Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori&s tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road takes on an air of celebration as at long last Laila & Leily&s wedding day arrives! But the marriage ceremony may be even more taxing for the girls than their search for a pair of grooms Sitting still & silent as their guests celebrate & eat is a trial that will push the girls& patience to its limit not to mention that of Sami & Sarm! As the twins finally make their vows & commit themselves to their husbands the gravity of the moment finally sets in Though they have dreamed of marriage for years only now do they realize that everything in their lives is about to change Crafted in painstaking detail Ms Mori&s pen breathes life into the scenery & architecture of the period in this heart-warming slice-of-life tale that is at once wholly exotic yet familiar & accessible through the everyday lives of the characters she has created About the Author Kaoru Mori&s previous series Emma about a maid & a gentleman in Victorian England has been lauded by Library Journal & was named to the YALSA Great Graphic Novels list A Bride&s Story has only broadened her fan base in Japan & the US with its elegant style & delicate story ...

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori&s tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues as Mr Smith extends his journey This time he is welcomed into the home of a wealthy tradesman & his wife Anis Custom dictates that as a woman Anis is not permitted to meet their visitor face-to-face but even so she counts herself blessed to live in such a beautiful estate & be married to a man who devotes himself solely to her Still one cannot help but long for the companionship of another person when one&s closest friend is a reluctant Persian cat In her loneliness Anis visits the public bath house & discovers a place where she feels immediately free among her fellow sisters Crafted in painstaking detail Ms Mori&s pen breathes life into the scenery & architecture of the period in this heart-warming slice-of-life tale that is at once wholly exotic yet familiar & accessible through the everyday lives of the characters she has created Meet the Author Kaoru Mori&s previous series Emma about a maid & a gentleman in Victorian England has been lauded by Library Journal & was named to the YALSA Great Graphic Novels list A Bride&s Story has only broadened her fan base in Japan & the US with its elegant style & delicate story ...

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori&s tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues As Anis & Sherine settle into a new life built on love & friendship tragedy & destruction have thrown the Eihons& village into turmoil Conflict with neighboring tribes has taken its toll leaving Pariya&s family home in ruins Though no one was hurt little survived the assault including the fabrics meant for Pariya&s dowry Her passionate frank personality has made things difficult for Pariya in the past & being forced to delay marriage talks--now that she&s finally found an interested suitor--drives her to despair Despite her anxieties staying with the Eihons during the reconstruction gives Pariya the opportunity to learn from Amir & her family & build up her self-confidence as she prepares for a hopeful future Crafted in painstaking detail Ms Mori&s pen breathes life into the scenery & architecture of the period in this heart-warming slice-of-life tale that is at once wholly exotic yet familiar & accessible through the everyday lives of the characters she has created About the Author Kaoru Mori&s previous series Emma about a maid & a gentleman in Victorian England has been lauded by Library Journal & was named to the YALSA Great Graphic Novels list A Bride&s Story has only broadened her fan base in Japan & the US with its elegant style & delicate story ...

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori&s tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues as the young bride Amir Halgal struggles to remain with her new groom despite the wishes of her family who would see her wed another Will Amir be able to preserve the bonds she has cultivated in her new home? About the Author Kaoru Mori&s previous series Emma about a maid & a gentleman in Victorian England has been lauded by Library Journal & was named to the YALSA Great Graphic Novels list A Bride&s Story has only broadened her fan base in Japan & the US with its elegant style & delicate story ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Richard Attenborough&s star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault Dirk Bogarde James Caan Robert Redford & Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds
- foul weather bad luck negligence on the part of intelligence officers
- to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany Gene Hackman Michael Caine & Anthony Hopkins also star The screenplay is by William Goldman (& Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid& & All the President&s Men&)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An epic film that "re-creates in stunning detail one of the most disastrous battles of World War II" (The Hollywood Reporter) &A Bridge Too Far& is a spectacular war picture Painstakingly recreated on actual battlefield locations & boasting a remarkable cast that

