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As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma's unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents' distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of he...

PROD LAUNCH/PROG MEET 5/12/84 AGREED--4000(INC PENG.AUST.)X72PX$4.95. B FORMAT.448PP.OFFSET PENG.AUST EDITION. REFORMS, BECOMING A FOLK HERO & THE FIRST MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN OF HIS TIME. IN THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION HE LED THE WORKERS OF WESTERNS WORLD IN OPPOSITION TO ATMOSPHERIC TESTING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE PACIFIC, AND WAS ACCLAIMED AS A FIGHTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - AND, CHAMPION OF HIS GREAT LOVE, ISRAEL.HAWKE'S DEVOTION OT ISRAEL NEARLY DESTROYED HIS CAREER. WHILE HE WAS P...

Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and t...

Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane revelations, the Moriarty Tribunal investigation into payments to politicians, the McCracken Tribunal, etc.; In this revised edition of Fallen Idol, Ryle Dwyer updates the scandals and delivers his conclusions on the Haughey Years.; Lively, succinct, opinionat...

In his diary, Dariel Alarcon Ramirez, better known as Benigno, one of only three Cubans to survive Che Guevara's doomed final battles in Bolivia, recounts his relationship with Guevara and the Argentine revolutionary's final days.

Among the Second Series of "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson", this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable curiosity.

For an insider's take on the last eighty years in Minnesota history, sit down with Tom H. Swain's memoir. It is a personal look at the people and events that shaped the state's history, written by a civic and business leader-and a true public servant-with a genuine knack for telling a story. From business to athletics, politics to education, Swain is a key player. He's been a mayor, a University of Minnesota vice president, a chief of staff to former Minnesota governor Elmer L. Andersen, and a m...

After his victory at the Presidential elections in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy quickly became both deeply controversial and intriguing. It was clear from the start that his rule was to be the most autocratic since Charles de Gaulle's; Prime Minister, government and parliament found themselves eclipsed by the ever-present, hyperactive President who sought to take many decisions on his own and to implement changes in numerous different domains, but with no obvious overall plan. His sweeping reform p...

To many Australians, Bob Brown remains a beacon of hope hope for a better environment, hope for a more compassionate Australia, hope for a better world. Bob Brown Gentle revolutionary is a candid, compelling and very personal account of the man who took the Greens from the political wilderness into the political mainstream and redefined Australian politics along the way. It is a journey that has been anything but easy.In this first full biography of the person seen by many as the honest face of...

MARGARET THATCHER is one of the towering politicians of the twentieth century. In terms of influence and recognition, she ranks with Winston Churchill, and remains probably the most important British leader for fifty years. She opened up the She was a formidable and largely self-trained orator and this volume collects together her greatest and most famous speeches, alongside some of her most memorable quotes, as well as the cream of her interviews.