Thomas Hart Benton: A Life

By Justin Wolff(Hardback)

Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of "Time," he was a true original: an heir to both the rollicking populism of his father's political family and the quiet life of his Appalachian grandfather. In....

Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella

By Neil Lanctot(Paperback / softback)

Neil Lanctot's biography of Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella--filled with surprises--is the first life of the Dodger great in decades and the most authoritative ever published. Born to a father of Italian descent and an African- American mother, Campanella wanted to be a ballplayer from childhood but was barred by color from the major leagues. He dropped out of....

White Collar Crime: The Essentials

By Brian K Payne(Paperback / softback)

White-Collar Crime: A Text/Reader, part of the text/reader series in criminology and criminal justice incorporates contemporary and classic readings (some including policy implications) accompanied by original text that provides a theoretical framework and context for students. The comprehensive coverage of the book includes crimes by workers sales oriented systems, crimes in the health care system, crimes by criminal justice professionals....

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Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art

By Joshua Knelman(Paperback / softback)

"Hot Art" traces Joshua Knelman's five-year immersion in the shadowy world of art theft, where he uncovers a devious game that takes him from Egypt to Los Angeles, New York to London, and back again, through a web of deceit, violence, and corruption.With a cool, knowing eye, Knelman delves into the lives of professionals such as Paul, a brilliant working-class....

Lee Krasner: A Biography

By Gail Levin(Paperback / softback)

"LEE KRASNER,best known as Jackson Pollock's wife, reveals a woman who was a firebrand and trailblazer for women's rights, who also led a fascinating life, and who is finally now being recognized as one of the 20th century's modernist masters"

Shame Travels: A Family Lost, A Family Found

By Jasvinder Sanghera(Paperback)

Jasvinder Sanghera, international bestselling author of SHAME, describes her life-changing journey to the rural Punjabi village of Kang Sabu - the village where her parents grew up.

The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry

By Joe Wilkins(Hardback)

"The Mountain and The Fathers" explores the life of boys and men in the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born into this world, raised by a young mother and elderly grandfather following the....

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

By Claude Lanzmann(Hardback)

Born to a Jewish family in Paris in 1925, Claude Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation. He and his father were soldiers of the underground until the end of the war, smuggling arms and making raids on the German army. After the liberation of France, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne,....

William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker

By Benjamin E Wise(Hardback)

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.We follow Percy....

Long Shot

By Sylvia Harris(Paperback)

An inspiring and searingly honest memoir of how one woman had the strength and courage to change her life.

Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-century Anglophone World

By Kathleen Lynch(Hardback)

This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae.

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Heidegger

By John Richardson(Paperback)

Presents an introduction to Heidegger's life and work. This book introduces and assesses the key arguments of Being and Time under three key headings: pragmatism; existentialism; and the themes of time and being.

Queen Elizabeth II

By Ammonite Press(Hardback)

HRH Queen Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, and Head of the Commonwealth, in Westminster Abbey on 2 June, 1953 at the age of 27, the 40th monarch since William the Conqueror, and the great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She celebrated her Silver and Golden Jubilees in 1977 and 2002 respectively, her 80th birthday in 2006, and....

Born to Be Brad

By Brad Goreski(Hardback)

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in New Mexico History

(Paperback / softback)

Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books.

Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

By Sonia Faleiro(Paperback / softback)

Already published in India to great acclaim and named a "Time Out" Subcontinental Book of the Year and an "Observer" Book of the Year, Beautiful Thing is a stunning piece of reportage that offers a rare firsthand glimpse into Bombay's notorious sex industry. Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met nineteen-year-old Leela, a charismatic....

By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir of Disaster and Love

By Joe Blair(Hardback)

An exquisitely written memoir about the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage and fatherhood by a talented new writer from the University of Iowa MFA program.Joe Blair always had big plans. As a child, he would lie on his bed and study the "Easy Rider" poster stapled to his wall, dreaming of the day he could wear a leather jacket and....

Outlaw Tales of New Mexico, 2nd: True Stories of the Land of Enchantment's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

(Paperback / softback)

New Mexico is the home (and final resting place) of some of the frontier's baddest dudes.Read about Black Jack Ketchum, who robbed trains, banks and stagecoaches around turn of the previous century, terrorizing the whole state until that day he tried to rob the Colorado & Southern train without the help of his fellow gang members. Clay Allison, aka the....

56: Joe Dimaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports

By Kostya Kennedy(Paperback / softback)

Seventy baseball seasons ago, on a May afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to leftfield. It was the quiet beginning to the most resonant baseball achievement of all time. Starting that day, the vaunted Yankee centerfielder kept on hitting-at least one hit in game after game after game. In the summer of 1941, as Nazi forces....

Outlaw Tales of Arizona, 2nd: True Stories of the Grand Canyon State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

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Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of "Outlaw Tales of Arizona, "with compelling legends of Arizona Territory's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of Arizona's infamous reprobates. ....