The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid & the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comedy world`s brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race & identity, sharing jokes & insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life. As host of the US hit show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, he provides viewers around the globe with their nightly dose of biting satire, but here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a deeply personal, heartfelt & humorous look at the world that shaped him. Noah was born a crime, son of a white Swiss father & a black Xhosa mother, at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents` indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the first years of his life, bound by the extreme & often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, take him away.A collection of eighteen personal stories, Born a Crime tells the story of a mischievous young boy growing into a restless young man as he struggles to find his place in a world where he was never supposed to exist. Born a Crime is equally the story of that young man`s fearless, rebellious & fervently religious mother
- a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence & abuse that ultimately threatens her own life. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-&-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Noah illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit & an unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a personal portrait of an unlikely childhood in a dangerous time, as moving & unforgettable as the very best memoirs & as funny as Noah`s own hilarious st&-up. Born a Crime is a must read.
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A special edition of Born Free by Joy Adamson reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan`s 70th anniversary. In 1960, Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa
- the lioness she had rescued as an orphaned cub & raised to adulthood at her home in Kenya. But, as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heart-breaking decision to return her to the wild. Born Free is an enchanting, inspirational true story about a truly remarkable relationship, & was the subject of an award-winning 1966 film starring Virginia Mc Kenna & Bill Travers.
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Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, & raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself. Since the first publication of Born Free & its sequels Living Free & Forever Free, generations of readers have been enchanted, inspired & moved by these books` uplifting charm & the remarkable interaction between Joy & Elsa. Millions have also come to know & love Born Free through the immortal film starring Virginia Mc Kenna & Bill Travers. But here is the chance to rediscover the original story in this 50th anniversary edition, in the words of the woman who reared Elsa & walked with the lions. ...

Capturing readers in a story exposing the complexities of a diverse region peopled by characters such as Cortes, Eva, & Juan Peron, Sister Inor Suarez & Che Guevara, John Chasteen focuses on the major events of Mexico, Brazil & Argentina. Working within a chronological framework, this text incorporatres the histories of individual countries into the history of a region, providing students with a foundation for further study. It embraces race, class & gender as principle issues in the Latin American experience & recognizes relationships between sociocultural, political & economic forces. ...

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change & upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. But what was it really like to go from living under communism one minute, to capitalism the next? What did the East Germans make of capitalism? & how do they remember the GDR today? Are their memories dominated by fear & loathing of the Stasi state, or do they look back with a measure of fondness & regret on a world of guaranteed employment & a relatively low cost of living? This is the story of eight citizens of the former German Democratic Republic, & how these dramatic changes affected them. All of the people in the book were born in East Germany after the Berlin Wall was put up in August 1961, so they knew nothing other than living in a socialist system when the GDR fell apart. Their stories provide a fascinating insight not only into everyday life in East Germany, but about how this now-vanished state is remembered today, a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall. ...

Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, & Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, & facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, & with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives, & those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born, before they & their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive & rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers` incredible journey
- first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved & almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; & finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage & kindness of strangers, including guards & civilians, helped save these women & their children. Sixty-five years later, the three `miracle babies` met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other ”siblings of the heart.” In Born Survivors, Wendy Holden brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays & the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how three mothers & their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care & to love amid inconceivable cruelty.
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Want to save cash, your child`s imagination & possibly even the planet? This is the book you need. Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a small person`s imagination & access to a little outdoor space. Organised seasonally & then by material, it lets parents skip straight to Spring & then to ` Blossom`, ` Grass` or ` Earth` etc. according to their present need. Everything you need to engage in & create all of its hundreds of activities can be found in your kitchen cupboard. No expensive art supplies or outward-bound kit required. All you need is the ` Toolkit` listed at the front of the book. These ordinary household essentials include recycled food containers, scraps of paper, string, glue & an empty jar or two. Along the way Hattie Garlick talks to families, organisations, cultures & communities who have rebuilt their relationships with nature with extreme or inspiring results, & introduces scientists, psychologists & other experts who explain why nature matters in our kids` modern lives. ...

Joy & heartbreak combine in this bittersweet tale of a champion greyhound's journey through life
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At the heart of ” Born to Run” lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons & are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga & sandals. A small group of the world`s top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe`s secrets & then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy & smart observation, Mc Dougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, & elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles & for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark. ...

` 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 Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl`s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That`s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humour & originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger & darkness that fuelled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as ` The Big Bang`: seeing Elvis Presley`s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, & the rise of the E Street B&. With disarming candour, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, & shows us why the song ` Born to Run` reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star`s memoir. This is a book for workers & dreamers, parents & children, lovers & loners, artists, freaks or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock & roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force & sweep. Like many of his songs (` Thunder Road`, ` Badlands`, ` Darkness on the Edge of Town`, ` The River`, ` Born in the U.S.A.`, ` The Rising`, & ` The Ghost of Tom Joad`, to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen`s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter & the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences. ...