Lonely Planet The world's leading travel guide publisher A tourist on the Axis of Evil' You guys really are the axis of evil' our guide splutters over his stein of beer in the Pyongyang duck restaurant ' You're always leaning out of the windows & taking photographs when I tell you not to' In an age of plastic knives on planes Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of having visited all the rogue countries currently on newsreaders' lips Bad Lands is a witty first-hand account of his travels through places often perceived as having some of the most repressive & dangerous regimes in the world Afghanistan Albania Burma Cuba Iran Iraq Libya North Korea & Saudi Arabia Taking into account each country's attitude to human rights terrorism & foreign policy he asks 'what makes a country truly evil?' & 'how bad is really bad?'
- all the while engaging with a colourful cast of locals & hapless tour guides ruminating on history & debunking popular myths Written by the founder of Lonely Planet this fascinating account of life in these closed-off countries will appeal to anyone with an interest in the state of the world today With additional excursions to places that are slightly misguided mildly malevolent seriously off course extraordinarily reclusive & much misunderstood The second version of this popular title is well worth a read! Author Tony Wheeler About Lonely Planet Started in 1973 Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet as well as an award-winning website a suite of mobile & digital travel products & a dedicated traveller community Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world & to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel Trip Advisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 & 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category' Lonely Planet guides are quite simply like no other'
- New York Times' Lonely Planet It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands It's on mobile phones It's on the Internet It's everywhere & it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world'
- Fairfax Media (Australia) 1 in the world market share
- source Nielsen Bookscan Australia UK & USA March 2012-January 2013



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A stunning new series of Figuarts ZERO One Piece characters are making their way to you with the release of the all new movie ...

Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin " Too Big To Fail" offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 & the powerful men & women who decided the fate of the world&s economy in a matter of a few weeks Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street & Washington ...

From the critically-acclaimed cartoonist behind Box Office Poison & Tricked comes the delightful 2 Cool 2 B 4 Gotten a story of second chances Andy Wicks is a forty-something father of two who's making one final attempt to quit smoking hypnosis He's skeptical it will work but is stunned to find that when he emerges from his trance he's fifteen years old
- & it's 1985! Is he doomed to relive the worst four years of his life or will this second go-round finally give him the answers he's been missing all his life? If nothing else he'll finally get to ask out Marie Simone from history class
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A Stylist Book Club pick ' In a time when women are under constant attack I am so grateful for Anne Helen Petersen's sharp & topical book Petersen nails the magnetism of women who break boundaries & the punishment that often comes along with it All women will see a bit of themselves in the "unruly"' Jessica Valenti New York Times-bestselling author of Sex Object You know the type the woman who won't shut up who flaunts it who's too brazen too opinionated
- too much Sometimes she's the life of the party; others she's the focus of gossip She's the unruly woman & she's one of the most provocative powerful forms of womanhood today The unruly woman has been around for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes acceptable 'feminine' behaviour
- that is for ever
- but these days she is more visible & less easily dismissed than ever before In Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud cultural critic & Buzzfeed writer Anne Helen Petersen explores 'unruliness' through the lens of eleven pop culture powerhouses including Serena Williams Melissa Mc Carthy Nicki Minaj Madonna Kim Kardashian Hillary Clinton Caitlyn Jenner & Lena Dunham Petersen examines why our culture loves to love & berate these controversial figures for being 'too' something too queer too strong too naked too old too shrill too much This is an incisive candid conversation starting analysis of the part influential women play in redefining contemporary femininity ' An oasis in a world of hot takes a set of crisp essays on the provocateurs who fascinate & enrage us With warmth & wit Anne Helen Petersen celebrates the power of being just a little too much seeking the rebel inside the trainwreck' Emily Nussbaum New Yorker critic ' Raucous & smart Because these criticisms are writ large the same ones flung daily at non-celeb women the book is a timely & essential read' US Elle' Anne Helen Petersen's gloriously bumptious brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment Crucial reading' Rebecca Traister author of All the Single Ladies


