Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. If they go, they would represent a country that considered them second-class citizens and would compete amid a strong undercurrent of Aryan superiority that considered them inferior. Yet, if they stayed, would they ever have a chance to prove them wrong on a global stage?...

In thirty-six thrilling days, Melanie Radzicki McManus hiked 1,100 miles around Wisconsin, landing her in the elite group of Ice Age Trail thru-hikers known as the Thousand-Milers. In prose that's alternately harrowing and humorous, Thousand-Miler takes you with her through Wisconsin's forests, prairies, wetlands, and farms, past the geologic wonders carved by long-ago glaciers, and into the neighborhood bars and gathering places of far-flung small...

The author recounts his part in the plot to assassinate Hitler with a bomb, explaining his growing disillusionment with the Nazi regime and its brutality and detailing how he was able to escape the fatal retribution his other conspirators received.

Recounts the author's cultural journey in search of the man behind the legend of James Brown, discovering his rich musical legacy and the ongoing disputes surrounding his will as well as the complicated racial, music, and cultural factors that shaped his story.

"Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution. A girl's pain over family secrets; a young woman's discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political...

In 1980s Britain, the Winshaw family--an integral part of the British Establishment--are becoming more wealthy and corrupt by the day. Newspaper columnist Hilary Winshaw gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry is turning hospitals into carparks; Roddy is selling art in return for sex; down on the farm, Dorothy's squealing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange, and Mark is selling arms to dictators....

Outlines an approach to healing chronic autoimmune conditions, describing how the author's perspectives changed after her diagnosis with MS and how she was able to reverse symptoms by combining a paleo diet and neuromuscular stimulation.

Kenyon College professor Timothy B. Shutt delivers a course that looks at the life of C. S. Lewis and examines the influences that would help to shape Lewis both as a man and as a writer. We will take a look at Lewis' science fiction trilogy, his Chronicles of Narnia, his apologetic and scholarly works, and his other writings.