Bawden: 33 books
The Pinochet Generation
The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Chilean soldiers in the twentieth century appear in most historical accounts, if they appear at all, as decontextualized figures or simply as a single man: Augusto Pinochet. In his incisive study The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century, John R. Bawden provides compelling...
Get a Life, Then Get a Man
A Single Woman's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The key to enjoying the single life is to lead a full and rewarding existence. For dating to be successful, single women must first acquire the most attractive quality--a fun, happy, and productive life. From setting goals, nurturing friendships, and being kind to oneself, Jennifer Bawden provides...
Conversations with Classic Film Stars
Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant?
Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm playing a part. It's a part I've been playing a long time, but no way am I really Cary Grant....
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet
Interviews with Stars from Hollywood's Golden Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age. They visited Lee Marvin at home and politely admired his fishing trophies, chatted with Janet Leigh while a young Jamie Lee Curtis played, and even made Elizabeth Taylor laugh out...
Making Waves
How I fought off dolphins to swim with sharks
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Making Waves is a rich business autobiography, written by a very successful Australian entrepreneur who has stripped himself bare to share his life lessons and wisdom with the wider community in this fascinating book.
Jason Bawden-Smith’s mantra is that “purposeful play leads to prosperity...
by Nina Bawden
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Today, Tuesday, the day that Penelope has chosen to leave her husband, is the first really warm day of spring...'
Penelope has always done her best to be a good wife, a good mistress, a good mother - and a good magistrate. Today she is more conscious that usual of the thinness of the thread...
In the Dark
New ways to avoid the harmful effects of living in a technologically connected world
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Do you spend the majority of your day in front of a laptop, in artificial light? Then drive home, chatting on your Bluetooth before heating up your dinner in the microwave? Then you ‘relax’ with your iPad, glancing at your flat screen TV that’s downloading the latest movie, before setting the...
by Nina Bawden
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
George is an unusually successful travel agent, providing other people with the adventures he dare not risk. Though content to wrap himself in fantasies, he is haunted by the fact that 'the important things happened whilst his back was turned' and by the belief that he fathered the daughter- now a...
by Nina Bawden
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
The expulsion from school of their eldest son shatters the middle-class secutiry of Maggie, a writer, and Charlie, a journalist. Since childhood, Toby has been diffident and self-absorbed, but the threat of drug taking and his refusal (or inability) to discuss his evident unhappiness, disturbs them...
by Nina Bawden
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Lonely and forlorn after their mother's death and their sudden arrival at Aunt Mabel's seaside boarding-house, John, Mary and Ben Mallory are unimpressed with their new life in England. But there are wonderful surprises in store for them when they discover a secret way into the grand and empty house...
Fairy Gardening
Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and quaint fairy figures. Gardeners Julie Bawden-Davis and Beverly Turner provide you with step-by-step instructions...
by Nina Bawden
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Elizabeth and Richard are on holiday in Morocco, travelling from its fertile coast to the barren uplands beyond the Atlas mountains. During the expedition's adventures and mishaps, Elizabeth surveys her eighteen-year marriage and its accumulations of grievance, frustration and betrayal. Nina Bawden...
by Nina Bawden
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
After an expensive dinner on their thirteenth wedding anniversary, James calmly announces that he wishes to leave Bridie. A cherished adopted child, she stepped into marriage - and a pet name - at the age of nineteen and has nurtured two step-children and a daughter. The habit of protecting others...
Conversations with Legendary Television Stars
Interviews from the First Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
During television's first fifty years -- long before cable networks, Hulu, Netflix, and the like -- families would gather around their television sets nightly to watch entertaining shows such as I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, M*A*S*H, The Beverly Hillbillies, Fantasy Island, and The Rockford Files. Many of...