Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team husband & wife Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl Wu Dunn take us on a journey through Africa & Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years precisely because they are girls than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first Kristof & Wu Dunn demonstrate it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce moral pragmatic full of amazing stories of courage & inspiration HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen. ...

The autobiography of international rugby referee Nigel Owens. Nigel is the first openly gay rugby personality. He came out in 2007 & has since won Sports Personality of the year by Stonewall was the only Welsh referee at the 2007 Rugby World Cup & is respected as one of the best refs in the world. His autobiography tells of his tormented life as a teenager in a Welsh village & his attempted suicide in his 20s. Nigel also became a heavy user of steroids & suffered with bulimia. But this is a story of triumph as he overcame everything & became o highly respected referee & is now a favorite personality in the rugby world rugby. Hes also a Welsh language t.v. personality & comedian ...

The definitive record of the Lightweight Land Rover. Many previously unpublished facts & figures.

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The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods & mortals & the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi & mortals
- well not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt & kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all but especially rule number 1: Relationships between pures & halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately she is crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden is not her biggest problem
- staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant & become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon & being hunted by Aiden. & that would kind of suck.

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England 1937. In the village of Blacknowle on the Dorset coast fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild & lonely upbringing. Shunned by her neighbours the arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey along with his exotic mistress & their daughters is like a breath of fresh air. As Charless muse Mitzy develops a deep & abiding bond with the Aubrey household over the course of the following three summers. Gradually Mitzy begins to perceive a future she had never thought possible & a powerful love is kindled in her. A love that will grow as she does: from innocence to obsession; from childish infatuation to something far more complex. It will be almost seventy-five years before the consequences of this potent desire are fully played out as a young man in an art gallery looks at a hastily-drawn portrait & wonders at the intensity of it. The questions he asks will lead him back to Blacknowle & draw him to the truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s. Moving from the wilds of the Dorset coast to the intoxicating heat of a Moroccan summer A Half Forgotten Song explores the quixotic nature of memory
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On the eve of Granny Hazels burial in the back garden a stranger in his time machine
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Second volume of the highly detailed illustrated history of the American Half-Track M2 This second volume opens with a description of the Half-Tracks incarnation as a weapons carrier with all variants & versions presented on 75 pages of drawings along with a collection of photographs. The next chapter discusses further development of the vehicles versions which were not mass produced illustrated with photographs & fabric drafts. Also included is a description of the usage of the Half-Track during World War II when it was utilised by the US Army & the USMC mainly for supplies of l&-lease. Polish Armed Forces also used these vehicles both in the West & in the East even after the war had ended. This monograph contains a chapter about camouflage & the different markings of the Half-Traks versions in 12 superb colour plates. For modellers there is a list of models & accessories & the book comes complete with 34 pages of 3D colour graphics colour photographs of museum exhibits & current riding restored vehicles. This book is bilingual with Polish & English text & captions. About Gun Power This series focuses on the armour armoured vehicles & artillery. Every book contains a chapter about the designs history drawings in modelling scales colour plates presenting camouflaging schemes & a modelling chapter. The part covering the designs development history is illustrated by a large number of photographs. The plans show different variants all non-standard versions & modifications of the vehicles or guns in several views & depict the details in the highest possible quality. Specifically for the modellers the included colour profiles are printed in the same scale. A separate comprehensive modelling chapter goes through the models & accessories sets available. ...

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future from the bestselling author of the Logan Mc Rae series. There are worse things than the death penalty! They call them halfheads: convicted criminals surgically mutilated & lobotomized by the State then sent out to do menial jobs in the community so everyone will know what happens when you break the law. There are no appeals no reprieves & no one ever comes back. Until now. Dr Fiona Westfield one of the most prolific serial killers Glasgow has ever seen is waking up. Surrounded by blood & death & darkness. William Hunter has risen through the ranks since putting Westfield away; now hes Assistant Network Director in charge of police actions. But a routine murder investigation is about to embroil him in an appalling conspiracy. The vast connurb blocks on Glasgows deprived south side are ready to explode. Eleven years ago the VR riots killed millions -- now someone wants to start them all over again. & Will is being dragged back into a past he desperately wants to forget! ...

Jessie Price is young & beautiful & has travelled the drovers roads from South Wales to Londons Smithfield Market. She is anxious to escape from her wicked boss Jed Lambert & becomes a milkmaid in London. Her ambition to own her own dairy grows & she is helped by young Albie who has fallen in love with her. Meanwhile Non Jones is desperately unhappy. She knows that her husband Caradoc loves her despite the hostility of his family. Non is miserable when Caradoc leaves her & their son to go to London on the drove & when she receives news of a terrible accident her world falls apart. Jessie is fighting to make her business a success but is devastated when Albie is arrested & sent to Newgate prison. She knows that he is innocent & will rely on Non to speak for him in court. But Non has many worries of her own & hasnt given up hope that she will be reunited with Caradoc whatever it takes... ...

After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing & acting in films & television then took over much of Michael's life culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor) & the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He co-produced wrote & played the lead in THE MISSIONARY opposite Maggie Smith who also appeared with him in A PRIVATE FUNCTION written by Alan Bennett. Such was his fame in the US he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live in one edition of which his mother makes a highly successful surprise guest appearance. He filmed several journeys for television & became chairman of the pressure group Transport 2000. His family remains a constant as his & Helen's children enter their teens. ...