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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A very funny take on the contortions a grandparent goes through to please a grandchild. When Oliver visits Grumpy, Grumpy twists himself into a funny position to amuse his grandson. `AGAIN!` shouts Oliver, so Grumpy does something even more extraordinary. `AGAIN!` comes the refrain. & Grumpy complies. Again & again & again, until he`s twisted himself slightly too far.. . With eye-watering yet hilarious detail, cartoonist Ralph Steadman captures the pain & delights of grandparenthood with merciless accuracy. ...

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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` 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. ...

In Against the Flow, Tom Fort wades through Eastern Europe revisiting the places he made on a trip twenty years ago, in light of two decades of deep & far reaching changes on the continent. Twenty years ago Tom fort drove his little red car onto the ferry at Felixstowe, heading east in search of a Europe that found itself part of a new post-communist order. Politically, spiritually & economically, everything was changing at a speed people found hard to comprehend. One constant was the landscapes, its mountains & rivers. As the expansion of the EU opened the flood gates for the human tide of its citizens to come & go as they pleased, the UK found itself with a vibrant new Polish community. Tom Fort was set to wondering what had happened to the places & people he remembered so well & he decided to retrace his footsteps; this time starting on a bus from London to Krakow. ...

Dee Caffari became the first woman to sail solo round the world against the prevailing winds & currents. Her story is an adventure in the true sense of the word. It is about physical hardship in terrible conditions, overcoming sleep deprivation, 34 days of gales, 12 metre waves & cyclones. It is also about a woman who stepped outside her safe zone & dared to dream. Her courage resulted in a place in the history books alongside a handful of men, having achieved something truly extraordinary. More people have walked on the moon than have successfully completed a westabout circumnavigation, & in this inspirational book Dee shares the story of her journey from beginner to record breaker. A new chapter for this paperback edition recounts Dee`s experiences since her Record & her preparations for the Vendee Globe Race. ...