THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN.THE GUARDIAN: `MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED THE [SAUDI] KINGDOM TO OVERTURN THE BAN` ON WOMEN DRIVING. ` Future generations will marvel at Manal al-Sharif. Her gripping account of homegrown courage will speak to the fighter in all of us. Books like this one can change the world` Deborah Feldman, New York Times bestselling author of Unorthodox ` Manal al-Sharif is following in a long tradition of women activists around the world who have put themselves on the line to expose & challenge discriminatory laws & policies` Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International News Manal al-Sharif was born in Mecca the year fundamentalism took hold in Saudi Arabia. As a young girl she would burn her brother`s boy band CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. By her twenties she was a computer security engineer. But as she became older, the unequal way in which women are treated became too much to bear: she was branded a slut for talking to male colleagues at work; her school-age brother had to chaperone her on business trips &, while she kept a car in her garage, she was forbidden from driving down Saudi streets. Her personal rebellion began the day she got behind the wheel of a car: an act that ultimately led to her arrest & imprisonment. Manal`s Women 2 Drive campaign inspired other women to take action. Manal has been lauded by the Oslo Freedom Forum, described by Time Magazine as one of the most 100 most influential people in the world, & she was awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. Daring to Drive is an account of Manal al-Sharif`s fight for equality in an unequal society. A visceral coming-of-age tale, it is also a celebration of resilience, the power of education & the strength of female solidarity in the face of hardship. ...

A pioneering aviator & advocate of women`s equality, Amelia Earhart was, & continues to be, an inspiration to people the world over. Her fierce determination to break records & push the boundaries of aviation led her to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, as well as the first person (man or woman) to fly solo the trans-Pacific flight from Hawaii to California in 1935. Not content to leave it at that, Amelia set her sights on becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the world, but her brave attempt was cut short when she & her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished over the Pacific Ocean on the final stretch of the challenge in 1937. Eighty years on & our fascination with Amelia Earhart continues. Here, Mike Roussel charts her life & experiences, exploring the investigations & theories surrounding her mysterious disappearance & revealing the naturally courageous spirit that made her one of the most daring of twentieth-century women. ...

Winner of the 2016 IACP Award: Literary Food Writing Set against the backdrop of the looming Himalayas & drenching monsoons, this is the story of how Darjeeling developed its tea industry under Imperial British rule & eventually came to produce the world`s finest leaves. But today the industry is battling dropping production, a violent struggle for independent statehood, labour unrest & the devastating effect of climate change. It`s the story, too, of the measures being taken to counter these challenges & save India`s most exclusive & iconic brew that are nothing short of radical. A fascinating portrait of the region & a story rich in intrigue & empire, full of adventurers & romance, it illuminates the historic, arcane & changing world of this celebrated tea. ...

Darjeeling`s tea bushes stretch across a picturesque landscape steeped in religious, sacred & mythical history. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas
- in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east & Sikkim to the north
- the rows of brilliant green, waist-high shrubs that coat the steep slopes & valleys around this Victorian `hill town` produce only a fraction of the world`s tea, & less than one per cent of India`s total. Yet the tea from this limited crop, with its characteristic bright, amber-coloured brew & muscatel flavours
- delicate & flowery, with hints of apricots & peaches
- is generally considered the best on the globe. This is the story of how Darjeeling developed its prodigious tea industry under Imperial British rule & eventually came to produce some of the highest-quality leaves in the world. It is a fascinating portrait of the region from the days of the Raj to that of the `voodoo farmers` of the present day, who get world-record prices for their fine teas, all set against the backdrop of the looming Himalayas & drenching monsoons. It is a story rich in intrigue & empire, full of adventurers & unlikely successes in culture & religion, ecology & terroir, & one that began with one of the most audacious acts of corporate smuggling in history. It is also the tale of how the industry had spiralled into decline by the end of the twentieth century, & how this paradisiacal spot in the high Himalayas seethes with union unrest & a violent struggle for independent statehood. It is on the front line against the devastating effects of climate change & decades of harmful farming practices, a war that is being fought in some tea gardens
- &, astonishingly, won
- using radical methods.





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Basic city map naming the main streets & marking places of interest. The map comes with a booklet of useful & essential information for visitors, including information on treks in the region around Darjiling, a basic plan of Gangtok, & a route map of Calcutta-Darjiling-Gangtok. ...

Edward Follis had a Sig Sauer pistol shoved into his ribs while working deep undercover in Burma, purchasing heroin from an army of stoned zombie insurgents. He was told he was never going to walk out of the jungle alive. In this & other situations like it, all he could do was have faith. As far back as he could remember, Edward Follis had dreamed of being an undercover agent. Taking a job with the Drug Enforcement Administration saw his dreams come true across three decades & five continents. He would be responsible for infiltrating some of the biggest drugs rings in the world, getting intimately close to some of the worst drug lords, before making the last call
- the one that would bring them down. The Last Call tells a transformational story: the account of a federal agent & the sweep of his career, following the changing face of drug enforcement & taking us to the frontlines of the global fight against terrorism.
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Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Iraqi who received US citizenship in exchange for translating during the war, he & his sister relocate to Michigan. His sister graduates university & becomes engaged, while Haris works menial jobs & grows increasingly restless. Instead of attending his sister`s wedding, he flies to Gaziantep to join the Free Army`s fight against Bashar al-Assad. But he`s caught & robbed trying to enter Syria, & is taken in by a refugee couple Amir, a former revolutionary, & Daphne, a sophisticated woman haunted by grief. After discovering they had to flee Syria without their young daughter & that Daphne is desperate to return, Haris`s choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? What is he really searching for? Dark at the Crossing is a trenchantly observed novel of raw urgency & compassion that explores loss, second chances, & why we choose to believe. ...

” Dark Back of Time” is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel ” The Infatuations” is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. ` We lose everything because everything remains except us`, says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance & fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marias recalls the strange events & people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child & the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory & reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories & a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time. Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories & several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages & won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for ”A Heart So White”. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne & Laurence Sterne. ”I was enthralled by his strange mix of made-up memories, lost experiences & real-life fantasies.” (Marina Warner, ” Guardian”). ” He uses language like an anatomist uses a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being.” (W. G. Sebald, author of ” Austerlitz”). ...

This fashionable notebook is adorned with Breton stripes in Navy Blue. With a real cloth cover & beautiful contrasting ribbon marker, this notebook is a must have accessory. The Breton stripes Notebook is also available in Sunny Yellow, Hot Pink & Sky Blue. Originally worn by French Sailors, Breton stripes are now worn by people of all ages, genders & nationalities. This timeless fashion staplenow adorns our notebooks to make the perfect accessory. ...

The soft-cover Volant Notebooks come packed in sets of two
- with one book a slightly lighter shade of colour that the other. The
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