From its sudden emergence as a military force to be reckoned with in Syria & Iraq in June 2014 through its You Tube executions of hostages to its atrocious attacks in Paris in November 2015, the movement variously known as ISIS, Islamic State & Daesh has compelled the world`s horrified attention. Where did it come from & how on earth should we respond? This No Nonsense book aims to answer all the questions that people are asking
- without jargon & in an easy-to-use FAQ format. It places ISIS in the broader context of the US-led `war on terror` from the Bush-Blair invasion of Iraq right through to Obama`s drone attacks & makes a strong case for responses that build peace & justice rather than feeding the cycle of violence & terror.
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Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps & informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts-from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, & environmental journalists-amplified by cartographers, artists, & photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City & parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan`s playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, & from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Isl&. The contributors to this exquisitely designed & gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City`s unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, & its literary history, but they also critique its racial & economic inequality, environmental impact, & erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York`s buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, & to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge & homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, & how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, & more. Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA. ...

A joyful jumble of poems, songs & stories. The full colour gift edition of this wonderfully witty & delightfully silly collection of stories & rhyming nonsense from all-star author & artist team, Margaret Mahy & Quentin Blake. Poems, prose & rhymes from bestselling author Margaret Mahy, & beautifully illustrated by inaugural Children`s Laureate, Quentin Blake, this edition of NONSTOP NONSENSE is a perfect gift that children & adults will enjoy again & again. Published in colour for the first time. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas & significant changes of humankind occured as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. But there have always been a few who refused to fight. Following the grand sweep of history from Confucius to Tolstoy, Erasmus to Gandhi, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky traces pacifism & its proponents to show how many modern ideas, a united Europe, the United Nations, & the abolition of slavery
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In Noonday, Pat Barker, the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration, turns for the first time to WWII. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art, before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, they now find themselves caught in another war, this time at home. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation. Old loves & obsessions re-surface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice. Completing the story of Elinor Brooke, Paul Tarrant & Kit Neville, begun with Life Class & continued with Toby`s Room, Noonday is both a st&-alone novel & the climax of a trilogy. Writing about the Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged & haunted city of London into electrifying life in her most powerful novel since the Regeneration trilogy ...

Vasantha is a van driver in Sri Lanka. After nearly three decades of conflict, the civil war is over & the country is moving tentatively into the future
- though at times the recent past seems too close for comfort. Entrepreneurial hoteliers have mysterious scars under their collars; Chinese businessmen looking to invest in scrap metal are led to gigantic scrapyards of abandoned bicycles; genial old soldiers are headhunted for brutal war crimes; young Sinhalese men pine after Tamil girls whose brothers, in another time, died by their hands. In this collection of linked stories, Vasantha drives across the beautiful but scarred landscape of his home isl&, lingering on the periphery of his passengers` varied stories. Though he keeps his own counsel & remains stoically in the background, he cannot help but reveal a little something of his own story too.
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Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, & tentative entrepreneurs across the battle-scarred landscapes of Sri Lanka. The civil war is finally over, but the traumas of the past are still haunting. Behind the facade of peace we are made to remember the war: mysterious hoteliers conceal scars under their collars; genial old soldiers are secretly identified as perpetrators of brutal crimes; young Sinhalese men pine after Tamil girls whose brothers died by their hands. Vasantha keeps his own counsel, lingering on the periphery of his passengers` stories, but as time goes on he reveals a little of his own story too. Perceptive, sombre & finely-tuned, Noontide Toll paints an extraordinary portrait of a post-war Sri Lanka grappling with the ghosts of its troubled past. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...