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Half Moon presents the ‘ Your Country Needs You’ range, a series of gift items using prints "es inspired by the famous enlistment campaign of WWI. The collection

Includes:: stationery, games, bags & kitchen ware. The imagery has been applied to contemporary designs to appeal & withstand a modern lifestyle. Beautifully made these items are sturdy & they are original gift ideas for anyone who loves history or likes ‘nostalgia’ products.

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Half Moon presents the Shackleton Expedition range, a series of gift items using prints "es inspired by the historic voyage. The collection

Includes:: stationery, games, bags & kitchen ware. The imagery has been applied to contemporary designs to appeal & withstand modern lifestyle. Beautifully made, these items are sturdy & they are original gift ideas for anyone who loves history or ‘nostalgia’ products.

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Half of a Yellow Sun is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel; set in 1960s Nigeria, a time of vicious civil war when well over a million people died. Her three main characters are each drawn into this violent world
- a poor young boy is employed at a university lecturer’s home, a young middle-class woman faces the reality of her relatives’ massacre, & a white writer living in Nigeria falls in love with the woman’s sister, a distant & perplexing figure. Their lives overlap while they struggle to understand the unfolding political situation. Adichie has the reader consider moral responsibility, the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiance, class & race, & the prospect of love complicating everything.
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WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. & Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna`s enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together & pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie`s masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class & race
- & about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
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History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent. Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing that the only solution to our impending ” Sixth Extinction” is to increase the area of natural reserves to half the surface of the earth. ...

Set against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was an annus mirabilis for English sport. Within just a few days of each other, Hedley Verity, Henry Cotton & Fred Perry all triumphed in their field. To a sporting audience still groaning through the quagmire left by the Great Depression, greedy for inspiring distractions, these heroic efforts made for a heady spectacle. England`s Ashes Test victory at Lord`s (later known as Verity`s match) saw Australia seeking revenge after the Bodyline series of 1932-33, but Verity bowled England to a famous innings victory, taking 15 wickets
- 14 in one day! That same day, Cotton set out on the first qualifying round of the British Open. He went on to set a new Open record with a game so sparkling the Daily Express called it ”the best round of golf ever played”. & within a fortnight, Perry had beaten Australia`s Jack Crawford in the Wimbledon final. England had an extraordinary national hat-trick. Together, these three contests & these three singular life stories weave a vivid portrait of an England that has faded from view. Half-Time celebrates a time of intense & rapid social & cultural change, a time that was both the last hurrah of the ancien regime & the stirring of something new. & moving through it, famous actors on a grand stage, are three very English heroes.
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The Oxus in Afghanistan`s High Pamir is one of the greatest rivers of the world, & also one of the least known. Running through the core of Central Asia, it is unusual in a myriad of ways
- the most surprising of which is that it never reaches the sea. Through the centuries, the `majestic` Oxus has been the source of legends
- the tale of Sohrab & Rustum is the most epic, so memorably captured in verse by the Victorian poet Mathew Arnold. For explorers & travellers in Central Asia, the Oxus provided an enduring mystery
- where exactly was its source? Discovering this was a challenge taken up by such eminent men as Lord Curzon & Sir Francis Younghusb&, & became a subject of heated debate. In 2008 Bill Colegrave & two colleagues set out to find the true source & settle the argument for once & all. No easy task
- but they succeeded. Halfway House to Heaven is a vivid account of this quest, & also tells of the author`s previous precarious visits to one of the most unstable regions of the world. Bill Colegrave brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters
- including those Victorian adventurers, soldiers & statesmen who travelled before him, as well as his fellow explorers & guides on his own extraordinary adventure.




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After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON`S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing & acting in films & television then took over much of Michael`s life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor), & the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He co-produced, wrote & played the lead in THE MISSIONARY opposite Maggie Smith, who also appeared with him in A PRIVATE FUNCTION, written by Alan Bennett. Such was his fame in the US, he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live, in one edition of which his mother makes a highly successful surprise guest appearance. He filmed several journeys for television & became chairman of the pressure group, Transport 2000. His family remains a constant as his & Helen`s children enter their teens. ...

Street atlas of Halifax & other towns of Nova Scotia, including Amherst, Antigonish, Baddeck, Bedford, Bible Hill, Bridgewater, Brookside, Chester, Coldbrooke, Dartmouth, Digby, Dominion, Glace Bay, Grenwood, Harrietsville, Hatchet Lake, Herring Cove, Kentville, Kingston, Louisbourg, Lunenburg, New Glasgow, New Minas, New Waterford, New Sydney, Pictou, Port Hawkesbury, Port Williams Portuguese Cove, Preston, Sackville, Salmon River, Springhill, Stellarton, Sydney, Sidney Mines, Trenton, Truro, Westville, Whites Lake, Windsor, Wolfville, & Yarmouth. The atlas is part of an extensive coverage of Canadian cities & towns from the country’s largest map publisher, Map Art. The mapping is usually at 1:25, 000. Colouring distinguishes general build-up areas, shopping centres, public buildings & institutions, historical sites & places of interest, parks, etc. One way streets & pedestrian zones are indicated & a wide range of symbols shows parking facilities, bus terminals, metro and/or railway stations, various public facilities & services, places of interest, recreational centres, etc. Local neighbourhoods are named & municipal & quadrant boundaries are marked. In titles covering more than one city or town, each section is accompanied by overview maps indicating areas covered by the street plans. Each title has a full street index for all localities covered by it. Map legend is bilingual in English & French.* Please note:* following a number changes among Canadian cartographic publishers maps previously published by Map Art Publishing may now be available under one of the following imprints: Map Art, Canadian Cartographics Corporation or JDM Géo Inc. Within a series, therefore, some titles may still be published as Map Art whilst others will be available as Canadian Cartographics Corporation or JDM Géo Inc. ...