Publication date: 1996-10-07
Price: £20.00
Review The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2001-01-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £11.50
Price: £5.54
Review South Pole: 900 Miles on Foot / Horsdal & Schubart Publishers:
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 920
Price: £23.50
Review Comock: The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter Who Survived with His Family for Ten Years on an Otherwise Deserted Island, Returning to the Mainland Only by ... and Neighbors and Drawings Made by Them / McGill-Queen's University Press:
Publication date: 1998-07-02
Price: £14.99
Review Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts / Headline Review:This book collects Sainath's controversial column for the Times Of India about India's poorest districts-reporting what was shocking to many in India itself. Sickened by glossy lifestyle articles celebrating India's private schools, designer fashion and weight loss clinics, Sainath began a one-man mission to document what was really happening. He concentrated on Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Bihar's poorest communities, populated mainly by dalits (untouchables) and tribal minorities-people who often work 18 hours a day for one pound a month. The format is 800-word bulletins that tell it like it is. They are statistic-filled but easy to absorb and absolutely compelling. They reveal how poverty is compounded by corruption, incompetence, laziness, greed and stupidity. Instead of improving life, many government schemes/development programs only make the poorest poorer, while making corrupt politicians, land- owners and the complacent new middle class of Mumbai (Bombay) richer. Your jaw will drop at the revelations-callous contractors steal tribal lands, never paying compensation; doctors turn public hospitals into private clinics; schools are used as cow-sheds while teachers still claim wages; villages are used for target practice by the army and aid money is siphoned off by corrupt officials. Worst is the scandal of drought relief, rural India's biggest growth economy-drought often caused by racketeers selling water or the rich pumping it away for themselves. Forget spiritual texts. [+]Simultaneously fascinating and distressing, this is the book visitors to India should read. -Sarah Champion.
Publication date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99
Review Crisis Four / Bantam Press:
Edition: Large Print Ed
Publication date: 1998-06-01
Price: £16.99
Review Saved (Windsor Selections) / Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C:
Publication date: 2003-04-01
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £14.99
Price: £35.95
Review Risk in Being Alive: One Man's Adventures Across the Planet / Nomad Press:
Publication date: 1991-12-31
RRP: £6.99
Price: £7.00
Review Kurrah: An Australian POW in Changi / Slouch Hat Publications:
Publication date: 1992-01-01
Dewey code: 895.1352
Price: £14.50
Review Love on a Barren Mountain (Renditions Paperbacks) / Renditions Press:
Publication date: 2004-08-05
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.91
Review The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon / Doubleday:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-08-13
Dewey code: 362.19710092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.34
Review Just Breathe Normally (American Lives) (American Lives) / University of Nebraska Press:
Creator: Clint Willis
Edition: 1st ed
Publication date: 1998-12-06
Dewey code: 910.452
Review Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Adrenaline) / Thunder's Mouth, Balliett & Fitzgerald:
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 910.91634
RRP: £13.50
Price: £8.90
Review Titanic at Two A.M.: An Illustrated Narrative With Survivor Accounts.: Final Events Surrounding the Doomed Liner / Fantail,U.S.:
Publication date: 1995-08-15
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: £7.99
Review "Titanic" / Minerva Press:
Creator: Paul J Quinn
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 910.91634
RRP: £25.99
Price: £92.08
Review Dusk to Dawn: Survivor Accounts of the Last Night on the Titanic / Fantail,U.S.:
Edition: Large Print Ed
Publication date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £17.95
Price: £13.21
Review The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed / Harper Element:
Publication date: 2002-03-26
Dewey code: 796.522092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.97
Review The Hill / Rodale Press:
Authors
- Carol Maddocks
- Malcolm Stacey
- Dean Maddocks
RRP: £16.95
Price: £21.80
Review For the Love of Alice: The Inspiring Story of the Maddocks' Family Fight to Save Their Daughter / Robson Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-01-30
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.66
Review A Job with a Difference (Madrigal S.) / Stamford House Publishing:
Publication date: 1999-05-06
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.00
Review Fran's War / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
| Models & Brands:
The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity, South Pole: 900 Miles on Foot, Comock: The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter Who Survived with His Family for Ten Years on an Otherwise Deserted Island, Returning to the Mainland Only by ... and Neighbors and Drawings Made by Them, Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, Crisis Four, Saved (Windsor Selections), Risk in Being Alive: One Man's Adventures Across the Planet, Kurrah: An Australian POW in Changi, Love on a Barren Mountain (Renditions Paperbacks), The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon, Just Breathe Normally (American Lives) (American Lives), Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Adrenaline), Titanic at Two A.M.: An Illustrated Narrative With Survivor Accounts.: Final Events Surrounding the Doomed Liner, "Titanic", Dusk to Dawn: Survivor Accounts of the Last Night on the Titanic, The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed, The Hill, For the Love of Alice: The Inspiring Story of the Maddocks' Family Fight to Save Their Daughter, A Job with a Difference (Madrigal S.), Fran's War |
