Offers a profile of the late naturalist and social critic (view table of contents)

Product Description: In 1892, while training for his historic fight with Gentleman Jim Corbett, undefeated heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan wrote "Reminiscences of a 19th Century Gladiator," a summation of his extraordinary life and career...read more

Product Description: "Roads to Freedom" is a fascinating glimpse of progressive intellectual politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Written at the end of the first world war in the midst of great and rapid world change, the book is an historical analysis and criticism of Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, the author of "Why Men Fight"...read more

Product Description: In "Philosophy and the Social Problem", Will Durant's first book, Durant argues that philosophy has fallen into disrepute because it has stood high and dry upon academic ground, has occupied itself generally with the problem of knowledge, and has not gone down among the crowd to be of practical service...read more

Product Description: Born in Missouri in 1927, Bishop has lived in Paris since the 1950s. One of the most sensitive lyrical abstract painters, he has devoted the last three decades to small paper works that are transparent, compact, fluid and spatially ambiguous...read more

Product Description: The story is told through the first person narrative of Keb, a 14 year old surfer who is constantly struggling with OCD tendencies. The main goal for Keb, is to achieve his life long dream of surfing in California, while in the meantime living home in Montauk, NY...read more

Product Description: For the average person, Bruce Lee was a brief star in the entertainment industry who spawned a pop culture kung fu craze. But to those who knew him, Bruce Lee was also an author, scholar, educator, philosopher, as well as a groundbreaking martial artist; a man whose creative energy and desire to grow brought him the respect of hundreds of thousands of people...read more

Product Description: For the average person, Bruce Lee was a brief star in the entertainment industry who spawned a pop culture kung fu craze. What most people don't know is that Bruce Lee was also an author, scholar, educator, and philosopher as well as a groundbreaking martial artist, and a person whose creative energy and desire to grow brought him the respect of hundreds of thousands of people...read more

Product Description: This collection of photographs aims to capture the spirit of London at the beginning of the new millennium. A multi-cultural London, with its ethnic mix, shopping centres, smart restaurants, financial district and gleaming new office buildings...read more

Product Description: The world was electrified in 1973 when Enter the Dragon was released. Western audiences had never seen a screen hero with such charisma, on screen presence and athletic grace. Sadly, its star, Bruce Lee, died three weeks before its release-yet, on the basis of Enter the Dragon and four other Hong Kong productions, Bruce Lee has become an immortal icon, a man with a following that reaches every corner of the globe with an almost religious fervor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Authors including Richard Adams, Alan Sillitoe, and Hugh Trevor-Roper discuss the beauty, history, culture, and distinctive character of each of England's counties

Examines the causes of the rising cost and insecure supplies of energy and recommends methods for the government and the private sector to solve the energy problem