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Dalai Lama - Definitive Biography by Alexander Norman
Category: Biography
The Dalai Lama is one of the best-known and respected public figures of modern times. A Nobel Peace Prize Winner, advocate for peace and campaigner for compassion, he regularly speaks at sell-out arena tours across the globe. In this new biography, Alexander Norman reveals the complex and compelling cha ...Show more
Holder of the White Lotus by Alexander Norman
Category: Biography Memoir
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is renowned the world over for an unswerving dedication to non-violence in his efforts to achieve justice for Tibet. In the twenty years he has known and worked with him, Alexander Norman has seen at first hand this extraordinary man's courage, compassion and honesty. But the ...Show more
Planetary Echoes - Exploring the Implications of Human by Lukas Feireiss (Text by, Editor); Alexander C. Geppert (Text by); Nelly Hayoun (Text by); Ulrich Köhler (Text by); Greg Lynn (Text by); Michael López-Alegría (Text by); Fabian Reimann (Text by); Tim Smit (Text by); Christiane Stahl (Text by); Michael Najjar (Editor, Text by); Buzz Aldrin (Text by); Anousheh Ansari (Text by); Thore Bjørnvig (Text by); Richard Branson (Text by); Pierre Cox (Text by); Xavier De Kestelier (Text by); Norman Foster (Text by)
Category: Science
We now have the technology to reach nearby planets. Even though many long-term technical issues still need to be resolved to create the conditions for a permanent, self-sustaining human life on another planet, imagining humans as a multiplanetary species is no longer merely the stuff of science fiction. ...Show more
Selected Writings Alexander von Humboldt by Erich Maria Remarque; Brian Murdoch (Translator); Norman Stone (Introduction by); Alexander von Humboldt; Andrea Wulf (Introduction by)
Category: Science
Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his tim ...Show more
Three Minutes for a Dog - My Life in an Iron Lung by Paul R. Alexander; Apn Norman Depaul Brown Msph (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction
Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that started in 1949 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950's. Survivors of ...Show more
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