 Golden Boy Datos Golden Boy. Booth, Martin. Picador. Paperback. Golden Boy. At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a gweilo, a ´pale fellow´ like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all - but his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past.. 9780312426262. 0312426267. 342pag. 24x16x2.Ingles (English). |
 It-s Not the Big That Eat the Small . . . it-s the Fast That Eat the Slow Datos It´s Not the Big That Eat the Small . . . it´s the Fast That Eat the Slow. Haughton, Laurence. Harper Collins. Paperback. It´s Not the Big That Eat the Small . . . it´s the Fast That Eat the Slow. Authors argue that only the swiftest of corporations will thrive in the 21st century. This book will show you how to think and move faster than your competition.. 9780066620541. 0066620546. 262pag. 20x13x1.Ingles (English). |
 Axis: A Study Bible for Teens (NKJV, 7262) Datos Axis: A Study Bible for Teens (NKJV, 7262). Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson. Hardcover. Axis: A Study Bible for Teens (NKJV, 7262). This Bible is designed to entice teens to read and study the Bible for themselves, showing them through unique features and engaging design that God´s Word is timeless and relevant to their culture today. Teen-friendly book introductions. Combined biblical and secular timelines - connect every book with the history teens learn at school or home. Axis Points explain biblical terminology and basics of the Christian faith. Person to Know articles provide in-depth looks into the lives of key biblical figures. Walk the Walk segments teach biblical truth and how to live it out today. Bible reading plan, topical index, maps, and more.. 9780718019464. 0718019466. 1429pag. xx.Ingles (English). |
 Gray Matter Datos Gray Matter. Braver, Gary. Forge. Hardcover. Gray Matter. Rachel Whitman has everything. She´s young, attractive, and affluent. Her husband is the brilliant CEO of his own company. They have a big new house in a flossy Boston suburb. They have all the brand-name ´toys´ that go along with wealth. And they have a gorgeous, sweet little six-year-old son named Dylan. But Dylan has learning disabilities. Although intelligence isn´t everything, Rachel lives in a community where the rewards for brainpower are conspicuous. She fears her son will grow up never fully appreciating the wonders of life. Rachel cannot accept that her child is less than perfect. Tortured by the idea that something she did in the past caused Dylan´s problems, Rachel becomes obsessed with a secret and expensive medical procedure that claims to turn slow children into geniuses. Should she and her husband sacrifice their new fortune on the risky, experimental procedure for the sake of their son´s happiness?. 9780312876135. 0312876130. 400pag. 24x16x3.Ingles (English). |
 Vines and Climbers (Ortho-s All About) Datos Vines and Climbers (Ortho´s All About). Ortho. Ortho Books. Paperback. Vines and Climbers (Ortho´s All About). Vines are easy to grow, forgiving of injury, and can be used for dramatic landscape details.´Ortho´s All About Vines´ is your guidebook to using vines artfully whether they twine around posts and supports, curl around shrub stems, clabber up a trellis, or reach across an arbor.An extensive selection guide of more than 100 vines gives you detailed growing instructions.SC 96 pages.. 9780897214261. 0897214269. 96pag. 10.89x8.16x0.33.Ingles (English). |
 Understanding Iraq Datos Understanding Iraq. Polk, William R.. HarperCollins Publishers. Hardcover. Understanding Iraq. Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk. Iraq sits on the world´s largest supply of oil, and with the world´s energy requirements continuously rising, Iraq will play an ongoing role in the global economy and the political environment throughout the Gulf region and the Middle East. Polk´s concise, authoritative overview of Iraq´s history shows how the pattern of outside intervention was established first by the Ottoman Turks and the Persian Safavids and later by England, Russia, and Germany. After World War I came British rule, followed by a brief and uneasy period of independence that sparked Iraqi nationalism, leading Saddam Husain to power with American military and financial aid and covert CIA involvement. The Iraq-Iran War and the invasion of Kuwait was followed by the Gulf War, the sanctions period, and the Bush administration´s decision to invade. Finally, there is the American occupation and the challenges, opportunities, and options that Iraqis and Americans face now and in the future. NOTE: This is a Scratch and Dent version and accordingly MAY NOT have a dust jacket.. 9780060764685. 0060764686. 221pag. xx.Ingles (English). |
 The Angry Island: Hunting the English Datos The Angry Island: Hunting the English. Gill, A.A.. Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. The Angry Island: Hunting the English. Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact, it is plain old fury that is the wellspring for England´s accomplishments. The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time. They´re incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy, and fractious. They can be mildly annoyed, really annoyed and, most scarily, not remotely annoyed. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. The English itch inside their own skins. They feel foreign in their own country and run naked through their own heads. Perhaps aware that they´re living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, cul-de-sacs and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They´ve built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don´t like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there´ll be no misunderstandings. The Angry Island by turns attacks and praises the English, bringing up numerous points of debate for Anglophiles and anyone who wonders about the origins of national identity. This book hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island.. 9781416531739. 1416531734. 227pag. xx.Ingles (English). |
 Calling the Midwest Home Datos Calling the Midwest Home. Greene, Bob. Wildcat Canyon Press. Paperback. Calling the Midwest Home. Midwesterners are different... Midwesterners will tell you that they are a rare breed -- different from their neighbors to the north, south, east, or west. Ask them why and they´ll explain it´s because of the midwestern code of ethics, which demands that they be honest, help neighbors when they need it, and use common sense on a regular basis. Filled with fascinating facts and unforgettable stories, Calling the Midwest Home is a tribute to Midwesterners everywhere. With generous wit, Carolyn Lieberg gives permission to those who live in the Midwest to revel in its unequaled and varied history and culture. To those who live elsewhere, she offers an enchanting glimpse of life ´in the Middle.´. 9781885171122. 1885171129. 227pag. 19x15x2.Ingles (English). |