The Parting Glass is an inviting ramble through forty-three traditional pubs in the cities & countryside of Irel&. Some are historic taverns, others are more contemporary, but all convey the timeless feel & the flavour of the country. Roth's glowing, intimate photographs are accompanied by narratives of the places & their patrons by columnist Eileen Mc Namara, as well as a sprinkling of"ations. ...

Richard Mc Gregor`s ” The Party” has been established as the book on China & its political leadership. It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth, & here is it is newly updated to include material on the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012. Newly updated version including analysis of the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012 China`s Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, Richard Mc Gregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country
- its military & media, legal system & businesses, even its religious organizations. How has the Party merged Marx, Mao & the market to create a global superpower? & what does this mean for the world? ” Extraordinary”. (” Sunday Times”). ” Masterful...entertaining & insightful”. (” Economist”). ”superb...an essential, riveting guide to how the rising power really works”. (Jonathan Fenby). ” If you read only one book about China this year, it should be this one. And if you do not read this book, you probably do not understand China today”. (Arthur Kroeber, China Economic Quarterly). ”A compelling exploration of the world`s largest & most successful political machine”. (” New Statesman”). ”A book that is as informative as it is entertaining... China has been transformed. The system that takes the credit is brilliantly described by Mc Gregor”. (Chris Patten, ” Financial Times”). Having joined the ” Financial Times” in 2000 in Shanghai & being appointed China bureau chief in 2005, Richard Mc Gregor is now Washington Bureau Chief for the FT. Mc Gregor has won numerous awards throughout his nearly two decades of reporting from north Asia, including a 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia Editorial Excellence Award for his coverage on the Xinjiang Riots & 2008 SOPA Awards for Editorial Intelligence. He has spent twenty years in north Asia, starting in Taiwan, & then in Tokyo, Hong Kong & Beijing, where he established offices for ” The Australian” newspaper. He has also contributed articles & reports to the BBC, the ” International Herald Tribune” & the ” Far Eastern Economic Review”.
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping story of betrayal, privilege & hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. ` Think Brideshead Revisited meets The Talented Mr Ripley with a dash of The Riot Club. I couldn`t put it down` Louise O` Neill, author of Asking For It Martin Gilmour & Ben Fitzmaurice have been best friends for 25 years, since their days together at Burtonbury School. They are an unlikely pair: the scholarship boy with the wrong accent & clothes, & the dazzlingly popular, wealthy young aristocrat. But Martin knows no one else can understand the bond they share
- & no one else could have kept Ben`s secret for over two decades. At Ben`s 40th birthday party, the cream of the British establishment gathers in a haze of champagne, drugs & glamour. Amid the politicians, the celebrities, the old money & the newly rich, Martin once again feels that pang of not quite belonging. His wife Lucy has her reservations, too. There is something unnerving in the air. But Ben wouldn`t do anything to damage their friendship. Would he?
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In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer
- known as ` Imam Beckenbauer` for his piety & his dominant style of play
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Are you tired of all those colouring books claiming that they are the answer to your inner peace & sense of calm? Do you twitch at the thought of yoga mums, bikini diets, excessive coffee choices & people who just have the whole thing under control? Then this book is your antidote. We don`t mind if you want to give The Passive-Aggressive Colouring Book to your dog to chew; feel free to use it to light the fire or prop up the table leg. If you feel really desperate you may even want to colour it in...or scribble it out. The choice is yours. Whatever you choose to do we advise you first to enjoy the fabulous, humorous illustrations by the inspiringly angry Charlotte Farmer. & if her brilliance & talent drives you round the twist, you know what to do. Just warn us to duck first. ...

` Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. & just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceasescu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae & comrade Elena, because they are their parents.` The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceaucescu`s dictatorship & the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta Muller describes with poetic attention the dreams & superstitions, conflicts & oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, poetic language, Herta Muller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people. Translated by Martin Chalmers. With a new foreword by Paul Bailey. ...

This highly entertaining, fact-filled book reproduces the passport covers of every single country that issues its own travel document. It clearly illustrates how varied passports can be, despite the guidelines established by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Arranged by continent, each country`s entry

Includes:: a full-color reproduction of its passport cover as well as brief information, including its location on the world map, flag, population, population density, political status, GDP & per capita income, official languages, & visa index. In an increasingly globalized world in which a passport has become one of the most important credentials we possess, this compendium conveys the symbolic power of these documents, & the fascinating stories behind their designs & development.

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`A novel that is brilliant enough to raise itself effortlessly above & beyond the level of the vices it portrays: strange art & reckless passion, cocaine, excessive exercise & other forms of addiction`
- Fabienne Dum, Le Monde Rimini splits up with his girlfriend of twelve years, Sofia. The parting is initially amicable & he moves on, carefree, with a new zest for life. Hungry to make up for lost time & keen to forget the past, he finds a younger girlfriend & starts using cocaine. Sofia, however, finds herself unable to let go, & continues to reappear on Rimini`s horizon. Though the apparently idyllic relationship is over, their love has not died, merely taken on a different form. As time passes & their paths continue to cross, the past festers & torments them, like an infection.
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” Few writers give me such consistent pleasure”. (Zadie Smith). Four siblings meet up in their grandparents` old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions. Roland has come with his new wife, & his sisters don`t like her. Fran has brought her children, who soon uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Alice has invited Kasim, an outsider, who makes plans to seduce Roland`s teenage daughter. & Harriet, the eldest, finds her quiet self-possession ripped apart when passion erupts unexpectedly. Over the course of the holiday, a familiar way of life falls apart forever. ” Exquisite”. (The Times). ” Wonderful”. (Guardian). ” Magnificent”. (Sunday Times). ...

For more than 40 years, Georg Gerster has been travelling the world photographing archaeological sites from the air. In The Past from Above, archaeologist Charlotte Trumpler introduces 250 of his photographs, taken in more than 50 countries in Europe, North & South America, Asia, Australia, & Africa. Each is accompanied by a detailed explanatory description. Gerster's subjects range from the temple complex at Karnak to the Great Wall of China, from the Acropolis in Athens to the temples of Abu Simbel, from Aztec cult places in Mexico to monumental designs in the Californian desert. These colour photographs are not only precise, technical achievements
- often produced under hair-raising circumstances
- but also fascinating, unique views of our world. The result is a spectacular photographic book & a visual history of mankind that stretches back to the very beginnings of civilization.

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