In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after bac

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Adulteress? Sorceress? Immoral Temptress? No English Queen hasbeen so persistently vilified as Anne Boleyn. Even after herexecution in May 1536 - on trumped-up charges of adultery - theportrait that has come down to us is the one drawn by her enemies.Joanna Denny's compelling new biography of Anne presents aradically different picture of her - a highly literate,accomplished and intellectual woman, and a devout protagonist ofthe Protestant faith. It was Anne who played the key role inseparating England from the Church of Rome. Her tragedy was thather looks and vivacious charm attracted the notice of a violent andparanoid King Henry - and trapped her in the vicious politics ofthe Tudor court. Joanna Denny's enthralling book plunges the readerinto the fascinating, turbulent time that changed Englandforever.

"Miller is an excellent historian...and a fine biographer....[His] artful arrangement of his conclusions...makes the booksomething of an intellectual thriller."-- New York Times BookReview. The most important scientist of the twentieth century and themost important artist had their periods of greatest creativityalmost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein andPablo Picasso as young men examines their greatestcreations--Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Einstein'sspecial theory of relativity. Miller shows how these breakthroughsarose not only from within their respective fields but from largercurrents in the intellectual culture of the times. Ultimately,Miller shows how Einstein and Picasso, in a deep and importantsense, were both working on the same problem.

In her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus One,Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of age toparenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches thepersistence of the past in a life that has moved into a mature newphase as a member of the baby boom generation. Recalling her Jewishchildhood in New Jersey, living in the apartment above the family'sclothing store, Shore lovingly imagines her parents, now gone,reunited with relatives over a Scrabble board in the afterlife. Thepoet's teenage daughter sorts through the "vintage" clothes of hermother's own hippie days. Cherished items left behind -- an addressbook, a piano, an easy chair, a favorite doll -- continue to hauntthe living. The poems in A Yes-or-No Answer dignify memory throughprecise detail, with a voice that will resonate for a generation ata crossroads.

In this elegant collection of essays, one of modernliterature's most enchanting masters reminisces about Italy'santifascist resistance and the whirl of ideas that blossomed in thepost-war era. In America, Calvino follows Nixon's election hopeswhile marvelling at colour television and American cars, butdescribes with loathing his first experience of mass racism, whenhe is lucky enough to meet Martin Luther King in Alabama. He alsowrites brilliant short pieces on his Italian dialect, the final dayof the Second World War, and the rich joys of living inParis. A stylish assortment of memoir and wit, Hermit in Paris includesthe very finest of Calvino's superb work.

Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at theage of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in theremote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrifiedvillagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende wasthem. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She wasstripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years she waskept as a domestic slave, an 'abid', without any pay or a singleday off. Her food was the leftover scraps and her bed was the floorof the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh and lonelyexistence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead, forseven long years. Passed on by her master, like a parcel, to arelative in London, Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom.Slave is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slavetrade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood anda moving testimony to a young girl's indomitable spirit in the faceof adversity.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and mostdangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan,Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which AndrewGraham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those ofcardinals and whores, prayer and violence. On the streetssurrounding the churches and palaces, brawls and sword fights wereregular occurrences. In the course of this desperate lifeCaravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, usingordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - tomodel for his depictions of classic religious scenes. AndrewGraham-Dixon's exceptionally illuminating readings of Caravaggio'spictures, which are the heart of the book, show very clearly how hecreated their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely hedeparted from the conventions of his time.

There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down whohad either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the FirstDuke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builderand cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have beenpoliticians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. TheChurchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set ofmen and women - grandly ambitious, regularly impecunious,impulsive, arrogant and brave. And towering above the Churchillclan is the figure of Winston - his failures and his triumphs shownin a new and revealing context - ultimately our 'greatestBriton'.

With the passing of this great movie star, philanthropist,and-bona fide, in her day-living legend, it is our pleasure as muchas our duty to celebrate her glorious life. Our cameras weretrained on Liz since National Velvet, and our splendid archive ofphotography needs to be seen-by you, her fans, right now, in thismoment. Elizabeth first appeared on LIFE's cover when she was barely ateenager, and last graced the cover when she trusted LIFE to tellthe story of her late-in-life brain surgery with taste andaccuracy. In between there was all the rest: the child-star days,the early marriages, the sensational movies, the incredible dramathat was "Liz and Dick," the later success on the Broadway stage,the transition to regal presence: benefactor, Dame Commander of theOrder of the British Empire, American icon. It is all in the pages of this special commemorative book.