All he wanted was to be free... Appearances can be deceptive: Michael. Choices made in ignorance still have consequences. Michael bought the lie, now he wants the truth. But people who live on beaches shouldn't build castles made of sand. Will he have what it takes? Can he be man enough for Airel? T[...]
Michael White, a seed merchant and fourth-generation farmer, had a good life on Alabama s Sand Mountain. But it disintegrated into a nightmare soon after he spotted a man from Monsanto spying on him. In short order, White was sued by Monsanto for patent infringement regarding its genetically modifie[...]
Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled in the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White's Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of a genius who stoo[...]
A reissue of this biography timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of the death of the genius physicist.[...]
Groundbreaking biography of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists and religious heretics in history[...]
Almost anyone who has read or written Science Fiction or fantasy has been inspired by the work of Michael Moorcock. His literary flair and grand sense of adventure have been evident since his controversial first novel "Behold the Man," through the stories and novels featuring his most famous charact[...]
With its fiery crosses and nightriders in pointed hoods and flowing robes, the Ku Klux Klan remains a recurring nightmare in American life. What began in the earliest post-Civil War days as a social group engaging in drunken hijinks at the expense of perceived inferiors soon turned into a murderous [...]
A "Washington Post" Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the ba[...]
White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labor in the tobac[...]
A vividly rendered historical novel chronicles the life, adventures, and exploits of Grand Duke Nicholas Kostantinovich Romanov, a rebellious member of the royal family whose scandalous affair with Fanny Lear, a beautiful American courtesan, and his implication in a plot to fund revolutionaries by s[...]
The legendary, Eisner Award-winning series Batman: Black and White returns in a brand-new volume featuring tales of The Dark Knight by some of comics' greatest writers and artists including Chip Kidd, Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones, Maris Wicks, John Arcudi, Sean Murphy, Sean Murphy, Rafael A[...]
* shows how real estate financial structures influence general economic development * integrates discussions on investment products with their impact on the real estate sector * develops an economic framework to promote discussion on individual products and links this to the rest of the economy. .[...]
Since the beginning of time, strange and mysterious things have happened here ...At the furthest edge of Britain, where the sea gently washes over the land and myths brush against reality, lies Zennor. Set in a churchtown where men become beats and ghosts roam freely, these are haunting and unforget[...]
In the early 1920s, a group of artists and architects, influenced by some of the ideas of Dada, formed a movement called De Stijl. "The Story of De Stijl "presents work by Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, and the other members of this influential modern art group, as well as archiv[...]
" W]e can't come off as a bunch of angry white men."
Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party
One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Ob[...]
"[W]e can't come off as a bunch of angry white men."Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Obama was [...]
Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early August 1974. This audacious effort was carried out under th[...]
Salt was once worth its weight in gold, and treks to mine salt slabs from the heart of the Sahara desert are still made as they were throughout centuries on a caravan of camels. American writer Benanav was compelled to join the Caravan of White Gold and traveled with nomads, eating meals of sand-cov[...]
No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.
At a time when the nation is increas[...]