With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truths, funeral director and embalmer Robert Webster shares empathetic yet entertainingly quirky stories about the funeral business. He answers those embarrassing questions foremost in our minds and...
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Биографии и мемуары, Медицина
Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history. In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own...
In her international bestseller, The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher provided an acclaimed account of her years as Prime Minister. This second volume reflects on the early years of her life and how they influenced her political...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, From Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister
The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics.
Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher’s...
An historical biography of the last Tsar of Russia — not Nicholas II, but his brother Michael — Emperor Michael II — who succeeded to the throne when Nicholas abdicated in March 1917. Michael, married to...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
“A harrowing story. A worthy supplement to the reports of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.”
- Kirkus Reviews
“This is a fascinating story of survival against the worst of odds.”
- JT News
A searing, brutal...
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman...
A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an...
An autobiography of Alexander Todd - chemist, Nobel laureate, Royal Society President. Extremely interesting and full of historical...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness
Here is a remarkable true story of forgiveness—a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past. A classic war autobiography, The Railway Man is a powerful tale of survival and of the...