations through new comparisons to other writers and thinkers.Author: William F. Pinar, Peter RobertsISBN-10: 1433195194ISBN-13: 9781433195198Publisher:...

Providing a fresh perspective on the work of Paulo Freire, this book includes a detailed overview of his biography, major publications, and key ideas, and adds to existing conversations through new comparisons to other writers and thinkers.Author: William F. Pinar, Peter RobertsISBN-10: 1433195186ISBN-13: 9781433195181Publisher:...

These Great Stories in this Anthology show us how to push through past pain. After reading this Anthology your thought pattern will be changed. If you find that the pain that you feeling is progressively becoming worse, is severe, intense, or disabling you should...

As a director, author, actor, and educator, Frank Galati has been a prominent American artist since the 1980s and continues to create new and innovative work for the theatre. The focus of this book is the remarkable Chicago years, between 1969 and 1996, in...

Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed many identities. Originally cast as a prophet of revolution and the maestro of montage, and later seen as both a victim of and apologist for...

This is a new guide to reading the Confessions, Augustine's most important work, and what is widely known as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written. The Confessions consists of thirteen books, in which Augustine outlines his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity....

Author: Lydia AzadpourISBN-10: 1350196711ISBN-13: 9781350196711Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d

Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall,...

This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare's life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce even the most sceptical scholar. The early departure, the late return. Public success, private loss. A twilight of plays about family reunions, a death at...

This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare's life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce even the most sceptical scholar. The early departure, the late return. Public success, private loss. A twilight of plays about family reunions, a death at...

Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) were the most famous British actors of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Through their powerful acting and meticulous conceptualisation of Shakespeare's characters and their worlds, they created iconic interpretations of Shakespeare's major roles that live...

The 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects associated with the lynching, including newspaper articles, fragments of the victims' clothing,...

This mystical autobiographical rhyme evokes reader participation by weaving you into a dimensional time travel experience. Written in a refreshingly descriptive pro's format, this linear story will engage, captivate and amaze you through the miracle of connectivity.Author: Sidni Louise MylesISBN-10: 1257064789ISBN-13: 9781257064786Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Fleeing a Hollywood that spurned him, Orson Welles arrived in Italy in 1947 to begin his career anew. Far from being welcomed as the celebrity who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, his six-year exile in Italy was riddled with controversy, financial struggles, disastrous...

Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of P鑽e Marie-Beno?, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them...

A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and it...

Five mostly autobiographical short stories about a little colored girl who grew up in St Louis during the 1940s and 50s, with her observations about her safe, middle class, upbringing in a segregated city that allowed her to develop the intellectual and social skills...

Out of the Delta is the remembrances of nationally recognized artist, Zeek Taylor, who grew up in Marmaduke, Arkansas. The book is full of colorful real-life stories of life in the 50's and 60's. You'll laugh and sometimes cry as Zeek reveals the joys...

Since first becoming a true believer in the power and importance of rock & roll as a boy in the 1950s, Art Fein has been immersed in music and the music business, taking on many diverse roles: Journalist: onetime music editor of Variety, contributor...

This booklet is grown from careless, partly lost notes that had been sent to relatives and classmatesseveral years ago.It dates back to an era before the flood, pandemic, and war struck worse.Retired because of my poor eyesight, my interest in literature had awakened, and...

This is the story and picture book of Tom Sarmento's life - as a son, father and grandfather. For seven seasons, Tom and his team built and maintained those fantastic flying machines on The Dukes of Hazzard. All the stories are now told through...

Paradox Lake of MemoryBy: Kate Johns WaltonA memoir about a fascinating lake in the Adirondack Mountains and how its complex geological origins and eclectic social history impacted a family's life, Paradox Lake of Memory is also about how gender shapes history.Delving into Paradox Lake's...

I have had many traumas in my life, but nothing prepares you for the death of a child. It is a parent's worst nightmare - one does not get over this. We remember our children forever. I lost my beloved son James Christian when...

Chick Pritchard has journeyed on a road very much less traveled, from the quiet realm of the Catholic priesthood to the adrenaline-filled world of a police officer. This is his inspiring and unforgettable story.Author: Chick PritchardISBN-10: 8360197334ISBN-13: 9798360197331Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2022Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight:...

