This story is a rare & utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history & opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism & enchantment exploitation & degradation. A young peasant girl is sold as servant & apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection & the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens where young girls learn the arts of geisha
- dancing & singing how to wind the kimono how to walk & pour tea & how to beguile the land's most powerful men.
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Michael Mansfield QC is Britains most high-profile defence lawyer whose unparalleled commitment to his clients & radical approach to forensics evidence & disclosure have made him a scourge of the establishment & a champion of the individual in many miscarriages of justice cases. Passionate about unveiling corruption & unafraid to challenge received wisdom he has taken on many of the most controversial cases of our times including the Bloody Sunday Inquiry Angela Cannings Jill Dando & Barry George Dodi Fayed & Princess Diana Stephen Lawrence Arthur Scargill & the miners & most recently the tragic death of Jean Charles de Menezes. Dissecting these cases with incisive intelligence subtlety & humour & interspersing revealing personal reminiscences he offers a fascinating insight into the idiosyncrasies of the English legal system & how it has changed from the late 1960s to the present. ...

When Naomi tries to piece back the fragments of the last three & a half years of her life she discovers a lot. She has a boyfriend but cant remember him her mother & father are divorced & she has forgotten that she is supposed to hate her mother. She also has a group of friends which simply doesnt seem that attractive any more & despite having meticulously kept a diary she only mentioned what she ate every day in it! But its not all bad because when a girl loses three & a half years she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all who is to say that everything has to be the same? ...

Why are we desperate for what we dont have or cant have often at great cost to what we do have? Why do we risk our peace & contentment even our lives? Why are we so moved by our addictions either succumbing to them or spending our energy fighting them? In Memoirs of an addicted Brain" Marc Lewis illuminates how the fundamental workings of the brain are at the root of the problem. Lewis relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where bullied & homesick he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine & alcohol. From there he moved to Berkeley California in its hippie heyday where he developed an infatuation with LSD & ultimately an addiction to heroin. In Asia he stole pharmaceutical morphine from a hospital joined American medics sniffing nitrous oxide in the Malay jungle & found a second home in the opium dens of Calcutta. As a student & then as a clinician in a mental hospital he resorted to stealing drugs from labs & doctors offices; finally arrested & convicted of an attempted robbery of a drugstore pharmacy came the tortuous road to recovery. At the age of thirty he traded in his pharmaceutical supplies for the life of a graduate student eventually becoming a professor of developmental psychology & then of neuroscience
- his field for the last 12 years. Now he studies the brains of children who get into trouble using the electric signals from their scalps to explore whats going on underneath. But he never forgets that he was once one of those kids
- & no matter how many scientific conferences he attends always will be. In this unique personal narrative told with courage candor & wit Lewis shows in detail the different neurological effects of a variety of powerful drugs from alcohol & marijuana to methamphetimine LSD oxycodone & heroin & shows how they speak to the brain
- itself designed to seek rewards & soothe pain
- it its own language. & he illuminates the science of craving
- an intensely focused need that overtakes the nervous system again & again sculpting a synaptic network dedicated to the pursuit of a singular goal
- at the expense of everything else."





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Goodreads finalist 2012 as voted by over 1 million readers My name is BUDO. I have been alive for 5 years. 5 years is a very long time for someone like me to be alive. MAX gave me my name. Max is 8 years old. He is the only human person who can see me. I know what Max knows & some things he doesnt. I know that Max is in danger. & I know that I am the only one who can save him. ...

In her magnificent novel Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life & death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian aware his demise is imminent writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past describing his accession military triumphs love of poetry & music & the philosophy that informed his powerful & far-flung rule. A work of superbly detailed research & sustained empathy Memoirs of Hadrian" captures the living spirit of the Emperor & of Ancient Rome." ...

The story of the last world war as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War & follows both his successes & failures through the Second World War with great detail on the way the U-boat campaign was waged as told by the man who invented U-boat tactics. Doenitz

Includes:: details of the U-boat campaigns during the Second World War as well as the opinions ideas & commentary on the period. Of particular interest are the comments regarding British & American conduct during the war. An important social document & an invaluable source for any student of the last war. He became the last Fuhrer of Germany after Hitlers suicide in May 1945 & the books subtitle Ten Years & Twenty Days is a direct reference to the time Karl Doenitz spent in Spandau Prison having been convicted of war crimes following trial at Nuremberg.

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Sherlock Holmes fame has also brought him notoriety & there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins.. . While Holmes & Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most famous cases
- Silver Blaze" " The Greek Interpreter" & " The Musgrave Ritual" among them
- the forces of international crime plot their revenge against the detective. & it is in " The Final Problem" that Dr Watson has the sad task of telling the grisly fatal & shocking tale that saw Holmes finally meet his match
- in the guise of the diabolical Professor Moriarty & a terrible struggle at the Reichenbach Falls..."


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This second edition updates references to relevant regulations standards & publications. It replaces references to the Institution of Electrical Engineers' IEE Regulations with BS7671. This book is relevant to all work activities & premises except mines & quarries certain offshore installations & certain ships. The guidance is intended to assist duty holders in meeting the requirements of the Regulations. It will be of interest & practical help primarily to engineers (including those involved in the design construction operation or maintenance of electrical systems & equipment) technicians & their managers. ...

'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life & with these my autobiography deals
- Carl Gustav Jung. In 1957 four years before his death Carl Gustav Jung began writing his life story. But what began as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking. The result is an absorbing piece of self-analysis: a frank statement of faith philosophy & principles from one of the great explorers of the human mind. Covering everything from Sigmund Freud analytical psychology & Jungian dream interpretation to a forthright discussion of Christianity & the existence of God these final reflections on an extraordinary life are a fitting coda to the work of Carl Gustav Jung.
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