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Thames & Hudson Ltd Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
The best account of Angkor available in English takes the reader on a panoramic tour of Cambodian history from earliest times to the latest finds' Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia has fascinated scholars and visitors alike since its rediscovery in the mid-19th century. A great deal was already known about the history of Angkor and the brilliant Khmer civilization that built it thanks to pioneering work by archaeologists and scholars, but our knowledge has now been completely revolutionized by cutting-edge technology. Airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) has revealed entire cities that were previously unknown and a complex urban landscape with highways and waterways, profoundly transforming our interpretations of the development and supposed decline of Angkor. In this comprehensive edition of Angkor and the Khmer Civilization, respected archaeologist Michael Coe is joined by Damian Evans, who led this remarkable programme of scientific e
£12.99
ESCAPE BOOK JUVENIL BARÇA
Max, Mia, Pol y Amina son cuatro jóvenes que juegan en diferentes secciones del Barça: fútbol masculino, básquet femenino, balonmano y fútbol femenino, respectivamente. Su actitud en los entrenos y partidos deja mucho que desear, así que sus entrenadores les sancionan pasando un sábado entero a las órdenes de Rafa, el conserje y encargado del mantenimiento del Camp Nou.Rafa les manda ordenar un almacén situado en el sótano, donde descubren una caja vieja cerrada con un candado. Cuando consiguen abrirla, dentro encuentran un documento que explica que la primera Copa de Europa que ganó el Barça está escondida en algún lugar secreto del estadio.Los cuatro jóvenes iniciarán un viaje por los diferentes espacios del Camp Nou a lo largo del cual irán resolviendo misterios y aprendiendo sobre la historia del club.Conseguirán recuperar la Copa?
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Oxford University Press Inc Postcolonial Servitude
Postcolonial Servitude explores how a new generation of contemporary global, transnational, award-winning writers with origins in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh engages with the complexities of domestic servitude as a problem for the nation and for the novel. Servitude, to be distinguished from slavery, is a distinctive and pervasive phenomenon in South Asia, with a long history. Unprotected by labor laws, subject to exploitation and dehumanization, members of the lower classes provide essential services to employers whose homes become the servants'' workplace. South Asian literature has always featured servants, usually as marginal or instrumental. This book focuses on writers who make servants and servitude central, and craft new narrative forms to achieve their goals. Identifying a blind spot in contemporary postcolonial studies, this is the first full-length study to focus on domestic servants in Anglophone postcolonial or South Asian literature and to examine their pol
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The American University in Cairo Press Creating Spaces of Hope
An exploration of how young artists imagine and maintain hope in post-revolutionary Egypt Creating Spaces of Hope explores some of the newest, most dynamic creativity emerging from young artists in Egypt and the way in which these artists engage, contest, and struggle with the social and political landscape of post-revolutionary Egypt. How have different types of artistsstudio artists, graffiti artists, musicians and writersresponded personally and artistically to the various stages of political transformation in Egypt since the January 25 revolution? What has the political or social role of art been in these periods of transition and uncertainty? What are the aesthetic shifts and stylistic transformations present in the contemporary Egyptian art world? Based on personal interviews with artists over many years of research in Cairo, Caroline Seymour-Jorn moves beyond current understandings of creative work primarily as a form of resistance or pol
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University of Pennsylvania Press Religion in the Public Square
Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwellreligious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the publicIn Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics, but they shared an approach to public ministry that aimed directly at changing how Americans understood the nature and purpose of their country. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Sheen was an early adopter of paperbacks, radio, and television to condemn totalitarian ideologies and to defend American Catholicism against Protestant accusations of divided loyalty. During the 1950s and 1960s, King staged demonstrations and boycotts that drew the mass media to him. The attention provided him the platform to preach Christian love as a pol
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Dior Scarves. Fashion Stories.
A sumptuous treasury of Dior scarves. Plain and elaborate, commonplace and precious, fashionable and timeless, masculine and feminine: Dior's silk scarves form a unique visual repertoire and cover a gamut of palettes, themes and styles. The epitome of Parisian chic, they express the poetic imagination of the creative directors who have shaped the destiny of the house, from Christian Dior to Maria Grazia Chiuri. Unveiling the history and artistry of Dior's scarves from the first designs to today, this sumptuous book celebrates their incredible variety and beauty as never before. At its heart is an atlas of over 400 scarves, organized by theme and printed on a delicate paper that replicates the texture of the scarves themselves. Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, who has overseen the creation of this volume, contributes a foreword. The atlas is supplemented by exclusive visual essays from renowned photographers Brigitte Niedermair and Pol Baril, as well as texts by dis
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Penguin Books Ltd Landbridge
One woman''s heart-breaking, life-affirming memoir of loss, survival, bearing witness and a legacy of love''Landbridge has forever altered what I know, how I love, and what I hope'' Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing''A masterpiece to console and guide generations to come'' Alice Pung, author of Unpolished GemBorn in, and named after, Thailand''s Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60,000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the aftermath of Pol Pot''s brutal Khmer Rouge regime. In Canada, Y-Dang became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project - and, implicitly, the unknowable horrors of the place she had escaped.In Landbridge, a family and personal memoir of astonishing power, Y-Dang grapples with a life lived in the shadow of pre-constructed narratives. She considers the transactional relationsh
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Murdoch Books Milk
''[An] entertaining and deeply informative crusade into the human obsession we call milk - and a vigorous argument for us to keep drinking it.'' Dan Barber''A rich dive into milk and the bounties it offers.'' Dr Norman Swan''A revelation. Educational, relevant and eye-opening.'' Nagi Maehashi, RecipeTin Eats''Unsettling and illuminating ... Evans at his best!'' Indira NaidooMilk. It''s in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form - yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and lactose free. It''s there in almond form, or made from oats or soy, and is as lauded as the ''perfect'' food or lambasted as not fit for human consumption and a toxic planet killer, depending on who you trust. Which type you drink, whether you were raised on breastmilk, what you think of it, is affected by culture, biology and fashion. How you view it is driven by your gender and your pol
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La ContraHistoria del comunismo
La historia del comunismo transcurre entre la revolución y la utopía, entre la violencia y lo criminal. A lo largo de los tiempos, en cualquier lugar donde se haya impuesto o haya tratado de imponerse un régimen de estas características, se han cometido multitud de crímenes, algunos especialmente aberrantes como los de las tiranías de Stalin, Mao o Pol Pot.El ideal comunista, que sobre el papel es inocuo, se convierte siempre en la práctica en una pesadilla. Desde la primera revolución típicamente socialista ?la bolchevique? hasta su epígono más reciente ?la Venezuela bolivariana?, la praxis revolucionaria se ha cobrado la vida de millones de personas en todo el mundo y en menos de un siglo.Fernando Díaz Villanueva, creador del premiado programa radiofónico La ContraHistoria, relata en 35 episodios la experiencia histórica de los regímenes comunistas para mostrar al lector la trayectoria de una ideología que ha dejado por el camino más de cien millones de muertos.
