Christopher Clark’s “ Sleepwalkers” is a highly acclaimed study of the causes of World War I. Charting the problems leading up to the Great War, from the polarization of Europe in 1887 – 1907 to the actual commencement of the fighting, the book presents the personalities & the unfolding events in London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna & Belgrade in considerable detail, but its author never looses sight of the simple fact that serious books on history should also be readable & enjoyed by the wider public. The book received great reviews from fellow authors & historians, & was selected by several newspapers & periodicals as one of their books of 2102. AWARDS: The Sleepwalkers was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History & finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize, & is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, French Prix Aujourd`hui, Cundill Recognition of Excellence Prize, Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature, & the Braunschweiger Geschichtspreis A SELECTION FROM THE REVIEWS: Max Hastings, Sunday Times: ” Formidable.. .one of the most impressive & stimulating studies of the period ever published”. Niall Ferguson: ”A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship. It is hard to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest collective blunder in the history of international relations”. Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review: ”[ Reading The Sleepwalkers], it is as if a light had been turned on a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among themselves without reason...[ Clark] demolishes the standard view... The brilliance of Clark`s far-reaching history is that we are able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue... In conception, steely scholarship & piercing insights, his book is a masterpiece ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge & a Fellow of St Catharine`s College. He is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II, & Iron Kingdom – a history of Prussia. Widely praised around the world, Iron Kingdom became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer`s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

Number one bestselling author David Walliams presents his first picture book, illustrated by artistic genius Tony Ross. What's big, blue, bossy, & turns up uninvited? A slightly annoying elephant, of course! Introducing a magnificently warm & funny picture book from two remarkable talents. Adopt your copy today! ...

Number one bestselling author David Walliams presents his first picture book, illustrated by artistic genius Tony Ross. What`s big, blue, bossy, & turns up uninvited? A slightly annoying elephant, of course! Introducing a magnificently warm & funny picture book from two remarkable talents. Adopt your copy today! ...

Number one bestselling author David Walliams presents his first picture book for children of 3 & up, illustrated by artistic genius Tony Ross. What`s big, blue, bossy, & turns up uninvited? A slightly annoying elephant, of course! Introducing a magnificently warm & funny picture book from two remarkable talents. Adopt your copy today! ...

Guidebook to trekking the Slovenian High Level Mountain Trail or Transverzala, 550km across Slovenia. Beginning at Maribor near the Austrian border to Ankaran on the Adriatic coast, the route is described as a series of 3 to 6-day treks through the region of Pohorje & the limestone mountains of the Karavanke & Kamnik-Savinja & Julian Alps. ...

A twenty-six-year-old Indian journalist decides to give up his job & travel to a country where he can 'escape the deadness of his life'. So he arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerising beauty. From the beautiful, decaying wooden houses of Georgetown, through coastal sugarcane plantations, to the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond-hunters, he is absorbed by the fantastic possibilities of this place where the descendants of the enslaved & the indentured have made a new world. But he is not just seduced by the country: he is also captivated by the feisty yet fragile Jan, & together they embark on an adventure which will take them into a new country & change both their lives. In his dazzling & ambitious debut novel, Rahul Bhattacharya has created a story that follows the shape & rhythms of life, not art. Part picaresque, in part a meditation, The Sly Company of People Who Care captures the heady adventures of travel, the overheated restlessness of youth, & the paradoxes of searching for life's meaning in the escape from home. ...

A twenty-six-year-old Indian journalist decides to give up his job & travel to a country where he can `escape the deadness of his life`. So he arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerising beauty. From the beautiful, decaying wooden houses of Georgetown, through coastal sugarcane plantations, to the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond-hunters, he is absorbed by the fantastic possibilities of this place where the descendants of the enslaved & the indentured have made a new world. But he is not just seduced by the country: he is also captivated by the feisty yet fragile Jan, & together they embark on an adventure which will take them into a new country & change both their lives. In his dazzling & ambitious debut novel, Rahul Bhattacharya has created a story that follows the shape & rhythms of life, not art. Part picaresque, in part a meditation, The Sly Company of People Who Care captures the heady adventures of travel, the overheated restlessness of youth, & the paradoxes of searching for life`s meaning in the escape from home. ...

This is the chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible h&...A ghost story by the author of ” The Woman in Black” & ” The Man in the Picture”, to be read by the fire on a cold winter`s night. Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer`s evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow takes a wrong turning & stumbles across the derelict old White House. Compelled by curiosity, he approaches the door, &, standing before the entrance feels the unmistakeable sensation of a small hand creeping into his own, `as if a child had taken hold of it`. Intrigued by the encounter, he determines to learn more, & discovers that the owner`s grandson had drowned tragically many years before. At first unperturbed by the odd experience, Snow begins to be plagued by haunting dreams, panic attacks, & more frequent visits from the small hand which become increasingly threatening & sinister... ...

This is the chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible h&...an exceptional & bestselling ghost story by the author of ” The Woman in Black” & ” The Man in the Picture”. Late one summers evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, & compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own, `as if a child had taken hold of it`. At first he is merely puzzled by the odd incident but then begins to suffer attacks of fear & panic, & is visited by nightmares. He is determined to learn more `about the house & its once-magnificent, now overgrown garden but when he does so, he receives further, increasingly sinister, visits from the small h&. ...

The Small Planet Vegetarian Cookbook introduces a global spread of delicious low-impact vegetarian dishes. There`s something particularly enticing about a meal made up of several `small` dishes, as with Middle Eastern mezze or Spanish tapas. Troth Wells has taken this style of cooking & enjoying food & given it an exciting global dimension. Western livestock-rearing & industrial production of meat is not a model that can be projected worldwide
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