Includes:: Sean Connery Anthony Hopkins Sir Laurence Olivier & Robert Redford A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope excitement & danger behind one of the biggest military gambles in history In September 1944 flush with success after the Normandy Invasion the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany & smashing the Reich&s war plants But a combination of battlefield politics faulty intelligence bad luck & even worse weather led to the disaster beyond the Allies& darkest fear Actors Sean Connery Michael Caine James Caan Gene Hackman Anthony Hopkins Laurence Olivier Ryan O& Neal Robert Redford Denholm Elliott James Fox Liv Ullman Elliott Gould Dirk Bogarde Alun Armstrong Hardy Kruger & Maxmillian Schell Director Richard Attenborough Certificate PGYear 1976 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages French Subtitles English ; French Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 56 minutes (approx)


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The world of business books is a curious place where one can find everyone from great businesspeople like Warren Buffett Steve Jobs & Elon Musk to the most spectacular business failures such as Enron & the sub-prime business market There are geniuses hard workers academics & entrepreneurs as well a few charlatans & hucksters There's even room for Donald Trump The 70 titles covered were chosen with various parameters in mind to cover a range of areas of business from sales & marketing to negotiation entrepreneurship to investing leadership to innovation & from traditional & corporate models of business to start-up manuals & alternative angles on the subject Obvious bestselling titles such as How to Make Friends & Influence People or 7 Habits of Highly Effective People have been included but there are also those books of more questionable value often included on recommended lists of business classics included here by way of warning The chosen books also cover a wide span of time & acknowledge that some of the most powerful or entertaining insights into business can be found in texts that aren't perceived as being 'business books' for instance The Art of War Microserfs Thinking Fast & Slow & The Wealth of Nations The selection

Includes:: a good range of the most recent successes in business publishing with which readers may be less familiar The titles are arranged chronologically allowing the reader to dip in but also casting an intriguing light on how trends in business titles have changed over the years Among these titles you will find expert advice based on solid research (for instance The Effective Executive or Getting to Yes) & inspirational guides to setting up businesses & running them on sound foundations (such as True North Crucial Conversations or We) alongside dubious management manuals that take a single flawed idea & stretch it out to the point of absurdity The hope is that the reader will be inspired to read the best of these titles ignore the worst of them & will come away with at least a basic idea of what each has to teach us about business

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In this era of Vinyl revival celebrate some of the greatest covers of the last 70 years such as the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' or Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon' alongside entertaining & informative text This great little book will make an ideal gift for any music aficionado or art & design enthusiast ...

'A brilliant authoritative surprising captivating introduction to human genetics You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you It is the history of who you are & how you came to be It is unique to you as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath But it is also our collective story because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species
- births deaths disease war famine migration & a lot of sex In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history & what history can now tell us about our genes From Neanderthals to murder from redheads to race dead kings to plague evolution to epigenetics this is a demystifying & illuminating new portrait of who we are & how we came to be'A thoroughly entertaining history of Homo sapiens & its DNA in a manner that displays popular science writing at its best' Observer ' Magisterial informative & delightful' Peter Frankopan' An extraordinary adventure From the Neanderthals to the Vikings from the Queen of Sheba to Richard III Rutherford goes in search of our ancestors tracing the genetic clues deep into the past' Alice Roberts
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Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale ' Hugh Small in a masterly piece of historical detective work convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians & biographers have missed This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and complex) Victorian' James Le Fanu Daily Telegraph Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is best known as a reformer of hospital nursing during & after the Crimean War but many feel that her nursing reputation has been overstated A Brief History of Florence Nightingale tells the story of the sanitary disaster in her wartime hospital & why the government covered it up against her wishes After the war she worked to put the lessons of the tragedy to good use to reduce the very high mortality from epidemic disease in the civilian population at home She did this by persuading Parliament in 1872 to pass laws which required landlords to improve sanitation in working-class homes & to give local authorities rather than central government the power to enforce the laws Life expectancy increased dramatically as a result & it was this peacetime civilian public health reform rather than her wartime hospital nursing record that established Nightingale's reputation in her lifetime After her death the wartime image became popular again as a means of recruiting hospital nurses & her other achievements were almost forgotten Today with nursing's new emphasis on 'primary' care & prevention outside hospitals Nightingale's focus on public health achievements makes her an increasingly relevant figure ...