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A Stylist Book Club pick ' In a time when women are under constant attack I am so grateful for Anne Helen Petersen's sharp & topical book Petersen nails the magnetism of women who break boundaries & the punishment that often comes along with it All women will see a bit of themselves in the "unruly"' Jessica Valenti New York Times-bestselling author of Sex Object You know the type the woman who won't shut up who flaunts it who's too brazen too opinionated
- too much Sometimes she's the life of the party; others she's the focus of gossip She's the unruly woman & she's one of the most provocative powerful forms of womanhood today The unruly woman has been around for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes acceptable 'feminine' behaviour
- that is for ever
- but these days she is more visible & less easily dismissed than ever before In Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud cultural critic & Buzzfeed writer Anne Helen Petersen explores 'unruliness' through the lens of eleven pop culture powerhouses including Serena Williams Melissa Mc Carthy Nicki Minaj Madonna Kim Kardashian Hillary Clinton Caitlyn Jenner & Lena Dunham Petersen examines why our culture loves to love & berate these controversial figures for being 'too' something too queer too strong too naked too old too shrill too much This is an incisive candid conversation starting analysis of the part influential women play in redefining contemporary femininity ' An oasis in a world of hot takes a set of crisp essays on the provocateurs who fascinate & enrage us With warmth & wit Anne Helen Petersen celebrates the power of being just a little too much seeking the rebel inside the trainwreck' Emily Nussbaum New Yorker critic ' Raucous & smart Because these criticisms are writ large the same ones flung daily at non-celeb women the book is a timely & essential read' US Elle' Anne Helen Petersen's gloriously bumptious brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment Crucial reading' Rebecca Traister author of All the Single Ladies


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Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident After all Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders where murders just don't happen But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife Sarah asks him to look into the case The local gossips are saying that her new husband Tom was having an affair with Anna Could Tom have been involved with her death? Sarah refuses to believe it
- but needs proof Anna had been a teacher She must have loved kids Would she kill herself knowing there was nobody to look after her daughter? She had seemed happier than ever before she died & to Perez this suggests not suicide but murder
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The desert is too hot to stand still so Hoppit & his friends keep moving As more & more animals join who knows where they're going to end up! It's a big surprise for everyone except the snake & eagle who try to warn them what's ahead Join in the rhythm & rhyme of the animal parade in this poem written & illustrated by Steve Webb 24 pages Webb Steve ...

War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody & futile offensive on the Western Front One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions & debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long & exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that we were told would be over by Christmas Now in his major new history Allan Mallinson former professional soldier & author of the acclaimed 1914 Fight the Good Fight provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial & have a contemporary resonance He disputes the growing consensus among historians that British generals were not to blame for the losses & setbacks in the war to end all wars'
- that given the magnitude of their task they did as well anyone could have He takes issue with the popular view that the amateur' opinions on strategy of politicians such as Lloyd George & especially Winston Churchill prolonged the war & increased the death toll On the contrary he argues even before the war began Churchill had a far more realistic intelligent & humane grasp of strategy than any of the admirals or generals while very few senior officers
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- were up to the intellectual challenge of waging war on this scale & he repudiates the received notion that Churchill's stature as a wartime prime minister after 1940 owes much to the lessons he learned from his First World War mistakes'
- notably the Dardanelles campaign
- maintaining that in fact Churchill's achievement in the Second World War owes much to the thwarting of his better strategic judgement by the professionals' in the First
- & his determination that this would not be repeated Mallinson argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine & paid as a result an unnecessarily high price in casualties He shows that Lloyd George understood only too well the catastrophically dysfunctional condition of military policy-making & struggled against the weight of military opposition to fix it & he asserts that both the British & the French failed to appreciate what the Americans' contribution to victory could be
- & after the war to acknowledge fully what it had actually been






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