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Michael Winner: Winner Takes All: A Life of Sorts
Michael Winner... the things around them. We have a psychotic need to believe something else in our very shallow and commercial surroundings.' David Sterratt, Christian Science Monitor, 24th May 1978. 'If a movie runs too long everybody thinks he knows.
Those Feet: A Sensual History of English Football
David WinnerIn this playful, witty and highly original look at English soccer, David Winner, author of the acclaimed Brilliant Orange, journeys to the heart of an essential English pastime and sheds new light on the true nature of a rapidly changing ...
The Making of Cabaret
Keith Garebian1972 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS AND WINS Best Picture (nomination) Best Actress (winner) Liza Minnelli Best Supporting Actor (winner) Joel Grey Best Director (winner) Bob Fosse Best Adapted Screenplay (nomination) Jay Presson ...
Dodgers: The award winning debut literary crime novel
Bill BeverlyWinner of the British Book Award for Best Crime & Thriller Novel 2017 Winner of the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award 2016 Winner of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2016 Winner of the LA Times Book Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the ...
The Sellout: A Novel
Paul BeattyWinner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year ...
The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for ...
Colson WhiteheadWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK ...
The Winner
David BaldacciAcclaim for David Baldacci 'The page-turner of the season' The Times 'Baldacci inhabits the skin of his creations - tripping us up with unexpected empathy and subtle identification' Sunday Express
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo* Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013* * US National Book Award 5 Under 35 * * Winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014* * Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2014* * Winner of a Betty Trask Award 2014* ‘To play the country-game, ...
The Glorious Heresies: Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize ...
Lisa McInerneyWINNER OF THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 'A rich, touching, hilarious novel' Financial Times Maureen didn't mean to kill a man, but what can a poor dear do when she's surprised by an ...
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Eimear McBrideWINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's ...
Saving the Young Men of Vienna
David KirbyWinner of the 1987 Brittingham Prize in Poetry In 'The Peaceable Kingdom' of a David Kirby poem the framing of an identifiable voice and a strong, encompassing closure brings and blinds together the paradoxical, the funny, the sad, the ...
Critical Essays on Post-colonial Literature
Bijay Kumar DasThe Present Book Is An Attempt To Analyse Some Of The Outstanding Post-Colonial Writers Like Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize Winner 1997), Vikram Chandra (Commonwealth Prize Winner 1997), Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize Winner), Margaret Atwood ...
Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection ...
David Alistair YalofWinner of the 2000 Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book on the American Presidency Drawing on the papers of seven modern presidents-and firsthand interviews with key figures like Edwin Meese, Ramsey Clark, and Gerald Ford-David Alistair ...
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
David Brion DavisWinner of several national awards including the 1967 Pulitzer Prize, this classic study by David Brion Davis has given new direction to the historical and sociological research of society's attitude towards slavery.
Italy: The One and Only ; a Century of Photography ; 1900 - 2000
Franco LefevreInventor of the Wireless, Nobel Prize Winner 1909, ca 1935 (Fototeca 3M Italia, Milan) Paola Agosti Rita Levi Montalcini, 1986 Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine ( Agosti Archives, Rome) Carlo Valsecchi Carlo Rubbia, 198"4 Nobel Prize Winner ...
Practicing Sustainability
PreviewGuru Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, David Green, David Koon, Penny Low. Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics " Guruprasad Madhavan. Barbara Oakley David Green. David Koon. Penny Low Editors Practicing Sustainability 2) ...
The Man Code: A Woman's Guide to Cracking the Tough Guy
David GoodWith The Man Code, Bachelor Pad winner and Bachelorette fan favorite David Good empowers women by helping them decipher the unspoken rules that govern masculinity.
David Hare Plays 3: Skylight; Amy’s View; The Judas Kiss; My ...
David HareThis is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.
Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
David ShieldsDavid Shields reads his own life—reads our life—as if it were an allegory about remoteness and finds persuasive, hilarious, heartbreaking evidence wherever he goes. Winner of the PEN / Revson Award?
Champlain's Dream
David Hackett FischerWinner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master ...
Hold 'em Poker for Advanced Players
David Sklansky" Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece
Understanding Ian McEwan
David MalcolmThis is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize.
Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today's Complex ...
R. David LankesIf libraries aren't about books, what are they about? In Expect More, David Lankes, winner of the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, walks you through what to expect out of your library.
International Congress on Medieval Studies
More editions... Classical Literature in the Middle Ages: Reception History Sponsor: Virgil.org Organizer: David Scott Wilson-Okamura, Macalester College Presider: David Scott Wilson-Okamura And the Winner Is: The Struggle for Achilles' Arms in a Middle ...
Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All ...
Steven HillFixing Elections shows our whole 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures.
Tyler's Last
David WinnerTYLER'S LAST is an homage to Patricia Highsmith, the last years of her life, her work's obsessions and the twisting mythology that has tied them together.
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World
David WinnerInsightful biographies into the lives, inspirations, and influences of some of the world's most prominent and powerful leaders.
Around the World in 90 Minutes: + Extra Time and Penalties
David WinnerA unique World Cup diary from the author of Brilliant Orange and Those Feet.
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