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Curious about the San Francisco Bay Area With explorations into unique local legends interesting landmarks and uncovered histories Bay Curious is a fun quirky guide to the secret stories of the Bay Area for visitors newcomers and California natives alike Who was Americas first and only Emperor Why are there ships buried under the streets…
Brought to you by Penguin In postwar Europe protest was everywhere On both sides of the Iron Curtain from Paris to Prague Milan to Wroclaw ordinary people took to the streets fighting for a better world Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989 when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote…
Ella Fitzgerald 19171996 possessed one of the twentieth centurys most astonishing voices Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risktaker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up longenduring mysteries Archival research and indepth family interviews shed new light on the singers difficult childhood the tragic…
A fascinating story of courage doubt and defiance across three generations SARAH WATERS A fierce and beautiful book EDMUND DE WAAL Heartfelt and upfront A grieving daughter rediscovers her mothers political past BLAKE MORRISON Guardian A compelling reconstruction of her mothers life as a young antinuclear activist defying her suburban parents CATHERINE TAYLOR Financial Times…
LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR Excellent reveals an insidious matrix of spying deception censorship and repression compelling Daily Telegraph A timely read Chilling Startling A powerful case for more coordinated western intervention GuardianBrilliant Irish Sunday Independent The remarkable story of Chinas…
Brought to you by Penguin We are a wonder of evolution Powerful yet dextrous instinctive yet thoughtful we are expert communicators and innovators Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today But were also deeply flawed Our bodies break choke and fail whether were kings or peasants Diseases thwart our boldest plans Our…
Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1500 years ago Belisarius was the most wellknown general of his age victor over the Persians conqueror of the Vandals and the Goths and as if this were not enough wealthy beyond imagination She made a name for herself by traveling with Belisarius on his…
Benedikt von Nursia Kirchenlehrer und Grnder des Benediktinerordens Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie Alles was man wissen muss kurz und knapp Infotainment Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten
The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip two pivotal figures in Australian history the colonised and coloniser and a bold and innovative new portrait of both Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Award NonFictionWinner of the Canberra Critics Circle Award 2024History/BiographyShortlisted for the 2024 Prime Ministers Literary Award Australian History Shortlisted for…
Jahre ber Jahre unterwegs die Risiken und Freuden den tibetischen Buddhismus in den Westen zu bringen ber alle Grenzen setzt da an wo das Buch Buddhas vom Dach der Welt aufhrt Humorvoll beschreibt Lama Ole Nydahl die inspirierenden und oft spavollen Begegnungen mit seinen Lehrern diesmal vorwiegend im westlichen Teil unserer Welt Er dokumentiert die…
Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband Only thirtythree years old she found herself in a time and place like no other Political intrigue and scandal lurked on every street corner Art Deco cinemas showed the latest Hollywood flicks while dancehall owners and jazz musicians turned Shanghai into Asias…
Acidthrowing brides axe murdering maids mysterious deaths at Greystone mansion and the real story of what happened the night a superstar publicist was gunned down on Sunset Boulevard just a few of the many stories in this Riproaring story featuring the first 100 years of grand times and grand crimes in the worlds glamour capital…
A story from a thirdgeneration soldier of the 1st Battalion the 5th Gorkha Rifles FF who was killed in combatA ghost story narrated to the author by an officer of the Garhwal Rifles while on a visit to LansdowneA gripping account of the air raid on Pakistans airfield at Sargodha in 1965 led by Wing…
Patented in 1917 Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential selfservice store of the early twentieth century Before 1940 it was the only selfservice chain with a national distribution network but it was neither the first nor the only version Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of selfservice…
Frances Hodgson Burnetts favorite theme in her fiction was the reversal of fortune and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth Born in Manchester in 1849 she emigrated with her family to Tennessee because of the financial problems caused by the cotton famine From a young age she published her stories to help the…
We know that our Indian culture is very ancient and rich But at that time the citizens of our country were in full communication all over the world and the influence is also revealed in this book Many examples prove that ancient India had trade cultural and spiritual connections all over the world We also…
Biafra known officially as the Republic of Biafra emerged as a separatist state in West Africa enduring from May 1967 to January 1970 when it seceded from Nigeria
Bloomsbury presents Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount read by Paul Blezard A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who said that dictatorship was dead The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators Caesarism is alive and well Yet in modern times its become a strangely neglected subject Ferdinand Mount opens…
People have always been fascinated with the hidden the mysterious and the unexplained Every society has its tall tales and ghost stories its odd legends and heroes Also every society has its stories of strange beasts dangerous or benign that live in the twilight world between the everyday and the legendary Through most of history…
This book Bilal the Abyssinian One Light Many Colors outlines the history of Bilal ibn Rabah a former slave from Abyssinia who became a companion of the Prophet Islam elevated his status and the Prophet gave him the happy news of being destined for heaven in the life to come
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