P1 Book Review: Blood Lessons: What Cops Learn From Life-Or-Death Encounters
with Lt. Dan Marcou When does it happen? When do police officers find themselves in that mud room between life and death, fighting desperately to enjoy all the rest of the days of their life? As Trooper Matt Swartz explains in Chuck Remsberg?s newmore
On Complaining
Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by William McCuaig Buy this book ?We are certainly living in strange times? is how Elisabeth Roudinesco?s Philosophy inmore
Nabokov's last, unfinished, novel finally to be published by his son
Contents of final work by the author of 'Lolita' has intrigued readers for decades Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share It is one of literature's most fiercely-guarded secrets, a great author's unfinished masterpiece that has lainmore
Sex, sore feet, and a 90-year-old up for the Costa
Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End has made it to the final few contenders in a competition that pits experience against youth Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share A 90-year-old, whose work is described as a biographicalmore
Books: Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
The Great Inflation and its Aftermath The Past and Future of American Affluence By Robert J. Samuelson 309 pages. Random House. $26. Robert J. Samuelson, an economics columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post, says historians have not understood themore
Experience against youth on Costa shortlist
A nonagenarian whose work is described as a biographical account of 'sex, love and sore feet', as well as impending death, has been shortlisted for the Costa book awards. Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End has made it to the final few contenders inmore
Book reviews: Hell's angels
1. Felix Salmon (www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/): A British expat, Salmon writes the Market Movers column for Portfolio magazine?s website. Over the past year, he has become one of the most consistent sources of instant insight intomore
Reviews of I See You Everywhere and The Flying Troutmans
As far as fraught relationships go, its hard to top the bond between sisters. (Although mothers and daughters probably take the ultimate prize.) Two new novels center on the complex, competitive love between sisters, complicated by mental illness. Inmore
Seven:The Deadly Sins and The Beatitudes by Jeff Cook">Book Review: Seven:The Deadly Sins and The Beatitudes by Jeff Cook
Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. These are the 7 deadly sins that up and coming Zondervan author Jeff Cook lays next to Jesus? Beatitudes. On the one hand you have 7 things that please the body, often times the mind but not themore
Children's Book Reviews
Jefferss (The Incredible Book-Eating Boy) forest creatures have dots for eyes and sticks for legs; they live in tidy holes in the ground, equipped with home offices and washing machines. Responsible citizens, they notice that trees in their forest aremore
BOOK REVIEW: An inspirational read for women
It doesnt matter how much money you have in the bank or how many diamonds you wear. I had all that, and it did not make me a happy person. These are the words of Edith Venter as told to Heather Dugmore in 'The Art of Good Living'. The celebritymore
Book Review - A Visual History of the English Bible
I wanted A Visual History of the English Bible to be a standout. A book that I spied in a catalog and knew I just needed to read, it deals with a topic I love and in a way that is fresh and compelling. Few readers of the English Bible really understandmore
Memories of an SOE historian, By MRD Foot
Total recall of war, spies and lies by an old-fashioned secret agent Reviewed by Peter J Conradi sday, 18 November 2008 Bookmark & Share MRD Foot was dropped into France in 1944, captured, paralysed by a pitch-fork through a vertebra on his fourth bravemore
Book Review - Never Again - Africa's Last Stand [book review]
Africa is not an easy continent to write about. In or outside of the academe, Africais not easily understood. And indeed, the misconceptions and stereotypes aboutthe continent can be perplexing and discouraging. Adding to the continent'sdilemma is themore
Books: Book review: 'American Lion'
American Lion By Jon Meacham 483 pages. Random House. $30 Early in 'Moby-Dick,' Melville announces his intention to celebrate the 'democratic dignity' of ordinary men. To them he shall 'ascribe high qualities, though dark.' For support in this endeavor,more
Kultura publishing company organises November Book Review
Skopje, November 15 (MIA) - Kultura publishing company kicks off Saturday the November Book Review, where readers will have the chance till Nov. 23 to buy not only the latest, but also some old editions of the company with a discount. Over 300 booksmore
Children's Book Reviews
Jefferss (The Incredible Book-Eating Boy) forest creatures have dots for eyes and sticks for legs; they live in tidy holes in the ground, equipped with home offices and washing machines. Responsible citizens, they notice that trees in their forest aremore
Books: Book review: 'A Great Idea at the Time'
A Great Idea at the Time The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books By Alex Beam 245 pages. PublicAffairs. $24.95. The humble book has survived many attacks on its integrity over the centuries, whether from tyrannical clerics or fearfulmore
Book review: 'A Great Idea at the Time'
A Great Idea at the Time The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books By Alex Beam 245 pages. PublicAffairs. $24.95. The humble book has survived many attacks on its integrity over the centuries, whether from tyrannical clerics or fearfulmore
Book review: How real is the Gulf model? -by Khaled Ahmed
Constitutional Reform and Political Participation in the Gulf; Edited by Abdulhadi Khalaf & Giacomo Luciani; Gulf Research Centre, Dubai, 2006; Pp307; Price 20; Available in Bookstores in Pakistan The prosperous Gulf States have emerged as the model formore
Book review: Iran: Empire of the Mind
Obama should find shelf-space for this story of a friend turned foe, says Stuart Kellymore
Book review: George Younger
George Younger did us few favours by shielding Scots from unfettered Thatcherism, argues Michael Fry By David TorranceBirlinn, £30IN THE new Scotland, David Torrance has done as much as anybody to get the art of political biography going. It wasmore
Book review: Fleck, by Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray's take on Goethe is a comic melange of blasphemy and pop culture, finds Peggy HughesTwo Ravens Press, £8.99 ALONG time in the imagination, and several years in the making, Gray's Fleck began as an attempt at 'an imitation â not amore
Book review: La's Orchestra Saves the World, by Alexander McCall Smith
Polygon, £14.99Review: VANESSA CURTIS McCALL Smith's new standalone novel is a bit of an oddity. Widowed La is recovering from the death of her philandering and unloving husband Richard and finds herself alone in an old Suffolk house belonging to hismore
Book review: The Enforcer: A Life Fighting Crime
By Graeme Pearson and Kevin O'Hare Black and White Publishing, £9.99Review: DAVID LEASK HERE'S the first tip. If you are going to commit a crime, don't leave your specs behind. Your prescription, it turns out, can be absolutely unique, as revealing asmore
Audiobook review: Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance written and read by Barack Obama
Obama's current mega-seller was written more than 10 years ago when he was 33. Anyone who had forecast then that Obama, who admitted experimenting with drugs in his youth, would in another decade be the first black American President - and a publishingmore
Review: The Fighter by Tim Parks
In this collection of lively and thought-provoking essays, Tim Parks explores the theme of conflict and the role it plays in politics, literature and that universally recognised battle: World Cup football. From Dostoevsky and Zola to Mussolini and themore