Citizen Portrait

With full-colour photographs, this is the bestselling biography of the extraordinary labour leader and peacetime prime minister; together with a po...

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines ...

Reducere. The General paints a moving portrait of a family man, a business man, a man of faith and a military man who loved his country.

Reducere. Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the no...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make ...

Reducere. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings...

Reducere. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to ...

Reducere. A fascinating collection of Einstein's observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius's inte...

DescriptionIf history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? Hanni...

Reducere. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compil...

"You are not Cypriot." But I tell them I am. Cyprus is all I have ever known.What is a Cypriot? Too often the story told of Cyprus makes the island...

Reducere. By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and...

Usually told from the perspective of the victims, the Salem Witch Trials are a forever story. The vestiges of a particular strain of American socia...