A novel of high adventure great storytelling & moral purpose based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. In the early 80s Gregory David Roberts an armed robber & heroin addict escaped from an Australian prison to India where he lived in a Bombay slum. There he established a free health clinic & also joined the mafia working as a money launderer forger & street soldier. He found time to learn Hindi & Marathi fall in love & spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. Then in case anyone thought he was slacking he acted in Bollywood & fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan.. . Amazingly Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. Its a profound tribute to his willpower.. . At once a high-kicking eye-gouging adventure a love saga & a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision. Time Out ...

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The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers & prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello one of the local movers & shakers apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes
- refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano as honest as he is streetwise & as scathing to fools & villains as he is compassionate to their victims is not ready to close the case
- even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief judge & bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption delicious meals vendetta firepower & carefully planted false clues Montalbano can be relied on whatever the cost to get to the heart of the matter.

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Shake up your wardrobe! Create 19 unique fashionforward garments with simple sewing techniques. Graphic designer turned fashion designer Natsuno Hiraiwa returns with patterns & instructions for 19 innovative womens garments & accessories in classic minimalist Japanese style. Many of her signature vests collars & shrugs are cut from a single flat piece of cloth then ingeniously draped & fastened around the body. Other pieces are artfully twisted & folded like origami giving a unique shape to the resulting blouses tops & skirts. All her designs create the striking silhouettes that epitomize her fashion collections & result in one-of-a-kind garments suitable for all ages. These pieces are uniquely constructed in a Japanese style but modified for the more Western figure with the pattern grading & sizing adjusted accordingly. Sewists will be fascinated by the novel minimalism of Shape Shape 2 ...

Garet James & Will Hughes find themselves back in 21st century Paris each with an unusual romantic quandary. The 400 year-old remorseful vampire that Garet still loves remains trapped in time in 1602 as is Marguerite the young Wills love who might reconsider her decision to reject him now that he has become an unvampire. Their time reversing prospects include guidance from the Institut Chronologique & from another time-traveller the astronomer Johannes Kepler who Will encounters on one of the bridges across the Seine. It is by no means an easy task. & complicating things further is the fact that they appear to have brought with them a monster from the past: the shape-shifting blood-drinking Marduk. They set out to find Marduk but its not easy to find a creature who can change shape at will. When they realize that Marduk has not only stolen Will Hughes face but also his identity they fear that he has teamed up with their old nemeses John Dee & Cosimo Ruggieri to gain control of
- & destroy
- the worlds financial markets. & when they learn that Marduk is on his way to New York Garet fears that her family & friends will be his next target. Will & Garet leave Paris for New York where they also hope to resolve their own romantic dilemmas. Which Will does Garet really love? The innocent young man
- or the man wracked with remorse for his history of violence & bloodshed? & does Will still love Marguerite? Or has he fallen in love with her time-travelling descendant?


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A gentle introduction to shapes colours & patterns for age 3-5 children. * Introduces the colours red blue yelow & green. * Introduces the shapes square triangle rectangle & other shapes * Introduces patterns & the language same & different ...

Snap is every childs much-loved first card game & these large colourful & high quality cards will delight very young children. Match as many colours & shapes as you can to win the game. The cards are durable & robust to survive repeated use. Snap is an easy & fun game which is a great way for young children to develop important sorting matching & reading skills. ...

In this wholly new & dynamic view of London Farrell looks beyond the contribution of individual buildings to the city. He creates a larger more exciting frame charting how the capitals messy & complex shape has been hewn out of a series of layers
- natural & manmade so the Thames & the natural landscape gets as much attention as the railway infrastructure the roads & the canals. This provides a whole series of revelations that allow us to see the city afresh: How might the natural bends in the river have impacted where & what was built? How have the Thames tributaries affected historic boundaries & development played out in the estates of Mayfair? How is the Roman plan for the city of London still discernible in todays street patterns? Illustrated with original sketches maps archive photographs & paintings this book provides a vibrant & intriguing collage of Londons patterns & its history. Covers: * The Thames at West London Central London Docklands & the Estuary * Tributaries * Canals * Railways * The London Underground * The natural landscape
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This substantially revised & important second edition responds to a changing agenda in government policy & planning practice putting issues of climate change & obesity at the centre of its concern. This guide ensures you: understand the underlying principles for planning healthy & sustainable neighbourhoods & towns plan the collaborative & inclusive processes needed for multi-sectoral cooperation develop know-how & skills in matching local need with urban form discover new ways to integrate development with natural systems design places with character & recognise good urban form guide communities & advise developers in the creation of successful & sustainable places for living. Containing many new case studies & a wealth of new research this indispensable guide bridges the gulf between theory & practice between planning authorities investors & communities & between different professional perspectives. Whether you are a student faced with a local planning project; a planner urban designer or developer involved in new development; a health authority concerned with promoting physical activity; or a community group wanting to improve your neighbourhood; this book is for you. ...

The fourth volume that contains the early myths & legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth the shaping of the chronological & geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth & Valinor is spread before us. We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or Shape of the World" the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe ccompanied by maps & diagrams of the world before & after the cataclyusms of The War of the Gods & the Downfall of Numenor. The first map of Beleriend is also reproduced & discussed. In The Annals of Valinor & The Annals of Beleriend we are shown how the chronology of the First Age was moulded: & the tale is told of Aelfwine the Englishman who voyaged into the True West & came to Tol Eressea Lonely Isle where he learned the ancient history of Elves & Men. Also included are the original Silmarillion of 1926 & the Quenta Noldorinwa of 1930 -- the only version of the myths & legends of the First Age that J R R Tolkien completed to their end." ...