Lenny Bruce was the most controversial comedian of the 20th century, and William Karl Thomas was his only writing collaborator, a collaboration that lasted ten years from before Bruce's rise to int...

Theodate Pope Riddle was one of America's first successful female architects. She was the only child of a Cleveland millionaire whose hobby was collecting Impressionist paintings. Her first archite...

Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolution--a new way of looking at cancer and its causes. Featuring interviews with notable scientists such as Harald ...

This new, expanded edition of the widely praised biography of the Booker Prize-winning author J.G. Farrell is timely. His literary achievement is still in the ascendent, as proved by the posthumous...

Lucia Amsden has lived with arthritis for 30 years, and Breaking Eggs: Finding New Meaning with Chronic Illness is a distillation of the struggles and treasures of that time. The book chronicles he...

Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his south...

Isolated in a small community in 1950s West Virginia, Olivia knows her life will always be predictable and limited-being struck down with polio has assured that. But that was before a stranger walk...

Here is an exciting and humorous life adventure of a man born in Paterson, New Jersey in a struggling family in 1927, and stricken with Polio at the age of two who eventually becomes an internation...

Here is an exciting and humorous life adventure of a man born in Paterson, New Jersey in a struggling family in 1927, and stricken with Polio at the age of two who eventually becomes an internation...

U.S. leadership in global health advances core U.S. interests. It fulfills shared humanitarian values by saving and enhancing lives. It strengthens health security against common and emerging threa...

In a literary tour de force, Charles L. Mee Jr. interweaves images and impressions from his life with political reflections inspired by a meeting with former Nixon aide H. R. Haldeman. The meeting-...

The true story of the intrepid woman whose life-long determination to protect America's mustangs captured the heart of the country.In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enro...

Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolution--a new way of looking at cancer and its causes. Featuring interviews with notable scientists such as Harald ...

Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader...

As you leaf through this book you will discover that the author truly is a survivor. The last of his mother's 10 children, he was only the fourth to survive infancy. He went on to survive the Great...