Biography

Maceo Parkers signature style became the lynchpin of James Brown's band when he and his brother Melvin joined the Hardest Working Man in Show Busin...

In The Structure of Design, Leslie Earl Robertson recounts a storied career in engineering which has generated among the most innovative and formal...

A former NFL ref and acclaimed rules expert shares his insights and thoughts on the rules of the sport  Only recently in the world of NFL media hav...

Ogden Nash was a rare poet. He celebrated the ordinary with delight and curiosity: husbands and wives at work, children at play, a society in motio...

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CAPTAIN IN WORLD RUGBY HISTORY, IN HIS OWN WORDSRichie McCaw, Rugby World Cup winning captain and the New Zealand All Black's m...

Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half...

Maggie Wilson was born in the highlands of Papua New Guinea to Melka Amp Jara, a native of the highlands, and Patrick Leahy, brother of Australian ...

Described by Empire Magazine as 'Britain's best ever blues singer', John Martyn was one of rock music's last real mavericks. Despite chronic addict...

2019 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Winner Before Angalia Bianca became one of Chicagos foremost authorities on violence interruption...

Before Frank Shamrock became known professionally as The Legendwinning almost every mixed martial arts title in existencehe endured a childhood mar...

For more than three decades, the New York Giants have been one of the most competitive teams in the National Football League, winning four Super Bo...

When Jeff Matovic burst into the office of Dr. Robert Maciunas, he had very few options left. Matovic had suffered for years from Tourette Syndrome...

Part keynote, part one-woman play, author and caregiver speaker, Elaine K Sanchez shares her mother's spiritual journey through six-and-a-half year...

George Ehrlich Award Recipient In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The Amer...

Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington ...

Sonja Sekula (1918-63) was born and educated in Lucerne, Switzerland, but emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1936. In 1941, she beg...