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The Cycling Anthology: Volume Five: Volume 5
Professional cycling is a rich, dynamic and often controversial sport that lends itself to great writing. Some of the most famous and illustrious races were founded by newspapermen and The Cycling Anthology continues this tradition by bringing together the best in the business. Between them, they`ve covered hundreds of Tours de France and written dozens
The Cycling Anthology: Volume Four: Volume 4
Professional cycling is a rich, dynamic and often controversial sport that lends itself to great writing. Some of the most famous and illustrious races were founded by newspapermen and The Cycling Anthology continues this tradition by bringing together the best in the business. Volume Four features original and exclusive pieces by leading cycling writers. William
The Cycling Anthology: Volume One: Volume 1
Professional cycling is a rich, dynamic and often controversial sport that lends itself to great writing. Some of the most famous and illustrious races were founded by newspapermen and The Cycling Anthology continues this tradition by bringing together the best in the business. Volume One features original and exclusive pieces by leading cycling writers. William
The Vietnamese Market Cookbook
Street-food entrepreneurs Van and Anh bring you contemporary Vietnamese cooking for modern kitchens. With the freshest of ingredients, exquisite flavours, bright colours, sociable plates for sharing, and comforting broths for one, this is traditional cooking made utterly current. Vietnamese food is well-known these days – think cleansing noodle soups, succulent caramelized pork, spicy herb-filled baguettes,
Paris Mapguide
A useful and interesting tourist atlas, with clear mapping which carries a wealth of information for visitors to the city. The maps not only show monuments and places of interest, but also indicate numerous restaurants, bars, cafรฉs, jazz clubs, discos, shops, street markets, etc. Streets with bus routes are shown in contrasting colour. The atlas
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese `economic miracle`. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world`s most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Niall Ferguson`s bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017`Comprehensive and compelling … A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians` Justin Marozzi, The TimesA century after Britain`s Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish `national home` in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major
Transit Maps of the World: Every Urban Train Map on Earth
Transit Maps of the World is the first, comprehensive collection of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colourful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of urban transport systems, including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs.Transit Maps could not be more relevant to our modern existence. It uncovers the way many of us are
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India`s experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor`Tharoor`s impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires … laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read` Financial TimesIn
Democracy on the Road
For two decades bestselling author Ruchir Sharma has chased election campaigns across every major state in India, travelling the equivalent of a lap around the Earth. Democracy in India takes readers on a rollicking ride with Ruchir and his band of highly informed fellow writers as they talk to farmers, shopkeepers and CEOs from Rajasthan
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic Second Edition
For some 40 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem. But with Iran`s continuing commitment to a nuclear programme and its reputation as a trouble-maker in Syria, Afghanistan,
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century – the `female Lawrence of Arabia` – and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman. In the last century, few people lived more astounding – or influential – lives than Gertrude Bell. During World War I, she worked her way
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30 volumes–here abridged to one volume, and translated into English for the first time–it contains entries on everything
Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction
Straddling the equator, Southeast Asia comprises Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor. Despite its extraordinary diversity of ethnicities, religions, and political systems, Southeast Asia plays a key role in global economies and geopolitics, especially in light of its strategic position bordering China and
Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus
Vladimir Putin`s intervention into the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict in summer 2008 was quickly recognized by Western critics as an attempt by Russia to increase its presence and power in the “near abroad”, or the independent states of the former Soviet Union that Russia still regards as its wards. Though the global economic recession that began
China`s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
China`s economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world`s second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world`s steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing
22 Britannia Road
“22 Britannia Road” by Amanda Hodgkinson is a heartbreaking and powerful novel about wartime secrets and the difficulties of adjusting to postwar life. It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are
Reference Atlas for India and the World
The Reference Atlas contains detailed large-scale mapping of the world with a focus on India and the Indian subcontinent. Fully digitized and up-to-date, the main body of the atlas contains a unique set of region-wise maps of the world. It provides encyclopedic information on all things geographical, focusing on political, socio-economic, environmental and cultural themes
