The really Tiny Keyring is a simple, stylish & practical accessory that provides a bright LED light to help you find things. The Keyring consists if a rubber coated metal body with a button that operates the LED light. Fitted with replaceable 3x AG3 batteries. Perfect for travelling & when trying to open doors in the dark! ...

The Really Tiny Keyring is a simple, stylish & practical accessory that provides a bright LED light to help you find things. The keyring consists of a rubber coated metal body with a button that operates the LED light. Fitted with replaceable 3x AG3 batteries. Perfect for travelling & when trying to open doors in the dark! ...

The Really Tiny Keyring is a simple, stylish & practical accessory that provides a bright LED light to help you find things. The keyring consists of a rubber coated metal body with a button that operates the LED light. Fitted with replaceable 3x AG3 batteries. Perfect for travelling & when trying to open doors in the dark! ...

The Really Tiny Keyring is a simple, stylish & practical accessory that provides a bright LED light to help you find things. The keyring consists of a rubber coated metal body with a button that operates the LED light. Fitted with replaceable 3x AG3 batteries. Perfect for travelling & when trying to open doors in the dark! ...

The Really Tiny Keyring is a simple, stylish & practical accessory that provides a bright LED light to help you find things. The keyring consists of a rubber coated metal body with a button that operates the LED light. Fitted with replaceable 3x AG3 batteries. Perfect for travelling & when trying to open doors in the dark! ...

A fascinating tour of the most important sites of ancient Egypt, this book is made all the more compelling by the inclusion of the author's personal archaeological adventures. Armchair archaeologists will learn little-know facts about the lives of both everyday people of ancient Egypt & royalty, as well as live vicariously through the anecdotes of one of Egypt's eminent Egyptologists. In this lavishly illustrated volume, one of today's foremost Egyptologists guides readers through the architectural landscape of pharaonic Egypt, from the houses & palaces of the living to the temples of the gods to the tombs of the dead. Hundreds of photographs & a compelling text reveal the mysteries of ancient Egypt as unearthed through major excavations. Egyptologists have learned how the ancient Egyptians lived & how they prepared for death, & have gained great insight that places unearthed treasures into their proper context. They have also been able to reconstruct how the Egyptians saw the universe & how they perceived their own place within the universe. Realm of the Pharaohs takes readers on a tour of the most important sites from the Pyramids at Giza to the Valley of the Kings, & recounts the history of the most famous kings & queens, as well as the everyday lives of the people. This work takes you on an insider's tour of pharaonic Egypt by one of today's foremost Egyptologists. ...

Written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirteen, this remarkable book provides a rare insight into the often baffling behaviour of autistic children. Using a question & answer format, Naoki explains things like why he talks loudly or repeats the same questions, what causes him to have panic attacks, & why he likes to jump. He also shows the way he thinks & feels about his world
- other people, nature, time & beauty, & himself. Abundantly proving that people with autism do possess imagination, humour & empathy, he also makes clear how badly they need our compassion, patience & understanding. David Mitchell & his wife have translated Naoki`s book so that it might help others dealing with autism & generally illuminate a little-understood condition. It gives us an exceptional chance to enter the mind of another & see the world from a strange & fascinating perspective. The book also features eleven original illustrations, inspired by Naoki`s words, by the artistic duo Kai & Sunny.
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An epic, multigenerational story of courage & sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar) Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May 2009 ranks among the world`s most repressive & impoverished nations. Its ruling military junta seems to be at the height of its powers. But despite decades of constant brutality--and with their leader, the Nobel Peace Prize--laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, languishing under house arrest--a shadowy fellowship of oddballs & misfits, young dreamers & wizened elders, bonded by the urge to say no to the system, refuses to relent. In the byways of Rangoon & through the pathways of Internet cafes, Nway, a maverick daredevil; Nigel, his ally & sometime rival; & Grandpa, the movement`s senior strategist who has just emerged from nineteen years in prison, prepare to fight a battle fifty years in the making. When Burma was still sealed to foreign journalists, Delphine Schrank spent four years underground reporting among dissidents as they struggled to free their country. From prison cells & safe houses, The Rebel of Rangoon follows the inner life of Nway & his comrades to describe that journey, revealing in the process how a movement of dissidents came into being, how it almost died, & how it pushed its government to crack apart & begin an irreversible process of political reform. The result is a profoundly human exploration of daring & defiance & the power & meaning of freedom. ...

When Assani, a young cowherd, left his remote village in the Congo to pursue studies in the city, he learned that he was ethnically Tutsi. Though uninterested in politics or military life, he was soon forced to take sides in the bloody conflict rocking his country in the wake of the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. Strong, clever, & trusting of no one, he became a fearsome rebel leader. With his expanding cadre of child soldiers he traversed the war-ravaged country, repeatedly dodging death at the hands of competing rebel factions in the bush, angry mobs in the capital city of Kinshasa, & even the rebel-turned-dictator Laurent Kabila himself. The Rebels` Hour thrusts us into Assani`s world, forcing us to navigate the chaos of a lawless country alongside him, compelled by his instinct to survive even in a place where human life has been stripped of value. Though pathologically evasive, Assani
- in Lieve Joris` brilliant portrait
- stands out as a man who is both monstrous & sympathetic, perpetrator & victim.

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The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honour the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendour, through the hands of some of the world s top artisans & craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian & Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork & textiles, & a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, & shell-encrusted grotto. With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, & centuries of a single family s involvement in British & world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, & English interior design. ...