Biography: adventurers and explorers Books
Bloomsbury Publishing Magic Moments
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Little, Brown & Company The Fixer
Book SynopsisA riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood''s most infamous private detective and fixer to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files. During the height of Hollywood''s golden age, one man lorded over the city''s lurid underbelly of forbidden sin and celebrity scandal like no other: Fred Otash. An ex-Marine turned L.A.P.D. vice cop, Otash became the most sought-after private detective and fixer to the stars by specializing in the dark arts that would soon dominate the entertainment industry. Otash was notorious for bugging the homes, offices, and playpens of movie stars, kingmakers, and powerful politicians, employing then state-of-the-art methods of electronic surveillance and wiretapping for a who''s who list of clients for whom he''d do anything short of murder. He lied to federal authorities to protect Frank Sinatra from criminal liability; recorded Roc
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Little, Brown & Company The Dissident
Book SynopsisTHE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin''s most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny''s name.There''s an old saying that Russia without corruption isn''t Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition. His stubborn insistence that Russians can defy the stereotype and create an entirely different country made him such a threat to Putin that the Kremlin wanted him exiled-or dead-and now seems intent on keeping him locked in a prison colony for decades. International correspondent David M. Herszenhorn, weaves together the threads of Navalny''s remarkable life and work:- The assassination attempt with a military-grade nerve agent by an FSB hit squad in Siberia, his recovery, and the vigilante-style investigation with news outlet Bellin
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Grand Central Publishing Independent
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Milkweed Editions Becoming Little Shell
Book SynopsisA People Magazine "Best New Book of the Month"A Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2024“I’m in awe of Chris La Tray’s storytelling. Becoming Little Shell creates a multilayered narrative from threads of personal, family, community, tribal, and national histories.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding SweetgrassGrowing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous people alluring, often recalling his grandmother’s consistent mention of their Chippewa heritage.When La Tray attended his grandfather’s funeral as a young man, he finally found himself surrounded by relatives who obviously were Indigenous. “Who were they?” he wondered, and “Why was I never allowed to know them?” Combining diligent research and compelling conversations with authors
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Visible Ink Press Latino Firsts
Book Synopsis Salute the Latino legends, pioneers, and trailblazers! Celebrate the Hispanic milestones, accomplishments, and victories! An inspiring exploration of groundbreaking individuals and pioneering events, Latino Firsts: Trailblazers and Milestones in United States History honors the an indelible mark Hispanics have made on American history and society. Featured are brigadier general Richard E. Cavazos, Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral, actress America Ferrera, playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Francisco Ayala, artist Jen-Michel Basquiat, weightlifter Sarah Elizabeth Robles, and more than a thousand other notable people and accomplishments, such as … Astronaut Frank Rubio (1975-) set he American record for the longest spaceflight of 371 days aboard the International Space Station Oscar Muñoz CEO of United Airlines; Roberto Goizueta, CEO of Coca-Cola Spanish-born philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952) was the first Latino philosopher and writer to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard Fashion designers Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera Film director/producer Eva Longoria was named USA Today’s Women of the Year in 2024 Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to set up settlements in Alaska and Canada’s Pacific Coast, at least twelve of them Cattle and ranching first introduced to Hawaii by Hispanic cowboys from the Southwest The first admiral of the US Navy, David Farragut, was the son of a Spaniard and a US Revolutionary War hero Spanish immigrant Rafael Guastavino, architect and designer, whose landmark designs include Grand Central Station, Carnegie Hall, the old Penn Station, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Many US laws are based on Hispanic-Mexican law, including family law (community property, common-law marriage, homestead law, adoption law) and water and land rights laws The recent changing of names for military bases from Confederate soldiers has resulted in the naming of Fort Hidalgo Before slavery was abolished in the United States, Latinos in Florida and Texas operated extensive “underground railroads” assisting escaped slaves to reach freedom in Hispanic Florida, Texas and Mexico Hernandez v. Texas, a 1964 Supreme Court case brought by Mexican American attorneys that desegregated juries, was a precedent for Brown v. Board of Education Astronaut Ellen Ochoa later served as the Director of NASA’s John Space Center Latinos from the Caribbean and Mexico introduced the cotton, cattle and sugar industries to the United States Virologist/bacteriologist Sarah Stewart, the first woman, and Latina, to earn a medical degree from Georgetown University Medical School, whose research showed that viruses can cause various types of cancer Carlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban doctor educated in Philadelphia, who discovered that yellow fever was spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito baseball players such as Roberto Clemente, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid ballplayer at the time multiple Oscar winners, including Anthony Quinn and Rita Moreno And thousands of other milestones and firsts! Milestones, victories and success are not always noticed when they happen. Sometimes an achievement is only recognized years later. Revel and rejoice in the renowned and lesser-known, barrier-breaking trailblazers in all fields—arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, invention, journalism, religion, science, sports, music, and more. Latino Firsts illuminates the rich and important history of Hispanic Americans!
