- Romane/Erzählungen/Biographien
Novels/Biographies
Achebe Chinua, Things Fall Apart,
Macmillan, ISBN 0-435-27246-2, 96 pages, 2002
Okonkwo was one of the greatest men in the village of
Umuofia. But then the Europeans came and they changed
Umuofia. They destroyed the old life. They destroyed Okonkwo
too. And he was buried like a dog.
Ackroyd Peter, Milton in America,
Vintage, ISBN 0-7493-8625-8, 276 pages, 1997
What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the
King's return to London, had decided to flee England in
order to avoid imprisonment or death. What if he had crossed
the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New
England?
Adams Douglas, The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, Pan Books, ISBN 0-330-25864-8, 180
pages, 1979
On Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished
to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent,
who has only just had his house demolished that morning,
this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly,
however, the weekend has only just begun.
The other books in the trilogy are:
The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe, 0-330-49121-0
Life, the Universe and everthing, 0-330-49120-2
So long, and Thanks fo all the Fish,
0-330-49123-7
Mostly Harmless, 0-330-49122-9
Alexander Caroline, The Endurance,
Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-4670-3, 210 pages, 1999
In August 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of
twenty-seven set sail aboard the Endurance bound for the
South Atlantic-their goal to be the first explorers ever to
cross Antarctica.
Ambler Eric, A Coffin for
Dimitrios, Vintage, ISBN 0-375-72671-3, 304 pages, 2001
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles
Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries,
into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers.
At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the
notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an
Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a
shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and
treachery that spans the Balkans.
Amburn Ellis, Elizabeth Taylor,
Robson Books, ISBN 1-86105-369-X, 350 pages, 2000
Frequently the target of scandalous tabloid headlines,
Elizabeth Taylor's love affairs and failed marriages have
captured the attention of the world's press for almost half
a century. Just when we thought we knew everything about
this screen siren, Ellis Amburn blows the lid off some of
Hollywood's best kept secrects.
Andrew Christopher/Mitrokhin
Vasili, Mitrokhin Archive, Penguin, ISBN 0-713-99358-8,
900 pages, 1999
Mitrokhin, a secret dissident, spent over a decade noting
and copying highly classified files, which at enormous
personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and
kept beneath his dacha floor. Mitrokhin's archive, which
extends from the Lenin era to the 1980s, have been described
by the FBI as 'the most complete and extensive intelligence
ever received from any source'.
Armstrong Lance, It's Not About
the Bike, My Journey Back to Life, Yellow Jersey Press, ISBN
0-224-06087-2, 294 pages, 2001
At twenty-four, Lance Armstrong was already well on his way
to becoming a sporting legend. Then, in October 1996, he was
diagnosed with stage four testicular cancer-doctors gave him
a 40 % chance of survival. On that day Armstrong's life
changed for ever and in typical fashion he met the challenge
head on-this was one fight he was determined not to
lose.
Assouline Pierre, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, a Biography, Thames & Hudson, ISBN
0-500-51223-X, 280 pages, 2005
The twentieth century was that of the image, and the
legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in 1908,
was the eye of the century. His life story and the
interpretation of his work reveal first and foremost the
history of a vision.
Auster Paul, Timbuktu, Faber and
Faber, ISBN 0-571-20104-0, 227 pages, 1999
Mr Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G.
Christmas, the brilliant, troubled and altogether original
poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
before them, they sally forth on a last great
adventure.
Auster Paul, The New York Trilogy,
Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-20058-3, 314 pages, 1988
This is the ultimate postmodern thriller-a series of
brilliant variations upon the classic detective story. The
stories: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Baiev Khassan, The Oath - A
Surgeon under Fire, Simon & Schuster, ISBN
0-7432-2011-0, 354 pages, 2003
My country is a medical disaster area, and I cannot rest
until I return. But I know I can't go home again - at least
not yet - not while Russian troops and a few Chechen
extremists are pursuing me. The Kremlin called me a
terrorist doctor because I treated Chechen freedom
fighters.
Ballard Robert D., Titanic,
Tessloff, ISBN 3-7886-0135-3, 1988
Im Juli 1986 tauchen Robert Ballard und zwei Mitglieder
seiner Mannschaft in ihrem winzigen U-Boot etwa 4'000 m tief
zum Meeresboden hinab. Ein Jahr zuvor hatten sie das Wrack
der Titanic geortet. Nun wollen sie sich den gesunkenen
Ozeanriesen genauer anschauen.
Barnes Julian, Love, etc, Jonathan
Cape, ISBN 0-224-06109-7, 250 pages, 2000
In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits Stuart, Gillian and
Oliver, using the same intimate technique of allowing the
characters to speak directly to the reader. Darker and
deeper than its predecessor, Love, etc is a compelling
exploration of contemporary love and its
betrayals.
Barry Max, Jennifer Government,
Abacus, ISBN 0-349-11762-4, 336 pages, 2003
In the future, the world will be run by giant American
corporations. Everybody will be so happy, tax-free and rich
that they will change their name to that of their
company.
Bass Thomas A. , The Newtonian
Casino, Penguin, IBSN 0-14-014593-1, 328 pages,
1990
All they needed was a computer complex enough to fit in the
sole of a shoe. Spurred on by idealism and
single-mindedness, they held wild Hallowe'en parties,
discovered chaos theory and came of age while working on
their plan to beat the bank.
Beckett Simon, The Chemistry of
Death, Bantam Press, ISBN 0-593-05521-7, 331 pages, 2006
When the bizzarrely mutilated body of a young woman is found
near the isolated Norfolk village of Manham, it isn't just
the fact she was a friend that disturbs Dr David Hunter.
Once a high-profile forensic anthropologist, he was all too
familiar with the different faces of death, until a
devastating personal tragedy caused him to turn his back on
that life and career.
Bellow Saul, Seize the Day,
Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-118485-X, 118 pages,
1996
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm reached his day of reckoning
and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish
impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he
is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his
vain, successful father, failed in his acting career and in
a financial mess.
Boot Chris, Magnum Stories,
Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4245-1, 510 pages, 2004
Magnum Photos is the world's pre-eminent agency for
documentary photographers. Founded in 1947 by Robert Capa,
George Rodger, David Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson, it
was created to allow its members the freedom to be
independent of the restrictions of commercial
photojournalism.
Borovik Artyom, The Hidden War, A
Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in
Afghanistan, Grove Press, ISBN 978-0-8021-3775-3, 288 pages,
1990
Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one
of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With this book he
provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet
military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror,
helpnessless, and despair at waging war in a foreign land
against an unseen enemy for unclear purposes.
Bowden Mark,
Black Hawk Down, Corgi Books, ISBN
978-0-552-99965-6, 570 pages, 2000
Authoritative, gripping and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a
heart-stopping, minute-by-minute account of modern war and
is destined to become a classic of war reporting.
Bowden Mark,
Guests of the Ayatollah, Atlantic Books
London, ISBN 978-1-84354-496-8, 680 pages, 2007
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers adducted 66
American diplomats and citizens and held them in Theran for
444 days in what would become known as the Iranian Hostage
Crisis. It marked the birth of radical Islam and the
beginning of the West's conflict with the militant
Islam.
Boyle T. C., A Friend of the
Earth, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-4753-X, 275 pages, 2000
It's 2025. Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a
bleak living in southern California, managing a pop-star's
private menagerie, holding some of the last surviving
animals in the world. Global warming is a
reality.
Bragg Rick, I'm a Soldier, Too;
The Jessica Lynch Story, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN
1-4000-4257-7, 208 pages, 2003
This is the story this country has hungered for, as told by
Lynch herself to Rick Bragg. In it she tells what really
happened in the hospital; what really happened in the
ambush; what really happened, from her perspective, on the
night of the rescue.
O'Brian Patrick, Master &
Commander, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-649915-5, 402 pages,
2002
The first in Patrick O'Brians now famous Aubrey-Maturin
novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of
historical novels ever written It establishes the friendship
between Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who becomes
his secretive ship's surgeon and a secret agent.
O'Brian Patrick, HMS Surprise,
Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-649917-1, 362 pages, 2002
It follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's
career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground
against admirals, colleagues and the enemy.
O'Brian Patrick, Post Captain,
Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-649916-3, 474 pages, 2002
The second in Patrick O'Brians much loved Aubrey-Maturin
series of novels, begins with Jack Aubrey returning to an
England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens.
Brickhill Paul, The Great Escape,
Cassell, ISBN 0-304-35687-5, 264 pages, 1951
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The
Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German
prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an
extraordinarily daring break-out. Made famous by the
Hollywood film of the same name.
Brontë Anne, The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall, Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283462-2,
470 pages, 1848
Helen Huntingdon leaves her dissolute husband in order to
earn her own living and rescue her son from his influence. A
passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions
supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in
circulating-library fiction, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is
compelling in its imaginative power, in the bold naturalism
of its central scenes, the realism and range of its
dialogue.
Brontë Anne, Agnes Grey,
Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283478-9, 211 pages,
1998
Drawing directly on her own experiences as a governess, Anne
Brontë set out to describe the almost unbelievable
pressures that the governess's life involved - the
isolation, the frustration, the insensitive and sometimes
actively cruel treatment on the part of employers and their
families.
Brontë Charlotte, Shirley,
Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283378-2, 680 pages
Set in yorkshire durng the period of the Napoleonic Wars,
the novel articulates the social realities of economic
hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the
government and an inadequate Church.
Brontë Charlotte, Jane Eyre,
Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283965-9, 488 pages,
2000
Jane Eyre is a novel of passion - of anger, defiance, and of
overwhelming desire. No novel, before or since, has caught
so precisely the complex emotions of childhood, where
feelings of powerlessness can mix with rage, and a bitter
sense of injustice.
Brontë Emily, Wuthering
Heights,, Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283354-5, 372
pages, 1995
The haunting intensity of Catherine Earnshaw's attachment to
Heathcliff is the focus of a novel in which relations
between men and women are described with an emotional and
imaginative power unparalleled in English
fiction.
Brookmyre Christopher, Quite Ugly
one Morning, Abacus, ISBN 0-349-10885-4, 214 pages, 1997
A nightmare of frightening plausibility, quite ugly one
morning is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller,
full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both
reputed and shell-suited
Brookner Anita, Hotel du Lac,
Penguin, ISBN 014-01-4747-0, 184 pages, 1993
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel dur Lac timidly
walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest
dreams. Exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her
friends, Edith has refused to sacrifice her ideals and
remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and
minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to
escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is
renewed.
Brookner Anita, The Bay of Angels,
Penguin, ISBN 0-141-00427-4, 217 pages, 2001
Zoë ist delighted when her widowed mother marries
Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice.
However, the long, enchanted visits to France she enjoys
come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad
fall.
Brooks Kevin, Being, Penguin
Books, ISBN 978-0-141-31910-0, 325 pages
'A gut-wrenching thriller ... so powerfully evocative that
it is like sitting in a private cinema of the mind.'
Telegraph
Brooks Kevin, Black Rabbit Summer,
Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-141-31911-7, 438 pages, 2008
'Black Rabbit Summer is a potent cocktail. Brooks is a
masterly writer, and this book would put many authors of
"grown up" detective fiction to shame.' Louisa
Young
Brooks Kevin, The Road of the
Dead, The Chicken House, ISBN 978-1-905294-26-8, 292
pages, 2006
'This extraordinary thriller will have you gasping for
breath as you turn the page from one violent confrontation
to the next, agape at the author's ability to evoke the
atmoshere of fear and intimidation.' Scotsman
Brown Dan, Angels and Demons,
Corgi Books, ISBN 0-552-15073-8, 620 pages, 2001
When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered,
a Harvard professor, Robert Landon, is summoned to identify
the mysterious symblol seared onto the dead man's chest. His
conclusion: it is the work of the Illuminati, a secrect
brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred
years-now reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against
their sworn enemy, the Catholic church.
Brown Dan, Corgi Books, Deception
Point, ISBN 0-552-15176-9, 585 pages, 2004
When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an
astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the
floundering space agency proclaims a much needed
victory....a victory that has profound implications for U.S.
space policy and the impending presidential
election.
Brown Dan, The Da Vinci Code,
special illustrated edition, Bantam Press, ISBN
0-593-05425-3, 464 pages, 2004
Breaking the mold of traditional suspense novels, The Da
Vinci Code is simultaneously lightning paced, intelligent
and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail.
Brown Dan, The Lost Symbol, Bantam
Press, ISBN 978-0-593-05427-7, 509 pages, 2009
A brilliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane
icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an
itelligent, lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises
at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there
is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret
which hides in plain sight ...
