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Oakland shooting fuels anger over police brutality (AP)
[14 mins][Piedmont, CA]

This undated family photo provided by the Law Offices of John Burris shows Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old transit rider who was shot and killed by BART police on New Year's Day, 2009. (AP Photo/Family Handout provided by the Law Offices of John Burris)

AP - The videotaped killing of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer here has inflamed long-running tensions between police and many African-American residents.

Hospital 'apologises' for letting patient starve to death
[1 hr]

The NHS trust which let a vulnerable patient starve to death in hospital has apologised to his family. A 'breakdown in communication' meant Martin Ryan, 43, was not fitted with a feeding tube.

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	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibans backyard Anyone who despairs of the individuals power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistans treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance ...... List Price: $15.00 Price: $7.21 You Save: $7.79 (52%) 273 Merchants Used & new
	If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own serviceand ahead to Americas future.Jack Jacobs was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Severely wounded, 1st Lt. Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again to the site of the attack to rescue more men, saving the lives of a U.S. ...... List Price: $25.95 Price: $14.58 You Save: $11.37 (44%) 27 Merchants Used & new
	Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll's Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the CIA's involvement in the evolution of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIA's on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the ...... List Price: $18.00 Price: $9.97 You Save: $8.03 (45%) 72 Merchants Used & new
	One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile ...... List Price: $28.95 Price: $16.97 You Save: $11.98 (41%) 61 Merchants Used & new
	Defiance: The Bielski Partisans The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944-.-the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in ...... List Price: $14.95 Price: $8.98 You Save: $5.97 (40%) 23 Merchants Used & new
	Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of ...... List Price: $26.00 Price: $14.97 You Save: $11.03 (42%) 39 Merchants Used & new
	The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1) A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. 25,000 first printing.... List Price: $35.00 Price: $20.40 You Save: $14.60 (42%) 79 Merchants Used & new
	Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, ...... List Price: $16.00 Price: $5.45 You Save: $10.55 (66%) 174 Merchants Used & new
	Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West. Ahmed Rashid is Pakistans best and bravest reporter (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex region allows him a panoramic vision and nuance that no Western writer ...... List Price: $27.95 Price: $16.28 You Save: $11.67 (42%) 67 Merchants Used & new
	The Places In Between In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By night he slept on villagers' floors, ...... List Price: $14.00 Price: $4.74 You Save: $9.26 (66%) 176 Merchants Used & new

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