A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen.'A witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque characters' Misha Glenny'Will leave you astonished, exhausted and curious... An unapologetic page turner' Spectator'Essential reading for anyone interested in Romania past and present' John Simpson'An engaging introduction to the...

A Financial Times Book of the Year'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish TimesThe dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a perman...

Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots a ship and, forcing the last moments of life from the engine, they move towards it. But the crew refuses to allow them on board. Instead the men scramble onto the floats of a huge industrial tuna net, and watch as their boat rolls over and dis...

Theres no one in Rhode Island who has covered as many sporting events in as many places as Paul Kenyon.Over his fifty-year career as a journalist (including thirty-seven years at The Providence Journal), he covered the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots, University of Rhode Island basketball, high school sports, all things golf, and other sports.As much as he enjoyed watching and writing about the games, it was getting to know what the coaches and athletes were like a...

Bloomsbury presents Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon, read by Hamilton McLeod.A Financial Times Book of the Year'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish TimesThe dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent sta...

A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen.'A witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque characters' Misha Glenny'Kenyon relates all this with verve [and] humour ... He patiently untangles the complicated webs of loyalty and enmity' Literary Review'Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Romania past and present' John SimpsonBalanced precariously on the shifting...

Root canal therapy is often claimed to "save" teeth, but in reality, there is nothing to save. A root canaled tooth is a dead tooth, notes long-time dentist Dr. Ron Carlson, and, as such, should be buried six feet below Earth's surface. The "cult of dental death" has ruled far too long with great skill in specious scientific obfuscation. It is time to make connections. The dental profession is the only health practice advocating leaving dead infected tissue within the living human body. In...

From the bestselling author of Dictatorland**, this is the long and turbulent history of China's growing influence over African states.**People are increasingly fascinated by – and terrified of – the role of China in the modern world. In Africa, this role has become something akin to a new colonial power. With unique insight into how China operates overseas, Paul Kenyon charts the country's extraordinary success in exploiting Africa's natu...

In Blood, the Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, General George Pickett, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant and Stephen Crane. In The War, no one knew i...

Discusses research on factors affecting carcass composition and meat quality;Reviews advances in breeding such as the use of molecular markers;Summarises key developments in understanding and improving the health and welfare of sheep

This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a variety of cultural representations—visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual—created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public and shared...