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'This is an important book. It needs to be ... we are coming to realise that a life well lived might decently conclude with a death well and timely died' TERRY PRATCHETT'Impassioned and impressive' SUNDAY TIMES'A powerful, compassionate book' FT ON SUNDAY* * * * * *...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-01-21
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Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition -- storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking -- to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power of words,...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-10-13
ePub
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Meet Ethan Greenhart, committed eco-activist, ethicist and campaigner. In this must-have guide, Ethan answers some of today’s most pressing environmental dilemmas such as, ‘Is it ethical to watch sport?’, ‘Is it ethical to get into an ambulance?’ and crucially, ‘Is it...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2008-10-16
ePub
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Andrew grew up in the 1970s with his funny, loving but deeply unstable mother. Life with her was totally chaotic. She left him alone in motel rooms at night and took him with her when she went house burgling. But Andrew's mother wasn't bad, she was just lost herself and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2008-07-10
ePub
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This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2007-10-13
ePub
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*THE OUTRAGEOUS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*The classic Michael Lewis book that defined an era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune in London and New York, by the author of The Big Short and Going Infinite. What readers are saying about Liar's Poker:'Still has...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2006-06-05
ePub
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Anna grew up accepting that her parents were glamorous but mysterious figures, who had both died by the time she was seven. It was only when she was in her thirties that she discovered they had both committed suicide. As she began to search for the truth about her...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2006-05-08
ePub
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In the bestselling tradition of such family portraits as Brooke Hayward's Haywire and Christopher Dickey's Summer of Deliverance comes a disarmingly candid memoir from the youngest son of Martin Luther King, Jr.Dexter King was only seven when an assassin's bullet took...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2003-01-07
ePub
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Acclaim for Denis Brian's Einstein: A Life "The best account.... Superb insight." --The Times (London) "Denis Brian's convincing picture...only makes our wonder grow at Einstein's sublime achievements." --The Washington Post "Does much to reveal the man behind the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2002-07-01
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On The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors: "A well-written biography."-New York Times On Stanwyck: The Life and Times of Barbara Stanwyck: "Madsen's admirably researched, insightful portrait of her aloof nature . . . reveals she was always torn...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2002-02-28
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