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A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do...

El Director es un retrato íntimo de las encrucijadas éticas, las relaciones personales, las amistades y deslealtades que se viven cuando se ocupa el despacho de uno de los grandes diarios del país. David Jiménez hizo carrera cubriendo guerras, desastres y revoluciones durante casi dos décadas antes de ser nombrado director de El Mundo. Lo que parecía un reto ilusionante - dirigir el diario en el que entró como becario a los 23 años.

Sobel instead exposes the real Coolidge, whose legacy as the most Jeffersonian of all twentieth-century presidents still reverberates today. Sobel delves into the record to show how Coolidge cut taxes four times, had a budget surplus every year in office, and cut the national debt by a third in a period of unprecedented economic growth.

For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Theodore Rex] is one...

In the spring of 1933, more than 8,000 Jewish musicians, actors, and other artists were expelled from their positions with German orchestras, opera companies, and theater groups. Later that year, the Jüdische Kulturbund, or Jewish Culture Association, was created to allow Jewish artists to perform for Jewish audiences.

"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth...

Step into the remarkable life of Joan of Arc, a young peasant girl who rose from complete obscurity to become one of history’s most unforgettable figures. In a France broken by war, political betrayal, and spiritual despair, Joan appeared with a clarity of purpose that defied every expectation. Guided by visions she believed were divine, she transformed herself into the unlikely force that would alter the course of the Hundred Years’ War.

On December 23, 1919, Alice H. Parker received Patent No. 1,325,905 for a revolutionary gas-powered heating system that would transform American homes forever. Yet today, almost no one knows her name. HEAT OF GENIUS chronicles the remarkable life and groundbreaking innovation of Alice Parker, the Black woman inventor whose vision of centralized heating became the blueprint for every modern HVAC system.

Der Roman begleitet Verdi auf seiner Reise nach Venedig im Jahr 1883. Dort begegnet er überall dem Schatten Richard Wagners, seines bedeutendsten künstlerischen Rivalen und Sinnbild einer neuen musikalischen Epoche. Wagners plötzlicher Tod erschüttert Verdi – und zwingt ihn, sich seiner eigenen künstlerischen Identität zu stellen. Werfel verbindet historische Realität, psychologische Tiefe und die emotionale Kraft der Oper zu einem faszinierenden literarischen Porträt.

Mary Ellen Pleasant: From Slavery to Fortune–America's First Self-Made Female Multimillionaire by Andy Lammers tells the extraordinary true story of a woman who defied the limitations of her time to become one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in 19th-century America.

La autobiografía de Harriet Ann Jacobs documenta su vida como esclava y cómo logró la libertad para ella y sus hijos. Estremecedora en sus descripciones de abuso sexual, la narrativa de esclavitud de Jacobs se destaca por el llamado que hizo a las mujeres abolicionistas para que abrieran los ojos a las realidades de la esclavitud. Considerado demasiado impactante para las audiencias lectoras de la época, el libro fue archivado antes de ser publicado en 1861, cerca del inicio de la Guerra Civil.

He claimed descent from Genghis Khan. He claimed to fight for God. But what he really worshipped… was conquest. This is the story of Timur, the man who turned Central Asia into a slaughterhouse and ruled an empire stitched together with blood, bone, and fear. From Persia to Delhi, Baghdad to Ankara, no civilization was safe. He left cities in ash, pyramids of skulls in his wake, and a myth that outlived his empire. He defeated the Ottomans. He threatened the Ming. He wrote letters to kings and Popes while stuffing emperors in cages.

Growing up as one of fifteen children to black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South, Samuel was raised to fight for what he believed in. From an early age, he was taught to speak out against injustice, follow his dreams, trust in God, and never forget his roots. From the Alabama plantation where his grandfather Nute was a slave, to riding the family wagon to church on Sundays, to working his way through the ranks as a factory employee in Niagara Falls, first-time author Samuel Carter shares his life story and family history with honesty and deep poignance.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), Sohn einer alten englischen Adelsfamilie, britischer Premier und Nobelpreisträger für Literatur, hat schon viele Historiker beschäftigt. Churchill, der sich bereits in den dreißiger Jahren zur stärksten politischen Persönlichkeit Englands entwickelte, wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg eine Art lebendiges Symbol des nationalen Widerstands und einer der großen Heroen der Anti-Hitler-Koalition. Seit 1946 gab er dank seines internationalen Ansehens wichtige Impulse zur Schaffung des Nordatlantik-Paktes und zur wirtschaftlichen und politischen Einigung Europas.

The Cold War’s greatest traitor wasn’t in Moscow—he was in MI6. Harold “Kim” Philby was the golden boy of British intelligence—handsome, brilliant, and deeply embedded in the highest levels of MI6. But behind the polished exterior was a double agent loyal to the Soviet Union. Over the course of two decades, Philby betrayed hundreds of operations, exposed agents, and fed a constant stream of secrets to Moscow. Kim Philby: The British Mole Who Betrayed the West is a gripping biography that explores how one man’s ideology, ambition, and duplicity changed the face of espionage forever.

The remarkable true story of a Canadian paratrooper’s escape from behind enemy lines following the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. Ideal for listeners of James Holland, Anthony Beevor and Cornelius Ryan. On September 17, 1944, over 8,000 men of the British 1st Airborne Division landed in German-occupied Netherlands as part of the largest airborne invasion ever undertaken. Twenty-two-year-old Canadian paratrooper Leo Heaps was one of them.

يمثل سيدني سميث استنساخًا حقيقيًّا لجوزيف بيل، طبيب الجراحة بأدنبرج الذي استوحى منه آرثر كونان دويل شخصية شارلوك هولمز.

A wild adventure on horseback, beyond the Mississippi River into America's far west of 1832. Washington Irving, author of the “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” joins a group of inexperienced rangers, hunters and an assortment of colorful characters on a trip into the unsettled prairies. Their goal: meeting Native Americans, hunting buffalo and getting in trouble.