Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2001-09-03
Dewey code: 940.5318092243
Price: £9.99
Review The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2004-09-08
RRP: £32.50
Price: £29.25
Review German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann: The Life Story of the World's Highest Scoring Ace / Schiffer Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-07
Dewey code: 364.135
RRP: £7.95
Price: £4.52
Review Blackbeard the Pirate: A Reappraisal of His Life and Times / John F Blair Publisher:
Publication date: 2009-04-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.99
Review Fifty Dead Men Walking / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-09-30
Dewey code: 921
RRP: £17.99
Price: £17.98
Review Kiwi Spitfire Ace: A Gripping World War Two Story of Action, Captivity and Freedom / Grub Street:
Publication date: 2004-09-16
Dewey code: 943
RRP: £32.00
Price: £30.27
Review Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2008-05-22
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.72
Review Nicolae Ceausescu - The Genius of the Carpathians (Biography) / Filiquarian Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-05-06
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.95
Review The Mottled Lizard / Pimlico:This is the sequel to Huxley's wonderful first volume of Kenyan memoirs, The Flame Trees of Thika. Returning to her beloved Africa after the First World War, she, Tilly and Robin set about clearing the overgrown estate and getting it back in working order again. The flame trees have grown wild and the coffee bushes have almost disappeared, so there is much to do. There is a poignancy in the loss of old friends, but a renewed delight in the sights, sounds and smells of the country: the aroma of frangipani trees and dried cowdung, the flat-topped acacias shimmering in the heat of the plains, the herds of lyre-horned impala. Huxley can be achingly romantic and passionate about the things she truly cares about and fears are disappearing: the wildlife, the indigenous peoples, the beauty of Africa itself. Or she can be a fine comic writer, hilariously insouciant about things like an outbreak of bubonic plague on the boat out, for instance, pausing in the Red Sea to dump the corpses overboard. Or the incident with the exploding marmalade in the bathroom. (You'll have to read it for yourself. ) All in all, its the same heady mix that made Flame Trees of Thika such a superb book, in turns dazzlingly beautiful and preposterously funny. -Christopher Hart.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2008-10-06
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.59
Review My Story: My Life in the Bear Pit / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 1998-08-01
Dewey code: 941.1072092
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.42
Review The Gentle Lochiel: The Cameron Chief and Bonnie Prince Charlie (Scots' Lives) / NMSE - Publishing Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-10-29
Dewey code: 338.76292095195
RRP: £24.99
Price: £20.84
Review Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai / Routledge:Just a few decades ago, South Korea was an agrarian country, a backwater of international business. The average lifespan was 47 years, the average annual income less than a hundred dollars a year. By the end of the 20th century, Korea had risen to become the world's 11th-largest economy, the eighth largest trading partner of the U. S. and a global leader in construction, semiconductors, shipbuilding and steel production. Steers, a University of Oregon business professor who has written two previous books on Korean business issues, believes that a big part of that country's rise is good old fashioned entrepreneurship. What Americans admire so much about Bill Gates and Phil Knight-the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to back down-is actually found all over the world. In Korea, it's best personified by Chung Ju Yung, who created Hyundai Business Group. By the time Chung retired in 1991, Hyundai accounted for 16 percent of Korea's gross domestic product and 12 percent of its total exports. Chung founded Hyundai (it means "modern" in Korean) in 1946 as a car-repair company, then quickly moved into the construction business. [+]He became the U. S. army's favourite contractor during the Korean War and after the war expanded Hyundai's ventures to include electronics, shipbuilding, oil refining, securities and investments and automobiles. Almost any businessman can draw lessons from Chung's success. Some of his management tactics would be considered extreme today-he once hiked through the woods in the middle of the night, waking up workers at a construction site to check on their progress-but his ability to seize business opportunities, forge alliances with the prevailing powers and deliver upon promises made is certainly inspirational. -Lou Schuler, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2004-09-01
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £12.95
Price: £7.99
Review Oliver Cromwell: British Library Historic Lives / British Library Publishing Division:
Authors
- Brian Clegg
- National Academy of Sciences
Dewey code: 778.53092
Price: £14.99
Review The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge, Father of the Motion Picture, Pioneer of Photography, Murderer: The Illuminating ... Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer / National Academy Press:
Publication date: 2004-08-19
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.65
Review Pepys's Later Diaries / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-10
Dewey code: 791.43092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £18.62
Review Walt Disney; Triumph of the American Imagination / Random House USA Inc:
Publication date: 2008-03-06
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.94
Review Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-10-21
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.91
Review Queen Victoria (Pocket Biographies) / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-09-01
Dewey code: 947.083092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.02
Review To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin / The History Press LTD:
Creator: Martin Gilbert
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-05-03
Dewey code: 941.082092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.98
Review Winston Churchill: Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War / Conway Maritime Press Ltd:
Authors
- Pamela Keogh Clarke
- Pamela Clark Keogh
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 973.922092
Price: £29.31
Review Jackie Style / HarperCollins:
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