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Atlantic Books America Is Not the Heart
Longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, 2019Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018Longlisted for Elle's Big Book Award, 2018Evening Standard's Wander List Guide to 2019 Getaways How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about the first and second. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Only their daughter Roni asks Hero why her hands seem to scream with hurt at the steering wheel of the car she drives to collect her from school, and only Rosalyn, the fierce but open-hearted beautician, has any hope of bringing Hero back from the dead.
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Todas las veces que fuimos un desastre perfecto Saga Yugen 3
Una historia de amor fresca y actual.Hay personas que te marcan para siempre...Gabi Luna es la voz de Yugen, el grupo de moda que arrasa entre los adolescentes. Todos creen conocerla, pero debajo de una coraza superficial, se esconde una chica vulnerable que desea que alguien la vea de verdad.Pol es una constante en su vida. El chico malo del rock. El amigo de su hermano y el batería con el alma rota.Los rumores de una relación entre ambos los llevarán a replantearse sus sentimientos ya generar fuertes tensiones con el resto de los miembros.Si los polos opuestos se atraen, tal vez tengan una oportunidad en un mundo que se empeña en definirlos. Porque hay desastres perfectos, corazones que se entienden y personas por las que merece la pena esperar.Después de Todas las veces que me enamoré de ti y Todas las veces que saltamos al vacío, Chloe Santana vuelve con Todas las veces que fuimos un desastre perfecto, la tercera entrega de
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Cornell University Press Cambodian Culture since 1975: Homeland and Exile
Since the civil war of the 1970s, Cambodia has suffered devastating upheavals that killed a million ' people and exiled hundreds of thousands. This book is the first to examine Cambodian culture after the ravages of the Pol Pot regime-and to bear witness to the transformation and persistence of tradition among contemporary Cambodians at home and abroad. Bringing together essays by Khmer and Western scholars in anthropology, linguistics, literature, and ethnomusicology, the volume documents the survival of a culture that many had believed lost. Individual chapters explore such topics as Buddhist belief and practice among refugees in the United States, distinctive features of modern Cambodian novels, the lessons taught by Khmer proverbs, some uses of metaphor by the Khmer Rouge regime, the state of traditional music, the recent revival of a form of traditional theater, the concept of pain in Khmer culture, changing conceptions of gender, and refugees' interpretation of American television. Together the essays map a contemporary Cambodian culture, which, for over two hundred thousand Khmers, is now firmly entwined in the social fabric of the urban West.
£100.80
La cuenta atrás para el verano Edición especial
LA VIDA SON RECUERDOS Y LOS MÍOS TIENEN NOMBRES DE PERSONASabrías decir cuántas personas han formado parte de tu vida y cuántas han sido capaces de cambiarla? Las últimas son las que realmente importan.Lauri, la primera y más responsable amiga de la infancia y Nacho, mi primer amor de la adolescencia. La malhumorada y siempre sincera Lucía, la calmada Sara y el sarcástico Pol. También Álex, el que siempre vuelve, y la única mujer capaz de susurrar gritando, Laura. Y por supuesto, MI PADRE, en mayúsculas.La cuenta atrás para el verano entrelaza en el tiempo, la vida de una rubia, que soy yo, y la de las personas que han supuesto el aprendizaje más útil que atesoro, porque en el fondo, conocer a las personas más importantes de tu vida es conocerte a ti misma.Nombres propios que me ayudaron a dar el salto desde la adolescencia a la madurez, despeinándome en el camino el pelazo, pero construyendo un cerebro debajo.Esta novela está basada en ilusiones reales que me he
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Troubador Publishing The Stamp of Innocence
Noel Thomas, who was a respected village sub-postmaster and councillor, was sent to prison accused of stealing money from the post office he ran on Ynys Mon, Wales. A charge based on computerized evidence which later turned out to be totally false. Noel tells the story in his own words as we follow his heroic journey with all its twists and turns over the years to clear his name. Fighting not only two huge corporate institutions in the form of computer giants Fujitsu and the Post Office with all their power, influence and money. But also taking on successive UK Governments as well - the sole shareholder of POL (Post Office Limited).The book also features the voice of his daughter, Sian Thomas, who has devoted years of her life researching and networking widely to help her father clear his name. The Stamp of Innocence is a story about an unbreakable bond between a father and daughter, building up to their eventual redemption in the Court of Appeal in April 2021
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Editorial Debate El arte de la cocina francesa 2
La continuación del clásico que revolucionó la pedagogía culinaria.Dominar cualquier arte requiere siempre un proceso, esto explica la necesidad de publicar el segundo volumen de El arte de la cocina francesa de Julia Child y Simone Beck. El proyecto inicial de las dos cocineras era tan extenso que habría requerido la publicación de más de ocho volúmenes. Sus editores las disuadieron para que se redujera a dos.El primero es el resultado natural de sus enseñanzas en la escuela de cocina, y en él se aprende cómo hacer una cocina casera de excepción. El segundo volumen es una continuación en el que nos enseñan a hacer panes (baguette, pan de molde,...) croissant, brioche, sopas, postres, etc. todo en el mismo tono ameno y didáctico que revolucionó el arte culinario.Reseñas:Recuerdo el día en que, por casualidad, vi el programa de Julia Child en la televisión. Estaba fascinado por el modo en que se expresaba, el modo en que te hacía creer que el pol
