This book allows readers to recapture the morally charged atmosphere of the participants' Civil W...

The true story is told of Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers, who were th...

Epic is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster ? the climb that went w...

Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the socie...

Wise Guys takes readers into the heart of Sopranos territory, with a collection featuring the wor...

From novelists to sailors to oceanographers to divers, man's encounters with sharks have produced...

'Wild Blue' collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement ...

This enthralling memoir revels the darkest fears, struggles, exhaustion, tiny victories, and even...

New York has always inspired larger-than-life tales and great writing-but on the topic of cops an...

Featuring superb writing drawn from the best fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, 'Gangs' paints ...

'Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the Ame...

Reporter: 'What's it like to be Bob Hope?' Hope: 'I wouldn't have it any other way.' From Bob Hop...

'A Slender Thread' tells the gripping tale of an accomplished climber's against-all-odds survival...

The acclaimed biography by Jeffrey Robinson, now revised and updated to coincide with the major m...

A collection of writers' works tout a variety of wild 'life' and treacherous trials and adventure...

Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his metier as an actor, ...

The acclaimed annual collection of the best action and adventure writing of the year returns with...

Readers are taken into the heart of organized crime in this anthology of writings from some of th...

The story of one of the Afghanistan war's most decorated units and their fifteen-month ordeal, cu...

Stories of today's true fire-fighting heroes are presented in this inspiring anthology--from Grea...

Whether it's Peter Boardman on being forced to leave a friend to die near the summit, Stephen Ven...

When Joan Kelly took a weekend job as a professional submissive in a private dungeon, it seemed s...

At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable s...

A memoir by band leader of Morris Day and The Time, centering around his lifelong relationship an...

The new gold standard in childbirth preparation-the McMoyler Method-presented in a clear, user-fr...

An unforgettable personal retracing of one of the most extraordinary expeditions of all time, whe...

This is a dramatic true story of Antarctic tragedy and survival among the heroic group that was t...

Spanish translation of our immensely popular Life After Loss, a practical and effective grief-rec...

'A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by singer Mark Lanegan, with a preface by...

Former Major League pitcher and mental skills coach for two of baseball's legendary franchises (t...

'Climb' focuses on the most exciting descriptions of the hardest climbing in the world, from the ...

Grant's Vicksburg operations and those of the opposing side are of lasting historical interest. C...

Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where h...

In the first anthology ever to focus exclusively on the two highest, most formidable mountains in...

Parkman (1823-1893), was not only a pioneering historian but an enduring one. This superbly edite...