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 |
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb has been editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and . Books he has edited during his almost fifty years in publishing range from by Bill Clinton, and include, in the dance field, books by Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
James E. Ransome
James E. Ransome's work has appeared in nearly fifty books for children, including The Creation by James Weldon Johnson, a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and Uncle Jed's Barbershop, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. His most recent ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
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]
Harper Collins |
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 The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi St. Francis of Assisi . St. Francis of Assisi's ecstatic embrace of a life of ... [... 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 |
Peter G. Tsouras
In the Battle of Gettysburg, the difference between victory and defeat was as narrow and sharp as a knife edge. And in those three horrific days of sweltering... On 22 June 1941, the German army invaded the Soviet Union, one hundred fifty ... [... more]
Random House |
Farley Mowat
A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist. Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers for fifty years now, creating a body of writing that has thrilled two generations, selling ... [... 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 |
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 |
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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