Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017 Winner of the 2017 Highland Book Prize Winner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017 Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2018 Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the National Circle of Critics Award 2017 When Kapka Kassabova was a child the borderzone between Bulgaria Turkey & Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers spies & fugitives On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast she remembers playing on the beach only miles from where an electrified fence bristled its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy the holiday-makers the potential escapees Today this densely forested landscape is no longer heavily militarised but it is scarred by its past In Border Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border
- Bulgarians Turks Greeks & the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history by its own past migration crises by communism by two World wars by the Ottoman Empire &
- older still
- by the ancient legacy of myths & legends As Kapka Kassabova explores this enigmatic region in the company of border guards & treasure hunters entrepreneurs & botanists psychic healers & ritual fire-walkers refugees & smugglers she traces the physical & psychological borders that criss-cross its villages & mountains & goes in search of the stories that will unlock its secrets Border is a sharply observed portrait of a little-known corner of Europe & a fascinating meditation on the borderlines that exist between countries between cultures between people & within each of us


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A staple of the Japanese arcade game scene Border Break features heavy-duty mechs fighting for victory in all-out robotic-battle action! Now the outstanding mecha designs of this unique video game series are collected in one detailed art book Included are technical drawings rough concepts character art creator commentary mech profiles & more! No true mecha fan would dare miss Border Break Artworks! ...

A staple of the Japanese arcade game scene Border Break features heavy-duty mechs fighting for victory in all-out robotic-battle action! Now the outstanding mecha designs of this unique video game series are collected in one detailed art book Included are technical drawings rough concepts character art creator commentary mech profiles & more! No true mecha fan would dare miss Border Break Artworks! ...

Leonardo Dog Collection Border Collie Figurine made from a high grade resin Intricately Handpainted Ornament Dog suitable for any dog lover ...

Leonardo Dog Collection Border Collie Figurine made from a high grade resin Intricately Handpainted Ornament Dog suitable for any dog lover ...

Border Crossing is Pat Barker's unflinching novel of darkness evil & society When Tom Seymour a child psychologist plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget For Tom already knows Danny Miller When Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman Now out of prison with a new identity Danny has some questions
- questions he thinks only Tom can answer Reluctantly Tom is drawn back into Danny's world
- a place where the border between good & evil innocence & guilt is blurred & confused But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own
- & in crossing it can he ever go back?' Brilliantly crafted Unflinching yet sensitive this is a dark story expertly told' Daily Mail'A tremendous piece of writing sad & terrifying It keeps you reading exhausted & blurry-eyed until 2am' Independent on Sunday' Resolutely unsensational but disquieting Barker probes not only the mysteries of 'evil' but society's horrified & incoherent response to it' Guardian' Rich challenging surprising breathtaking' The Times


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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 Oscar nominated Sharon Stone plays Sofie Talbert a hard hitting journalist looking into illegal immigration into the United States When she discovers that her brother in Mexico has gone missing she decides to try & find him What she discovers shocks her as she witnesses first-hand the brutal reality that immigrants face as they risk their lives trying to cross the border into America ...

Leonardo Dog Collection Border Terrier Figurine made from a high grade resin Intricately Handpainted Ornament Dog suitable for any dog lover ...

When the JAT contact Yamato''s group about a new case Tamaki finds a face from his past has come to haunt him Will old wounds reopen as the man he escaped as a child reappears this time involving innocent youths in human trafficking & drugs? Is it safe for Yamato Tamaki Kippei & Sougo to proceed or is there a rat in the ranks somewhere tipping off the other side? Crime & romance mix to raise the tension in the latest volume Kadoka''s latest fan-favorite series Border! ...

The headlines about Europe's migration crisis have now subsided though theycontinue to influence the political agenda all over the continent Though thereare moments when the human reality cuts through as with the shocking picture ofbaby Alan Kurdi's body on the beach for the most part the individual stories are lostamid the hysteria over cutting migrant numbers & shutting the doors of Fortress Europe More than 25000 migrants have died in their attempt to reach or stay in Europesince 2000 More than 5000 migrants lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean and Aegean seas in 2016
- they were drowned suffocated or crushed during thecrossing In 2017 over 3000 migrants lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean Award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai specializes in communicating poignanthuman stories that many people find it convenient to keep out of sight & out ofmind She travels to meet migrants & asylum-seekers who have just been washedup on the shores of Lampedusa or Sicily & have been absorbed into dismalreception camps While journalists ordinarily pitch up in such places & file their colour pieces beforemoving on to the next hot topic Hsiao-Hung follows through staying in touch withsome of those she encounters
- many of them children
- throughout their journeysinto mainland Italy to Germany where they face harassment from far-right groupsand to the appalling conditions in the camps on the coast of northwest France These personal stories of individuals break apart the false distinction between"refugees" & "migrants" between "those seeking refuge" & "those wanting abetter life" a distinction that has resulted in denying many people of their humanrights


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