« Qui aurait pu prédire qu'un jour, bien que je vienne d'un milieu modeste et que mon enfance et mon adolescence aient été parsemées d'écueils, je figurerais parmi les personnalités les plus populaires et influentes...

Presents the life and accomplishments of the American lexicographer, who wrote the first American dictionary, published the first daily newspaper, created the first American insurance company, and was responsible for the first copyright...

Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...

Janine Shepherd’s story reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie. A champion cross-country skier in training for the Winter Olympics, her life was irrevocably altered during a bike ride to the Blue Mountains when she was hit...

In this memoir, Edward O. Wilson describes for the first time both his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped to define.

When thirty-year-old Dean Nicholson set off from Scotland to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn as much as he could about our troubled planet. But he hadn't bargained on the lessons he'd learn from his unlikely...

Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, Bakari Sellers presents an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future. In his personal history, we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other "...

In 1982 the author, an Aboriginal Australian, went back to her Grandmother's birthplace. What began as a tentative search for information ended as an emotional and spiritual pilgrimage.

The complete story of "Dragnet" and the theatrical feature films of producer/director/actor Jack Webb.