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Ediciones Espuela de Plata San Francisco de Ass
Difícilmente una figura histórica podría encontrar mejor biógrafo que Francisco de Asís con Chesterton. Son dos personajes paradójicos y rompedores en sus actividades y actitudes vitales, que comparten una manera de estar libre ante el mundo y los prejuicios, que derrotan a base de sencillez y autenticidad el primero, y de una libertad insobornable el segundo. Esta no es una biografía al uso, llena de detalles históricos y precisiones anecdóticas. Chesterton se fija en aspectos de la vida de Francisco que definen su actitud ante la vida y su trascendente trayectoria humana, capaz, desde la humildad y la pobreza más absolutas, de transformar de verdad la historia de su tiempo y de los siglos sucesivos. A Chesterton se le ve entusiasmado y entregado absolutamente a la figura de Francisco, que presenta ante nosotros con perspectivas nuevas y originales, en una vida tan glosada y explicada biográficamente a lo largo del tiempo. Es este un libro que se puede leer más de una vez, pues es pol
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Skyhorse Publishing Airman Knowledge Testing Supplement for Sport Pilot, Recreational Pilot, Remote Pilot, and Private Pilot (FAA-CT-8080-2H)
THE DEFINITIVE TOOL FOR AIRMAN KNOWLEDGE EXAM STUDY IN 2023, DEVELOPED BY FAA EXPERTS This testing supplement was designed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Standards Service and intended for use by Airman Knowledge Testing (AKT) administrators in the following knowledge areas: Sport Pilot: Airplane (ASEL and ASES), Gyroplane, Glider, Airship (LTA), Balloon, Weight-Shift Control (WSCS and WSCL), and Powered Parachute (PPL and PPS) Recreational Pilot: Airplane (RPA), Rotorcraft/Helicopter (RPH), Rotorcraft/Gyroplane (RPG) Private Pilot: Airplane/Recreational Pilot–Transition (PAT), Helicopter/Recreational Pilot–Transition (PHT), Gyroplane/Recreational Pilot–Transition (POT), Airplane (PAR), Rotorcraft/Helicopter (PRH), Rotorcraft/Gyroplane (PRO), Glider (POL), Free Balloon–Hot Air (PBH), Free Balloon–Gas (PBG), Lighter-Than-Air–Airship (PLA), Powered-Parachute (PPP), Weight-shift Control (PWS) Unmanned Aircraft General: Small (UAG) With dozens of full-color illustrations, diagrams, graphs, and charts, this testing supplement provides crucial tools for sport, recreational, remote, or private pilots in their knowledge exams and beyond.
£13.25
La cuenta atrás para el verano
La vida son recuerdos y los míostienen nombres de personaSabrías decir cuántas personas han formado parte de tu vida y cuántas han sido capaces de cambiarla? Las últimas son las que realmente importan. Lauri, la primera y más responsable amiga de la infancia y Nacho, mi primer amor de la adolescencia. La malhumorada y siempre sincera Lucía, la calmada Sara y el sarcástico Pol. También Álex, el que siempre vuelve, y la única mujer capaz de susurrar gritando, Laura. Y por supuesto, MI PADRE, en mayúsculas.La cuenta atrás para el verano entrelaza en el tiempo la vida de una rubia, que soy yo, y la de las personas que han supuesto el aprendizaje más útil que atesoro, porque en el fondo, conocer a las personas más importantes de tu vida es conocerte a ti misma.Esta novela está basada en ilusiones reales que me he inventado algunas veces. Reconocer cuáles es algo que estará dentro de cada una de nosotras.Dicen de la novela:Una novela e
£12.36
LA CUENTA ATRAS PARA EL VERANO
LA VIDA SON RECUERDOS Y LOS MÍOS TIENEN NOMBRES DE PERSONASabrías decir cuántas personas han formado parte de tu vida y cuántas han sido capaces de cambiarla? Las últimas son las que realmente importan.Lauri, la primera y más responsable amiga de la infancia y Nacho, mi primer amor de la adolescencia. La malhumorada y siempre sincera Lucía, la calmada Sara y el sarcástico Pol. También Álex, el que siempre vuelve, y la única mujer capaz de susurrar gritando, Laura. Y por supuesto, MI PADRE, en mayúsculas.La cuenta atrás para el verano entrelaza en el tiempo la vida de una rubia, que soy yo, y la de las personas que han supuesto el aprendizaje más útil que atesoro, porque en el fondo, conocer a las personas más importantes de tu vida es conocerte a ti misma.Nombres propios que me ayudaron a dar el salto desdela adolescencia a la madurez, despeinándome en el camino el pelazo, pero construyendo un cerebro debajo.Esta novela está basada en ilusiones reales que me he in
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Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. El PC y el PSOE en la transición la evolución ideológica de la izquierda durante el proceso de cambio político
Durante la Transici?n el Partido Socialista Obrero Espa?ol y el Partido Comunista de Espa?a experimentaron una llamativa transformaci?n ideol?gica. En esta obra se analiza c?mo esta trayectoria se fue tejiendo al calor de un contexto internacional de crisis econ?mica, de una din?mica pol?tica nacional muy agitada y en las convulsas batallas internas de ambos partidos. De igual modo, se analiza la contribuci?n de los intelectuales del PCE y el PSOE a esta evoluci?n, la implicaci?n apasionada de los militantes de base y el importante papel que desempe?aron los medios de comunicaci?n.En la Transici?n la izquierda contribuy? de manera determinante a la democratizaci?n del pa?s, pero esta contribuci?n entra?? su propia metamorfosis y en ella sacrific? buena parte de los idearios y de los proyectos de transformaci?n social por los que ven?a luchado. De esos idearios y proyectos olvidados trata tambi?n este libro.?No me cabe duda de que este libro representar? una aportaci?n fundamental
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Hércules el héroe que no quiso serlo
