Pol Pot was an idealistic reclusive figure with great charisma & personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process Cambodia desended into madness & his name became a byword for oppression. In the three-&-a-half years of his rule more than a million people a fifth of Cambodias population were executed or died from hunger & disease. A supposedly gentle carefree land of slumbering temples & smiling peasants became a concentration camp of the mind a slave state in which absolute obedience was enforced on the killing fields. Why did it happen? How did an idealistic dream of justice & prosperity mutate into one of humanitys worst nightmares? Philip Short the biographer of Mao has spent four years travelling the length of Cambodia interviewing surviving leaders of Pol Pots Khmer Rouge movement & sifting through previously closed archives. Here the former Khmer Rouge Head of State Pols brother-in-law & scores of lesser figures speak for the first time at length about their beliefs & motives. ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. The extensive coverage of the maps enables travellers to cross country boundaries with the same map. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. The maps also contain a comprehensive index & inset street plans of major cities: Szczecin Wroclaw Gdansk Lodz Krakow & Warszawa (Warsaw). This map features a scale of 1:800 000.
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Bill Martin's playful story combining animals colours & sounds beautifully illustrated by Eric Carle now appears in a chunky board-book format. A simple rhythmic text introduces the reader to a menagerie of wild animals from a roaring lion to a fluting flamingo & a trumpeting elephant. ...

A fresh & innovative route to business & personal success
- Polar Bear Pirates" contains a whole new universe of characters & terminology
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Huge powerful & fearless is Nanook the polar bear. Standing 10 feet tall on its hind legs & weighing more than 1 600 pounds the polar bear is renowned for its singular ferociousness. It survives on the starkly beautiful & unforgiving arctic tundra moving with the floating ice to raise its young & hunt for seals. With its tufted ears snowy white coat & coal-black eyes & nose the polar bear is arrestingly photogenic. In this collection of remarkable photographs we discover the polar bear as not only a formidable predator but also a loving parent & natural jester. World-renowned photographer Norbert Rosing has been a leader in raising awareness of this majestic creature & the increasing threats to its survival. In POLAR BEARS 2013 his engaging photographs & informative captions invite us into a world that few are privileged to see. ...

Late on Christmas Eve after the town has gone to sleep a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeers harness. It turns out to be a very special gift for only believers in Santa can hear it ring. ...

Paul Nicklens bold expeditions take him underwater to deliver close-up first-ever documentation of the lives of leopard seals whales walruses polar bears bearded seals & narwhals. & he travels over the ice to look at muskoxen grizzly bears caribou foxes wolves & much more. Scenes are bathed in polar light surreal & breathtakingly beautiful. National Geographic is providing unprecedented support to Nicklen both because of his remarkable photographic achievement & because of his contribution to studies on animal behavior & global climate change so consequential today. Nicklin is an emerging star. His inspiring & amazing work offers unprecedented insights into animal behavior & breaks new ground in photography. ...

In a twisting fast-moving adventure ex-Navy Seal Nolan Kilkenny finds himself on a dangerous mission where he must recover a priceless artifact of human existence. The key to all life has suddenly become worth killing for! Deep in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica a remote NASA research lab rests atop a two-mile thick glacier covering a vast underground water resevoir. But the true discovery isnt the lake buried in ice
- its what has been found within its boundaries. Something amazing. Something alive. & it may hold the answers to existence itself. When the lab is attacked & its scientists murdered Nolan Kilkenny realises that there is more than science at stake
- theres power money & what may be another step in evolution. Racing around the globe Kilkenny must stop the machinations of a diabolical adversary & recover a priceless artifact of human existence
- or die trying!


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From deserts to polar lands this series takes an in-depth look at different ecosystems around the world. Learn about how each ecosystem is formed the wildlife that lives there & how climate change & human interaction are affecting the planet. This title

Features: amazing fact panels; stunning photographs of different environments including animals & human inhabitants; & clear modern design.

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Polar Shift" is the sixth "NUMA Files" novel by the inimitable Clive Cussler. Giant freak waves send an unsinkable cargo ship to the bottom of the Atlantic & a herd of killer whales attack a party of kayakers in the Pacific
- random events or evidence of polar shift? For Kurt Austin of NUMA these two seemingly unconnected incidents are harbingers of a global phenomenon that will mark the end of civilization! A secret organization aiming to bring down the worlds elite powers have discovered the means to bring about polar shift
- a catastrophic event that will cause earthquakes lava eruptions tsunami electrical disruption & giant whirlpools. Austin knows that he & NUMA cannot fail this time. The end of the world is coming unless he & the team can track down the conspirators or reverse the effects of the Earths most destructive power: polar shift! Clive Cussler author of the best-selling " Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " Valhalla Rising" & co-author Paul Kemprecos pit their hero Kurt Austin against a destructive environmental force in " Polar Shift" the sixth novel of the action-packed "NUMA Files" series. Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea exotic locations cutting-edge science & page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the "NUMA" files series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " Fire Ice" " White Death" " Lost City" " The Navigator" " Medusa" " Devils Gate" & " The Storm"."

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