1971: Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak. Two sons of doctors sent to 're-education' camps forced to carry buckets of excrement up & down mountain paths have only their sense of humour to keep them going. Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them from the task at h&. The boys' true re-education starts however when they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century. Their lives are transformed. & not only their lives: after listening to the stories of Balzac the little seamstress will never be the same again. ...

Hari's family are fisher folk but with no fish left in their bay times are hard. In order to catch the ones further out they need a flat-bottomed boat with an outboard motor not a rickety coconut-wood vessel. But in order to get one of these they need capital & in order to get capital they need to sell fish... Hari is a boy with a heart of gold who rises above his humble origins striving to help his family & show everyone that family feuds & village superstitions are better off forgotten. Bamba Beach is a contemporary Indian story set in Goa. ...

Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated? The demolition of the old London Bridge put an end to what famous tradition? Which philosopher caught a fatal chill returning from a predawn lesson given to Queen Christina of Sweden? What was the real name of Buffalo Bill? Which mutiny leading to a war of independence was provoked by the use of animal fat? What was smuggled from Alexandria to Venice in it is said a barrel of pork? What did Pope Innocent III outlaw as a weapon of mass destruction? Who on the first day of 1660 had the remains of a turkey for breakfast & began a new project? Prepare to have your general knowledge tested by the best quizmaster in the business. Here are 2000 of the worlds strangest & most stimulating questions laid out in a series of thematic quizzes that cover art literature politics sport geography & history & span all the countries of the world. Bamber Gascoignes fascination with knowledge is highly contagious & his answers give you the context you need to find out even more. & as to the answers to the questions above
- well youll have to read the book...
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When a farmer on Exmoor found a frightened & badly injured red deer calf hanging by the leg from a barbed wire fence he knew there was only one man he could call. Johnny Kingdom took Bambi home & became her surrogate mother nursing her through the night after the dangerous operation to amputate her now infected limb. Against the odds Bambi survived & as she grew bigger became a part of Johnnys family taking over his garden & developing a taste for custard creams (and Johnnys wifes roses). But it wasnt just Johnny & his family who loved Bambi
- friends neighbours & even complete strangers would occasionally drop by with tasty treats they thought she might enjoy. But the doe in his back garden was by no means Johnnys only contact with the red deer of Exmoor. Over the years he followed the wild herds over moor & farmland as the seasons changed filming every detail of their lives & trying to understand what Bambi was missing out on. Millions of viewers fell in love with Bambi during Johnnys BBC television series & accompanying book but now he tells her full story. Sometimes poignant & sometimes hilarious this is both the tale of all of Exmoors wild deer & the story of how one very special animal came to live a very different life.
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In 1964 Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the propaganda of disbelief doubt & dirt being poured into homes through the nations radio & television sets. Whitehouse senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement: the National Viewers & Listeners Association. For almost forty years she kept up the fight against the programme makers politicians pop stars & playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer of blasphemy & obscenity. From Dr Who (Teatime brutality for tots) to Dennis Potter (whose mother sued her for libel & won) to the Beatles
- (whose Magical Mystery Tour escaped her intervention by the skin of its psychedelic teeth)
- the list of Mary Whitehouses targets will read to some like a nostalgic roll of honour. Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the countrys intellectual elite. But were some of the dangers she warned of more real than they imagined? Ben Thompsons selection of material from her extraordinary archive shows Mary Whitehouses legacy in a startling new light. From her exquisitely testy exchanges with successive BBC Directors General to the anguished screeds penned by her television & radio vigilantes these letters reveal a complex & combative individual whose anxieties about culture & morality are often eerily relevant to the age of the internet.

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Joe Edley the wordplay genius who created the puzzles in Bananagrams now steps it up in More Bananagrams! by creating eight new joyously mind-bending puzzle types & adding another level of difficulty-puzzles with a five banana (super hard!) rating. In all there are over 500 original new anagram puzzles including Banana Splits (solve letter substitution scrambles in rapid-fire fashion) Banana Peels (add new letters to words & rearrange to spell something new) Banana Boats (evolve a chain of words one new letter at a time) intersecting words vowel replacements adjacent letter scrambles & much more. The puzzles are rated one banana (simplest) to the fiendish new five banana & enriching supplementary material is featured including fun banana facts helpful word lists & yes an answer key. ...

It all started with the yellow-pouched Bananagrams game
- so named (and packaged) because it's the anagram game that will drive
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This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes
- governments promoting tourism companies moving their factories overseas soldiers serving on foreign soil
- & shows that the real landscape is not exclusively male. She describes how many womens seemingly personal strategies
- in their marriages in their housework in their coping with ideals of beauty
- are in reality the stuff of global politics. In exposing policymakers reliance on false notions of femininity" & "masculinity " Enloe dismantles an apparently overwhelming world system revealing it to be much more fragile & open to change than we think."



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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

The sensational sequel to Papillon. Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charriere
- nicknamed Papillon
- in Venezuela where

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