Lifecaps imprint: 57 books
by James Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Ayn Rand is one of the most polarizing authors of the 20th century. Best known for novels “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged,” which used characters intent on exercising their individualism over conformity, Rand became a pop philosopher in the 1950s. Her work upholds the virtues of a philosophy that she and Nathaniel Branden called Objectivism.
by Fergus Mason
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
You may not know the name Joy Mangano, but you probably know her mop--the Miracle Mop to be more exact. This book is the story of how Mangano built a QVC empire.
The book explores her early days as an inventor through her later success on HSN; along the way it touches on the business strategies...
Turing
The Tragic Life of Alan Turing
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Hundreds of movies and thousands of books have been written about the heroes of World War II. For dozens of years, however, few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the war—a mild-mannered, eccentric mathematician from the University of Cambridge.
This man, an undeniable genius...
Respect
The Life and Times of Aretha Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Aretha Franklin has recorded 39 studio albums, had 20 number-one R&B singles, 44 Grammy nominations and 18 wins. It’s a career that’s legendary.
Franklin was not a groundbreaker. She just did what she does better and longer than anyone else. She recorded her first major label album...
In Which Milne's Life Is Told
A Biography of Winnie the Pooh Author A.A. Milne
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Few authors achieve fame in their lifetime and then have that fame compound and grow long after their death. Fewer still spend much of their lives harboring resentment for the work that made them famous. Such was the case for Alan Alexander Milne. Long before he wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne...
J.M.W. Turner
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In 2005 the British Broadcasting Corporation sponsored a program to find the greatest painting in Britain. Any painting hanging in a British art gallery was eligible to become The Greatest Painting in Britain, whether it was created by an Englishman or not.
After every work of art in the country...
by Paul Brody
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
For over 100 years, L. Frank Baum's clazzic fantasy series "The Wizard of Oz" has inspired films, books, and even fan clubs. Despite the success of the series, not a lot has been written about the author: L. Frank Baum.
The Dirty Old Man Of American Literature
A Biography of Charles Bukowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Charles Bukowski didn't write about high society or the life most people will never live; he wrote about the ordinary man--the ones you are more likely to see living next to you than glamorized on TV. He wrote what he knew and he wrote it well. Bukowski knew Los Angeles—women—the drudgery of work—and...
Young Abraham Lincoln
The Childhood and Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Few famous humans came into the world under such humble circumstances as Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809. But it may very well be that the humble and unassuming life he lived actually served to shape him into the solid, moral, honest, decent, hard-working adult that he became. What were those...
Everything and More
A Biography of David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Blacklisted
A Biography of Dalton Trumbo
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Dalton Trumbo was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood when he was investigated as a Communist during America's Red Scare of the 1940s. He was ultimately sent to jail and placed on an industry blacklist that would make him unhirable.
His exile lasted 13 years during which time he was...
by Fergus Mason
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In 1950 a saleswoman living in Florida decided to find a fun new way to market an unexciting product – reusable food containers. She already had plenty of experience selling household goods but now she wanted to try something different, and she was after a quirky, lively way to sell things.
The...
Queen of the Desert
A Biography of the Female Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
T.E. Lawrence is often credited with bringing diplomacy to the Middle East; in the shadows of every great man you will often find an even greater woman. In Lawrence’s case, that woman’s name was Gertrude Bell.
In a time when women didn't go to school, Bell did; in a time when women didn't...
Disney’s Nine Old Men
A History of the Animators Who Defined Disney Animation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Today the Walt Disney Company is a huge media conglomerate with a whole range of interests, taking in music labels, cable and network TV, publishing, merchandising and a chain of theme parks in multiple countries. However it remains best known for its animated films.
Starting in 1927, but mostly between...