Search Results: General Non-Fiction from Infinity Books Japan

US: Viking, 2019. Paperback. Good. 'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You' re going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smile y. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for 17 days, the world watched and held its breath as the Wi ld Boar soccer team were trapped deep in a cave in Thailand. Marooned beyon d flooded cave passages after unexpected rains, they were finally rescued, one-by-one, against almost impossible odds, by an international cave-diving team which included Australians Dr Richard Harris and Dr Craig Challen. Th ese two men were chosen for their medical expertise and cave diving knowled ge, but this dangerous rescue asked so much more of them. They had to remai n calm under extreme pressure and intense scrutiny, adapt to constantly cha nging circumstances and importantly, build trust among the rescue team and with the young boys and their coach, whose lives were in their hands.… Read More

Non Basic Stock Line, 2006. Very Good. A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Imogen Edwards-Jones is the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller Hotel Babylon, as well the author of the novels My Canape Hell, Shagpile, The Wendy House and Tuscany for Beginnners. A seasoned traveller, she is well versed in the joys and otherwise of air travel. Anonymous is a collection of airline staff, front of house as well as behind the scenes, whose identities must remain secert in order to protect the guilty.

US: Ivy Books, 1986. Paperback. Good. A modern classic, and a phenomenal bestseller, this simple collection of th oughts and gentle opinion has struck a deep chord in readers all over the w orld. Observing our times in his unique way, Robert Fulghum has tapped into the community that we all share and tells us something about ourselves and how to be the best we are capable of. He reminds us to share, clean up our own mess, take a nap every afternoon, and to be aware of wonder. "Within simplicity lies the sublime." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "A healthy antidote to the horrors that pummel us in this dicey age." THE BALTIMORE SUN.

US: Penguin Books, 2018. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best B ooks of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of hea lth care in America."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocki ng investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers prac tical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medi cal system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our… Read More

US: Jossey-Bass, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoo l in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to lea ve. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to sh oot them execution with an automatic rifle and four hundred rounds of ammun ition that he brought for the task. The oldest hostage, a thirteen-year-old , begged Roberts to "shoot me first and let the little ones go." Refusing h er offer, he opened fire on all of them, killing five and leaving the other s critically wounded. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. His motivation? "I'm angry at God for taking my little daughter," he told t he children before the massacre. The… Read More

US: Pantheon, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Provides a country-by-country look at antisemitism, from its pagan beginnin gs to its recent reemergence in Europe.

US: Dutton, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In his most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Greg Palast, author of the national bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, once again gives us the straight scoop on the stories that Big Media won?t report. Digging up reams of documents marked ?secret? and ?confidential,? Palast provides the latest lowdown on Bush?s secret plans to seize Iraq?s oil, the fix planned for the 2008 election, who drowned New Orleans, and the horror and the humor of the War on Terror. With diligent detective work, moral outrage, and a keen sense of the absurd, Palast takes on the ?armed and dangerous clowns that rule us? as only he can.

US: Ebury Press, 2006. Paperback. Good. Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political acti vists, as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, Th e Mark Thomas Product, ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly, this is his first book. As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela is a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the ar ms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingl y poor accents, Mark sets off on a journey of discovery in the company of a rms dealers, torture victims, politicians, cops, crusties and geeks. The re sult is a shockingly entertaining read. Embedded within the sharpness of hi s humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency an d greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill, maim and displace, but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer. Hard-hitting, laugh-out -loud funny and extremely unsettling, As Used on the Famous… Read More

US: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2021. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line? According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wi ng authoritarianism. We've heard that some 75 million Americans who voted f or Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave dan ger for the republic. But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn't come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left? There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically , they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The aut horitarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant… Read More

US: Broadway, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has jou rneyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans N orth America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roo f of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of the World, an arresting exploration of America's longest wilderness corrido r, a harsh and unforgiving region inhabited by men and women whose way of l ife is as imperiled as the neighboring wildlife. With the brutal beauty and stark cadences of a Cormac McCarthy novel, The Backbone of the World tells the story of the last remnants of the Old West, America's mythic landscape, where past and present are barely discernible from one another and where people's lives are still intrinsically linked to their natural… Read More

