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Author's account of his travels through the Balkan countries and a history of the region.

With the 1991 collapse of the Societ Union Russia launched a transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, is not taking the country in the direction it was expected to go. Unsettling revelations about Putin are disclosed. As Russia continues to build its relationship with the United States its future is still uncertain.

Vladimir Putin is Russia's third president under their Democratic government experiment. Handpicked by Boris Yeltsin to succeed him, Putin held strong convictions about how his country should be managed and where he wanted to stand on the world's stage. Fiercely patriotic and ambitious, Putin began his career as a counterintelligence spy but when the Soviet Union's Communist rule dissolved in 1989 he was determined to find another way to serve his country.

Text and photos present instructions in playing basketball, and some outstanding players present their own pointers and philosophy of the game.

The story behind the writing of the Hitchhiker Trilogy and its existance as radio series, books, television series, stage plays, records, film, computer games and towels.

Ting-Xing Ye recounts the brutality, horror, and desperation she and her family faced during the Chinese cultural revolution and reflects on how those events impacted every aspect of her life.

Account of the author's travels through West Africa, Egypt and Iran, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia, areas of the world that are being torn apart by cultural rivalries and the re-emergence of ethnic divisiveness.

Discusses the personal life, acting career, tragic accident, and determination to recover of the actor known for his role as Superman and for his efforts on behalf of spinal cord injury victims.