With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a free spirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's Chi..
‘Die, and it’s the vile earth; live, and it’s the golden parasol,’went the old Burmese saying. Why not aim for the pinnaclewith everything they had?The vile earth would be theirs soon enough.A year after Burma’s military coup in 1962, Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of the influential newspaper, T..
A second collection of Sir Peter Ustinov's pieces gathered from his weekly column in the European over the past two years.About AuthorThe late Peter Ustinov traveled the globe as an entertainer and actor and served as ambassador at large for UNICEF. For his work in film and the arts he received two ..
" gifted writer, got me thinking seriously about the history, culture and business of professional cage fighting." --The New York Times Book ReviewMixed martial arts is America's fastest-growing sport--around the country, new gyms open their doors and enthusiastic viewers tune in to UFC matches. Al..
What do Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling have in common that has made both of their stories so successful? What does Pullman listen to while he writes - and who, or what, is Dust? Pullman's award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials has been appreciated by readers of all ages. It is now set to welcome ..
When he entered the NBA in 1996 as a high-school star from Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, Kobe Bryant faced enormous expectations. No one can deny that he rose to the challenge. Nineteen years later, Bryant’s status as a Hall of Fame player is assured. During his stellar career, Bryant won five NBA cha..
The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France.On 8 December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a massive stroke and slip..
As a foreign correspondent for ABC television, Eric Campbell has seen a lot. This book, documents the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth, while juggling life, love, friendship and fatherhood.About AuthorEric Campbell began his career as a ..
Albert Wang takes you on a journey back into time with his life story on how he discovered his problem with Schizophrenia as a young person. This compilation of short episodes reveal his inward struggles, questions, trials and triumphs in the various stages of his life. Schizophrenia is a lifelong p..
King of the World is an unforgettable account of Muhammad Ali's rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals.David Remnick concentrates on Ali's early career, when he was still fighting as Cassius Clay. The book begins in Septe..
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintenti..
“Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to RunIn 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’..
Sihanouk: Prince of Light, prince of darkness is the first full-length English-language account of one of the most remarkable and controversial Asian leaders of the 20th century. This critical, unauthorised biography, gives due credit to the achievements of Norodom Sihanouk but also looks behind the..
Menceburi bidang Perubatan bukan sahaja memerlukan kelebihan intelek, tetapi juga ketahanan emosi dan komitmen kerja yang tinggi. Semua pihak yang ingin menceburi atau menggalakkan ahli keluarga terdekat menceburi bidang ini perlu memahami situasi yang bakal ditempuhi. Maklumat di dalam buku ini ama..
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some people mig..
The author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII presents a historical profile of the 16th-century monarch's mistress and sister of Anne Boleyn, challenging popular misconceptions to include coverage of her affair with Francis I, rise and fall in the Tudor court and obscure latter years after she married f..
A huge bestseller in America, David McCullough's JOHN ADAMS tells the extraordinary story of the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- 'the colossus of independence', as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolut..
By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning.In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, b..
Tony Blair is the politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. A Journey is Blair's first-hand account of his years in office and beyond. Here he describes for the first time his role in shaping our recent history, from the afte..
The cofounder of the Amway Corporation tells of the adventures, hardships, faith, and determination that built a company which embodies the true spirit of free enterprise. He shares private struggles, public battles, and personal triumphs, from his early business ventures through his recent funding ..
The inspiring story of business hero and Apprentice Asia star Tony Fernandes As a boy, Tony Fernandes wanted to be a pilot, a footballer or a racing driver. By 2011 he'd gone one better: founding his own airline and his own formula one team, and becoming Chairman of Queens Park Rangers, helping them..
“If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln.”—USA TodayNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · The Christian Science Monitor · St. Louis Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARDEveryone wants to define the..
At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kear's biggest concern is choosing a major--until she walks into a doctor's office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before Lights Out. Inst..
What do they find attractive about me? An underage girl who just lies there, sobbing, looking up at them...as they come to me one by one.This is the shocking true story of how a young girl from Rochdale came to be Girl A - the key witness in the trial of Britain's most notorious child sex ring.Girl ..
50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, Finding My Virginity, the Virgin Founder shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the world's ultimate entrepreneur. In Finding My Virginity, Sir Richard Branson shares the secrets that have seen..
Kenneth Bae was born in Seoul, Korea on August 1, 1968. His family immigrated to the United States in 1985. Kenneth went to high school in California and attended the University of Oregon and Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He held multiple jobs in sales and marketing until he moved to Chi..
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who recently celebrated his ninety-first birthday, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liber-ated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before...
I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terro..
Proclaimed the young fighter from Louisville. Most boxing fans criticised this upstart and few believed he had the skills to justify such a statement. He proved them so very wrong on so many levels. Muhammad Ali became the greatest heavyweight ever to step into the boxing ring and a compelling prese..
Eugene Yu has created a comic strip chronicling the life of Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the time he was born till his retirement as the fourth Prime Minister.Everyone in Malaysia know that Dr Mahathir was the Prime Minister of Malaysia but thats about it. So, to know more about him, I started reading all..
Chin Peng joined the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in January, 1940, as a 15 year old schoolboy. His commitment to the communist cause, the pre-war anti-colonial struggle against Britain and, eventually, guerrilla warfare against the Japanese invaders, saw him propelled rapidly to senior positions..
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life.Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson ha..
The author of this book travels up the course of the San Juan river from the East Coast of Nicaragua to Lake Nicaragua to meet the fishing communities whose lives are led by their proximity to the bull shark...
The compassion, the work ethic and the selflessness of nurses... are given the respect they deserve, and captured beautifully'Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNNAround the clock, highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our love..
A young midwife's account of her training in the Midlands in the 1950s. A SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.It's 1957, and in a shattered post-war world, life goes on. Dot, a pupil midwife, negotiates the streets on her trusty old bicycle - come rain or shine - to help women in need.Living and working under t..
‘In a market awash with true-life memoirs, it is refreshing to find a book that really feels different. As Alex tells each of stories, there are traumatic episodes, lots of humour and plenty of heartache - but more than anything, a genuine insight into the redemptive power of love.’ The Bookseller..
It was the case that shocked the nation.On the evening of 20 April 2011, Tina Nash's life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings and domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenkin, she was subjected to a barbaric and prolonged attack during which Jenkin beat her unconscious and g..
“It's all or nothing. I started late, so age was definitely not on my side. Moreover during my time, we have the Sidek brothers, elder and younger than me, dominating the Malaysia's badminton scene, from behind and from the front. Add in the bread and butter issues, and I was left with no choice but..
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply “The Lady”—has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment when Burma..
The West has called him recalcitrant, racist, anti-Semitic and arrogant. The developing world, however, sees former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as a visionary champion,the rare leader who gave every Third World individual reason to stand tall.Even his harshest critics cannot den..
In his twenty-two years as Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad transformed his country from an agricultural backwater into an industrial powerhouse that would become the seventeenth-largest trading nation in the world.This remarkable achievement was not without controversy, and Dr Mahathi..