The highly acclaimed debut is Devyani Saltzmans remarkable story of reconnecting with her mother, award-winning filmmaker Deepa Mehta, in India and Sri Lanka during the production of the Oscar??-nominated film?ÿWater. In?ÿShooting Water, Devyani Saltzman recounts her experience straddling the separate worlds of her divorced parents in Canada and India??navigating between two religions (Hindu and Jewish), […]
This book needs no introduction??the hardcover edition was the hottest seller of 2004. Now at last, the paperback edition is available and Katie has brought it right up-to-date with full details of her love for Peter, their new life together, their engagement and their impending wedding. She also reveals the projects she has been working […]
Princess: A true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia?ÿdescribes the life of Princess Sultana Al Saud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country. Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in […]
This is the story of a man with humble beginnings yet, one who reached out and came away with a fistful of magical stardust. This beautiful book tells the story of the film legend and is supplemented with numerous photographs and illustrations.
This book traces the life and works of the remarkable director and actor, Guru Dutt, who succeeded in introducing to Indian cinema an individual and lyrical vision. This book is lavishly illustrated with beautiful black and photographs illustrating his life and film career.
Many years later, their daughter Jaddanbai moves to Bombay, and becomes a star of the early talkies, Chateau Marine on Marine drive is famous for its evenings mehfils and for the dreams it nurtures. Regular visitors include Dilip Kumar, Mehboob and Kamal Amrohi. It is also the home of Fatima Jaddanbais daughter who will set […]
In der wilden Bergwelt des Hindukusch wird einem Kommandanten eine Tochter geboren. Um sein Gesicht nicht zu verlieren, beschlie??t er, das Kind als Junge zu erziehen ?? und so wird aus Samira mit der Zeit Samir. Die L?¬ge verschafft dem M??dchen Freiheiten, die sonst nur einem Mann zustehen. Doch als junge Frau ist Samira schlie??lich […]
Drawn from original sources, Old Path White Clouds is the beautiful classic recounting of the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha over the course of eighty years. It is retold alternately through the eyes of Svasti, the buffalo boy who provided kusa grass for the Buddhas enlightenment cushion, and the Buddha himself.
Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an honour crime allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific rape, custom dictated that she would kill herself. But Mai defied custom. In an unprecedented […]
Lance Corporal Martyn Comptons life was changed beyond recognition when he was blown up in a Taliban ambush that killed three of his colleagues. His survival was described as a miracle, as he suffered third-degree burns to 75 per cent of his body. He endured 15 operations and doctors used shark cartilage as a base […]
Albert Einstein was named ??Person of the Century?? and remains one of the most famous scientists in world history. But what was he really like, as a person? This fresh biography of Albert Einstein gives students and general readers a concise, accessible introduction to the life and science of this revolutionary man. Underneath his genius, […]
Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was leveled by the Russians bombs in 1979. After the men in her family joined the resistance, she fled with the women and children to the capital, Kabul, and so began a life of day-to-day struggle in her war-torn country. A life that included a period […]