Once a drug-dealing biker, Childers now spends his time in the most dangerous parts of Sudan and Uganda rescuing the youngest victims of war--orphans and child-soldiers--no matter the cost.
An immigrant's memoir recounting the life of a young Pakistani man who came to the U.S. with only a driving ambition to make a difference in his chosen industry, aviation. Through challenges and successes, Michael Chowdry soared to the very heights of the airline business. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, he unleashed his passion, ultimately building a successful airline, Atlas Air Cargo.
Mark Bouman recounts the events of his childhood at the hands of his larger-than-life, Neo-Nazi father in brilliant, startling detail in this memoir. From adventure-filled days complete with real-life war games, artillery fire, and tank races to terror-filled nights marked by vicious tirades, brutal beatings, and psychological torture, Mark paints a chilling portrait of family life that is at once whimsical and horrific, all building to a shocking climax that challenges even the broadest boundaries of love and forgiveness.
A direct response to Albert Camus' call for Algerians to tell the world their story, The Poor Man's Son remains after half a century the definitive map of the Kabyle soul.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first ever modern edition of her Divers Orations on English social and political life, together with a new student-friendly rendition of her imaginary voyage, A New World called the Blazing World. Susan James explains the allusions made in this classic text, and directs readers to the many intellectual debates with which Cavendish engages. Together these two works reveal the character and scope of Margaret Cavendish's political thought. She emerges as a singular and probing writer, who simultaneously upholds a conservative social and political order and destabilises it through her critical and unresolved observations about natural philosophy, scientific institutions, religion, and the relations between men and women.
What is it like to be a woman in Nigeria? Ada can tell you all about it – the good, the bad and the ugly. A bright and happy school student, her life changed out of all recognition on the day her parents announced that they were unable to pay for her further education. For the good of the family, they said, she was to marry, aged sixteen, an older man she had never met before. Trapped in the bonds created by tradition, what could one young girl do to fight for her freedom? In this moving, fictional account of one woman’s struggle, Barclays Amadi lays bare the limitations and hardships forced on women in a traditional, male-dominated society – and sets out the steps being taken by courageous, forward-thinking individuals to pursue the fight for equality. Barclays N Amadi is a London-based barrister with a speciality in criminal law and the administration of justice and a keen interest in gender issues. He is an expert in strategic management and creative capitalism and, before joining the legal profession, he held management positions in the private and public sectors in Nigeria and the UK.
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE