Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 323
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.42
Review First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-10-02
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.88
Review Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother / John Murray:
Creator: Terry Wogan
Publication date: 2006-10-23
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.31
Review A Different Journey / Sliabh Ban Productions Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-11-30
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.24
Review In Black and White: The Jake White Story / Zebra Press:
Publication date: 2008-10-17
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £19.95
Price: £11.53
Review "Oasis": A Year on the Road / Omnibus Press:
Publication date: 2008-02-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.06
Review If a Pirate I Must Be...: The True Story of Bartholomew Roberts - King of the Caribbean / Aurum Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-01-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.44
Review Wasted / Flamingo:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-09-02
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99
Review Audrey Hepburn, Elegant Spirit / Pan Books:
Authors
- Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho
Publication date: 1998-04-02
Dewey code: 294
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.14
Review Freedom in Exile: Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet / Abacus:The Dalai Lama's autobiography should leave no one in doubt of his humility and genuine compassion. Written without the slightest hint of pretence, the exiled leader of Tibet recounts his life, from the time he was whisked away from his home in 1939 at the age of four, to his escape from Tibet in 1959, to the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. The backdrop of the story is the 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet. We learn in calm detail of imprisonment, torture, rape, famine, ecological disaster and genocide that in under four decades of Chinese rule have left a million-and-a-quarter Tibetans dead and the Tibetan natural and religious landscapes decimated. Yet the Dalai Lama's story is strangely one of hope. This man who prays for four hours a day harbours no ill will toward the Chinese and sees the potential for good everywhere he casts his gaze. Someday, he hopes, all of Tibet will be a zone of peace and the world's largest nature preserve. Such optimism is not naive, but a result of his daily studies in Buddhist philosophy and his doctrine of Universal Responsibility. Inspiring in every way, Freedom in Exile is both a historical document and a fable of deepest trust in humanity. -Brian Bruya.
Authors
- Pip Leahy
- Richard Cavendish
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.98
Review Kings & Queens the Concise Guide: The Concise Guide / David & Charles:
Publication date: 2007-08-30
Dewey code: 796.33462092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.32
Review You'll Win Nothing with Kids: Fathers, Sons and Football / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 2005-07-07
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.99
Review Ugly Americans / Arrow Books Ltd:Ugly Americans documents the "Wild East" of the mid-1990s, where young, brilliant and hypercompetitive traders became "hedge fund cowboys", manipulating loopholes in an outdated and inefficient Asian financial system to rake in millions. Using a concept called arbitrage, they made their fortunes mainly on minute shifts in stocks being sold on the Nikkei, the Japanese stock market, collapsing banks and nearly bankrupting the Japanese economy in the process. Other schemes were also concocted, most of which were technically legal, though certainly unethical. This true story revolves around "John Malcolm", who, in exchange for anonymity, agreed to give Ben Mezrich all the access and information he needed to write this book. As a recent Princeton graduate in the mid-1990s, Malcolm accepted an undefined job offer from an American expatriate in Japan to work in the investments field. Though he had no prior experience, he facilitated 25 million dollars worth of trades on his first day on the job, and it just got more exciting from there. He soon joined a small group of expatriates, all in their 20s and mostly Ivy League graduates, who lived like rock stars, thriving on the stress and excitement of their jobs to create their own steroid versions of the American Dream half a world away. Mezrich tells this riveting story well, incorporating elements of the culture into his narrative, including the infamous and pervasive Japanese "Water Trade", or sex business, romantic intrigue and even run-ins with the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Though there is little real analysis of their financial dealings and how they ultimately changed the rules of finance in Asia, this entertaining page turner does offer a glimpse into a world little explored in print until now. -Shawn Carkonen, Amazon. [+]com.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-10-26
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.87
Review The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography / Penguin:
Publication date: 2008-11-15
RRP: £20.00
Price: £11.64
Review Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's Obsession / Amberley Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-05-05
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.42
Review Cass / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-10-14
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.23
Review Vet on the Loose / O'Brien Press Ltd:
Creator: Danny Glover
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2004-09-07
Dewey code: 960
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.40
Review A Long Walk to Freedom / Time Warner AudioBooks:The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the most trying circumstances-a spirit in which just about everybody can find something to admire. -Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2007-04-25
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.98
Review Digger's Diary: Tales from the Allotment / Aurum Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-06-26
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.90
Review Michael Schumacher: The Edge of Greatness / Headline:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2008-05-05
Dewey code: 796.75092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.14
Review Stalker! Chris Walker: The Autobiography / HarperSport:
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