From calls to arms to demands for peace, & from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets & politicians, rebels & tyrants, soldiers & statesman, placing them in historical context. With over a million copies already sold, this revised & updated edition

Includes:: speeches that have shaped the modern world: from Aung San Suu Kyi on freedom to Al Gore on the environment & from Malala Yousafzai on the education of women to Pope Francis on peace. A biography of each speechmaker reveals how they came to stand at the crossroads of history, & each speech is accompanied by an introduction explaining its historical context & how it influenced the momentous events of the day
- as well as those that followed. New speeches include Malala Yousafzai`s speech to the UN Youth Assembly on access to education (2013), Vladimir Putin`s address regarding the annexation of Crimea (2014), Xi Jinping`s Communist Party General Secretary`s speech in Beijing (2012), Pope Francis`s First Easter ` Urbi et Orbi` Message (2013) & Al Gore`s address to the UN Bali Climate Change Conference (2007). Moving & thought-provoking, this new edition will continue to inspire & enlighten readers, offering them a fascinating perspective on historical milestones through the power of the spoken word. Contents include: Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Gandhi & Winston Churchill to name a few.


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In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was described by Aldous Huxley as `the one genuinely modern pleasure`, & one of the fastest & most thrilling ways to attain it was through the new sport of bobsledding. Exotic, exciting & above all dangerous, it was by far the most popular event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. It required an abundance of skill & bravery. & the four men who triumphed at those Games lived the most extraordinary lives. Billy Fiske was an infamous daredevil, blessed with a natural talent for driving. He would later become the first American airman to die in the war
- flying for the RAF. Clifford Gray was a notorious playboy & a player on both Broadway & Hollywood. Or was he? His identity was a mystery for decades. Jay O` Brien was a gambler & a rogue who, according to one ex-wife, forced women to marry him at gunpoint. & Eddie Eagan, a heavyweight boxer & brilliant lawyer, remains the only man to win gold at both the Summer & Winter Olympics. This is their story, of loose living, risk-taking & hell-raising in an age of decadence, & of their race against the odds to become the fastest men on ice. We will never see their like again. Especially after the world did descend into that second, terrible global conflict.
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A leading Japanese journalist gives an analysis & descriptive account of Tokyo's current youth culture & modern Japanese society. He examines why 40 million young people between the ages of 15 & 30 are breaking away from traditional society to seek quick money & new ways of life
- technology, drugs, free sex, punk rock. Many school drop-outs join the tribes of lawless bikers hoping to be accepted into the immensely wealthy underworld gangs of the Yazuka. Each chapter of the book tells the story of a single character, & the range is broad
- from drug dealers, office girls & hostesses, to students at Tokyo's most prestigious university.

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Speke & Garston Docks in 1905 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. 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. In this title: the map is double-sided. The main map covers much of Garston Docks, stretching from the Old Dock southward & inland to Bank's Road. Features include the Old Dock, part of the New Dock, Garston Rocks, Cornholme Bobbin Works, Garston Relief & Labour Test Yard, Hamilton Iron Works, Graving Dock, ship yard, railway connections. The adjacent sheet 114.13 extends coverage eastward to the village of Speke. This map is altogether more rural, & features include All Saints church, Greyhound Farm, Speke Town Farm, many fields & the northern tip of Speke Hall. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Speke & Garston Docks in 1905 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 much of Garston Docks, stretching from the Old Dock southward & inland to Bank`s Road. Features include the Old Dock, part of the New Dock, Garston Rocks, Cornholme Bobbin Works, Garston Relief & Labour Test Yard, Hamilton Iron Works, Graving Dock, ship yard, railway connections, etc. The adjacent sheet 114.13 extends coverage eastward to the village of Speke. This map is altogether more rural, & features include All Saints church, Greyhound Farm, Speke Town Farm, many fields & the northern tip of Speke Hall. 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. ...

This is a unique journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities. Why is there an `h` in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press & his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign cars, & it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five per cent is complicated, & in Spell It Out our foremost linguistics expert David Crystal extends a helping hand to the confused & curious alike. He unearths the stories behind the rogue words that confound us, & explains why these peculiarities entered the mainstream, in an epic journey taking in sixth century monks, French & Latin upstarts, the Industrial Revolution & the internet. By learning the history & the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right. ...

The long awaited sequel to SPELLBOUND, which was listed by Kirkus Reviews among the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2011. ` Blake Charlton has created one of the few truly original magical systems we`ve seen in fantasy fiction` Tad Williams ` An absorbing read` Robin Hobb Leandra Weal has a bad habit of getting herself in dangerous situations. While hunting neodemons in her role as Warden of Ixos, Leandra obtains a prophetic spell that provides a glimpse one day into her future. She discovers that she is doomed to murder someone she loves, soon, but not who. Leandra`s quest to unravel the mystery of the murder-she-will-commit becomes more urgent when her chronic disease flares up & the Ixonian Archipelago is plagued by natural disasters, demon worshiping cults, & fierce political infighting. Everywhere she turns, Leandra finds herself amid conflict. As chaos spreads across Ixos, Leandra & her troubled family
- her misspelling wizard father Nicodemus Weal & dragon-of-a-mother Francesca De Vega
- must race to uncover the shocking truth about a prophesied demonic invasion, human language, & their own identities-if they don`t kill each other first.

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This title presents an accessible & beautifully illustrated introduction to the Books of the Dead the collections of magical spells on papyrus that the Egyptians believed would help them safely reach their afterlife. It presents a concise introduction to the perennially fascinating subject of ancient Egyptian attitudes to death & the dead. The British Museum holds an unequalled collection of Book of the Dead manuscripts on papyri. New photography captures the exquisite detail of the painted vignettes that accompany the spells. It is published to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum, 4 November 2010 6 March 2011. For most ancient Egyptians, life on earth was short. But death was not an end; it was merely the entering of a new phase of being. They believed that the afterlife was a real place, but various obstacles, torments & judgements had to be overcome to reach it. To ensure a safe passage, wealthy Egyptians took with them specially commissioned compilations of spells, written on papyrus rolls. There was a large number of spells to choose from: spells for obtaining air, food & water; for transforming your body into another form, such a bird or lotus; for warding off hostile snakes & crocodiles; for preventing your heart from disclosing all your sins; for not permitting others to steal your body parts & soul; for not doing work in the realm of the dead; &, so on. Through these fragile papyrus texts & vignettes & a selection of other funerary objects, this book reveals what the ancient Egyptians believed lay between life & the afterlife. The Author John H. Taylor is a curator at the British Museum specializing in ancient Egyptian funerary archaeology. ...