Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on ...

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older, wiser, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you to see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, ...

In The Soul of a Butterfly the great champion takes readers on a spiritual journey through the seasons of life, from childhood to the present, and shares the beliefs that have served him well. After fighting some of the fiercest bouts in boxing history, today Muhammad Ali faces his ...

The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" (New York Daly News). One hundred and eighty voices—male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country—talk intimately to the reader. Combining ...

In a new exposé, unprecedented in its scope and detailed documentation, John Barren lays bare the most secret subject in the world: the clandexine apparatus known as the KGB. To those fascinated by mystery and intrigue, this provocative book offers vivid portraits and riveting ...

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A FOOD EDITOR BEFRIENDS A CHICKEN IN HIS QUEENS BACKYARD. A ten-year-old child prodigy learns quantum physics. A thief in Rome steals thousands of euros from the bottom of the world's most famous fountain. A delivery man befriends a homeless man, then reunites him with his long-lost ...

The war and the peace have both made Japan important to the United States. Thousands of Americans have been here since the war and thousands more will come. The ties now being forged between the two countries will have great consequences as time goes on. We cannot afford to dismiss ...

Stephen Hawking has long been a legend in the specialist field of astrophysics. Now, since the publication of A Brief History of Time—his introduction to today's most important theories on the cosmos which has remained on the bestseller lists since it first appeared—he ...

The true story behind the immortal photogaph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.