Rory Maclean: 8 books
IN NORTH KOREA
Lives and Lies in the State of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
North Koreans could change the world. Today their country can annihilate South Korea and Japan. By 2020 their aim is to have submarine-launched missiles able to nuke the US mainland. So who are the North Koreans? What do they think and feel? Are they belligerent automatons, indoctrinated by years of...
Under the Dragon
A Journey through Burma
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
After the brutal suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives, Rory MacLean seized the chance to visit Burma. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the Golden Triangle, he heard stories of freedom fighters, government censors, basket weavers,...
Wunderkind
Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
What makes an artist? What forces and inklings drive a young man or woman to make their own journey, and where does it begin? In imaginary childhood games? In chance encounters? At the sensitive core of the human heart?To answer these and other questions, award-winning author Rory MacLean met more than...
Stalin’s Nose
Across the Face of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
In Rory MacLean's ground breaking debut, Winston the pig drops onto uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. It is a distressing end to a distinguished Soviet spy. After the funeral aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Instead she...
Back in the USSR
Heroic Adventures in Transnistria
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Ian Fleming could not have imagined a better place to set a thriller: an upstart mini-state on the edge of Europe, Transnistria is a nowhereland, a Soviet museum occupied by Russian peace-keepers near the Black Sea. Its oligarchs in Adidas tracksuits hunt wild boar with AK-47s. Its young people train...
Berlijn
een bewogen geschiedenis
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Berlijn is een stad van uitersten. Een stad van macht en vernedering, van geschiedenis en vernieuwing, van de geniaalste en de donkerste opvattingen die de twintigste eeuw kenmerken. In de levendige Duitse hoofdstad springen de legendes je dan ook naar de keel: Lenin bezocht dezelfde cafés als Bowies...
Berlin
Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love. Lourdes...
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition
Knowledge and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.
It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...