Brown Peter Harry and Broeske Pat
H., Howard Hughes, the untold Story, Time Warner
Paperbacks, ISBN 0-7515-3636-9, 486 pages, 2003
Remembered primarily as an eccentric and deluded
billionaire, Howard Hughes was once America's golden boy, a
celebrated aviator and Hollywood legend who romanced
hundreds of beautiful women. The scope of Hughes' life made
him one of the most influential figures in
America.
Burrows Larry, Vietnam, Jonathan
Cape, ISBN 0-224-06208-5, 244 pages, 2002
Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in vietnam from
1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971,
when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam-Laos
border. His images, published in Life Magazine, brought the
war home, scorching the consciousness of the public and
inspiring much of the anti-war sentiment that convulsed
American society in the 1960s.
Burgess Anthony, A Clockwork
Orange, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-118260-1, 140 pages,
2000
Fifteen-year-old alex doesn't just like ultra-violence-he
also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's Ninth. He and his
gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for
terrible thrills.
Callahan Sean, Margaret
Bourke-White, Photographer, Bulfinch Press, ISBN
0-8212-2490-5, 160 pages, 1998
A landmark retrospective of one of the century's most
groundbreaking photographers.
Capa Robert, Slightly out of
Focus, Modern Library New York, ISBN 0-375-75396-6, 236
pages, 2001
This book is the classic World War II memoir of one of the
most gifted photographers who ever lived. Robert Capa
arrived in Europe on a photojournalism assignment in 1941,
and for the next four years he traveled throughout the
embattled continent, documenting the war from the
perspective of the men and women of the Allied Forces who
befriended amused , and captivated him along the
way.
Capote Truman, In cold blood,
Penguin, ISBN 0-140-27418-9, 343 pages, 1965
A true account of a multiple murder and its
consequences.
Capote Truman, kaltblütig,
rororo, ISBN3-499-11176-4, 310 Seiten, 1969
In Kansas wird eine von allen geachtete Familie auf ihrer
Farm ermordet. Die beiden Täter werden schnell gefasst.
Der Autor besucht sie im Gefängnis und notiert alles,
was sie ihm berichten. Sein aufregender Tatsachenroman ist
ein Beitrag zur Psychologie des Verbrechens.
Carver Raymond, Where I'm calling
from, The Harvill Press, ISBN 978-1-860-46039-5, 431 pages,
1995
Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the
dispossessed made his own choice of his short stories,
revised the texts and published them in this authoritative
edition. The stories are selected from the full range of the
author's work including Furious Seasons, Will You
Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We
Talk about Love and Cathedral and include all seven
stories from his last collection,
Elephant.
Cassidy David C., J. Robert
Oppenheimer and the American Century, The John Hopkins
University Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-9317-9, 462 pages,
2005
David C. Cassidy's celebrated biography is more than the
life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist
who served as scientific director for the Manhattan Project.
It also tells the hidden story of the political and social
forces that shaped the world in the 20th century, when the
rise of American science contributed mightily to the
country's emergence as a dominant power in world
affairs.
Chaplin Charles, Die Geschichte
meines Lebens, Fischer Verlag 1964, Ausgabe der
Büchergilde Gutenberg, 510 Seiten
Die Lebensgeschichte des grossen Komikers, von der traurigen
Kindheit in Lambeth (London) zu seinen grossen Erfolgen in
Hollywood. Zahlreiche Bilder, Filmliste, Namensregister,
Briefe.
Chevalier Tracy, Girl with a Pearl
Earring, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-225890-0, 248 pages,
1999
A servant's life, a master's obsession, a matter of honour.
'Beautifully written, mysterious and almost unbearably
poignant - a magical experience'. Deborah
Moggach.
Chevalier Tracy, The Virgin Blue,
Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-710827-3, 304 pages, 2002
The compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and
the ancestral legacy that binds them.
Claire Regi, The Beauty Room,
Polygon, ISBN 0-7486-6322-3, 216 pages, 2002
After teh death of her mother, Celia Roth begins life anew
by redecorating the house where they lived together--the
house containing her mother's beauty room. But as the new
paint covers their shared history, layer upon layer of dark
truths begin to surface.
Cleland John, Fanny Hill or
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, ISBN
0-14-062088-5, 221 pages, 1748
From her position of wealth and happy respectability, Fanny
Hill looks backat her early life and disreputable
adventures. Arriving in London alone, poor and innocent, she
falls into the hands of a brothel-keeper. But only when she
is separated from the man she loves does she enrol in the
'unhappy proffession' of prostitution.
Clinton Bill, My Life,
Autobiography, Hutchinson London, ISBN 0-09-179527-3, 957
pages, 2004
No use I copy anything from the blurb here. Enough has been
said in the press by people far more acute and intelligent
than yours truly. I just had to have it. Most probably I've
read far worse books than Bill's.
Coelho Paulo, The Alchemist,
Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-715566-2, 177 pages, 1992
This is the magical story of Santiago, a shepherd boy who
dreams of travelling the world to seek the most wonderful
treasures known to man. From his home in Spain, he journeys
to the markets of Tangiers and, from there, into the
Egyptian desert, whre a fateful encounter with the alchemist
awaits him.
Coetzee J. M., Disgrace, Vintage,
ISBN 0-099-28952-0, 220 pages, 1999
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical
University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice
divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.
Copeland B. Jack, Colossus: The
secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers, Oxford
University Press, ISBN 0-19-284055-X, 462 pages, 2006
This is the story of Colossus, not only the world's first
large-scale electronic digital computer, but also a machine
that changed the course of World War II and saved an
incalculable number of lives. Housed at Bletchley Park, this
remarkable machine was created to launch a fast-paced
code-cracking assault on high-level Nazi
communications.
Copeland B. Jack, The Essential
Turing, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-825080-0, 612
pages, 2004
Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II
code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential
thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of
his tragically short life included the universal Turing
Machine, the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley
Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design
for an electronic stored-programm computer, and work on
artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary
that he can claim to be the founding father of these
disciplines.
Cornwell Patricia, All that
remains,, Warner Books, ISBN 0-7515-0110-7, 438 pages,
1992
A killer is stalking youn lovers. Taking their lives ... and
leaving just one tantalizing clue ...
Cornwell Patricia, Cause of Death,
Warner Books, ISBN 0-7515-1917-0, 370 pages, 1996
New York's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's
bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the
Elizabeth River's icy surface.
Cornwell Patricia, The Last
Precinct, Warner Books, ISBN 0-7515-2535-9, 565 pages,
2001
We enter The Last Precinct through reverberating aftershocks
of Black Notice, inconceivably finding Virgina's Chief
Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta an object of suspicion and
criminal investigation
Craig Patricia, Twelve Irish Ghost
Stories, Oxford Paperbacks, ISBN 0-19-288070-5, 144 pages,
1998
The spectres which haunt these Irish ghost stories include a
massacred Spanish sailors, a silver-robed woman who plies
her guests with poison, a mutilated pedlar, a benign but icy
embrace, and the devil himself. They are drawn from the rich
and varied literary tradition of a culture long enchanted by
things supernatural.
Dahl Roald, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, Puffin, ISBN 0-14-131130-4, 190 pages,
2001
Mr wonka's inventions are out of this world. He's thought up
every kind of sweet imaginable in his amazing chocolate
factory, but no one has ever seen inside, or met Mr Wonka!
Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a golden
ticket and wins the trip of a lifetime around the famous
chocolate factory.
Dahl Roald, Charlie and the Great
Glass Elevator, Puffin, ISBN 0-14-130112-0, 159 pages,
1998
Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for
another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed,
Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through
space and time. Visiting the world's first space hotel,
battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world
are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic
joyride.
Deighton Len, An expensive place
to die, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-586-02671, 244 pages,
1995
A 'clinic' on Paris's Avenue Foch designed to cater lavishly
for multiple perversions, staffed by a group of sexually and
intellectually high-powered girls and equipped with devices
ranging from an Iron Maiden to psychedelic
truth-drugs.
Deighton Len,
Charity, Len
Deighton, Harper Collins, ISBN
0-00-647900-6, 298
pages, 1997
With the cold war drawing to a close, Benard Samson finds
office life - whether in London or Berlin - can be just as
perilous as operating in the field. Surrounded by schemers
and their secrects, he must look out for his own
interests.
Delpire Robert und andere,
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the man, the image
& the world, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0-500-54267-8,
430 pages, 2003
Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the finest and most eminent
image makers of our time. His extraordinary photographs are
shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their unerring
ability to get to the heart of the matter.
Dickens Charles, A Tale of Two
Cities, Signet Classic, ISBN 0-451-52656-2, 367 pages,
1997
The storming of the Bastille ... the death carts with dheir
doomed cargo ... the swift drop of the guillotine blade ...
this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly
captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities.
Doyle Roddy, A Star Called Henry,
Jonatan Cape, ISBN 0-224-06019-8, 342 pages, 1999
An historical novel like none before it. A subversive look
behind the legends of Irish republicanism, at its centre a
passionate love story, this is a triunphant work of
fiction.
Doyle Roddy, Paddy Clarke ha ha
ha, Vintage, ISBN 0-74-939735-7, 278 pages, 1993
It is 1968, Paddy Clarke is ten years old, breathless with
discovery. He reads with a child's voraciousness, collecting
facts the way adults collect grey hairs and parking
tickets.
Earley Pete, Family of Spies,
Inside the John Walker Spy Ring, Bantam Books, ISBN
0-553-28222-0, 456 pages, 1989
Over seventeen years John Walker sold more than one million
secrets to the Russians - vital information on codes, ship
movements, weaponry, tactics, and plans so crucial to the
survival and security of the United States that a top KGB
official called the Walker spy ring "the most important
operation in the KGB history".
Earls Alan R., Digital Equipment
Corporation, Arcadia, ISBN 0-7385-3587-7, 128 pages,
2004
From its inception in 1957, Digital Equipment Corporation
(DEC) headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, carved itself
a role in American business unlike any other company.
Launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer
Ken Olsen with a $70,000 investment from the country's first
venture capital firm, DEC rapidly became a pioneer in
computer technology.
Eugenides Jeffrey, The Virgin
Suicides, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 078-0-7475-6059-3, 249
pages, 2002
The haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives
of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters, The Virgin Suicides,
now a major film, is Jeffrey Eugenides' classic debut
novel.
Evanovich Janet, Hot Six, Pan
Books, ISBN 0-330-37124-X, 324 pages, 2001
'The undisputed queen of the comedy beat. A hilarious
rollercoastr ride with a heroine who would have Bridget
Jones for breakfast.' Guardian
Faas Horst/Page Tim, Requiem,
Jonathan Cape London, ISBN 0-224-05058-3, 336 pages,
1998
This book is dedicated to the 135 photographers of different
nations who are known to have died or to have disappeared
while covering the wars in Indochina, Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos. Their lives are remembered through their work here
assembled.
Fall Bernard B., Hell in a very
small Place, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81157-X, 514 pages,
2002
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a strategic attack launched by
France against the Vietnamese in 1954 after eight long years
of war, marked a historicturning point. By the end of the
56-day siege, a determined Viet Minh guerilla force had
destroyed a large, tactical French colonial army in the
heart of Southeast Asia.
Fall Bernard B., Street Without
Joy, the French debacle in Indochina, Pen &
Sword, ISBN 1-84415-318-5, 404 pages, 2005
Originally published in 1961, before the United States
escalated its ill-fated involvement in South Vietnam, this
superbly written and graphic account offered a clear and
chilling warning as to what American forces would face in
the jungles of Southeast Asia; a costly and protracted
revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile
enemy.
Faulkner William, The Sound and
the Fury, Vintage Classics, ISBN 0-099-47501-4, 320 pages,
1929
In essence this is a novel about lovelessness - 'only an
idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it. What else
is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?'
It is a novel about intense passionate family relationships
wherein there is no love, only self-centerdness.
Faulks Sebastian, The Girl at the
Lion d'Or, Vintage, ISBN 0-09-977490-9, 250 pages, 1990
A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and
conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious
young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du
Lion d'Or in a small French town in the
mid-1930s.
Figes Orlando, A People's Tragedy,
The Russian Revolution 1891 - 1924, Penguin, ISBN
978-0-14-024364-2, 923 pages, 1997
Vast in scope, eshaustive in original research, written with
passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy. This book
presents the first comprehensive history of the Russian
Revolution in a single volume.
