When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale shes feeling like something on the bottom of someones shoe & not even someone interesting. Suzanne is in the harrowing & hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation trying to understand what happened to her life & how she managed to land in a drug hospital. Just as Fishers first film role-the precocious teenager in Shampoo-echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. More of a fiction montage than a novel in the conventional sense this stunning literary debut chronicles Suzannes vivid excruciatingly funny experiences
- from the clinic to her coming to terms with life in the outside world. Conversations with her psychiatrist What worries me is what if this guy is really the one for me & I havent had enough therapy to be comfortable with having found him?; a high-concept eighties-style affair The only way to become intimate for me is repeated exposure. My route to intimacy is routine. I establish a pattern with somebody & then I notice when theyre not there? Sparked by Suzannes & Carrie Fishers deliciously wry sense of the absurd Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom & drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers
- & delights
- of all our addictions from money & success to sex & insecurity.


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The New Yorker" was launched in 1925 & offers reporting criticism essays fiction poetry humour & cartoons. From the very outset the founders Harold Ross & Jane Grant declared that their sophisticated magazine was not edited for the old lady in Dubuque. " The New Yorker" has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Cheever Roald Dahl Alice Munro Haruki Murakami Vladimir Nabokov J.D. Salinger & Shirley Jackson. From the very first issue the now iconic monocled dandy Eustace Tilley made " The New Yorkers" covers unique & pointed. These signature traits have continued right up to the present day in the striking & sometimes controversial covers from such artists as Peter Arno William Steig Saul Steinberg Jean-Jacques Sempe & Art Spiegelman. These covers were selected by Francoise Mouly." ...

It is a collection of 100 postcards each featuring a striking Vogue" cover. From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography this is a stunning selection of " Vogues" most dazzling images. Since its launch in 1892 " Vogue" has brought sophistication to its readers around the world. Early illustrations from artists including George Wolfe Plank Olive Tilton Pierre Brissaud & Eduardo Garcia Benito saw ethereal figures of fantasy develop into red-lipped flappers & as colour photographs began to appear the women transformed again: from Surrealist images by Horst P. Horst to women in the life of the moment captured by Irving Penn. From the fifties onwards " Vogue" women became more accessible still as models & stars like Elizabeth Taylor Goldie Hawn Cindy Crawford & Cher with their own distinct personalities appeared through the lenses of Richard Avedon & Snowdon. " Vogue" covers now are the epitome of style & beauty with such illustrious photographers as Mario Testino Annie Leibovitz Steven Klein & Patrick Demarchelier photographing stars like Lady Gaga Kirsten Dunst & Kate Moss celebrating female icons across modern culture." ...

An essential business tool this atlas clearly shows the postcode boundaries (down to district level) for the whole country on detailed colour mapping. In central London postcodes are shown to sector level. Scale of main maps: 1:263 000 (4.15 miles to 1 inch). MAIN FEATURES This invaluable atlas shows postcode areas & districts for the whole of the UK & has been updated with all the latest boundary changes.

Includes:: * Postcode areas (e.g. SW) & postcode districts (e.g. SW8) for the whole of the UK. * Postcode sectors (e.g. SW8 4) for Central London. * Busy conurbation areas at an enlarged scale of 1.6 miles to 1 inch. * Information on the structure & uses of postcodes. * Full colour map & a gazetteer listing of the administrative areas incorporating administrative changes that occurred in April 2009. * Full index to place names. * Index to postcode abbreviations. * Comprehensive background map detail which means the atlas can also be used for route planning & navigation. AREA OF COVERAGE Covers the whole of Britain & Northern Irel&. WHO THE PRODUCT IS OF INTEREST TO This atlas is aimed at the business user who will find it an invaluable tool for many applications including market analysis distribution planning & sales territory organisation.

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For twenty years the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science & technology studies postcolonial studies & feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science & Technology Studies Reader Harding puts those fields in critical conversation assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic & recent essays international scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of science & technology philosophies & practices. The contributors re-evaluate conventional accounts of the Wests scientific & technological projects in the past & present re-think the strengths & limitations of non-Western societies knowledge traditions & assess the legacies of colonialism & imperialism. The collection concludes with forward-looking essays which explore strategies for cultivating new visions of a multicultural democratic world of sciences & for turning those visions into realities. Feminist science & technology concerns run throughout the reader & are the focus of several essays. Harding provides helpful background for each essay in her introductions to the readers four sections. Contributors: Helen Appleton Karen Backstrand Lucille H. Brockway Stephen B. Brush Judith Carney Committee on Women Population & the Environment Arturo Escobar Maria E. Fernandez Ward H. Goodenough Susantha Goonatilake Sandra Harding Steven J. Harris Betsy Hartmann Cori Hayden Catherine L. M. Hill John M. Hobson Peter Muhlhausler Catherine A. Odora Hoppers Consuelo Quiroz Jenny Reardon Ella Reitsma Ziauddin Sardar Daniel Sarewitz Londa Schiebinger Catherine V. Scott Colin Scott Mary Terrall D. Michael Warren ...

The final Tommy & Tuppence novel in which a poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all! Tommy & Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However when she writes down the letters they spell out a very disturbing message: M a r y -- J o r d a n -- d i d -- n o t -- d i e -- n a t u r a l l y! ...

Posters of World War II is a study of the war poster as a phenomenon. It considers that they were often excellent & beautiful pieces of artwork as much as they were tools for imparting information. Never before has such a comprehensive collection of World War II posters & authoritative text been combined. Posters of World War II gives the reader a full-page image which is then explained in full on the opposite page. The text details the facts about the poster where possible profiling the artist explains the significance of its message & considers its impact in the context of the war. The book considers the changing nature of posters as the war developed giving an insight into the thoughts & fears of the officials tasked with producing the propaganda. Posters of World War II is a study of posters from the artistic angle an insight into the psychology of poster production during the war & the overall importance of posters in the conflict. ...

He was a survivor: a wanderer who traded tales for food & shelter in the dark & savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker his life changes for ever. As he journeys from one isolated community to the next the old worn uniform becomes far more than a protection against the unrelenting cold: its a reminder of how things were before the world collapsed
- & a symbol for how things might be again. His story is one of a lie becoming the most important kind of truth. Translated into 25 languages around the world The Postman is a powerful & affecting novel about survival of the human spirit from the award-winning author of EXISTENCE & The Uplift novels.
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* This unique range of colouring books features two engaging activities young children love to do! First they find the colour stickers that match the black-&-white pictures on each page. Then they use the stickers as a guide to colour in the pictures of their favourite characters! ...

Collected together in this hardback jacketed book are nine delightful stories with bright & colourful illustrations from the Postman Pat Special Delivery Service" Library. The titles included in the " Postman Pat Pocket Treasury" are: " Postman Pat's Bouncy Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Chilly Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Runaway Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Precious Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Musical Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Colourful Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Speedy Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Secret Special Delivery"; & " Postman Pat's Snowy Special Delivery"." ...