Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, Hardcover - Keena Roberts

DescriptionKeena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Phil...

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From the events of his everyday life, Kashua brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and earless reflections on social and cultural dynam...

These essays share intimate stories of life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, p...

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Grey's Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist's charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state ...

Reducere. Predictability isn't a word you will find in any Bushveld dictionary, and the life of wildlife guardian Mario Cesare has been anything but. After y...

Reducere. Ed Sanders writes and draws out the pertenate points of Charles Olson's life and the times he lived in.Ed Sanders writes and draws out the pertenat...

An irresistibly moving, honest and often hilarious memoir about caring for your parents when you can barely care for yourself.Publisher: Pan Macmil...

As a teenager, desperate to escape the toxic environment at home, she fled to London - but was swiftly drawn into working as a prostitute. She beca...

The true story of one woman's battle for justice after a childhood of hell.Publisher: John Blake Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Linda Watson-BrownNumber ...

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Michael 'Nick' Nichols has for decades created powerful and eloquent images of iconic wildlife species. His vision is to stir the emotions of viewe...

Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. THE BUTTON THIEF OF EAST 14TH STREET: SCENES FROM A LIFE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE 1927-1957 is Fay Webern's mast...

An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reportersPublisher: Ya...

The follow-up to Motherfocloir, exploring the Irish language, both the very old and the very new. Craic Baby hinges on how watching a child learn t...

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel t...

Offers an anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language non-fiction writing from the city's inception to the pr...

The future of the world's ice is at a critical juncture marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers...

Reducere. In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the m...

DescriptionWhen trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties, it can be deeply irritating to be asked to consider our childhoods. They ha...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reports from America's political crisis, exposing a new "iconopolitics, " in which words and images lose their connection to reality.The political ...

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An official companion book to From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 4's flagship foreign affairs programme.

An official companion book to From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 4's flagship foreign affairs programmePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): ...

Acclaimed headmaster Mike Fairclough reveals how reconnecting with the fearlessness and playfulness of childhood will help you on the path to ultim...

Reducere. Mike Fairclough shows why embracing childhood traits into adulthood can lead to true happiness. Acclaimed headmaster Mike Fairclough reveals how re...

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Reducere. In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-insp...

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Reducere. The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars ...

Reducere. Jack Whitman was born and raised in the mountains of central Idaho. In 1981, he migrated north to Alaska, where he worked for nearly three decades ...

Reducere. In a scathingly funny account of his time in the Washington swamp, Florida firebrand Matt Gaetz, one of President Trump's key supporters in Congres...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ian McMillanNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 198 x 20Cover type: Hardback...

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Reducere. Thank Your Wicked Parents has at its core a shocking but undeniable truth: Some parents are wicked and repeatedly lash their helpless children with...

Reducere. As a young girl, Suzi Eszterhas knew she wanted to be a wildlife photographer. But how did she go from snapping pictures of cats in her backyard to...

Thrilling adventures in wildlife conservation from "the Indiana Jones of Biology" (Entrepreneur) Very few individuals can truthfully say that their...

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After leaving Nazi Germany in 1936, the actor now known as Anton Walbrook settled in Britain, where he starred in lavish biopics of Queen Victoria ...

Publisher: Mount Orleans PressAuthor(s): Peter UptonIllustration(s): 130 b/w line drawingsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 237...