Findley Timothy, Pilgrim, Faber
& Faber, ISBN 0-571-20306-X, 486 pages, 1999
Populated by a fascinating parade of historical and mythical
characters, Pilgrim is a richly-layered story of a man's
search for his own destiny. Instantly engaging, superbly
crafted, breathtaking in scope and brilliantly imagined,
Pilgrim is Timoty Findley's masterwork.
Fisk Robert, Pity the Nation -
Lebanon at War, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280130-9,
728 pages, 2001
Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this
remarkable book combines war reporting and political
analysis in an unprecedented way; it is an epic account of
the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally
witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over two
decades.
Fisk Robert, The Great War for
Civilisation, The conquest of the Middle East, Robert Fisk,
Harper Perennial, ISBN 1-84115-008-8, 1368 pages, 2006
Vivid personal reporting and incisive, angry historical
analysis make Robert Fisk's passionate eyewitness account of
the events that have shaped the Middle East into an
unforgettable work. Thirty years at the heart of
world-shaking events have produced a masterpiece.
Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great
Gatsby, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-118263-6, 178 pages, 1990
Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of
post-war America and the moral failure of society obsessed
with wealth and status. But he does more than render the
essence of a particular time and place.
Foer Jonathan Safran, Everything
is Illuminated, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-141-01318-4, 276
pages, 2003
A young man arrives in the Ukraine. He is searching for the
woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the
Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by
Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English
into bizarre new forms.
Follet Ken, The Third Twin, Pan
Books, ISBN 0-330-34837-X, 628 pages, 1996
A chilling story of hidden evil, set at the forefront of
modern technology, 'The Third Twin' is the heart stopping
new thriller from Ken Follett.
Fox Paula, Desperate Characters,
W. W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-31894-X, 156 pages, 1970
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated
Brookly brownstone. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while
trying to feed a half-starved neighorhood cat, a series of
small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives,
revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage-and a
society-wrenching itself apart.
Frisch Max, Homo Faber, Suhrkamp,
ISBN 3-518-39240-9, 234 Seiten, 1957
Der Ingenieur Walter Faber glaubt an sein rationales
Weltbild, das durch eine Liebesgeschichte zerbricht. Kein
anderer zeitgenössischer Roman stellt derart ehrlich
wie hintergründig die Frage nach der Identität des
modernen Menschen.
Fry Stephen, The Hippopotamus,
Arrow, ISBN 0-09-918961-5, 356 pages, 1994
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous,
whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but
he has his faults too.
Furst Alan, The Polish Officer,
Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-649356-4, 325 pages, 1995
In 1939, as the German army ravages his country, Captain
Alexander de Milja enlists in the newly formed Polish
underground an undertakes the first of many daring acts of
defiance and disruption: transporting Poland's gold reserves
to safety hidden on board a refugee train. As the war
continues, duty takes him, under a series of false
identities, from Warsaw to Paris and the frozen
Ukraine-enduring a life of dark shadows and perpetual
deception, always on the run, alway just one step ahead of
death.
Galloway Joseph L., Harold G.
Moore, We were Soldiers once ... and young, Corgi Books,
ISBN 0-552-15026-6, 410 pages, 2002
Vietnam, November 1965. 450 men are dropped by helicopter
into a small clearing in the la Drang Valley and immediately
surrounded by 2'000 North Vietnamese soldiers.
Glass Julia, Three Junes, Arrow,
ISBN 0-09-946029-7, 536 pages, 2003
It's a novel about how we live, and live fully, beyond grief
and betrayals of the heart, and how family ties can offer
redemption and joy.
Golding William, Lord of the
Flies, Faber, ISBN 3-88389-001-4, 223 pages, 1958
Capturing generations of readerd since its publication in
1954, Lord of the Flies is a cult favorite among students
and literary critics. An adventure tale in its purest form,
this thrilling account of a group of British schoolboys
marooned on a tropical island exposes the duality of human
nature itself-the dark, eternal divide between order and
chaos, intellect and instinct, structure and
savagery.
Gordimer Nadine, The Pickup,
Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-5934-1, 270 pages, 2002
What are the solutions life demands for extraordinary
circumstances? A novel of swift power and concision, 'The
Pickup' is set in the social mix of the new South Africa and
an Arab village in the desert.
Greene Graham, The Ministry of
Fear, Vintage, ISBN 0-099-28618-1, 221 pages, 2001
For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to
childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the
terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and
murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake
...
Griffiths Philip Jones, Vietnam
Inc., Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4603-1, more than 250 pictures,
reprint 2005 of the 1971 classic
"Of all the hundreds of books about South Vietnam, this is
the truest, the most important, the most upsetting." New
Statesman, 1971
Gschwend Lukas, Der Studentenmord
von Zürich, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, ISBN
3-85823-933-X, 470 Seiten, 2002
Lukas Gschwend hat den Fall Lessing genau untersucht und
stellt hier das Verbrechen und die anschliessende
Strafuntersuchung in allen Einzelheiten dar. Seine
Recherchen führten ihn von Zürich über Bern
nach Berlin, Potsdam, Kiel und Wien.
Hackworth David H., About Face,
Touchstone, ISBN 0-671-69534-7, 836 pages, 1989
From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to
the U.S. Army and he fast became living legend. 1n 1971,
however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war
effort in Vietnam. Now, in About Face, he has written an
autobiography which many Vietnam veterans have called the
most important book of their generation.
Hackworth David H., Hazardous
Duty, Perennial, ISBN 978-0-380-7242-1, 353 pages, 2001
This is a necessary wake-up call for military reform - a
no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled exposé that calls
America's top political and military leaders to accound for
selling out duty, honor and country. It is reveting,
real-life adventure of courageous warriors on the world's
new battlefields- and of their systematic betrayal by the
weakness of an increasingly wasteful and inept high
command.
Haddon Mark, The curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage, ISBN 0-099-47043-8,
272 pages, 2004
This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective,
and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen
and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal
about maths and very little about human beings. He loves
lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow
and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than
the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a
neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey
which will turn his whole world upside down.
Hammes Thomas X., The Sling and
The Stone, Zentih Press, ISBN
978-0-7603-2407-3/0-7603-2407-7, 320 pages, 2006
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a career Marine,
Thomas X. Hammes spent most of his years on active duty
serving in infantry and intelligence assignments. One of the
first authors to define fourth-generation warfare, Colonel
Hammes has written numerous articles for defense journals
and lectured at war and staff colleges.
Hammett Dashiell, The Maltese
Falcon, Orion, ISBN 0-75286-533-1, 212 pages, 2005
The Maltese Falcon was originally published in 1929, marks
the first appearance of Sam Spade, and is considered to be
one of the greatest crime novels of all time. Sam Spade is
hired by the beautyful Miss Wonderley to track down her
sister. When his partner, Miles Archer, is shot down while
on the trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted as
he tracks down a jewel-encrusted treasure people are willing
to kill for.
Hamper Ben, Rivethead, Warner
Books, ISBN 0-446-39400-9, 234 pages, 1992
A full barreled blast of truth and gritty reality unleashes
Ben Harper in this journey through the belly of the American
industrial beast. He uses a hard edged, driving prose style
to chonicle his outrageous career as an unhinged assembly
line grunt.
Hardy Thomas, Far from the Madding
Crowd, Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283391-X, 468
pages, 1998
Edited with notes by Suzanne B. Falck-Yi. With an
introduction by Simon Gatrell.
The first of Hardy's novels to give a name of Wessex to the
landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him
widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and
spirited Bathseba Everdene inherits her own farm, she
attracts three very different suitors.
Harrar George and Rifkin Glenn,
The Ultimate Entrepreneur, The Story of Ken Olsen and
Digital Equipment Corporation, Prima Publishing, ISBN
1-55958-022-4, 336 pages, 1990
In 1957, Ken Olsen and a fellow MIT engineer, stocked with
$70,000 of venture capital, set off to tiny Maynard,
Massachusetts to start a computer company. Today, DEC,
second only to IBM, has sales of over 13 billion dollars,
and Olsen was called by Fortune, "the most successful
entrepreneur in the history of American business.
Harris Robert, Archangel, Random
House, ISBN 0-679-42888-7, 373 pages, 1998
Archangel tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke
Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian,
who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened
Soviet archives. One night, Kelso is visited in his hotel
room by an old NKVD officer, a former bodygard of the secret
police chief Lavrenty Beria. The old man claims to have been
at stalin's dache on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke,
and to have helped Beria steal the dictator's private
papers, among them a notebook. Kelso decides to his last
morning in Moscow to check out the old man's
story.
Harris Robert, Enigma, Heyne, ISBN
3-453-11593-7, 379 Seiten, 1995
England im März 1943. In Bletchley Park, einem streng
bewachten Camp, wird rund um die Uhr gearbeitet. Fieberhaft
werden feindliche - deutsche - Funksprüche
dechiffriert. Das grösste Problem der Allierten
Streitkräfte in jenen Tagen heisst "Enigma": eine von
den Deutschen eingesetzte geniale Maschine, die
U-Boot-Funksprüche so verschlüsselt, dass sie
scheinbar unmöglich zu knacken sind. Die
Entschlüsselung ist jedoch lebenswichtig, um die
Allierten Geleitzüge im Atlantik zu schützen,
deren Vernichtung den Lebensnerv Grossbritanniens trffen
würde. Die einzige Hoffnung ist Tom Jericho, ein
hochkarätiger Kryptoanalytiker, der alles daransetzt,
Enigma zu überlisten.
Harris Robert, Enigma, Arrow, ISBN
0-09-999200-0, 390 pages, 1995
March 1943. Inside Britain's codebreaking centre at
Bletchley Park, the cyptanalysts are facing their worst
nightmare: Nazi Germany's U-boats have unexpectedly changed
their Enigma cipher, and the Battle of the Atlantic suddenly
hangs in the balance.
Harris Robert, Fatherland, Harper
Mass Market Paperback, ISBN 006-1006629, 1995
Berlin 1964: It has been 20 years since Nazi Germany won
World War II, and most good German citizens are gearing up
for Hitler's 75th birthday celebration. But amidst the
preparations, a disillusioned detective investigates a
murder and discovers a conspiracy of astounding
terror.
Harris Robert, The Ghost,
Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-179626-6, 305 pages, 2007
The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a
professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a
nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with
fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the
chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime
minister, especially as it means flying to the American
resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and
finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious
house.
Harris Thomas, The Silence of the
Lambs, Mandarin Paperbacks, ISBN 0-7493-0054-X, 352 pages,
1990
There is a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only
skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save
her own hide. The only man that can help is locked in an
asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on - if it will
help him escape.
Hawes Annie, Extra Virgin,
Penguin, ISBN 0-140-29423-6, 338 pages, 2001
When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no
more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable
young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian
signorina.
Hazzard Shirley, The Great Fire,
Virago, ISBN 1-84408-057-9, 314 pages, 2003
Twenty years in the writing, The Great Fire is a triumphant
novel of lives shadowed by war and redeemed by love. In a
war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, people must reinvent
their lives and expectations and learn, from their past, to
dream again. A man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance
and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their
humanity.
Heller Joseph, Catch-22, Vintage,
ISBN 0-09-953601-3, 570 pages, 1994
Widly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance
that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly,
bitterly, savagely funny, it will not be forgotten by those
who can take it. New York Times.
Heye Artur, Ein Leben unterwegs,
Ex Libris, Best. Nr. 1551, 460 pages, Copyright
Safari-Verlag Berlin 1948
Eine Kindheit voller Sehnsucht nach Aussergewöhnlichem
und Abenteuerlichem hat den Autor schon als
Vierzehnjährigen von zu Hause fortgetrieben. Die weite
Welt, rollende Ozeane, dunkle Urwälder, glühende
Wüsten, Palmenstrand mit weissen Städten und
braunen Menschen, Prärien, Indianer, Bären -
danach will er auf die Suche gehen. Es gelingt ihm, in
Rotterdam als Schiffsjunge angeheuert zu werden und damit
beginnt eine Weltdurchwanderung, die zwar alle seine
Träume erfüllt, ihn aber auch in unzählige
Gefahren führt.
Hill Susan, I'm the King of the
Castle, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-003491-9, 226 pages, 1989
An extraordinary, evocative novel boiling over with the
terrors of childhood.
Hine Lewis W., Prestel, The Empire
State Building, ISBN 3-7913-1996-5, 104 pages, 1998
Hine's world-famous documentary photographs taken at the
Empire State Building construction site tell the story of
how America in the 1930s toiled with nature and technology
to make monuments.