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Trinity University Press,U.S. A Story of Stories
Book SynopsisOne afternoon in fall 2015 Cristina Devereaux Ramírez’s mother called and, with a tone of urgency in her voice, asked her to come to the house and take a look at something she had discovered when she was sorting through boxes in the attic. When Ramírez arrived, she found her family sifting through papers in an old vegetable box, reading some of the more than 750 pages of Spanish language poems, short stories, fables, and dichos Ramírez’s maternal grandmother, Ramona González, had written. Some pieces were works in progress, complete with word and phrase strikethroughs and handwritten notes in the margins, while others were neatly typed prose or what might have been final drafts. None of González’s writings had seen the outside of that box for decades, at least since 1995 when the family matriarch passed away. González—or Doña Ramona, as she was often called—was born in 1906 in the El Paso border barrio of Chihuahuita, sometimes referred to as the Ellis Island of the Southwest. Her writing celebrates the rich Mexican American culture of Chihuahuita, a neighborhood the National Trust for Historic Preservation identified in 2016 as one of America’s most endangered historic places. A mother, corner grocery store owner, published writer, and community activist, González was one of the few Tejanas profiled in Worthy Mothers of Texas, 1776-1976A Story of Stories from a Texas Border Barrio, Ramírez chronicles the life of her abuela with the care of a granddaughter and, with the eye of a scholar, analyzes selections from González’s work and its significance to El Paso history, Chicano literature, border barrio folklore, and cross-border civic movements in the mid-twentieth century.
£16.14
University of Iowa Press A Grotesque Animal
Book SynopsisAt the age of forty-three, Amy Lee Lillard learned she was autistic. She learned she was part of a community of unseen women who fell through the gaps due to medical bias and social stereotypes. A Grotesque Animal explores the making, unmaking, and making again of a woman with an undiagnosed disorder.
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The New Press Organizing America
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed author of A History of America in Ten Strikes, a sweeping account of the impact of organizers on United States historyWe are living through a tidal wave of protests and activism in America. These movements sometimes seem to spring from nowhere, but beneath them all is a deeper river of social change work known as organizing. Author of the celebrated A History of American in Ten Strikes (a Kirkus Reviews best book of 2018), Erik Loomis uncovers a rich and revealing history by turning to stories about key organizers throughout America’s past. In twenty short biographies, Organizing America shows how one movement has influenced another over time—and how the movement leaders’ personal histories influenced them toward changing the world. A chronological story with a vast sweep, Organizing America considers a cross section of social justice activists across time, race, gender, and movement, examining lives as varied as Benjamin Lay, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bob Moses, Saul Alinsky, Yuri Kochiyama, Harvey Milk, Alicia Garza, Bill McKibben, and many more. The result is a history of the United States viewed through some of its most important changemakers. With an introduction that explains what organizing is and how collective action works, Loomis sets a tone that is both practical and historical—providing context and inspiration for anyone seeking to step into the work of social change in America.
£18.89
Steiner Books Man with a Mission
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£38.24
Easton Studio Press Ahead of the Curve Andy Maguire in Congress and
Book SynopsisFrom the United Nations Security Council, through community organizing that changed the paradigm of municipal redevelopment, to the revolutionary post-Watergate Congress and his role spearheading new environmental, anti-cancer, and global vaccine health initiatives, Andy Maguire was on the front lines in seminal moments of recent American history.Ahead of the Curve is the riveting story of how Andy learned to accumulate power and leverage it for the public good. Andy’s terms in Congress coincided with the tumultuous times of the Israeli Six-Day War and the reform era of New York Mayor John Lindsay. After a successful unorthodox campaign in a staunch Republican district, he helped revive a hidebound House of Representatives and led an important new environmental movement there. Pacesetting international development work came next.
