In 1901, the young Winnifred Eaton arrived in New York City with literary ambitions, journalistic experience, and the manuscript for A Japanese Nightingale, the novel that would sell many thousands of copies and make her famous. Hers is a real Horatio Alger story, with fascinating added dimensions of race and gender. While commercially successful ......
Panama, December 1989: a Soldier's Eyewitness Account
Who is the enemy? Who is an innocent bystander? When can I use force and how much force should I use? The answers to these questions vary according to the role of the soldier and the rules of engagement under which he is operating at a particular time and in a particular place on the battlefield. We owe the American solder, who for future ......
The stories of expatriates in Hong Kong the most dynamic, dramatic and diverse city in the Asia-Pacific region come to life in this book. Why did they come? Why do they stay? How did Hong Kong change them and their view of the world? What did they gain and what did they lose? Human beings are on the move, driven by economic globalisation, ......
North West Australia - in the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly known as the King Leopold Ranges between 1879 and 2020, is the setting for the story of Aboriginal leader Jandamarra and his fight again white invasion of his country. As the Sydney Morning Herald wrote in 1952:Jandamarra, who was also known as Pigeon, had been a blacktracker of ......
How to Stay Sane, Calm the Chaos, and Live One Step Ahead of Your Most I
If you?ave ever gotten dirty looks from strangers for parking in a handicapped spot without a wheelchair, if your life involves more doctors?a visits than dates, if the word hypochondriac sparks a deep and primal rage, Ilana Jacqueline has some words of advice. Don?at worry, you?ave got this. In Outsmarting Chronic Illness, Jacqueline shares the ......
Idriess joins a North West Mounted Patrol in the early 1930s, and travels inremotre area of Western Australia where there are only a dozen wite families, and many wild Aboriginals. In this illustrated bestseller from 1937, he looks at the problems for both black and white.
Barfield towers above us all... the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers. - C.S. Lewis --- We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting.
Paper Paradise: Do what you want to do is a roller coaster ride through the sex, drugs and rock and roll of the ’60s and ’70s to the high-flying business world of the ’80s and into the ’90s and beyond—with someone who lived it all.
