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Travels in Alaska
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99No armchair naturalist, renowned conservationist John Muir was a rugged explorer who stoked his love for nature with strenuous hikes and demanding expeditions. Travels in Alaska recounts Muir's 1899 journey to the northern frontier with a crew of scientists, as well as some of his subsequent sojourns in the region. more...
SS Panzer Battalion
The History Press 2012; US$ 8.74It was January 1940. The Western Front was still paralysed, but, at the Adolf Hitler Kaserne, a new battalion of SS troops were being put through the most gruelling training programme in the history of the German army. SS Assault Regiment Wotan were preparing for a mission so secret that it was known only by its codename, Zero. more...
Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival
HarperCollins Publishers 2008; Not AvailableA true story of death and survival in the world?s most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into a water-filled crater in the Kalahari Desert to raise the body of a diver who had perished there a decade before. Only one returns. Unquenchable heroism and complex human relationships amid the perils of extreme sport. more...
Daily Rituals
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 24.95Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, ?time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.? Kafka is one of 161 inspired?and inspiring?minds,... more...
Drama and Pride in the Gateway City
UNP - Nebraska Paperback 2013; US$ 26.95By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color,... more...
This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
E-Reads 2004; US$ 9.99THIS KIND OF WAR is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the Korean-American conflict that began in 1950 and is still affecting United States' foreign policy. Fifty years later, not only does this enlightening account give details of the tactics, infantrymen and equipment, but also chronicles the story of military and political unpreparedness... more...
The Forgotten Soldier
Orion 2013; Not AvailableThe devastating true story of a young Franco-German soldier trapped in the lethal machinery of total war on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. more...
The Soul of the Indian
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95This book constitutes a comprehensive study of the religious life of American Indian tribes before the arrival of Europeans. It is written in Eastman's characteristically engaging style. more...
Barbarians at the Gate
HarperCollins US 2003; US$ 13.99With more than 500,000 copies sold, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history: the frenzy of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us the view from the top of the financial ladder to the social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. more...
Seabiscuit
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 16.00BONUS: This edition contains a Seabiscuit discussion guide and an excerpt from Laura Hillenbrand?s Unbroken . Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the... more...









