Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back by: Aaron Fischman (Author) Publisher: Sports Publishing Publication Date: 2024-06-18 Language: English Print Length: 408 pages ISBN-10: 1683584775 ISBN-13: 9781683584773 Book Description Like many American boys, Tony Barnette yearned to one day make it to “The Show,” playing baseball professionally. The Arizona State pitcher was drafted in 2006 by the in-state Diamondbacks. Gradually ascending the minor-league ladder, it looked like this was th...
Uncrowned Queen: The Treacherous Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Rebel by: Nicola Tallis (Author) Publisher: Michael O’Mara Publication Date: 2019-11-07 Language: English Print Length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 1782439927 ISBN-13: 9781782439929 Book Description The first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.During the bloody and uncertain days of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort was married to the half brother of the Lancastrian k...
Yes Ma’am: Upstairs Downstairs in the British Royal Family by: Mr Tom Quinn (Author) Publisher: Biteback Publishing Publication Date: 2025-07-29 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1785908464 ISBN-13: 9781785908460 Book Description What really makes the British royal family tick? It’s a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family. And the answer? Well, surprisingly, it’s not the royal family’s devotion to duty, it’s not their wealt...
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success by: Influential Individuals (Author) Publication Date: 2018-11-22 Language: English Print Length: 59 pages ISBN-10: 1790217229 ISBN-13: 9781790217229 Book Description If you’re looking to be inspired by someone who has truly made the most of life’s opportunities, then read this remarkable story of one of today’s most well-known celebrities. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is best known as a former professional wrestler th...
In Defense of Barbarism: Non-Whites Against the Empire by: Louisa Yousfi (Author), Andy Bliss (Translator) Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2025-01-21 Language: English Print Length: 112 pages ISBN-10: 180429442X ISBN-13: 9781804294420 Book Description A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African rootsIs social integration all it’s cracked up to be? Not in the defiant view of first-time French author...
Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor (Renaissance Lives) by: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Author) Publisher: Reaktion Books Publication Date: 2025-04-09 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1836390610 ISBN-13: 9781836390619 Book Description A reinterpretation of the Habsburgian ruler’s reign as exemplary rather than reclusive. Rudolf II offers a fresh perspective on the Habsburg ruler, shedding new light on a reign often colored by myths of madness. Thomas DaCosta Kaufman...
Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian by: Michael Braddick (Author) Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2025-04-15 Language: English Print Length: 320 pages ISBN-10: 183976077X ISBN-13: 9781839760778 Book Description A luminous biography of one of the last century’s most influential historiansChristopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolu...
On Borrowed Fame: Money, Mysteries, and Corruption in the Entertainment World by: Donald Jeffries (Author), John Barbour (Foreword) Publication Date: 2022-01-16 Language: English Print Length: 488 pages ISBN-10: 1629338079 ISBN-13: 9781629338071 Book Description This meticulously researched book explores the concept of fame in all its fleeting glory and confounding inconsistency. Why do so many entertainers do so much better financially than peers who have comparable resumes? Author Donald Jeffr...
A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline and Other Lessons (Goldsmiths Press / Unidentified Fictional Objects) by: Jonathan Taylor (Author) Publisher: Goldsmiths Press Publication Date: 2024-09-24 Language: English Print Length: 232 pages ISBN-10: 1915983142 ISBN-13: 9781915983145 Book Description On bullying, discipline, and power in school and beyond.What does it mean to be a bully? What does it feel like to be bullied—to be a victim, a pariah, a scapegoat? What are the techniques, patter...
Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War by: Jill Eicher (Author) Publisher: Pegasus Books Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 368 pages ISBN-10: 1639366423 ISBN-13: 9781639366422 Book Description The never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World War I. “A gripping yarn.” —The Economist &...
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