From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: W...więcej »
Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Free...więcej »
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation net...więcej »
On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their country. This anth...więcej »
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revol...więcej »
"Why are people looking for escape in movies? . . . Because it's . . . a form of recapturing not a 'childish' impulse, but a way of looking at the world as if it were fresh and interesting."
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The Void Between WordsShame and inadequacy were an intrinsic part of growing up in the 1970s with dyslexia. Self-doubt and high anxiety cast long shadows over a boy ...więcej »
My journals over the years produced publication for two books. The first book was The Memoir of a Schizophrenic.It offers a glimpse into the life and struggles before the world learned wh...więcej »
'This book is about one of my all-time heroes, Mr Nelson Riddle. It makes for fascinating reading and I am enjoying it very much.' SIR MICHAEL PARKINSONNELSON RIDDLE was possibly the grea...więcej »
A condottiero, nobleman, politician and cardinal, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history's great quest...więcej »
Conversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil B...więcej »
A moving account of a child's removal from family and his institutionalised growing up in Australia, interwoven with a fascinating vignette of his father's life - from enlistment in WWI to his t...więcej »
In this book, one of the greatest scientific minds to have ever lived, Nikola Tesla, presents his life story. Although titled My Inventions, it goes beyond his scientific achievements and recoun...więcej »
This is more than the author's memoir of his participation in Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Desert Calm, as a member of the 42nd Field Artillery Brigade in 1990-91. Bill Cain provides background ...więcej »
Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africa's greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear to live in a leadership vacuum.
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This book is dedicated to the bush pilot's wives. Women were part of the exciting bush flying. Women worked alongside their men and endured the same hardships. They laughed, loved, and gave birt...więcej »
"This band should carry a Government health warning!" Michael Black, London Impresario.Vividly and vibrantly brought to life, the story of one boy's...więcej »