Patrick Bateman is twenty-six & works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming & intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America`s greatest dream
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- American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.

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Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats & their fellow travellers, echoed as always in the mythologies of London, through which so many of them also passed. In a book filled with bad journeys & fated decisions, this is an epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder & more, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) & enlivened by false memories, broken reports & strange adventures. With American Smoke Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary. ...

In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious & perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson & Gary Snyder. It is a journey in search of literary ghosts behind mirages of volcanoes & the Old West. In which rumours vie with false memories & unreliable reports to steer our guide from one strange adventure into another. It is an odyssey in which the beginning offers no clues as to where it may end. ”A transatlantic odyssey.. .grippingly haunted”. (Observer). ”A challenging, maddening, fascinating journey.. .enjoy Sinclair`s poetic language & subtly warped sense of humour. Rich & engrossing”. (Metro). ” Sit back & feel the invigorating pulse of beautifully crafted prose.. .wonderful”. (Daily Telegraph). ” Iain Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure”. (Robert Macfarlane). Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize & the Encore Award); Landor`s Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky`s Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire & Ghost Milk. ...

American Sniper: the Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. History is the personal gripping account of Chris Kyle’s extraordinary battlefield experiences as a Navy SEAL during the Iraq war. His skills & precision earned him the title “the Legend” from his fellow American warriors; while the enemy who feared him named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) & placed a bounty on his head. This is a touching biography, with many moving first-person passages elaborating on the pain of war & the tragic loss of teammates. His wife Taya contributes with writing openly about the strains of war on their family. The amazing details that surface provide a powerful insight into how wars are really fought today & makes this book & extraordinary great war memoirs! This edition

Includes:: material by Taya Kyle about the making of the American Sniper Film.SEAL Team 3 Chief Chris Kyle (1974-2013) was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, & numerous other citations. Following four combat tours in Iraq he became chief instructor for training Naval Special Warfare sniper teams. He is the author of American Gun: A history of the U.S. in Ten Firearms. A native Texan, Kyle is survived by his wife Taya, & their two children.

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`[ American War] creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac Mc Carthy did in The Road, & as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America... El Akkad has written a novel that not only maps the harrowing effects of violence on one woman & her family, but also becomes a disturbing parable about the ruinous consequences of war on ordinary civilians.` Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. & when her father is killed & her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time & place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war
- part of the Miraculous Generation
- now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family`s role in the conflict &, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.

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Whether you`re a business person visiting for a week or a foreign student visiting for a semester, American Ways, A Cultural Guide to the United States covers all your basic needs-from the trends & customs of day-to-day activities to the more esoteric customs regarding cultural values, politics, education, religion & relationships. In this revised edition, Gary Althen & Janet Bennett have added material that provides the clearest insights yet into the American psyche & culture, reflecting many of the monumental changes that have occurred since the previous edition`s publication. The authors discuss the lasting effects of the Bush-administration policies & controversies as well as the impact of the nation`s first black president. An updated chapter on social relationships & the effect that networking sites such as Twitter & Facebook have had on meeting people & creating friendships is also included. American Ways helps any newcomer to the U.S. make an easier transition. ...

As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand & cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga & an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs & ephemera from the period. ...