An eye-opening investigation of the new and constantly-mutating drug culture - driven by social networking and rogue chemistry, and enabled by antiquated laws.
An eye-opening investigation of the new and constantly-mutating drug culture - driven by social networking and rogue chemistry, and enabled by antiquated laws.
There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with, but this is an industry that remains obscured from view, until a wreck or a spill puts it briefly in the spotlight. Here, in the company of the merchant seamen who mak…
There are 40,000 freighters on the seas. Nearly everything we eat, wear and work with has spent time on a ship. And yet this global industry has remained unexamined. Rose George travels the high seas with naval fleets, pirates, and illegal floating factories and visits the ports…
'To The Castle and Back' documents the intimate final memoirs from the author/dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the magnificent, bloodless collapse of Soviet Bloc Communism.
This is the paperback edition of the intimate final memoirs from the great dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the magnificent, bloodless collapse of Soviet Bloc Communism. As president first of Czechoslovakia and then of t…
As writer, dissident, and statesman, Havel played an essential part in the changes that occurred in Central Europe during the last decades of the twentieth century, and became a powerful intellectual and political force for the reestablishment of democratic principles and instit…
After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the mini-skirts and quiz-shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasising accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend …
Forfatteren, som er albansk født græsk journalist, beretter i delvis selvbiografisk, delvis fiktiv form om at krydse grænser og leve som migrant
After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the mini-skirts and quiz-shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasising accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend …
After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the mini-skirts and quiz-shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasising accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend …
"An unexpected joy of a book ... it follows an emotional and culinary journey from childhood in pre-independence Uganda to London in the 21st century."'The Sunday Times Through the personal story of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's family and the food and recipes they've shared together, …