With his trademark blend of knowledge insight & wit Dadhichi shares his predictions for the new year. The new year could prove frustrating to you Aquarius with slow movement in your career & self-development sectors. Self-sacrifice may be required to reach your goals so you will need to carefully balance your personal & professional lives. While sounding challenging 2013 also has good karma & deep satisfaction in store. In Dadhichis horoscope for Aquarius you will discover which star signs can match your independent & occasionally quirky nature how to engage your social & intellectual talents in the workplace & what 2013 has in store for you. YOUR STARS WILL REVEAL Monthly & daily predictions for 2013 Insights into the Aquarius woman man & child Which star signs you are best matched with as well as who to avoid in the areas of love friendship & the workplace ...

Fully updated this map combines clear design & an easy-to-read scale with more road detail to ensure that you never lose your way. It

Includes:: information on toll points service areas road numbers motorways dual carriageways & wide & narrow local roads. National Parks ski resorts visitor attractions & towns & places of interest are also highlighted. The map is presented in a practical slimline format with a durable weatherproof cover for protection from the elements.

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Michelin regional maps each contain practical road & route information. Special Michelin reads-like-a-book format for easy use in folding & unfolding. Useful information for planning trips including gas stations 24-hour service stations toll gates rest areas & service plazas. Clear precise cartography. Icons pinpoint important travel information. ...

A perfect introduction to the Irish language for the very young comes in the form of this beautiful & witty picture book charting the journey of Little Owl who is just a bit lost"... In Irish for the very first time is Chris Haughton's award-winning title about a little accident-prone Owl who has fallen from his nest...with a bump he lands on the ground. Uh-oh where is his mummy? With the earnest assistance of his new friend Squirrel Little Owl sets off in search of her & meets a sequence of other friendly animals. Yet while one might have his mummy's BIG EYES & another her POINTY EARS they are simply not her. Chris Haughton's striking colour illustrations follow Little Owl on his quest to get back home; which of his new friends will lead him back to his mummy? " Ar Strae Beagan" will be one of four titles being translated into Irish for a brand new Walker Eireann initiative which celebrates Walker's Irish writers & illustrators creating perfect books for children. Walker Eireann
- leabhair le laimhseail go gramhar i dteanga do chroi."
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This book is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Istanbul from the 1940s to the 1980s. Captured through the unerring lens of the award winning Ara Guler the Eye of Istanbul it reflects the citys melancholy aesthetic as it oscillates between tradition & modernity. Gulers remarkable duotone photographs are accompanied by evocative commentaries from Orhan Pamuk another leading figure in Turkish culture. Both writer & photographer each held in their youth the ambition of becoming a painter. Here each in his own way paints a brushless picture of his hometown & captures through image & word its very soul. ...

Jeremy Bowen has been the BBCs Middle East correspondent for twelve years & has been on the ground for them as the recent revolutions have swept through the region. Realising this as a game-changing moment in the history of the Middle East The Arab Uprisings captures the thoughts & feelings of the people involved as the events unfolded putting these revolutions in their political context & using them as a prism through which to understand the broader history & landscape of the Middle East. The book will look at the world the demonstrators rejected & its Arab dictators. The author will examine brutal police states tribal loyalty & foreign help. The Wests response & Israels too will form part of the narrative. This is an urgent & authoritative account of the seismic political changes rocking the Middle East from one of the foremost reporters of our time. ...

Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East shocking the world & ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom democracy human rights social justice & regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their significance? & what are their likely consequences? In an engaging question-&-answer format The Arab Uprisings explores all aspects of the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Middle East. Historian James Gelvin begins with an overview--What sparked the Arab uprisings? Where did the demands for democracy & human rights come from? How appropriate is the phrase Arab Spring"?--before turning to specific countries around the region. He looks at such topics as the role of youth labor & religious groups in Tunisia & Egypt & discusses why the military turned against rulers in both countries. Exploring the uprisings in Libya & Yemen Gelvin explains why these two states are considered "weak " why that status is important for understanding the upheavals there & why outside powers intervened in Libya but not in Yemen. Next Gelvin compares two cases that defied expectations: Algeria which experts assumed would experience a major upheaval after Egypt's & Syria which experts failed to foresee. He then looks at the monarchies of Morocco Jordan & the Gulf exploring the commonalities & differences of protest movements in each. The final chapter discusses the implications of the uprisings. What do they mean for the United States? For Iran? Has al-Qaeda been strengthened or weakened? What effects have the uprisings had on the Israel-Palestine conflict? What conclusions might we draw from the uprisings so far? For anyone wishing to understand the dramatic events in the Middle East The Arab Uprisings is the place to turn." ...

When the UN called for the end of the British mandate & the partition of Palestine into two independent states. the RAF found itself under attack from both sides. Tracing the development of hostilities in the Middle East this book covers the period from the establishment of the first proper Israeli Air Force in 1948 to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Israels War of Independence against its Arab neighbours the inevitable round two the Suez Crisis of 1956 the Six Day War of 1967 the Yom Kippur wars of 1973 & the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 are all detailed in this fascinating chronide of war in the Middle East. ...

An enchanting debutante & the eldest daughter of an impoverished country parson Arabella embarks on her first London season. Armed with beauty virtue & a benevolent godmother (as well as a notoriously impetuous temper) she quickly runs afoul of Robert Beaumaris the most eligible Nonpareil of the day. When he accuses her of being yet another pretty female after his wealth Arabella allows herself to be provoked
- into a deceitful charade that might have quite unexpected consequences... Arabelle is a tale of Regency romance from the creator
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A Book of English Food" is an elegant compendium of brilliant recipes adapted from the cookery books of the 1920s & 1930s by Arabella Boxer the Nigella Lawson of her generation whose food writing for Vogue made her the role model for aspiring cooks in the 1960s. " Arabella Boxers Book of English Food" describes the delicious dishes
- & the social conditions in which they were prepared cooked & eaten
- in the short span between the two World Wars when English cooking suddenly blossomed. The food in these wonderful recipes comes from the great country houses where little had changed since Victorian times the large houses in London & the South where fashionable hostesses vied with each other to entertain the most distinguished guests at their tables & less grand establishments like those in Bloomsbury where the painters & writers of the day contrived to lead cultured & civilised lives on little money. Containing 200 recipes drawn from cookery books magazines of the period family sources or from talking to survivors who still remember those days "A Book of English Food" is a fascinating glimpse into another world & a celebration of English cooking at its finest. " That rare thing a cookery book with an argument: viz that English cookery was once both good & independent of the cuisines of her neighbours.. .a rollicking good read". (" Observer"). "I still find the calm elegance of her writing an inspiration". (Nigel Slater). "A treasury of social gossip.. .immensely enjoyable & useful". (" Spectator"). "A captivating exploration & celebration of the flowering of English cooking in the 1920s & 30s". (" Financial Times"). "I recommend it not only for its excellent food but also for the superb introductions & details of social history in the great houses with their shimmering hostesses". (" Evening Standard"). Arabella Boxer was born in 1934 & educated in the UK Paris & Rome. She has written for the " Sunday Times" magazine & the " Telegraph" magazine & was Food Writer for " Vogue" from 1966 to 1968 & 1975 to 1991. She was awarded the Glenfiddich Cookery Writer of the Year Award in 1975 & 1978 a Glenfiddich Special Award in 1992 & won the 1991 Andre Simon Award & the 1992 Michael Smith Macallan Award for fine writing about British food. Arabella Boxer is the author of a number of cookery books including " First Slice Your Cookbook" " Arabella Boxers Garden Cookbook" " Mediterranean Cookbook" " The Sunday Times Complete Cookbook" & "A Visual Feast" (with Tessa Traeger). A founding member of the Guild of Food Writers she lives in London."

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