Search Results: Authors starting with O from Infinity Books Japan

US: Fontana Press, 1990. Paperback. Good. A new, fully revised and updated edition of a well-established, unique work of reference and companion to all fields of modern thought. * First publis hed in Fontana paperback in 1977; second revised edition published in Fonta na paperback in 1988; now the third substantially revised edition makes its first ever appearance in hardback. * Edited by Alan Bullock (author of HIT LER AND STALIN: Fontana Press) and Stephen Trombley, the book covers the wh ole range of modern thought, including: anthropology, world history, critic al theory, economics, education, philosophy, music, cinema, drama, architec ture, literature, medicine, law, geography, linguistics, criminology, femin ism, sociology, archaeology, religion, maths, computer studies, psychology, the sciences.

New York: Random House, 1970. Very Good.

London: Flamingo, 1992. 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.

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1987. Very Good. World War II with a pink cover features the adjustment of two new stepsiste rs, sexy southerner Katie and quiet Philadelphian Paige. The bone of conten tion is dark, intense Jake; Paige wants him and Katie gets him. In ``Sweet Valley High'' fashion, the ending is left open, with a concluding paragraph encouraging readers to read the second book in the series. Oaks deals real istically with the difficulties of meshing stepfamilies, and the book is su re to ring a bell with the many teens in the same situation.

US: Harper Perennial. Paperback. Good. A controversial, painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the est eemed author of 'We were the Mulvaneys', 'Blonde' and 'The Falls'.

US: HarpPeren, 1993. Good. Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Awa rd, this brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. portr ays a very real man and his dream that shaped America's history.

US: Plume, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 1985 Meridian trade paperback, 6th printing. Stephen B. Oates (The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion). From Stephen B. Oates comes a riv eting companion to his seminal Lincoln biography With Malice Toward None. E xploring the complex mythology surrounding the sixteenth President, includi ng iconic images of Lincoln as Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind The Myths offers a penetratin g look at Lincoln's life and impact, indispensable for any student of great leadership, the Civil War, and American history.

US: Crown Publishing Group, 2004. Paperback. Good. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOO KS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight t o the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and ra ce" (The Washington Post Book World). "Quite extraordinary."--Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black A frican father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning t o his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama l earns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odys sey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the Afr ican side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, a nd at last reconciles his… Read More

US: Viking, 2020. 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. THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the presi dent who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. 'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mai l on Sunday In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoir s, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man se arching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikin gly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments o f the first term of his historic presidency-a time of dramatic transformati on and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political asp irations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of… Read More

New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 2008. Paperback. Good. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics a po litics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together a s Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshin gly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here set s out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged opti mism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.

US: Reader's Digest, 2009. Paperback. Very Good.

US: Crown, 2004. 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. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOO KS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight t o the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and ra ce" (The Washington Post Book World). "Quite extraordinary."--Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black A frican father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning t o his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama l earns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odys sey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to… Read More

US: Three Rivers Press, 2007. 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. In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention w ith an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of polit ics: a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy". He also speaks, with sur prising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator , seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment. At the heart of this audiobook is Senator Obama's vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to… Read More

US: FalconGuides, 1998. 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. Over 100 tips for beginners and experts looking to improve their telemark skiing. Filled with funny & practical illustrations.

US: Oneworld Publications, 2016. 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. Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an an onymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted chann els, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in the secret world where complex networks of shell companies help to hide people who don't want to be found. Faced with the largest data leak in history, they activate an international network of journalists to follow every possible line of enquiry. Operating for over a year in the strictest secrecy, they uncover a global elite living by a different set of rules: prime ministers, dictators, oligarchs, princelings, sports officials, big… Read More

US: Little, Brown, 2019. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrate d by the chi, or spirit of a young poultry farmer named Chinonso. His life is set off course when he sees a woman who is about to jump off a bridge. H orrified by her recklessness, he hurls two of his prized chickens off the b ridge. The woman, Ndali, is stopped in her tracks. Chinonso and Ndali fall in love but she is from an educated and wealthy family. When her family obj ects to the union on the grounds that he is not her social equal, he sells most of his possessions to attend college in Cyprus. But when he arrives in Cyprus, he discovers that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements for him. Penniless, homeless, we watch as he gets further and further away from his dream and from home."--Publisher's d escription.

US: Bloomsbury Kinderbuch, 2008. 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. Stell dir vor, du kommst aus einem Traumurlaub, Sonne, Palmen, weisser Sand. Aber in deinem Urlaubsgebiet ist ein gefährliches Virus aufgetreten. Für dich und zweitausend weitere Urlauber heisst das Quarantäne, 40 Tage Isolation, kein Kontakt zur Aussenwelt. In deiner Wohnung werden Überwachungskameras installiert. Jeder kann einen Zugangscode bekommen. Von nun an wirst du überwacht von Millionen Augen, zum Schutze der Allgemeinheit.

US: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc, 1992. 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. "The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing af loat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is no thing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard sta ggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-f our." -Stephen Vaughan, Observer Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy-and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes.

US: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc, 2021. 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. The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considere d "the best historical novels ever written" (Richard Snow, New York Times). Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanw hile-after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel-Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an u nlikely rapport. On a whim, Aubrey invites Maturin to join his crew as the Sophie's surgeon. And so begins the legendary friendship that anchors this beloved saga set against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Through every ensuing adventure on which Aubrey and Maturin embark, from the witty parley of their lovers and enemies to the roar of… Read More

US: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 1996. 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. This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey's adventures in escaping from France and the debtors' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.