Sam the Seashell Snail is too young to go surfing around the world with his brother, Tiger. Not wanting Sam to miss out on the adventure, Tiger sends him Snail Mail from Brazil, America, India, Japan & France. Tiger`s last Snail Mail has a very special birthday surprise! With pull-out postcards to pore over, this fun & charming picture book will captivate even the most tech-savvy of children. A Jolly Postman for this generation. ...

A newly revitalized edition of Tomi Ungerer`s children`s classic. Snail, where are you? At a party? At sea? In the mountains? Young sleuths will have hours of fun finding Tomi Ungerer`s snail in his many disguises. This beautiful, classic concept book, first published in 1962, has been re-imagined with added text to enhance the playful, gorgeously restored & revitalized illustrations. ...

The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima & Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in the age of mass destruction. Yet it was also the climax of a story that extends beyond Japan & Washington: the culmination of decades of scientific achievement & centuries of colonial exploitation. Snake Dance is the account of a journey that turned into a quest to discover how humanity reaches this point. Patrick Marnham travels from the opulent nineteenth-century palaces of King Leopold II of Belgium, built with riches plundered from the Congo, to the lethally derelict nuclear reactor of modern-day Kinshasa. He follows the shipment of Congolese uranium to the deserts of New Mexico for the Manhattan Project`s secret test detonation. Here he uncovers the legacies of Robert Oppenheimer & Aby Warburg, two `mad geniuses` who confronted the devastating power of twentieth-century science in very different ways. Both men travelled to New Mexico. Oppenheimer was honoured for buiding a bomb, the ancestor of weapons that have enslaved humanity. Warburg, condemned to obscurity & confined to a mental hospital, regained his sanity by studying the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southwest who, for thousands of years, practiced the ritual of the `snake dance` in an attempt to harness the power of lightening. & it was in New Mexico, at Los Alamos, that the ultimate act of playing God was realised. The circle is closed in Japan. Faced with the catastrophe at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in March 2011, scientific man, like the snake dancers, is faced with a power beyond his control. Spanning three continents & the history of civilisation, Snake Dance is at once an intrepid intellectual adventure & a wake-up call for mankind. ...

THE FOURTH CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING PETER MAY
- AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE. SUFFOCATED
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Bat Katanga is a Ugandan just returned to his homeland after two years in Britain. While he completed a postgraduate degree at Cambridge, he watched from afar as ”flag independence gave way to economic independence” in Uganda, his chances to make a fortune there increasing with each ”reform” imposed by Idi Amin. Now, when Bat lands a job as Bureaucrat Two in the Ministry of Power & Communications, he feels himself entering the top echelons of government, his sense of honor & honesty firmly intact
- ” Everything seemed to have been building to this moment, his triumphant entry into the bastions of power.” But when he is threatened into taking a bribe from a Saudi prince, he unwittingly begins a journey
- both psychological & physical
- into the darkest & most dangerous precincts of the madness that was Amin`s Uganda. As Bat`s life begins to unravel, we see the men & women whose lives intersect his
- General Bazooka, his superior at the ministry
- ”a creature of people`s fears & prejudices”
- a man slowly losing Amin`s approval, & with it any sense of safety or sanity; Victoria, who bears both Bat`s child & a deadly grudge against him; Bat`s family & friends, coping with the advantages & disadvantages of connection to someone in high places; Bat`s wife, Babit, who pays the ultimate price for his mistakes; Robert Ashes, the mercenary Englishman who insinuates himself into Amin`s trust
- & who will be the only one left standing after Amin`s downfall. Snakepit is an extraordinarily revealing, deeply humanizing exploration of the experience of virulent corruption. It is a fiercely compelling novel.






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This useful guide provides a comprehensive overview of the wide variety of snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles & tortoises to be found in India. Over 240 species, primarily native but with the odd exotic, are included in the book. Each description is supported by a clear colour photograph taken where possible in the creature's natural Indian habitat. The guide looks at the more common species such as the Travancore Wolf Snake & the Indian Black Turtle & also focuses on some of the rarer, & in some cases highly endangered, species such as the King Cobra, the unique Gharial crocodile & the Indian Star Tortoise. ...

Part of the well-known Photoguide series of books on African natural history, Snakes & other Reptiles of Southern Africa covers the most common snakes & other lizards
- as well as crocodiles
- of Southern Africa, covering more than 244 species. Clear colour photographs show the general build, distinctive coloration & scale pattern of each snake & other reptiles to aid identification in the field. Thumbnail silhouettes are used to lead the reader to the reptile group most closely resembling the species seen. The text concentrates on key identification features but also gives additional information on location, breeding, venom, & other interesting characteristics. The maps pinpoint the areas in which the snakes occur, & are used to denote the racial differences that occur amongst the various reptile groups in different regions.
- Compact easy-to-use format; the ideal pocket size travelling companion.- Authoritative text describing key identification features, & symbols depicting endangered & venomous snakes.- Full-colour photographs illustrating each of the 244 species.- Thumbnail outlines of each family group enabling quick identification.


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This useful portable guide
- perfect for visitors to this reptile-rich country
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row` The best crime novel I`ve read in a very long time.` VAL MCDERMIDSNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS... On a stifling summer`s day, eleven-year-old Jack & his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back & rescue them. Jack`s in charge, she`d said. I won`t be long. But she doesn`t come back. She never comes back. & life as the children know it is changed for ever. Three years later, Jack is still in charge
- of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they`re alone in the house, &
- quite suddenly
- of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother... ` Snap is the best kind of crime novel. It gives you chills, it makes you think & it touches your heart. I loved it!` SARAH PINBOROUGH, No.1 bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes` Original, pacy & thoroughly entertaining... a cracking read.` CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You Go` No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour & heart. She`s a crime writing genius.` C. L. TAYLOR, bestselling author of The Missing` Intelligent entertainment that keeps you guessing.` Sunday Times Crime Club` Edgy, original & beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.` Sunday Mirror` Belinda Bauer`s plots are never anything less than original & unsettling, & Snap is no exception.` Sunday Times` Spine-chilling, tension-packed gripper.` Woman & Home` The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read... razor-sharp observation.` Guardian` Belinda Bauer`s fiction teems with life... Kate Atkinson used to be the undisputed master of this sort of mixture of the serious, the exciting & the anarchic, but Bauer is now firmly in her class.` Daily Telegraph


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The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to amateurs as well as to professionals. Artists were not immune to its allure, & many began experimenting with the camera as a means of capturing images as studies for final works & of observing the world & the people in it. ” Snapshot” investigates seven Post-Impressionist painters & printmakers: Pierre Bonnard, George Hendrik Breitner, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Riviere, Felix Vallotton, & Edouard Vuillard. Although celebrated for their works on canvas & paper, these artists also made many personal & informal snapshots. Depicting a wide range of subjects, including interiors, city streets, nudes, & portraits, these photographs were kept private & were never exhibited. As a result, they have received little attention, & most have never been published. Juxtaposing personal photographs with the related paintings & prints by these Post-Impressionist artists, ” Snapshot” offers a new perspective on the story of early photography & on the synthesis of painting & photography at the end of the 19th century. ...