Hinkley F. H./Stripp Alan,
Codebreakers, Oxford University Press, ISBN
0-19-285304-X
With many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this
is the first authentic account of daily life at Government
Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most
successful intelligence agency in history. Described by
Churchill as the 'secret weapon' that 'won the war', the men
and women of Bletchley Park here combine to write their
story in full.
Hodges
Andrew, Alan Turing
the Enigma, Vintage, ISBN 0-09-911641-3, 568 pages, 1983
Andrew Hodges's biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant
Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the
German Enigma code and indeed was the father of the modern
computer, was regarded as "the paperback buy of the season"
when it was first published. It is now reissued in Vintage
with a new preface.
Howard Paul, The Joy, O'Brien,
ISBN 0-86278-491-3, 188 pages, 1996
A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the
notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul
Howard. Thes extraordinary life story tells it all. The
desperate lifestyle ao a junkie; bullying and savage
beatings among the prisoners; ingenious drug-smuggling
ploys; the despairing cry for help of failed sucide
attempt.
Huntington Samuel P., Who are we?
The Challenges to America's National Identity, Simon &
Schuster, ISBN 0-684-87053-3, 428 pages, 2004
Once again Samuel Huntington has written an important book
that is certain to provoke a lively debate and to shape our
national conversation about who we are.
Iacocca Lee with Catherine
Whitney, Where have all the Leaders gone? Scribner, 275
pages, 2007
"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's
happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be
screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos
steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got
corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even
clean up after a hurricane much less build build a hybrid
car.
Huxley Aldous, Brave New World,
Voyager Classics, ISBN 0-00-711589-X, 237 pages, 2001
Set in the year of stability A.F. 632 the world state has
two billion standardized citizens steeped in the virtues of
passive obedience, material consumption and mindless
promiscuity. Hatcheries breed a mass of Epsilon-Minuses for
menial labour, and fewer of the castes ranked above
them.
A simplified edition
is available from 'Longman Fiction' for the advanced
student of English, ISBN 0-582-27522-9
Irving John, Black Swan, A Prayer
for Owen Meany, ISBN 0-552-99369-7, 637 pages, 1990
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League
baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball
and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in
accidents; he believes he is God's instrument.
Ishiguro Kazuo, When We Were
Orphans, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-20384-1, 313 pages,
2000
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has bekcome the country's
most celebrated detective, his cases are the talk of London
society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the
mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai,
when he was a small boy.
James Peter, Faith,, Orion, ISBN
0-75283-711-7, 465 pages, 2000
To Ross Ransome, perfection is more than just an ideal-it's
his living. For Ransome is one of the most successful, and
certainly one of the richest, plastic surgeons in the
business. Even his wife is perfect. After all, he has spent
hours in surgery getting her that way. So when his wife
becomes ill and turns her back first on conventional
medicine and thaen on her marriage as she seeks help from a
charismatic alternative therapist, Ransome feels bitter and
betrayed.
Jeal Tim, Baden-Powell, Yale
University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12513-9, 670 pages,
1989
Founder of the Boy Scouts movement, R.S.S Baden-Powell was a
British military hero during the Boer War and an author,
actor, artist, spy and sportsman. In this absorbing and
humane account of Baden-Powell's extraordinary life, Tim
Jeal reveals for the first time the complex figure behind
the saintly public mask, showing him to be a man of both
dazzling talents and crippling secret fears.
Jeal Tim, Livingstone, Yale
University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-09102-1, 388 pages,
2001
David Livingstone (1813-1873) has been revered as one of the
world's greatest explorers and missionaries, the European to
cross Africa and the first to find the Victoria Falls and
the source of the Congo River. Tim Jeal's masterful
biography reveals the man behind the myth, one capable of
ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice and bravery, one
dogged all his life by failure as well as
success.
Jeal Tim, Stanley, the impossible
life of Africa's greatest explorer, Faber and Faber, ISBN
978-0-571-22103-5, 570 pages, 2007
Henry Morton Stanley is Britain's greatest land explorer of
all time. Yet today he is remembered as a cruel imperialist
in Africa, and as an American journalst who said: "Dr
Livingstone, I presume?" In this compelling biography, Tim
Jeal reveals the truth about Stanley and shows how the
Welsh-born workhouse boy has been misrepresented in previous
accounts of his life.
Jenkins Roy, Churchill, Pan Books,
ISBN 0-330-48805-8, 1001 pages, 2001
The most celebrated Prime Minister of the twentieth century
and arguably the most renowned British Minister ever,
Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. But, though
he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost
sixty years, without World War II he might have been
remembered as nothing more than a minor player in the dramas
of British government.
Joyce James, A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-243734-4,
329 pages, 2003
The story portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin Childhood and
youth and, in doing so, provides an oblique self-portrait of
the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin
and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship
of an artist to his family, culture, and race.
Joyce James, Dubliners,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-018554-2, 316 pages, 1914/1956/1992
In Dubliners, completed when Joyce was only twenty-five, he
produced a definitive group portrait. It is abook, as
Terence Brown suggests in his stimulating Introduction,
'rooted in intensely accurate apprehension of the detail of
Dublin life'. Extensive notes to this new edition fill in
the rich network of local and historical references. And
yet, beyond its brilliant and almost brutal realism, it is
also a book full of enigmas, ambiguities and symbolic
resonances.
Joyce James, Ulysses,, Oxford
World's Classics, ISBN 0-19-283464-9, 980 pages, 1993
The 1922 text. Edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri
Johnson. In a series of episodes covering the course of a
single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of
Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of
Dublin.
Joyner Mark,
MindControlMarketing.com, Steel Icarus, ISBN 0-9719325-0-6,
152 pages, 2002
How everyday people are using forbidden mind control
psychology and ruthless military tactics to make millions
online.
Kahn David, Seizing the Enigma,
Arrow, ISBN 0-09-978411-4, 1991
The Battle of the Atlantic, one of the most desperate and
savage campaigns of the Second World War, raged for more
than three years. But it was fought not only at sea. Based
at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, a band of eccentric
geniuses waged their own battle of wits to break the
ever-changing U-boat codes. Under the neurotic leadership of
Alan turing, their mission was to read the U-boat signals
and unravel the German cipher device, Enigma.
Kanon Joseph, Los Alamos, Island
Books, ISBN 0-440-22407-1, 517 pages, 1997
It is the spring 1945. And Michael Conolly has been sent to
Los Alamos to investigate teh murder of a security officer
on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail
parties and the staggering genius, Conolly will find more
than he bargained for.
Kapuscinski Ryszard, Meine Reisen
mit Herodot, Eichborn, ISBN 3-8218-4746-8, 360 Seiten,
2005
Schon immer war er von ihm fasziniert. Und bis heute ist er
für ihn der Grösste. Wann und wohin auch
immerRyszard Kapuscinki unterwegs war, Herodot war dabei.
Anfangs gar nicht so leicht, an ein Exemplar von dessen
Historien zu kommen, denn in Polen gab es keine
Übersetzung davon. Als die fertig vorlag, durfte sie
nicht gedruckt werden: Stalin lag im Serben, und das
jahrtausendalte Buch erzählt mindestens ebensoviel vom
Zerfall wie von der Schaffung riesiger Reiche, ebenso
erschütternd vom Sturz der Mächtigen wie von ihrem
Aufstieg.
Kapuscinski Ryszard, The Shadow of
the Sun, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-02962-4, 325 pages, 2001
This book has been hailed as the greatest modern work on
Africa and as a dazzling literary masterpiece.
Karsh Efraim, The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988, Osprey Essential Histories, ISBN 1-84176-371-3,
98 pages, 2002
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the longest, bloodiest and
costliest Third World armed conflict in the twentieth
century. Professor Karsh addresses the causes of the war:
unpacking the objectives of the two belligerents and
examining how the objectives were matched by by
strategy.
Keller Stefan, Die Zeit der
Fabriken, Von Arbeitern und einer roten Stadt,
Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-228-X, 236 Seiten, 2001
Stefan Keller erzählt die Geschichte einer Kleinstadt
im Osten der Schweiz, ihrer grossen Fabrik, ihrer
Arbeiterschaft, ihrer Konflikte, Triumphe und
Niederlagen.
Keller Stefan, Grüningers
Fall, Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-157-7, 262 Seiten,
1993
Über jüdische Flüchtlinge, Schlepper,
Landjäger, Zöllner, Bauern und einen
Polizeioffizier mit Gewissen.
Kelley Kitty, The Family; The real
Story of the Bush Dynasty, Bantam Press, ISBN 0-593-04891-1,
705 pages, 2004
Number one bestselling author and investigative biographer
Kitty Kelley has closely examined the lives of Jacqueline
Onassis, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra and the British royal
family. Now the first lady of unauthorized biography
scrutinizes the first family of the United States-and the
result is at once a rich and shocking history and a very
human portrait of the world's most powerful
dynasty.
Kerouac Jack, On the Road, Penguin
Classics, ISBN 0-14-243725-5, 307 pages, 1991
On the Road tells the story of two friends, whose four
cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true
experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed
naïvité and wild abandon, and imbued with
Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and
his sense of language as jazz.
Kerouac Jack, The Dharma Bums,
Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-118488-4, 204 pages, 2000
Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in
search of Dharma, or truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy,
along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high
Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the
Zen way of life. But in widly Bohemian San Francisco, with
its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and
experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route
distinctly hard to follow.
Kershaw Alex, Blood and
Champagne, the life of Robert Capa, Pan Books, ISBN
0-330-49250-0, 298 pages, 2002
A Hungarian, Capa was driven from his country by political
oppression and became the greatest war photographer of his
generation with his work during the Spanish Civil War. His
work during the Second World War made him a legend as he
covered many of the significant moments of the war, crossing
the Atlantic with a convoy in 1942, and following the Allies
through North Africa, Italy and then the liberation of
France.
Kleinschroth Robert, La
conversation en s'amusant, rororo Sprachen, ISBN
3-499-18873-2
Auch bei den Franzosen gibt es was zu lachen. Was lag also
näher, als Sprechsituationen über Witze meistern
zu lernen. Mit "La conversation en s'amusant" lernen Sie auf
vergnügliche Weise, Kontakte zu knüpfen,
Gefühle auszudrücken oder Sorgen und Zweifel zu
artikulieren.
Kneale Matthew, English
Passengers, Penguin, ISBN 0-140-28521-0, 462 pages, 2001
It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson has set out for
Tasmania, hoping to find the true site of the garden of
Eden. But the journey is turning out to be less than
straightforward, dissent is growing between him and sinister
racial-theorist Dr Potter, and, unknown to both, the ship
they have hurriedly chartered is in fact a Manx smuggling
vessel, fleeing British Customs.
Knellwolf Ulrich, Klassentreffen,
Arche, ISBN 3-7160-2196-2, 194 Seiten, 1995
Klassentreffen im schweizerischen Trogen. Drei alte Herren.
Und ein vierter ist unterwegs. Von Südamerika nach
Deutschland. Dann in die alte Heimat. Da macht sich Angst
breit ...
Knellwolf Ulrich, Roma Termini,
Fischer, ISBN 3-596-11796-8, 240 Seiten, 1999
Bernhard, ein Freund schöner Frauen, ist für den
Vatikan kein unbeschriebenes Blatt. Der ehemalige Priester
wird für eine heikle Mission ausgewählt. Er soll
in einem südamerikanischen Land als Sekretär eines
Erzbischofs der Kirche als Ordnungsmacht Geltung
verschaffen.
Knellwolf Ulrich, Schönes
Sechseläuten, Fischer, ISBN 3-596-14178-8, 294 Seiten,
2000
Beim traditionellen "Sechseläuten"-Umzug der
Zünfte in Zürich wird einer der Zünfter
ermordet. Der Tote ist Pfarrer Sprecher von der
Predigerkirche. Ihre Recherchen führen den Journalisten
Felix Frühauf und den Kriminalkommissar Frauenfelder in
die besten Kreise der Zürcher Gesellschaft.
Knox Elizabeth, The Vintner's
Luck, Vintage, ISBN 0-09-927389-6, 240 pages, 2000
Burgundy 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner,
meets an angel in his vineyard: a gorgeous creature with
huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an
inquiring mind. They meet every year on the midsummer
anniversary of the date.
Kozaczuk Wladyslaw and Strasak
Jerzy, Enigma: How the Poles broke the Nazi Code,
Hippocrene Books, ISBN 0-7818-0941-X, 165 pages, 2004
In 1933 three Polish mathematicians led by Marian Rejewski
succeede in breaking the German Enigma machine cipher, which
the Germans considered unbreakable; a belief they firmly
held throughout World War II.
