Anthony Summers
Award-winning biographer and journalist Anthony Summers was educated at Oxford University. He began his career in broadcast journalism working for Granada TV's "World in Action" program and later BBC News. As Senior Film Producer with Britain's [... more]
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Accidental Mp
 From Amazon.co.uk: If the BBC had found me a small war somewhere, none of the rest of this story would have occurred. There is a photograph in An Accidental MP of Martin Bell, brow furrowed, mouth open, eyes glazed with what could be incomprehension or [... more]
CDN$34.06
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Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the ...
Unsustainable sustainability: Jaccard's book is a good survey of many of the issues and problems surrounding energy use. But he pays lip service to some critically important issues. Despite a few brief glimpses outside, Jaccard takes the usual economist' [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Do Not Adjust Your Set
From Amazon.com: Monty Python completists will especially appreciate Do Not Adjust Your Set, a precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus starring Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Eric Idle, along with fellow writer-performers David Jason and Denise Coffey. [... more]
CDN$22.99
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Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the ...
Unsustainable sustainability: Jaccard's book is a good survey of many of the issues and problems surrounding energy use. But he pays lip service to some critically important issues. Despite a few brief glimpses outside, Jaccard takes the usual economist' [... more]
CDN$73.95
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Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions
Ver well researched work of excellence: It is not common to see 500 references in a book of 280 pages, and most of them are easy to check through major libraries or even the internet. Johnstone builds her case with undisputable documentation of the [... more]
CDN$20.02
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Prophesy
From Amazon.com: With Beyond Skin, Nitin Sawhney set a high bar for global fusion music. Now he's raised it with Prophesy, taking advantage of a larger budget to bring in Indian strings, a South African choir, a Chicago cabbie, soul singer Terry Callier, [... more]
CDN$16.99
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No Room at the Table: Earth's Most Vulnerable Children
Not Suitable for Children: The news media has already informed us of the world's youngest victims of poverty, violence, sexual abuse, and disease, but Fr. Dunson has given these children a personal identity. In each story, from Uganda to El Salvador, we [... more]
CDN$15.63
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The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril
From Amazon.com: There's good news and bad news. That's the inside scoop on the state of journalism from Washington Post editors Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser, whose book The News About the News sheds light on the changes wrought on the [... more]
CDN$16.95
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Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
Blueprints or blundering?: Darwin's great insight was the discovery that Nature isn't operating to a plan. For over two millennia, Western European thinkers, whether secular or religious, had contended otherwise. Nature, they claimed, whether divinely [... more]
CDN$19.57
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Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
Self indulgent but interesting: This is a commissioned book. Basically, a self-indulgent pseudo-autobiography written in an interview style. "my own estimation of myself is more important to me than other people's" (P249) The interview style [... more]
CDN$41.99
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