This is a new edition of this annual bestseller of fascinating facts & figures about the world we live in. The 2013 edition of this perenial favourite has been completely updated revised an expanded with many new features. Full of facts & figures about the world today on subjects as diverse as geography population & demographics business finance & the economy transport tourism & the environment society culture & crime
- it is a mine of fascinating data that will both inform & entertain. Where else would you discover that: The G7 economies account for nearly 40 per cent of the world's GDP but only 11 per cent of it population; National income per head in Luxembourg is over $105 000; in Burundi it is $160; Three of the world's five most liveable cities are in Canada; four of the top ten are in Australia; Between them overseas Indians & Chinese send close to $100 billion home a year; Life expectancy in Japan is nearly 84; in Afghanistan it is under 46; More than 45 per cent of Qatari women are obese; & The US Virgin Islands have the world's highest marriage rate. It
Includes:: The United States has 150 million Facebook users; More than 4 billion cinema visits are made in India each year; Luxembourg the UAE & the United States have the biggest ecological footprin in the world; & Costa Rica comes top of the Happy Planet Index Zimbabwe bottom. It comes with rankings on more than 200 topics data on more than 180 countries detailed profiles of more than 65 of the world's major economies & special profiles on the Euro zone & the world. The Economist Pocket World in Figures" is always eagerly awaited by its many thousands of fans. No one who wants to be well-informed can afford to be without this new edition."

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Pocketbook of Neurological Physiotherapy" is designed for working with people with neurological problems in any clinical setting. It is written by a team of expert contributors offering an international perspective on core concepts irrespective of philosophical frameworks or health care systems. Rapid access to essential information is contained in one concise volume providing expert knowledge & advice at your fingertips. This pocketbook should be a valuable guide to evidence-based practice for student physiotherapists & their teachers as well as qualified clinicians." ...

This title presents the story of the poor boy who made his fortune.. .not just once but twice. Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough & from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go door to door begging rags from the rich which he sold down the markets. Leaving school at the age of fourteen he embarked on an extraordinary journey & found himself before the age of thirty a millionaire. Then after a cruel twist of fate left him penniless he his wife & children were forced out of their beautiful home. With nothing but holes in his pockets Jeff had no alternative but to go back down the markets & start all over again. Did he still have what it took? Could he really get back everything he had lost? A Pocketful of Holes & Dreams" is the heartwarming true story of a little boy who had nothing but gained everything & proof that sometimes rags can be turned into riches..." ...

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as an energetic generous & thought-provoking guide to reading poetry. Her 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem" with its lively overview of contemporary writing & eye-opening readings of individual poems is indispensable for anyone who writes poetry teaches it or simply wants to enjoy it. In her new book she uses sixty poems by some of our finest poets to look at the idea of the journey through literature & through life. As Padel makes clear in her fascinating introduction todays debates about how accessible a poem should be are poetrys older tradition. To rhyme or not to rhyme? The Elizabethans fought over that one while the Greeks couldnt agree about whether poetry should be dumbed down or remain the preserve of the elite. Combining her training as a Classicist with her insights as a poet Padel highlights the ways in which the best poets now find a balance between rhymed formal verse & modernisms freer styles using a traditional formal craft to convey genuinely felt up-to-the-minute experience. In an increasingly unstable world she argues we need poetry more than ever to help us to see afresh & understand the journeys of our lives." ...

This book features 366 poems one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative resonance & rhythm these are poems to learn by heart or treasure & enjoy. Poets included range from Yeats Shakespeare Housman & Kipling to contemporary poets such as Wendy Cope Carol Ann Duffy Maya Angelou & Thom Gunn. ...

18th March 1993 is the centenary of Wilfred Owens birth. To mark the Event Chatto is reissuing the definitive single-volume edition of Owens famous war poems complied by Jon Stallworthy from his scholarly 2-volume edition. It has sold over 40 000 copies first under the Hogarth imprint & then under Chatto. ...

Of all the great classical love poets Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry & is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods from ecstasy to suicidal despair. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Dazzling in its prosodic innovations such as the sprung rhythm he pioneered & wide-ranging in its complexity & metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics" edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins " Poems & Prose" is selected & edited with an introduction by W.H. Gardner. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his creative violence & insistence on the sound of poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid conventional Victorian. On entering the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four he burnt all his poetry & resolved to write no more as not belonging to my profession unless by the wishes of my superiors. The poems letters & journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life & published posthumously in 1918. His verse is wrought from the creative tensions & paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously & to communicate this revelation in natural language & speech-rhythms while using condensed innovative diction & all the skills of poetic artifice. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was born in Essex the eldest son of a prosperous middle-class family. He was educated at Highgate School & Balliol College Oxford where he read Classics & began his lifelong friendship with Robert Bridges. In 1866 he entered the Roman Catholic Church & two years later he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1877 he was ordained & was priest in a number of parishes including a slum district in Liverpool. From 1882 to 1884 he taught at Stonyhurst College & in 1884 he became Classics Professor at University College Dublin. In his lifetime Hopkins was hardly known as a poet except to one or two friends; his poems were not published until 1918 in a volume edited by Robert Bridges. If you enjoyed Hopkins " Poems & Prose" you might like John Clares " Selected Poems" also available in " Penguin Classics"." ...

As more & more secular funerals are taking place there is a need for appropriate texts. The Poet Laureate spoke recently of the importance of epitaphs for people: poems or songs which commemorate their lives. Actress Julia Watson married to the poet David Harsent was confronted with the issue when her father died & the result is this inspiring collection of 70 poems & prose extracts suitable for reading at funerals & celebrations of a life. The selections range from Shakespeare to Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation from Christina Rossetti to St Francis of Assissi & included are some very short pieces which could be printed on an order of service. ...

Shakespeares sonnets have an intensity of both feeling & meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love & the second chronicles his love for the notorious Dark Lady. In addition to the sonnets this volume

Includes:: Shakespeares two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes The Rape of Lucrece which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth & Venus & Adonis which mixes ribaldry & tragedy in unique Shakespearean manner. The Phoenix & the Turtle is a beautiful metaphysical & allegorical short elegy & takes its place with Shakespeares better-known poetry.

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