Vuelve la mitología griega narrada como un buen salseo: ahora le toca a Hércules contar su historia.La nueva novela mitológica de Pol Gise, creador de contenido con más de 3 millones de seguidores en redes, después del éxito conseguido con su primera novela Hades, el dios menos malo.En una época en la que todos los hombres sueñan con ser héroes, algunos nacen predestinados a serlo? aunque no quieran. Esta es la historia de un semidios con un don y una maldición que lo persiguieron toda la vida, pero también es la historia de una madre que hizo todo lo posible para proteger a su hijo de su destino, una diosa capaz de cualquier cosa por vengar las infidelidades de su marido y un rey tan poderoso como envidioso.Hércules, el hijo más famoso de Zeus, fue un niño engañado y un hombre maldito que se desvivió por lo que creía justo. Su historia se ha intentado simplificar ignorando sus sentimientos y su punto de vista, pero ahora ha lle
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SAGE Publications Inc The Take-Action Guide to World Class Learners Book 2: How to "Make" Product-Oriented Learning Happen
Your blueprint for product-oriented learning The World Class Learners series provides the most complete information available on designing twenty-first century schools poised to leapfrog into the future! These practice-oriented books expand on Dr. Yong Zhao’s acclaimed World Class Learners, which presents a new framework for cultivating creative and entrepreneurial students. Now, with this second book in the follow-up three-volume set, Zhao digs much deeper, revealing how exactly to put that framework into effect. The second book in the series outlines how to Understand entrepreneurship and project-oriented learning Implement "making-as-learning" POL curriculum Help students create quality entrepreneurial products Understand ownership, copyrights, and patents Implement Zhao’s new paradigm shift one phase at a time, starting with any book, depending upon your priorities. Better yet, read all three volumes for a complete blueprint to entrepreneur-minded schooling. "The ideal school should provide opportunities and resources to enable students to personalize their educational experiences instead of receiving a uniform standardized, externally prescribed, education diet." -Yong Zhao
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Transworld Publishers Ltd First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in
A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights and being cheeky to her parents.When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Loung's family fled their home and were eventually forced to disperse to survive. Loung was trained as a child soldier while her brothers and sisters were sent to labour camps. The surviving siblings were only finally reunited after the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia and started to destroy the Khmer Rouge.Bolstered by the bravery of one brother, the vision of the others and the gentle kindness of her sister, Loung forged on to create for herself a courageous new life.First They Killed My Father is an unforgettable book told through the voice of the young and fearless Loung. It is a shocking and tragic tale of a girl who was determined to survive despite the odds.
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Cornell University Press Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Anthropological Witness tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. In March 2016, Hinton served as an expert witness at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, an international tribunal established to try senior Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes committed during the 1975–79 Cambodian genocide. His testimony culminated in a direct exchange with Pol Pot's notorious right-hand man, Nuon Chea, who was engaged in genocide denial. Anthropological Witness looks at big questions about the ethical imperatives and epistemological assumptions involved in explanation and the role of the public scholar in addressing issues relating to truth, justice, social repair, and genocide. Hinton asks: Can scholars who serve as expert witnesses effectively contribute to international atrocity crimes tribunals where the focus is on legal guilt as opposed to academic explanation? What does the answer to this question say more generally about academia and the public sphere? At a time when the world faces a multitude of challenges, the answers Hinton provides to such questions about public scholarship are urgent.
£100.80
University of Exeter Press Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror
From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. The emphasis in the translation and adaptation of these plays is once again to foreground the performability of the scripts within a modern context – making Performing Grand-Guignol an ideal acting guide. Hand and Wilson have acquired extremely rare acting copies of plays which have never been published and scripts that were published in the early years of the twentieth century but have not been published since – even in French. Includes plays written by, or adapted from, such notable writers as Octave Mirbeau, Gaston Leroux and St John Ervine as well as examples by Grand-Guignol stalwarts René Berton and André de Lorde. Also included is the 1920s London translation of Blind Man’s Buff written by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc and banned by the Lord Chamberlain. A brief history of the Parisian theatre is also included, for the benefit of readers who have not read the previous books.
£75.00
Transworld Publishers Ltd First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie PittUntil the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights and being cheeky to her parents.When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Loung's family fled their home and were eventually forced to disperse to survive. Loung was trained as a child soldier while her brothers and sisters were sent to labour camps. The surviving siblings were only finally reunited after the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia and started to destroy the Khmer Rouge.Bolstered by the bravery of one brother, the vision of the others and the gentle kindness of her sister, Loung forged on to create for herself a courageous new life.First They Killed My Father is an unforgettable book told through the voice of the young and fearless Loung. It is a shocking and tragic tale of a girl who was determined to survive despite the odds.
