Ivan R Misner, PhDThis is the introduction to BNI, the world's largest business referral and networking organization. Dr. Misner traces the history, growing pains, and innovations that have resulted in...

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of LondonOn Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia...

Amanda ForemanThe winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate...

Jonathan SteinbergThis is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890...

Karen ArmstrongBuddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha revolutionized the religious ideas of his time to advocate a new way of living. All...

Marjorie Teetor MeyerInventor of Cruise Control, president of the world-famous Perfect Circle Corporation, member of the Automotive Hall of Fame - Ralph Teetor was one of indiana's great industrial pioneers....

Peter DayThe Bedbug: Klop Ustinov - Britain's Most Ingenious Spy (Dialogue Espionage Classics)Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was...

Jennifer WorthStories of people who grew up under the horrifying and dehumanizing workhouse conditions in the early 20th century, by a mid-wife who knew and worked among them.

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Richard HammondThe wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of a very brave and clever TV presenter, Arctic explorer, and general drawer of the Short Straw. Moving quickly on from the...

Not only was Alex Singer a great human being -- and though young, he was great -- he was also a gifted writer and artist. These letters, diary entries and...

Liao Yiwu The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain...