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Monthly articles focus on food, fitness, beauty, and child care using the resources of the Good Housekeeping institute. From human…
interest stories and social issues to money management and travel, the magazine will encourage positive living for today's woman.
The former South Vietnamese ambassador to the United States recounts the three decades of struggle in Vietnam. He contends that…
when the Americans sent in troops they took over the war and a exhibited a blatant disregard of South Vietnamese interests
A companion volume to a four-part PBS television series about U.S.-Soviet relations. The authors explore U.S.-Soviet rivalry---particularly in the context…
of the prospects for peace and accommodation occasioned by the rise of Soviet leader Gorbachev
This detailed account of the Sicilian conquest in World War II reveals a campaign bedeviled by Anglo-American disagreements both in…
the planning and the execution. Includes portraits of many of the commanders--Alexander, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton, and Bradley
An account of everyday life in Illinois by a New Yorker who was to become a leading feminist of her…
time. The author spent almost 5 years during the 1830s in the prairie land and recounts her experiences in this miscellany of frontier adventures, folklore, and natural history. 1988.
In part a memoir of a close-knit Australian family and in part Morgan's reconstruction of her genealogy and the mystery…
that has shrouded it. Not until she was fifteen did Morgan learn that the family was part Aborigine. Some years later, encouraged by her white husband, she decided to write a family history, and traveled back to her grandmother's birthplace where she recorded the stories of her relatives
The author traveled to South Africa to seek out the voices of the young people growing up under apartheid, a…
system of strict racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-Europeans. Into the first-person account of her travels she weaves interviews with urban and rural youth who are English, Afrikaner, black, Asian, and coloured. For grades 6-9 and older readers
Detailed account of China's strongman from his early family life, through his work-study days in France in the 1920s, to…
the 1980s. As a youth he left China to study in Paris where he trained to be a locksmith at Renault. Deng later studied in Moscow, where he learned the art of revolution. The appraisal also covers Chinese Communist party history
In recording the history of the Soviet Jews since the October Revolution, Pinkus has researched archives, private papers of individuals…
and institutions, and various periodicals and documents. The history is divided into four parts: historical background; construction, from the revolution to the beginning of World War II; destruction, up until Stalin's death; and post-Stalin history
A general history of Antarctica that traces the continent's exploration throughout three distinct historical phases, beginning with Captain Cook's search…
for Antarctica more than two hundred years ago. This volume offers a personalized vision of the planet's last true wilderness
Four essays based on the author's travels into Africa. The essays are on: Dian Fossey, protector of the mountain gorillas;…
Jean-Bedel Bokassa, self-proclaimed emperor of the Central African Republic; the "naturalists' promised land"--the island of Madagascar; and the search for the source of AIDS. Some descriptions of violence
Tells the four-thousand-year history of Jerusalem in simple prose and verse. The city enjoyed peace for the first one thousand…
years. And despite three thousand years of being battered, burned, and rebuilt, Jerusalem still shines in the moonlight. For grades 3-6 and older readers
The author fought as a revolutionary against Batista, and, though mistrustful of Castro from the start, became a high-ranking official…
in a regime he did not believe in. He learned to say and do whatever was necessary to stay alive until his escape. Some strong language
A study of FDR's performance on the way to America's entry into World War II--a diplomatic, intelligence, strategic, military, and…
political tightrope act. Roosevelt is portrayed as extremely cautious and calculating, continually keeping his options open. Covers only the nine-month period between March 1941 and the December attack on Pearl Harbor
Ben Weir, a Lebanon-based American Presbyterian missionary for thirty years, was seized in 1984 in Beirut and held hostage for…
495 days. The ordeal of his kidnapping and captivity is recounted, along with the efforts of Carol Weir, his wife, who joined with families of other hostages in seeking to obtain release of their family members. For young adult and adult readers
Looks at the American Revolution from the British point of view. Examines how Britain's relations with rival sea powers influenced…
the course of events that allowed the colonies to defeat Britain. c1988.
Biography of the "ruthless, devious, and subtle man" who headed British intelligence during World War II and was said to…
be the model for "M" in the James Bond stories. Rumored to be the natural son of Edward VII, Sir Stewart Menzies belonged to the generation of "golden lads" that all but perished in 1914. An Etonian and World War I hero, he devoted himself to counterintelligence, finally emerging as "C"--chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service--just as World War II began