Fifties Fanatic
Slip through a time warp to tour this fabulous '50s bachelor pad. David Ansett fell in love with this 1950s style apartment. Although it looks quite ordinary from the outside, inside he has created the perfect replica of an environment straight ... [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Mary Calhoun
Mary Calhoun's first children's book, Making the Mississippi Shout, was published in 1957. Since then, she has become the award-winning author of more than fifty children's books, including A Shepherd's Gift, Flood, Cross-Country Cat, Hot-Air ... [... more]
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Arnoux's Beaked Whale
One hundred and fifty years ago a skull collected from a 9.7m whale stranded in Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand was found to represent a new species of beaked whale. It was given the name Arnoux's Beaked Whales are slate grey to ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
St. Francis of Assisi
With a new Preface by the noted writer Madeleine L'Engle, author of nearly fifty books of fiction and non-fiction, including St. Francis of Assisi . St. Francis of Assisi's ecstatic embrace of a life of poverty revolutionized Christianity even as ... [... more]
Random House |
Phil Nicholls
Profiles of more than fifty establishments that have supplied goods and services to royalty-and the merely discriminating-for more than one hundred years The Traditional Shops & Restaurants of London A Guide to Century-Old Establishments and New ... [... more]
Random House |
Doris Mccarthy
Doris McCarthy is one of Canada's foremost landscape painters, a dynamic woman whose career spans fifty years of Canadian art history. As a student in Toronto in the 1920's, she was tutored by Group of Seven members Arthur Lismer, A.Y. Jackson, ... [... more]
Random House |
New York Times / AUTHOR CATALOG
For crossword fans who like their challenges in smaller doses, here comes a classic collection of fifty daily-size New York Times puzzles from the late, great Will Weng. click for more> 50 Sunday-size puzzles from the pages of the The New York ... [... more]
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Gerald Strober
Her public and private worlds, the life and times of Elizabeth II and her family. Fifty years ago in February 1952, while in Kenya on the beginning of a world tour, Princess Elizabeth ascended to the British Throne on the death of her father, ... [... more]
Random House |
Andro Linklater
Andro Linklater is the author of four nonfiction books, including Wild People: Travels with Borneo's Headhunters. The son of the noted Scottish writer Eric Linklater, he lives in England. For fifty years, Pamela Kirrage longed to unlock the ... [... more]
Random House |
Larry McMurtry
If you had to give America a voice, it's been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson's. For more than fifty years, he's taken the stuff of his life-the good and the bad-and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent ... [... more]
Random House |
Dan Rattiner
In the Hamptons Dan Rattiner My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities [... more]
Random House |
Andrew Berry
Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution-from Mendel's ... [... more]
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