With over 31 500 terms & more than 5 000 stunning colour photographs this is both an encyclopedia & a dictionary. Packed full ...

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You cant hold all the wine information you need in your head but with this handy guide you can be sure it is available whenever you want it. Indispensable as ever Oz Clarkes now classic Pocket Wine Book is meticulously updated each year. This is the 21st edition & the book has more information more recommendations more facts passion & opinion than any other comparable guide to wine. Organised in an easy-to-use A-Z format the entries cover wines producers grapes & wine regions from all over the world. For optimum browsing the guide

Includes:: a handy country by country index as well as a full producer index to help you find over 4000 of the worlds top wine producers & their wines. Detailed vintage charts with information on which of the worlds top wines are ready for drinking in 2013 can be found on the inside front & back covers. New for this year is an extra 8-page colour section to add extra sparkle to the 2013 edition.

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This is a new edition of this annual bestseller of fascinating facts & figures about the world we live in. The 2013 edition of this perenial favourite has been completely updated revised an expanded with many new features. Full of facts & figures about the world today on subjects as diverse as geography population & demographics business finance & the economy transport tourism & the environment society culture & crime
- it is a mine of fascinating data that will both inform & entertain. Where else would you discover that: The G7 economies account for nearly 40 per cent of the world's GDP but only 11 per cent of it population; National income per head in Luxembourg is over $105 000; in Burundi it is $160; Three of the world's five most liveable cities are in Canada; four of the top ten are in Australia; Between them overseas Indians & Chinese send close to $100 billion home a year; Life expectancy in Japan is nearly 84; in Afghanistan it is under 46; More than 45 per cent of Qatari women are obese; & The US Virgin Islands have the world's highest marriage rate. It
Includes:: The United States has 150 million Facebook users; More than 4 billion cinema visits are made in India each year; Luxembourg the UAE & the United States have the biggest ecological footprin in the world; & Costa Rica comes top of the Happy Planet Index Zimbabwe bottom. It comes with rankings on more than 200 topics data on more than 180 countries detailed profiles of more than 65 of the world's major economies & special profiles on the Euro zone & the world. The Economist Pocket World in Figures" is always eagerly awaited by its many thousands of fans. No one who wants to be well-informed can afford to be without this new edition."

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Pocketbook of Neurological Physiotherapy" is designed for working with people with neurological problems in any clinical setting. It is written by a team of expert contributors offering an international perspective on core concepts irrespective of philosophical frameworks or health care systems. Rapid access to essential information is contained in one concise volume providing expert knowledge & advice at your fingertips. This pocketbook should be a valuable guide to evidence-based practice for student physiotherapists & their teachers as well as qualified clinicians." ...

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as an energetic generous & thought-provoking guide to reading poetry. Her 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem" with its lively overview of contemporary writing & eye-opening readings of individual poems is indispensable for anyone who writes poetry teaches it or simply wants to enjoy it. In her new book she uses sixty poems by some of our finest poets to look at the idea of the journey through literature & through life. As Padel makes clear in her fascinating introduction todays debates about how accessible a poem should be are poetrys older tradition. To rhyme or not to rhyme? The Elizabethans fought over that one while the Greeks couldnt agree about whether poetry should be dumbed down or remain the preserve of the elite. Combining her training as a Classicist with her insights as a poet Padel highlights the ways in which the best poets now find a balance between rhymed formal verse & modernisms freer styles using a traditional formal craft to convey genuinely felt up-to-the-minute experience. In an increasingly unstable world she argues we need poetry more than ever to help us to see afresh & understand the journeys of our lives." ...

This book features 366 poems one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative resonance & rhythm these are poems to learn by heart or treasure & enjoy. Poets included range from Yeats Shakespeare Housman & Kipling to contemporary poets such as Wendy Cope Carol Ann Duffy Maya Angelou & Thom Gunn. ...

A repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite whose popularity & sales just go on & on. Poem for the Day Two has one page for each day of the year. On each page is a poem with brief additional material about the poem or the poet giving added charm & interest
- sometimes biographical sometimes anecdotal sometimes explanatory sometimes historical. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year & one for leap years) to delight & inspire
- & learn by heart chosen for their magic & memorability. The poems are varied: old & contemporary well-known & new & with a completely different selection from the first volume.

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18th March 1993 is the centenary of Wilfred Owens birth. To mark the Event Chatto is reissuing the definitive single-volume edition of Owens famous war poems complied by Jon Stallworthy from his scholarly 2-volume edition. It has sold over 40 000 copies first under the Hogarth imprint & then under Chatto. ...

Of all the great classical love poets Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry & is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods from ecstasy to suicidal despair. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...