The View from the Ground (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback)

The View from the Ground (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback)

First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil, and social issues and crises, from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what

Face Of War (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback / softback)

Reports from one of the Worlds greatest war

The Weather in Africa: Three Novellas (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback)

Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on

Trouble I've Seen (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback / softback)

Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White

Martha Gellhorn - A Life (Moorehead Caroline)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the life of one of the twentieth century's most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth

Travels with Myself and Another (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback / softback)

Nature of the City: Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up (Armour Tom)(Paperback)

This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies, it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation -

View from the Bridge (Miller Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The Myth of the Eastern Front (Smelser Ronald)(Paperback)

From the 1950s onward, Americans were quite receptive to a view of World War II similar to the view held by many Germans and military personnel on how the war was fought on the Eastern Front in Russia. Through a network of formerly high-ranking Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr officers who had served on

Londonopolis: A Curious History of London (Latham Martin)(Paperback)

From above ground and below, from the outer suburbs to the inner city, and from the medieval period to the modern day, discover the wonder that is London. Which tube station once housed the Elgin Marbles? What lies behind a Piccadilly doorway that helped Darwin launch his theory of evolution? And

Educational Role of the Family - A Psychoanalytical Model (Harris Martha)(Paperback / softback)

This tract was commissioned from Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris in 1976 by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programs that would support families in their educational task. It was included in Sincerity: Collected Papers of Donald

Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy (Long Martha)(Paperback / softback)

Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that she is to get an education. Her initial

Love and Ruin (McLain Paula)(Paperback / softback)

In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also finds herself unexpectedly - and uncontrollably - falling in love with

A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Nguyen Tan Hoang)(Paperback)

A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural

Reporting from Iraq (X Books: Total War): On the Ground in Fallujah (Cooper Candy J.)(Paperback)

Reporting from the ground in Fallujah High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design and astonishing photos are the building blocks of the XBooks, a new series of books designed to engage and motivate reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. With topics based in science, history, and social

Visible Learning Insights (Hattie John)(Paperback)

Visible Learning Insights presents a fascinating 'inside view' of the ground-breaking research of John Hattie. Together, the authors John Hattie and Klaus Zierer embark on a mission to build on the internationally renowned work and combine the power and authority of the research with the real 'coal

Ecosystem Architects (London Martha)(Paperback)

Some animals burrow into the ground, letting air and water reach plants' roots. Others build nests in which to raise young. When they're grown, other animals can reuse the nest. Ecosystem Architects: Animals Building Incredible Structures looks at how animal builders make the world a better place,

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes (Long Martha)(Paperback / softback)

Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. But just when it seems

Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World (Long Martha)(Paperback / softback)

At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever. Before long, Martha is on the way to leading the

Voices from the Carpathia: Rescuing RMS Titanic (Behe George)(Paperback)

The story of Titanic from the little-considered point of view of the passengers on the rescue vessel CarpathiaWhen Titanic began sending out distress calls, one of the first to reply was the Cunard liner Carpathia. As it turned out, Carpathia was the only vessel to reach the scene in time to save

Spitfire on My Tail - A View from the Other Side (Steinhilper Ulrich)(Paperback / softback)

Introducing Cultural Studies (Sardar Ziauddin)(Paperback)

Covering the ground from Antonio Gramsci to Raymond Williams, postcolonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, feminism to queer theory, technoculture and the media to globalization, Introducing Cultural Studies serves as an insightful guide to the essential concepts of this fascinating area of

Book from the Ground: From Point to Point (Xu Bing)(Paperback)

A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that

When The Emperor Was Divine (Otsuka Julie)(Paperback / softback)

Explored from varying points of view - the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train journey; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return home; and the bitter release of their father after four years in captivity, this book tells of an incarceration that can