Exploring a pitching career that began with a complete-game victory over Hall of Famer Don
Drysdale in 1964 and ended when he could no longer control his pitches, this book details the life of Pittsburgh Pirates great Steve Blass. This ...
Winner of the 2005 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the 2004 Giller Prize, and long-listed
for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, All That Matters is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Wayson Choy's award-winning first novel, The Jade Peony. ...
India is more than a nation state. It is also a unique civilization with philosophies
and cosmologies that are markedly distinct from the dominant culture of our times - the West. India's spiritual traditions spring from dharma, which has no exact ...
In the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters
in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as ...
On 22 February 2006, £53 million was stolen from a cash warehouse belonging to the
Securitas company in Tonbridge, Kent. In terms of value, the robbery puts previous British capers, such as the Great Train Robbery, in the shade. This ...
Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of
his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely ...
The gripping sight of four burly policemen manhandling a bath down the front path of
a respectable villa isn't one the residents of Flaxborough see every day. Net curtains twitch furiously, and neighbours have observations to make to Chief Inspector Purbright ...
If meditation was available in capsule form, it would be the biggest selling drug of
all time. It has been scientifically proven to deliver highly effective stress relief, boost our immune systems and dramatically slow the ageing process. It has ...
