Tom Clancy's great hero Jack Ryan Jr returns in Threat Vector": an explosive tale of global superpowers doing battle. Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate & are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart these Chinese ambitions but the stakes are dangerously high as hundreds of Chinese anti-ship missiles thwart the US Navy's plans to protect the isl&. Meanwhile Chinese cyber warfare experts have launched a devastating attack on American infrastructure. Jack Ryan Jr & his colleagues at the Campus may be just the wild card that his father needs to stack the deck. There's just one problem: someone knows about the off-the-books intelligence agency & may be ready to blow their cover sky high. " Threat Vector" follows the gripping novels " Locked On" & " Dead or Alive" as the fourth title in Tom Clancy's " Jack Ryan Jr Series". Praise for Tom Clancy: " Truly riveting a dazzling read". (" Sunday Express"). "A brilliantly constructed thriller". (" Daily Mail"). Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. His first novel " The Hunt for Red October" catapulted onto the " New York Times" bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn'. Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism & authenticity intricate plotting & razor-sharp suspense. Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations & political science & is pursuing his master's in intelligence studies with a concentration in criminal intelligence. He is the author of " The Gray Man" " On Target" & " Ballistic"." ...

At an apparently respectable dinner party a vicar is the first to die! Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actors house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington who choked on his cocktail went into convulsions & died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis there was no trace of poison -- just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective there was absolutely no motive! ...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff is a Level One Read it Yourself book from Ladybird. Read it yourself is a learning to read series of classic traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales & exciting stories will amuse children & encourage them to progress further with this series & become confident readers. Each book in the Read it yourself with Ladybird series is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear beautiful pictures for extra support & interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with comprehension. This Read it yourself version of The Three Billy Goats Gruff is a level 1 title & so suitable for children who are beginning to learn to read. The story is told simply using short sentences & a small number of frequently repeated words. Trust Ladybird to help your child learn to read & become a confident reader. Level 1 Rumpelstiltskin; The Enormous Turnip; The Ugly Duckling; Goldilocks & the Three Bears; Cinderella; Little Red Hen; The Magic Porridge Pot; The Three Billy Goats Gruff Level 2 Chicken Licken; Sly Fox & Red Hen; Town Mouse & Country Mouse; The Gingerbread Man; Little Red Riding Hood; Sleeping Beauty; The Three Little Pigs; Level 3 Rapunzel; Hansel & Gretel; Jack & the Beanstalk; The Elves & the Shoemaker Level 4 Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs; Heidi; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; & The Wizard of Oz. ...

Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales... Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations & fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action. The 'flip-up' flaps encourage prediction & discussion & well-known stories will give young readers confidence. Complete with Audio CD. ...

This is a perfect introduction to the classic fairy tale The Three Billy Goats Gruff" with beautiful illustrations & lots of funny rhythm & rhyme to delight young children. This Ladybird Picture Book is ideal for reading aloud & sharing with 2-4 year olds." ...

John Rick & Derrick Underwood are the most handsome trio of brothers in town & it takes three exceptional women to convince them to settle down. For Jodie marrying John seemed exciting & romantic at the time but the reality of life is proving too much. Jodie loves her husband but she doesnt know how much more she can take of his dishonest ways. Ricks marriage to Laraine is filled with love & adventure; their life is blissful
- until one day it delivers a cruel blow. Everything begins to unravel & Laraine isnt sure shes strong enough to survive. Dee is smitten with her husband Derrick. He does all he can to provide for her so when hes sent away to sea she knows she will be all right. But suddenly she stops hearing from Derrick
- where is he? From the 1950s all the way through to the 1980s Three Brides For Three Brothers is a nostalgic story of love & loyalty during the most testing of times.

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' Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger the second you become a friend & the third you join our family & for our family we are prepared to do anything
- even die'
- Haji Ali Korphe Village Chief Karakoram mountains Pakistan. In 1993 after a terrifying & disastrous attempt to climb K2 a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted cold & dehydrated into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness he promised to return & build a school. Three Cups of Tea" is the story of that promise & its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools
- especially for girls
- in remote villages across the forbidding & breathtaking landscape of Pakistan & Afghanistan just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure & a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit."



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The classic plays of the quintessential Dublin playwright Three early plays by Sean OCasey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly OCaseys ability to convey the reality of life & the depth of human emotion specifically in Dublin before & during the Irish civil war of 1922-23 but truly throughout the known universe. In mirroring the lives of the Dublin poor from the tenement dwellers in The Shadow of a Gunman" & " Juno & the Paycock" to the bricklayer street vendor & charwoman in " The Plough & the Stars " Sean OCasey conveys with urgency & eloquence the tiny details that create a total character as well as the terrors large & small that the constant threat of political violence inevitably brings. As Seamus Heaney has written "OCaseys characters are both down to earth & larger than life... His democratic genius was at one with his tragic understanding & his recoil from tyranny & his compassion for the oppressed were an essential--as opposed to a moral & thematic--part of his art." A new production of " Juno & the Paycock" will transfer from the Donmar Theatre in London to New York in September 2000." ...

Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/ Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516) Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be & what is. His Utopia is at once a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization & a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinsons 1556 translation from Mores original Latin together with letters & illustrations that accompanied early editions of Utopia. Utopia was only one of many early modern treatments of other worlds. This edition also

Includes:: two other hitherto less accessible utopian narratives. New Atlantis (1627) offers a fictional illustration of Francis Bacons visionary ideal of the role that science should play in the modern society. Henry Nevilles The Isle of Pines (1668) a precursor of Defoes Robinson Crusoe engages with some of the sexual racial & colonialist anxieties of the end of the early modern period. Together these texts illustrate the diversity of the early modern utopian imagination as well as the different purposes to which it could be put. 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.

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The Three Emperors" by Miranda Carter is the juicy funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany Russia & Great Britain at the turn of the last century combined with a study of the larger forces around them. Three cousins. Three Emperors. & the road to ruin. As cousins George V Kaiser Wilhelm II & the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends
- but they happened also to rule Europes three most powerful states. This potent combination together with their own destructive personalities
- petty insecure bullying absurdly obsessive (stamp collecting uniforms)
- led not only to their own dramatic fallouts & falls from grace but also to the outbreak of the First World War. Miranda Carters riveting account of how three men who should have known better helped bring down an entire world is a gripping story of abdication betrayal & murder. " Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh & beautifully choreographed work of history". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Miranda Carters story is full of vivid"ations...a romp though the palaces of Europe in their last decades before Armageddon". (" Sunday Times"). " Fascinating. Carter is a gifted storyteller & has written a very readable account". (" Independent"). " That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying. I havent enjoyed a historical biography this much since Lytton Stracheys Victoria". (Zadie Smith). Miranda Carters first book " Anthony Blunt: His Lives" won the Royal Society of Literature Award & the Orwell Prize & was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize the Guardian First Book Award the Duff Cooper Prize & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The book was named as one of the " New York Times" Book Reviews seven best books of 2002. Miranda lives in London with her husband & two sons."


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