Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond by Kevin Rushby, ISBN 0312239335
The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower of London where some say its curse controls the fate of the Windsor family. In "Chasing the Mountain of Light," Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-i-Noor on a journey to the heart of Indian culture meeting dealers, smugglers, and petty crooks along the way. It's another adventure from Rushby whom the "Washington Post" recently compared to William S. Burroughs and Arthur Rimbaud.
Whose Puck Is It, Anyway?: A Season with A Minor Novice Hockey Team by Arnold, ISBN 0771007817
Every winter, in hockey arenas across North America, as soon as the kids step onto the ice, the abuse begins. Coaches yell at the players, parents yell at the coaches, and everyone yells at the referees. After nearly a decade of coaching youngsters, Ed Arnold decided he wanted kids to learn the fundamentals of hockey but he also wanted them to have fun. He got support in this enterprise from two former NHL players, goalie Greg Millen and forward Steve Larmer. Concerned that the children's game was being taken far too seriously by both parents and coaches, they also believed that the kids were losing the opportunity to reinvent the game for themselves.
So it came about that in the winter of 2000, when the parents of the would-be Minor Novice Peterborough Petes showed up with their kids for tryouts, they were handed a letter outlining the coaches' new philosophy. There would be no yelling at players, coaches, or referees. Players would play all positions. They would not be forced to follow...
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The Eagle Triumphant: How America Took Over the British Empire
How America’ s empire was not built in Iraq, but founded between the two World Wars
With the current U.S. occupation of Iraq, many commentators have scrutinized America’ s imperial ambitions. Now, in this eye-opening book, Robert Smith Thompson probes the rise of the American imperium in the years spanning the First and Second World Wars. Refuting the conventional view of America as a naive isolationist power, Thompson demonstrates how missteps by British leaders, growing U.S. economic might, and deliberate policies under Franklin Roosevelt helped the United States dismantle the British Empire and inherit its spheres of influence– in the Middle East and elsewhere– by the end of World War II.
Robert Smith Thompson (Columbia, SC) is Professor of International Relations at the University of South Carolina. His books include Empires on the Pacific, A Time for War, and The Missiles of October.
The Eagle Triumphant: How America Took Over the British Empire
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