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Drive-ins

Liftin, Joan
Drive-ins
The drive-in was born in 1933 inCamden, NJ, when an enterprisinggas station owner projected a movieon his wall to entertain impatientcustomers. These photographs, taken over a period of twenty years, document the drive-in?s place inpeople?s lives and what it meant toa generation. Although numbersdwindle, a certain zeitgeist will notdie in the face of shopping malls anddevelopment.

CHF 35.50

Traces of War

Banning, Jan
Traces of War
Allied victory in the Pacific celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in August. Among the celebrants will be a small, largely forgotten group reliving nightmares of captivity. Dutch, English, Australian and American prisoners of war worked among more than a quarter of a million Asians--so called romushas--forced by the Japanese to build railways in Burma and Sumatra. Conditions were desperate: between 50 and 80 per cent of the romushas did not su...

CHF 35.50

Delta Nigeria

Osodi, George
Delta Nigeria
Oil was first discovered in the Niger Delta in the 1950s, soon aftera powerful international oil industry developed. Nigeria today is theworld?s 5th largest exporter of oil to the US.? However the people are poor that live in this oil-rich land, andthe environment that surrounds them is deadly - oil leaks andexplosions abound, whilst the water supply is heavily contaminated.? In recent years, local guerillas in balaclavas and speed boats, arme...

CHF 59.50

The Cardboard House

Towell, Larry
The Cardboard House
The international humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been working in Peru since 1985. This book celebrates their work and the people whose existence they have salvaged.

CHF 26.90