Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye & wonderfully ironic wit again & again. Here are stolen glances & nervous advances, meddling parents & self-important cousins, society whisperings & the fluttering hearts of young lovers. All of them have their own views & expectations of marriage, & Austen’s are the wisest of all. Selected from the novels Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey & Persuasion by Jane Austen.VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human. ...

This title is the new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tessa Hadley. Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large & close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music & lecturer at Lottie`s university, forty-five years her senior. It is a story of romantic dreams & daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, & the comedy & solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure. ...

“ Married to a Bedouin” is Marguerite van Geldermalsen`s story of how a New Zeal&- born nurse became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja (h) tribe, & lived with him
- & their children
- & a community of about one hundred families
- in the ancient caves of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 & she & a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad & decided that he was the man for her. Their home was a lofty two thousand year old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside. She became the resident nurse & learned to live like the Bedouin: cooking over fires, hauling water on donkeys & drinking sweet black tea. Over the years van Geldermalsen became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers with tourists such as Mary Lovell & Frank Mc Court encouraging her to tell this, her extraordinary story.


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Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan
- a tiny, landlocked country bordering China & India. Impossibly remote
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Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is single. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husb&, but maybe there`s something in arranged marriages after all. So she`s traveling to India in search of a perfect husb&, the old-fashioned way. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her interfering family? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? & is any of this worth the effort? Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing New India. ...

Following up on Hubble, National Geographic Space Atlas, & Buzz Aldrin`s Mission to Mars, National Geographic presents the only book that reveals all the behind-the-scenes stories of the famous Curiosity project. Renowned science journalist Marc Kaufman has spent two years embedded with the engineers & scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover`s spine-tingling landing, learning the back-story of anticipated findings, & witnessing the inescapable frustrations that come from operating a $2.5-billion multi-tasking robot on a planet 35 million miles from Earth. Chapter by chapter, Kaufman explores the science & technology at the heart of our mission to Mars. Why do dry creek beds suggest life may have existed here? How does Curiosity test Mars`s soil? When will humans step onto this planet, & what will it be like to live on Mars? To answer these questions, Kaufman introduces one colourful character after another, each a key player in the history-making drama unfolding on the next planet out from the sun. The enthusiasm of these scientists & inventors, not to mention the fascinating knowledge they share, bursts through on every page, confirming foreword writer Elon Musk`s declaration that We will be stepping out onto Mars by the 2030s. With images never published before, computer-enhanced with colours that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one & only book that explains everything behind the most ambitious space expedition ever. ...

Mars has always fascinated humanity & the findings of the past decade have revolutionized ideas about our nearest neighbour
- revealing
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Mars has always fascinated humanity & the findings of the past decade have revolutionized ideas about our nearest neighbour
- revealing
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Budding scientists & kids curious about Earth`s next-door neighbour can blast off to the red planet! This highly visual book will cover all kinds of topics, from extreme weather to high-tech rovers to plans for a human colony on Mars. Complete with up-to-date facts about water & all the latest discoveries, Mars: The Red Planet comes at an exciting time for space exploration. ...

Marsala on an indexed street plan at 1:6, 000 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Global Map edition. 34 monuments including historic buildings & churches, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. An inset covers Isola di San Pantaleo (Mozia) with its the archaeological remains. On the reverse is an indexed map of the Marsala Commune at 1:40, 000 showing its road network in detail & highlighting various places of interest. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. ...