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Always Unreliable
All three volume of Clive James's sharp and funny autiobiography where first we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With "Falling Towards England", we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpieces he's yet to compose, and worries about his wardrobe. Finally "May Week was in June" sees Clive at Cambridge University, where he enthusiastically involves himself in college life (generally female lives) until May week - not only in June but also a fortnight long - when he gets married. The rest is history, or awaiting a fourth volume of memoirs.
By: Clive James
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330418812
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.95
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Hot, Flat and Crowded
The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all who are concerned about the state of the world in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy - which he calls 'Geo-Greenism' - is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating it is what we need to make us all healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure. As in The World Is Flat, he explains a new era - the Energy-Climate era - through an illuminating account of recent events. He sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs the world will need he shows that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive and, he explains why America must lead this revolution - with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation. Hot, Flat and Crowded is classic Thomas L.
Friedman - fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the world we live in today.
By: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9781846141294
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $49.95
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Deliver Us from Evil
We have all seen press and television pictures of winding lines of refugees in Africa or on mountain passes in Europe and felt that 'something must be done'. In this urgent new book William Shawcross reveals what lies behind decisions by the 'international community' to intervene in a situation on humanitarian grounds, and what happens when the troops and aid agencies move in. It is a story of noble aspirations and often ignoble real politik. To tell the story of international peacekeeping in the last ten years Shawcross has gone where the warlords and the action are - Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Bosnia, Iraq, Kosovo, Somalia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and East Timor - and made full use of the privileged access he has had to the peacemakers, including global policy-makers, leading diplomats and key humanitarian aid officials. All of us would wish to be delivered from evil: Shawcross demonstrates what actually happens when our wish appears to be granted.
By: William Shawcross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747553120
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.95
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Stanley and Sophie
A wise, wry book about two border terriers - by the keenly intelligent, prize-winning writer who lost her heart to them. 'I fell in love with a prideful, tense bundle of muscle and sinew that stood seventeen inches high. You would see a small brown dog I saw perfection.' So begins the story of Kate Jennings's unexpected love affair with two border terriers, first Stanley, then a few years later Sophie. A fiercely intelligent writer, an astute observer of people and her surroundings, a recent widow not ready to face her grief, an irascible Australian with no time for indulgent New Yorkers and their pampered pets, Jennings falls hard. Swept off her feet and surprised by the depth of her love, Jennings's life is suddenly overtaken by Stanley and when she is seduced into getting him a companion, by the pair of them. First and foremost, STANLEY AND SOPHIE is a book about animals, but it is also about grief and grieving - for Jennings's husband, for the city after 9/11, for the world. And it is a book about the way two rivalrous, demanding, idiosyncratic, exhilarating dogs gave Jennings daily purpose and showed her the way to her own heart.
By: Kate Jennings
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9781741667493
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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