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Taking over their father's downtown Boston clothing store in 1890, Edward and Lincoln Filene developed in into the world's largest and, possibly, best known speciality store. In the process, they launched a revolution in retailing and in organisational management.

The late Father Bascio makes a great effort in understanding the plight of the Church and makes no bones in exposing the danger to the Church brought on by a rampant homosexuality wrapped in paedophilia. Of all the external threats to the Catholic Church over the centuries, the real threat is coming from within its ranks in the form of modern paedophilia. It is hard to imagine an organisation that allows deviants to prey on innocent and vulner...

A practical introduction to the Internet, which covers subjects such as E-mail, surfing the Net, World Wide Web, Gopher, TELNET, Wide Area Information Servers, and how to access the Internet.

Recounts various episodes from the growing-up days of the life of Steven Burton, a CBS sports broadcaster in Boston.

A child's grandparents share their pride in the role of Greece in Olympic history and as host of the games in 2004.

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The author reveals how media continues to stereotype Americans of Italian heritage.

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Six years after her life had ended, Morgain, King Arthur's half-sister, was subjected to unremitting calumny by the 'recorders of Arthurian History', beginning with Geoffregy of Monmouth and Sir Thomas Malory. For them and subsequent writers, Morgain was the thorn in Arthur's career, invariably described as sorceress, a troublemaker, envious and evil: in short, as a woman of less than one dimension. Geoffrey and Malory wrote to entertain noble...

This book contains the daily logs kept by Columbus -- himself, and by Magellan's scribe, Antonio Pigafetta, on their fateful voyages to the unknown Americas and, subsequently around the world. These voyages, of exploration and of discovery, have unequivocally changed and impacted on the western world like no other event except for the advent of Jesus Christ. The logs herewith are the first translation into English, and read like any modern adv...

On a hot summer day in August 1892, a double murder took place in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mr and Mrs Andrew Borden were killed in their own home by a person or persons unknown who attacked them with an axe or hatchet-type implement. As of today, the case is still unsolved and open. Many millions of words have been written about the events of that day, and people still go to the home (now a Bed and Breakfast) on Second Street and think about...

Educator, Poet, Historian, Army officer, and a graduate of Northeastern and Harvard University, Adolfo grew up during the Vietnam era as an outsider looking into the social upheavals, finding that well-meaning people demonstrated on behalf of goodness but bolstered evil. It seems that man really does not learn from history regardless of how history repeats itself. With the advent of Liberation Theology, Collective Salvation, and modern technol...

At least 400 women enlisted and fought on both sides during the terrible national conflict that was the War Between the States. Their reasons for enlisting ranged from wanting to stay with their husbands or lovers to patriotism and a firm dedication to the cause for which they fought. Most of these women disguised themselves as men, and some were soon discovered and discharged. A few women fought in the war and their identity was never discove...

Antonio Meucci represents an unlikely story in American history. Having come of age in Florence, Italy, he immigrated to America by way of Cuba, where he lived for many years and where he worked with the Italian Opera Company. Familiar with telegraphy, wherein intelligence (information) was being transmitted through a wire, he proposed to transmit human voice through the same type of wire. Having come to New York, and having established severa...

A powerful novel about young adults striving to survive and to overcome personal and social addictions in today's promiscuous society. Set in present-day Chicago, Erebus is the story of a young girl sold into prostitution by her incestuous father, and of two married counsellors who fight the system on her behalf and are almost destroyed by it.

The year was 1971. No one had ever heard of Afghanistan and no one cared. The Russians hadn't invaded and the Taliban didn't exist. Eloise Hanner now takes us back to a simpler time and shares her story as a young teacher, living in Afghanistan as an American Peace Corps volunteer. Her letters to her mother bring to life the challenges she and her husband faced living as young volunteers and let us experience for ourselves the people and the c...

The late Hugo Norden taught at Berkley and at Boston University. He was also a composer of light and serious music, as well as the author of several books on music and on composition. His Technique of Canon is by far his most popular. It continues to be used as a manual by serious composers throughout the world.

Long before Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for equality. First they integrated the Armed Forces, then a whole nation and did it with competency, skill, valour, and courage in combating the enemy abroad and racism at home. Because they stood tall, African Americans and fellow Americans are the better for it.

The book centres on the spiritual and social dynamics of a priest whose uncle is the Don of the most powerful Mafia family in America. Father Don Carlos Albanese discovers the truism of the saying, 'blood is thicker than water', as he becomes an integral part of the Family. His hope is to assist in transforming the Family into a legitimate organisation, as it originally was in Sicily, wherein the Mafia sustained the Sicilians against foreign i...