A journalist assigned to China from 1977 to 1979 recounts his experiences, clarifies misconceptions about modern China, assesses its current economic, social, and political problems, and outlines its attitudes towards the West

The Chinese, Portrait Of A People

Fraser, John

Summit Books

The Hammer: Confessions of a Hockey Player

Dave Schultz

"Terrifying...Impressive...A challenging esay that justifies the feminist revival."THE NEW YORK TIMESBestselling author and feminist scholar Marilyn French has written a shocking and fascinating analysis of the history of women's political, cultural, physical, and economic repression that is as controversial as it is utterly convincing. In this stunning work of resarch, Ms. French creates a devastating portrait of today's male-dominated global society, with its underlying aim of destroying, subjugating, or mutilating women. Here is a devastating indictment of our values and an important step toward an urgent public discussion of human morality.From the Trade Paperback edition.

War Against Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Marilyn French

Social Sciences

In Patagonia

Travel

bruce-chatwin

South America

Whale

Literature & Fiction

Jeremy Lucas

Contemporary

Simone de Beauvoir : A Biography

Bair, Deirdre

Biographies & Memoirs

[Onassis, Aristotle] Evans, Peter. Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis. London, Jonathan Cape, 1986. 16 cm x 24 cm. 367 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear, for example a slight tear to the back cover. Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek shipping magnate, who amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was known for his business success, his great wealth and also his personal life, including his marriage to Athina Mary Livanos (daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G. Livanos); his affair with famous opera singer Maria Callas; and his 1968 marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of American President John F. Kennedy. Onassis was born in Smyrna and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War. He moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War. Moving to Monaco, Onassis rivaled Prince Rainer III for economic control of the country through his ownership of SBM and in the mid 1950s sought to secure an oil shipping arrangement with Saudi Arabia and engaged in whaling expeditions. In the 1960s Onassis attempted to establish a large investment contract, Project Omega, with the Greek military junta, and sold Olympic Airways which he had founded in 1957. Onassis was greatly affected by the death of his 24-year-old son, Alexander, in a plane crash in 1973, and died two years later. (Wikipedia) Peter Evans, former award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent, was born and lives in London. His books have included biographies of Peter Sellers and Brigitte Bardot, and a recent novel, The Englishman's Daughter. (from the backcover).

Ari: The Life & Times of Aristotle Onassis

EVANS, Peter

Bleeding Heart

FRENCH, MARILYN

For fourteen-year old Nan and her younger sister Mary, the trials of convent life blend uneasily with their innocent yet peculiar home life, where the maid regales them with tales of a lurid past. But harsh reality is looming, a reality that in 1920s Dublin, is very shocking - and very adult. By the author of ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY.

Holy pictures: A novel

Clare Boylan

Literary

After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new idea: the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all.

The swimming pool season

Tremain,Rose

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