A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. These candid conversations capture the difficulties of reporting during crisis and war, particularly the tension between government and the press. The participants include distinguished journalists-American and foreign, print and broadcast-and prominent public officials, past and present. They illuminate the struggle to balance free speech and the right to know with the need to protect sensitive information in the national interest. As the Information... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Literary Las Vegas brings together the best writings from this neon outpost in the desert. Ranging from the hilarious to the tragic, these pieces provide what Nick Tosches calls a "Baedecker to the bizarre, a Virgil in shades, not only to the holy city but to the off-the-rack soul that we, one nation under Frankie's toup, so strangely and fatally share." Incisive, entertaining, and highly readable, Literary Las Vegas creates a unique anecdotal history... View More...
The astonishing story of Joy Adamson's friendship with Elsa the lioness and her cubs. LIVING FREE is a vivid, day-by-day record of the development of this friendship, from the time of Elsa's mating with a wild lion until her cubs are one year old. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ... She ac ts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sor ghum beer.' A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of children and describes their resilience and endurance in heart... View More...
Dr Harry Alder, a prolific writer and long time researcher, shares invaluab le lessons and the gems of discovery you can expect as you track down your ancestors. Here he passes on his passion for the subject, his first-hand ex perience, lots of practical tips and key web sites to support your research . His many other books include Achieve Twice as Much in Half the Time, How To Live Longer, Remembering Names and Faces, Say it with Pictures. He is ba sed in Wallasey, Wirral. View More...
A gripping tale of survival in Nazi-occupied Greece... In April 1941 the Na zis invaded Thessaloniki, Greece. Within two years, the city's Jews were sh ipped by cattle cars to the Auschwitz death camp. Approximately 56,000 Jews lived in Thessaloniki before the occupation and only 1,800 survivors event ually returned after the war ended. There were just three Jewish families t hat survived because of the courage and kindness of Greek citizens who risk ed their lives by hiding them in their homes. Among the survivors were Andr ew "Andreas" Algava, who was three years old at the time, and his fam... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A selection of "Financial Times" interviews with high-profile figures in bu siness, politics, the arts, science and more. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT gathers fifty-two fascinating interviews conducte d at the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have participated in this popular feature since 1994 reads like an international Who's Who of our times. ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This year you can change the world.Every single day 30,000 children around the world are dying from extreme poverty and Make Poverty History, a huge global campaign, has decided that 2005 is the year for this crisis to be taken in hand. In the lead up to the G8 Summit in Scotland this July Make Poverty History will be campaigning heavily to influence the world leaders to finally do something about it.Ending poverty is not about charity, it's about jus... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The Curly Girl manifesto is back, now completely revised, updated, and expa nded by more than a third with all-new material. Created by curly hair evan gelist Lorraine Massey--the go-to curl expert featured in Allure, InStyle, Lucky, Seventeen, and The New York Times, and founder of several curly salo ns and curly products in New York City--Curly Girl is the surprising bible for the 65 percent of women with naturally curly or wavy hair and a desire to... View More...
Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that dev astated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through in terviews with local figures learned about the region's rich cultural histor y. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Ven... View More...
Do or Die is the first insider account of teenage gangs--the lives, loves, and battles of children who kill--from the only journalist ever allowed ins ide this closed and dangerous world. This is no West Side Story. Welcome to a world where teenagers wear colostomy bags and have scrapbooks filled with funeral invitations; where a young man, after being shot in the chest, drives himself to the hospital; where another youngster, caught in crossfire, uses his girlfriend as a human shield; where teenage gangsters are kidnapped, tortured, and held for six-figure ransoms; where kids hum the latest m... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Relates the story of two American adventurers who almost died during their attempt to identify the Saudi Arabian mountain of Jabal al Lawz as the biblical Mt. Sinai. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
