Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature & contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) & in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties & early sixties. In their compacted form, which ranges from the murderously short ` The Scarlatti Tilt` to one-page wonders like the sexually poignant poetry of ` An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimetre Film`, Brautigan`s stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave stories & characters resonating in our heads long after they`re gone. ...

Moonie & Mei Ling are looked after by their grandmother, an indomitable matriarch, ruthless manager of ' The Double Happiness' restaurant & fount of endless titbits of Chinese mythology. Feared & renowned in the neighbourhood
- & stubbornly attached to the giant meat cleaver she keeps in her handbag
- eccentric Grandma Wong weaves a magical world of surreal stories & ancient wisdom around her two wayward granddaughters. However, the girls' lives are also being drawn forward by the inexorable pace of assimilation & the ever-beckoning American dream, & as fascinated as they might be by Buddhist philosophy, they are also cool, hip American girls with straight-A grades & scores to settle
- with the neighbourhood boys who tease them & with the unforgiving media, which tells them that they should look like Barbie dolls & not like Chinese girls.


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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. ...

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. ...

Winner of the Political Book of the Year Award 2015 The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the most significant new party in British politics for a generation. In recent years UKIP & their charismatic leader Nigel Farage have captivated British politics, media & voters. Yet both the party & the roots of its support remain poorly understood. Where has this political revolt come from? Who is supporting them, & why? How are UKIP attempting to win over voters? & how far can their insurgency against the main parties go? Drawing on a wealth of new data
- from surveys of UKIP voters to extensive interviews with party insiders
- in this book prominent political scientists Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin put UKIP`s revolt under the microscope & show how many conventional wisdoms about the party & the radical right are wrong. Along the way they provide unprecedented insight into this new revolt, & deliver some crucial messages for those with an interest in the state of British politics, the radical right in Europe & political behaviour more generally.

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I bet you think you know this story. You don`t. The real one`s much more gory. From Cinderella & Goldilocks to Little Red Riding Hood & the Three Little Pigs, wicked beasts, brazen crooks & a ghastly giant star in these hilarious nursery rhymes with BITE! ...

Roald Dahl`s irreverent & hilarious collection, Revolting Rhymes. Read along & listen! This book is filled with revolting rhymes. (Be warned: It`s no ordinary Once upon a time). There`s poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds, because her Prince, he chops off heads! Snow White`s dwarfs although awfully nice, are guilty of one shocking vice.. . And what becomes of Goldilocks, that nasty thieving little louse, when she goes sneaking around the three bear`s house.. . Animated film for BBC1 based on the Revolting Rhymes by Magic Light Pictures, producers of the Oscar nominated The Gruffalo & Room On The Broom, scheduled for Christmas 2016, Roald Dahl`s centenary year. Listen to REVOLTING RHYMES & other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams & Steven Fry
- plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store & Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! inspired by the revolting Twits.
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The twentieth century was an age of revolutions. As the pace of social & economic change quickened & the savagery of technological warfare destabilized societies, intolerable pressures were created which exploded into violent political movements. These overthrew long-standing regimes & radically reshaped social orders, beginning with the monarchies in China & Russia, the latter transformed into a communist society which sought to export its revolution abroad. Towards the century`s end, the collapse of the Soviet Union fed new movements, which sought to throw off the choking legacy of earlier revolutions that turned out to have merely replaced one form of oppression with another. Revolution examines all the key revolutions of the twentieth century, from the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, through the 1917 October Revolution, which overthrew the Tsarist regime in Russia, to those which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union at the century`s end. It also encompasses the democratic revolutions that overthrew a string of dictatorships from the 1980s onwards. Following the narrative thread through 18 revolutionary movements & illustrated with contemporary photographs & documents, this is an indispensable guide to a phenomenon that shaped & overshadowed much of the twentieth century. ...

Taking into account the key events of the French & Indian War, this book shows the American Revolution`s progress in 60 glorious contemporary maps & accompanying essays relating them to the events of the time. The authors tell the stories of the maps & cartographers whose talents have made these some of the most valuable artifacts in our nation`s history. When warfare between Britain & her colonists erupted in 1775, maps provided the pictorial news about military matters. A number of the best examples of those maps, including some from the personal collection of King George III, the Duke of Northumberl&, & the Marquis de Lafayette, are beautifully reproduced here. Others from institutional & private collections are being published for the first time. ...

Exile laid bare the lives of listless teenage expats in Tanzania; Revolution shifts the focus to the African & Indian Tanzanians they live among... Moses, a worker in a lethal Tanzanite mine, who risks it all every day in the hope of striking it rich; Rachel, who leaves the countryside to make a living, but finds herself in a city where everyone sees her as a whore in waiting; Shakila, who manages to escape to the States, but not from racial prejudice. This is their reality
- drowning in corruption, the need to graft & scrap, selling their morals & their bodies as needs be. The Africa Trilogy is at once epic & minutely human, because Ejersbo never fails to show compassion for his characters: however corrupted or morally blemished they may become, they are worth a better life.
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