Books by Richard Newman

Book based on taped interviews in 1993 by the author, of Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman and Simon Heyworth talking about the making of the classic album 'Tubular Bells'. The album was the first to be released on Richard Branson's record label 'Virgin' and subsequently provided the financial basis for the formation of Virgin Airlines.

This extensive collection of African American quotations is the first of its kind to be organized by subject area for ease of reference. More than 2,500 quotations from over 500 individuals are included, taken from points in history ranging from early American settlement to the present. The sources for these expressions of freedom, hope, survival, and strength include such notable figures as George Washington Carver, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Jesse Jackson, Mary McLeod Bethune, James Baldwin, Oprah Winfrey, and Alice Walker.

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Amsterdam in 1950 was a country moving out of the German occupation - a City bent on rooting out the collaborators of the war to mitigate some of the guilt of the past in the treatment of their Jews. Ruth is a refugee from Auschwitz having lost her family, her home and, almost, her reason. But, she is intelligent, and when she befriends a youth from a tugboat who also suffers from mental illness there is a remarkable meeting of minds, as both suffer from fear: one of the past and one of the future. The story tells of their road to rebuilding their lives, finding happiness again among the bustling harbour but, a place also where, through her loyalty to her new friends Ruth becomes entangled with the traffic in Dutch collaborators fleeing the country.

Is the world spinning out of control? Are events around the world depicting an increasing state of decay and madness? You be the judge and what are you prepared to do, if anything, to change things?

The Palgrave Environmental Reader explores America's evolving fascination with nature and environmental concerns.

A day does not go by that a buyer or purchasing agent does not complete a transaction and have the vague feeling that the price paid was too high.