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I met Liddy and heard just a small part of the story twenty years ago and was intrigued by the instinct of one so young. Could I have understood the consequences of just one incident at seventeen? I never forgot the story but was too...

Ascanio Condivi was a young pupil and assistant of Michelangelo's who gained the trust and confidence of the great artist. His biography of Michelangelo to a large extent is based on the artist's own words, tells the story of his life, his relationship with his patrons, his objectives as an artist, and his accomplishments, forming the basis of a biography that has been central to the study of Michelangelo for four centuries. The significance of Condivi's text was recognized early on. Within fifteen years of its publication in 1553, Vasari incorporated much of it to correct and revise his...

As Alexander Wohl shows, Tom and Ramsey Clark had a profound impact on American law and society. For nearly three quarters of a century, they influenced presidents, policies, and legal rulings, during careers that tracked closely with some of the most significant and...

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you can t step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agree natural and synthetic change are so rapid on the world s great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes.

A World of Rivers explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world....

And she used it to become a star. There and been many men in her life. She married three, and then had affairs with countless others. But each encounter began and ended the same way - she was alone, lonely, and unloved.

She had risen to the top of her profession as an outstanding sex symbol, but sexual love was something she had never found. The she met Vito...