Here is a sweeping history of the opening of the North Atlantic, from Norse voyages to medieval ships to the slave trade to great clippers. Roger Morris is a marine painter and historian whose hard historical facts, collloquial anecdotes and more than 100 drawings, most in color, make a compellingly handsome and acclaimed work. Size D. ($34.95 after January l, 1993.)

Atlantic Seafaring: Ten Centuries of Exploration and Trade in the North Atlantic

Science & Math

Roger Morris

Nature & Ecology

McGraw-Hill Companies

<p>It's Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution. In the meantime, junior magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky plays a dangerous game of his own. Following a chance meeting with a man he suspects of being an arsonist, he volunteers to infiltrate a terrorist cell. But the young man's loyalties appear divided, his motives conflicted. Will he track down the killers, or to use his position as a magistrate to further a cause with which he sympathises? The issue comes to a head in a shocking and violent confrontation between two generations. "The Cleansing Flames" is the fourth book in R.N. Morris' acclaimed series featuring the investigator from "Crime and Punishment".</p>

Cleansing Flames

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Faber&Faber

<p>This book is about a special culinary terroir - that along the Brandywine River Valley of Pennsylvania and Delaware and the lands adjacent to it. The volume contains 75 recipes from the area's most-famous chefs, stories about the Brandywine's chefs, winemakers, farmers and food artisans, and more than 180 color portraits of the recipes and their creators. Beautifully bound and custom printed. With a forward by Colman Andrews.</p>

The Brandywine Book of Food

Cathleen Ryan

Ella Morris

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Storm Coast Press

Sally Denton and Roger Morris make clear how and why Las Vegas became the greatest 'business success story' of the twentieth century, and how the rest of America ensured this success by contributing capital as well as customers. Headquarters of a trillion-dollar worldwide empire, the site of unprecedented political and economic power, Las Vegas is by no means an aberrant sin city. Denton and Morris demonstrate how it has grown out of, and reflects, a corruption and a worship of money that have crept into American life since Prohibition. They trace the original funds for the founding of the Las Vegas we know today to nationwide narcotics trafficking. They show how deeply a multiethnic criminal syndicate, in part feeding off gambling profits and the skim in Las Vegas, came to influence American politics and the larger society, and how pervasively its 'style of business' has penetrated the entire nation. Denton and Morris detail the amazing rise and reach of Meyer Lansky - the mind that ran the city; exactly how criminals, politicians, and businessmen worked together to control Las Vegas; the curious interplay of the city with the fates of Joseph, John F., and Robert Kennedy; how Mormon bankers and Wall Street financiers have bankrolled and profited from casinos ruled by organised crime; how a handful of dedicated journalists and law enforcement officers were destroyed before they could expose the city's secrets. The Money and the Power is a detailed and illuminating chronicle of an extraordinary place and time - and a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history.

The Money and the Power : The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000

History

Sally; Morris Denton

Americas

Pimlico

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