Saucerful of Secrets is the first in-depth biography of thisvery private group. At the heart of the saga is Syd Barrett, thegroup's brilliant founder, whose public decline into shatteredincoherence--attributable in part to his marathon use of LSD--isone of the tragedies of rock history. The making of Dark Side ofthe Moon and Floyd's other great albums is recounted in detail, asare the mounting of "The Wall"? ? and the creation of the flyingpigs, crashing? ? planes, "Mr. Screen" and the other elements oftheir spectacular stage shows. The book also explores the manybattles between bass player/song writer Roger Waters and the restof the group, leading up to Water's acrimonious departure for asolo? ? career in 1984 and his unsuccessful attempt to disolve thegroup he had left behind. Saucerful of Secrets is an electrifying account of thisground-breaking, mind-bending group, covering every period of theircareer from? ? earliest days to latest recordings. It is full of? ?revealing information that will

No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of GabrielGarcía Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of hisautobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. Theresult is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhoodhome of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are themembers of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forcesthat turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in imagesso vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living toTell the Tale is a work of enchantment.

No one is better poised to write the biography of JamesHerriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshireveterinary practice when Herriot became an internationallybestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant biography, JimWight ventures beyond his father's life as a veterinarian to revealthe man behind the stories--the private individual who refused toallow fame and wealth to interfere with his practice or his family.With access to all of his father's papers, correspondence,manu*s, and photographs--and intimate recollections of thefarmers, locals, and friends who populate the James Herriotbooks--only Jim Wight could write this definitive biography of theman who was not only his father but his best friend.

After twenty years as a foreign correspondent in tumultuouslocales, Judith Matloff is ready to return to her native New YorkCity and start a family with her husband, John. Intoxicated by WestHarlem’s cultural diversity and, more important, its affordability,Judith impulsively buys a stately fixer-upper brownstone in theneighborhood–only to discover that this dream house was once acrack den and that calling it a “fixer upper” is an understatement.Thus begins the couple’s odyssey to win over brazen drug dealers,delinquent construction workers, and eccentric neighbors in one ofthe biggest drug zones in the country. It’s a far cry from utopia,but it’s a start, and Judith and John do all they can to carve outa comfortable life–and, over time, come to appreciate theneighborhood’s rough charms. A wry, reflective, and hugelyentertaining memoir, Home Girl is for anyone who has longedto go home, however complicated the journey.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the monumentalwork that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence ofArabia." Not only a consummate military history, but also acolorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man,this is one of the indisputable classics of 20th century Englishliterature. Line drawings throughout.

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of ourtime. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of hislife and how he developed his concept of active nonviolentresistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independenceand countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentiethcentury. In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bokurges us to adopt Gandhi's "attitude of experimenting, of tesingwhat will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot beadapted to new circumstances,"in order to bring about change in ourown lives and communities. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the NavajivanTrust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.

How does he assess the information that is brought to him? Howdoes his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense,sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him?How does he deal with setbacks and disasters? In this brilliantclose-up look at Winston Churchill's leadership during the SecondWorld War, Gilbert gets to the heart of the trials and strugglesthat have confronted the world's most powerful leaders, even up tocurrent politicians such as George Bush and Tony Blair. Basing the book on his intimate knowledge of Churchill's privateand official papers, Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill’s officialbiographer, looks at the public figure and wartime propaganda, toreveal a very human, sensitive, and often tormented man, whonevertheless found the strength to lead his nation forward from thedarkest and most dangerous of times.

Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that acomplete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtainedwithout reading this book.... Also indispensable for buddingdirectors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefson the primacy of a good *, on *writing as an essentialtool for directors, on directing actors, on camera placement, andon the value of steeping oneself in literature, from great novelsto detective fiction." -- Variety "For the lover of Kurosawa's movies...this is nothing short of mustreading...a fitting companion piece to his many dynamic andabsorbing screen entertainments." -- Washington Post Book World

An enduring mystery in Mark Twain’s life concerns the events ofhis last decade, from 1900 to 1910. Despite many Twain biographies, no one has everdetermined exactly what took place during those final years afterthe death of Twain’s wife of thirty-four years and how thoseexperiences affected him, personally and professionally. For nearlya century, it was believed that Twain went to his death a beloved,wisecracking iconoclastic American (“I am not an American,” Twainwrote; “I am the American”), undeterred by life’s sorrows andchallenges. Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twainscholar at work today, suspected that there had to be more to thestory than the cultivated, carefully constructed version that hadbeen intact for so long. Trombley went in search of the one womanwhom she suspected had played the largest role in Twain’s lifeduring those final years and who possibly held the answers to herquestions about Twain’s life and writings. Now, in Mark Twain’s Other Woman, after

From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comesan extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of anirrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convincedEdward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born andspent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers thelost Arab world of his early years in Palestine, Lebanon, andEgypt. Said writes withgreat passion and wit about his family and his friends from hisbirthplace in Jerusalem, schools in Cairo, and summers in themountains above Beirut, to boarding school and college in theUnited States, revealing an unimaginable world of rich, colorfulcharacters and exotic eastern landscapes. Underscoring all is theconfusion of identity the young Said experienced as he came toterms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christianand a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider. Richly detailed,moving, often profound, Out of Place depicts a young man'scoming of age and the genesis of a great modern think