God did not stop writing stories at Revelation. This book is based in 98% truth, depicting the meth lifestyle and addiction in its rawest form. Follow one man's journey deep into the chasms of hell. From adolescence, Boston Bornagain was haunted by the demons...

Make Music, Not War: A Memoir of Vietnam is the true story of a 23-year-old husband, father, and teacher forced by his draft board to fight in a war which he didn't approve of and had no interest in. He survived psychologically by writing...

What if you escape your inner prison?What if you have the courage to speak up?What if you believe?Carina and her son were arrested, handcuffed, shackled, and thrown into a caged van. for a visa overstay. 81/2 months later, she was released against all odds....

A travel story is the best story of them all ...Travel journalist Kate Wills wasn't expecting to be divorced after less than a year of marriage, or to be forced to restart a life that had seemed so stable for so long. Luckily, her...

I'm sure everybody has stories. I happen to have a lot of them. This is a quick read of 25 years of things that happened to me with my friends and loved ones, and how I learned about sex, life, heartbreaks, and ultimately how...

This collection of images from conservation photographer and storyteller Deirdre Denali Rosenberg observes the lives of mountain goats over time, in a heartfelt and loving tribute to these majestic creatures. For multiple years Deirdre tracked and documented the lives of small herds in the...

Many Faces One Spirit: A View from the Other Side reflects some of my many past lives and how my conscious presences broke the cycle of identifying with my pathological ego and how this affected my present life today and future lives to come....

Many Faces One Spirit: A View from the Other Side reflects some of my many past lives and how my conscious presences broke the cycle of identifying with my pathological ego and how this affected my present life today and future lives to come....

A War within a War, within a WarYou asked for a conflict within the Viet Nam EraYou got itPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Combat ReadinessA normal reaction to abnormal circumstancesMy Heroes have always been ChristiansAgent Orange PoisoningYou got itA Real McCoyYou got itKiller Kilo 3/1,...

Based on her own activism in the Gandhi International Institute of Peace and Mediators Beyond Borders this book applied her Harvard Law School Negotiation Principles of Mediation to 9/11, Kent State University killings, Croatia-Bosnia, Cambodia, Immigration and orphan issues and todays Racial, Ethnic and...

Dr. Muhammed Niaz, a medical doctor on a mission to help patients, shares his harrowing legal journey when he was unfairly targeted for prescribing pain medication. His tale is set against the backdrop of white supremacy, discrimination, and violations of due process. It gives...

Mark Rea has expanded his list of legendary Ohio State Buckeye football players! In The Legends Volume II: Ohio State Buckeyes, The Men, The Deeds, The Consequences, Mark examines fifty additional epic Ohio State football players and coaches and what made them so esteemed....

The subject of Peter Petschauer's latest book of poetry, Listen to Rarely Heard Voices, is that confluence point of noticing, attention, knowing, refusal not to know what one knows, and keen observation of the tiniest detail in the natural world to the largest canvas...

Discover the life of one of Edwardian England's most celebrated and revered musical comedy stars, Lily Elsie. From her childhood days in the music-halls of Salford and her rise to fame as the child singing star 'Little Elsie' to her arrival in London and...

"Where I didn't achieve, you will achieve."- Annie L. DawsonFueled by those prophetic words and constant reassurance from his mother, Wayne Dawson overcame the crime ridden neighborhoods of his youth, his parents' spiraling marriage and years of juvenile delinquency to become one of the...

"The day after I visit my daughter in prison..."How do you forgive the unforgivable? How do you find compassion for a person who does the unthinkable? What do you do the day after you visit your daughter in prison? For a mother, forgiving and...

Hinz-Penner details a history fraught with tensions between land ownership and former inhabitants, commodification of the land and love of the land, land use and management, the simple life and love of nature. As Elaine Enns, Co-Author, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of...

In follow-up to the first book, Which Reminds Me of a Story, this book, Since You Asked Here's a Story, is a second collection of short autobiographical anecdotes written for the tween and early teen. Each is an entertaining true story of life as...