Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-09-09
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £9.74
Price: £4.39
Review Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan / Vintage Books USA:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-06-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.87
Review Josephine Butler / Hambledon Continuum:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2008-12-23
Dewey code: 323.092
RRP: £13.00
Price: £9.10
Review Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin / Chicago University Press:
Authors
- Sally Jenkins
- Lance Armstrong
Publication date: 2004-07-31
Dewey code: 796.62092
Price: £7.73
Review Every Second Counts / Broadway Books:In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (coauthored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice. " While he is talking here about his preparation for what would prove to be his second consecutive Tour de France victory in 2000, the sentiment could equally be applied to the book itself. And just as Armstrong managed to repeat his incredible 1999 tour victory, Every Second Counts repeats-and, in some ways exceeds—the success of his bestselling first memoir, It's Not About the Bike. Every Second Counts confronts the challenge of moving beyond his cancer experience, his first Tour victory and his celebrity status. Few of Armstrong's readers will ever compete in the Tour de France (though cyclists will relish Armstrong's detailed recounting of his 2000-2003 tour victories), but all will relate to his discussions of loss and disappointment in his personal and professional life since 1999. They will relate to his battles with petty bureaucracies, such as the French court system during the doping scandal that almost halted his career. And they will especially relate to constant struggles with work/life balance. In the face of September 11-which arrives halfway through the narrative (just before the fifth anniversary of his diagnosis)-Armstrong draws from his experiences to show that suffering, fear and death are the essential human condition. In so openly using his own life to illustrate how to face this reality, he proves that he truly is a hero-and not just because of the bike. In Every Second Counts he is to be admired as a human being, a man who sees every day as a challenge to live richly and well, no matter what hardships may come. [+]-Patrick O'Kelley, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2000-12-29
Dewey code: 780.92
RRP: £60.00
Price: £22.61
Review The Music of John Ireland / Ashgate:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 796.522092
Price: £12.00
Review Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See / Plume Books:
Publication date: 1984-08
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £13.00
Review The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory / William Morrow & Co:Best-selling author Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soul mates in this modern-day fairy tale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. "This is a story about a knight who was dying, and the princess who saved his life", Bach writes in his opening greeting. "It's a story about beauty and beasts and spells and fortresses, about death-powers that seem and life-powers that are". Yes, it is all that, and more. On the earthly plane this is about the riveting love affair between two fully human people who are willing to explore time travel and other dimensions together even as they grapple with the earthly struggles of intimacy, commitment, smothering and whose turn it is to cook. Their love affair and happy ending inspired many enthusiastic fans. Years later, some of these fans were devastated to discover that this match made in heaven didn't manage to stick (the couple are no longer together). Bach explains that lovers don't have to stay married forever in order to be lifetime soul mates. Read this as a lesson about love's enchantments and possibilities, but don't count on this book to keep you and your mate on the bridge across forever. -Gail Hudson.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-01
Price: £6.99
Review A Man Named Dave / Orion mass market paperback:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 578.770922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.59
Review Reflections on a Summer Sea / Arrow Books Ltd:Trevor Norton's Reflections on a Summer Sea is partly his scientific autobiography and partly the scientific biography of a remarkable tidal inlet from the Atlantic. Professor of marine biology at the University of Liverpool, Norton cut his teeth as a young research student in the mid-1960s at Lough Ine, a small sea loch in county Cork, Ireland. Since 1923 Lough Ine has been probed and prodded by countless generations of students from Ireland and Britain who have counted, identified and wondered about the extraordinary diversity of life that inhabits it. Their published results have made Lough Ine famous amongst ecologists and marine biologists the world over. Reflections on a Summer Sea provides a wonderful evocation of this little corner of Ireland, the scientists who have worked there and how it has changed over the decades. Norton writes with ease and charm and a particular familiarity engendered over many years. Ireland and the Irish tend to lure the English into an overly romantic and nostalgic paternalism which Norton generally manages to keep at bay. He is aware of "the harsh unyielding land that wears a man down and into an early grave in soil too shallow to dig". But his constant obsevations of quaint advertisements "Cahirsiveen Gun Club-Shooting Strictly Prohibited" still add a pervasive note of whimsy. Norton remarks on the efforts of Jack Kitching, one of the founders of the research station, to maintain the spirit of the 1950s, "when joints were for carving not smoking , when students were 'good chaps' and 'grand girls'", who were "content to Swallows-and-Amazons away their summers". [+]Here he hits just the right note and his true story could well be about what Arthur Ransome's young heroes got up to when they went to university. A good read for all natural scientists of a certain age and fans of Arthur Ransome. -Douglas Palmer.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1993-12-31
Dewey code: 941.085092
Price: £3.90
Review Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage / Bantam USA:
Publication date: 2004-05-11
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.78
Review Working with the Dead / iUniverse.com:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes / Hachette Books Ireland:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-06-28
Dewey code: 955.053092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.49
Review Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran / Three Rivers Press:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2008-08-27
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.91
Review Dolly and Ted / Vanguard Press:
Publication date: 2002-09-02
Dewey code: 920
Price: £5.99
Review My Hungry Hell: What it's Really Like to be Anorexic - A Personal Story: What It's Really Like to Be Anorexic - A Personal Story / Short Books, London:
Publication date: 2004-06-21
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £7.95
Price: £0.01
Review Sally: Face Like a Flower / Dent Dale Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-09
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.17
Review This is Charlie Bird / Gill & Macmillan Ltd:
Authors
- M. D. Brian Weiss
- Brian L. Weiss
Dewey code: 133.9013
Price: £11.04
Review Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives / Grand Central Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-10-15
RRP: £6.95
Price: £5.35
Review The Life of Olaudah Equiano / Cosimo Classics:
Authors
- Annette Gordon-Reed
- Vernon Jordan
Dewey code: 323.092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £22.27
Review Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir / PublicAffairs,U.S.:
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