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Tales from a Traveller's Life
There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been ...
A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends
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How the Twentieth Century Was Reported
Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism, John Simpson has become not only one of the most recognisable and trusted British personalities, bu...
The World of the Foreign Correspondent
From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled wo...
Reporting the World
On 13 November 2001, John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It ...
Jon Swift is in trouble. His journalism career is in freefall. He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's never learned to suck up to tho...
John Simpson in the Gulf
For over thirty years, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by...
Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad
This riveting account is the summation of more than twenty years covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq: a major work of serious reportage and essential readi...
A Traveller's Tales
In Not Quite World's End, Simpson offers a lively and upbeat look at the challenges and the changes the world has gone through in his life and long ca...
Special Forces Signaller Extraordinary
Operating behind enemy lines in Greece, Brittany and Holland, Len Wilmott's adventures with the Special Forces make for fascinating reading....
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and Other Works
The new Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace designed by John Simpson was opened as a centre for visual arts by Her Majesty the Queen in May 2002 as p...
Broadcaster & writer gives a vivid picture of life in Iran....
Dispatches From The Front Lines
Whether dodging guerrillas at a cocaine market in Colombia, giving Osama Bin Laden the slip in an embroiled Afghanistan, or watching the unfolding mas...
Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the o...
Explains how to use eXtensible Markup Language to modify Web sites, including hyperlining, style sheets, and customized XML applications....
A Cultural History
While the modern nation can trace its origins back to 1747, the history of Afghanistan is far more ancient. It has long been a focal point of the Silk...
Encounters in Peru with Terrorism, Drug-Running and Military Oppression
In one of the most dangerous and thrilling investigations of his distinguished career, world-renowned journalist John Simpson journeyed into Peru's he...
Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
"A charmingly full, frank, and humorous account of a career dedicated to rigorous lexicographic rectitude. . . .[John Simpson] is an absolute hero." -...
1st of January to the 25th of July 1825
John Simpson studied at Edinburgh University where he took his degree as doctor of medicine in 1821. He practiced as a physician in Bradford, York unt...
Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dict...
John Simpson offers a lively look at the challenges & changes the world has gone through in his life & long career. He looks at theworld's troubles & ...
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Cor...
It is widely recognised that there are many people for whom public transport is essential, particularly amongst the elderly, children and teenagers. L...
Locating Content in XML Documents
Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little like finding a needle in a haystack: how do you differentiate the information you...
A dictionary of modern slang draws on the resources of the "Oxford English Dictionary" to cover over five thousand slang words and phrases from throug...
A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management
This practical book describes a systematic approach to the ultrasound examination of the fetal heart based on accepted screening recommendations. The ...
Its Propagation and Culture
Invitations and Simple Practices for a Vibrant Life
Find your way into the wonder of everyday and live a life full of nows with the powerful advice in The Way of Wonder....
An Eye-witness Account of the Revolutions that Shook the World, 1989-90
In this text John Simpson, one of the BBC's leading correspondents, gives an account of many of the events he has witnessed. In May 1989 he was in Tia...
Born in Texas in 1862, Lily Klasner assumed leadership of her family at the age of 13, after her father was murdered. In this memoir, Lily recalls her...
The Small Finds
Between 1977 and 1984 the excavations of a Canadian archaeological team at San Giovanni di Ruoti in southern Italy uncovered a series of three Roman v...
From the Preface: Reader, the Author preached and printed the Works out of which this is extracted, many many years ago, and by them, he, though dead,...
Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."...