books by Atlas & Co.     books:     Atlas & Co.      Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia Jonathan Brent Atlas & Co., 2008 From the first publisher granted access to Stalin's personal archive, a provocative and insightful portrait of modern Russia?the most compelling since David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb . To most Americans, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to ...             A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq Fernando Baez Atlas & Co., 2008 Memory's murder This Venezuelan librarian answers what a history student, at Baghdad's university in 2003, wonders after the library's been looted of every volume: why does man destroy so many books? The book begins and ends in Iraq, where the earliest texts we have survive, only ...             The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay Louis Begley Atlas & Co., 2008 The bearable lightness of being (and reading) Kafka Thanks largely to Max Brod and scores of subsequent literary commentators who read Franz Kafka through Beckettesque lenses, the image of Kafka most of us grew up with is of a tortured, self-loathing, desperately unhappy and hopelessly ill prophet who'd looked into the ...             Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel Edmund White Atlas & Co., 2008 The wanderer poet The short, adventuresome life of Arthur Rimbaud is a seemingly endless contradiction of terms. For one who thought his own life boring and a failure as a poet, Rimbaud has succeeded in the century since his death in being one of the more endearing writers of his time. ...             Atlas Pocket Classics: France: (Travels with a Donkey, Gleanings in France, A Motor-flight through France) Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, ... Atlas & Co., 2008 An elegant boxed set of travel classics about France, with an introduction from the best-selling author of Le Divorce . In this inaugural edition of our Atlas Pocket Classics series, Diane Johnson introduces three masterpieces of travel writing. Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey is the notebook he kept during his respite from ...             Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge Atlas & Co., 2008 Highly Recommend! What an awesome awesome book! I haven't enjoyed a new book that can plausibly be construed as sci-fi for a while. The book is basically a collection of essays by a number of experts in their respective fields. The subjects range from the significance of prime ...             Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared Christopher Robbins Atlas & Co., 2008 Amazing insights! This is a great book for those interested in Kaz. Definitely will make you want to extend your visit!             Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders Eric Etheridge Atlas & Co., 2008 Portrait: Personal and Provacative My review is not in anyway impartial or detached. Forty seven years ago tomorrow (June 2) myself and five fellow Riders were arrested in Jackson. Three members of our group are no longer with us today, with this disclosure in mind I will now review "Breach of Peace: ...             Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman Francine du Plessix Gray Atlas & Co., 2008 Puits Écrit Mrs. Gray perfectly illustrates Madame de Staël's attitude. This book is one of her finest, I applaud her and wait for more.             "Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China Lijia Zhang Atlas & Co., 2008 Timely, Informative, and Beautifully Crafted Story in post Mao China I have met Lijia Zhang by a chance encounter as we shared the same row seat on a recent trans Pacific flight. At the onset of our casual conversation, I was impressed by her command of the English language, quite uncharacteristic of a native Chinese. I naively asked, ...             The Proof of God: The Debate that Shaped Modern Belief Larry Witham Atlas & Co., 2008 A Historic and Enigmatic Proof of the Big Question Is there a God? It's the big question. And now we have proof that there is a God. Well, actually, we have had a proof for almost a thousand years now. There are plenty of such proofs, all of which have been attacked in some way or other, as has the proof dating ...             Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia Wojciech Tochman Atlas & Co., 2008 A portrait of human devastation in the wake of the Bosnian Wars, told through the stories of survivors searching for family members and their remains. During four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, ...             Dr. Gallagher's Guide to 21st Century Medicine: How to Get Off the Illness Treadmill and Onto Optimum Health Martin P. Gallagher Atlas Pub Co, 2003 This book will restore HOPE to the hopeless. I find this to be an encyclopedia of easy to read solutions to seemingly hopeless health problems. What I like most about this book is that it teaches us how to be our own natural healer. It guides you step by step and tells you exactly what to do - no guess work. The ...             How They See Us: Writers Around the World Reflect on America Atlas & Co., 2009 Original perspectives on how the world sees America, from leading international writers and intellectuals. Since 9/11, the United States has managed to squander the world's sympathy. As the wreckage of the Twin Towers smoldered, even our bitterest enemies rallied to our side. But in just six years, our aggressive foreign policy?the war in Iraq, ...          products you might be interested in search for books biographical, destruction, disappeared, discovering, mississippi, motor-flight      geepe.com    web we recommend Timely, Informative, and Beautifully Crafted Story in post Mao China randomly chosen gourmet food: Mammouth Layered Nut Jar