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"This Maileresque combination of personal reflection, boxing analysis, and sports biography is a must read for fight fans...."Booklist, Starred ReviewAn intimate portrait of Joe Fr...

The chapter explores the legal, political, and literary contexts of the possible torture of John Felton, the 1628 assassin of the royal favourite George Villiers, Duke of Buckingha...

New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical actor of the twentieth century. This entertai...

Neue Einblicke und Einsichten in das Werk von Peter Rühmkorf. »Wo ich gelernt habe« ist der Titel einer Rede, die Peter Rühmkorf 1999 als Poetik-Dozent an der Universität...

Spanning more than fifty years of modern music history, Peter Asher: A Life in Music highlights every turn in Peter Asher’s amazing career. Over a dozen years of research has gone ...

In the mid- late 1800s and early 1900s, Thomas Hardy produced a plethora of eclectic works that were considered too candid and even sacrilegious for their time. Hardy's publishing ...

This readable biography of Lance Armstrong surveys his legendary cycling career as well as the details of his life outside of cycling. The son of a single mother and born in a...