Aboriginal artists today practise in one of the world's longest continuous tradition of art
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Starring a very jolly big brown bear, this is the first book for Harper Collins from the talented author-illustrator Holly Surplice. A bear can be happy, a bear can be sad. A bear can be bored, & a bear can be glad! Life is never dull for this bear
- there are butterflies to chase, trees to climb & streams to splash in...and it`s even more fun when friends join in. Warm, friendly rhyming text & gloriously textured, multi-layered illustrations combine to make this the perfect book to share at bedtime.
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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He`s charmed
- perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola
- by her love of Virgil & Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man`s death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse
- & more sinister material
- in his company`s trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion & competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man`s paranoid behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close?



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With beautiful, h&-drawn illustrations & lithographs, this is an ideal companion for not just amateur bird-watchers & wildlife enthusiasts but also seasoned ornithologists. The book is ideal for everyone who wishes to enjoy the rich & varied bird-life of India. ...

`the greatest short story writer who has ever lived` Raymond Carver`s unequivocal verdict on Chekhov`s genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever & Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov`s stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes
- alienation, the absurdity & tragedy of human existence
- have as much relevance today as when they were written, & these superb new translations capture their modernist spirit. Elusive & subtle, spare & unadorned, the stories in this selection are among Chekhov`s most poignant & lyrical. They include well-known pieces such as ` The Lady with the Little Dog`, as well as less familiar work like ` Gusev`, inspired by Chekhov`s travels in the Far East, & ` Rothschild`s Violin`, a haunting & darkly humorous tale about death & loss. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World`s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford`s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, & much more.

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Since she`s been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she`s in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead & loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love & the city she left behind. By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to long-hidden secrets & stories from her past: married while still playing with dolls & widowed for the first time at the age of sixteen. Guided by these fragments, Tahar vividly conjures his mother`s life in post-war Morocco, unravelling the story of a woman for whom resignation was the only way out. Tender & compelling, About My Mother maps the beautiful, fragile & complex nature of human experience, while paying tribute to a remarkable woman & the bond between mother & son. ...

This is a new pocket guide book aimed at cultural & heritage tourists. It explores festivals, events, castles, museums, galleries, historic houses & industrial heritage throughout South East Wales. The book is heavily illustrated with superb pictures throughout the content. The About Wales pocket guides have over 100 ideas each on what to see & do in that region of Wales, with information about where to stay & eat. It

Includes:: a foreword by Sian Lloyd & writer David Williams.

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Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar. This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Isl&, the over-explored Galapagos, enigmatic Bonaire); a naturalist's concerns (for endangered communities as well as their land) & pure adventure. Here, too, are seven exquisite memory pieces; beautiful, meditative recollections that will stand as classic examples of the personal essay. ...

From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of the universe that we humans have been able to imagine – & its most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About Time, astrophysicist & award-winning writer Adam Frank tells the scientific story of this wonderful & tyrannical invention.A Palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day & star-steered night in a radically different way than the Elizabethan merchants who set their pace to the clocks newly installed in their town squares. Since then, science has swept time into increasingly minute & standardized units – the industrial efficiency of ironworks’ punch clocks; the space-age precision of atomic fountains & GPS satellites; the fifteen-minute increments of Outlook’s digital revolution. & in the past decade, string-theory branes, multiverses, & “clockless” physics have begun to overturn our ideas about how the universe began – the Big Bang – in ways that will completely rewrite time & our experience of it. Weaving cosmology with day-to-day chronicles & a down-to-earth style, About Time is both dazzling & riveting as it confronts what comes next. ...

Above All Things is a heart-wrenchingly romantic historical novel by Tanis Rideout, based on British mountaineer George Mallory's fatal attempt to climb Everest, & his wife Ruth, who is left at home, waiting for him to return to her. In the Himalayas two climbers strike out for the summit of the Earth's highest mountain
- aiming to be the first to the top, & reclaim a little of Britain's lost glory. In Cambridge, a wife collects the milk, gets three children out of bed & waits for a letter, a telegram
- for news of her husb&. It is 1924 & after months of setbacks & failures, George Mallory & Andrew Sandy Irvine are attempting to be the first to conquer Everest. Alone on the mountain they struggle against inhuman cold, violent winds, thin air
- but climbing, putting one foot falteringly after another, they reach for the cloud-shrouded peak. At home Ruth Mallory goes about her day; visiting friends & comforting children she longs for news of George. She considers her marriage
- the passion, the fights, the bitter absences, the loving reunions, all the snatched moments during the war & between expeditions. She hides her doubts & the uncertainty about the future with or
- god forbid
- without him. A powerful, moving story of a husband driven to extraordinary lengths by his ambition & a wife terrified she will lose him to a cruel & pitiless rival, Above All Things is a timeless story of one of the great tragedies
- & love stories
- of the last century. Above All Things has it all: adventure, tragedy, mystery, & a deeply moving love story. It's gorgeously written & beautifully paced. I could not put it down. Prepare to be dazzled. (Alison Pick, author of Far to Go). A love story, a tale of adventure, & a study in obsession all at once, Above All Things is simply breathtaking. With Tanis Rideout's debut, a major new voice in Canadian fiction arrives. (Joseph Boyden, author of Through Black Spruce). Timeless romance, an unflinching love story that touches the very core of the human condition. Rideout leaves readers holding the book close to their chest, knowing that the purpose of life, above all else, is love. (Telegraph). A must-read for Everest buffs with a sensitive side, & for those who want to understand the anatomy of climbing accidents. It is also the perfect summer read for anyone lured by the romance of adventure, as the story goes well beyond the vast summit of Everest into much trickier terrain: the unmapped topography of the heart. (Globe & Mail). Tanis Rideout's work has appeared in numerous publications & been shortlisted for several prizes, including the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Emerging Writers & the CBC Literary Award. In 2006, she was named the Poet Laureate for Lake Ontario by the environmental advocacy group Lake Ontario Waterkeeper & joined Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip on a tour to promote environmental justice on the lake. Born in Belgium, Tanis grew up in Bermuda & in Kingston, Ontario, & now lives in Toronto. She recently received her MFA from the University of Guelph-Humber. Above All Things is her first novel.







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