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The Family: The Real Story Of The Bush Dynasty - Kitty Kelley - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Family: The Real Story Of The Bush Dynasty - Kitty Kelley - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For the first time, the most secretive and powerful dynasty in American history has all of its secrets revealed. This is the book the Bush family do not want you to read.Over the past one hundred years, the Bush family have made millions of dollars, dominated the US government, and created a legacy unlike any other American family. Prescott Bush was a two-time Senator from Connecticut who had the ear of Dwight D. Eisenhower and tangled with Joe McCarthy. His son, George H.W. was a congressman, the head of the CIA, Vice-President under Ronald Reagan and then the 41st President of the United States. One of his sons, Jeb, is governor of Florida and almost certainly a future presidential candidate. The eldest son, George W., is the 43rd president - possibly the most polarizing and controversial head of state in American history. How did these men - backed and often controlled by strong and single-minded women - rise to power? How did they manoeuvre their way from Yale and the secretive Skull and Bones through back door politics, the CIA, and the White House to have so much control over international politics? The answers are startling. Kitty Kelley has written a compelling portrait of a family addicted to wealth and power. From Prescott Bush''s lies about his heroism during the First World War, and George Bush senior''s relationship with his wife Barbara, his unsuccessful campaign for Texas senator and his actions as the head of the CIA, the Vice-President and President of the United States, to his sons'' current positions of power and influence in US politics. George Bush junior''s successes and failures have had closer public scrutiny than any other member of the family, but Kitty Kelley leaves no stone unturned in her examination of his childhood, his relationship with his parents, his party days at Andover and Yale, his business dealings, his rise to political power and his performance as the 43rd President of the United States.

DKK 182.00
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Die Again - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Die Again - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best'' HARLAN COBEN THE VICTIMS In Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his home. When the remains of another victim are found, it is clear that this murderer has been at work for years, and not just in Boston. THE KILLER Five years ago, a group of travellers set off on an African safari. None of them was seen again – apart from one woman who stumbled out of the bush weeks later, barely alive. The only woman to have seen the killer’s face. THE SURVIVOR Has the ‘safari killer’ resurfaced in Boston? Jane is sent to Africa to find the one link between the two cases – the only survivor. And convince her to face death once again...

DKK 127.00
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Global Village Idiot - John O'farrell - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Global Village Idiot - John O'farrell - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you''re not allowed on the chair.''Gathered here are the best of John O''Farrell''s newspaper columns for the Guardian and the Independent which saw him win the coveted Best Columnist of the Year Award at the prestigious British Liars Awards. Among many other things, he claims that the only conviction in the Tory Party will be when Jeffrey Archer gets sent to prison; that scientists have created a genetically superior monkey which will advertise lapsang souchong instead of PG Tips; and that with the election of George W. Bush, the global village has finally got its own global village idiot.

DKK 159.00
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Frieda And Min - Pamela Jooste - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Frieda And Min - Pamela Jooste - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda''s exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the ''white kaffir'' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid.

DKK 161.00
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The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel ''Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'' There''s nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology. With the best and most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld’s last continent needs a saviour… Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who''ll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he''s sober. In fact, it''s Rincewind, a wizard so inept he can''t even spell wizard. He''s the only hero left. Still...no worries, eh?

DKK 152.00
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Making Love: A Conspiracy Of The Heart - Marius Brill - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Making Love: A Conspiracy Of The Heart - Marius Brill - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

He was out of her league. She was out of her depth. When Miranda, the Miss Lonely Hearts of Shepherd''s Bush, suddenly finds herself romanced by a tall, dark and deadly spy, she finds her life turned upside down. Could it have anything to do with the book she innocently took from the library, a book with a conspiracy theory about ''love'' so devastating that every other copy has been destroyed by MI5 and the writer ''disappeared''?Spliced through Miranda''s romantic adventure are pages from the ''lost'' book itself. But the loudest voice in this piece of postmodern madness belongs to the lovelorn book itself, a sentient mass of paper and ink that cannot help falling in love with its reader. Marius Brill''s send-up of po-faced conspiracy stories, spy thrillers and pulp romance is as sharp as Tom Sharpe - imagine Umberto Ecco with a sense of humour. Ludicrously logical and finely spun, this is hare-brained literary fantasy, an erudite romp, and above all, a novel to fall in love with ...