Krakauer Jon, Into the Wild,
Anchor Books, ISBN 978-0-307-38717-2, 207 pages,
1997
In april 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family
hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness
north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson
McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity,
abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all
the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for
himelf.
Krakauer Jon, Into Thin Air, Jon
Krakauer , Anchor Books, ISBN 0-385-49478-5, 333 pages,
1999
This is the terrifying story of what really happened that
fateful day at the top of the world, during what would be
the deadliest season in the history of Everest. In this
harrowing yet breathtaking narrative, Krakauer takes the
reader along with his ill-fated expedition, step by
precarious step, from Kathmandu to the mountain's pinnacle
where, plagued by a combination of hubris, greed, poor
judgement, and plain bad luck, they would fall prey to the
mountain's unpredictable fury.
Krakauer Jon, Where Men Win Glory,
Atlantic Books London, ISBN 978-1-84887-301-8, 380
pages, 2009
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million
NFL contract to enlist in the United States Special
Operations Forces. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and felt
a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda
and the Taliban. Two years later, he would die on a desolate
hillside in south-eastern Afghanistan.
Kranz Gene, Failure is not an
Option, Mission control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and
beyond, Berkley Books, ISBN 978-0-425-17987-1, 415 pages,
2001
Eugene F. Kranz joined the NASA Space Tadk Froup in 1969 and
was assistand flight director for Project Mercury (the
original manned space missions). He continued as flight
director for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Kurson Robert, Shadow Divers,
Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-48247-6, 364 pages, 2004
In the fall of 1991, in the frigid Atlantic waters sity
miles off the coast of New Jersey, weekend scuba divers John
Chatterton and Richie Kohler made a startling discovery
under decads of accumulated sediment: a World War II German
Uboot, its interior a maze of twisted metal and human
bones.
Lasdun James, The horned Man,
Vintage, ISBN 0-099-42835-0, 195 pages, 2002
Lawrence Miller, an English expatriate in New York, tells
the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to
frame him for a series of brutal killings.
Lawrence David Herbert, The Virgin
and the Gipsy, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-018211-X, 90 pages,
1970
In The Virgin and the Gipsy the conflict between intuition
and the conventions of society is powerfully evoked. Yvette,
a young girl imprisoned within the stifling confines of home
and family, looks for release through love.
Lee Harper, To kill a Mockingbird,
Arrow, ISBN 0-09-941978-5, 309 pages, 1997
A layer's advice to his children as he defends the real
mockingbird of this enchanting classic-a black man charged
with the rape of a white girl.
Lehane Dennis, Mystic River,
Harper Torch, ISBN 0-380-73185-1, 478 pages, 2001
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave
Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to
their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and
something terrible happened-something that ended their
friendship and changed all three boys for ever.
Leon Donna, Friends in high
Places, Arrow, ISBN 0-09-926932-5, 337 pages, 2000
When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young
bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for
the building of his apartment years before, his first
reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he
knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant
government department.
Lewis Clive Staples,
Broadman&Holman Publishers, ISBN 0-8054-2040-1, 128
pages, 1996
'My dear Wormwood, ...' So begins this product of C. S.
Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between
two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew,
Wormwood.
Lodge David, A David Lodge Trilogy
(Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work), Penguin, ISBN
0-140-17297-1, 898 pages, 1993
This book was recommended to me by Judith Strachan (Fort
William) and Jacques Berthoud (York). It's got to be
great.
Lodge David, The Britisch Museum
is falling down, Penguin, ISBN 0140062149, 176 pages,
1983
The rhythm method is the curse of Adam Appleby's life and
the cause of his children's. As his thesis awaits its birth
in the British Museum, his wife studies the thermometer at
home. But ist seems that "Vatican Roulette" has failed them
again.
Lomax Eric, The Railway Man,
Vintage, ISBN 0-09-958231-7, 278 pages, 1995
This is the story of innocence betrayed; of passion and
curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish,
and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are
capable. It is also a story of survival and of courage. Eric
Lomax was tortured by the Japanese on the Burma-Siam
Railway. Fifty years later he met one of his
tormentors.
MacDonald Ann-Marie, The Way the
Crow Flies, Harper Perennial, ISBN 0-00-717965-0, 720 pages,
2004
On a Canadian air force base in the early 1960s, the
McCarthy family is living the post-war dream. But Madeleine,
the high-spirited eight-year-old daughter, becomes drawn
into a perilous adult world and her father Jack gets caught
in a web of Cold War secrets. When a local murder strikes at
the heart of their new home, the McCarthys' lifes are
changed forever in ways that will become clear only when the
quest for the truth, and the killer, is renewed twenty years
later.
McEwan Ian, Saturday, Vintage,
ISBN 0-099-49716-6, 280 pages, 2005
Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful
neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud
father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before
dawn, drawn to the window and filled with a growing
unease.
McMaster H. R., Dereliction of
Duty, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara, the joint chiefs
of staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam, Harper
Perennial, ISBN 978-0-06-092908-4, 446 pages, 1998
"A book to boggle your mind with new revelations of
ineptness, duplicity, and arrogance amongst the senior-most
officials of the United States. McMaster pastes all the
puzzle pieces together to reveal a plot Shakespearean in its
proportions .... " Peter Arnett
Maguire Gregory, Wicked, The Life
and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Headline Review,
ISBN 0-7553-3160-5, 495 pages, 2006
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in
the classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, we heard only
one side of the story. But what of her arch-nemesis, the
mysterious witch?
Malone Michael S., Bill &
Dave, how Hewlett and Packard built the world's greatest
company, Portfolio, ISBN 978-1-59184-187-6, 438 pages,
2008
Hewlett Packard has come a long way since its legendary
founding in a tiny Palo Alto garage. In Bill & Dave,
acclaimed journalist Michael S. Malone tells the full story
for the first time, based on his exclusive access to
corporate and private archives, along with hundreds of
interviews. He reveals how some of the most influential
products of our time were invented and how a culture of
innovation led HP to unparalleled success for
decades.
Maney Kevin, The Maverick and his
Machine, Thomas Watson Sr. and the making of IBM, John Wiley
& Sons, ISBN 0-471-67925-9, 484 pages, 2003
The gripping story of high ambition, iron willpower, huge
bet-the-company gambles, humiliating failure, and
unparalleled success. The story of IBM.
Mason Robert, Chickenhawk, Corgi
Books, ISBN 0-552-12419-2
As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young
man, he dreamed of flying helicopters-and the U.S. Army gave
him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between
August 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1,000 assault
missions. In chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a
devastating bird's eye view of that war and all its horror,
as he experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly
desperate courage of a man acting out the role of a hero
long after he realises that the conduct of the war is
insane, says the New York Times, and we cannot stop
ourselves from identifying with it.
Mason Robert, Chickenhawk,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-303571-1, 492 pages, 1984
New edition. Now with Photos and a new afterword.
Maugham W. Somerset, The Moon and
Sixpence, Vintage, ISBN 0-099-28476-6, 215 pages, 1999
Inspired by the life of Paul Gaugin, this book tells the
story of Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker who
abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live
his life as a painter.
McCall Smith Alexander, The No. 1
Ladies' Detective Agency, Anchor Books, ISBN 1-4000-9688-X,
235 pages, 2005
Meet precious Ramotswe, a heroine who is endearing,
engaging, and simply irresistible. With persistent
observation, gentle intuition, and a keen desire to help
people with the problems of their lives, she solves
mysteries great and small for friends and strangers
alike.
McCall Smith Alexander, Tears of
the Giraffe, Abacus, ISBN 978-0-349-11665-5, 233 pages,
2002
Following on from the brilliant The No. Ladies' Detective
Agenxy, Tears of the Giraffe charts the further adventures
of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female
private detective.
McCall Smith Alexander, Morality
for Beautiful Girls, Abacus, ISBN 978-0-349-11700-3, 246
pages, 2003
In this third volume of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
series, the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe faces supreme
problems at home and at work. With her detective agency in
financial difficulty, Mma Ramotswe takes the hard decision
to share offices with her husband-to-be, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni.
But even though Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors could do with a
little help, it is Mr Matekoni himself who requires her
attention.
McCormack John, A Story of Dublin,
Mentor Books, ISBN 1-84210-072-6, 293 pages, 2000
The people and events that shaped a city is an historical
journey from the revels of Donnybrook Fair to the
revelations of tribunals, via the Black Death and the
Glimmer Man.
McCourt Frank, Angela's Ashes,
Flamingo, ISBN 0-00-651034-5, 426 pages, 1996
'Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the
miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable
Irish Catholic childhood.'
McCourt Frank, 'Tis, Flamingo,
ISBN 0-00-655241-2, 495 pages, 2000
With its joys and sorrows, its melancholy and its laughter,
'Tis is a dignified and moving successor to Angela's
Ashes.
McCourt Frank, Teacher Man, Harper
Perennial, ISBN 0-00-722802-3, 258 pages, 2005
In this book Frank McCourt turns his attention to subjects
closest to his heart: teaching--why it's so important, why
it's so undervalued--and storytelling. From everyone of
these captivating pages it is clear that from the very start
he seized his students' attention by telling great stories.
And here he does it again, for us.
McCullin Don, Don McCullin,
Jonathan Cape London, ISBN 0-224-07118-1, 296 pages,
2003
Don McCullin is one of the greatest photographers of
conflict in our time. His career has covered much of the
latter part of the twentieth century, a relentlessly
photographed century steeped in conflict. This book is
conceived on a scale that does justice to his extraordinary
life.
McCullin Don, Unreasonable
Behaviour, Vintage, ISBN 0-099-43776-7, 297 pages, 2002
'McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real
journalism is all about' THE TIMES
McDougal Susan, The Woman who
wouldn't talk, Carrol & Graf Publishers, ISBN
0-7867-1302-X, 384 pages, 2003
Susan McDougal's story of how she became a nationally known
felon during Ken Starr's obsessive quest to take down the
Clintons is one of the most fascinating legacies of Bill
Clinton's presidency.
McEwan Ian, Black Dogs, Vintage,
ISBN 0-099-27708-5, 174 pages, 1998
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by
their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an
idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness
so terrifying it alters their lives for ever.
McLaughlin Steven, Squaddie, a
Soldier's Story, Mainstream Publishing, ISBN 1-84596-145-5,
318 pages, 2006
From the harsh realities of basic training to the post-war
chaos of Iraq and the knife-edge tension of Northern
Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army
recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of
everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the
ground'.
Meredith Martin, The State of
Africa, A History of Fifty Years of Independence, Free
Press, ISBN 978-0-7432-3222-7, 752 pages, 2006
The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically in the
fifty years since the indepence era began. As Europe's
colonial powers withdrew, dozens of new states were launched
amid much jubilation and to the world's applause. The
circumstances seemed auspicious. Independence came in the
midst of an economic boom.
Mervin Kevin J., Weekend Warrior,
Mainstream Publishing, ISBN 1-84018-974-6, 350 pages,
2005
A territorial soldier's war in Iraq. Kevin J. Mervin was one
of over 2,000 British Territorial Army soldiers called up to
fight in the Iraq War in February 2003. Based on day-to-day
diary kept throughout his tour of duty, the author's
personal account of the conflict illustrates what it was
like for a 'part-timer' to fight alongside the regular army
during operation Telic, the codename for UK military
movements in Iraq.
Miller Arthur, Reclam, Death of a
Salesman, ISBN 3-15-009172-1, 170 pages, 1984
Miller's most successful play.
Mitchell David, Cloud Atlas,
Sceptre, ISBN 0-340-83320-3, 529 pages, 2004
'A remarkable book, made up of six resonating strands; the
narrative reaches back into the 19th century, to colonialism
and savagery in the Pacific islands, and forwards into a
dark future, beyond the collapse of civilisation. It knits
together science fiction, political thriller and historical
pastiche with musical virtuositiy and linguistic exuberance:
there won't be a bigger, bolder novel this year'. Justine
Jordan, Guardian
Mondon Bernard, Les grandes heures
du Tour de France au Ventoux, Editions Equinoxe, ISBN
2-84135-391-5, 94 pages, 2003
Ce champ de bataille, entre ciel et terre, a
été l théatre d'exploits et de drames
qui figurent désormais dans la légende du Tour
de France. Abondamment illustré, ce livre, riche en
émotions et fertile en rebondissements,
célèbre des "Géants de la route"
à l'assaut du "Géant de Provence".
Moore Harold G., Joseph L.
