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The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away

Mon, 25 May 2026 18:15:49 +0000

A candid, first-hand account of the Beatles’ formative years, this memoir is written by the band’s first manager, the Liverpool club owner who helped launch them from local hopefuls to hard-working performers in Hamburg. Offering an insider’s view of the raw, chaotic early 1960s music scene, it traces the group’s development before fame, their grueling residencies in Germany, and the personal and business conflicts that led to his split from them—hence the provocative claim of having “given them away.” Frank, opinionated, and sometimes controversial, the book sheds light on ambition, loyalty, and missed opportunity at the dawn of the British Invasion. Essential reading for Beatles enthusiasts and anyone interested in rock history’s untold backstories.

Tai-Pan

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:59:10 +0000

Set in the turbulent aftermath of the First Opium War, this sweeping historical novel follows the fierce rivalry between Western traders vying to shape the future of Hong Kong as a British colony. At its center is a formidable merchant determined to build a trading empire against political intrigue, cutthroat competition, cultural clashes, and the ever-shifting alliances of the China coast. Rich in historical detail, the story explores ambition, loyalty, honor, and the moral ambiguities of commerce and empire. Written by the acclaimed creator of the Asian Saga, it combines high-stakes drama with immersive world-building, making it a compelling read for fans of epic historical fiction and tales of power and destiny.

The Sovereign State : The Secret History of ITT

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:33:45 +0000

‘How did such a company come about, and how had it so inexorably increased its scope? How can one man dominate a corporation and hold together an industrial empire making thousands of products across half the world? How can governments ever control such an organism which is, like a jellyfish, both everywhere and nowhere? And how does the multinational corporation, of which ITT is a convenient caricature, fit in with modern notions of politics and diplomacy?’ — from the book

Beyond the Beyond

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:08:06 +0000

Beyond the Beyond by Poul Anderson is a collection of six science fiction novellas originally published between 1954 and 1967. The stories explore diverse futuristic and spacefaring themes, including interplanetary conflict, advanced technology, and complex civilizations. Notable tales include The Moonrakers, about space pirates from a Mars colony, and Starfog, which features a ship trapped in a mysterious, star-filled fog where normal laws of creation are suspended. The collection is recognized for its clever ideas, technological foresight, and incorporation of scientific and philosophical concepts typical of the Golden Age of science fiction, though it also reflects some dated social attitudes of its time.

Countdown to War

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:57:08 +0000

Geoffrey Cox was a foreign correspondent in Austria when Hitler declared the Anschluss. He reported the outbreak of war from Paris, the phoney war from France, Belgium and Holland, and the Winter War when Russia invaded Finland. This is his personal account of Europe in the years 1938-1940.

Fear No Evil

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:35:55 +0000

Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years’ imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant. Since Fear No Evil was originally published in 1988, the Soviet government that imprisoned Sharansky has collapsed. Sharansky has become an important national leader in Israel—and serves as Israel’s diplomatic liaison to the former Soviet Union! New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Serge Schmemann reflects on those monumental events, and on Sharansky’s extraordinary life in the decades since his arrest, in a new introduction to this edition. But the truths Sharansky learned in his jail cell and sets forth in this book have timeless importance so long as rulers anywhere on earth still supress their own peoples. For anyone with an interest in human rights—and anyone with an appreciation for the resilience of the human spirit—he illuminates the weapons with which the powerless can humble the physical courage, an untiring sense of humor, a bountiful imagination, and the conviction that Nothing they do can humiliate me. I alone can humiliate myself.

The Sun at Noon : An Anatomy of Modern Japan

Mon, 20 May 2024 14:56:19 +0000

Hard to understand and too important to ignore, Japan is a constant object of envy, irritation, puzzlement, admiration and curiosity.Where are the Japanese heading? Are they moving closer to the West or are they turning in on themselves and rediscovering their own culture? What is the relationship between the traditional Japan and the recent, seemingly Westernised Japan? How will it all affect us?Award-winning journalist and author Dick Wilson has made forty visits to Japan since 1953. His understanding of the place and its people is unique. His enthusiasm is communicated straight to the reader in his lively and fascinating book, packed with facts, analysis and impressions.An essential read’accountancy

The Enemy Stars

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:00:42 +0000

Paperback. The built a ship called the Southern Cross and launched her to the ALpha Crucis. Centuries passed, civilizations rose and fell and still the ship fell on her headlong journey toward the distant star. An absorbingly exciting tale of the far future from one of the giants of SF writing.

Seed of Light

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:00:38 +0000

Paperback. The story of an epic voyage through space from the old Earth, the days of which were long numbered.

The Ravenous Eye

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:00:29 +0000

Paperback. The famous book about the uses and misuses of television. Violence seems to be increasing at an alarming rate, contempt for politicians appears to be endemic. The problems concerning the usage of dangerous drugs in our society appear to become more manifold… A Book about TV