A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection & the power of a tomato. `I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit on a stool in my grandmother`s house. It is the height of summer in a seaside village in the south of Greece. We little Aussies devour `tomato sandwiches` as the family chats & laughs & swats flies.. .` From the first heady taste of tomatoes on home-baked bread in her mother`s village in Petalidi, to sitting at a taverna some 30 years later in Ithaka with her young family, Spiri Tsintziras goes on a culinary, creative & spiritual journey that propels her back & forth between Europe & Australia. These evocative, funny & poignant stories explore how food & culture, language & music, & people & their stories help to create a sense of meaning & identity. ...

Jules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five; the odds of dying on Everest are one in sixty. But just as he reaches Base Camp in April 2015, the giant earthquake in Nepal sets off an avalanche that will kill 21. Jules is within touching distance of his life`s ambition & is now faced with an agonising choice about his next move. Aftershock is a heart-stopping eyewitness account of the deadliest day in history on the world`s most iconic mountain. It is also an exploration of the choices we make in life, & throws up difficult questions about how logic & compassion can be affected by altitude & extreme stress. ...

Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends & killed their enemies, having seen & done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans` journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return. Through wide-ranging interviews with former combatants
- including a Royal Marine sniper & a veteran operator in the SAS
- as well as serving personnel & their families, physicians, therapists & psychiatrists, Aftershock looks beyond the labels of shell shock & post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to get to the heart of today`s post-conflict experience. It pursues the question that the military are so reluctant to ask: why do people who are trained to thrive within the theatre of war so often find themselves ill-prepared for peace? As a new generation of battle-scarred troops begins to lay their weapons down, Aftershock offers an empathetic yet hard-hitting account of the hidden cost of conflict. And its message is one that has profound implications, not just for the military, but for anyone with an interest in how we experience trauma & survive.

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One of the titles in a series of topographic maps covering much of north-west Africa, produced as part of the IMW* project in 1960’s. Each map covers an area spanning 6° in longitude & 4° in latitude. There is some variation in colouring & the depiction of terrain, but hill-shading, spot heights & contours are used to show the general relief. Additional graphics show features such as dunes, rock outcrops, cliffs, sand areas, escarpments, marshes, seasonal lakes & watercourses, & areas liable to flooding. Bathymetric contours are also included. Communications detail

Includes:: roads, major trails & railways, although there is some inconsistency in colouring & the extent of classification, e.g. not all maps distinguish seasonal roads. On most maps intermediate road distances are indicated on main routes. Symbols show airports, mosques, mines, oil & gas fields, lighthouses, ruins & significant isolated buildings. Administrative boundaries are marked & latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals, with further margin ticks at 1’ intervals. The map legend is in French only on some sheets, & in English & French on others.* The International Map of the World was a project conceived in the early 20th century to compile a world map series at 1:1, 000, 000 through the efforts of participating nations. The value of the program has declined since 1970 & the IMW is no longer regarded as an active international series.

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Agadir
- Pays Ida-Outanane region in a series of GPS compatible maps at 1:160, 000 published by EWP & West Col Productions & covering
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For two years Monica Connell lived as a paying guest of Kalchu & Chola in the Nepalese Himalayan village of Talphi, ten days walk from the nearest road. This book poetically captures the immediacy of Connell`s experience, & her empathy & sense of wonder at the dramas of village life
- a boar hunt in winter, the wedding of a young neighbour & the magic of the full-moon festival when the gods descend to dance amongst the villagers.
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In this no-holds-barred account, the former head of the United Nations in Sudan reveals for the first time the shocking depths of evil plumbed by those who designed & orchestrated `the final solution` in Darfur. A veteran of humanitarian crisis & ethnic cleansing in Iraq, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Afghanistan & Sierra Leone, Dr Mukesh Kapila arrived in Sudan in March 2003 having made a promise to himself that if he were ever in a position to stop the mass-killers, they would never triumph on his watch. Against a Tide of Evil is a strident & passionate cri de coeur. It is the deeply personal account of one man driven to extreme action by the unwillingness of those in power to stop mass murder. It explores what empowers a man like Mukesh Kapila to stand up & be counted, & to act alone in the face of global indifference & venality. Kapila`s story reads like a knife-edge international thriller as he risks all to use the powers at his disposal to bring to justice those responsible for the first mass murder of the twenty-first century: the Darfur genocide. ...

` Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different & this book is a good indicator of why`
- ” Bulletin of British Ecological
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` One of our best-known living philosophers` Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis
- by opening our doors, or pulling
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Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence & poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as possible; or we try to pull up the drawbridge. Both solutions are bad, states Zizek. They merely prolong the problem, rather than tackling it. The refugee crisis also presents an opportunity, a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself: but, if we are to do so, we have to start raising unpleasant & difficult questions. We must also acknowledge that large migrations are our future: only then can we commit to a carefully prepared process of change, one founded not on a community that see the excluded as a threat, but one that takes as its basis the shared substance of our social being. The only way, in other words, to get to the heart of one of the greatest issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited & oppressed. Maybe such solidarity is a utopia. But, warns Zizek, if we don`t engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost. ...