Galloway, We were Soldiers once ... and young, Corgi Books,
ISBN 0-552-15026-6, 410 pages, 2002
Vietnam, November 1965. 450 men are dropped by helicopter
into a small clearing in the la Drang Valley and immediately
surrounded by 2'000 North Vietnamese soldiers.
Morgan Marlo, Mutant Message Down
Under, Thorsons, ISBN 1-85538-484-1, 186 pages, 1995
A woman's journey into Dreamtime Australia. Summoned by a
remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals to accompay them on a
walkabout through the outback, she makes a four month long
journey with the 'Real People'.
Murdoch Iris, The Bell, Vintage
Classics, ISBN 0-099-28389-1, 316 pages, 1973
Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband.
Michael Meade, leader of the community, is confronted by
Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual
relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and
exercises discreet authority.
Murray Kevin F., Deep Descent,
Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria, Simon &
Schuster, ISBN 0-7434-0063-1, 300 pages, 2001
Considered the Mt. Everest of diving, the Andrea Doria is
the ultimate deepwater wreck challenge. Over the years, a
small but fanaticalgroup of extreme scuba divers have
investigated the Andrea Doria, pushing themselves to the
very limits of human endurance to explore her-and not all
have returned.
Mydans Carl, Carl
Mydans Photojournalist, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0-8109-1323-2,
207 pages, 1985
He chronicled the Great Depression, he watched Chiang
Kai-shek's troops face the Japanese in the Chinese
countryside. He was with General MacArthur when he landed on
Luzon in the invasion of the Philippines. And he was aboard
the Missouri to witness the Japanese surrender. He's one of
America's most famous and respected
photojournalists.
Nabboli Ernesto,
Una spiaggia rischiosa, Bonacci editore srl, ISBN
88-7573-337-6, 25 Seiten, 1997
Quanti anni hanno? Forse non sono proprio diciottenni come
sembrano. E poi devono avere qualche trucchetto per poter
reggere l'alcol e gli spinelli ch trovano nel loro ambiente
- che forse non è quello che una mamma vorrebbe per
un figlio ...
McNamara Robert, In Retrospect,
the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam, Vintage Books, ISBN
0-679-76749-5, 518 pages, 1996
Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara answers the lingering
questions that surround this disastrous episode in American
history, in a ground-breaking book that is the definitive
insider's account of American policy making in
Vietnam.
Neffe Jürgen, Einstein, Eine
Biographie, Rowohlt, ISBN 3-498-04685-3, 490 Seiten,
2005
Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte eines genialen
Wissenschaftlers-und schildert zugleich eine ganze Epoche.
Beschrieben wird das Leben und Wirken eines Mannes, der
unser aller Weltbild revolutionierte. Und gefragt wird nach
dem Menschen Einstein, der durch sein unkonventionelles
Äusseres die Menschen stets besonders
faszinierte.
Neate Patrick, Musungu Jim and the
great Chief Tuloko, Penguin, ISBN 0-140-28655-1, 376 pages,
2000
When student teacher Jim Tulloh arrives in Zambawi for a
character-building experience, he doesn't realize he's about
to be sucked into the rebirth of a nation.
Needham Jake, Tea Money, Asia
Books, ISBN 974-8237-46-2, 378 pages, 2000
Barry, it seems, was fronting for Russian mobsters when he
turned the hapless bank into the private fiancial arm of
crime syndicates, terrorists, and intelligence agencies. Now
he's got a problem. The ABC has been scammed, completely
cleaned out, and Barry figures his new pals will think it
was him.
Obama Barack, Dreams from my
Father, Canongate, ISBN 978-1-84767-438-8, 442 pages,
2009
'Away from my mother, away from my grandparents, I was
engaged in a fitful interior struggle. I was trying to raise
myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of
my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what
that meant.'
Orwell George, Animal Farm,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-118270-9, 112 pages, 1989
'It's the history of a revolution that went wrong-and of the
excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for
the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote George
Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in
1945.
Orwell George, Nineteen
Eighty-Four, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-027877-X, 326 pages,
1989
In Orwell's frightening vision of the future, society is
under the control of Big Brother. Every aspect of life is
closely monitored, while any hint of unorthodoxy is
ruthlessly suppressed by the thought police.
Packer George, The Assassins'
Gate, America in Iraq, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-23043-1,
467 pages, 2006
George Packer's remarkable book is an account of how America
found itself in occupation of Iraq, using the country as a
laboratory for the dissemination of democracy in the Middle
East. The book is also an anatomy of chaos and failure, of
how utopian experiment went disastrously wrong.
Page Tim, Another Vietnam,
National Geographic, ISBN 0-7922-6465-7, 240 pages, 2002
"During the war 'the other side' was faceless. But now, in
these vivid photographs, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
emerge as flesh and blood, and seeing them as such
contributes profoundly to our understanding of the tragic
conflict." Stanley Karnow
Parker Tony, Leben um Leben, 12
Gespräche mit Mördern, Steidl, ISBN 3-88243-509-7,
250 pages, 1998
Tony Parker, Englands berühmtester "Interviewer" hat
mit Mördern gesprochen. Zwölf Mörder,
beiderlei Geschlechts, sämtlich zu lebenslanger Haft,
aus allen Altersstufen und unterschiedlicher sozialer
Herkunft, berichten von der Bluttat.
Parks Tim, Cleaver, Vintage, ISBN
978-0-099-50725-3, 316 pages, 2007
Overweight and overwrought, Harold Cleaver, London's most
successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner,
mistresses and above all television, the instument that
brought him identity and power. It ist the autumn of 2004
and he flies to Milan and heads deep into the South Tyrol,
fetching up in the village of Luttach. His quest: to find a
remote mountain hut, to get beyond the reach of email, and
the mobile phone, and the interminable clamor of the public
voice.
Parra Fito de la, Living the
Blues, Canned Heat's Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and
Survival,, Canned Heat Music, ISBN 0-9676449-0-9, 375 pages,
2000
' A rare first-hand insight into life in a popular band from
the sixties to the present ... Good reading' David Evans,
Music Professor
Pearson Jamie Parker, Digital at
Work, snapshots of the first thirty-five years, Digital
Press, 212 pages, 1992
Digital at Work tells the story of the first thirty-five
years of Digital Equipment Corporation and illuminates the
origins of its unique culture. First person accounts from
past and present members of the Digital community, industry
associates, board members, and friends trace the company's
evolution from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Pelzer Dave, A Child Called 'It',
Orion Non-Fiction, ISBN 0-75283-750-8, 170 pages, 2002
As a child Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by
his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who
played tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her
sons nearly dead.
Pelzer Dave, The Lost Boy, Orion
Non-Fiction, ISBN 0-75284-408-3, 426 pages, 1999
As a child Dave Pelzer never had a real home. Rescued from
an alcoholic, abusive mother, his only possessions were old
torn clothes he carried in a paper bag.
Pelzer Dave, A Man Named Dave,
Orion Non-Fiction, ISBN 0-75284-408-3, 426 pages, 1999
As a child Dave Pelzer was abused by his mother, who
considered him to be an 'it', not a child. But he survived
and lived to tell the his courageous story.
Philbrick Nathaniel, In the Heart
of the Sea, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-653120-2, 302
pages
The sinking of the Nantucket whaleship Essex by an enraged
spermwhale far out in the Pacific in November 1820 set in
train one of the most dramatic sea stories of all
time.
Pirsig Robert M., Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance, Vintage 25th Anniversary Edition,
ISBN 0-099-32261-7, 436 pages, 1999
This book is essentially, three books: an account of a
motorcycle trip from Minnesota to California, a
philosophical meditation on the concept of Quality, and the
story of a man pursued by the ghost of his former self.
Within these three books we find allegory and psychological
tension, a lesson in Eastern and Western schools of thought,
a conundrum about the meaning of the self, a commentary on
America's social and physical landscape, and some helpful
tips on the care and maintenance of the
motorcycle.
Polmar Norman, The Death of the
USS Thresher, The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine
Disaster, The Lyons Press, ISBN 978-1-59228-392-7, 177
pages, 2004
This revised edition of Polmar's 1964 classic is based on
interviews with the Thresher's first comman officer, other
submarine officers, and the designers of the submarine.
Polmar provides recently declassified information about the
submarine, and relates the loss to subsequent U.S. and
Soviet nuclear submarine sinkings, as well as the escape and
rescue systems developed by the Navy in the aftermath of the
disaster.
Prochnau William, Once Upon A
Distand War, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-77265-0, 547 pages,
1995
The American reporters who came to Vietnam in 1961 expected
to write about an exotic little war in a country of tigers
and elephants. What they found instead was a debacle in the
making, in which American pilots flew missions illegally
while their Vietnamese counterparts strafed the presidential
palace. When they reported what they saw, they were
pilloried for it at home. but they ended up making history
simply by telling the truth.
Rankin Ian, Dead Souls, Orion,
ISBN 0-75282-684-0, 482 pages, 1999
A call from an old friend back memories and more than a
little guilt for DI John Rebus of the Lothian and Borders
police. Suddenly seems Edinburgh's streets are crowded with
the lost and forgotten.
Rankin Ian, Let it Bleed, St.
Martin's, ISBN 0-312-96665-2, 302 pages, 1996
In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh
winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road
Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast.
Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless
John Rebus can crunch the numbers.
Rankin Ian, Knots & Crosses,
Orion, ISBN 0-75280-942-3, 226 pages, 1998
'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of
that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you
...?
Rankin Ian, The Black Book,
Orion, ISBN 1-85797-413-1, 340 pages,1993
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John
Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an
unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and
murder.
Rankin Ian, The Falls, Orion, ISBN
0-75284-405-9, 480 pages, 2001
A student has gone missing in Edinburgh and there's very
little for Detective Inspector John Rebus to on apart from
his gut feeling that there's more to this case than a
runaway.
Rankin Ian, Resurrection Men, Ian
Rankin, Orion, ISBN 0-75284-822-4, 484 pages, 2002
Rebus is given an old, unsolved case to work on, in order to
teach him and others the merits of teamwork. But there are
those in the team who have their own secrets, and they'll
stop at nothing to protect them.
Rasimus Ed, Palace Cobra, St.
Martin's Paperback, ISBN 978-0-312-94876-4, 338 pages,
2006
When F-105 pilot Ed Rasimus completed his 100 missions over
Vietnam, he returned stateside to a normal life: sitting at
a desk and teaching student pilots. Two years later, he
volunteered to go for a second tour of duty. Determined not
to die in a losing cause, and relentlessly searching for
that next adrenalin rush, Rasimus and the other F-4 Phantom
pilots continued the ferocious air war in the North -
dodging SAMs and gunning for MiGs - and routinely cheated
death.
Rasimus Ed, When Thunder rolled,
Presidio Press, ISBN 978-0-89141-854-2, 286 pages, 2003
Between 1965 and 1968 , more than 330 F-105s were lost - the
highest loss rate in Southeast Asia - and many pilots were
killed, captured, or wounded because of the Air Force's
disastrous tactics.
Raskin Lee, James Dean: at Speed,
David Bull Publishing, ISBN 1-893618-49-8, 144 pages,
2005
Featuring vivid photographs, personal memoriabila, and
telling reminiscences from his closest friends and family,
James Dean: at Speed captures Jimmy's life both on and off
the screen and reveals an unseen side of this quintessential
American icon. The book unveils dozens of previously
unpublished photos taken by family, friends, and amateur
photographers.
Rawicz Slavomir, The Long Walk,
Robinson London, ISBN 1-84119-240-6, 240 pages, 2000
This is one of the world's greatest true stories of
adventure, survival and escape. Sentenced to 25 years' hard
labour in the Gulags, Rawicz escaped with six
companions.
Redhill Michael, Martin Sloane,,
Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-73936-7, 282 pages,
2001
A novel that brilliantly and movingly explores the vagaries
of love and friendship, the burdens of personal history, and
the enigmatic power of art.
Reid Peter C., Well made in
America, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-051801-7, 220 pages,
1990
Lessons from Harley-Davidson on being the Best. In 1981,
Harley-Davidson was about to go under. That's when 13 of its
managers purchased the ailing motorcycle company. Saddled
with $83 million in debts, they had to avoid bankruptcy,
restore employee commitment, revolutionize manufacturing
processes, and dramatically increase sales. Today the
company realizes nearly $700 million in revenues,
productivity has increased by 50 percent, and the future
looks rosy indeed. How did this group of pioneering
ownder-managers pull off the Harley-Davidson "miracle". Here
is the inside story, told in a style that will leave you
spellbound. You'll also find an array of eminently practical
tactics and techniques for any manager who wants to take on
world-class competition-and win.
