Grace Kelly was the incredibly beautiful, talented and elegant American movie star who became a real-life princess. In six short Hollywood years she had starred in eleven films, eight of which are revered movie classics (i.e. Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and It Takes a Thief). She won an Oscar for Best Actress in The Country Girl and also won and welcomed the amorous attentions of legendary actors Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, William Holden and Ray Milland. Then, at the age of 26, she marri...

The seminal biography of legendary actor Peter Lawford. As Publisher's Weekly writes: From Bobby-Sox idol to Kennedy spouse and Marylin Monroe intimate, his life was a dizzying whirl of sex, scandal, an secrets even the tabloids dared not print... Once, Peter Lawford seemed to have it all: a handsome face, a sophisticated wit, a talent that won him overnight stardom and entree into a world of beautiful, powerful people. Veteran of film roles in Easter Parade, Little Women, Good News, and T...

The 5 countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, have just decided to enlarge to 6 others, while 23 others are knocking on the door.Is an alternative UN about to be born? What is the economic and strategic power of the BRICS? What prospects open up? Are the five countries cohesive and homogeneous? What is the impact on the climate?The book seeks answers to these and numerous other questions, posing several that still await working hypotheses.Many statistica...

Thriller set in Turin (Italy) and Montevideo (Uruguay).A new figure of detectiveA series of events brings keen amateur detective Sandro Serino, to set about solving the disappearance of his friend Giovanni. The trail eventually takes him as far as Uruguay, where he finds himself drawn into a complex web of financial intrigue and personal affairs.The reader is swept along with the narrator on his thrilling search, every page bringing a new revelation. Until Sandro, a yo...

"[James Spada's] fascinating first novel," writes Garth Von Buchholz, founder of The International Edgar Allen Poe Society, "Days When My Heart Was Volcanic" (the title itself taken from Poe's ballad, Ulalume) deftly blends fact and fiction by setting the story at a critical juncture in Poe's personal and professional life.... Days is an excellent, credible and well-researched book. Spada ties in many of the real characters and events during this period i...

What if everything you believed about your family was built on a lie?When Kathleen Spada discovers that her mother was sold as a child, taken from her biological family, and raised under a false identity, the revelation sends her on a decades-long search through forgotten archives, family records, cemeteries, churches, and the stories people tried to leave behind.As buried secrets emerge, so do the women who shaped them: a grandmother who never stopped watching from the mar...

The Law of Conservation is a poetry collection intensely attuned to landscape, both geographic and metaphorical.Borders blurred as cities cede to rural land; the body as a changing place on an equally unstable map; the subsoil of sexuality; the terrain of memory, both rich and painful; new countries traveled and new roots set down as an adult, navigating desire, loneliness, and love.In the context of gender and sexual identity, Spada’s work pays su...

Best-selling author James Spada has written the definitive biography of one of America’s greatest actresses, Bette Davis. Bette Davis participated in over 100 roles as an actress, including the films, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Jezebel, Dark Victory, and Dangerous. She won two Academy Awards, was the first person to accrue 11 Academy Award nominations, and became the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ame...

They were America's children, symbolic of hope and youth, then of tragedy, and finally of the enduring power of the Kennedy legacy. In the 255 vibrant photographs in this book - mostly never before published - we watch John and Caroline grow up in the adoring, and sometimes harsh, glare of public attention.They were the youngest children to live in the White House in over a century - Caroline just three and John Jr. a newborn when their father took the oath of office. Symbolizing th...

Extracellular Vesicles, Volume 645 in the Methods in Enzymology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Chapters in this new release include Genetic labeling of extracellular vesicle exosomes for studying biogenesis and uptake in living mammalian cells, Fluorescent Labeling of Extracellular Vesicles, Isolation of extracellular vesicles from lymph, Transgenic rats for tracking body fluid/tissue-derived extracellular vesicle...

This book aims at presenting a synthetic but self-contained theory of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), firmly grounded on physics and mathematics. However, at the same time, it also describes various phenomenological aspects, making it appealing also to a broad audience of Earth scientists not having a technical background. The interest on GIA is motivated by the entangled processes involved, reflecting interactions between the solid Earth, the oceans, and the cryosphere. In the context...

Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer, Part B, Volume 383 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of hot topics, including Epigenetic control of cell signaling in cancer stem cells, Genetic and epigenetic features of neuroendocrine prostate cancer and their emerging applications, Epigenetic regulation in pancreatic cancer, Epigenome Editing in Cancer: Advances and Cha...