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Olga's Story
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 26.00When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother? s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of the 20th century. Born in remote Siberia in 1900, Olga Yunter was the youngest of five children. As a teenager during the Revolution, she was... more...
Olga's Story
Doubleday Canada 2011; US$ 22.95When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother? s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of the 20th century. Born in remote Siberia in 1900, Olga Yunter was the youngest of five children. As a teenager during the Revolution, she was... more...
Olga's Story
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableOlga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberia. A girlhood played out against the backdrop of the China trade changed forever, when, at seventeen, Olga joined her brothers in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Death and retribution followed. Olga was forced to flee to China, rubies sewn into her petticoats. Twice more... more...
Running the Show
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableFrom Sierra Leone to Fiji, Australia to Sri Lanka , Running the Show is a vivid portrait of empire and of men from another age, who formed so much of the world we live in today. Running the Show is the story of ordinary men, who in their way, were heroes. Made up of episodes from the lives of governors serving around the British Empire, it... more...
The A-Z Encyclopedia of Food Controversies and the Law
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 165.00This two-volume set is a broad compendium of the law, policies, and legal influences that affect the food on our plates today. more...
Fields of Vision
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 29.95A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south. William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy,... more...
Another South
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 28.95Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of... more...
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