biography

Presents personal accounts from African-Americans of what it was like to live in the segregated South.

Chronicles the life of Jesse James, debunking his mythological identity as a Robin Hood figure and showing that his exploits had a clear political purpose: to use violent tactics and the news media to fight for the Confederate cause long after the Civil War ended.

Text and lavish photographs depict the art and treasures of the various barbarian groups including the Scythians, Celts, Franks and Saxons, and Vikings.

Profiles the young Native American woman who intervened with her people to save the Jamestown colony from starvation and exposure.

Presents a portrait of King Tutankhamen, shedding new light on his importance, his enduring power, and the archaeological discovery of his tomb.

Ambassador L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer recounts the experiences he had during his fourteen-month stay as America's proconsul in Iraq, revealing the struggles between the Iraqi people and government in the months following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Explores the life of Anne Frank, the German Jewish girl who kept diary while hiding from Hitler's army and was killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

This inspirational true story of a friendship that has spanned three decades recounts how the author, a harried sales executive, befriended an eleven-year-old panhandler, changing both of their lives forever.