Mutual kidnapping between the Maori & the English inhabitants in New Zealand had dated back to the 1760s. In 1869, After an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one Maori boy, aged five, was captured & adopted by the Prime Minister. Educated to become a lawyer & an ` English gentleman`, Ngataua Omahuru (or little ` William Fox`), had played a crucial role in New Zealand`s history. More surprisingly as Peter Walker followed the little captive out of the forest & into the drawing rooms of Wellington & London, he found himself on a personal journey which converged unexpectedly with tale he had uncovered. ...

A breathtaking escape story that reveals the power of technology to connect people across cultures with life-saving results. Growing up in Yemen, Mohammed Al Samawi was smart, bookish, & committed to his faith. He had little interest in the non-Muslim world, beyond an intense hostility to Islam`s enemies. All that changed when a teacher lent him a copy of the Bible, sparking his interest in other faiths. Venturing online, he began to connect with people of different cultures from all around the world, & started the improbable journey from dreaming of taking vengeance on the `infidels` to devoting his life to inter-faith dialogue. But then Yemen crumbled into war. Trapped & alone under bombardment, he managed to get online & put his life in the hands of a rag-tag group of Facebook friends he barely knew. Near-strangers to each another, with zero experience in military strategy, the team of four, spanning New York, San Francisco, & Tel Aviv, achieved the seemingly impossible. They crowd-sourced escape routes & activated their networks to help save Mohammed from certain death. The Fox Hunt is an exhilarating real-life survival story of faith, curiosity, & the power of human connection in the face of conflict. ...

Learn about family, happiness, & friendship in this hope-filled children`s book. Our story starts with a boy named Paul, who lives in a cozy treehouse in a big city with his family. & then something unexpected happens--Paul befriends a wise, friendly fox on a walk home from the bakery. The fox gives Paul a space to think about what makes him happy & what friendship means--all in the pages of a bright & quirky storybook. Join Paul & the fox while helping young readers decide what makes them happy. ...

Romania, the last months of the dictator`s regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina`s friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara`s lover. But one of them works for the secret police & is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another day, a hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilation is a sign that she is being tracked
- the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine to form a kaleidoscope of reflections, deflections & deceit. Adina & her friends struggle to keep living in a world permeated with fear, where even the eyes of a cat seem complicit with the watchful eye of the state, & where it`s hard to tell the victim apart from the perpetrator.
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Wintercroft masks have caught the imagination of creative people & festival-goers around the globe. Designed by Steve Wintercroft, an artist with a passion for craftsmanship & conservation, these masks have been used everywhere from music videos & fashion shoots to theatre productions & political campaigns. The Fox is considered a magical & even mischievous creature in many cultures. Nocturnal & secretive, often cultivating a little chaos, they are for the most part loved & revered. Whether you`re looking for an eye-catching accessory for a festival trip or simply a unique addition to a dressing-up party, this is the perfect choice. With a robust polygon design, the press-out templates for the mask are easy to put together with simple numbered tabs. Eye-catchingly illustrated, you can choose to wear the mask as it is or customise & embellish with feathers, lace, beads, or any trimming of your choice
- let loose your playful side!
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Set in the cities & islands of the Mediterranean, & linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life & death. Their protagonists collect & reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, & now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. & yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of. ...

Assembled from hundreds of individual images from orbiting NOAA weather satellites, this cloud-free image shows Earth as if viewed from a point above the Mediterranean. It is enhanced with natural-looking colours to depict vegetation distribution & landscape variations. The Image is printed on special thick paper. ...

” My comedy career began in 1971, which proves I have no comic timing. In 1971 there were no comedy clubs, no comedy agents & not much comedy future.” Inspired by Spike Milligan, John Dowie embarked on his comedy career in a time when such a thing was virtually unheard of, & then, just as alternative comedy began to be recognised by popular culture, he quit. & so began his next obsession
- riding his bike. Having been blessed (or cursed) with an addictive personality, Dowie quickly realises that what was once a simple hobby
- cycling
- will soon become something very different... This book follows a similar route to his cycling habits: it meanders from place to place, occasionally gets lost but is unfailingly entertaining. Wending his way through France & Holl&, round the lanes of Norfolk & over the hills of Devon, Dowie expertly leads his readers on a delightful journey through the trials, tribulations & triumphs of his life so far.


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It is hard to describe Theodore Zeldin, he his at once a historian, a psychoanalyst & a sociologist. He is concerned less with facts & more of human emotions / ” He opens up before us a marvellouly varied landscape, not of fields & cathedrals, but of anger & passion, of love & ridicule, a subtle mosaic patiently constructed out of the daily experiences of French people � Like a talented film director, he makes the masks fall”
-"idien de Paris
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Xenophobe’s Guide to the French is a pocket-size guide that takes a frank & funny look at what makes the French French.“ In conversation, French hands are never still. They display the state of mind, heart & soul of the parties involved.” Xenophobe’s guides attempt to forewarn readers of the main stereotypes & foibles that are associated with individual nationalities. Each guide explores the characteristics of a country’s people in a series of dedicated sections, encompassing nationalism & identity, behaviour, manners, character, obsessions, beliefs & values, leisure & pleasure, culture, custom & tradition, business, systems, health & hygiene, crime & punishment, government & bureaucracy, conversation & gestures & language. ...