WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix & Sarah flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz ends when she suddenly & without explanation breaks it off After a chance meeting rekindles his love & jealousy two years later Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah & slowly his love for her turns into an obsession ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A World War II-based love triangle between a British civil servant (Peter Cushing) his unfaithful wife (Deborah Kerr) & an American writer (Van Johnson) Based on the autobiographical novel by Graham Greene ...

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth & stability Since Marco Polo the West has waited for the " Asian Century" Today the world believes that Century has arrived Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea & from environmental devastation to demographic crisis Asia's future is increasingly uncertain Historian & geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation & instability Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic military political & demographic risks that bedevil half of our world arguing that Asia working with the United States has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe
- but only if it acts boldly Bringing together firsthand observations & decades of research Auslin's provocative reassessment of Asia's future will be a must-read for industry & investors as well as politicians & scholars for years to come
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The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics & until its denouement no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the st&-off between the two superpowers
- after decades of struggle over every aspect of security politics economics & ideas
- would end in their lifetimes Even after March 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union it was not preordained that global nuclear Armageddon could or would be averted peaceably But just four years later the Berlin Wall was dismantled & perestroika spread throughout the former Soviet bloc It was a sea change in world history which resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union Drawing on pioneering archival research Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War pinpoints the astonishing relationships among President Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev Secretary of State George Shultz & the USSR's last Foreign Affairs Minister Eduard Shevardnadze who found a way to cooperate during times of extraordinary change around the world The story is of American pressure & Soviet long-term decline & over-stretch The End of the Cold War shows how that small skillful group of statesmen were determined to end the Cold War on their watch In the process they irreversibly transformed the global geopolitical landscape Authoritative compelling & meticulously researched this is political history at its best

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017' Funny ambitious immensely humane & full of philosophical panache' Sunday Times' Extraordinary wildly impressive" Lucy Hughes-Hallett BBC Radio 4' Wholly original & hauntingly beautiful' Kirkus Sooner or later death visits everyone Before that they meet Charlie Charlie meets everyone
- but only once Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy sometimes as a warning Either way this is going to be the most important meeting of your life The End of the Day is the stunning new story from Claire North the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' Reaffirms the passion & ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer' Locus' Every one of the chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' Guardian' Compelling keeps the surprises coming until the very end' San Francisco Chronicle
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No civilization no matter how mighty it may appear to itself is indestructible'-Niall Ferguson We do not need to invent the world anew The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion & repair but not reconception'-Fareed Zakaria Fears of a globalized world are rampant Across the West borders are being reasserted & old alliances tested to their limits Could this be the end of the liberal order or will the major crises of the twenty-first century strengthen our resolve? ...

The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular & dramatic events But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs Raid after police raid followed with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour In protest there were riders' strikes & go-slows with several squads withdrawing en masse andone expelled By the time the Tour reached Paris just 96 of the 189 starters remained & of those 189 starters more than a quarter were later reported to have doped The 1998 Tour de Farce's' status as one of the most scandal-struck sporting events in history was confirmed Voet's arrest was just the beginning of sport's biggest mass doping controversy
- what became known as the Festina affair It all but destroyed professional cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question & the cycling family began to split apart & yet ironically the 1998 Tour was also one of the best races in years The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis & a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998 Tour Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers step by step how the world's biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its knees He explores its long-term consequences
- & what if any lessons were learned

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The first & only novel by Lydia Davis winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013' It surprised me over & over to find that I was with such a young man He was twenty-two when I met him He turned twenty-three while I knew him but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore' Mislabelled boxes confusing notes wrong turnings
- such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel With compassion wit & what seems to be candour she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself & her past but we begin to suspect along with her that given the elusiveness of memory & understanding any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction Back in print at last this is Lydia Davis's first
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- novel ' Extraordinary' Newsday' Brilliant' New Yorker' Breathtakingly elegant' Details' Beautifully written' Marie Claire' Astonishing' Elle Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories one novel & six short story collections most recently Can't & Won't She is the recipient of a Mac Arthur Fellowship & was named an Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters by the French government for her fiction & her translations of modern writers including Gustave Flaubert & Marcel Proust She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013


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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 When Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network) joined acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel Sex Tape) on his book tour an epic five-day journey began As the two men share laughs & reveal hidden frailties they are forever bonded in this fascinating & ultimately heartbreaking story ...

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