This is the page-turning true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby-and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family & set in motion the second longest cold-case in US history. In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant`s mother, & she identified the abandoned boy as her son. The family spent the next fifty years believing they were whole again-but Paul was always unsure about his true identity. Then, four years ago-spurred on by the birth of his first child, Emma Faith-Paul took a DNA test. The test revealed that he was definitely not Paul Fronczak. From that moment on, Paul has been on a tireless mission to find the man whose life he`s been living-and to discover who abandoned him, & why. Poignant & inspiring, The Foundling is a story about a child lost & a faith found, about the permanence of families & the bloodlines that define you, & about the emotional toll of both losing your identity & rediscovering who you truly are. ...

This is Ayn Rand`s story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism & presents an exalted view of man`s creative potential; it is a book about ambition, power, gold & love. ...

The western United States is a region of astonishing open space which has profoundly shaped the American character. Here Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit with almost sacred power. His essays describe journeys--both physical & spiritual--to areas as remote as they are beautiful. ...

The first single-volume history of the mutual relations between the constituent parts of the UK (Engl&, Scotl&, Wales, Northern Ireland), made topical by the recent devolution developments in Scotland & Wales. By comparison with the United States, the history of the United Kingdom as an undivided entity has been quite short. This book describes the history of each constituent part, their interaction, & the effect of external events. As soon as British history is seen as an integral part of world (especially European) history, the perspective alters drastically. Until 1803 France was optimistically assumed to be part of the realm. Less than a century elapsed between 1829, when the grant of a very restricted franchise to Catholics made the inclusion of Ireland more than a political fiction, to 1922, when the Irish Free State emerged. Scotl&, with England the main constituent of the UK since 1707, has retained its own legal system, administration & established church (the Queen changes her religion each time she passes Berwick). Wales retains a distinctive culture & language, albeit one on an expensive life-support machine. ...

It is short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. It is a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful & eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information & global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, & the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style & tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities & sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows & anxieties of a networked world? & how do we live in public, with these recoded private lives? Tackling ideas of time, space, friendship, commerce, pursuit & escape, & moving from Hamlet to the ghosts of social media, from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, from Facebook politics to Oedipus, The Four-Dimensional Human is a highly original & pioneering portrait of life in a digital landscape. ...

The Waldseemuller Map of 1507 introduced an astonishing collection of cartological firsts. It was the first map to show the New World as a separate continent, alongside Europe, Africa & Asia
- & the first on which the word ' America' appears. It was the first map to suggest the existence of the Pacific. It was, in short, the first map to depict the whole world as we know it today. Beautiful, fascinating & revealing, it arrived on the scene as Europeans were moving out of the Middle Ages & into the Renaissance, thanks to a tiny group of European mapmakers who pieced together ideas going back to the ancients & through Marco Polo to Vespucci. In The Fourth Part of the World, Toby Lester charts the amazing & colourful history of this map, whose profound influence has been neglected for centuries & which changed the world-view of all humankind.
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THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE. THE SECOND OPINION The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell: this time to investigate a series of four horrific ritual executions that have taken place in Beijing. THE THIRD DEGREE Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. & he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell. THE FOURTH SACRIFICE The polarity that once attracted Yan & Campbell eventually pulls them back into partnership. Yet the closer they are drawn to the truth, the nearer they come to a killer prepared to use extreme force to conceal it. ...

At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps & 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex & for three turbulent decades before the First World War, Joseph Silver was central to this hidden world of betrayal, intrigue, lust & sexual slavery. Burglar, gun-runner & trafficker in women on four continents, Silver was a disturbed adolescent, youthful predator & adult misogynist whose notoriety was captured in the most confidential correspondence of a dozen countries in the western world. But what those in charge of law-enforcement agencies kept to themselves was how their officers had attempted to use Silver as an informer to infiltrate syndicates, only to have him outwit them as he moved in the dangerous space between police & prostitutes. In this brilliant study, Charles van Onselen situates the private life of one man amidst the demi-monde of the Atlantic world & casts a brilliant light on the most infamous serial killer of all time
- Jack the Ripper.
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A delightful tale of victory against all odds from master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo, lavishly illustrated by Michael Foreman. ” Every fox in the whole town, in the whole country just about, is a football fan... And we all have an impossible dream.” In a cosy den under a garden shed lives a family of foxes. They love to watch football
- all foxes do. But their favourite team keeps losing & losing, & it seems like things will never look up. That is, until Daddy Fox finds the ghost of a king, buried underneath a car park. A king who wishes only to be free. ” Release me, ” says the Ghost King, ”and I can do anything. Just tell me your greatest wish.” For these football-loving foxes, might everything be about to change...?
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` The Fox & the Hare` is a Russian folktale retold by Vladimir Dal. This book is based on Francesca Yarbusova`s sketches to the award-winning animated film directed by Yuri Norstein. This beautiful tale is a simple story about the insidious Fox who takes over the Little Hare`s house when her own palace of ice melts in the Spring. After enlisting the help of several animals, still the ferocious fox remains in the Little Hare`s house. Is there anyone who can help him? Also available in the Norstein & Yarbusova Collection
- a beautiful series of children`s picture books based on the art of famous Russian artists & animators Yuri Norstein & Francesca Yarbusova are: ` Mishmash` & ` The Hedgehog in the Fog`.
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