The River of Adventure is the final thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton one of the best-loved children's writers of all time A river cruise through ancient desert lands becomes a mysterious adventure when Bill disappears! While Philip Dinah Lucy-Ann Jack & Kiki the parrot are desperately searching for Bill they become trapped beneath a forgotten temple where no one has set foot for 7000 years What dangers lurk within & will they ever escape? ...

In his previous books Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain & mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders Recently however he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice & in light of recent neuroscientific evidence & theories The River of Consciousness will be a broader & more direct look at how the brain & mind work as always incorporating Sacks' rich historical & personal context Advances in neuroscience have revolutionized our ability to visualize the brain in action For the first time we are able to close the gap between the philosophical questions which have consumed the world's thinkers since the eighteenth century & the true physiological basis of perception & consciousness In The River of Consciousness Sacks will examine questions of memory time & consciousness How do we think how do we remember? Do different individuals have different speeds or ways of thinking? Is memory reliable? How do the neural correlates of memory differ for true memories & false memories? How do we construct our sense of time our visual world? What is consciousness neurologically speaking? & most importantly what is creativity? Sacks completed the research for this book before he died & with instructions on how it was to be put together This is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works ...

In his previous books Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain & mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders Recently however he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice & in light of recent neuroscientific evidence & theories The River of Consciousness will be a broader & more direct look at how the brain & mind work as always incorporating Sacks' rich historical & personal context Advances in neuroscience have revolutionized our ability to visualize the brain in action For the first time we are able to close the gap between the philosophical questions which have consumed the world's thinkers since the eighteenth century & the true physiological basis of perception & consciousness In The River of Consciousness Sacks will examine questions of memory time & consciousness How do we think how do we remember? Do different individuals have different speeds or ways of thinking? Is memory reliable? How do the neural correlates of memory differ for true memories & false memories? How do we construct our sense of time our visual world? What is consciousness neurologically speaking? & most importantly what is creativity? Sacks completed the research for this book before he died & with instructions on how it was to be put together This is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works ...

Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists & sanctions It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world Drawing both on his own family's stories & his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present & of how the world might transform the country's future In The River of Lost Footsteps Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma in part through a telling of his own family's history in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical dramatic & appalling His maternal grandfather U Thant rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s & on his father's side the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries Through their stories & others he portrays Burma's rise & decline in the modern world from the time of Portuguese pirates & renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism the devastation of World War II a sixty-year civil war that continues today military repression & the emergence of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal & global a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible & enthralling Thant Myint-U is the author of Where China Meets India & has written articles for the New York Times the Washington Post & the New Statesman ...

Something was approaching the burrow Something deadly Something that made Sylvan's fur bristle with fear Knowing their lives are under threat Sylvan & his brother & sisters have no choice but to abandon their burrow for ever Together they set out on an epic journey along the Great River; but with dangers lurking at every turn will they ever find a safe place to call home? Now available in paperback this exciting & beautifully-illustrated animal adventure has the makings of a future children's classic ' Just the sort of book I would have loved as a child' Gill Lewis ...

The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon Since F N Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957 there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art but has also enabled scholars working for the first time with all the source-material to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts For the third edition an international team of experts completely re-edited all the works added glosses to appear on the page with the text & greatly expanded the introductory material explanatory notes textual notes bibliography & glossary In short the Riverside Chaucer is the fruit of many years' study
- the most authentic & exciting edition available of Chaucer's Complete Works
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During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies
- Germany Italy & Japan Few areas of the world experienced domination
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A delicious adventure'
- Daily Mail Murder on the Riviera Express Gerald Hennessey
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The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived partied bed-hopped & politicked at the Chateau de l' Horizon near Cannes over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960 At the heart of this was the amazing Maxine Elliott the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut who built the beautiful art deco Chateau & brought together the likes of Noel Coward the Aga Khan the Windsors & two very saucy courtesans Doris Castlerosse & Daisy Fellowes who set out to be dangerous distractions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism & biographies during his 'wilderness years' in the thirties After the War the story continued as the Chateau changed hands & Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set as well as launch his seduction of & eventual marriage to Rita Hayworth Mary Lovell tells her story of high society behaviour with tremendous brio & relish & this book has all the charm & fascination of her bestselling The Mitford Girls & The Churchills ...

So good that it will devour you It is incandescent
- Daily Telegraph The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac
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