"American Desperado" is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave b[...]

In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his "New York Times "bestselling book "Generation Kill "and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned," " began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary "Cocaine Cowboys. "[...]

The publication of "The Mountain of My Fear" in 1968 and "Deborah" in 1970 changed the face of the mountaineering narrative. Now these two classic expedition narratives by acclaimed writer David Roberts are together again in one volume for a new generation of readers. "Deborah" is the story of Rober[...]

American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes - changes that helped to create the modern university we know today. Most significantly, the study of the sciences and the huma[...]