In Continental Divide, a Banff Prize-winner tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs & first ascents. Maurice Isserman traces the evolving social, cultural & political roles mountains played in shaping the country. ...

Financed by a bet with a Yeovil linen draper, court jester Thomas Coryate`s 1608 journey to Venice & back was an unlikely template for the Grand Tour. Almost four hundred years later, Tim Moore put on a ridiculous velvet suit & set off in Coryate`s tracks at the wheel of a senile Rolls-Royce. Treading on frugality & the bawdy self-indulgence of the later Grand Tourists, Moore`s confrontations with Continental croupiers, nudists, sugar-beer farmers & an offshore welders are a grotesque blend of Baldrick & Blackadder. While charting the decline of the Grand Tour from the sombre academy of cultural betterment to the Club 18-30 of the 1830s, Moore also resurrects the reputation of Coryate, whose reward for introducing the fork to Britain & coining the word `umbrella` was ridicule, poverty & an almost unbearably poignant ending in India. ...

AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa is stabilising. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future. All of these pronouncements prove equally true & false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak & Kevin Bloom discover on their 9-year roadtrip through the paradoxical continent they call home. From pillaged mines in Zimbabwe to the creation of an economic marketplace in Ethiopia; from Namibia`s middle class to the technological challenges facing Nollywood in the 21st Century; from China`s investment in Botswana to the rush for resources in the Congo; & from the birth of Africa`s newest country, South Sudan, to the worsening conflict in CAR, here are eight adventures on the trail of a new Africa. Part detective story, part report from this economic frontier, Continental Shift follows the money as it flows through Chinese coffers to international conglomerates, to heads of state, to ordinary African citizens, all of whom are intent on defining a metamorphosing continent. ...

These Guidelines for the control & management of ships` biofouling to minimize the transfer of invasive aquatic species (hereafter `the Guidelines`) are intended to provide a globally consistent approach to the management of biofouling. As scientific & technological advances are made, the Guidelines will be refined to enable the risk to be more adequately addressed. Port States, flag States, coastal States & other parties that can assist in mitigating the problems associated with biofouling should exercise due diligence to implement the Guidelines to the maximum extent possible. ...

36-page tabulated logbook containing the recommended forms for recording drugs obtained from authorised suppliers & for drugs dispensed or disposed of. This record book provides examples of correct completion together with a specimen requisition form for use when obtaining controlled drugs. One of a series of essential onboard logbooks produced by Witherby Publishing Group. ...

Keiko has never really fitted in. At school & university people find her odd & her family worries she`ll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace & purpose in the simple, daily tasks & routine interactions. She is, she comes to underst&, happiest as a convenience store worker. But in Keiko`s social circle it just won`t do for an unmarried woman to spend all her time stacking shelves & re-ordering green tea. As pressure mounts on Keiko to find either a new job, or worse, a husb&, she is forced to take desperate action... A best-seller in Japan, & the winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman marks the English-language debut of a writer who has been hailed as the most exciting voice of her generation. ...

Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of General Ordia. Suspicion, paranoia & blackmail have become part of life. The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago & Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives & of the degradation & frustration that has taken over their town. In this groundbreaking novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mental & moral mechanisms that govern power & the people behind it. It is about identity, the role of a citizen & how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a nation & its people. ...

From one of the Observer`s ` Rising Stars of 2017`, a high-risk, highbrow & intimate novel
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WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER & TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARFrances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed & observant. A student in Dublin & an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed & then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties & holidays in Provence, beginning a complex menage-a-quatre. But when Frances & Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty & emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. ...

This book comes with a foreword by President Barack Obama. Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring & iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts & events, hardships & victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. ” Conversations With Myself” gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure: from letters written in the darkest hours of Mandela`s twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to ” Long Walk to Freedom”. Here he is making notes & even doodling during meetings, or recording troubled dreams on the desk calendar of his cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggles in the early 1960s, or conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. In these pages, he is neither an icon nor a saint; here he is like you & me. An intimate journey from the first stirrings of his political conscience to his galvanizing role on the world stage, ” Conversations With Myself” is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private. ...