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By Hubert De Ravinel. 1997
Voici un livre plain de témoignages vivifiants et stimulants sur le fait de "vieillir au masculin." Selon l'auteur, il s'agit…
"d'une période de vie féconde et créatrice ou l'homme intérieur" pour enfin se libérer et s'épanouir. 1997.By Thomas D Boettcher. 1985
By Sally Armstrong. 2002
Denied schooling, employment and adequate health care and confined to their homes unless accompanied by a male relative, the women…
of Afghanistan struggled to survive under the Taliban regime. The author describes the ways these women and girls rebelled against the Taliban. 2002.By Tom Allen. 1999
By Scott Simmie, Bob Nixon. 1989
In the spring of 1989, democracy bloomed in China, spurred on by the protests of Beijing university students. But on…
June 4, 1989, the military crushed the movement in a bloody massacre in Tiananmen Square. 1989.By Marie De Hennezel. 2011
The inevitable ageing process does not have to condemn us to solitude, suffering, degradation or dependency. In this meditation on…
ageing, Marie de Hennezel guides us through the true 'art of growing old'. 2011. Uniform title: Chaleur du coeur empêche nos corps de rouiller.By John Simpson. 2004
John Simpson has spent more than twenty years reporting from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, most recently in defiance of the Iraqi…
authorities, who barred him after the Gulf War of 1990-1. This is his analysis of the West's troubled relationship with the country. He examines the period leading up to the first Gulf War, the increasing tyranny of Saddam's regime in the years that followed, and the reality of his weapons programme. 2003.By Gayle Rivers, James Hudson. 1981
By John Mortimer. 2001
In this bitter-sweet account of the onset of old age, John Mortimer's characteristic vivacity shines through as he lunches with…
the old lags and captains of industry at Wormwood Scrubs, contemplates Barbra Streisand's legs and begins to suffer from the afflictions that cast down his father at a similar age. 2001.By Margot Morcombe, Mark Fielding. 1999
This book is an inquiry-based study for senior history students. The sources provide ample material for readers to question, analyse…
and evaluate, subsequently developing an understanding of the past and guiding readers through the causes, events, leadership, ideology and aftermath of the revolution. This book addresses the curriculum requirements of the West Australian senior history syllabus and those of syllabi in other states. 1999.Six million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly…
relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental health. This book is written for them - and also for the rest of us who don't know what being a carer is all about. The book airs such topics as sex, thoughts of murder, and dealing with the responses of friends and officials who fail to understand. 2006.By Gordon Pape. 2006
Financial expert Pape explains how to avoid a retirement crisis. Offers strategies for setting realistic goals that will help achieve…
financial security for retirement. Provides advice on pension plans, RRSPs, and government benefits, and includes tax-saving strategies. 2006.By Iris Chang. 1997
An account of the Japanese occupation of Nanking, China, that began in December 1937. Describes a prolonged orgy of rape,…
torture, and murder that resulted in an estimated 350,000 deaths. Also explores why this massacre has been ignored by many historians. Descriptions of sex and violence. c1997.By David Cravit. 2008
With the oldest Baby Boomers turning 60, there is talk about what it will mean for welfare rates or health-care…
costs, but what no one is saying is that they are not the same as the older people of any previous generation. The Boomers' simple act of refusing to age is creating a revolution - in education, employment, housing, health and beauty and, of course, sex. Offers a sneak preview of an entirely new society that is coming - a society in which getting your gold watch at the age of 65 will simply mean that the first half of your life is over. Some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.By Sean McMeekin. 2015
Between 1911 and 1923, a series of wars--chief among them World War I--would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor…
states. It is a story we think we know well, but Sean McMeekin shows us that we know far less than we think. Drawing from his years of ground-breaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives, the book brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Middle East--much of which is still felt today. 2015.By Arnold C Brackman. 1987
Recounts a tale of mass inhumanity inflicted upon prisoners of war, civilians, Asian labourers and even the Japanese populations. Unlike…
the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trial received little press at the time and has been almost forgotten since. c1987.By Sherry S Cooper. 2008
Economist Cooper provides financial advice to baby boomers contemplating their retirement. But she also draws from the latest literature in…
psychology and gerontology to offer counsel on how boomers can live the second half of their adult lives productively and in good health. c2008.By Douglas J Mason, Spencer Xavier Smith. 2005
Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you…
meet new people, do you often forget their names-as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember doesn't mean you're losing your mind-or even your memory. It's more likely that stress and information overload are making it harder for you to get information into your head in the first place. No matter what age we are, the way we remember things is a process: understand and pay more attention to the steps of the process, and your memory will improve. 2007.By William Dalrymple. 2007
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or…
panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture. 2007.By Trevor Royle. 1989
Royle looks at the last few years of the two centuries of British rule in India leading up to independence…
on 15 August 1947. The changing political climate of the 1930s and the influence of Gandhi are examined, as are the appointment of Lord Mountbatten as Viceroy and the slaughter during the civil war between Hindus and Muslims in the Punjab. The final chapter looks at events with forty years hindsight. 1989.