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. ...

As one of Britain`s best & most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman
- its pains & joys, its frustrations & discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book generated enormous interest around the world, & was chosen by The Times as one of the `100 Key Books of Our Time`.
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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. ...

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. ...

This is a mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider
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Jo Langer was an idealistic teenager in 1940s Hungary when she began a correspondence course in Marxism. Her tutor was Oskar Langer, a committed young communist from the former Czechoslovakia. They eventually met & married, & Jo left her bourgeois upbringing behind to become part of the new Socialist future in Bratislavia. But when Oskar, a respected economist & party-member, was arrested & imprisoned, Jo was immediately stripped of her home & her job. She spent the next ten years eking out a life for herself & her two daughters in near-impossible conditions. Convictions is Jo`s compelling memoir of that time, told without sensationalism, but with candour & wit. It is the story of an immensely courageous, resourceful young woman, a portrait of a marriage, & a tale of survival in a totalitarian state. At its heart it is a demand for people to come before politics, & a protest against the terrible human consequences of unquestioning convictions & blind faith. ...

The Cook 30cm (12) globe will complement & enhance any home, office or school environment. This physical globe shows environmental mapping with prevailing sea & air currents. When illuminated, the mapping changes to display political colours. It is mounted on an antique brass-plated, half-meridian with quality, real wood base. ...