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Melissa Fay Greene

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey To Rescue Africa's Children

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-10-27)
My book about Mrs. Haregewoin Teferra, the story of a remarkable woman who opened her doors to Addis Ababa's orphaned children, is finished, but the vast landscape of the orphaned children flows on. On a recent return visit to Addis Ababa, I found I could not lay aside the ...
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey To Rescue Africa's Children

Dean Cycon

Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2007-11-22)
Are you ready to enter the worlds within worlds inside your cup? Come with me to coffee communities around the world. Experience their customs, cultures, their struggles and hopes. Learn how a Javatrekker participates in the lives of the farmers and their communities. The ...
Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee

Japanese Cultural Terms You Need to Know!

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2007-04-19)
The Japanese mindset is unique in many ways, and can only be explained and understood in terms of Japan's traditional culture—which is encapsulated in key words that are pregnant with cultural nuances. This Amazon Short identifies and explains a number of the most ...
Japanese Cultural Terms You Need to Know!

Pico Iyer

A Place I've Never Been

by Amazon.com (Digital) (Release Date: 2005-06-21)
Having written so often about the places I've seen, I find that the places I've never seen have a special attraction for me, a curious pull. I have to see them with my eyes shut, or begin to make my way around them through reading and research, conversation and intuition; ...
A Place I've Never Been

Stuart Woods

A Man and His Luggage

by Amazon.com (Digital) (Release Date: 2005-06-21)
This is the story of an obsessive and nearly lifelong struggle to find, obtain and hold onto the only luggage a man could ever want. As a footnote, last year, one of the Florida hurricanes ate two pieces of it. I am bereft.
A Man and His Luggage

Joseph Kanon

Finding the Berlin of The Good German

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-11-08)
When I went to Berlin to research the background for The Good German, I found that the world of 1945 had seemingly vanished—bombed, reconstructed, buried under a modern city busily recreating itself yet again, its skyline a sea of building cranes (8000, according to one ...
Finding the Berlin of The Good German

Boyé Lafayette De Mente

Ten Of the Most Important Words In Japan

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-10-31)
This essay identifies and explains 10 of the most important words in business and social relationships in Japan, with their cultural nuances, how they are used, and how they influence both the attitudes and behavior of the Japanese—vital insights for businesspeople, ...
Ten Of the Most Important Words In Japan

Kitty Morse

Couscous and Tagines: Two Moroccan Classics

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2007-05-22)
Tired of pasta and chicken Florentine? Come into my kitchen and discover a new take on Mediterranean cuisine. Let me introduce you to the exotic flavors of Morocco, the country where I was born, with my favorite vegetable couscous and meat tagine redolent of saffron, ...
Couscous and Tagines: Two Moroccan Classics

James Morrow

The Second Coming of Charles Darwin

by Amazon.com (Digital) (Release Date: 2005-06-21)
I wrote this satiric fable in hopes of adding a new and phantasmagorical wrinkle to the Darwin Wars, the ongoing conflict between religious conservatives and evolutionary thinkers over the source of our planet's biological diversity. The plot turns on Omar, a cyborg ...
The Second Coming of Charles Darwin

Sheila Wood Foard

Fred Harvey's Fast Food Empire, Yesterday & Today

by Amazon (Digital) (Release Date: 2006-11-08)
Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls are my favorite topics. I wrote “Fred Harvey's Fast Food Empire, Yesterday & Today” as a three-part “short.” It includes an award-winning biography of “Fred Harvey, the Father of Fast Food,” a review of the classic musical, The ...
Fred Harvey's Fast Food Empire, Yesterday & Today