Other Non Fiction

14.5.10

Kenenisa Bekele, the Ethiopian who collected a unique 5000 and 10,000m double at the Berlin World Championships, features on the cover of the latest edition of the "International Track and Field Yearbook". Usain Bolt may have astonished everyone in Berlin by winning the 100 and 200m in world record times but he was on the 2009 cover after his three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics!

It's what all fans of the very popular "Bad Dog's Diary" have been waiting for. "The Bad Dog's Diary II" sees Blake the mongrel part of a bigger family - the owner now has a baby - and finds himself dealing with the difficulties of fatherhood himself, thanks to the antics of his own step-puppy.

There are some people who never have bad hair days. Eggheads, skinheads, slapheads — Bald! explores in depth the world of those whose heads are covered more by air than hair.

1/3/09

Robin Gerber, a noted author and speaker on women and leadership, skillfully entwines the stories of two exceptional women. There's Barbie: the diminutive yet arrestingly voluptuous doll unveiled at the 1959 Toy Fair to the disdain of the male buyers. She transcended her strange beginnings as the improbable offspring of 1950s American paper dolls and a European sex toy to be treasured by 90% of American girls and their counterparts in 140 countries, as well as to become an Olympic athlete, Air Force pilot, boutique owner, Presidential candidate, and a cultural icon.And there's Ruth Handler, Barbie's creator: the tenth child of Polish-Jewish immigrants; a brash, passionately competitive and creative business pioneer who stopped at nothing for her vision; a mother and wife who wanted it all; a business phenom and co founder of Mattel who was forced out amid corporate scandal, turned the tragedy of her own breast cancer into a business that changed women's lives, and was ultimately honored as a pioneer, humanitarian, masterful entrepreneur, and the indomitable mother of the world's most famous doll.