Biography tracing the fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott from her happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston to her success as a writer of such classics as Little women.
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to less than $100 million in 1990, and today come close
From the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres and the success of Will and Grace to the vicious murder of Matthew Shepard, recent years have seen gay lives and images move onto the center stage of American
September 1953, 52 bike riders at the GPO in Dublin, took to the roads. The Ras quickly became an enormous success. It is characterised by unconventional practice, spontaneity, grittiness, and fiercen
New readers can learn about the Wright Brothers' amazing story of trial, error, and success as they become the first people ever to pilot a motorized airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in December
This book covers the Land Cruiser’s outstanding success in some of the toughest environments of the world, including the Australian outback, Africa and the Middle East. The author follows the hi
A law student in Paris dreams of professional success, but his aspirations turn toward amour upon a chance encounter with a married woman. Set amid the revolution of 1848, Flaubert's masterpiece combi
Eighteen million Vespas have buzzed their way into the world since 1946. Stood end to end, they would form a line measuring 20,000 miles in length. The secret of the Vespa scooter's success lies in it
In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by
The biography of Paul Ricard—whose eponymous company Pernod Ricard produced and popularized pastis, an anise aperitif from his native Marseille—embodies a wonderfully rich business success
A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America?s great twentieth-century writersOn the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrat
The author recounts his descent into despair and his discovery of spiritual nourishment in the works of Aristotle, Emerson, Ben Franklin, and Plato, and enumerates the seventeen rules that helped tran
After parting ways a number of years back, a group of friends — former members of the rock group Tricky Fingers — head to the English countryside for a reunion. While some have found success, others h
"There simply aren't many books about American soccer, and Long-Range Goals ably fills the gap of knowledge about the unique, zany, controversial, audacious, outrageous-and, yes, visionary-history of