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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Learning to take time out: the smartest lifehack of all For most of us, overwork is the new normal. Resting means late-night TV binges or hours spent surfing social media. We never truly take the time to rest & recharge. In this revelatory book, Silicon Valley consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang offers the antidote to becoming more productive & fulfilled in every aspect of our lives, & shows us that in order to actually get more done we need to work less & relax more. Whether through taking daily naps, as Winston Churchill did during the Second World War, spending a week alone in a cabin like Bill Gates, or simply walking, `deliberate rest` as Pang calls it is the key to getting more done & working better. Drawing on emerging neuroscience, Rest is packed full of tips for upping our downtime
- from sleep to hobbies to holidays. It`s time to make a change to the way we work, rest & play.
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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. ...

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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A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Restless, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list She continued ...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR. Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women & wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role. However, when he fails at the one thing the King demands of him he is cast out from his new found paradise. Determined to be restored to the King`s favour, Merivel begins a journey to self-knowledge that takes him to the depths of seventeenth-century society. ...