Gilmour, David

Examines the history of Italy from its different regions with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities and cuisines to the politics of the country beginning with the unification to the present.

David Gilmour traces his unconventional decision to let his son, Jesse, drop out of high school as long as they watched three movies of David's choosing together each week. David discusses how, as the films got them talking about Jesse's interior life, Jesse would come to make a decision that surprised even his father.

A memoir in which author David Gilmour tells about his experiences after he responded to what he saw as a disenchantment with learning in his teenage son by offering to let the fifteen-year-old drop out of school on the condition that he watch three movies a week--chosen by Gilmour, opening the doors of communication between father and son.

Chronicles the life of author Rudyard Kipling, exploring the depth and complexity of his writing and world from his earliest publications through his many novels, stories, and poems.