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Kerry William Bate

The Life and Times of John Steele

"Radicalized by the starving poverty of industrial Glasgow during the "Hungry Forties," Irish-born John Steele embraced a teetotaler brotherhood, radical political reform and listened sympa…

David Bather Woods

Arthur Schopenhauer

An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) almost was…

Linda Batty

Reverend Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker

The Rev. Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker was the first known African American to receive a Ph.D. in Philosophy in the United States. Born a slave in 1860 in Eastville, Virginia, Dr. Baker spent his youth and earl…

Sara Baume

Opening Night

As two women, both artists living and working along the coast of Ireland, come to know each other, we witness a profound meditation on friendship, mortality, creation, the everyday and the sublime.One day…

A. P. Bazeley

Allergic To Life

Imagine living a busy life one minute, and fighting for your life the next! Alison Bazeley's world turned upside down in her early fifties when she suddenly developed life-threatening allergies. Doctors w…

Jean Becker, Tom Collamore

Don't Tell the President

Dukakis is in the tank! The Queen looks like a talking purple hat! We didn't leave Chelsea Clinton in Moscow, right?The most harrowing and hilarious stories behind presidential events over the past sixty …

Janice M. Becker

Rebel Rising Within

If you have ever found yourself going quiet to keep the peace, ignored what your gut was trying to tell you, stayed longer than you should have, or questioned your own strength, this book was written with…

Cole Bedford

Engineering the Modern American West

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Americans dramatically altered the landscape of the arid American West--especially its precious few rivers. Engineers built ever more ambitious dams, cana…

Scott Beekman

The Last Gladiator

The incredible career of the forgotten but foundational pro wrestler who shaped American sports culture.

Molly Beer

Angelica

Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and th…

Molly Beer

Angelica

Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and th…

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Beethoven as I Knew Him

Intimate biography by Beethoven's pupil and secretary recalls composer's personality, contemporaries, deafness, irascible behavior, etc. Extensively annotated by Beethoven scholar Donald MacArdle. Revised…

Robert Behrens

The Uninvited Guests

In THE UNINVITED GUESTS, Robert H. Behrens shares a raw and unflinching memoir about what happens when grief and illness collide. In the devastating aftermath of the sudden, inexplicable death of his step…

Harry Belafonte, Kevin Baker

A Burning House

The late, legendary performer and activist's candid reflections on American race relations and social movements, based on previously unpublished conversations with the award-winning historian Harry Belafo…

Evelyn Bellanger

Remember, You Are Indigenous

A respected elder shares stories and insights from growing up on the White Earth Reservation in MinnesotaWith unflinching honesty, Evelyn Bellanger tells a vivid account of her childhood in Pine Point, Mi…

Peter Belz

Working Titles

Working Titles: Memoir of an American Hustler is the true story of one man's life told through sixty-six different jobs, stitched together across six decades of labor, hustles, and survival. From mowing l…

Lihi Ben Shitrit, Mona Al-Habanin

Unrecognized

In 1998, when Mona Al-Habanin was twenty-eight years old and pregnant with her sixth child, she stood before a council of al-Naqab Bedouin shaykhs and faced the most difficult decision of her life: give u…

Pat Benatar

Between a Heart and a Rock Place

For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefie…