Since her days in the orphanage Latha has been a companion & servant to Thara a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her trip to the hill country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose Latha has known she was destined for a better life. For now she must watch silently as Thara receives all the luxuries Latha is denied consoled only by the rose-scented soap stolen from the bathroom of her masters house. Years & miles away Biso a desperate young mother flees from her murderous husband taking her children with her to the remote hills. As Biso & Latha journey towards their separate fates struggling to hold on to their independence each will betray the people they love changing the course of their lives for ever. A Disobedient Girl" is an epic heartbreaking novel about the linked destinies of two women set against the backdrop of beautiful politically turbulent Sri Lanka." ...

' The best book I have ever read on men & war in our time.' John Le Carre ' Having read Dispatches it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism heroism & the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear war & death' William S. Burroughs ' Splendid.. .he brings alive the terror of combat in a way that rivals All Quiet on the Western Front' Tom Wolfe ' In the great line of Crane Orwell & Hemingway.. .he seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician & the eye of a painter Frank Zappa & Francis Bacon' Washington Post ' We have all spent ten years trying to explain what happened to our heads & our lives in the decade we finally survived -- but Michael Herr's Dispatches puts all the rest of us in the shade' Hunter S. Thompson ' If it were only unconventional journalism it would stand with the best there is -- but it's a good deal more than that.. .I believe it may be the best personal journal about war about any war that any writer has ever accomplished' Robert Stone ...

Over the course of the last ten years Frank Skinner has toured sell-out st&-up shows hosted countless TV shows & an award-winning radio programme written two well-received volumes of memoir as well as recording a couple of pop songs & learning to play the ukulele. He has been a busy man. Yet for the last two years he has also managed to squeeze in a weekly column for The Times". Without fail he sat down every week & wracked his brain to think of something to write 900 words about. " Dispatches From the Sofa" is the brilliant result. Alighting on such random topics as the potential demise of Margaret Thatcher the love-hate relationship with your football club Mike Reads musical of Oscar Wilde fat pop stars Serbian breakfast banter the pleasures of air-guitar the banking crisis & the evil phenomenon of Jedward this is a thought-provoking wide-reaching hilarious & self-deprecating collection
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Includes:: the first two chapters from his unpublished novel
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1325: England is a hotbed of paranoia under the reign of the increasingly unpredictable Edward II & his lover Sir Hugh le Despenser. When the Queens lady-in-waiting is slaughtered & a mans body hideously mutilated is discovered behind the throne the King demands to be avenged. Sir Baldwin de Furnshill an experienced investigator of murders is appointed to track down the killer aided by his friend Simon Puttock. In an age of corruption when the kings friends can use torture blackmail & murder to promote their ends a rural knight & bailiff must fight to stay alive. ...

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid & major environmental change the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to understanding how populations may persist. Dispersal Ecology & Evolution provides a timely & wide-ranging overview of the fast expanding field of dispersal ecology incorporating the very latest research. The causes mechanisms & consequences of dispersal at the individual population species & community levels are considered. Perspectives & insights are offered from the fields of evolution behavioural ecology conservation biology & genetics. Throughout the book theoretical approaches are combined with empirical data & care has been taken to include examples from as wide a range of species as possible
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This wide-ranging study considers the primary forms of decision-making
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Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century. A superb orator writer & wit he twice rose ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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User-friendly easy to dip into guide for all Built Environment students Takes the reader from the stage of choosing a topic to writing a well-structured dissertation Best case practice illustrated with numerous examples case studies & references. Dissertation Research & Writing for Construction Students covers topic selection research planning data collection & methodology as well as structuring & writing the dissertation
- in fact everything needed for a successful write-up. A new section advising students on the use of the SPSS software ' Statistical Package for Social Sciences' will help readers make the best use of this tool. New examples & references ensure that this new edition of the bestselling construction dissertation guide is right up to speed with current practice. This is the ideal resource for students involved in research in Construction Management Building & Quantity Surveying.
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Addictive risque glamourous fiction series for sophisticated teens. Alice & Tally the most gorgeous glamorous girls at St Cecilia's are best friends. But since Alice shared a fabulously romantic tryst with Tally's ex during a New Year's skiing trip it seems only a matter of time before things get ugly. But Tally seems too distracted to notice Alice's guilty behaviour. Where did she disappear to over the Christmas break? Where has she got hold of the cash she's flaunting around? & where has she got the beautiful new necklace with its mysterious coat of arms? Alice hopes it doesn't have anything to do with the scary sounding Russian connections Tally's boasted of. The new term will bring gossip glamour & scandal than ever before... ...