In the predawn hours, a woman`s marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across town, an immigrant family struggles to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away, a soldier wakes up in hospital with the vague feeling he`s done something awful. In a single moment, these disparate lives intersect. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or to find the courage & resilience to rise. We Are Called to Rise is a story about a child`s fate. It is a story about families
- the ones we have & the ones we make. It challenges us to think about our responsibilities to each other while reminding us that compassion & charity can rescue even our darkest moments.
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We Are Everywhere is a whirlwind collection of writings, images & ideas for direct action by people on the frontlines of the global anticapitalist movement. This is a movement of untold stories, because those from below are not those who get to write history, even though we are the ones making it. We Are Everywhere wrenches our history from the grasp of the powerful & returns it to the streets, fields & neighbourhoods where it was made. ...

`A total page-turner...very moving & touching.` JACQUELINE WILSON A brilliantly funny & wonderfully warm-hearted story about love, family, & what it means to be different. Sydney thinks her mum Amy is the best mum in the world
- even if she is a bit different. When everyone else kept growing, Amy got to four feet tall & then stopped right there. The perfect height, in Sydney`s opinion: big enough to reach the ice cream at the supermarket, small enough to be special. Sydney`s dad died when she was only five, but her memories of him, her mum`s love & the company of her brave big sister Jade means she never feels alone.. . But when the family are forced to move house, things get tricky. Sydney & Jade must make new friends, deal with the bullies at their new school & generally figure out the business of growing up in a strange new town. & Sydney doesn`t want to grow up
- not if it means getting bigger than her mum...

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Iran has more Web diarists than any other country, & many Iranians use cyberspace to express opinions in print with a freedom that has not been available to them since the state closed all critical newspapers. This book is a group portrait of today`s `real` Iranians, of an Iran never before seen in the West. ...

Devastated by the series of terrorist attacks that killed 130 people
- the deadliest attacks on France since World War II
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Our cry should be listened to by the whole world A”
- Mathambo Sesana, (San) Bushman, Botswana From the frozen taiga of Siberia
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Everything we think, do & refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires & our characters. Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dick Swaab shows that we don`t just have brains: we are our brains. `A blockbuster about the brain.. . provocative, fascinating, remarkable` Clive Cookson, Financial Times `A giant in the field` Zoe Williams, Guardian ` Engrossing, intriguing & enlightening` Robin Ince ` Enchantingly written` The Times Higher Education ` Wide-ranging, fun & informative.. . as an ice-breaker at parties, it is unmatched` Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times ...

Tomás is a game designer
- but he can`t see his ideas through. Tomás also works in a university
- where he spends most of his

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A film tie-in edition to 20th Century Fox`s film adaptation of the heart-warming international bestseller starring Scarlett Johansson & Matt Damon & directed by Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe. An amazing true story that has inspired the major Hollywood motion picture this Christmas, to be repackaged for release alongside the film. We Bought a Zoo is about one young family, a broken down zoo, & the wild animals that changed their lives forever. When Ben [played by Damon] & his wife Katherine [played by Johansson] sold their small flat in Primrose Hill, upped sticks with their children & invested their savings into a dilapidated zoo on the edge of Dartmoor, they were prepared for a challenge & a momentous change in all their lives. With over 200 exotic animals to care for
- including an African lion, a wolf pack, a Brazilian tapir & a jaguar
- Ben`s hands, & those of his wife, children & tiny team of keepers, were full. What they weren`t prepared for was Katherine`s devastating second brain cancer diagnosis. Ben found himself juggling the daunting responsibilities of managing the park`s staff & finances, while holding the bailiffs at bay & caring for his wife. A moving & entertaining story of courage & a family`s attempts to rebuild a zoo, & carry on after Katherine`s tragic death.

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A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity & self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier & harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge
- first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War & later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital & migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political & economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men & punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies & the true heroes of British theatre. 'superb, colourful, outspoken, fresh & richly entertaining. Don't miss'
- The Times. ' Lively, full of rich anecdotes & sparkling pen portraits. He has the rare gift of being able to explain complex issues in a few crisp sentences'
- Sunday Telegraph.


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