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The Ghost Perfumer
A brilliant perfumer, perhaps the greatest of all time, who nevertheless boasts an inferiority complex because of his father's withholding of praise and encouragement, falls under the sway of a wealthy haberdasher con-man who, playing on the insecurity, convinces the perfumer to become his aromatic ghostwriter...for free.
The Ghost Perfumer
This is the story of a genius and a fraud. For more than half a century, Olivier Creed, heir to a French fashion empire but out to conquer an adjacent field by himself, created the most compelling and costly perfumes in the world - scents so successful - artistically and commercially - that the world's largest asset manager bought his small olfactory enterprise for nearly $1 billion in 2020. One could arguably have called him the world's most capable perfumer. Except Olivier Creed never authored the scents for which he has long received acclaim and lucre. Gabe Oppenheim reveals the heretofore untold story behind this supposed-cologne colossus of a man - and the eponymous company that became ...
Boxing in Philadelphia
Philadelphia was essentially the birthplace of boxing in America, the city where matches first took shape in the back of bars. Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champ, fought more times in Philly than any other city besides his hometown; Sugar Ray Robinson, perhaps the best boxer ever, fought under his first promotional contract in Philadelphia, appearing there twenty times; and Joe Louis, one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, was trained by a Philadelphia fighter. In Boxing in Philadelphia,Gabe Oppenheim examines the rise and fall of boxing in Philadelphia, and how it often mirrored the city’s own narrative arc. Originating from the tales told to Oppenheim by a retired Phi...
The Bittersweet Science
Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport—and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, romanticism, or cynicism common to writing on boxing, The Bittersweet Science is a collection of essays about boxing by contributors who are not only skilled writers but also have extensive firsthand experience at ringside and in the gym, the corner, and the ring itself. Editors Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra have assembled a roster of fresh voices, ones that expand our understanding of the sport’s primal appeal. The contributors to The Bittersw...
The Sleeping Witness
In this unusual murder mystery, the tranquility of Saint Mary's Abbey is shattered by the discovery of a gruesome crime in a cottage on the abbey grounds. A foreign artist and war hero seeking refuge from the world has been murdered. Marie Paige, the frail, sickly wife of the village doctor, lies beside him beaten into a coma. The police arrest Marie's husband, convinced that they are looking at a crime of passion. But Dr. Paige finds himself with an unlikely champion: Fr. Gabriel, a blundering but brilliant Benedictine priest who believes in his innocence and feels compelled to search for the truth. In a country struggling to come to terms with the devastation of the Second World War, even a secluded English village has its share of secrets and broken lives. It is not long before Fr. Gabriel and his companions find themselves embarking on a dangerous journey into the victims' troubled war histories and a chapter of Europe's bloodiest conflict that is almost too terrible to be acknowledged.
The Little Book of Perfumes
In Perfumes, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Here in The Little Book of Perfumes the authors choose their 100 greatest fragrances of all time. Some are very famous, some hardly known, for women and men. There is Jicky (1889), unisex coeval of the Eiffel Tower and 'a towering masterpiece'; Chanel's No. 5 (1921), perhaps the world's most famous perfume, 'stretching deliciously like a sleepy panther'; Knize Ten which 'everyone should own because there is only one like it' and White Linen (1978), 'a canonical expression of the American ideal of sex appeal'. This is a perfect gift, a perfect browse.
Weary Warriors
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers’ bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ invisible wounds.
Visions From Above
First time writer, Amy Jamison, recounts the story of her death experience in nineteen seventy-six from a collapsed lung, resulting from walking pneumonia. This amazing novel, a true story, describes Amy's out of body trip to Heaven, where she encounters a dark entity, two angels, three spirits of deceased relatives and "Jesus". This story includes her gift of visions of future events, involving immediate, family members. These visions begin in nineteen eighty-one and at first, Amy is not sure what she is supposed to do with the knowledge, as they frighten her. There are visions of her children, insect infestations, death, good and bad spirits, a fire, a disappearance, a stabbing, visits from passing relatives' spirits, as well as a message from God, through a visiting minister. It also, includes an unspeakable vision of her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend. The elders in heaven test Amy and if she passes it, she will learn the identity of her birth father. This story also, includes a surprise ending, with a vision for Amy.
A Dad's Point-of-View
This fun, witty, and inspiring work offers advice, insight, and a reality check on family-related subjects as well as the bigger issues of life, morals, and faith. 264 pp.
Dead, Insane, Or in Jail
Imagine Orange is the New Black for teenagers, or Beyond Scared Straight without the cameras present. Zack Bonnie, author of Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir, is a product of CEDU Educational Services, having attended Rocky Mountain Academy in Northern Idaho. Using rapid-fire dialog, and quick pacing, he describes his experience as a young teenager at a so-called therapeutic boarding school. In this, his first book, Mr. Bonnie illuminates issues within the troubled teen industry, including mind control, brainwashing, and verbal abuse. This book is for all audiences, and specifically for readers interested in the reform and regulation of facilities that confine and abuse teenagers under the guise of tough love. The author hopes with his writing and public advocacy to help the many teens and their families who are still under the sway of inept, unscrupulous, and grasping organizations that dupe parents and evade regulation. Zack Bonnie's mission is to raise awareness and highlight the ongoing rights violations and unethical disciplinary actions used around the world by these programs and schools, "so that no teenager will have to experience what I did."