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Other Press LLC A Remarkable Man
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Casemate Publishers Sons of the Arghandab
Book SynopsisSons of the Arghandab tells the story of the 1-320th Field Artillery "Top Guns" Battalion, 101st Airborne, in the Arghandab Valley, 2010-2011.The Arghandab River Valley is known for its lush vegetation from its grape furrows and its pomegranate orchards. It's also known as the birthplace of several Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar and Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and was a major crossing route for weapons coming from Pakistan into Kandahar. This hostile environment had already claimed the lives of many seasoned Infantrymen. But the Top Guns weren''t infantrymen, they were artillerymen, deployed without their usual weapons and with minimal last-minute training, redesignated as "provisional infantrymen." Painstakingly researched by one of the Top Guns and told through the perspectives of the men who survived that terrible year, this is the harrowing story of Alpha, HHB, and Bravo Batteries as they undertook the challenges of an Artillery unit charged with an Infantry mission in the most hostile killing fields in Afghanistan.
£23.96
Casemate Publishers Standing Tall
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Forefront Books On My Way Back to You
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Pegasus Books The Witch of New York
Book SynopsisBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus.On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled b
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Milkweed Editions The Science of Last Things
Book Synopsis“Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder.”—Ada LimónIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith probes the raw edges of human existence, those periods of life in which our bodies remind us of our transience and the boundaries of the self dissolve.From the Old Testament to Maggie Nelson, these explorations are grounded in a rich network of associations. In an essay on the postpartum body, Wayland-Smith interweaves her experience as a mother with accounts of phantom limbs and Greek mythology to meditate on moments when pieces of our being exist outside our bodies. In order to comprehend diagnoses of depression and breast cancer, she delves into LA hippie culture’s love affair with crystals and Emily Dickinson
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Church Publishing Inc Witness to Belief
Book SynopsisA series of interviews with extraordinary people to explore the reasons for and impact of their faith in their lives.
£20.89
Encounter Books,USA Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Book SynopsisAngelo Codevilla, a towering intellect and prolific scholar, left an indelible mark on the study of political philosophy and the practice of American statecraft. An Italian immigrant, Codevilla embraced the American experiment with a fervent belief in its republican ideals. His academic journey took him to Rutgers, where his early promise in physics hinted at the analytical rigor he later applied to political philosophy. Pursuing his passion for understanding human governance, he earned a PhD under the legendary Leo Strauss at the Claremont Graduate School. A Naval officer and later a key figure on Capitol Hill, Codevilla seamlessly bridged the worlds of strategic policy and classical thought. His advocacy for missile defense during the Reagan Administration-a concept many deemed visionary-was matched only by his sharp critiques of the bipartisan political class. Codevilla's profound engagement with the writings of Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and America's Founders informed his incisive works, including The Character of Nations and America's Rise and Fall Among Nations. A translator of Machiavelli's The Prince and an unrelenting critic of technocratic governance, he inspired a generation of thinkers to confront uncomfortable truths about modernity and the American regime. This festschrift gathers the reflections of prominent scholars who honor Codevilla's enduring legacy and the clarity he brought to questions of liberty, strategy, and the fate of nations. Essential reading for students of history, politics, and statecraft, it celebrates a man whose insights continue to resonate in an age in search of wisdom.
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Octane Press Landings in America
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Seven Stories Press Pancho Villa
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Rare Bird Books Surviving the Odd
Book SynopsisSurviving the Odd is a rare and deeply personal glimpse into a childhood spent in the halls of one of California's first homes for the mentally ill. With humor and an unflinching eye, Candi recounts growing up amidst psychiatric patients, a father who ran the care home like a nightclub, and a world where madness and laughter often blurred together. As she navigates through the chaos, she unearths a story of resilience, love, and the determination to find her own voice amidst the clamor of mental illness and societal disregard in the Bay Area during the 1970s.This book is an unforgettable exploration of what it means to survive in a world that often feels on the edge, wrapped in the bittersweet absurdity of a life lived between punchlines and lithium prescriptions.
£21.00
She Writes Press Risk
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She Writes Press Persevere Survive Thrive
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She Writes Press Nineteen
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Amazon Publishing Hot Dog Money
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling author of War Dogs exposes the inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greatest scandal in the history of the NCAA.When the federal government catches hotshot financial adviser Louis Martin “Marty” Blazer defrauding his NFL-player clients, it’s time to come clean. He has no reasonable defense. What he has is a bigger story to spill to the feds—that of a multibillion-dollar conspiracy that exploits the most talented college athletes and implicates one of the most popular entertainment industries in the nation. The DOJ is listening, and the truth could literally set Marty free. All he has to do is prove that the NCAA is a vast ongoing scam.Sent undercover by the FBI, Marty infiltrates the innermost circles of college basketball, a high-flying world of Miami clubs, New York luxury suites, and Las Vegas back rooms. Over a period of three years, cover
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Simon & Schuster Drunkish
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay comes the hilariously candid and refreshingly honest account of Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's journey to breaking up with alcohol for good.
