The Forgotten Massacre: How East St. Louis 1917 Shaped American Race RelationsThe East St. Louis Massacre of 1917 stands as one of America's worst episodes of racial violence, yet it remains largely unknown. This comprehensive historical account examines how industrial capitalism, political manipulation, and white supremacy converged to produce days of terror that killed hundreds of African Americans and destroyed an entire community.Drawing on congressiona...

The Hangman's Legacy: Thomas Derrick and the Dark Origins of Modern IndustryThomas Derrick stands as one of history's most paradoxical figures—a convicted rapist pardoned to become an executioner, who hanged over three thousand people at Tyburn yet inadvertently gave his name to essential industrial equipment used worldwide today. This meticulously researched biography traces Derrick's journey from condemned sailor at the 1596 Sack of Cádiz to England's mos...

Colm Tóibín has called Thomas Moore 'the most influential figure in shaping the Irish political psyche'. In Bard of Erin, Ronan Kelly tells the story of Moore's extraordinary life - from humble beginnings in Dublin to glittering social and literary success in London (at one point his popularity was eclipsed only by that of Sir Walter Scott and his close friend Lord Byron). Ronan Kelly's biography is a gripping and definitive account of a great romantic figure.'A stirring t...

Red Summer: The Racial Violence of 1919 and the Birth of the Civil Rights MovementThe summer of 1919 witnessed the worst outbreak of racial violence in American history. In cities from Washington to Chicago to rural Arkansas, white mobs attacked Black communities, killing hundreds and destroying millions of dollars in property. Yet this "Red Summer" has been largely erased from mainstream American memory.This groundbreaking history reveals how the violence ...

Across twenty years of friendship, Jenny Kelly and Mairéad Ronan have experienced single life, marriages, divorce, motherhood, career dilemmas, grief, diets, dodgy hairstyles, stress, ageing, bad times and good times too. Here, along with their well-earned wisdom about the serious (and sometimes funny) business of life, they share their thoughts on how to navigate grown-up friendships, what it means to be in a relationship, and how to stop worrying about having it all and start figuring ou...

THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil.'An incredible story, full of melodramatic details, and brilliantly handled by McGreevy in his wonderfully gripping book.' TOM HOLLAND, THE REST IS HISTORY'Hear...

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures to Depression, the first volume in a series of clinical assessment handbooks, is intended to guide clinicians and researchers in choosing practical tools relevant for clinical assessment, intervention, and/or research in this area. This volume provides critical overviews of key assessment issues and available assessment tools in depression. It provides summary tables comparing and contrasting different instruments in terms...