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T.S. MacGregor, a first-time novelist, navigates a diverse career spanning education and business development with roles at Dialog Information Services and Dow Jones News.

She was a wife, mother, teacher, and the first civilian to fly into space, but Christa’s dream tragically ended on a cold January day with the needless explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved, or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered, and London Bridge pulled down. The loot amassed from years of plunder helped Olav win the throne of Norway, and a century after his death he was proclaimed "Eternal King" and has been a national hero there ever since.

Através del relato histórico y un periodismo lírico que suele poner el acento en la gente, esta crónica mixtape, con visos de humor y melancolía, va y viene por los hechos de la Conquista de Tenochtitlan y cuestiona en cada capítulo, implícita o explícitamente, las fronteras entre comunidades, ciudades y nacionalidades; entre pasado y presente.

Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the Imperial War Museum. Through exclusive access to this material - as well as fascinating new research from other sources - Simon Pearson, Chief Night Editor of The Times, has now written the first biography of this iconic figure.

In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.

Martha Hughes Cannon (1857–1932) may best be known as the first female state senator in the United States, elected in Utah in 1896, nearly a quarter century before most women in the country could vote. She was also a suffragist, physician, gifted speaker, plural wife, faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and mother of three.

"The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but from an awareness of his inadequacy. He thus reveals a level of critical self-reflection that, before his time, was rarely put on paper.

India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to a socialist economy. Planning not only built India’s data systems, it even shaped the nature of its democracy. The Five-Year Plans loomed so large that they linked surprisingly far-flung contexts—from computers to Bollywood to Hindutva.

Download The Hundred Years’ War Biography Bundle to experience the life of these four influential characters of Europe’s greatest war.

Das Unheil nimmt seinen Lauf bei Kaffee und Kuchen. Karlrobert Kreiten, 27 Jahre alt, ein hochbegabter Pianist, verliert im März 1943 ein unbedachtes Wort gegenüber einer Freundin seiner Mutter: "Der Führer ist krank", der Krieg sei verloren. Sechs Monate später stirbt er am Galgen. Sein Schicksal steht im Mittelpunkt von Oliver Hilmes' Buch über das einschneidende Jahr 1943. In dem immer noch getanzt wird, auch wenn bei Stalingrad eine ganze Armee vernichtet wird und die Städte schon in Trümmern liegen.

I starten af 1800-tallet tog den unge dansker Hans Falk afsked fra sit fædreland og stak til søs for at opleve verden. Han levede i mange år et hårdt og dramatisk liv som hvalfanger, før han slog sig ned i New Zealand, hvor han levede blandt de menneskeædende maorier og giftede sig tre gange med maorikvinder. Den danske journalist Preben Dich er selv draget til New Zealand for at lære Hans Falks historie at kende gennem hans efterkommere, der er stolte over deres danske ophav.

För svenska folket är Daniel Kindberg känd som den f.d. ordföranden för Östersunds FK. Han är mannen som på åtta år tog ÖFK på en resa från division 2 till vinst mot självaste Arsenal i Europa League. Kanske är han för många ännu mer känd för åtalet som kom därefter - för trolöshet mot huvudman och bokföringsbrott. Men vem är han, egentligen? I "Mitt liv: inget försvarstal" får läsaren på djupet lära känna entreprenören, ledaren och fotbollsälskaren Daniel Kindberg, och de vägar han tagit för att bli den han blivit.

Den 13 juni 1983 döms överstelöjtnanten Bertil Ströberg till sex års fängelse för grovt spionage. Han har då stått åtalad för att ha sålt hemlig information till Polen. I Spionfallet Ströberg försöker Pelle Berglund kartlägga och levandegöra vad som egentligen hände den där våren 1983, i det han kallar den kanske sämsta polisutredningen i säkerhetspolisens historia.

"Han havde sine fejder med de intellektuelle og med bønderne, og han lagde sig ud med udenlandske statsmænd på stribe. For sådan var han. Han elskede striden og kampen, både for sagens skyld og af og til for kampens skyld. Han hentede sine sejre - og sine nederlag, altid i ivrig kamp. Denne bog er et forsøg på - med bidrag fra ind- og udland - at tegne nogle streger til et portræt af Olof Palme. Det endelige Palme-billede vil historien tegne." Preben Dich har samlet en lang række beretninger om den legendariske svenske statsminister Olof Palme.

The true story of a devastating flood that destroys six-year-old Suzie Jones’s house, and calls into question everything she thought she knew about home, family, and God.

By no means prepared by birth, education, or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victories and re-energizing and inspiring his countrymen in the process. While others, ostensibly his betters, yielded and collaborated, Wallace set an example of constancy and perseverance and became the Guardian of Scotland. Even his terrible death in London in 1305 can be seen as a victory as it provided inspiration for the continuance of the struggle against English domination.

The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world.

A shocking look at the abortion industry's patron saint. This book is an expose that tells the true story of the work of Margaret Sanger.

In a world fascinated by men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan is one of history’s greatest and most famous conquerors. No man, before or since, has ever started with so little and gone on to achieve so much.