Editore: Anchor, 2011
ISBN 10: 0767930347 ISBN 13: 9780767930345
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: Doubleday Books, 2010
ISBN 10: 0385527160 ISBN 13: 9780385527163
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.25.
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Editore: Doubleday, 2019
ISBN 10: 0385542097 ISBN 13: 9780385542098
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: Anchor, 2020
ISBN 10: 0525431950 ISBN 13: 9780525431954
Da: Giant Giant, Reston, VA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condizione: USED_GOOD. Good condition.No marking/highlighting.Cover and pages may show some wear.Not Satisfied? Contact us to get a refund.
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Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010
ISBN 10: 140880879X ISBN 13: 9781408808795
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Hardback. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Editore: Center Point Pub, 2010
ISBN 10: 1602858373 ISBN 13: 9781602858374
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
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Editore: Bloomsbury UK, 2011
ISBN 10: 140881000X ISBN 13: 9781408810002
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
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Editore: Scribe UK, 2019
ISBN 10: 1912854066 ISBN 13: 9781912854066
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Editore: 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 2919547119 ISBN 13: 9782919547111
Da: ChouetteCoop, Kervignac, Francia
Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. Occasion - Bon Etat - Tous les hommes de ce village sont des menteurs. Une ?ducation par la guerre (2013) - Grand Format.
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Editore: Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2011
ISBN 10: 1921844094 ISBN 13: 9781921844096
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: NEW. Paperback. A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan Stack, a 25-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she travelled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and to other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world, and striving to tell its stories.Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is Megan Stack's unique and breathtaking account of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy. She reports from under bombardment in Lebanon; documents the growth of unusual friendships; records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews.Beautiful, savage, and unsettling, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is a deeply human memoir about the wars of the 21st century. It is an indispensable book of our times.'An electrifying book by an extraordinary foreign correspondent.'- Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes'You'll be thinking about this book long after you turn the final page.'- Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan Stack was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan. From there, she travelled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and to other countries scarred by violence. This is Megan Stack's unique and breathtaking account of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2019
ISBN 10: 1925849074 ISBN 13: 9781925849073
Da: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: NEW. Paperback. 'The cold reality of my gender was dawning on me. It was motherhood that forced me to understand the timeless horror of our position. The reason women had not written novels or commanded armies or banked or doctored or explored or painted at the same rate as men. The cause was not, as I had been led to believe, that women had been prevented from working. Quite the opposite- We had been doing all of the work, around the clock, for centuries.'After her first book was published to acclaim, journalist Megan K. Stack got pregnant and quit her job to write. She pictured herself pen in hand while the baby napped, but instead found herself traumatised by a difficult birth and shell-shocked by the start of motherhood.Living abroad provided her with access to affordable domestic labour, and, sure enough, hiring a nanny gave her back the ability to work. At first, Megan thought she had little in common with the women she hired. They were important to her because they made her free. She wanted them to be happy, but she didn't want to know the details of their lives. That didn't work for long.When Pooja, an Indian nanny who had been absorbed into the family, disappeared one night with no explanation, Megan was forced to confront the truth- these women were not replaceable, and her life had become inextricably intertwined with theirs. She set off on a journey to find out where they really come from and understand the global and personal implications of wages paid, services received, and emotional boundaries drawn in the home. As she writes herself- 'Somebody should investigate. Somebody should write about all of this. But this is my life. If I investigate, I must stand for examination. If I interrogate, I'll be the one who has to answer.''Megan Stack is willing to confront hard questions that so many of us flinch from- the relationships between women and the women we hire to take care of our houses and our children, to do the traditional women's work that gives "liberated women" the time to do traditional men's work. Women's Work is a book of vivid characters, engrossing stories, shrewd insights, and uncomfortable reflections.'- Anne-Marie Slaughter, President & CEO of New America, and author of Unfinished Business'Women's Work is an incredible follow-up to Megan Stack's celebrated book of war reportage, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar. It is a fierce and furious and darkly funny book about the costs of motherhood- the psychological costs, the costs in time and energy and spirit, and finally the costs imposed on other women, most of them also mothers, who leave their own children so they can take care of ours. I can't think of a work that speaks more directly to our age of increasing inequality, starting with housework and child care, the oldest inequalities of all.'- Keith Gessen, author of A Terrible Country'A self-critical and heartfelt narrative . beautifully written, informative, and sometimes harrowing as she recounts the joy, fear, and exhaustion of becoming a mother. What women - and men - can learn from Stack's story is that "women's work", in all of its complexity and construction, should not be only for women.' STARRED REVIEW- Kirkus Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Scribe, Melbourne, 2010
ISBN 10: 1921640448 ISBN 13: 9781921640445
Da: Leura Books, Bowral, NSW, Australia
Trade Paperback. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent Megan Stack was 24 when the attacks of September 11 occurred and she was sent to chronicle the war in Afghanistan. She spent the next decade of her life in the Middle East, covering the far-flung and ever morphing 'war on terror'. Stack has roamed every Arab country from Israel to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen: war zones where politics, strategy, finance, and propaganda seep one into the other, and being a young woman is no asset. Every Man in this Village is a Liar recounts these experiences. Reporting amid the region's chaos, Stack witnessed US foreign policy as it evolved, shifted and contradicted itself - from Tora Bora to support for Lebanon's 'Cedar Revolution', the tacit acceptance of Saudi Arabia's sexist stance on women, and unwavering support for Israel. For Stack, it's impossible to truly understand the wars in the Middle East by viewing the conflict in the black and white terms that are so often fed to us by the media.Driven by the ever-widening chasm between the West and the Middle East, this exceptional first work of non-fiction introduces a cast of characters plagued by the violence, love, friendship, shame, and disillusionment of war. We get to know warlords, doctors, students, oil wives, politicos, and an unlikely reporter who manages to hold her ground against terrorism and vast moral and ethical uncertainties, all the while unsure of when it might all be over. 255 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Australia; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781921640445. Inventory No: 248510.
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Editore: Bloomsbury, 2010
Da: Librodifaccia, Alessandria, AL, Italia
Condizione: USED_GOOD. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Buone Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.