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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Chicago, 1947: on a freezing February night, France`s feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up radical resident novelist Nelson Algren, asking him to show her around. After a whirlwind tour of dive bars, cabarets & the police lockup, the pair return to his apartment on Wabansia Avenue. Here, a passion is sparked that will last for the next two decades. Their relationship intensifies during intoxicating months spent together in Paris & Chicago. But in between are long, anguished periods apart filled with competing desires
- lovers old & new, writing, politics, gambling
- which ultimately expose the fragility of their unconventional `marriage` & put their devotion to the test.

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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. ...

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. ...

Nopi: The Cookbook

Includes:: over 120 of the most popular dishes from Yotam`s innovative Soho-based restaurant

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Norbert the penguin lives in Antarctica. He dreams of being a big star & singing & dancing for millions of people! One day he leaves his home & makes the long journey to the big city. He works hard & before long he is the most famous penguin the world has ever known! But Norbert is lonely too. Can he go back to his family without giving up the thing he loves to do? A beautiful picture book from the writer & illustrator of Oh no! Where did Walter Go? ...

Norbury & Upper Norwood in 1894 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers an area stretching from London Road & Norbury station eastward to Spa Hill at Upper Norwood, & from Gibsons Hill southward to Beulah Road North & the tip of Thornton Heath. A major feature is the Beulah Brick Works, other features include the Beulah Spa with chalybeate spring, villas on Beulah Hill, Hermitage Sports Grounds, Norbury Hall. Extracts from Croydon & Norwood directories cover Beulah Hill, Moffat Road, Osborne Road, Spa Hill & Spa Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

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- Picardie Guide Vert *FRENCH Edition* in Michelin’s Green Guide series covering France, with all the

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