Remarque Erich Maria, Im Westen
nichts Neues, Im Propyläen-Verlag Berlin, 288 Seiten,
1929
Dieses Buch soll weder eine Anklage noch ein Bekenntnis
sein. Es soll nur den Versuch machen, über eine
Generation zu berichten, die vom Kriege zerstört wurde
- auch wenn sie seinen Granaten entkam.
Der Weg zurück, Im Propyläen-Verlag Berlin, 368
Seiten, 1931
Eine Generation auf dem Weg vom Schützengraben
zurück ins Zivilleben. Eine Fortsetzung des
Erfolgsroman "Im Westen nichts Neues".
Rendell Ruth, The Keys to the
Street, Arrow, ISBN 0-09-918432-X, 378 pages, 1997
Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life
of someone she didn't know. And this generous act led
directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with
alistair.
Rifkin Glenn and Harrar George,
The Ultimate Entrepreneur, The Story of Ken Olsen and
Digital Equipment Corporation, Prima Publishing, ISBN
1-55958-022-4, 336 pages, 1990
In 1957, Ken Olsen and a fellow MIT engineer, stocked with
$70,000 of venture capital, set off to tiny Maynard,
Massachusetts to start a computer company. Today, DEC,
second only to IBM, has sales of over 13 billion dollars,
and Olsen was called by Fortune, "the most successful
entrepreneur in the history of American business.
Roberts Monty, The Man who
listens to Horses, Arrow, ISBN 0-09-979461-6, 376 pages,
1996
The book reveals Monty Roberts' deep love and understanding
of horses. We learn how, through his relationship with
various horses, he gradually acquired his knowledge of their
language and developed the methods which enabled him to
perform his 'miracles'.
Rodham Clinton Hillary, Living
History, ISBN 0-7432-2224-5, Simon & Schuster, 534
pages, 2003
Like many other women of her generation, Hillary Rodham
Clinton grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to
her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course
through unexplored terrain-responding to the changing times
and her own internal compass-and became an emblem for some
and a lightning rod for others.
Rohrbach Carmen, Jakobsweg -
Wandern auf dem Himmelspfad, Goldmann, ISBN 3-442-12520-0,
296 Seiten, 1995
Carmen Rohrbach hat sich mit Rucksack und Pilgerausweis auf
den Weg gemacht, dem jahrhundertealten Pilgerpfad zu folgen.
Von den karstigen Höhen der Pyrenäen über die
Hochebene Altkastiliens nach Galicien, durch Sonne, Hitze
und Staub entpuppte sich die Wandererung als Abenteuer, das
oft bis an die Grenze der totalen Erschöpfung
reichte.
Rowling Joanne K., Harry Potter
and the Philosopher's Stone Bloomsbury, ISBN
0-7475-3274-5, 222 pages, 1997
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is
rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a
deadly duel. The Reason: Harry Potter is a
Wizard!
Rowling Joanne K., Harry Potter
and the Chamber of Secrets, Joanne K. Rowling, Bloomsbury,
ISBN 0-7475-4960-5, 366 pages, 1998
Harry Potter is a wizard. he is in his second year at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he
know that this year will be just as eventful as the last
...
Rowling Joanne K., Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-4629-0,
318 pages, 1999
When Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense.
There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the
sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to
guard the school.
Rowling Joanne K., Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-4624-X, 636
pages, 2000
Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It
is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, and there are spells to be learnt and Divination
lessons (sigh) to be attended. Harry is expecting these:
however, other quite unexpected events are already on the
march.
Salinger Jerome David, Catcher in
the Rye, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-023750-X, 192 pages, 1994
This new edition reproduces, for the first time in Penguin
Books, the original American text. A 16-year old American
boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through
at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the
workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think
and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and
acquaintances?
Schama Simon, A History of
Britain, Volume 1, At the Edge of the World? Simon Schama,
BBC Worldwide, ISBN 0-563-38497-2, 400 pages, 2000
Change-sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes chocking and
violent-is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal
and grippingly written history, especially the changes that
wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. At
the heart of his history lie questions of compelling
importance for Britains's futures well as its past: What
makes or breaks a nation?
Schama Simon, A History of
Britain, Volume 2, The British Wars, BBC Worldwide, ISBN
0-563-53747-7, 542 pages, 2001
The story is brought vividly, sometimes disturbingly, to
life by Schama's evocative narrative, filled with ordinary
and extraordinary people. Here are the great and
gifted-Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Wren. But here, too,
are the less known, though no less extraordinary, such as
Olaudah Equinano, an African enslaved from childhood, who
learnt to write, and wrote an unforgettable tale.
Schama Simon, A History of
Britain, Volume 3, The Fate of Empire 1776-2000, BBC
Worldwide, ISBN 0-563-53457-5, 576 pages, 2002
The story opens on the eve of a bloody revolution, but not a
British one. The French revolution never quite crossed the
Channel, though its spirit of fiery defiance and Romantic
idealism did, sparking off a round of radical revolts and
reforms that gathered momentum over the coming century-from
the Irish Rebellion to the Chartist Petition.
Schein Edgar H., DEC is dead, long
live DEC, the lasting legacy of Digital Equipment
Corporation, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1-57675-305-0,
319 pages, 2003
DEC was one of the pioneering companies of the computer age,
making its mark with major innovations including the
minicomputer, networking, the concept of distributed
computing, speech recognition, and more. Yet the company
ultimately failed as a business.
Schnyder Peter (Hrsg.), Martin
Born, Hanspeter Born, Sepp Renggli, Hugo Koblet-Der
"Pedaleur de charme", AS Verklag, ISBN 3-909111-18-1, 230
Seiten, 2005
Hugo Koblet war der Gegenpol zu Ferdi Kübler, und in
den frühen Fünfzigerjahren enfachten die beiden K
in der Schweiz eine einmalige, nie dagewesene
Radsportbegeisterung.
Als erster Ausländer gewann Hugo Koblet 1950 den Giro
d'Italia, ein Jahr später die Tour de France. Dreimal
war er Sieger der Tour de Suisse, daneben gewann er
unzählige Rennen auf der Strasse und auf der Bahn.
Schnyder Peter (Hrsg.), Martin
Born, Hanspeter Born, Sepp Renggli, Ferdy Kübler "Ferdy
National", AS Verklag, ISBN
978-3-909111-25-1, 219 Seiten, 2006
Ferdy Kübler ist der erfolgreichste Schweizer
Radrennfahrer und noch heute - 50 Jahre nach seinem
Rücktritt - eine der populärsten Schweizer
Sportpersönlichkeiten. Erstmals wird seine Laufbahn in
einem Text- und Bildband gewürdigt. Diese Publikation
dokumentiert ein Stück Schweizer Zeitgeschichte, vor
allem aber ist sie eine Homage an den "Schweizer Sportler
des 20. Jahrhunderts" - an "Ferdy National".
Segal Patrick, L'homme qui
marchait dans sa tête, Flammarion, ISBN 2-253-01959-3,
316 pages, 1988
Une balle de revolver dans le dos. En une seconde, voici
qu'un garçon de vingt-quatre ans, sortif accompli,
est chassé die monde des hommes. Condammé
à vivre à mi-hauteur, sur un fauteuil roulant.
Un an plus tard, jour pour jour, Patrick Segal s'embarque
pour la Chine. Seul avec son fauteuil. Il a
dédidé de vivre. Deux ans plus tard, il
entreprend le tour du monde.Patrick Segal a su d'instinct
que c'est dans la tête que se forgent les victoiresl.
L'homme qui marchait dans sa tête est le récit
de ce combat intérieur mais c'est aussi un journal de
voyage insolite et coloré, une formidable aventure.
L'homme qui marchait dans sa tête a obtenu le Prix des
Maisons de la Presse.
Seifer Marc J., Nikola Tesla,
Citadel Press, ISBN 0-8065-1960-6, 543 pages, 1998
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for
radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron
saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and
previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the
definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the
founding father of modern electrical technology.
Selvadurai Shyam, Cinnamon
Gardens, Anchor Books, ISBN 1862300739, 386 pages, 2000
In this novel set in 1920s Ceylon, the Cinnamon Gardens is a
residential enclave of wealthy Ceylonese. Among them is
Annalukshmi, an independent and high-spirited young teacher
intent on thwarting her parents' plans to arrange her
marriage.
Sewell Kenneth and Preisler
Jerome, All Hands Down, The True Story of the Soviet
Attack on the USS Scorpion, Simon & Schuster, ISBN
978-0-7432-9798-1, 238 pages, 2008
Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion
sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of ninety-nine
lives. The tragedy occured during the height of the Cold War
between the United States and the Soviet Union, and it
followed by only weeks the sinking of a Soviet sub near
Hawaii.
Sharpe Tom, The Midden, Pan
Books, ISBN 0-330-34742-X, 344 pages, 1996
Timothy Bright doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought
up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he
can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why
friends he recruited as Lloyd's Names no longer want to talk
to him.
Sheehan Neil, A Bright Shining
Lie, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-72414-1, 861 pages,
1989
When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John
Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an
enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a
charismatic soldier who put his life and career on teh line
in an attempt to convicee his superiors that the war should
be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had
embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that
the war had been won.
Sher Julian, 'Until you are dead',
Steven Truscott's long ride into history, Vintage Canada,
ISBN 0-676-97381-7, 584 pages, 2001
In 1959, a popular schoolboy, just fourteen years old, was
convicted and sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of a
twelve-year-old classmate. That summer, Canada lost its
innocence and the shocking story of Steven Truscott became
stamped in the nation's memory.
Sillitoe Alan, The Loneliness of
the Long Distance Runner, Flamingo, ISBN 0-586-09241-2, 174
pages, 1994
Smith is an incorrigible and definat young rebel, inhabiting
a no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. Watched over
by a phlegmy sunlight, as his steady jog-trot rhythm
transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he
wonders why, for whom and for what is he running.
Sillitoe Alan, Saturday Night and
Sunday Morning, Flamingo, ISBN 0-586-09005-3, 220 pages,
1994
Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy
to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting
young rebel of a man, he knows what he wants and he's sharp
enough to get it.
Sillitoe Alan, The Broken
Chariot, Flamingo, ISBN 0-00-649305-X, 300 pages,
1999
When Herbert Thurgarton-Strang wa seven, his parents took
him away from India and left him in a boarding school in
England that had everything to recommend it but
pity.
Simon William L., Young Jeffrey S.
, iCon Steve Jobs, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN
0-471-72083-6, 360 pages, 2005
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a
business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and
iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources in Silicon
Valley and Hollywood. the authors provide new pespectives on
the legendary creation of Apple in a Silicon Valley garage
and detail Job's meteoric rise as the prototypical digital
prodigy.
Singh Simon, Fermat's last
Theorem, Fourth Estate, ISBN 1-85702-669-1, 352 pages,
1998
The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest
minds for 358 years.
Singh Simon, The Code Book, Fourth
Estate, ISBN 1-85702-879-1, 400 pages, 1999
Dramatic, compelling and remarkably far-reaching, The Code
Book will forever alter your view of history, what drives it
and how private your last e-mail really was. At the end of
this book, you will find the world-wide Cipher Challenge -
for which there is a £10,000 reward, donated by the
author, to be given to the first reader to successfully
crack it.
Seymour Gerald, Archangel, Gerald,
Punch, ISBN 0-00-617299-7, 352 pages, 1983
Michael Holly, mechanical engineer, is in Moscow to clinch a
deal for his firm, and to run a small errand for the British
Intelligence Service. But he is arrested. The Sowiet secret
police will exchange him for a key Soviet agent being held
in London. Unfortunately the agent dies prematurely, and
Holly gets fifteen years in a desolate labour
camp.
Simpson Joe, Dark Shadows Falling,
The Mountaineers, ISBN 0-89886-549-2, 206 pages, 1997
Climbers on the South Col of Everest rest in their tent,
looking on as an Indian climber slowly dies in the snow not
thirty yards away. Film footage is later shown on
television. How could this have come to pass? Have the noble
values that once characterized mountaineering been lost
forever?
Simpson Joe, The beckoning
Silence, Vintage, ISBN 0-099-42243-3, 284 pages, 2002
Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but
marred by death. He has endured the painfulattrition of
climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the
perilously activity to which he has devoted his
life.
Simpson Joe, Touching the Void,
Vintage, ISBN 0-09-977101-2, 205 pages, 1997
'One of the absolute classics of mountaineering ... a
document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the
rarest compulsion'. Sunday Times.
