The Non-Nonsense Guide to International Development explains what ‘development’ actually is
- & explores its political & economic
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This is a clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, & gender. Starting with a brief history of medical progress, this guide delves into current politics of health in the contexts of big business & private health provision, media, gender, & the environment. ...

In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed & morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer & philistine, crooked & corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions
- of liberals & conservatives alike
- of this highly divisive figure.

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In the early hours of December 27th 1985, Dian Fossey was murdered in her cabin by an unknown attacker
- ' No One Loved Gorillas
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It is December 2001 & Argentina is in political & economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all as the ` National Shame`, is a shadow of his former self, scraping by as a bathroom salesman. He cannot forget the enigmatic woman he met in a dance hall. She left him when she found out who he was working for, & he has never recovered from the blow. Late one evening, Martelli is summoned to a friend`s coastal retreat. He arrives to find his friend dead & is drawn into a bewildering sequence of events, on an odyssey that leads him through vast, empty pampas, along endless highways & into ghost towns seething with danger & brutality, to the ailing heart of his country. Before long he is forced to uncover the truth of his past life. It is a dangerous confession: after all, no-one loves a policeman. A highly original crime novel with a rich, dark humour, a host of extraordinary characters & plenty of smoking guns. ...

Hope, resignation, despair, sadness, humour, confusion, ruthlessness, compassion, kindness, generosity & love inhabit Pete Ayrton`s anthology of writings from the Spanish Civil War: there is little sense of certainty & still less of triumphalism among the bewilderingly diverse Republican & Nationalist coalitions, all shades of which are represented here. Previous collections privileged the writings of the International Brigades over those of the Spanish, sometimes excluding them altogether.! No Pasaran! corrects the balance: by far the largest contingent of its thirty-five writers are Spanish, including Luis Bunuel, Manuel Rivas, Javier Cercas, Arturo Barea, Joan Sales & Chaves Nogales. The remainder offer contrasting perspectives of participants in the conflict from America (among them John Dos Passos, Muriel Rukeyser & Langston Hughes); Italy (Curzio Malaparte & Leonardo Sciascia); France (Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Malraux & others); Germany (Gustav Regler); Russia (Victor Serge); Great Britain (including Arthur Koestler, George Orwell & Laurie Lee); Cuba, Argentina & Mexico. Pete Ayrton brings together hauntingly vivid stories from a bitterly fought war. This is powerful writing that allows the reader to witness life behind & at the front lines of both sides. ...

In the shadow of Mount Kenya, surrounded by the forests & creatures of the savannah, life drags interminably for the inmates of P.O.W. Camp 354. Confined to an endless cycle of boredom & frustration, it is little wonder when one prisoner realises he can bear it no longer. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea
- an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea. There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, & with a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef among their more accurate guides. There are probably fewer still who would break back in to the camp on their return. This is the remarkable story of three such men. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is a powerful testament to the human spirit of revolt & adventure in even the darkest of places.
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A rediscovered mountaineering classic & the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea
- an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea. There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, & with a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef among their more accurate guides. There are probably fewer still who would break back in to the camp on their return. But this is the remarkable story of three such men. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is a powerful testament to the human spirit of revolt & adventure in even the darkest of places.
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When Pen Farthing brought two dogs home from his tour of Afghanistan, little did he know what he had begun. Twelve months later, he has left the Marines, after 20 years service, to run his charity full time. But he barely has a chance to miss life in action, as he is inundated with requests from marines & soldiers to give more rescued dogs the chance of a new life in the West. Whether it`s little Helm&, Fubar or Beardog
- or the unruly litter known as the Char Badmashis or Four Hooligans
- Pen does his upmost to give these dogs the chance they deserve. It is a frustrating & sometimes dangerous process, & while some dogs make it out to safety, others, tragically, do not. But a look out the window to see his own Afghan hounds, Now Zad & Tali, with bright eyes & glossy coats tells him it`s all worthwhile. Like his ” Sunday Times” bestseller ” One Dog at a Time”, ” No Place Like Home” is the story of one man`s courage & persistence in the face of often insurmountable odds. It will warm
- & break
- the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.



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