Publication date: 2007-08
Dewey code: 355.0092
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Review Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series) / Thorndike Press:Donald Rumsfeld, who as secretary of defense oversaw the army, navy, air force, and marines from 2001 to December 2006, is widely blamed for the catastrophic state of America's involvement in Iraq. In his groundbreaking book Rumsfeld, Washington insider Andrew Cockburn details Rumsfeld's decisions in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and also shows how his political legacy stretches back decades and will reach far into the future. Relying on sources that include high-ranking officials in the Pentagon and the White House, Rumsfeld goes far beyond previous accounts to reveal a man consumed with the urge to dominate each and every human encounter, and whose aggressive ambition has long been matched by his inability to display genuine leadership or accept responsibility for egregious error. Cockburn exposes Rumsfeld's early career as an Illinois congressman, his rise to prominence as an official in the Nixon White House, his careful maneuvering to avoid the fallout of the Watergate scandal, and his skillful infighting as secretary of defense under President Ford. Cockburn also chronicles for the very first time Rumsfeld's subsequent tenure as CEO of G. D. Searle (and his devoted efforts to get governmental approval for the controversial artificial sweetener aspartame) as well as his interesting behavior in secret high-level government nuclear war games in the years he was out of power. President George W. Bush's hasty elevation of Rumsfeld as his secretary of defense proved historic, for it was the triumvirate of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Rumsfeld who plunged America into the disastrous quagmire of the war in Iraq. Cockburn reveals how Rumsfeld's habits of intimidation, indecision, ignoring awkward realities, destructive micromanagement, and bureaucratic manipulation all helped doom America's military adventure. [+]The book challenges the notion that Rumsfeld was an effective manager driven to transform the American military, examines the reasons that Rumsfeld was removed from office, and shows how his second appointment as secretary of defense reflects a deep conflict between President Bush and his father, former president George H. W. Bush. Brimming with powerful revelations, Rumsfeld is sure to emerge as the must-have piece of investigative journalism as America grapples with its difficult involvement in Iraq and the uncertain path the country faces today.
Publication date: 2007-07-13
Dewey code: 920
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Review Hidden Treasures (Large Print Edition): Why Some Succeed While Others Fail / BiblioBazaar:FINELY ILLUSTRATED. "Not Failure but low aim is crime. ".
Publication date: 1993-04
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Review George Adamson: Lord of the Lions (Charnwood Large Print Library Series) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2006-09-27
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Review A Woman's Life-Work (Large Print Edition): Labors and Experiences / BiblioBazaar:At the earnest solicitation of many dear friends I have consented to leave on record some of the incidents that have fallen under my personal observation during three-score and ten years.
Publication date: 2004-06
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Review A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana / Ulverscroft Large Print:Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed with big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was still caught in the amber of the innocent post-war period - people helped their neighbours, went to church on Sunday and kept barnyard animals in their barnyards. Zippy, according to her kindergarten report is 'disruptive in class. Colours outside the lines. Talks out of turn. ' Her parents read it out loud to her. 'Good for you, sweetheart,' her mother says. Her dad gives her a pat on the back.
Edition: Large Print edition
Publication date: 2006-02
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Review The Sky Suspended (Ulverscroft Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died, and survived, is related with candor and quiet modesty in this book. It describes the youthful heroism of his companions, and he captures the atmosphere of everyday life on the ground in wartime Britain, as well as the air battles.
Publication date: 2003-03
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Review Ridings High (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Edition: Large Print edition
Publication date: 2005-11
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Review Just a Boy: The True Story of a Stolen Childhood / Ulverscroft Large Print:This is the story of a boy called Richard. One October night in 1975, Richard, aged five, was alone in the house with his three sisters. It was 3am and their mother hadn't come home yet. He and his oldest sister pulled on their coats over their pyjamas and set off through the foggy streets hand in hand to find her. But at dawn they returned home alone. Within a few hours the police arrived and took the children away. They gave them mugs of hot chocolate and then said, 'you won't be seeing your mother again. ' She was the first victim of the serial killer who to become known as the 'Yorkshire Ripper' and from that moment on Richard and his sisters' childhoods were destroyed. Passed from one violent home to another, subject to physical and mental abuse, the children were forgotten by all except the press. As the killer claimed one victim after the other, and the salacious magazines and headlines multiplied, Richard and his sisters were never able to grieve or recover from the agonising tragedy of their mother's murder. [+]Whilst Richard tried to handle the terror and shame of his violent and deprived upbringing, his sister struggled to deal with memories of the serious sexual abuse she had suffered. Without love or support, they floundered through their teens from drink to drugs to crime. Until one day in the late Nineties when Richard McCann, having reached suicidal rock bottom, decided that no one was going to rescue their lives but him. That no one could solve the past and only he could remedy the future. It was the beginning of an inspirational transformation that saw Richard rebuild his life. Now he is able to tell the story of how the forgotten children of violence suffer, and how they can heal. This is a heartbreaking, up-lifting story of survival and hope.
