Isabel lives in Portland Oregon & works in a library repairing damaged books. She longs to visit the destinations revealed in their pages. Her daydreams are peopled by memories from her Alaskan childhood the glaciers that are being lost. Meanwhile she's just the tiniest bit lonely & lovelorn. The object of her affection a soldier recently returned from Afghanistan who also works in the basement of the library seems equally quiet & so perhaps it's no surprise that their contact has been limited to only snatched moments. But today is the day that will all change. Isabel is determined to finally open up to him to find the perfect vintage dress for this evening's party & to invite him along. But of course life rarely happens as we plan it. ...

Glaciers & Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating & accessible it has established a reputation as a comprehensive & essential resource. In this new edition the text references & illustrations have been thoroughly updated to give todays reader an up-to-the minute overview of the nature origin & behaviour of glaciers & the geological & geomorphological evidence for their past history on earth. The first part of the book investigates the processes involved in forming glacier ice the nature of glacier-climate relationships the mechanisms of glacier flow & the interactions of glaciers with other natural systems such as rivers lakes & oceans. In the second part the emphasis moves to landforms & sediment the interpretation of the earths glacial legacy & the reconstruction of glacial depositional environments & palaeoglaciology. ...

Protest Christmas Cards highlighting political industrial & social turmoil have been produced since the mid nineteenth century. This book contains images from the collection of Llew & Pam Smith. They researched & collected such cards over a 40 year time-span. Llew Smith who was formerly MP for Blaenau Gwent together with his late wife Pam has written an accompanying history of the struggles represented in the cards. The issues cover a 160 year time period
- from the early days of the industrial revolution to the current coalition government & the Occupy movement. The Christmas card with the themes of peace goodwill justice & hope were seen as an appropriate medium for individuals & groups to project similar aspirations. The cards portray the words & deeds of the brave who in the face of injustice refused to remain silent & accept that nothing could be done. As Martha Gelhorn wrote: An old & unending worldwide company the men & women of conscience. Some are as famous as Tom Paine.. .some are unknown... There have always been such people & always will be. If they win it is slowly; but they never entirely lose. To my mind they are the blessed proof of the dignity of man.
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The ninth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman series. While centurions Macro & Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it to the port of Matala in Crete where they are stunned to find a devastated town. An earthquake has struck the island destroying its cities & killing thousands. In the chaotic aftermath large bands of the island's slaves begin to revolt & local bandits taking advantage of the slave rebellion urge the Cretans to overthrow the Roman administration. With many of the island's troops either killed or wounded during the earthquake the governor of the province calls on Macro & Cato for help. Can they move swiftly enough to counter the rebellion before it sweeps the Romans from the island? ...

Gordianus the Finder famed detective of Ancient Rome returns in a riveting of stories. Nine tales of murder & intrigue take him from the seamy streets of Rome to elegant villas on the Bay of Naples from the spectacular backdrop of a chariot race to a domestic dispute with his Egyptian concubine Bethesda. In the title story a beautiful Nubian actress begs Gordianus to solve an impossible problem: how can she have just seen her beloved brother in the market place when she had previously watched him die a gruesome death as a gladiator? ...

It is settled. The boy is in your charge. You will train him to fight. He must be able to use the dagger throwing-knife staves & his bare hands. One day young Marcus may well become a gladiator in the arena. But you must also teach him the ways of the street. Now a member of Julius Caesars palace Marcus training continues in the city of Rome. The streets are plagued by vicious gang war attacks & Caesar must employ his own gang leader who learns of a plot to murder him. Only Marcus can go in undercover. But hes in terrible danger. If the rival gang discover him the price will be fatal. Julius Caesars isnt the only life at risk... ...

It is settled. The boy is in your charge. You will train him to fight. He must be able to use the dagger throwing-knife staves & his bare hands. One day young Marcus may well become a gladiator in the arena. But you must also teach him the ways of the street. Now a member of Julius Caesars palace Marcus training continues in the city of Rome. The streets are plagued by vicious gang war attacks & Caesar must employ his own gang leader who learns of a plot to murder him. Only Marcus can go in undercover. But hes in terrible danger. If the rival gang discover him the price will be fatal. Julius Caesars isnt the only life at risk... ...

March AD 80. In Rome the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open his new amphitheatre (now known as the Colosseum). Flavia Nubia & Lupus take this opportunity to go to Rome & search for their missing friend Jonathan. Their search leads the young detectives straight to the games where they must face wild beasts & gladiators to accomplish their mission. ...

In this non-fiction corollary to Larsson s Millennium Trilogy" wet works & false flags keep Europe a colony of the US. Leaders are murdered movements are subverted. Under the surface the empire rules by death squads as it always has south of the border. The attack on Libya laid bare the iron fist within the velvet glove of slogans such as "humanitarian intervention." Like the destruction of Yugoslavia & the rape of Afghanistan the reduction of Libya to a virtual slave colony was performed under the banner of NATO. & what exactly is NATO? Richard Cottrell tells the story of mayhem & murder behind the "alliance for peace " & predicts an emerging military colossus fighting to seize control of strategic resources such as oil gas minerals & water anywhere on the planet. Masquerading as a rear guard against Soviet invaders NATOs covert forces warped into psychological & physical terrorism. These were the years of lead in which hundreds perished in a synthetic war in the streets of Europe. NATO commander General Lyman Lemnitzer ordered serial attacks on French president Charles de Gaulle. Sacked from the Pentagon by John F Kennedy for rank insubordination then exiled to Europe Lemnitzer reaped revenge in Dallas. The secret armies forged bonds with organised crime & neo-fascists. NATO-backed coups struck down governments in Greece & Turkey; the island state of Cyprus was sundered amid bitter genocide. Urban guerrillas like the Red Brigades & the Baader-Meinhof Gang were cunningly manipulated. Italy gained a deep-state government the ultra-secret P2 pseudo-Masonic lodge founded by former Blackshirts. Swedish premier Olof Palme & Italian ex-PM Aldo Moro were assassinated. Pope John Paul II was shot by Turkish gangsters who had regular work as Gladio guns for hire. In 2009 a Gladio copy-cat outfit codenamed Ergenekon came to light in Turkey. The shootings in Norway in July 2011 & in Belgium France & Italy in 2012 all bore the classic stripe of Gladio false-flag operations." ...

The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward a model with perfect abs & all the right friends is seen & photographed everywhere even in places he hasnt been & with people he doesnt know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history hes living with one beautiful model & having an affair with another. Now its time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. A master stylist with hideously interesting new-fangled manners & the heart of an old-fashioned moralist Observer Gets under the skin of our celebrity culture in a way that is both illuminating & frightening Daily Telegraph Does for the cold minimal 90s what American Psycho did for the Wall Street greed of the 80s. You name it he manages to get it all in Vogue Brilliant.. . He is fast becoming a writer of real American genius GQ ...