Smith Sebastian, Allah's
Mountains, The Battle for Chechnya, Tauris Parke Paperbacks,
ISBN 1-85043-979-6, 288 pages, 2006
The Caucasus is a hugely strategic part of the world -
sandwiched between Iran, Turkey and Russia and crossed by
some of the most valuable oil pipelines in the world. The
latest conflict to sweep across the Caucasus began when
Vladimir Putin sent troops into Chechnya in 1999. Thousands
of Russian soldiers and thousands more Chechens - both
rebels and civilians - died and Chechnya's towns and cities
were bombed beyond recognition.
Smith Starr, Jimmy Stewart Bomber
Pilot, Zenith Press, ISBN 978-0-7603-2824-8, 287 pages,
2005
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World
War II, Jimmy Stewart was unique. at the height of his fame,
Jimmy Stewart enlisted in the army several months before the
Pearl Harbor attacks woke Hollywood and the rest of the
nation to the reality of war.
Sobel Dava and William J. H.
Andrewes, The illustrated Longitude, Fourth Estate, ISBN
1-84115-233-1, 216 pages, 1999
The true story of a lone Genius who solved the greatest
scientific problem of his time. This is a richly illustrated
version of Dava Sobel's classic story.
Sontag Susan, In America, Vintage,
ISBN 0-099-47321-6, 387 pages, 2001
In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's
greatest actress, emigrate to the United States and travel
to California to found a 'utopian' commune outside the
village of Anaheim.
Standage Tom, The Victorian
Internet, Berkley Science/History, ISBN 0-425-17169-8, 214
pages, 1999
A colorful tale of scientific discovery and technological
cunning, the book tells the story of the telegraph's
creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries,
oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it.
Steinbeck John, A Russian Journal,
Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-118633-X, 212 pages, 2000
A classic work of reportage from John Steinbeck and famed
war photojournalist Robert Capa.
Steinbeck John, Of Mice and Men,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-118510-4, 106 pages, 2000
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their
place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work,
George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in
the world except each other and a dream-a dream that one day
they will have some land of their own.
Steinbeck John, Once There Was a
War, Penguin Classic, ISBN 0-14-118632-1, 233 pages,
2000
If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will
refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of
writing.
Stock Dennis, James Dean - fifty
Years ago, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, ISBN
0-8109-5903-8, 128 pages, 80 duotone illustrations, 2005
Like a restless ghost, James Dean (1931-1955) continues to
haunt us. Though he died fifty years ago, the enigmatic star
of East of Eden (1955), Rebel without a Cause (1955), and
Giant (1956) still symbolizes the mystery and torment of
adoloscence - an image that his sudden, violent death fixed
forever in the public mind.
Stora Bejamin , Algeria,
1830-2000, a short history, Cornell University Press, ISBN
0-8014-8916-4, 283 pages, 2001
This book contains a wealth of reliable and useful
historical information, including detailed treatments of the
country's politics, economics, society, and foreign
relations.
Stout Rex, And be a Villain,
Bantam, ISBN 0-553-23931-7, 242 pages, 1994
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's
greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero
Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all
time.
Stravitz David, New York, Empire
City 1920-1945, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, ISBN
0-8109-5011-1, 160 pages, 2004
New York City between the wars. The city of Babe Ruth,
checker cabs, martinis before they had flavors, and where
Zelda Fitzgerald plunged into the fountain at the Plaza
Hotel. This is the city that comes alive in glorious detail
in this book. One hundred historical photographs of New
York's notable streetscapes and landmarks accompanied by
architectural historian Christopher Gray's informative
catptions and insightful essay create a guidebook to the
city of that vanished era.
Süskind Patrick, Das
Parfüm - Die Geschichte eines Mörders, Diogenes,
316 Seiten, 1985
Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte eines Monsters, das
nicht liebt, fast schmerzunempfindlich scheint, weder von
Weibern noch von Männern, noch von irgendwelchen
sinnlichen Genüssen irgendetwas hält. Ausser dem
einen: der Lust am Duft. Der Lust an der idealen Essenz des
gewonnenen oder zu gewinnenden Parfüms. Einzig
Gerüche sind die Welt für jenen Jean-Baptiste
Grenouille, dessen Weg Leichen säumen. Joachim Kaiser,
Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Süskind Patrick, Parfume,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-009993-X, 263 pages, 1987
A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled
by a disgusted loathing of humanity. Clever, stylish
absorbing and well worth reading. Literary
Review.
Suter Martin, Richtig leben mit
Geri Weibel, Diogenes,, ISBN 3-257-23273-X, 116 Seiten,
2001
Es gibt Leute, die werden das Gefühl nicht los, dass
sie bei jedem neuen Trend hinterherhinken. Andere dagegen
wissen erst gar nicht, was sie lifestylemässig bisher
alles falsch gemacht haben. Beides sind optimale Kandidaten
für "Richtig leben mit Geri Weibel".
Tanner Stephen, Afghanistan, A
Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the
Taliban, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81233-9, 346 pages,
2002
For over 2500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan
has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has
witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilisations -
Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, and Tartars, and in more recent
times, Britain, Russia, and America.
Taylor Peter, Provos - The
IRA and Sinn Fein, Peter Taylor, Bloomsbury, ISBN
0-7475-3392-X, 1997
Never befor has an outsider had such access to record the
remarkable history of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein. The
íProvosí - from their dramatic beginnings to
the critical juncture they have reached today.
Terrill Marshall, Steve McQueen
Portrait of an american Rebel, Plexus Publishing, ISBN
0-85965-231-9, 460 pages, 1993
This definitive biography relates vivid, firsthand accounts
of McQueen's extraordinary career, and digs deep into his
personal and professional relationships with such fellow
actors as Ali McGraw, Dustin Hoffman, Edward G. Robinson and
Ann-Margret, all of whom have ranked him one of the best
actors in film history.
Updike John, Seek my Face,
Penguin, ISBN 0-141-01116-5, 276 pages, 2002
A gentle and multifaceted meditation on the
nature of life, memory and art. Updike has gone some way
towards fulfilling one of art's great amibitions: to contain
the whole world in a single work.
Verne Jules, Journey to the Center
of the Earth, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-062139-3, 254
pages, 1994
With his nephew and a guide the Professor travels to
Iceland. Their journey to the center of the earth begins on
the summit of a volcano and takes them down through secret
passages, across a desolate underground sea populated by
prehistoric marine monsters, on what may be a voyage of no
return.
Verne Jules, Twenty Thousand
Leagues under the Sea, Penguin Popular Classics, ISBN
0-14-062118-0, 382 pages, 1994
A mysterious creature, larger and more rapid than a whale,
has been haunting the deep: Professor Aronnax has been
invited to join the task force to rid the seas of the
monster.
Waterhouse Keith, Billy Liar,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-001783-6, 187 pages, 1962
The dimmer his surroundings, the more fantastic are his
compensatory day-dreams. Neither his family nor his
undertaker employers take kindly to his fantasies; nor do
his three girl-friends, at least two of whom he is engaged
to! So Billy wades through a confused tragic-comic Saturday,
as his past lies follow him here, there and everywhere. And
at the end of it all, his bang of revolt peters out in an
adolescent whimper.
Weiner Tim, Legacy of Ashes, the
history of the CIA, Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-51445-3, 700
pages, 2007
For the last sixty years the CIA has managed to maintain a
formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record,
burying its blunders in top secrect archives. Its mission
was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out
to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the
words of President Eisenhower, "a legacy of
ashes."
Weisman Alan, The World Without
Us, Thomas Dunne Books, ISBN 978-0-312-34729-1, 324 pages,
2007
In the world without us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly
original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the
planet: he asks us to envision our Earth without us. In
this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our
massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish
without human presence; which everyday items may become
immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would
be crushed into mere seams of reddish rocks; why some of our
earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and
how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some
man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the
universe.
Welchman Gordon, The Hut Six
Story, M&M Baldwin, ISBN 0-947712-34-8, 252 pages,
2000
Gordon Welchman worked at Bletchley Park, on the most
important British de-ciphering operations of the war, from
1939 to 1945. Here, unsuspected by the Germans, the famous
Enigma codes were broken, almost continuously throughout the
war. Welchman was a leading figure at Bletchley Park; his
brilliant mathematical mind, and imaginative attack on
apparently insuperable problems, were of inestimable value
in shaping the course of the war and hastening
victory.
Wells Herbert George, The Red
Room, Herbert George Wells, Phoenix, ISBN 0-75380-453-0, 242
pages, 1998
Wells produces some of the finest short stories in the
English language. His earliest published short stories,
'Walcote' and 'Teh Devotee of Art', appeared in 1888 when he
was twenty-two, and his last, 'Answer to Prayer', was
published in 1937. He was thus writing short stories for
almost exactly fifty years.
Whelan Richard, Robert Capa, The
definitive Collection, Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4067-X, 572
pages, 2001
Between 1990 and 1992, Richard Whelan and I reexamined all
of Robert Capa's contct sheets. From the appoximately 70,000
nagative frames that my brother exposed during his lifetime,
we chose 937 images to constitute an in-depth-though
certainly not exhaustive-survey of his finest work over the
entire course his career, from 1932 to 1954. Cornell
Capa
Whitehead Colson, The
Intuitionist, Granta Books, ISBN 1-86207-236-1, 254 pages,
1999
Fusing the classic elements of the noir thriller with
serious racial, political and philosophical questions. A
groundbreaking and marvellously inventive novel.
Wilde Oscar, The Picture of
Dorian, Penguin Popular Classics, ISBN 0-14-062033-8, 256
pages, 1891
It caused outrage when it was first published and marked the
onset of Oscar Wilde's own fatal reputation and eventual
downfall. An evocative portrayal of London life and a
powerful blast against the hypocrisies of Victorian polite
society it has become one of Oscars Wilde's most celebrated
works.
Wilson A. N., Abacus, Dream
Children, ISBN 0-349-11125-1, 278 pages, 1998
When Oliver Gold, distinguished philosopher and near-guru,
moves into the faded North London home of widow Janet Rose,
he confers upon her all-female household intellectual
prestige and the gift of his honourable masculinity. Oliver
Gold becomes the women's adored and cosseted pet, their
touchstone and secular saint.
Woolf Virginia, To the Lighthouse,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-027416-2, 236 pages, 1964
James, the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Ramsay, has a devout
wish to visit the lighthouse, but his father, a rather
pompous, philosophical man, seems determined to disappoint
him. It is only many years later, when the war has brought
dramatic changes to society and to the Ramsay family in
particular that the journey is made under very different
circumstances.
Wozniak Steve, with Gina Smith,
iWoz Steve Wozniak, Headline Publishing Group, ISBN
0-7553-1406-9, 313 pages, 2006
For the first time Steve talks about his childhood, phone
phreaking, pranks, working for Hewlett-Packard, a
life-changing plane crash and and his passion for
teaching.
Wray Michael, Anne Marshall, Chris
Firth, 13 Ghost Stories from Whitby, East Coast Books, ISBN
0953640507, 52 pages, 1999
From witches and wizards and long-tailed buzzards and
creeping things which run in hedge bottoms. Good Lord,
deliver us!
Wray Michael, Anne Marshall, Chris
Firth, The haunted Coast, East Coast Books, ISBN 0953640531,
46 pages, 2002
13 traditional ghost stories from the Yorkshire
Coast.
Wray Michael, Anne Marshall, Chris
Firth, The Witches of North Yorkshire, East Coast Books,
ISBN 0953640515, 62 pages, 2001
Inside this little book you will meet some of the North
Riding's more notorious witches.
Wrong Michela, In the Footsteps of
Mr Kurtz, Fourth Estate, ISBN 1-84115-421-0, 310 pages,
2000
Mr Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the
remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after
Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, Michaela
Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Motubu Sese Seko
collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption.
Young Jeffrey S. , Simon William
L., Young Jeffrey S. , iCon Steve Jobs, John Wiley
& Sons, ISBN 0-471-72083-6, 360 pages, 2005
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a
business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and
iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources in Silicon
Valley and Hollywood. the authors provide new pespectives on
the legendary creation of Apple in a Silicon Valley garage
and detail Job's meteoric rise as the prototypical digital
prodigy.
Zimmermann Urs, Im Seitenwind,
edition 8, ISBN 3-85990-028-5, 214 Seiten, 2001
Urs Zimmermann, der beste Schweizer Radprofi der 80er-Jahre,
hat einen Roman geschrieben, der weitgehend auch eine
Autobiographie ist. Oder eine Autobiographie, die so bewegt
und fantastisch ist, dass sie zum vielschichtigen Roman
geworden ist.
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