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This is a moving account of Gayle Feldman's fight against cancer, interwoven with memories of her mother, her mother's death, her grandmother's death and her sister-in-law's death - all of whom died of the same cancer. At 40, after hormone fertility drugs, Feldman becomes pregnant, only to discover at week 35 that she has a malignant lump in her breast. This means inducing the baby and a biopsy 60 hours later. Ben is born safely but starts to turn blue, although he will ultimately recover. Feldm...

In this work, Glancy juxtaposes personal essays, Cherokee myths and imaginative sketches to explore her experiences as a native American mixed-blood coming to terms with the fragmentary nature of her life. This is a book about storymaking - in it, Glancy explores the ways in which the structure of native American storytelling reflects and shapes her own sense of identity. Genealogy, school, native American novels, Minnesota Public Radio, television, exercise bikes, Christmas gifts, autumn leaves...

Early in his life, Carl Gustav Jung was an admirer and protege of Freud, but after their celebrated quarrel he became his enemy and rival. With his discovery of the collective unconscious (the part of the mind we may share with all other human beings, living and dead), with his profound interest in myth and symbol and his explorations into the true alchemy, astrology and even UFOs, Jung is now established as a source of "alternative" ideas that have fascinated generations. This biography portray...

Dancing in the Sea is the beautifully written and moving account of Catherine Hill's horrific experience of a hijack, after which she was left permanently disabled.When she was 25, Catherine and her Italian boyfriend Picci went travelling through India. On their journey home their Pan Am flight from Bombay to Germany was hijacked when it landed in Pakistan to pick up additional passengers. Four PLO terrorists took over the aircraft and the hostages endured about 17 hours of terror. Convinced tha...

Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor.

A Class Apart is a selection of photographs and letters culled from the archive of Montague Glover (1898-1983), documenting the intimate, rarely recorded lives of gay men in Britain from the First World War to the 1950s. The book features Glover's three obsessions: the Armed Forces, working class men, and his lifelong lover Ralph Hall. A seamless blend of the personal and the historical make A Class Apart a unique portrait of a secret relationship and of an undiscovered period in British gay hi...

Her childhood was idyllic: fishing by moonlight, dressing her cats in doll clothes, stealing apples from the orchards planted on the Western frontier. Slim, lively Jessie Lee dreamed a little girl's dreams in an exquisitely remembered world of one-room schoolhouses, snowy Christmases, and a family that survived scarlet fever and floods with the power of love. But for Jessie Lee, as for the nation, World War I put an end to those years of innocence. She lost her beloved fiance and mother in one y...

Diane Farr Numb3rs star, Loveline veteran, and FunnyorDie.com contributor always took for granted that she could love anybody she chose. But when she, a white woman, fell in love with a Korean-American man, she quickly learned a tough lesson: When it comes to navigating the landscape of interracial love in America today . . . you're going to step on some landmines. At turns introspective and outrageous, Kissing Outside the Lines is Farr's unapologetic often hilarious look at the complexities...

This is an unusual narrative in that it successfully combines subjectivity -- how an English person was led by a sequence of educational developments, personal encounters and historical constraints to become the founder of the German-Jewish Centre at the University of Sussex; and objectivity -- a book that introduces English and American readers to an important and evolving field of historical and cultural studies through intellectual autobiography. It documents the formative experiences of a sc...

This is a non-fiction account of the author's daughter's first three years. From her first days, Brian Hall has been fascinated by her interactions with the world around her - what she noticed, what she cared about, and what links she made. By the time of her third birthday, she was living in a rich complex of games, fears and dreams that had points of contact with the adult world, but that spun on its own axis.

This is a record of the life and achievements of Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, better known as Sue Ryder. During the war, she served with the highly secret Special Operations Executive, created by Winston Churchill to co-ordinate Resistance activities in German-occupied Europe, attached to the Polish sections of SOE. What she witnessed from that time to the end of the war - especially the selfless, cheerful courage of men embarking on the most hazardous of operations - left her determined to relieve...

From the author of the international bestseller INFIDEL, a new and provocative book about women and Islam. 'this woman is a major hero of our times' RICHARD DAWKINS'For me, the three most beautiful words in the emerging language of secular resistance to tyranny are Ayaan Hirsi Ali' - Christopher HitchensAyaan Hirsi Ali caused a worldwide sensation with her gutsy memoir INFIDEL. Now, in NOMAD, she tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made against h...

John Bird has changed the lives of countless people, but first of all he had to change his own. Here he turns his attention to his own past and traces his life from the slums of Notting Hill, through crime, vagrancy and homelessness, to redemption when he launched "The Big Issue". This is an evocation of a life which could so easily have gone the other way, and also a great testament to the human ability to overcome adversity, when energy meets that rarer quality, opportunity.

Part autobiographical, part fiction, this is a satirical and self-accusing tour of the London gay scene in what subsequently proved to be the last days before AIDS became a reality. The book takes the form of a series of dramatic monologues and dialogues involving a small cast of queens who move from one watering hole to the next in the course of a 24 hour period, descending into hell, the gay night-club Heaven.

Known in the mid-19th century as the best landscape painter in the West, paricularly for his pictures of the Ohio River, the African-American Robert S. Duncanson fell into obscurity for almost a century after his death. This illustrated biography aims to restore the artist to his place in the history of American art. Ketner treats Duncanson and his art within the context of his own times, as well as within the tradition of former, current and subsequent 19th-century African-American artists.

This book provides an informal biography of the wunderkind who became one of America's greatest living artists and most well-known architects.Many are familiar with the art and architectural design work of Maya Lin, but the compelling details of her personal background are less well known. This book not only focuses upon Lin's substantial achievements throughout her life, but also presents Maya Lin's "prehistory," describing family events in China that led to her parents' flight to the United St...