US: Myst and Lace Publishers, In, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. *Sign ed by author. Take a tour of Baltimore's haunted historic sites in this book based on mor e than a dozen personal interviews with park rangers, graveyard workers, sa loon keepers and museum curators. The book includes more than 60 photograph s of graveyards, tombstones, forts, ships, haunted restaurants and historic locations. The book's highlights include the city's colorful history as explained thro ugh ghost tales and legends, featuring: unexplained activities at the Edgar Allan Poe House and Poe gravesite; 19th century grave robbing practices at the University of Maryland Medical College; spirits in the "catacombs" gra veyard beneath Westminster Church; the "Gallows Ghost" and many other activ e spirits at Fort McHenry; graves and stories in Green Mount Cemetery (incl… Read More

US: Faber & Faber, 2012. Hardcover. Good/Good. In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the ' propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through th e nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shro pshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, now Media watch-uk. For almost forty years, she kept up the fight against the programme makers, politicians, pop stars and playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer of blasphemy and obscenity. From Doctor Who ('Teatime brutality for tots') to Dennis Potter (whose mother sued her for libel and won) to the Beatles - whose Magical Mystery Tour escaped her intervention b y the skin of its psychedelic teeth - the list of Mary Whitehouse's targets will read to some like a nostalgic roll of honour. Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction, Mary White… Read More

US: Warner, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. At last, the undisputed grandmaster of horror, Stephen King, talks candidly and revealingly about the perils and passions of the writer's life, and, most of all, about terror -- as he lives it, as he creates it, as he evokes it in the souls of millions of fans who love nothing more than to be scared out of their wits.

Bloomsbury, 2001. Near Fine. Isabel Losada leaves no stone unturned--literally--on her trip down The Bat tersea Park Road to Enlightenment. Wishing to live her life "completely, ab undantly, joyfully and stupidly" she makes an entertaining travelling compa nion as she describes her efforts to move away from her in-a-rut life where "nothing was changing". And she takes us everywhere with her: a life-skill s course in North London; a convent retreat in Oxford; T'ai chi in France; a massage in Bath--even the past as she explores her previous incarnations. The journey is invigorating and exhausting and enriched by the numerous ch aracters she meets en route. The book is much more than a travelogue, however. Losada describes with con siderable skill and sensitivity the breakthroughs in the lives of people ar ound her--the woman who starts to work through childhood abuse, for instanc e, and another who confronts the bullies from school--and her honesty is re freshing and often surprising (her description… Read More

North Sydney, Australia: Camel Publ. Co, 1981. Hardcover. Good.

US: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008. Fine. A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: There's a popular misconception that breaking into the modeling business re quires expensive head shots and other costly investments. Judy Goss, a form er Ford model and professional with twenty years in the business, has set o ut to dispel that myth once and for all, and tell you how you can actually launch your career for $20 or less. Judy breaks the process down into four simple steps: Preparation, Pictures, Promotion, and Presentation. She gives countless suggestions and tells all sorts of industry secrets, such as how to: * Determine what type of model you are * Take your own pictures at home in the right poses and clothes * Prepare what to say and do at casting calls * Avoid costly scams * And much more. Judy's expert advice will guide aspiring models of any age through the process of finding representation with a reputable agency or manager, and it provides a valuable resource to fall back on even after… Read More

US: Atria Books, 2003. Very Good. The #1 national bestseller, now a major motion picture, 21-the amazing insi de story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Ve gas-and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.'s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big. In less than two years they take some of the world's most sophisticated casinos for more than three million dollars. But their success also brings with it the formidable ire of casino owners and launches them into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas with its private investigators and other violent heavies.

US: Granada, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. What does it mean to be 'On the Square'? 700,00 Freemasons, all male, probably make the largest secret society in Br itain today. What exactly are they? Why are they so incredibly secretive? I s Freemasonry a positive, charitable organization which incorporates a cert ain amount of harmless mumbo-jumbo, or does it in fact represent something more sinister? Stephen Knight's impartial - but highly controversial - investigation addre sses these vital questions and asks: DOES FREEMASONRY INFLUENCE OUR POLICE AND JUDICIARY? CAN A CHRISTIAN BE A FREEMASON? HAVE THE KGB PENETRATED THE FREEMASONS? DOES FREEMASONRY LEAD TO CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC LIFE Freemasons are all bound to silence, but now some of them have felt impelle d to break ranks and reveal part of the truth... Editorial Reviews.

US: Survival Books, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Traces d'usages mais sinon bel ouvrage.Expédition rapide de votre commande avec protection soignée de vos articles.Professionnel de la vente à distanc e.Professional on e-business.Fast delivery of your order.Item very well pac ked(réf 16t).

US: Routledge, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.