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A story of two sisters, both educators, whose love for the classroom is unconditional and exhausting. Join them as they share their humor, sarcasm, frustration, and joy in teaching.

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Cancer We are not Amused is a story Meryl Getline wrote about her long journey with cancer. It is an inspiring story injected with humor.

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In this biography of a wonderfully curious character, the author of the bestselling Pakeha Maori traces Marmon's life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmon's own - not always reliable - personal accounts.

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Fabio Capello is a born winner. As a midfielder with Roma, Juventus and Milan, he won four Italian league championships and two cups, and played for his country 32 times, scoring a goal at Wembley in 1973 in Italy's first ever win in England. This title tells the story of his remarkable career, and life.

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The extraordinary life of 'Captain' Charles Gordon O'Neill - colonial engineer, inventor, parliamentarian, philanthropist, and principle co-founder of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia and New Zealand.

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One hundred years on from the death of Cook, another great man, George Collingridge begins his own adventure. This firm belief was the eventual cause of his self-destruction.

Another hundred years later Vanessa Collingridge, is searching for books on her lifelong hero Captain Cook in a university library.

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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. This work details what happened in Cook's voyages when he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.

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Presents a true story of survival in what was arguably the most sinister prison in Europe: the Carabanchel. The story begins on the day Christopher Chance entered the jail and encountered the innate racism of the prison staff and inmates. It tells how he forged a band of international brothers from the chaotic human rubble in order to survive.

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A biography of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, one of the most powerful men in English history whose impact was as great in Church affairs as those of the State. It tells how the accession of Henry VIII provided the catalyst for Wolsey's dramatic rise to power and in 1514 he received first the bishopric of Lincoln and then the archbishopric of York.

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Basing his work on the writings of Schmitt and his contemporaries, extensive new archival documentation, and parts of Schmitt's personal papers, Professor Bendersky uses Schmitt's public career as a framework for re-evaluating his contributions to political and legal theory. This book establishes that Schmitt's late Weimar writings were directed at

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This book traces the journey of an African-American family and the surname that is attached to it - from it's European and North African origins across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean and on to Calhoun Country in South Carolina.

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In this book, follow the career of Carrie Underwood as she goes from the American Idol competition to worldwide celebrity.

Carrie Underwood: A Biography follows the singer from a small town in Oklahoma to the stages of the most prestigious concert halls in the world.

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The partition of Ireland and the birth of Northern Ireland as a political entity, was the work of one man above all. Edward Carson's idealism and religious tolerance were untypical of the sectarian bigotry that marred the later history of Northern Ireland. This book presents a biography of a major figure in both British and Irish politics.

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"For a man who spent so much of his life in the limelight--an astounding fifty-five years in professional baseball--Stengel remains an enigma ... Marty Appel digs into Casey Stengel's quirks and foibles, unearthing a ... trove of baseball stories, perspective, and history"--Amazon.com.

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This is an account of how the author answered an advertisement for a "wife" to spend a year on a tropical island with a writer, and subsequently found herself alone on a remote desert island with a "husband" she hardly knew.

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This is a fascinating portrait of a determined and ground-breaking woman, a rich and important story which will captivate everyone with an interest in Egyptian, feminist or colonial history.

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Because she was black, Clare Malone was the talk of her Liverpool council estate. Her mother and her mother's husband were both white and from birth she was stigmatised for this proof of her mother's infidelity.