£14.24
Simon & Schuster A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Forbidden Experiment
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US Naval Institute Press Destroyers at War
Book SynopsisIn Destroyers at War Adm. James L. Holloway III, the twentieth Chief of Naval Operations, recalls his early life and service on destroyers during the final campaigns of the Pacific War in World War II. As the assistant gunnery officer in USS Ringgold (DD 500) and the gun boss on USS Bennion (DD 665), he took part in shore bombardment and anti-air radar picket missions during the assaults on Saipan, Tinian, Peleliu, and Leyte. He provides detailed explanations of how gunnery systems worked on small combatants as well as gripping accounts of combat events, including the climactic battle of Surigao Strait?the last battleship-vs-battleship clash in history?where a Bennion torpedo scored a fatal blow against the Japanese battleship Yamashiro. This book also explores the relationship between Holloway and his father, James L. Holloway Jr.?the only father-son combination to serve on active duty as four-star admirals?and highlights the senior Holloway?s career as his son worked his way through the ranks. Holloway will be one of the last members of the Greatest Generation to publish a firsthand account of World War II.
£24.29
Melville House Publishing Jimmy Carter The Last Interview
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NewSouth Publishing The House of Blue Glass
£20.89
Penguin Random House Australia The Outside
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Penguin Random House Australia MACCA
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ECW Press,Canada Just Call Me Andi
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ECW Press,Canada The Many Names of Robert Cree
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Douglas & McIntyre Searching for Franklin
Book SynopsisArctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage.This book, McGoogan’s sixth about Arctic exploration, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies, incorporates the latest discoveries, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Métis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion, starvation and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to t
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Douglas & McIntyre Just Say Yes
Book SynopsisBob McDonald, host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, offers a personal and inspiring memoir of life-changing events in his early years through five decades in science journalism. Revered science reporter and radio host Bob McDonald has devoted his career to turning our attention away from everyday perspectives and outward to the vast, intricate wonders of our planet and universe. Now, in this revealing and captivating memoir, he looks within, offering an intimate view of the path that brought him from a blue-collar background to his long-standing role as Canada’s foremost explainer of all things scientific.It’s an engrossing and often jubilant story that allows McDonald to share powerful insights on overcoming fear of failure and tackling life-transforming challenges. Early on, he describes a childhood and youth plagued by difficulties in school that eventually convinced him to drop out of university. Yet, despite the academic obstacles, his love of science burned bright. Soon, through an innate stage sense and sheer enthusiasm, he landed a gig doing high-spirited demonstrations for the public at the Ontario Science Centre, which in turn led to self-produced TV spots.And as each hard-won, never-certain success built on the last, he arrived at the role that would make him a national figure: the witty, engaging, passionately curious host of the perennially popular CBC Radio show Quirks and Quarks, reporting from the frontiers of scientific exploration and rubbing elbows with such luminaries as Chris Hadfield, Buzz Aldrin and Stephen Hawking. Told with all of McDonald’s trademark pace and humour, Just Say Yes is bound to please, surprise and inspire his numerous fans in entirely new ways.
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Talon Books,Canada My Turquoise Years
Book Synopsis**Twentieth anniversary edition of Farrant's beloved memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time**The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the era of the Three Stooges and the Red Menace, the apex of plastic, Arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal pushers, refrigerators, even cars. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant heard wild family stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led far away in Australia. Nancy''s world of riches and men seemed light years away from Cordova Bay on Vancouver Island, where Marion lived a working-class life with her aunt and uncle. But things changed the year she entered her teens. That year, Nancy threw everyone into a flurry with the surprise announcement that she was coming for a visit. This new edition of Farrant''s beloved memoir of her fourteenth summer, capturing a lost time and place with love and hilarity, includes five companion stories, an introduction by Lynne Van
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Colourpoint Creative Ltd We Fought on DDay
Book SynopsisIn 2003, eight Ulstermen some of the last surviving veterans of the 1944 D-Day invasion of France were interviewed for the film documentaryWe Fought on D-Dayby DoubleBand Films in Belfast. The author has been given access to previously-unseen interview material not aired in the original film. Delving into the veterans'' testimonies, he reveals previously-untold stories of courage, triumph and tragedy that were endured by a group of ordinary men who each played their part in the greatest invasion in history.In the process of unravelling these first-hand accounts, the author was confronted with dark truths and the depths of evil against which these men were pitched. And, tragically, he discovered how these men later felt forgotten by the nation they had vowed to serve. He unearthed vital details uncovering the fate of one soldier whose undocumented death had been forgotten. The author tells of how he tracked down the man's
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Merrion Press An Accidental Villain
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Scala Publishers Ltd Guinness A Family Succession
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Biteback Publishing The Spy Who Came in From the Circus
Book SynopsisIn this incredible true story, Christopher Andrew, former official historian of MI5 and bestselling author, in collaboration with ex-KGB officers, of histories of Russian intelligence, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating careers in British espionage.
