Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg he shattered foundations of western Christendom The Reformation of doctrine & practice that followed Luther's seismic action & protest against sale of indulgences fragmented the Church & overturned previously accepted certainties & priorities 256 pages 5 Maps Parish Helen L ...

A Short History of US Interventions in Latin America & the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of US military invasions & interventions in Central America South America & the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day Engages in debates about the economic military political & cultural motives that shaped US interventions in Cuba Nicaragua Puerto Rico Haiti the Dominican Republic Panama Guatemala Mexico & elsewhere Deals with incidents that range from the taking of Florida to the Mexican War the War of 1898 the Veracruz incident of 1914 the Bay of Pigs & the 1989 invasion of Panama Features also the responses of Latin American countries to US involvement Features unique coverage of 19th century interventions as well as 20th century incidents &

Includes:: a series of helpful maps & illustrations

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' For the first time in my life I felt that death was a possibility; a stupid pointless lonely death on the aptly named Mondulkiri Death Highway' The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military engineering in history But since the end of the Vietnam War much of this vast transport network has been reclaimed by jungle while remaining sections are littered with a deadly legacy of unexploded bombs For Antonia a veteran of ridiculous adventures in unfeasible vehicles the chance to explore the Trail before it's lost forever was a personal challenge she couldn't ignore
- yet it would sometimes be a terrifying journey Setting out from Hanoi on an ageing Honda Cub she spent the next two months riding 2000 miles through the mountains & jungles of Vietnam Laos & Cambodia Battling inhospitable terrain & multiple breakdowns her experiences ranged from the touching to the hilarious meeting former American fighter pilots tribal chiefs illegal loggers & bomb disposal experts The story of her brave journey is thrilling & poignant a unique insight into a little known face of Southeast Asia
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A classic of travel writing A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote & beautiful wildernesses on earth It was 1956 & Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture Pining for adventure Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable
- CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE?
- setting in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan & the mountains of the Hindu Kush north-east of Kabul Inexperienced & ill prepared (their preparations involved nothing more than some tips from a Welsh waitress) the amateurish rogues embark on a month of adventure & hardship in one of the most beautiful wildernesses on earth
- a journey that adventurers with more experience & sense may never have undertaken With good humour sharp wit & keen observation the charming narrative style of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' would soon crystallise Newby's reputation as one of the greatest travel writers of all time One of the greatest travel classics from one of Britain's best-loved travel writers this edition

Includes:: new photographs an epilogue from Newby's travelling companion Hugh Carless & a prologue from one of Newby's greatest proponents Evelyn Waugh




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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play As murder follows murder with the beautiful Maria as the obvious suspect; bumbling Inspector Clouseau drives his boss Dreyfus mad by stubbornly vowing to prove her innocence! ...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series stunning clothbound editions of ten favourite poets which present each poet&s most ...

AE Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day & A Shropshire Lad & Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett & an afterword by John Sparrow' What are those blue remembered hills What spires what farms are those?' In this collection A E Housman's poems including' To an Athlete Dying Young' ' Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now' & ' When I Was One-&-Twenty' conjure up a potent & idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss & sadness Their scope is wide
- ranging from religious doubt & doomed love to intense nostalgia for the countryside & patriotic celebration of the life of the soldier
- & they are made all the more memorable by their distinctive diction & perfectly modulated rhythm & sound This volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime A Shropshire Lad (1896) & Last Poems (1922) along with the posthumous selections More Poems & Additional Poems & three translations of extracts from Aeschylus Sophocles & Euripides that display his mastery of Classical literature This edition has been revised by Archie Burnett &

Includes:: updated notes on the text & indexes of first lines & titles In his afterword John Sparrow discusses Housman's methods of writing & melancholic temperament Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as AE Housman was an English poet & classical scholar now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad If you enjoyed A Shropshire Lad & Other Poems you might like John Clare's Selected Poems also available in Penguin Classics



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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Shoya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class Shoko Nishimiya because she is deaf But as the teasing continues the rest of the class starts to turn on Shoya for his lack of compassion When they leave elementary school Shoko & Shoya do not speak to each other again Until an older wiser Shoya tormented by his past behaviour decides he must see Shoko once more He wants to atone for his sins but is it already too late? Contains the film on Blu-Ray with both the English dub & the original Japanese track with English subtitles ...

I wish we had never met I wish we could meet once more' Years ago Shoya Ishida led his peers in tormenting a hearing-impaired classmate Shoko Nishimiya When she transfers schools Shoya finds he has gone from bully to bullied & is left completely alone Now Shoya struggles to redeem himself in Shoko's eyes & to face the classmates who turned on him He learns sign language to apologise to Shoko for his behaviour & so begins a relationship that will change his & Shoko's lives forever' ...

Years ago Shoya Ishida led his peers in tormenting a hearing-impaired classmate Shoko Nishimiya When she transfers schools Shoya finds he has gone from bully to bullied & is left completely alone Now Shoya struggles to redeem himself in Shoko's eyes & to face the classmates who turned on him He learns sign language to apologise to Shoko for his behaviour & so begins a relationship that will change his & Shoko's lives forever ...