Edition: Large type edition
Publication date: 2004-05
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Review A Prison Diary: Vol. Two / Ulverscroft Large Print:On July 19, 2001, following a conviction for perjury, international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison. Prisoner FF8282, as Archer is now known, spent the first three weeks in the notorious HMP Belmarsh, a high-security prison in South London, home to murderers, terrorists and some of Britain's most violent criminals. On the last day of the trial, his mother dies, and the world's press accompany him to the funeral. On returning to prison, he's placed on the lifer's wing, where a cellmate sells his story to the tabloids. Prisoners and guards routinely line up outside his cell to ask for his autograph, to write letters, and to seek advice on their appeals. For twenty-two days, Archer was locked in a cell with a murderer and a drug baron. He decided to use that time to write an hour-by-hour diary, detailing the worst three weeks of his life. When A Prison Diary was published in England, it was condemned by the prison authorities, and praised by the critics.
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 200
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Review The Universe: The Hidden Secret of God, for the Year 2000 / Authorhouse:My book is a family history, originating in Philippines, about a loving, kind, generous and simple family brought up in the Church. It has a connection to the world; the beginning, now, and forever. All humanity, the year 2000: a world for peace.
Publication date: 2006-11-14
Dewey code: 920
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Review George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy (Large Print Edition) / BiblioBazaar:The poet and the novelist write largely out of personal experience, and must give expression to the effects of their own history. What they have seen and felt, gives shape and tone to what they write; that which is nearest their own hearts is poured forth in their books.
Publication date: 2007-09-04
Dewey code: 920
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Review Percy Bysshe Shelley / ReadHowYouWant.com:Shirley is an engaging novel which wonderfully depicts women's feelings and thoughts. It is outstanding for its intricate plot and excellent character development. It is a domestic love story and considered as Bronte's most feminist novel.
Authors
- Elizabeth Claghorn Gaskell
Dewey code: 920
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Review The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 2 (Large Print) / Echo Library:This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2006-03
Price: $32.50
Review Lost Souls of the River Kwai / Ulverscroft Large Print:This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Unlike so many (it is said that one Commonwealth POW died for every sleeper laid) Bill lived to tell the tale. Indeed it is remarkable that this story has not been told before, so graphic are Bill's memories of the hardships and horrors. The book goes on to describe how the experiences of those years have affected his life since.
Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 920
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Review A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Large Print Edition): Condensed from Nicolay & Hay\'s Abraham Lincoln: A History / BiblioBazaar:Abraham Lincoln- the sixteenth President of the United States- was born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky on the 12th day of February 1809. His father Thomas Lincoln was sixth in direct line of descent from Samuel Lincoln- who emigrated from Eng.
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 920
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Review From Early Life: Childhood in Crewe (Isis Reminiscence Series) / ISIS Large Print Books:
Publication date: 2006-09-27
Dewey code: 920
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Review Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette (Large Print Edition) / BiblioBazaar:If I were to confound, as is too often done, obstinacy with firmness, I should blush at beginning these memoirs, after having so long refused to do so, and at even increasing their apparent egotism by my style, instead of sheltering myself under cover of the third person; but I will not yield a half compliance to the request of that tender friendship which is far more valuable to me than the ephemeral success which a journal might obtain.
Publication date: 2007-06-29
Dewey code: 920
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Review Something of Men I Have Known (Large Print Edition): With Some Papers of a General Nature- Political: Historical: and Retrospective / BiblioBazaar:
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 920
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Review Where There's Life (Isis Reminiscence Series) / ISIS Large Print Books:Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her own time. She vividly recalls her Edwardian childhood and her life as a young munitions worker during the war, marriage, and life below the poverty line in the 1920s. Early widowhood and the Depression forced her to relinquish her children to Dr. Barnado's homes until, eight long years later, she could afford a home for them again. Her autobiography is a testament to the indomitable spirit, humor and verve that characterized her life. Her extraordinary memory for the sights, sounds, and smells of her youth, her marvelous sense of the comic, and her spirited refusal to do anything but live life to the fullest, make her life one of the most compelling stories of our time.
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 306
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Review Grandmothers Talking (Isis (Hardcover Large Print)) / ISIS Large Print Books:
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Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series), Hidden Treasures (Large Print Edition): Why Some Succeed While Others Fail, George Adamson: Lord of the Lions (Charnwood Large Print Library Series), A Woman's Life-Work (Large Print Edition): Labors and Experiences, A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, The Sky Suspended (Ulverscroft Nonfiction), Ridings High (Isis Nonfiction), Just a Boy: The True Story of a Stolen Childhood, A Prison Diary: Vol. Two, The Universe: The Hidden Secret of God, for the Year 2000, George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy (Large Print Edition), Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 2 (Large Print), Lost Souls of the River Kwai, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Large Print Edition): Condensed from Nicolay & Hay\'s Abraham Lincoln: A History, From Early Life: Childhood in Crewe (Isis Reminiscence Series), Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette (Large Print Edition), Something of Men I Have Known (Large Print Edition): With Some Papers of a General Nature- Political: Historical: and Retrospective, Where There's Life (Isis Reminiscence Series), Grandmothers Talking (Isis (Hardcover Large Print))Top headlines: Lopez to host Miss America pageant again: Mario Lopez will again host the Miss America pageant, which airs Jan. 24 on TLC. ›22:20 1 Dec, Mon Budget tips for the self-employed: Are you self-employed and struggling to pay the bills? 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