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  • A Doctor on the Inside

    From the County Jail to the Supermax

    by William Wright ...
    Get both of Dr. William Wright’s best-selling, award-winning books in a singlevolume!Maximum Insecurity chronicles Wright’s true-life metamorphosis from suburbanear surgeon to life as the sole physician at Colorado’s maximum-security prison.Jailhouse Doc follows Wright’s transition from prison medicine to running theclinic at the county jail. Should be easy right? Not on your life.Told with a ... Read more

    $6.97 USD

  • The Von Bülow Affair

    The Objective Behind-the-Scenes Account of the Shocking Attempted Murder Case

    by William Wright ...
    The true story of heiress Sunny von Bülow's coma and the attempted-murder trial of her husband, Claus—the case that inspired the film Reversal of Fortune.On December 21, 1980, millionaire socialite Sunny Von Bülow was found unconscious on her bathroom floor. She would remain in a coma for twenty-seven years. Although her condition appeared to be the result of hypoglycemia, Sunny's children ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Tidy Little War

    The British Invasion of Egypt 1882

    by William Wright ...
    In 1882, the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than seventy years. In 'A Tidy Little War', William Wright gives the first full account of that hard-fought and hitherto neglected campaign, which was not nearly as 'tidy' as the British commander would later claim. Using unpublished documents and forgotten books, including ... Read more

    $22.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maximum Insecurity

    A Doctor in the Supermax

    by William Wright ...
    Runner Up in the General Non Fiction category at the 2014 Hollywood Book Festival.After three decades as a successful ear surgeon, William Wright, MD is bored beyond belief. He dabbles with retirement, but finds idleness infuriating. He has to do something.Then he sees an ad for a doctor’s position from the Colorado Department of Corrections at a supermax prison. Now that, he thinks, would be ... Read more

    $4.97 USD

  • Warriors of the Queen

    Fighting Generals of the Victorian Age

    by William Wright ...
    Who were the men who commanded the British Army in the numerous small wars of the Victorian Empire? Today, many are all but forgotten, save the likes of Cardigan, Kitchener, Baden-Powell and Gordon of Khartoum. Yet they were a disparate and fascinating assemblage, made up of men of true military genius, as well as egoists, fools and despots. In Warriors of the Queen, William Wright surveys over ... Read more

    $22.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jailhouse Doc

    A Doctor in the County Jail

    by William Wright ...
    ***Soon to be TV Series***Dr. William Wright gave up a suburban practice as an ear surgeon to become the doctor at Colorado’s maximum-security prison. After that, running a medical clinic at the county jail should be a snap, right? Oh, brother…Hoards of desperate people fresh from the streets, homeless addicts, illegal aliens, and gangbangers all ruled by a corrupt sheriff and his concubine ... Read more

    $4.97 USD

  • Born That Way

    Genes, Behavior, Personality

    by William Wright ...
    A comprehensive view of the most heated debate of our time -- are genes the primary influence on human personality and behavior? In presenting the recent findings, William Wright argues that in a century dominated by psychoanalytic thought, there has been an insistence that humans, unlike all other species, are brought into the world as blank slates on which personalities are etched by the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Harvard's Secret Court

    The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals

    by William Wright ...
    **"As mesmerizing as it is appalling." -- The Boston GlobeHarvard's Secret Court reveals the controversial true story of an appalling scandal at Harvard University, when a group of deans and scholars attempted to expel a group of students for their sexuality.**In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." The mystery he uncovered ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battle Story: Omdurman 1898

    by William Wright ...
    The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Epic

    The Lucknow Campaigns 1857-58

    by William Wright ...
    In May 1857, with the Indian Mutiny reaching boiling point, Sir Henry Lawrence summoned from their homes two sets of pensioners, one of sepoys and one of artillerymen, to defend the Lucknow British Residency. Lawrence would not clear the mosques surrounding the 60-acre site, which provided cover for rebel sharpshooters and artillery – ‘spare the holy places’ – and was almost immediately killed by ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms

    A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism

    by William Wright ...
    Series series Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought
    The concept of God's two kingdoms was foundational to Luther and subsequent Lutheran theology. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, that concept has been understood primarily as a political concept. But is a political reading of the two kingdoms a perversion of Luther's teaching?Leading Reformation scholar William Wright contends that those who read Luther politically and see in Luther a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Manipur Mischief

    Rebellion, Scandal, and the Dark Side of the Raj, 1891

    by William Wright ...
    In 1891 the hill state and principality of Manipur erupted in violence, the worst bloodshed in India since the Great Mutiny thirty-four years earlier. The Manipuris even chopped off the head of the Chief Commissioner of Assam and those of his entourage including the British Resident, handsome Frank Grimwood, leaving his beautiful young wife Ethel alone and the only woman in a world gone mad. The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD