` Pithy & provoking, spiced with the personal` Hilary Mantel Lynsey Hanley grew up part of the `respectable working class`. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. This book is about what it means to cross class divides, what we leave behind in order to get on, & how class affects all of us today. ` There is fury contained within the pages & between the lines of Respectable.. .intelligent & important` Colin Grant, Guardian ` Honest, brave & moving` Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level ` Lynsey Hanley is such a crucial voice. When she writes about class, she is writing about lived experience` Owen Jones, New Statesman ` Hanley vividly describes the ”risky, lonely journey” she undertook from one class to another.. . She is tremendous at detailing her personal transition` Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday ...

Society is often talked about as a ladder, from which you can climb from bottom to top. The walls are less talked about. This book is about how people try to get over them, whether they manage to or not. In autumn 1992, growing up on a vast Birmingham estate, the sixteen-year-old Lynsey Hanley went to sixth-form college. She knew that it would change her life, but was entirely unprepared for the price she would have to pay: to leave behind her working-class world & become middle class. Class remains resolutely with us, as strongly as it did fifty years ago, & with it the idea of aspiration, of social mobility, which received wisdom tells us is an unequivocally positive phenomenon, for individuals & for society as a whole. Yet for the many millions who experience it, changing class is like emigrating from one side of the world to another: a lonely, anxious, psychologically disruptive process of uprooting, which leaves people divided between the place they left & the place they have to inhabit in order to get on. In this empathic, wry & passionate exploration of class in Britain today, Lynsey Hanley looks at how people are kept apart, & keep themselves apart
- & the costs involved in the journey from `there` to `here`.
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This publication provides Guidelines on international offers of assistance (IOA) in response to a marine oil pollution incident & is designed for use by any country, particularly parties to the International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response & Co-operation, 1990 (OPRC 1990), as a tool to assist in managing requests for spill response resources & offers of assistance from other countries & organizations when confronted with large, complex or significant oil spill incidents. Although developed by a technical group of the IMO, these guidelines could be used during large, complex or significant oil spills within inland areas as well as marine or coastal environments. While these guidelines can play an important role in the implementation of the OPRC 1990 Convention, they are not prescriptive or legally binding, & are meant as a tool to assist as needed. ...

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. ...

In the long run, we`re all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated & even filed away in a lawyer`s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs & nether regions have embarked on voyages that criss-cross the globe & stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln`s corpse. Einstein`s brain went on a cross-country road trip. & after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy
- which they drank. From Mozart to Hitler, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious & horrifying adventures of their corpses, & traces the evolution of cultural attitudes towards death.
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With over 2, 000 restaurants awarded Rosettes by the AA`s professional inspectors, this is the food lover`s guide to enjoying the best cuisine in Britain. Rosetted restaurants feature purely on merit with no charge for inclusion. There are three national AA Wine Awards, with over 100 notable wine list symbols awarded to the runners up. Other features include the AA Restaurant of the Year Awards for London, Engl&, Scotland & Wales, & the Chef`s Chef Award. ...

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, & under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions & trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife & mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, & this time Eva can`t do it alone: she needs her daughter`s help. ...

1969, Bristol. Bajan ex-cop & reluctant private detective, Joseph `JT` Tremaine Ellington is still trading in cash & favours, lending a helping hand to those too scared to go to the police or anyone trying to stay one step ahead of them. Life is tough for JT, who is broke. It is about to get a lot tougher when he receives a telegram informing him of a tragedy that has unfolded thousands of miles away. Ellington`s sister, Bernice has been murdered. Ellington wants to make the long journey back to his home on the island of Barbados to pay his final respects & to settle his late sister`s affairs. To do so, he must accept a ticket from his shady cousin, Vic, on condition he travels to New York first, where Vic is building himself a criminal empire in Harlem. Vic appoints the beguiling Evagelina Laveau to mind his cousin, along with his henchmen, Clefus Horton & a hot-headed Bajun, Pigfoot, a man always quick with his knife. JT soon discovers that Vic is the American end of an operation that stretches back to Barbados, & that Vic`s business partner is Conrad Monroe, the man responsible for the death of JT`s wife & daughter. & as JT finds himself embroiled in the world of drugs, bent law, voodoo & the bitter legacy of slavery, he must return to the island of his birth & face the demons of his past. ...

Over the past 250 years of momentous change & dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country's worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness & resistance to outside influence & presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda. Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the world's largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one & a half billion, & established itself as the world's technological powerhouse. Meanwhile, some
- especially its neighbours
- are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will. A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices & fear a loss of identity to commercial forces & foreign influences. So, will China's attraction to world society dwindle, or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia, or pursue a more harmonious diplomatic route? & can it overcome its lack of democracy & transparency, or are these characteristics hard-wired into the Chinese system? Whatever the case, we ignore China's international history at our peril. Restless Empire is a magisterial & indispensible history of the most important state in world affairs today.

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Over the past 250 years of momentous change & dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China`s course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today`s People`s Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country`s worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness & resistance to outside influence & presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda. Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the world`s largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one & a half billion, & established itself as the world`s technological powerhouse. Meanwhile, some
- especially its neighbours
- are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will. A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices & fear a loss of identity to commercial forces & foreign influences. So, will China`s attraction to world society dwindle, or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia, or pursue a more harmonious diplomatic route? & can it overcome its lack of democracy & transparency, or are these characteristics hard-wired into the Chinese system? Whatever the case, we ignore China`s international history at our peril. Restless Empire is a magisterial & indispensible history of the most important state in world affairs today. It is the winner of the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award.

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