SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton & Jeremy Irons. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin`s Russia, the country she loved, as the twists & turns of a betrayal & counter-betrayal unravel. American Nate Nash, idealistic & ambitious, handles the double agent, codenamed MARBLE, considered one of CIA`s biggest assets. He needs to keep his identity secret for as long as the mole can keep supplying golden information. Will Dominika be able to unmask MARBLE, or will the mission see her faith destroyed in the country she has always passionately defended? `A great & dangerous spy-game is being played today between Russian intelligence & the CIA. Very few people know about it, including many of our politicians in Washington. But Jason Matthews does, & his thrilling Red Sparrow takes us deep inside this treacherous world. He`s an insider`s insider. He knows the secrets. & he is also a masterful story-teller. I loved this book & could not put it down. Neither will you` Vince Flynn ` Not since the good old days of the Cold War has a classic spy thriller like Red Sparrow come along. Jason Matthews is not making it up; he has lived this life & this story, & it shows on every page. High-level espionage, pulse-pounding danger, sex, double agents & double crosses. What more can any reader want?` Nelson De Mille ...

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung & the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao`s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March & the men & women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ever written about the birth of the Communist movement in China. This edition

Includes:: extensive notes on the military & political developments in China, further interviews with Mao Tse-tung, a chronology covering 125 years of Chinese revolution & nearly a hundred detailed biographies of the men & women who were instrumental in making China what it is today.

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Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu & Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the red` strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homel&, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic new ways. Soon, their people are overwhelmed by unknown diseases that traditional magic seems powerless to control. & as the strangers move across the l&, the tribe rapidly finds itself forced to obey foreign laws that seem at best bizarre, & that at worst entirely contradict the Kikuyu`s own ancient ways, rituals & beliefs. ...

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Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of. She put on her sparkly crash helmet, armed herself with maps & a baffling array of visas, & got on her bike. Destination: Cape Town
- & the small matter of tackling the Sahara, war-torn Angola & the Congo Basin along the way
- this feisty independent woman`s grand trek through the Dark Continent of Africa is the definitive motorcycling adventure. Colourful & hilarious, ” Red Tape & White Knuckles” is an action-packed tale about following your dreams that will have you packing your bags & jetting off into the sunset on your own adventure before you know it.

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Following World War II, China found itself struggling with a conversion to communism that had wreaked havoc on the nation`s economy, causing a devastating famine & extreme economic depression. In 1966 China`s leader, Mao Zedong, gave his support to radicals within the communist party who envisioned a revolutionary social upheaval that would destroy all traces of the reactionary past. This was the beginning of a ten-year period of violence & chaos known as the Cultural Revolution. Many top officials lost their positions & numerous provincial governments came under the control of the radicals. The radical movement was primarily led by students who formed organizations known as ” Red Guards, ” which used violent methods to punish people they saw as ”anti-Maoists” or counter-revolutionaries. At the height of the Cultural Revolution (1966-70) China`s universities were closed & much of its populace was sent to rural ”re-education centres” where they were indoctrinated with Maoist policies. It is during this period that Li Zhensheng worked as a photojournalist for the ” Heilongjiang Daily”, shooting film both for the paper &, as we know now, for himself. While Li worked for a newspaper supporting the Maoist movement & admits he did not think Mao`s policies to be incorrect at the beginning of his tenure at the newspaper, his hiding of film was a highly subversive action. As a photographer, Li wanted to document the Cultural Revolution for himself & for others in the future. He put himself at risk by hiding film stills that the government would have destroyed, capturing events of which little or no other visual record exists. Looking at the photos in this book, one sees the difference between the photos published in the ” Daily” & those Li hid for himself, allowing for a rare understanding of how the Chinese government controlled media during the Cultural Revolution. The Heilongjiang province where Li worked was crucial because of its proximity to the then Soviet Union. Its main city, Harbin, had been occupied by the Soviets following World War II & was later set up as a communication hub between the Soviet Union & China. It was the communist centre which bred the revolutionary movement, leading to China`s unification under communist control in 1949. This Russian influence can be seen in the details of Li`s photographs, right down to the city`s typically Russian-style architecture. Many of Li`s techniques as a photographer borrow from his training as a filmmaker, including his creation of ”handheld panoramic” photos by shooting overlapping frames of large panoramas & pasting the stills together to create the illusion of one continuous shot. His inventive techniques & powerful images make Li one of the premier Chinese photographers alive today. This book, which takes its name from the literal translation of Li`s accreditation as a photographer approved by the Communist Party headquarters in Beijing, is part of the key to understanding one of the most turbulent & still notorious eras of modern history. The book

Includes:: a preface, introduction, text by the photographer, chronology, maps, & extensive photo captions for over 400 photos (almost all of which have never been seen before).

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A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as ”red” suffers an identity crisis in the new picture book by the New York Times-bestselling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo & It`s an Orange Aardvark! Funny, insightful, & colorful, Red: A Crayon`s Story, by Michael Hall, is about being true to your inner self & following your own path despite obstacles that may come your way. Red will appeal to fans of Lois Ehlert, Eric Carle, & The Day the Crayons Quit, & makes a great gift for readers of any age! Red has a bright red label, but he is, in fact, blue. His teacher tries to help him be red (let`s draw strawberries!), his mother tries to help him be red by sending him out on a playdate with a yellow classmate (go draw a nice orange!), & the scissors try to help him be red by snipping his label so that he has room to breathe. But Red is miserable. He just can`t be red, no matter how hard he tries! Finally, a br&-new friend offers a br&-new perspective, & Red discovers what readers have known all along. He`s blue! This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner self can be read on multiple levels, & it offers something for everyone! ...

Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream
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Redcar & Coatham in 1913 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 is double-sided. The main map covers Redcar, stretching from Arthur Street & Henry Street eastward to the edge of town & the coast. Features include the railway with Redcar station, Redcar Pier, much of the race course, cemetery, St Peter`s church, Central Hall, High Street, Esplanade, Zetland Schools, Redcar Rocks, Newcomen Terrace, Coatham Hotel, West Dyke, Queen Street, etc. On the reverse is much of the adjacent sheet 7.02 covering Coatham; features here include Coatham Banks, Christ Church, Warrenby, Convalescent Home, Coatham Road, etc. Also included is a list of private residents from a Coatham directory 1905. 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. ...

Redditch & Bromsgrove in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Alvechurch, Barnt Green, Catshill, Hollywood, Longbridge, Mappleborough Green & Studley. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey’s historical editions: the Old Series, the Revised New Series & the Popular Edition, enlarged from their original inch-to-the-mile to match the 1:50, 000 scale of the present-day Landranger extract shown in the fourth panel.* Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. National Grid lines are shown on all four panels for easy comparison across the four time periods. Historical notes, details of the original maps used & web-links for local history societies & other sources of information are also provided. *PLEASE NOTE:** Reproductions from the Ordnance Survey’s historical series are also available as maps of a wider area, with each title corresponding in its coverage to a present day Landranger map. Please see Great Britain: Cassini Historical Reproductions of Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps series.* Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all the series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.

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