Abroad With Mayor Walker: Being a Veritable Account of the Voyage, as Unof?cial Ambassador, of the Hon. James J. Walker, Mayor of New York, on His Hardworking Vacation to the Charming Cities of London, Dublin, Castlecomer, Berlin, Munich, Baden-Baden, the
by Hector Fuller
Now, more than ever, political journalists are central figures in the titanic struggles of modern history, not only telling us about events but also interpreting them and shaping our views. This engrossing book explores the relationship between journalism and politics in the twentieth century and tells the stories of the journalists-both good and bad-who have played major roles. Fred Inglis tracks the flamboyant biographies of giants of the genre, from the early newspapermen during the Russian...
A Trip to the Beach (Nova Audio Books)
by Melinda Blanchard and Robert Blanchard
Set on a beautiful Caribbean island, this is a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs and indelible portraits of the people who live and work there. The story begins when Bob and Melinda Blanchard sell their successful Vermont food business and decide, perhaps impulsively, to get away from it all. Why not open a beach bar and grill on Anguilla, their favourite Caribbean island? One thing leads to another and the little grill turns into an enchanting restaurant t...
If you like old movies, you'll enjoy this look into a late 1940s romance. Carlton and Dorothy flirted in high school near Glasgow KY, but their story starts after Carlton returns from the Navy and WWII, and Dorothy has moved to Louisville to study cosmetology. Put on some big band music and take a stroll back to 1946 - World War II is over, but sugar and paper are still rationed ...polio threatens people in all walks of life ...Britain's Queen Elizabeth is about to marry her Greek cousin Philip...
Reinhold Messner had the ideal childhood for a climber. Born in the South Tyrol under the shadow of the Geislerspitz of parents who took him on his first climb on the Sass Rigais at the age of five, he grew up loving and learning every metre of his native Dolomites, and honing on them the basic mountaineering skills which were to lead him to set himself the harder and harder challenges which in turn rolled back the frontiers of the possible for a whole generation of climbers. He describes his ea...
Dieses Werk zu Liebigs 200. Geburtstag setzt die Schwerpunkte auf Liebigs eigene Ausbildung und die von ihm entwickelte weitreichende Schule der Chemie. Viele seiner Schuler werden bedeutende Wissenschaftler, Hochschullehrer, wissenschaftliche Schriftsteller und Industriechemiker. Sie kommen nicht nur aus Deutschland sondern aus vielen Landern Europas, und sogar aus Nord- und Sudamerika. Anhand der veroeffentlichten Selbstzeugnisse Liebigs, seines umfangreichen Briefwechsels mit WOEHLER, BERZELI...
A husband's unflinching account of his wife's unravelling. How Linda Died is Frank Davey's powerful and painfully precise account of his wife's fight against an inoperable brain tumor. Linda's proud refusal to tell anyone about her deteriorating condition left Frank with few people to confide in. As Linda's mind fell victim to cancer, Frank took to recording his memories with increasingly compulsive and private intensity. He found himself reckoning with the demons of a past that Linda could no l...
The Hour of the Women
by Christian Graf Von Krockow and Christian von Krockow
Libussa Fritz-Krockow was forced to live by her wits to survive the harrowing final days of the Third Reich. As waves of invading Russian troops poured into the remote Eastern provinces, sealing them off from the West, all vestiges of order were swept away. Christian von Krockow has used his sister's experiences to write this narrative, written as though with Libussa's voice. The book tells how Libussa kept her baby and ageing parents alive by stealing vegetables from the Russian headquarters, h...