Catalog: 2007 Fall Winter | |
| society this book shows how and why in his previous book india shashi tharoor one ... and diplomats traced the country s history from late colonial times through its ... first 50 years of independence in his new book on the subject he describes ... and sports he analyzes and discusses in his usual lucid prose all the pros and cons ... tharoor not only a superb writer but a highly regarded diplomat was the youngest ... undersecretary of the un in that body s history · tharoor is also the author of nehru ... new york times overview a hard-hitting powerfully analytical and supremely ... phone india the emerging 21st-century power shashi tharoor 1-55970-861-1 978-1- ... | |
| in western poland when in 1939 he and his family watched their german neighbors ... greet the arrival of hitler s armies with kisses and swastikas ... returning from an errand he witnessed his jewish classmates being bayoneted to ... soldiers at the edge of town so began his remarkable six-year journey through ... the lives of every other member of his family and the 800-strong community of ... his boyhood surviving the fire-bombing of ... ss and last out the end of the war in hiding with a brave german couple in unadorned ... yet powerful and sometimes harrowing prose he tells ... his indelible story with simplicity and ... horrors of the holocaust a work of rare power and clarity and of lasting importance ... s extraordinary voice and the range of his experience during the war · as sir ... -854-8 $26.00 33.00 in canada · memoir/history · hardcover 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 · 352 pages ... | |
| washington a generation younger took his place both by timing and talent truly ... the father of his country fiery sam adams thomas ... with outsized egos but dedicated to the higher cause comprise the amazing roster of ... co-op web marketing · for the armchair historian here is an exciting look at our country ... shows how despite sporadic but often powerful efforts to undermine its principles ... clearly los angeles times appreciates history s sweep eric burns s infamous ... scribblers is a work of genuine historical research colorful personality ... remarkable generation of men in the history of the united states or perhaps any ... where discredit is due burns delivers history the wall street journal with flair and ... friedman $26.99 33.99 in canada · history · hardcover 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 · 304 pages ... | |
| rich tapestry of betrayal the quest for power and love this enthralling historical ... dudley earl of leicester a son some historians dismiss such tales as idle gossip while ... parallel tales the first told by arthur himself who exchanged at birth by elizabeth s ... a stillborn baby grows up never knowing his real identity a dreamer a romantic and ... finally collide when arthur learns from his adoptive father on his deathbed who his ... prose [makes for enthralling historical fiction publishers weekly starred ... | |
| was diagnosed as severely autistic but his remarkable mother soma determined that ... overcome the problem by teaching him to read and write the result was that ... people he deals with daily how he tells his stories to the mirror and hears stories ... sounds become colors how beauty fills his mind and heart with this work tito whom ... with incredible beauty but always with powerful clarity what autism feels like from the ... of assumptions the man who mistook his wife for a hat tito is not only ... there and in bangalore he lives with his mother soma in austin texas ... | |
| fame fortune love and suddenly turns his back on civilization at the height of ... his power why in the fall of 2006 shortly after ... his memorable interview with the president ... states and following the publication of his elder son s novelized autobiography ... cruelly entitled in his shadow celebrity journalist broadcaster ... where he expects to spend the rest of his life his quest to climb above the ... voices from the past and humiliated by his inability to understand the tyrolese ... love tim parks and this is one of his most accessible most readable novels · ... novel of immense intelligence style and power but one substantially different from ... and the agility with which he fuses his grand themes holds your attention the ... by arcade he lives in verona italy with his wife and three children cleaver a novel ... | |
| 1981 the man who was purported to take power in albania at the death of the dictator ... case why the state maintains he died by his own hand but the rest of the world ... tension mounts the successor s daughter his architect and the minister of the ... from the other side the successor himself speaks all too familiar with the shadow ... | |
