The shocking story of how exceptionally violent abuse turned one girl to desperate self-harm before turning her life around.Growing up, Sophie carried a terrible secret. She was her father's slave, in the most horrific ways imaginable. At just a few months old she was adopted by a couple that seemed comfortably well off and perfectly respectable to the outside world. But behind closed doors, Sophie's childhood was a living hell. Her father spent the next decade grooming her for abuse and when So...
Against the Odds
Over the course of the past century the struggle against racism took many forms, from petitions and lawsuits to sit-ins and marches. This book records the testimony of eleven scholar-activists who challenged prevailing racial beliefs and practices while engaging in resistance and reform. Included in this group are nine African Americans (Kenneth B. Clark, St. Clair Drake, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope Franklin, John Glover Jackson, Hylan Lewis, Frank Snowden Jr., and Robert C. Weaver); one Sri Lan...
Born March 23, 1904, in San Antonio, Texas, Joan Crawford began life as Lucille Fay LeSueur. Abandoned by her father and mistreated by her mother, Crawford was determined from an early age to succeed in the world of acting. While her early attempts did little to make her a star, her determination and perseverance paid off as she became one of Hollywood's legends. Focusing on a career which spanned six decades and more than 80 movies, this volume is the definitive reference guide to Joan Crawford...
My Father, "the Ghost" - The Story of Legendary Still-Busting Sheriff Franklin Smith
by Jack D Smith
Includes interviews with nine men and three women who have been given sentences of life for murder. Of the 12 people sentenced for life, some are living out in the community on licence, but with the prospect of instant recall to prison at any time. Others are still in prison, with no hope of release yet for many years to come. All of them have killed other human beings; and they talk honestly, painfully and directly about themselves and their crime, describing how they came to commit murder, and...
The Life and Times of Thomas Day, 1748-1789 (Studies in British History S., v. 39)
by Peter Rowland
The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
by Mark Skousen
History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics. "The Big Three in Economics" traces the turbulent lives and battle of ideas of the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. Each view has had a significant influence on shaping the mo...
This book tells the story of Peter Cathcart Wason, offering unique insights into the life of the pioneering research psychologist credited for establishing a whole new field of science: the psychological study of reasoning. And this was just one of the major contributions he made to psychology. Covering much more than Wason’s academic work, the author, Ken Manktelow, paints a vivid and personal portrait of the man. The book traces Wason’s eclectic family history, steeped in Liberal politics and...
Stuck Moving (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century, #9)
by Peter Benson
This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline a...
This remarkable biography recounts the life and work of Otto Geist, an archaeologist who spent his career studying Eskimo cultures. Given the name 'Aghvook,' meaning bowhead whale, by St. Lawrence Islanders, Geist did pioneering fieldwork with Alaska Native cultures, and his journal notes are reproduced in the book. Charles J. Keim also chronicles Geist's personal accomplishments, from his German childhood to his service in both world wars to his amassing of a vast collection of Alaskan artifact...
On the Way to Myself (Collected Works of Charlotte Wolff)
by Charlotte Wolff
Originally published in 1969, Dr Charlotte Wolff was the author of three books of psychology: The Human Hand, A Psychology of Gesture and The Hand in Psychological Diagnosis. This book, though it contains much psychology, is not of the same scientific kind as these. It is an autobiography, but not one of the normal kind. It is the history of a mind, not the chronicle of a life. For this reason it is not arranged chronologically but it is constructed round what the author called the creative shoc...
Die Koenigliche Residenz Berlin Und Die Mark Brandenburg Im 18. Jahrhundert
by Johann Peter Suessmilch
African American Biographies (Multicultural Biographies Collection)
by N/A
Janet Shaw was adopted as a baby. At thirteen months, she was diagnosed as having an inherited condition - a malignant cancer called retinoblastoma. While she was still a baby, she had one eye removed and had radiotherapy to her other eye. There was very little expectation that she would survive or ever lead a normal life. But the young girl never regarded herself as a blind person. She had partial sight and supportive parents so when the authorities insisted she go to Blind School (the Red Door...
Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved around murder, drugs, prison, prostitution and bent coppers - and the intrigue and horror that surround such crimes. Two of her younger sons were acquitted of the Walsh Street murders. One of the two, Vict...
Mau Mau’s Children (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)
by David Sandgren
In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the challenges of this post colonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan society as adults, joining Kenya's first generation of post colonial elites. In Mau Mau's Childre...
The re-publication of Lionheart Gal marks an event unique in contemporary literature. It is the distillation of the Jamaican woman’s experience in fifteen compelling life stories from the internationally known Sistren Theatre Collective. Since 1977 the women of Sistren have been exploring the lives of Caribbean women, from which they create plays, workshops and screen prints for presentation throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere. This book is based on testimonies from Sistren collected and edi...