It is difficult to keep in mind that the era of illegal abortions ended only 27 years ago.

Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy...

Examines the notorious Nazi's life.

In Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and i...

These extraordinary memoirs--written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the si...

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he w...

In the form of a biography, the reader follows a fictional friend of Street named 'Tubby'. Street...

This book is three instructional articles on growing currents and gooseberries, with information ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

Mindset follows a group of outcasts who are abandoned in space and forced to survive anyway they ...

Malins interviews the pop synthesizer gods themselves and many others in creating this portrait o...

An updated version of the classic, definitive account of the Burma campaign in World War 11.

Infamous for corruption during his reign and for his marriage to the sexually voracious empress T...

The Prussian general and military theoretician Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz spent much of...

Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.

Chemistry at Home' is a wonderful book for anyone with an interest in the science, containing a w...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC), soldier, politician, and statesman, set the standard of dicta...

Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully examines the issues...

The World War II commander largely responsible for Russia's victories at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kurs...

Revered historian Baker, the author of books on Augustus, Tiberius, and Hannibal, tells the story...

Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their per...

Sheaffer's two-volume biography of American platwright Eugene O'Neill-the second volume of which ...

Illustrated with twenty-five reproductions of Pollock's paintings, the book looks into the passio...

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both t...

Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

This early booklet is a fascinating read for entertainment enthusiasts. Thoroughly recommended fo...

From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J...

A definitive biography of film legend Gary Cooper

Ex-President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt recalls in his journal of a hunting trip in Africa t...

Being extraordinary means being alone. And no one understands that more than Rebecca Hunter. Becc...

INDIAN AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY- A Study in Contrasts By BETTY HEIMANN. Originally published in I93...

The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the s...

Schaff, a Union soldier, gives an eyewitness account of the Confederate retreat and defeat in 186...

This definitive volume celebrates the harmonica's illustrious history, focusing on every musical ...

Silent screen goddess Clara Bow was the embodiment of the Roaring Twenties, Hollywood's first sex...

For What It's Worth is a revealing insiders look at an influential and groundbreaking rock group ...

A physicist, suspected of a murder, tries to answer two questions, who killed the woman in the ne...

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson ...

Riccards focuses on how the abilities, goals, and personalities of presidents have shaped the the...

Legendary soprano Maria Callas, whose singing was as sensational as her life, is the subject of t...

Written with Lead offers a compelling narrative history of twenty-one tragic episodes in American...

This monumental triple biography weaves together the personal and public lives of the triumvirate...

A serial killer is loose in Manchester masquerading as a vampire, and a forensic psychologist is ...

36 stories by one of the world's masters of literature, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two de...

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been car...

The first explorer to reach the South Pole recounts the rigors of his expedition.