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New York : Simon Pulse, 2007
[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1998
New York : Pocket Star Books, 2008
New York : W.W Norton & Company, c2010
Abstract/Sommario: As propulsively readable as the best true crime, A Kidnapping in Milan is a potent reckoning with the realities of counterterrorism. In a mesmerizing page-turner, Steve Hendricks gives us a ground-level view of the birth and growth of international Islamist terrorist networks and of counterterrorism in action in Europe. He also provides an eloquent, eagles-eye perspective on the big questions of justice and the rule of law.In Milan a known fact is always explained by competing stor ...; [Leggi tutto...]
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
New York : Square Fish, 2007
Abstract/Sommario: It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin's vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Blajeny) who explains that what they are seeing isn't a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well – by making him well, they will keep the balance of the universe in check and save it from th ...; [Leggi tutto...]
New York : Harper Perennial, 2010
Abstract/Sommario: A superb, modern-day portrait of Africa, told through the game that unites it. Football inspires competition and inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cap, Steve Bloomfield meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, and discovers the role that football has played in shaping the continent. He recounts how football has helped to prop up an authoritarian regime in Egypt, end a conflict in Cote d'Ivoire and p ...; [Leggi tutto...]