Maximum City is a vibrant, exotic & thrilling portrait of Mumbai, the world’s largest city, told from a number of perspectives; through interviews with a kaleidoscope of characters, & through the author’s own journeys, recollections & experiences. Author Suketu Mehta, raised in Mumbai, is a celebrated & seasoned journalist; “ Maximum City” is his first book, the product of 7 years of research. Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, & written with the relentless observation & patience of a novelist, Maximum City is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay & its people
- a book as vast, diverse, & rich in experience, incident, & sensation as the city itself.
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Eric Horst brings unprecedented clarity to the many cognitive & neurophysical aspects of climbing & dovetails this information into a complete program, setting forth three stages of mental training that correspond to beginner, intermediate, & elite levels of experience & commitment-the ideal template to build upon to personalize one`s goals through years of climbing to come. ...

Join Christopher Nye on his hilarious journey to become the self-styled Rocco Forte of the Road to Eastbourne. This is a book about a dream. The dream of running a restaurant. In Uckfield, East Sussex. Well, okay, Uckfield didn`t actually appear in the dream. But for Christopher Nye it was the perfect choice: a small town, but not too small; a town crying out for an American-style diner; a town without a Mc Donald`s. So here`s the story of how to make it big in small-town Britain. How to find the right premises (if not quite the right location); how to motivate teenage staff while giving work experience to a haute cuisine chef; how to stay out of casualty when things get a bit ` Goodfellas` on a Friday night; how to keep your puppy hidden from the Environmental Health Inspector; & why you should never, ever, hire an Elvis impersonator on the cheap. Oh
- & how to deal with Mc Donald`s, when they realise they need an outlet in Uckfield after all. ” Maximum Diner” is a tale of all this, served up with the crispiest fries & the strangest milkshakes on the south coast. Read it & laugh aloud. But keep that dream alive. For this might all happen to you.
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Second in the series of funny animal adventures in the city, for fans of Dick King-Smith, Awesome Animals & Disney classics; illustrated by Jim Field. Mazwell Mutt & the Downtown Dogs are ready for another adventure when they meet Ant; an unusually small squirrel in search of a story. Luckily, the city has a new mystery
- animals are disappearing from the zoo, & soon the gang are dealing with grumpy lions, wise-cracking monkeys & the suspicious Snyder Lard, Security Guard. Will Maxwell solve the mystery, save the zoo & find Ant his story?
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Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. They have been uneasy rivals since childhood. Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. In May We Be Forgiven, Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life
- at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family & history. The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents, divorce, & death. But this is also a savage & dizzyingly inventive vision of contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer
- the strange jargons of its language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants` desperate craving for intimacy & their pushing it away with litigation, technology, paranoia. At the novel`s heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. May We Be Forgiven explores contemporary orphans losing & finding themselves anew; & it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation
- simultaneously terrifying & inspiring.


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` Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form.` Falling Towards England -- the second volume of Clive James`s ` Unreliable Memoirs` -- was meant to be the last. Thankfully, that`s not the case. In ` Unreliable Memoirs III`, Clive details his time at Cambridge, including film reviewing, writing poetry, falling in love (often), & marrying (once) during May Week -- which was not only in June but also two weeks long.. .` Nobody writes like Clive James; he has invented a style` Spectator ` He turns phrases, mixes together cleverness & clownishness, & achieves a fluency & a level of wit that make his pages truly shimmer.. . May Week Was In June is vintage James` Financial Times ...

The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New Worlds greatest ancient civilization. In these pages, Professor Coe distils a lifetimes scholarship for the general reader & student. The eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological & epigraphic research, which continues to proceed at a fast pace. Among the finest new discoveries are the spectacular polychrome murals of Calakmul, which provide archaeological evidence for the importance of marketplaces in the Classic Maya cities as well as giving a unique glimpse into Maya daily life. It concludes with new historical evidence for the crucial role played by collaborationist native leaders, both Maya & non-Maya, in the Spanish conquest of the region. ...

Maya 2012 in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

The art of one of the worlds most enigmatic ancient civilizations is vividly described here by Mary Miller. From temple to tomb, using all the latest research, she explains how & why the Maya made their greatest works & how the modern-day viewer might come to understand them. ...

Rewritten from cover to cover & updated to include the discoveries & new theories from the past decade & a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in full colour throughout. World expert Mary Miller & her co-author Megan ONeil take the reader through the visual world of the Maya, explaining how & why they created the paintings, sculpture & monuments that intrigue & compel people the world over. With an array of new material, from recent finds including the La Corona panels, to new studies of the monuments at Palenque, Zotz & elsewhere, to the beautiful wall paintings discovered in recent years, this new edition will be essential reading for students & scholars & for travellers to the cities of this mysterious civilization. ...