The world is running out of water. Some of our largest rivers now trickle into sand miles from the ocean, exhausted by human need. Water is 'the new oil'
- except we can live without oil; there are no alternatives to fresh water.

Fred Pearce explores the complex origins of the growing world water crisis. His vivid reportage reveals the personal stories behind failing rivers, barren fields, desertification, floods, water wars, & even the death of cultures.

Is there hope? Yes
- but only if we revolutionize the way we treat water. This phenomenally important book shows us just how essential it is that each of us takes responsibility for the water we use now
- before all our rivers run dry.

When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce has been selected as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books as voted for by the University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership alumni network involving over 3, 000 senior leaders from around the world.








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In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.

Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime

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In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.

Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime

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In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.

Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime

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Miranda's life is starting to unravel. Her best friend, Sal, gets punched by a kid on the street for what seems like no reason, & he shuts Miranda out of his life. The key that Miranda's mum keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. & then a mysterious note arrives:
'I am coming to save your friend's life, & my own.
I ask two favours. First, you must write me a letter.'

The notes keep coming, & Miranda slowly realises that whoever is leaving them knows things no one should know. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she's too late.



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When You Walk Through The Storm is the moving story of Anne Williams, whose son Kevin died at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. It is a remarkable personal account of a mother's determination to discover the true circumstances of her son's death on that tragic afternoon. She vividly relates the grief she felt when she realised Kevin wasn't coming home, followed by the anger she experienced on discovering that he could have been saved. In the aftermath of the tragedy, controversy raged over who had been responsible for the events, & in When You Walk Through the Storm Anne Williams describes her feelings towards those who, she felt, had blood on their hands. Finally, she became embroiled in a bitter fight for justice for her son. ...

To the armchair fan, the life of the sports writer is one of unalloyed joy: all-expenses-paid trips to the most exciting events in the world, the best seats in the house, & one-on-one interviews with Anna Kournikova
- Well, up to a point. Where Am I & Who's Winning? describes what it's really like to make your way through the world of sport, always on deadline, always between time zones, on a frantic, chaotic & hilarious tour of the planet's most famous & most bizarre sporting venues. There's football to be watched. & Formula One. & tennis. & two Olympics, two Commonwealth Games, ocean racing, tropical cricket, curling, & of course the queen of sports
- synchronised swimming. But every minute of every day there's copy to file, editors to be appeased, & daughters wanting to know when Daddy's coming home. Permanently handicapped by jet-lag & incompetence, Andrew Baker travels by bullet train, bobsled, go-kart, & (most dangerous of all) bus in his constant quest to arrive at the match/race-meeting/mountain-top on time. Between soul-enhancing visits to the Dead Goat Saloon & the Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum, he breakfasts with Steve Redgrave, pub-crawls with Audley Harrison, discovers the unexpected affinity between Michael Schumacher & a brown slug
- & even takes in a game or two. Because nothing
- not Brazilian muggers, nor Chinese security services, nor Norwegian pornography
- shall stand between him & his noble calling: to bring the great British public its daily sporting fix. Andrew Baker's brilliant comic debut will appeal to the armchair traveller & the armchair sports fan alike. But most of all to anyone who enjoys the misfortunes of others-




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