Biography | Biography and Memoir
Mar.03.2010
In April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma City-style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school...
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Jan.15.2010
From the affluent courtyards of Tehran to the prison-city of Acre on the shores of the Mediterranean, The Story of Baha'u'llah brings to life in rich detail the compelling story of the prophet and founder of the Baha'i Faith. Born to wealth and privilege, Baha'u'llah (1817-1892) was known as the...
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Dec.19.2009
This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of...
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Oct.25.2009
After World War II and the Communist Revolution in China, Mark's father, H. Thomas Luke, a graduate of Yenching University in Beijing, escaped with his wife Deanna, daughter Shelley, and son Hugo to Hong Kong where he taught English and wrote newspaper articles. The Luke's relocated to Okinawa to a...
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Sep.30.2009
"Μάνος Κατράκης στη Ζωή, τη Σκηνή και την Οθόνη"
(“Manos Katrakis in Life, on the Stage and the Screen”)
Manos Katrakis (1928 -1984) was a Greek Theatrical actor.This shy lad with the manly bearing, tender soul and explosive temperament went on to a career adventure and misadventure,...
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Sep.13.2009
:"AnnaBelle's Spirit" follow's the saga of the Wicker and Bollan women that were first introduced in "The Journey, The Dreams, & AnnaBelle". The story begins to take on more depth and meaning in this second book. Mainly focusing on the lives of AnnaBelle and her two...
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Sep.08.2009
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping...
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Sep.02.2009
Louis Breger approaches Dostoevsky psychoanalytically, not as a "patient" to be analyzed, but as a fellow psychoanalyst, someone whose life and fiction are intertwined in the process of literary self-exploration. Raskolnikov’s dream of the suffering horse in Crime and Punishment has become one of...
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Sep.02.2009
Psychoanalysis ia a clumsy tool, not the scalpel Freud envisioned. In this masterly biography and cultural history, psychologist and psychoanalyst Breger (emeritus, California Inst. of Technology) explains why. Previous Freud biographers Ernest Jones, Paul Roazen, Ronald Clark, and Peter Gay lack...
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