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. ...

This collection of essays by leading academics offers an alternative approach to the study of todays Arab states by focusing on their participation in neo-liberal globalization rather than on authoritarianism or Islam. The effects of the restructuring of traditional state power engendered by globalization are analyzed separately through updated empirical research into the political economic & security processes of each country considered. Egypt Lebanon Morocco & Saudi Arabia are the case studies selected to represent different paths towards a shared model of a new Arab state which far from representing an exceptional case of resilience against global trends may be seen in many instances as typifying their effects. This book thus offers both an overall conceptualization of change affecting the Arab states domestically & internationally & a series of in-depth case studies by country & functional areas. It is extremely timely when viewed within the context of the current political unrest & unprecedented change within the Middle East. The paperback edition

Includes:: a new preface which links the authors research to the current Arab Spring crisis.

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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. ...

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
- & still the best writer
- of this beloved genre.


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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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Discover the enchanting Arabesque" by Claudia Roden. Claudia Roden returns to the countries of Turkey Lebanon & Morocco in search of new & old recipes & to find out how cooking has evolved since she first introduced us to these cuisines in the 1960s. The result is a tribute to the different culinary histories & contemporary food of these fascinating countries from the mezze dishes of Turkey & the sweet pastries of Lebanon to the unmistakable flavours & spices of Morocco. In her inimitable style in Arabesque Claudia Roden has created a passionate evocative book full of stories memories & delicious food. Praise for Claudia Roden: " Claudia Roden is no more a simple cookbook writer than Marcel Proust was a biscuit baker. She is rather memorialist historian ethnographer anthropologist essayist poet". (Simon Schama). " Every one of Claudia's books introduced us to a delicious new world' Sam & Sam Clarke ' Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the culture from which it springs". (Nigella Lawson). " Claudia Roden's writing has the fascination of her conversation. Her books are treasure-houses of information & mines of literary pleasures". (" Observer"). As well as writing cookbooks & presenting cooking shows on the BBC Claudia Roden is also a cultural anthropologist based in the United Kingdom. Born & brought up in Cairo she finished her education in Paris before moving to London to study art. With the publication of her bestselling classic "A Book of Middle Eastern Food in 1968" Claudia Roden revolutionized Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East. Since then she has published nine other books including the award winning classic " The Book of Jewish Food" & has won no fewer than six Glenfiddich awards for her writing. Her other books include "A Book of Middle Eastern Food" " The Food of Italy" " Mediterranean Cookery" & " The Food of Spain"." ...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern & to save her own life the vizier's daughter Shahrazad begins to tell the king stories of adventure love riches & wonder
- tales of mystical lands peopled with princes & hunchbacks the Angel of Death & magical spirits tales of the voyages of Sindbad of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves & of jinnis trapped in rings & in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1 001 nights.
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