£11.99
Princeton University Press Cambodia, 1975-1978: Rendezvous with Death
One of the most devastating periods in twentieth-century history was the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge over Cambodia. From April 1975 to the beginning of the Vietnamese occupation in late December 1978, the country underwent perhaps the most violent and far-reaching of all modern revolutions. These six essays search for what can be explained in the ultimately inexplicable evils perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge. Accompanying them is a photo essay that provides shocking visual evidence of the tragedy of Cambodia's autogenocide. "The most important examination of the subject so far...Without in any way denying the horror and brutality of the Khmers Rouges, the essays adopt a principle of detached analysis which makes their conclusion far more significant and convincing than the superficial images emanating from the television or cinema screen." --Ralph Smith, The Times Literary Supplement "A book that belongs on the shelf of every scholar interested in Cambodia, revolution, or communism...Answers to questions such as 'What effect did Khmer society have on the reign of the Khmer Rouge?' focus on understanding, rather than merely describing." --Randall Scott Clemons, Perspectives on Political Science
£63.00
Blackie Books Esperanza una tragedia
Encuadernación: CartonéTodo hombre tiene derecho a ser infeliz, y quizá tenga incluso el deber. La esperanza (por ejemplo, del que añora ser feliz) es nociva, y la humanidad se habría ahorrado muchos problemas si no fuese adicta a este engañoso narcótico.Hitler? El mayor optimista del siglo xx: un soñador, un romántico. Al fin y al cabo, nada más esperanzado que la idea de una solución, encima final. Mao, Stalin,Pol Pot? Tres cuartos de lo mismo. Así podrían resumirse las enseñanzas del ProfesorJove, terapeuta sui generis al que Solomon Kugel acude porque, paradójicamente, sueña con una vida mejor.Víctima de la esperanza, Kugel no solo es padre, sino que ha decidido llevarse a su familia a una casa rural en Stockton, Estados Unidos, un poblado donde nunca ha pasado nada, del que no ha salido nadie famoso. excepto un pirómano muy activo en los últimos tiempos.Kugel quiere empezar una vida nueva, quitarse de encima el peso de la historia; la suya, personal y familiar, y
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Lany que vaig estimar Ava Gardner
PREMI PRUDENCI BERTRANA 2023Quan l?any 1990 el Pol Mas veu que l?Ava Gardner ha mort als seixanta-set anys recorda que la va conèixer durant el rodatge de Pandora y el holandés errante a Tossa de Mar a l?hotel familiar Àncora. Un rodatge inoblidable que va significar el seu pas de la infància a la joventut marcat per l?amor per l?actriu, que li durarà tota la vida.Un relat deliciós, lluminós, ple de vivències i glamur, amb personatges inoblidables com Ava Gardner, Mario Cabré o Frank Sinatra, en un marc incomparable com és la Costa Brava dels anys cinquanta.Les mans li tremolen quan agafa les dues fotografies en blanc i negre que conté. Mentre se les mira, permet al reguitzell d?emocions que guarda tancades amb pany i forrellat que surtin i es passegin per allà, com a cal sogre.I es capbussa en el record.El de l?any que tot va canviar per sempre.El de la primavera que va estimar Ava Gardner.
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La cuenta atrás para el verano
La primera novela de La Vecina Rubia, el fenómeno editorial que arrasa en librerías.LA VIDA SON RECUERDOS Y LOS MÍOS TIENEN NOMBRES DE PERSONASabrías decir cuántas personas han formado parte de tu vida y cuántas han sido capaces de cambiarla? Las últimas son las que realmente importan.Lauri, la primera y más responsable amiga de la infancia y Nacho, mi primer amor de la adolescencia. La malhumorada y siempre sincera Lucía, la calmada Sara y el sarcástico Pol. También Álex, el que siempre vuelve, y la única mujer capaz de susurrar gritando, Laura. Y por supuesto, MI PADRE, en mayúsculas.La cuenta atrás para el verano entrelaza en el tiempo, la vida de una rubia, que soy yo, y la de las personas que han supuesto el aprendizaje más útil que atesoro, porque en el fondo, conocer a las personas más importantes de tu vida es conocerte a ti misma.Nombres propios que me ayudaron a dar el salto desde la adolescencia a la madurez, despeinándome en el camino el pelazo,
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Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. Escritos económicos 2 18931899 quiénes son los amigos del pueblo
Escritos econ?micos (1893-1899) es una selecci?n de textos escritos por Lenin durante ese periodo. El hilo conductor de todos los trabajos aqu? reunidos es el estar consagrados al estudio del desarrollo del capitalismo en Rusia a finales del siglo xix , mostrando en ellos las tendencias dominantes de la evoluci?n econ?mica y social de su pa?s, la funci?n que cumpl?an en dicha evoluci?n las principales clases y grupos sociales, las tareas que se planteaban ante los marxistas. Esta selecci?n, que editamos en tres vol?menes, incluye su Contenido econ?mico del polulismo, ?Qui?nes son los ?amigos del pueblo?? y una serie de textos que agrupamos bajo el t?tulo Sobre el problema de los mercados. La selecci?n va precedida de una presentaci?n de Fernando Claud?n.En ?Qui?nes son los ?amigos del pueblo?? Lenin resume su cr?tica de la sociolog?a y del programa pol?tico y econ?mico de los populistas y formula, en oposici?n a este, algunas de las ideas b?sicas en que hab?a de fundamentarse su con
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Cornell University Press Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Anthropological Witness tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. In March 2016, Hinton served as an expert witness at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, an international tribunal established to try senior Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes committed during the 1975–79 Cambodian genocide. His testimony culminated in a direct exchange with Pol Pot's notorious right-hand man, Nuon Chea, who was engaged in genocide denial. Anthropological Witness looks at big questions about the ethical imperatives and epistemological assumptions involved in explanation and the role of the public scholar in addressing issues relating to truth, justice, social repair, and genocide. Hinton asks: Can scholars who serve as expert witnesses effectively contribute to international atrocity crimes tribunals where the focus is on legal guilt as opposed to academic explanation? What does the answer to this question say more generally about academia and the public sphere? At a time when the world faces a multitude of challenges, the answers Hinton provides to such questions about public scholarship are urgent.
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University of Exeter Press Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror
From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. The emphasis in the translation and adaptation of these plays is once again to foreground the performability of the scripts within a modern context – making Performing Grand-Guignol an ideal acting guide. Hand and Wilson have acquired extremely rare acting copies of plays which have never been published and scripts that were published in the early years of the twentieth century but have not been published since – even in French. Includes plays written by, or adapted from, such notable writers as Octave Mirbeau, Gaston Leroux and St John Ervine as well as examples by Grand-Guignol stalwarts René Berton and André de Lorde. Also included is the 1920s London translation of Blind Man’s Buff written by Charles Hellem and Pol d’Estoc and banned by the Lord Chamberlain. A brief history of the Parisian theatre is also included, for the benefit of readers who have not read the previous books.
