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 ...

Meet animal lover Tiger Days! A br&-new young fiction series about animals friendship & adventure by bestselling author Sarah Lean Beautiful black-&-white illustrations throughout When Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House she never knows what to expect Tiger meets Lucky
- an injured otter who can't survive by himself Tiger has an important job to do
- feeding & caring for Lucky & also exploring the riverbank in search of the perfect place for him to live She desperately wants Lucky to get better but saying goodbye to her new friend won't be easy No day is ever dull for Tiger!

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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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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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This book is an ethnographic & historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway But more than an ethnography on the road it is an anthropology of the road Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that

Includes:: houses urban architecture & vehicles Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security nationalist politics post-Cold War capitalism & financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete This book explores anew classical anthropological & sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure providing unique insights into the political & cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War More specifically it sheds light on political & economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period focusing especially on Albania one of the most under-researched countries in the region --

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The Sunday Times Bestseller Featuring an exclusive new chapter On 23 September 2005 at the Joiners Arms in Southampton Frank Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band Million Dead On the laminates that listed the tour dates the entry for 24 September simply read ' Get a job' Deflated jaded & hungover Frank returned to his hometown of Winchester without a plan for the future All he knew was that he wanted to keep playing music Cut to 13 April 2012 over a thousand shows later (show 1216 to be precise) & he was headlining a sold-out gig at Wembley Arena with his band The Sleeping Souls Told through his tour reminiscences this is the blisteringly honest story of Frank's career from drug-fuelled house parties & the grimy club scene to filling out arenas fans roaring every word back at him But more than that it is an intimate account of what it's like to spend your life constantly on the road sleeping on floors invariably jetlagged all for the love of playing live music ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From Cormac Mc Carthy the writer of the Oscar-winning No Country For Old Men & the director of The Proposition comes the film adaption of one of the most celebrated & beloved books of the 21st Century The Road It is a gripping post-apocalyptic thriller a heart-rending love story between father & son & a lesson to us all on how humanity can overcome the most horrific challenges to our survival BAFTA nominated for its cinematography The Road is a stunning life-enhancing & utterly rewarding experience that deserves to be seen ...