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Biteback Publishing Red Queen
Book SynopsisMichael Ashcroft's new book follows the journey of a politician who has quickly become an outspoken and charismatic presence in British public life and who promises to be a lively addition to the government should Labour win the next general election.
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Bonnier Books Ltd Charles Wheeler Witness to the Twentieth Century
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Troubador Publishing A Working Woman
Book SynopsisA Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Stracheyis a traditional biography of a very untraditional woman. Tug-of-love child, Ward in Chancery, pamperedschoolgirl, pioneer car driver, would-be electrical engineer, triumphant suffragist, political lobbyist, historian, biographer, novelist, journalist, broadcaster, well-knownpublic figure, enthusiastic bricklayer, devoted mother, despairing stepmother, neglected wife: Ray Strachey was all of these and more. Bertrand Russell taught hermaths; John Maynard Keynes fell (a little) in love with her; Virginia Woolf was over-awed by her; Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Nancy Astor depended on her. Sheinspired admiration in men and gratitude close to worship in women.As a close colleague of Millicent Fawcett, Ray Strachey played a major, non-violent, role in gaining British women the vote in 1918. She was one of the first femaleParliamentary candidates, and became one of the leading feminists of the inter-war years, devoted in particular to improving employment opportunities for women. Abrilliant political lobbyist with an extraordinary range of contacts, she was also a celebrated author, journalist and broadcaster, still remembered for her classic historyof the Women's Movement,The Cause(1928). She achieved all this as a working mother with overwhelming family responsibilities and an unusual (some said eccentric)private life.Lavishly illustrated, this first full account of Ray Strachey's life is based on extensive research and draws heavily on her own lively and forthright comments on peopleand events. Interweaving her public roles with her challenging private life on the fringes of the Bloomsbury set, it features a host of well-known personalities, andintroduces a new generation of readers to a fascinating though neglected fighter for women's rights.
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Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Young Elizabeth
Book SynopsisElizabeth I is one of England’s most famous monarchs, whose story as the ‘Virgin Queen’ is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII’s younger daughter, who spent the majority of her early years as a girl with an uncertain future.This colourful and immensely detailed biography charts Elizabeth’s turbulent and unstable upbringing, from the Wyatt Rebellion - a plot to topple her half-sister, Mary, from her throne - to the predatory attentions of Sir Thomas Seymour and the heartbreaking rift with her beloved stepmother Katherine Parr. When Elizabeth became queen, she had already endured more tumult than many monarchs experienced in a lifetime, and this truly comprehensive account explores the dangers and tragedies that plagued her early life.Best-selling author Nicola Tallis draws on primary sources written by Elizabeth herself and her contemporaries, providing an extensive and thorough study of an exceptionally resilient youngster whose early life would shape the queen she later became. This is a nuanced, authentic and utterly gripping biography that throws new light onto the early life of this iconic monarch. The heart racing story of Elizabeth’s youth as she steered her way through perilous waters towards England’s throne is one of the most sensational of its time.
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Chronicle Books Life As We Know It Can Be
Book Synopsis Award-winning journalist and CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir takes readers through time and around our changing world to confront the biggest threats to life as we know it and search for proven ways to build happier, healthier, and more resilient communities, come what may.While reporting from every state and continent, and filming his acclaimed CNN Original Series, The Wonder List, Bill Weir has spent decades telling the stories of unique people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of change. And as the first Chief Climate Correspondent in network news, he is immersed in the latest scientific warnings and breakthroughs while often on the frontlines of disasters, natural and manmade. After the birth of his son in April 2020, Bill began distilling these experiences into a series of Earth Day letters for his boy to read in 2050, weaving the worry and wonder into a reminder to other anxious parents that they are not alone and a be
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