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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When Todd Belknapss best friend goes missing it seems that a mysterious figure known only as Genesis is responsible. Meanwhile hedge fund analyst Andrea Newton gets an unexpected call. She has been left a fortune by a cousin shes never met
- on the condition that she joins the board of the charitable Bancroft Foundation. Yet the foundation appears less & less benign the more deeply involved she becomes. As events escalate & Genesis appears to be working to destabalise governments Todd & Andrea must form an uneasy alliance if they are to uncover the truth
- before its too late...

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In this the long awaited conclusion of Alexander Kent's midshipman trilogy the new year of 1774 seems to offer Richard Bolitho & his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been recommended for promotion although they have not yet gained the coveted lieutenant's commission. But a routine passage from Plymouth to Guernsey in an untried schooner becomes for Bolitho a passage from midshipman to King's officer tempering the promise of the future with the bitter price of maturity. ...

They fought on Utah Beach in Arnhem Bastogne the Bulge; they spearheaded the Rhine offensive & took possession of Hitlers Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden. Easy Company 506th Airborne Division U.S. Army was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day & victory Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company which kept getting the tough assignments. Easy Company was responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitlers Eagles Nest at Berchtesgaden. BAND OF BROTHERS is the account of the men of this remarkable unit who fought went hungry froze & died a company that took 150 percent casualties & considered the violet Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers journals & letters Stephen Ambrose tells the stories often in the mens own words of these American heroes. ...

Continuing the brilliant World War Two fighter pilot series
- this time the theatre of war is the incredible story of the Siege
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Damien Brown thinks he's ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. But the town he's sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts surrounded by landmines; the hospital for which he's to be the only doctor is filled with malnourished children & conditions he's never seen; & the health workers
- Angolan war veterans twice his age who speak no English
- walk out on him following an altercation on his first shift. In the months that follow Damien confronts these challenges all the while dealing with the social absurdities of living with only three other volunteers for company. The medical calamities pile up
- leopard attacks landmine explosions performing surgery using tools cleaned on the fire
- but as Damien's friendships with the local people evolve his passion for the work grows. Written with great warmth & empathy B&-Aid for a Broken Leg is a compassionate deeply honest & often humorous account of life on the medical frontline in Angola Mozambique & South Sudan. It is also a moving testimony to the work done by medical humanitarian groups & the remarkable often eccentric people who work for them.



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By the blessing of the Omnissiah was the Mars Triumphant born
- from the forges of the Adeptus Mechanicus the mighty Baneblade
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