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Chapters: Joan Collins, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Jemima Khan, Kate Middleton, Peaches Geldof, Charles Palmer-Tomkinson, Violet Trefusis, Beau Brummell, Pamela Harriman, Lady Randolph Churchill, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Nicholas Haslam, Sylvia Brett, Claus Von Bülow, Jane Digby, Lady Diana Cooper, Kathleen Garman, Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden, Lady Dorothy Macmillan, Tom Parker Bowles, Lady Victoria Hervey, Marita Crawley, William Donaldson, Jade Jagger, Freda Dudley Ward, Penelope Aitken, Henrietta Moraes, Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, Nick Smith, Tamara Beckwith, Lady Isabella Hervey, Norah, Lady Docker, Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, Stephen Tennant, Lorna Garman, Charlotte Von Rothschild, Laura Cavendish, Evelina de Rothschild, David Herbert, Barbara Skelton, Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor, Sybil Colefax, Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere, Valerie Susan Meux, Lady William Russell, Elizabeth Clyde, Aline Caroline de Rothschild. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 208. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author, and columnist. Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa (née Bessant), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins, an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, the Beatles, and Tom Jones. Collins' South Africanborn father was Jewish and her British mother was Anglican. She has one sister, author Jackie Collins, and one brother, Bill Collins. Collins was educated at the Francis Holland School and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Collins's childhood was spent in and around Maida Vale and was, according to Collins, an idyllic one with plenty o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=53047 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on May 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1512 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Random House sued Joan Collins when she returned the advances paid to her. Collins engaged into a book contract with Random House, by which she produced two novels. Random House refused to publish her novels because it did not meet the requirements stipulated in Collins' contract. The court's findings revealed that Random House failed to meet its side of the agreement by refusing to publish Joan Collins' books. Collins' case raised the issue on book contracts that often leave authors on the losing end. Authors should be wary of the extent of their rights as well as the publisher's.

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Title: Collins trial illustrates author-publisher contracts. (actress Joan Collins)
Author: Mark Sableman
Publication: St. Louis Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1996
Publisher: SJR St. Louis Journalism Review
Volume: v26Issue: n186Page: p12(1)

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Chapters: Bonnie Bassler, Eric Kandel, Richard Axel, Craig Mello, Angelika Amon, James Collins, Joan A. Steitz, Joseph Takahashi, Roderick Mackinnon, Arthur L. Horwich, Gerald M. Rubin, Joseph Derisi, Elaine Fuchs, Gideon Dreyfuss, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Terry Sejnowski, Carla J. Shatz, Yuet Wai Kan, Cornelia Bargmann, Carlos Bustamante, Linda B. Buck, Nancy Andrews, Catherine Dulac, Philippa Marrack, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Pascale Cossart, Thomas A. Steitz, Robert Tjian, Barbara J. Meyer, Bruce Lahn, H. Robert Horvitz, Pamela J. Bjorkman, Graham C. Walker, Sean B. Carroll, David Haussler, Peter Walter, Sharon R. Long, Susan R. Wessler, Kevin Campbell, J. Andrew Mccammon, David Eisenberg, Bert Vogelstein, Eva Nogales, Patrick O. Brown, Philip A. Beachy, Pietro de Camilli, Robert B. Darnell, Richard Losick, Paul Ahlquist, Paul L. Modrich. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 177. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eric Richard Kandel (born November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American neuroscientist who was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with fellow recipients Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard. Kandel is professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was also the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia. Kandel has recently authored In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (WW Norton), which chronicles his life and research. The book was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Science and Technology. Kandel was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=193622 ... Read more

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`The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India' is a non-fiction narrative that gives a strong and hopeful voice to India's most vulnerable citizens.

Shelley Seale's book follows the lives of just such children as those brought to life in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. The Weight of Silence depicts Seale's journey into orphanages and through the streets and slums of India where millions of innocent children live without families. During her three years of writing The Weight of Silence, Seale has befriended and told the stories of many such children - and has born witness to their struggles first hand.

