Author : Linda Ronstadt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451668732
Includes discography (page 203-225) and index.
Author : Mario Puzo
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345480740
After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work—a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . . The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption—and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Guiliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano. Praise for The Sicilian “Puzo is a master storyteller.”—USA Today “The Balzac of the mafia.”—Time “An accomplished and imaginative writer.”—Los Angeles Times
Author : Edwin A. Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Forest rangers
ISBN :
Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141971304
'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .' Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - Durrell observes the courtships, wars and characters of a variety of creatures, from birds of paradise, to ants and anteaters, among others. Told with his trademark charm and humour, Gerald Durrell's Encounters with Animals is a uniquely entertaining exploration of some of the world's most striking landscapes and the wildlife it is home to.
Author : Dustin Hansen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250080959
"A middle-grade nonfiction book about the history and impact on pop culture of video games"--
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1913724867
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Shooting an Elephant, the fifth in the Orwell’s Essays series, tells the story of a police officer in Burma who is called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant. Thought to be loosely based on Orwell’s own experiences in Burma, the tightly written essay weaves together fact and fiction indistinguishably, and leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, with the words ‘when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys’ echoing from the page. 'A remarkable piece.' (Jeremy Paxman) 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' (Irish Times)
Author : Nils Jacobsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1993-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520082915
"One of the finest works on Latin America to come along in a decade. . . . Jacobsen's methods . . . have relevance for many other areas of rural Latin America. . . [and] will set the standard for some time to come."—Erick D. Langer, Carnegie-Mellon University
Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781447214564
If you want to know how to capture, and then make friends with an ant-eater, an electric eel, or a porcupine or a boa-constrictor, this is your book. When Gerald Durrell goes wild-animal hunting he takes interest and affection along with his nets and traps. And his captives enjoy luxury treatment as he discovers how to feed and train them and prepare them for display in the zoos to which they are destined. This is a fascinating book, for the reader is let into many secrets of the animal hunter's trade, as well as being introduced to a variety of charming and curious animals such as capybaras, hoatzins, and tucotucos, not to mention a tame curassow called Cuthbert.
Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 1999-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0195050002
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.
Author : Penny Scott
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831703855
This book describes a field-level assessment of how people living near the Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda use the park's forest resources. The authors argue that extractive use of a range of timber and non-timber forest products, if properly monitored and controlled, is not necessarily a threat to biodiversity. They explain clearly which data gathering methods were chosen and why, and how the results of this assessment can be used to develop collaborative management agreements with local people. Interdisciplinary and practically oriented, the book should be obligatory reading for protected area managers and others who aim to involve rural people in forest and nature conservation.
