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Two-time Academy Award nominee James Dean died so young and so suddenly that the public was left with few interviews and little record to understand who he was as an actor and a person. Over the years, though, those who knew him best offered their own memories of him in interviews, in magazine artic…
Sculptor, painter, poet, architect, engineer—Michelangelo was the definition of the Renaissance man. In Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities (July 2016, Ages 9 and up), award-winning author Simonetta Carr introduces kids to one of the greatest artists who has ever lived. H…
Rebecca Sive's Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman's Guide to Winning Any Office, from PTA to the White House is a practical and inspirational guide for women at all stages of life who want to achieve political leadership and become influential voices on public policy. A lecturer and advocate, Sive …
In the wake of World War II, the US automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the public’s growing demands. Preston Tucker—a salesman with a magnetic personality and a true love of automobiles—announced a revolutionary new car incorporating features he was convinced would become commonp…
Traveling the world during the 1920s and ’30s, Richard Halliburton climbed the Matterhorn and was the first person to swim the Panama Canal (he paid 36 cents in tonnage). He climbed Mt. Fuji and Mt. Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the path of Odysseus, and retraced the trail of Spanish conq…
In his searing new memoir, The Hospital Always Wins, Issa Ibrahim talks candidly about his development of severe mental illness leading to the accidental killing of his mother, his subsequent commission to Creedmoor, a mental hospital in Queens, New York, and the episodes that occurred within its wa…
From the invasion of Paris in June of 1940 to the end of World War II in 1945, Lucie Aubrac and her husband, Raymond Aubrac, and the rest of the French resistance waged a constant, clandestine war against their German occupiers, including feared SS officer Klaus Barbie, notoriously known as “the b…
They were called sleuths in skirts, guardettes, copettes, and police in petticoats. It would be a long time—well over 150 years—before women in law enforcement were known simply as police officers. Balancing the stories of trailblazers from the past with those of today, Women in Blue: 16 Brave O…