£22.00
Princeton University Press A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism
The first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former communist states, scholars have found new material that has expanded and sometimes altered the understanding of communism as an ideological and political force. A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism brings this scholarship to students, teachers, and scholars in related fields. In more than 400 concise entries, the book explains what communism was, the forms it took, and the enormous role it played in world history from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond. * Examines the political, intellectual, and social influences of communism around the globe * Features contributions from an international team of 160 scholars * Includes more than 400 entries on major topics, such as: * Figures: Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro, Gorbachev * Events: Cold War, Prague Spring, Cultural Revolution, Sandinista Revolution * Ideas and concepts: Marxism-Leninism, cult of personality, labor * Organizations and movements: KGB, Comintern, Gulag, Khmer Rouge * Related topics: totalitarianism, nationalism, antifascism, anticommunism, McCarthyism * Guides readers to further research through bibliographies, cross-references, and an index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Terror, Force and States: The Path from Modernity
Terror, Force and States offers a new theoretical explanation of the nature and causes of terror states. The theory is developed through a critical examination of the works of Bauman, Weber, Arendt, Friedrich and Brzezinski, as well as through detailed case studies of terror regimes including Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia and Pol Pot's Cambodia.The view of force as a form of power is rejected by Rosemary O'Kane who carefully distinguishes between repressive and terror governments and, crucially, between totalitarian dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. The lessons drawn suggest that the Holocaust and modern genocide are not intrinsically related to modernity. Terror regimes, she argues, operate not through the state but from behind a state facade within a secret society. Economic crisis is given prominence in their explanation with the decisive explanatory factor argued to be the move from plans to substantive irrationality. Indeed it is the economic rationality of modern society, most particularly in respect of labour markets, which acts as the barrier to terror's rule.All those with an interest in politics, sociology, history and Holocaust and genocide studies will welcome this important book which generates a new theory of terror states.
£114.00
Murdoch Books Hidden Kitchens of Sri Lanka
Take an evocative journey into the heart of the real Sri Lanka with intrepid photographer and writer, Bree Hutchins. With a voracious appetite for all things culinary and an undaunting spirit of adventure, Bree ventures into areas where most foreigners don't go, seeking out the hidden kitchens of Sri Lanka.On the reawakening Jaffna Peninsula, war widows cook crab curry and fry spicy snacks, while in a remote eastern village, Sumith stirs vats of smoky milk toffee over an open fire in a factory behind his home. Bamini cooks thosai for the Hindu temple feast, and old William boils up his Ceylon tea at Colombo's dawn wholesale market, just as he's done every day for sixty years. And at Monaragala Prison, in one of the poorest districts in Sri Lanka, the inmates prepare a fragrant fish curry with pol roti.Hidden Kitchens of Sri Lanka is far more than a collection of traditional recipes; stunningly vivid photographs, Bree interweaves recipes with heartfelt stories about the people who opened not only their kitchens but their homes and hearts to her, to create a moving yet hopeful picture of Sri Lanka today.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Works on Paper: 1980-1986
During the past several years, Eliot Weinberger’s inventive prose has earned him a reputation as a candid social observer and penetrating essayist. Works on Paper is the first collection of his writings, twenty-one pieces that juxtapose the world as it is and the world as it is imagined-by artists, poets, historical figures, and ordinary people. “Inventions of Asia,” the first section, deals primarily with how the West reinvents the East (and how the East invents itself): images of India circa 1492 (where Columbus thought he was going); Christian missionaries in sixteenth-century China; Bombay prostitutes as seen by a New York photojournalist; Tibetan theocracy transplanted to the Rockies; a Confucian bureaucrat’s address to crocodiles; the shifting iconography of the “tyger”; looking for an answer to an ancient Chinese poem of questions; how the children of Mao have reinvented Imagism; Kampuchea Under Pol Pot. “Extensions of Poetry” explores the ways in which the world affects the imaginations of individual poets (George Oppen, Langston Hughes, Charles Reznikoff, Octavio Paz, Clayton Eshleman) and indeed entire movements, leading at times to unexpected incarnations and transformations. Weinberger ponders such strange conjunctions as Whittaker Chambers and Objectivism, anti-Semitism among American Modernists, bourgeois poets––present-day wards of the academy and the state––confronting the issues of peace, American foreign policy, and The Bomb.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Ruin of Kasch
A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those rare books that persuade us to see our entire civilization in a new light, its guide is the French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, who knew the secrets of the ancien régime and all that came after, and was able to adapt the notion of "legitimacy" to the modern age. Roberto Calasso follows him through a vast gallery of scenes set immediately before and after the French Revolution, making occasional forays backward and forward in time, from Vedic India to the porticoes of the Palais-Royal and to the killing fields of Pol Pot, with appearances by Goethe and Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Marx, Walter Benjamin and Chateaubriand. At the centre stands the story of the ruin of Kasch, a legendary kingdom based on the ritual killing of the king and emblematic of the ruin of ancient and modern regimes.'Startling, puzzling, profound . . . a work charged with intelligence and literary seduction' The New York Times'Unique, idiosyncratic and vaultingly ambitious... essential reading' Independent'A great fat jewel-box of a book, gleaming with obscure treasures' John Banville
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The History Press Ltd Cornish Family Names
The Cornish have for a long time long considered themselves a race apart from the English and their origins are indeed more related to those of the Welsh, Scottish and Breton peoples than to most others east of the River Tamar. Almost every town and village in Cornwall has been used as a surname, and the traditional Cornish trades of fishing and mining have also provided inspiration for family names. Features of the landscape such as hills and rivers have had a huge effect, with many of these containing elements of some names which can be tracked back to the old Celtic language, for example the prefixes Pen (headland) and Pol (pool). A lot of names are tied to a particular area of Cornwall: Rodda and Bottrell are seldom found east of Penzance, whilst names like Odgers, Opie and Wearne are most common in mid-Cornwall around the mining areas of Redruth and Gwennap. Surnames can reveal a lot about family history, but their origins can be difficult to trace. This handy lexicon, drawn together from an exhaustive research, serves as an ideal starting point for tracing ancestry. Packed with information about notable families and migration, this is also an ideal book for anyone interested in the story of Cornish people.
