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Post War (A History of Europe Since 1945) Judt, Tony
I agree with this assessment: 'This is the best history we have of Europe in the postwar period and not likely to be surpassed for many years.' [Publishers Weekly, 29 Aug 2005, p. 43]
California Red (A Life in the American Communist party) Ray Healey,Dorothy and Isserman, Maurice,
'The most notorious figure in the Southern California Communist Party, she had already made her mark as an agitator while in her teens. Steinbeck fashioned one of his farm labor organizer ...
City Whyte, William H
I stumbled across this book through a description of the Street Life Project in the book The Wisdom of Crowds and actually expected something a little bit different. This does not mean I ended ...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence, T.E.
Lawrence of Arabia's narrative of his involvement in the Arab Revolt during WWI.
l'art médecine Davila, Thierry et al
This excellent catalogue assembles a vast collection of images and essays which elucidate the persistent links between art and medicine in the Western world. The authors present an iconographic ...
When Pain Strikes Busby, Cathy et al
When Pain Strikes presents thirty diverse, interdisciplinary responses to pain, whether physical, spiritual, psychological or moral. The book amalgamates eclectic perspectives ranging from ...
Sociology in educational practice B.Moore Clyde, E.Cole William
Are you a person who seeks accurate criteria to measure his educational progress? Or are you a person who is interested in pedagogy and its applications? Then Sociology in Educational Practice ...
What Is the What Eggers, Dave
What Is the What is a stunning memoir of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee from Southern Sudan and one of the country's generation of 'Lost Boys'. Leaving his village without parents or family ...
Jesus Lived In India Kersten, Holger
Maybe you picked up The Da Vinci Code , just to know what the big fuss was about. And maybe you read it and realized that the whole thing was pretty intriguing, and you couldn't help but think: ...
Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Keresztesi József writes about the Hungarian edition of Utazás az éjszaka mélyére Céline's classical work from 1932 is considered to be one of the wildest novels of the 20th century. ...
How To Mow The Lawn Martin, Sam
How To Mow The Lawn - The lost art of being a man is the kind of book you either love or hate, and I have decided I love it because of what I truly hate: the vast amount of so-called 'advice' ...
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Haddon, Mark
'Pretty good book,' I thought, after having read The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime . It was only when I started thinking about what to read next, and realized that I only wanted to ...
Elutazás és hazatérés Konrád, György
Forgács Zsuzsa writes about the Hungarian edotion of Elutazás és hazatérés - it has not been translated into any other language The novel is about the miraculous escape of an ...
Leaving Reality Behind Wishart, Adam / Bochsler, Regula,
etoy vs eToys.com & other battles to control cyberspace Written by a BBC documentary filmmaker and a Swiss television journalist, Leaving Reality Behind chronicles the parallel and ...
Candide Voltaire,
Klaus Zeyringer writes about the German edition of "Candide" Absorbed with fantastic interpretations of the world, Don Quixote embodies an extreme form of human conduct. A similar figure, one ...
Killing Bono. I was Bono's Doppelganger. McCormick, Neil
As a teenager in Dublin in the late 70s, Neil McCormick was convinced that he was destined to become a rock star. He had the talent, the songs and the plan for how he was going to make it all ...
Besy Dostoevski, Feodor Mikhailovich
Kirstin Breitenfellner writes about the German edition of Böse Geister What mindset gives rise to political terrorism, how do people get others to follow them blindly and to kill other ...