"Their hope and resilience amazed me time and time again; the ability of their spirits to overcome crippling challenges inspired me. Even in the most deprived circumstances they are still kids - they laugh and play, perhaps far less frequently than others; they develop strong bonds and relationships to create family where none exists; and most of all they have an enormous amount of love to give." - Shelley Seale ... Read more

Customer Reviews (19)

Heartfelt, inspiring read.
Shelley Seale has given a face and a name to the many children in India who are living in poverty. She has introduced some amazing organizations that are truly changing the world by helping one child at a time. I desperately wanted to jump on a plane and fly to India after reading this book. She described it so vividly that I felt I was there with her. You will enjoy this book and it will inspire you to want to do something to help.

The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India
Shelley Seale opens the door to the real India and the children who so touched her heart in The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India.It is a factual, well researched account of the orphans in India and their lives; of those who live to help them, and those who don't.Truly a walk inside the amazing collage of heartwrenching stories, plus blinding beauty and joys. . .that they call home.

Insightful beyond belief-- The Weight of Silence
All of us like to think that we care about those less fortunate, that we're aware of what is happening in the world beyond our view. By traveling to India and writing this readable and gripping book, Shelley Seale has actually done something about it.In the process, she has inspired me and I hope she will inspire you.

Shelley Seale dove deep into the realities of life for the poorest of the poor children in India.Her prose vividly brings to life the love she gave those children-- and the love she received back many times over.She describes in unstinting detail the rough lives and limited futures faced by many of these children, but she brings home the idea that while you can't help everyone, you certainly can help one.Or two.And imagine what can come of those lives, if those children are helped?

I have traveled to India, Africa and poor areas of Asia, and I am deep into creating my own philanthropy-oriented business venture. After reading The Weight of Silence, I am doubly inspired to help spread the word that we Americans, who live in such a rich and comfortable country, have an obligation to do what we can to help even one child.Who knows-- this child could be the one to go on and discover a cure for HIV/AIDS?Or be the sane and stable face at the negotiating table in the India/US nuclear negotiations 25 years from now?Seale's story highlights that each and every life has value and that every effort to improve the quality of those lives is worthwhile.

So get inspired!Buy a copy of this book, tell all your friends, and between all of us we can make a real difference.

An Extraordinary Read!
The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India, by Shelley Seale, should be required reading for everyone. Ms. Seale does an extraordinary job of informing her readers about the 25 million children that live on the streets of India or in orphanages. She presents the complexities of caste, poverty and child labor in such a way that they are understandable to all readers. The author delves into her own journey, striving to come to terms with India's overwhelming challenges and opportunties. She does not shy away from the pain and discovery process that accompanies such a journey. Her book is a lovely pairing of personal anecdotes and observations and well documented research.

Like Ms. Seale, I work with a non-profit that seeks to aid the street children of India. Reading her remarkable book felt like stepping through the pages of my own journals. It left me with a renewed commitment to continue working on behalf of these invisible children and to return to India as soon as possible.

Heartbreaking but True
Reviewed by Carol Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views (9/09)

Although most readers know there are abandoned children and poverty all over the world, it really won't hit home until they read this true and heartbreaking story by author Shelley Seale.

We also know that each country and the US only want to show what works and how well each are doing to care for their people. The author is not discounting India's attempt to show the better part of their country; she is showing that there are still many areas that have poverty, people without places to live and the basics that each of us take for granted on a daily basis.

The children of these deprived areas die of many diseases that in the US are treated on a daily basis. They scrounge for food in garbage and dumps. There are no bathrooms- they use the streets. Many children end up in orphanages hoping just to stay alive and maybe one day be returned to their families.

Ms. Seale takes us on a journey through the country, poverty-stricken villages and orphanages. She meets with the caregivers and children and sees the despair and desire to be loved and given the same opportunity as everyone else.

This isn't a love and flower story - it is one of facts and personal observation. After reading this journey, I thought about all the requests for money that you see on TV for children in other countries and how I thought they all were a scam. There are many very dedicated, true to their mission charities. At the end of each chapter, Ms. Seale provides footnotes and in the back of the book she provides a list of organizations that are legitimate. Throughout the book she provides pictures from the thousands she has taken. Once you read "The Weight of Silence" by Shelley Seale and realize the true impact, you will hopefully change your mind and do a random act of kindness by helping these children. ... Read more