Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: ashes, unabashed, triumph, philip, morris, health, war, america, hundred, year, cigarette, public
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 1997-07-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0375700366
ISBN-13: 9780375700361
No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind’s most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the strands of the historical process -- financial, social, psychological, medical, political, and legal -- are woven together in a riveting narrative. The key characters are the top corporate executives, public health investigators, and antismoking activists who have clashed ever more stridently
Author:
Publisher: Paramount
Keywords: ashes, angela
Published:
List price: $14.98
ISBN-10: 0792163087
ISBN-13: 9780792163084
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 12-MAR-2002Media Type: DVD
Author: Grazia Deledda
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: ashes
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2004-02
List price: $44.50
ISBN-10: 0838640036
ISBN-13: 9780838640036
Author: Frank McCourt
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: ashes, angela’s
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1996-09-05
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0684874350
ISBN-13: 9780684874357
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drink
Author: Tim Weiner
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: cia, history, ashes, legacy
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2008-05-20
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0307389006
ISBN-13: 9780307389008
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
Author: David Weber
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: ashes, empire
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2006-02-07
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 141650933X
ISBN-13: 9781416509332
For Colin MacIntyre, it began with a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago, standing guard against an unknown enemy which once devastated the galaxy-and now has returned. So Dahak grabbed MacIntyre’s ship and informed him that he was drafted to be its new captain and lead the fight against the ancient enemy. MacIntyre had doubts that he could handle the job, but Dahak had definitely picked the right man. Before it was all over, MacIntyre would:" Defeat a cadre of mutineers, formerly part of Dahak’s crew, k
Author: Keiji Nakazawa
Publisher: Last Gasp
Keywords: ashes, vol, gen, barefoot
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 2005-10-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0867195959
ISBN-13: 9780867195958
Volume four, resumes nine days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter and water amid chaos and vast human suffering. Though confronted with the most despicable aspects of humankind, Gen acts with love and compassion.