DKK 168.00
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It Doesn't Take A Hero - H.norman Schwarzkopf - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

It Doesn't Take A Hero - H.norman Schwarzkopf - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank account of his life at West Point and his early disillusionment with the ''real'' Army that nearly prompted him to leave the military.General Schwarzkopf speaks openly about his tours of duty in Vietnam, his assignments in Washington and his sometimes uneasy relationship with the Pentagon. He provides inspiring thoughts on leadership and reveals the events behind Desert Shield/Desert Storm, including candid portraits of Colin Powell, Richard Cheney and President George Bush. We experience first hand the complexities of coordinating the campaign, of maintaining strategic secrecy during the world''s first internationally televised war, and of the sunsitive negotiations with Israel and Saudi Arabia. It Doesn''t Take A Hero is an intensely personal portrait of an American life forged from strongly held ideals tested in the cauldron of war - the triumphant journey of a soldier who set his star by a simple but timeless motto: duty, honour and country.

DKK 175.00
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The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'The Discworld's most inept wizard has found himself on the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation. It's hot. It's dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right?And in a few days, it will be except . . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober? A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong?All this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. Still . . . no worries, eh?'A minor masterpiece. I laughed so much I fell from my armchair' Time OutThe Last Continent is the fifth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

DKK 107.00
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The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘A minor masterpiece. I laughed so much I fell from my armchair’ Time Out The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . ''Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'' The Discworld ''s most inept wizard has found himself on the Discworld’s last continent, a completely separate creation.It''s hot. It''s dry . . . very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in. Practically everything that''s not poisonous is venomous. But it''s the best bloody place in the world, all right?And in a few days, it will be except . . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who''ll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he''s sober? A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs, who''s about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong?Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind , the inept wizard who can''t even spell wizard. Still . . . no worries, eh?____________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Last Continent is the sixth book in the Wizards series.

DKK 127.00
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Debriefing the President - John Nixon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Debriefing the President - John Nixon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA''s interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before it could make the announcement that would rocket around the world. At the time, John Nixon was a senior CIA leadership analyst who had spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to make the official ID, Nixon looked for telltale scars and tribal tattoos and asked Hussein a list of questions only he could answer. The man was indeed Saddam Hussein, but as Nixon learned in the ensuing weeks, both he and America had greatly misunderstood just who Saddam Hussein really was. Debriefing the President presents an astounding, candid portrait of one of our era’s most notorious strongmen. Nixon, the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Hussein after his capture, offers expert insight into the history and mind of America’s most enigmatic enemy. After years of parsing Hussein’s leadership from afar, Nixon faithfully recounts his debriefing sessions and subsequently strips away the mythology surrounding an equally brutal and complex man. His account is not an apology, but a sobering examination of how preconceived ideas led Washington policymakers—and Tony Blair''s government —astray. Unflinching and unprecedented, Debriefing the President exposes a fundamental misreading of one of the modern world’s most central figures and presents a new narrative that boldly counters the received account.

DKK 141.00
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The Wilderness Family - Kobie Kruger - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Wilderness Family - Kobie Kruger - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When Kobie Krüger, her game-ranger husband and their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world - a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa''s vast Kruger National Park - she might have worried that she would become engulfed with loneliness and boredom. Yet, for Kobie and her family, the seventeen years spent in this spectacularly beautiful park proved to be the most magical - and occasionally the most hair-raising - of their lives.Kobie recounts their enchanting adventures and extraordinary experiences in this vast reserve - a place where, bathed in golden sunlight, hippos basked in the glittering waters of the Letaba River, storks and herons perched along the shoreline, and fruit bats hung in the sausage trees.But as the Krugers settled in, they discovered that not all was peace and harmony. They soon became accustomed to living with the unexpected: the sneaky hyenas who stole blankets and cooking pots, the sinister-looking pythons that slithered into the house, and the usually placid elephants who grew foul-tempered in the violent heat of the summer. And one terrible day, a lion attacked Kobus in the bush and nearly killed him.Yet nothing prepared the Krugers for their greatest adventure of all, the raising of an orphaned prince, a lion cub who, when they found him, was only a few days old and on the verge of death. Reared on a cocktail of love and bottles of fat-enriched milk, Leo soon became an affectionate, rambunctious and adored member of the fmaily. It is the rearing of this young king, and the hilarious endeavours to teach him to become a ''real'' lion who could survive with his own kind in the wild, that lie at the heart of this endearing memoir. It is a memoir of a magical place and time that can never be recaptured.

DKK 161.00
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