£14.99
Hirmer Verlag Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965
In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiples―three-dimensional objects issued in edition―to be broadly distributed. With a radical emphasis on multiplication and movement, Edition MAT (Multiplication d’art transformable) presented an international selection of work by key figures in postwar kinetic and Op art. Multiplied is the first in-depth English-language study of this seminal project in the history of postwar art. The catalog presents the entirety of the three collections—1959, 1964, and 1965—consisting of 48 artworks by 35 European and US artists associated with kinetic and Op art, including such leading figures as Marcel Duchamp, Dieter Roth, and Jean Tinguely, alongside lesser known artists. With four essays, artist entries, and an appendix of newly translated historical texts, this volume sheds light on under-studied artworks as well as the body of critical thought connecting art, commerce, and display in the postwar period. Artists: Yaacov Agam, Josef Albers, Arman, Jean Arp, Enrico Baj, Davide Boriani, George Brecht, Pol Bury, Christo, Gabriele De Vecchi, Marcel Duchamp, Bo Ek, Robert Filliou, Karl Gerstner, Maurice Henry, Julio Le Parc, Roy Lichtenstein, Heinz Mack, Frank J. Malina, Enzo Mari, Christian Megert, François Morellet, Bruno Munari, Arnulf Rainer, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Jesús Rafael Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Paul Talman, André Thomkins, Jean Tinguely, Victor Vasarely, Jacques Villeglé, Emmett Williams
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Small Beer Press Paradise Tales: and Other Stories
Geoff Ryman writes about the other and leaves us dissected in the process. His stories are set in recognizable places--London, Cambodia, tomorrow--and feature men and women caught in recognizable situations (or technologies) and not sure which way to turn. They, we, should obviously choose what's right. But what if that's difficult? What will we do? What we should, or ...? Paradise Tales builds on the success of his most recent novel, The King's Last Song, and on the three Cambodian stories included here, "The Last Ten Years of the Hero Kai," "Blocked," and the exceedingly-popular "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter." Paradise Tales includes stories selected from the many periods of Ryman's career including "Birth Days," "Omnisexual," "The Film-makers of Mars," and a new story, "K is for Kosovo (or, Massimo's Career)." To complement this first full-length short story collection, Small Beer Press is reprinting Ryman's backlist: Was, The Child Garden, and a book of four novellas, The Unconquered Countries, with new introductions to continue to build the readership of one of the most fascinating writers exploring the edges of being, gender, science, and fiction. Geoff Ryman is the author of the novels The King's Last Song, The Child Garden, Air (a Clarke and Tiptree Award winner), and The Unconquered Country (a World Fantasy Award winner). Canadian by birth, he has lived in Cambodia and Brazil and now teaches creative writing at the University of Manchester in England.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Statistical Optics
This book discusses statistical methods that are useful for treating problems in modern optics, and the application of these methods to solving a variety of such problems This book covers a variety of statistical problems in optics, including both theory and applications. The text covers the necessary background in statistics, statistical properties of light waves of various types, the theory of partial coherence and its applications, imaging with partially coherent light, atmospheric degradations of images, and noise limitations in the detection of light. New topics have been introduced in the second edition, including: Analysis of the Vander Pol oscillator model of laser light Coverage on coherence tomography and coherence multiplexing of fiber sensors An expansion of the chapter on imaging with partially coherent light, including several new examples An expanded section on speckle and its properties New sections on the cross-spectrum and bispectrum techniques for obtaining images free from atmospheric distortions A new section on imaging through atmospheric turbulence using coherent light The addition of the effects of “read noise” to the discussions of limitations encountered in detecting very weak optical signals A number of new problems and many new references have been added Statistical Optics, Second Edition is written for researchers and engineering students interested in optics, physicists and chemists, as well as graduate level courses in a University Engineering or Physics Department.
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Humanoids, Inc The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen
The true story of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose “Golden Voice” helped define Cambodia’s Golden Age of music until her mysterious disappearance in the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. Developed in partnership with Sothea’s family.There is a saying in Cambodia: Music is the soul of a nation. Perhaps no one embodied that spirit more than Ros Serey Sothea, a young woman who would forever change the landscape of Cambodian music as the Queen with the Golden Voice. From a humble rice farmer to nationally recognized singer, Sothea’s success captured the hearts of the Khmer people. Throughout her career, she recorded over 500 songs, her signature angelic voice soaring over genres from traditional ballads to psychedelic rock and beyond. As the Cambodian civil war raged, Sothea's singing career continued to flourish, even when she served in the army as one of the country's first female paratroopers. After years of bloody conflict, the communist Khmer Rouge seized control, murdering artists and destroying their music, bringing Cambodia's golden age into a dark era of silence. Sothea’s fate is unknown. Ros Serey Sothea's golden voice lives on in the popular music of Cambodia to this very day. Gone but not forgotten, her legacy continues to inspire. The Golden Voice tells the story of Sothea’s life, developed alongside the surviving family who knew her, and accompanied by an interactive soundtrack.
