Biography

The eleven essays in this volume examine Kapleau's pivotal role in the transmission of Zen to the West. Kapleau's book The Three Pillars of Zen, was first published in 1965...

The book titled The Antonia White Diaries by the author Susan Chitty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Sartre: A Life by the author Solal Annie Cohen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had...

Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...

A behind-the-scenes look at the hugely popular and often controversial world of women's tennis featuring such household names as Venus and Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova. At a time when...

The book titled Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook by the author Timothy Findley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai by the author Scott Berry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...

'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and...

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" ( The Washington Free Beacon ) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a...

"From the sweltering battlefields of the South Pacific to the devastated cities of Europe, Alan Moore witnessed the greatest war in human history-not with a rifle, but with a paintbrush."...

Here for the first time is this controversial writer's real childhood and early adulthood. The mixed feelings of an intelligent, sensitive child - talented but tormented; the eventual separation from...

In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its...

A spirited homage to Dolly Parton that captures the unique humor, no-nonsense wisdom, flash, and sass of one of America's most iconic stars. One of twelve children raised in a...

I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....

An unforgettable book about fathers and daughters from Sue Miller. In the spring of 1986, Sue Miller found herself more and more deeply involved in the caring of her father...

Transition documents the changes IBM has initiated in this country to make it internationally competitive in IT services exports from Australia. It examines the changes that have occurred in the...

Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George. Here Brenda Maddox brings...

The story of Chico Mendes, self-taught environmentalist and leader of a people fighting to save their way of life in the rainforest, who was gunned down outside his home in...

New in paperback: The story of the mind behind the monster (and the monster within the mind)-a tale of obsession and hero worship in Victorian England. "What a splendid subject...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times , Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose'...

All but wiped out in the 1987 stockmarket crash, Joseph Gutnick marshalled all his skills to regain his position as one of the New World's wealthiest men. While his radical...

The book titled Looking Backwards: Recollections by the author Colette. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In a work of detection based on a lifetime of research, a co-author of "The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered" identifies the "missing link" between Judaism and early Christianity as James...

The book titled Waterline: Of Fathers, Sons, and Boats by the author Joe Soucheray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jackie Handbook is a groundbreaking new interpretation of the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and the extraordinary influence of the image she so carefully crafted. It is illustrated with some...

This superb new biography provides the fullest narrative of Van Dyck's life and personality to appear in English. Commonly pigeonholed as a follower of Rubens or as the court painter...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times , Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose'...

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the , a ,...

The book titled Simply Wilde: Discover the Wisdom That is Stuart Wilde by the author Leon Nacson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This book tells the story of Christina Onassis who was one of the richest young women in the world at the time of her death, aged 37. She left behind...

The book titled Astounding Days by the author Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled "Gone with the Wind" Letters by the author Margaret Mitchell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this haunting book, eminent psychiatrist Peter Dally explores the darker side of Virginia Woolf. Brin ging together his knowledge as a doctor and his fascination, he sheds light on...

IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leila Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by...

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...

In her stunning memoir, Wendy Lawless tells the often heartbreaking tale of her unconventional upbringing with an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother-a real-life Holly Golightly turned Mommie Dearest-and the uncommon...

The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked;...

The book titled Continual Pilgrimage by the author Sawyer-Laucanno. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. Dickens the novelist,...

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE ENGLISH WOMAN WHO FOOLED THE VATICAN. The legend of Pope Joan - the woman who, dressed as a man, headed the Catholic church in the...

The first full biography of America's greatest living playwright Arthur Miller's life spans more than four decades and includes three marriages - famously to America's enduring icon, Marilyn Monroe -...

In a riveting and candid autobiography, music legend Brian Wilson reveals the truth about his meteoric rise to superstardom, his total breakdown, and his long, miraculous struggle back to the...