Nemarluk, one of the most feared Aboriginal renegades in the north of Australia, had vowed to rid his land of all intruders. This is the story of the last few years of his life, and his battles with the Northern Territory Police and their tracker Bul-Bul.
Lester Paldy, a distinguished academic physicist, was tapped by the CIA in 1988 to join the Agency for a "trial run" as they faced a troubling new situation in Russia. That "temporary" assignment would last for 25 years, during which he would find himself tested by a shifting set of responsibilities, his ability to penetrate secret sites, his ......
The Life, Contributions, and Influence of Sir William Jones (1746-1794)
Sir William Jones was a brilliant and engaged man of letters and law closely involved with significant figures of Great Britain, America and India during the American Revolution and the early days of the Raj. He essentially introduced the Western world to Oriental peoples and cultures. This title explores the life and mind of Sir William Jones.
Outside of the Nazi hierarchy, Odilo Globocnik is the most culpable in the planned and almost successfully executed attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe. The crime of mass murder far outweighs the less significant, but nevertheless considerable, offenses of robbery and human trafficking, for obvious reasons. Globocnik was guilty of them all.
Celia Sanchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sanchez played a pivotal role in launching the revolution and administering the revolutionary state. She joined the clandestine 26th of July Movement and went on to choose the landing site of the ......
Published to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography gives 21st Century readers a unique and authoritative account of the man John F. Kennedy called ''one of the transcendent moral influences of our century.''Schweitzer is celebrated around the world as a European ......
North West Australia - in the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly known as the King Leopold Ranges between 1879 and 2020, is the setting for the story of Aboriginal leader Jandamarra and his fight again white invasion of his country. As the Sydney Morning Herald wrote in 1952:Jandamarra, who was also known as Pigeon, had been a blacktracker of ......
Idriess joins a North West Mounted Patrol in the early 1930s, and travels inremotre area of Western Australia where there are only a dozen wite families, and many wild Aboriginals. In this illustrated bestseller from 1937, he looks at the problems for both black and white.
This book examines Franklin D. Roosevelt and his development since being a young politician in Albany, how he created the modern welfare state, and how he made the presidency the focal point of American national government.
