Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt & disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed & betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption & a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition. ...

Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt & disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed & betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption & a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition. ...

'A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees, ' as William Blake so aptly put it. What he probably meant, being a publisher & a printer himself, was that the wise man cuts down the tree & turns the resultant paper into a one-size-fits-all book packed with the sagest advice, quips "ations from some of the wisest & funniest people whose counsel you could ever wish to hear.

A Word from the Wise is a one-stop shop with over 6, 000"es. It's a vast resource, but every one is a gem, from such knowledgeable souls as Hunter S Thompson, The Talmud, Dorothy Parker & Daffy Duck.

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'A"ation at the right moment is like bread in a famine' The Talmud

' Imagination is more important than knowledge' Albert Einstein

' If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars' John Paul Getty

' Violence is the repartee of the illiterate' George Bernard Shaw

' Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition' Timothy Leary

'A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are' Gore Vidal















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* In A World by Itself, six distinguished British historians offer the most definitive & compelling history of the British ...

* In A World by Itself, six distinguished British historians offer the most definitive & compelling history of the British ...

Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation & concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire & the expansion of Europe. The histories of the great civilisations of China, India & Japan, & therefore the experience of the majority of the world's people, have been relegated to a minor place. World History adopts a radically different approach. Starting from the assumption that the human story has to be seen in the round, it examines the evolution of humans, their lives as hunters & gatherers & their eventual adoption of agriculture, before looking at the emergence of civilisation across the globe; in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, the Indus Valley, Mesoamerica & Peru. It goes on to tell the story of the earliest empires, emphasising not just their differences but also their similarities. It explains how contacts were established between them & how technologies, ideas & the world's great religions travelled from one to another. It describes the great empires of Islam, of China & of the Mongols. Only towards the end of the story does Europe come slowly to dominate the world, against the background of technical innovations & social & economic change. ...

Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation & concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire & the expansion of Europe. The histories of the great civilisations of China, India & Japan, & therefore the experience of the majority of the world's people, have been relegated to a minor place. World History adopts a radically different approach. Starting from the assumption that the human story has to be seen in the round, it examines the evolution of humans, their lives as hunters & gatherers & their eventual adoption of agriculture, before looking at the emergence of civilisation across the globe; in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, the Indus Valley, Mesoamerica & Peru. It goes on to tell the story of the earliest empires, emphasising not just their differences but also their similarities. It explains how contacts were established between them & how technologies, ideas & the world's great religions travelled from one to another. It describes the great empires of Islam, of China & of the Mongols. Only towards the end of the story does Europe come slowly to dominate the world, against the background of technical innovations & social & economic change. ...

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads a young girl into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a group of people held together by odd ties of kinship or habit, & haunted by the memory of its former owner who was killed in France as a young man. At Montefort, under the domination of the deceased's cousin & heiress, Antonia, & in the midst of an unusually hot & dry summer, young Jane pursues her own imaginings. Not far off an immigrant from another world
- a rich promiscuous, parvenue Englishwoman Lady Latterly, who will play a part in Jane's awakening.
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Honeybees are dying.

In America, one in three hives was left lifeless at the beginning of 2008
In France, the


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Vasily Grossman's masterpiece Life & Fate is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its ...