One of the first great spy novels The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London He accepts an invitation from a college friend Davies a shyly intrepid yachtsman & joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic & there amidst the sunshine & bright blue seas they discover a German plot to invade England Like much contemporary British spy fiction The Riddle of the Sands reflects the Anglo-German rivalry of the early twentieth century & the intricacy of the book's conception & its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands features maps drawn from Childers' originals & an afterword by writer & journalist Ned Halley Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the "classic spy thriller of the 20th century" that historians hail as the "tip-off" that saved Britain from invasion Two sailboating Englishmen discover a massive German fleet secretly preparing to attack their nation & set out to do something about it not only do they have to thwart the German Navy but Kaiser Wilhelm himself Actors Michael York Jenny Agutter Simon Mac Corkindale Alan Badel Jurgen Andersen Michael Sheard Hans Meyer Wolf Kahler Olga Lowe & Ronald Markham Director Tony Maylam Certificate PGYear 1979 Languages English Region Region 2
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Up on their brooms the Witches stream Crooked & black in the crescent's gleam It's Halloween & a family is preparing to go trick-or-treating Little do they know that up above them a coven of witches flies unseen through the starry sky Carolina's stunning illustrations beautifully illuminate Walter de la Mare's thrilling magical poem published as a picture book for the first time ...

At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual Tim Krabbe glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators Non-racers' he writes The emptiness of those lives shocks me' Immediate & gripping from the first page we race with the author as he struggles up the hills & clings on during descents in the unforgiving French mountains Originally published in 1978 The Rider is a modern-day classic that is recognised as one of the best books ever written about the sport Brilliantly conceived & best read at a break-neck pace it is a loving imaginative & passionate tribute to the art of cycle racing ...

Groundhog Day Radio Nowhere Turtle Dove Numero Uno Caught In The Summer Rain Wall Around Your Heart Victoria Jonny Was A Friend Of Mine Young For A Day Big Big Life Motorway Independent Misunderstood Go Do What You Like Time In Hand Never Been That Close Heavy Weather Victoria ...

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas & the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language the Rig Veda (c 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1000 individual Sanskrit hymns A work of intricate beauty it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology religion & culture This selection of 108 of the hymns chosen for their eloquence & wisdom focuses on the enduring themes of creation sacrifice death women the sacred plant soma & the gods Inspirational & profound it provides a fascinating introduction to one of the founding texts of Hindu scripture
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A classic of science fiction from SF legend Gordon R Dickson winner of three Hugo awards a Nebula award & an inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame Humans & alien adversaries contend on a world whose inhabitants resemble bears both in appearance & in temperament A BEAR OF A CHOICE! Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans & their adversaries the Hemnoids Therefore making friends with the Dilbians & establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance which may be a problem since the bearlike Dilbians stand some nine feet tall & have a high regard for physical prowess They&re not impressed by human technology either A real man er bear doesn&t need machines to do his work for him But Dilbians are impressed by sharp thinking & some have expressed a grudging admiration for the logical (and usually sneaky) mental maneuvers that the human "shorties" have used to get themselves out of desperate jams Just maybe that old human craftiness will win over the Dilbians to the human side If not humanity loses a nexus & the Dilbians will learn just how unbearable Hemnoids can be! ...

Five leading thinkers on the concept of rights in an era of rightlessness Sixty years ago the political theorist Hannah Arendt deprived of her German citizenship as a Jew & in exile from her country observed that before people can enjoy any of the inalienable Rights of Man before there can be any specific rights to education work voting & so on there must first be such a thing as the right to have rights The concept received little attention at the time but in our age of refugee crises & extra-state war the phrase has become the center of a crucial & lively debate Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines including history law & politics discuss the critical issue of the basis of rights & the meaning of radical democratic politics today" ...

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state sexuality & biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical & methodological frameworks Puar uses the concept of debility-bodily injury & social exclusion brought on by economic & political factors-to disrupt the category of disability She shows how debility disability & capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations Puar's analysis culminates in an interrogation of Israel's policies toward Palestine in which she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure & enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies Tracing disability's interaction with debility & capacity Puar offers a brilliant rethinking of Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability functions at the intersection of imperialism & racialized capital ...

This bestselling book by one of the world's foremost voice & acting coaches is a classic in its field Practical passionate & inspiring it teaches how to use the voice fully & expressively without fear & in any situation Patsy Rodenburg has trained thousands of actors singers lawyers politicians business people teachers & students her book distills that knowledge & experience so that everyone can enjoy the right to speak This second edition contains new revisions & additional content taking into account the effect of social media on communication skills the need for empathetic listening how scientific discovery now illuminates why & how voice exercises work & cultural & global issues of ethics & storytelling ...