These luminaries have left an indelible mark on the world and exemplify the perseverance and resilience required to fight against this formidable illness. Some notable examples of celebrities who died of pancreatic cancer are Patrick Swayze, Alan Rickman, and Joan Crawford. Swayze's versatile acting...
His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as ...
On to our next self-help book editor: Erin Lund is a seasoned non-fiction editor and book coach with a strong focus on memoir, self-help, alternative spirituality, and holistic wellness books. With over a decade of experience, including as a managing editor and the owner of her editing bu...
Her fictional protagonists are the elderly spinster Miss Jane Marple and Belgian detective Hercule Poirot AL CAPONE - (1899-1947). American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently also became known as the "Capones," was dedicated to smuggling and...
By Christian Coleman | You don’t always follow through on them and yet you make them anyway. That’s the fun of it! They can be as serious as heart bypass surgery or as carefree as a six-gallon bag of caramel popcorn. Come December 31, you flex your New
In the wake of EL James’s seriesFifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the reasons underlying this preference...
So who is this guy behindWhereTheMapEnds.com? Jeff Gerke is...me: a guy who loves Christian speculative fiction. Christian fantasy. Christian science fiction. Christian time travel. Christian spiritual warfare. Christian supernatural thrillers. Christian "chillers." Christian alternate history. Christi...
More disturbing than icky silkworms and the vile details of Bombyx mori is the pattern Galbraith creates among her female characters, who are portrayed as possessive, passive-aggressive, wastes of time. Even Robin, despite one or two flashes of brilliance, suffers from the moodiness of a ...
Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer. — Ha-Joon Chang 50 Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich. — Robert H. Johnson 42 Rich man down and poor man up-they are still not even. — Yiddish Proverbs 55 Let some people get rich first. ...
Here are 15 actors who, whether accidentally or purposely, spoiled their own movies. 15 Michael Keaton - Batman (1989) Bruce Wayne aka Batman is one of the most recognizable superheroes of all time. In the late 1980s, filmmaker Tim Burton took on the task of bringing him, the Joker, ...