' For many years I had wanted to start a zoo.. .any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first & obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. A Zoo in My Luggage" is Gerald Durrell's account of his attempt to set up his own zoo after years spent gathering animals for other zoos. Journeying to Cameroon he & his wife collected numerous mammals birds & reptiles including Cholmondely the chimpanzee & Bug-eye the bush-baby. But their problems really began when they attempted to return with their exotic menagerie. Not only had they to get them safely home to Britain but they also had to find somewhere able &
- most of all
- willing to house them. Told with wit & a zest for all things furry & feathered Gerald Durrell's "A Zoo in My Luggage" is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo."

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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa a strikingly beautiful red-head contrary highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother Poppy. More like sisters than mother & daughter they come as a pair a blistering presence that destroys Guys peace of mind suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading Guy fears is finished. His publisher fearing the same has committed suicide. His agent like all agents is in hiding. Vanessa in the meantime is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesnt expect her to finish it or even start it but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment & universal despair Guy wonders if its time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead but desire isnt. & out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry elegiac & rude Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women love of literature love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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This title features a new environment on every colourful artistic page. Zoo-ology" is filled with beautifully crafted species from the Aardvark to the Zebra connected in thought provoking & unusual groupings of creatures of all shapes & sizes. Take hold of these pages & throw yourself into the natural world. Lose yourself amidst the habitats that these animals share. A teeming wildlife sanctuary where over 300 animals leap off the page this book allows the reader to imagine a zoo without bars where animals gather in chaotic but innovative herds prides & rookeries." ...

Concerns about the recent explosions of diseases like HIV the West Nile Virus & other avian & swine flus that originate in animals have encouraged new efforts on a global scale to bridge the gap between animal & human medicine for the benefit of both. Zoobiquity" is the first book to explore many of the human & animal health issues that overlap & provides new insight into the treatment of many diseases including diabetes cancer heart disease & mental illness. But Zoobiquity is even bigger than health & academic medicine & encompasses much more than our diseases & how to cure them. It sheds light on the evolution of hierarchies & similarities between a tribe of apes & a Fortune 500 company. It suggests that the ways we run our political & justice systems may overlap with how animals protect & defend their territories
- & that examining this possibility in a scientifically credible way could help strengthen our institutions. It dangles the possibility that human parenting could be informed by a greater knowledge & respect for how our animal cousins solve issues of childcare sibling rivalry & infertility."
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This bright pink Zoodle pencil case is fun & works hard to protect your contents with a clever hard case exterior. The pencil case opens up fully to lie flat with a black canvas interior. Inside features a 5 pocket area for your pens & pencils & other side 2 mesh pockets for equipment. Comes pre-filled with useful stationery including; scissors pencil double ended ballpen/highlighter pen & a cool 30.5 cm long bright pink flexible eraser! ...

Set before the start of the First World War this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives he meets Alexis Zorba a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers has fought in the Balkan wars has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops the Englishman is gradually won over transformed & inspired along with the reader.
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Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism & Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879" is a fascinating look at the most controversial & brutal British imperial conflict of the nineteenth century. The real story of the Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception dishonour incompetence & dereliction of duty by Lord Chelmsford who invaded Zululand without the knowledge of the British Government. But it did not go to plan & there were many political repercussions. Using new material from archives in Britain & South Africa Saul David blows the lid on this most sordid of imperial wars & comes to a number of startling new conclusions. " Saul David's brilliant & magisterial account must now be regarded as the definitive history of the Zulu War". (Frank Mc Lynn " Literary Review"). " This meticulously detailed book.. .give[s] a fully rounded & judicious account of this dismal conflict". (" Guardian"). " Fascinating thrilling convincing.. .reads like a novel". (" Economist"). Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham & the author of several critically acclaimed history books including " The Indian Mutiny: 1857" (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature) " Zulu: The Heroism & Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879" (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year) & most recently " Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire"." ...

The battle of i Sandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops 500 of their allies & at least 2000 Zulus were killed in a staggering defeat for the British empire. The consequences of the battle echoed brutally across the following decades as Britain took ruthless revenge on the Zulu people. In Zulu Rising" Ian Knight shows that the brutality of the battle was the result of an inevitable clash between two aggressive warrior traditions. For the first time he gives full weight to the Zulu experience & explores the reality of the fighting through the eyes of men who took part on both sides looking into the human heart of this savage conflict. Based on new research including previously unpublished material Zulu oral history & new archaeological evidence from the battlefield this is the definitive account of a battle that has shaped the political fortunes of the Zulu people to this day." ...

The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars & included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorkes Drift followed & re-established British prestige. Yet as this book shows there was more to the war than this. Six months of brutal fighting followed until the Zulu kingdom was broken up its king imprisoned & the whole structure of the Zulu state destroyed. Years of intemecine strife followed until the British finally annexed Zululand as a colonial possession. ...

This is an essential annual purchase for anyone involved in taxation from individuals through to advisers investors accountants & tax lawyers. The Zurich Tax Handbook 2012 -- 2013provides detailed coverage of the UK tax system & identifies the way that it may affect you or your clients. Up-to-date & user-friendly this book explains the key aspects of taxation providing worked examples checklists definitions & tax-saving hints. ...