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Archaeopress Rougga I: Le forum et ses abords (fouilles 1971–1974)
Situé en Byzacène, à 12 km au sud-est de Thysdrus/El Jem, le municipe de Bararus/Henchir Rougga est connu pour ses grandes citernes d’époque romaine signalées depuis le XVIIIe s. et pour la découverte en 1972 d’un trésor de monnaies d’or byzantines publié en 1982 dans le volume III de la monographie générale du site. Ce volume I, rédigé pour l’essentiel au début des années 90, rend compte du résultat global des fouilles menées à l’emplacement du forum, de 1971 à 1974, par la mission tuniso-française sous la direction de Maurice Euzennat† et Hédi Slim†. L’ouvrage comprend trois parties : tout d’abord, une présentation générale du site par les deux chefs de mission et Pol Trousset ; ensuite, une description de la stratigraphie du forum et du mobilier qui en provient, par Roger Guéry† avec la collaboration de divers spécialistes ; enfin, une étude architecturale extrêmement précise des différents éléments qui composent le centre monumental de la cité : citernes, platea et portiques, xyste et temples, par Gilbert Hallier†. Ces travaux permettent de mieux appréhender la place du municipe de Bararus au centre d’une riche région agricole qui a laissé les traces de cadastration parmi les mieux conservées d’Afrique. Ils mettent en évidence sa longue durée d’occupation, du IIIe s. av. J.-C. (avec quelques traces antérieures remontant à la Préhistoire) jusqu’au XIe s., et l’originalité des partis architecturaux qui ont présidé à la construction de son centre monumental à l’époque flavienne, ses transformations au IIe s. et son abandon à l’époque byzantine.
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The Merlin Press Ltd Red Lights and Green Lizards: A Cambodian Adventure
Cambodia! not a subject normally expected to cause congestion around the travel shelves. Why then a third edition? Perhaps because it is different. Two elderly, some would say naive, doctors from middle England throw caution to the winds and head off with VSO, an organisation more usually associated with adventurous youngsters. They face not just humid heat, cockroaches and cultural somersaults but something incomparably more challenging, the harsh realities of a country still reeling from the prolonged terrors of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. With generosity of spirit and an unquenchable sense of humour they plunge into a maelstrom of lawlessness where life is cheap and guns and greed prevail. Surrounded on all sides by medical, financial and ethical dilemmas, the author gradually gropes her way towards the climax of her work, the launch of a clinic for prostitutes actually inside the brothel where they work. She tells the stories of these young girls, many of them under sentence of death from AIDS, stories that shock, horrifies and form the pivotal point of the whole story. It is a thoughtful book, written with great artistry and turn of phrase. It is written with an eye and an ear to the history, new and old, of an extraordinary and little-known country. This third edition contains a postscript considering events since 2003 bringing the reader up-to-date with the situation in Cambodia as it is today.
£12.99
Penguin Books Ltd Landbridge: Life in Fragments
One woman's heart-breaking, life-affirming memoir of loss, survival, bearing witness and a legacy of love'Landbridge has forever altered what I know, how I love, and what I hope' Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing 'A masterpiece to console and guide generations to come' Alice Pung, author of Unpolished GemBorn in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60,000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the aftermath of Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime. In Canada, Y-Dang became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project - and, implicitly, the unknowable horrors of the place she had escaped.In Landbridge, a family and personal memoir of astonishing power, Y-Dang grapples with a life lived in the shadow of pre-constructed narratives. She considers the transactional relationship between a host country and its refugees; she delves into the contradictions between ethnic, regional and national identities; and she writes to her young son Kai with the promise that this family legacy is passed down with love at its core.Written in fragmentary chapters, each with the vivid light of a single candle in a pitch-black room, Landbridge is a courageous piece of life writing, the story of a family, and a bold, ground-breaking intervention in the way trauma and migration are told.
£20.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic
What makes despotic leaders tick? How do they become despots? On a lesser (but far more common) scale: why are some people ruthlessly abrasive in the workplace? Why do some business leaders appear to lose their sense of humanity? How and why do they create a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt in their companies?Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in order to help us understand the psychology of power and terror. During his short reign, Shaka Zulu established one of the most successful regimes based on terror that has ever existed, from which the traits of despotic leaders are illustrated. Shaka's life history is a study in the psychology of terror, and he can be a proxy for the behavior of any despot, be it from antiquity or modern times. From his leadership behavior fifteen cautionary lessons are derived, offering valuable principles for contemporary leaders.The book also explores the characteristics of totalitarian states, and discusses what can be done to prevent despotic leaders from coming to the fore. Clear parallels are drawn between Shaka's behavior and that of other, more contemporary, leaders including Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein.This fascinating and highly original book will be of enormous interest to a broad audience - from students and academics focusing on leadership, political science, and political psychology, to practitioners such as managers, executives, consultants, and leadership coaches.
£94.00
University of Notre Dame Press Bound Fast with Letters: Medieval Writers, Readers, and Texts
Bound Fast with Letters brings together in one volume many of the significant contributions that Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse have made over the past forty years to the study of medieval manuscripts through the prism of textual transmission and manuscript production. The eighteen essays collected here address medieval authors, craftsmen, book producers, and patrons of manuscripts from different epochs in the Middle Ages, extending from late antiquity to the early Renaissance, and ranging from North Africa to northern England. Their investigations reveal valuable information about the history of texts and their transmission, and their careful scrutiny of texts and of the physical manuscripts that convey them illuminate the societies that created, read, and preserved these objects. The book begins in Part I with articles on writers from the patristic era through the twelfth century who experimented with, and mastered, various physical forms of presenting ideas in writing. Part II contains essays on patronage and patrons, including Richard de Fournival, Jean de Brienne, Watriquet de Couvin, Pope Clement V, the Counts of Saint-Pol, and Christine de Pizan. Part III, on manuscript producers, discusses the questions, for whom? and by whom? were manuscripts made. The four essays in this section each reflect on a different part of the process of book-making. Throughout, Bound Fast with Letters focuses on the close ties between the physical remains of literate culture—from the wax tablets of the patristic era to the vernacular literature of the wealthy laity of the late Middle Ages—and their social and economic context.
£60.30
