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Stranger in the House
'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life' From 1945, more than four million British servicemen were demobbed and sent home after the most destructive war in history. Damaged by fighting, imprisonment or simply separation from their loved ones, these men returned to a Britain that had changed in their absence. In Stranger in the House, Julie Summers tells the women's story, interviewing over a hundred women who were on the receiving end of demobilisation: the mothers, wives, sisters, who had to deal with an injured, emotionally-damaged relative; those who assumed their fiancés had died only to find them reappearing after they had married another; women who had illegitimate children following a wartime affair as well as those whose steadfast optimism was rewarded with a delightful reunion. Many of the tales are moving, some are desperately sad, others are full of humour but all provide a fascinating account of how war altered ordinary women's lives forever.
Directory of Publishing 2002
Now in its 27th edition, and compiled in association with the Publishers Association, this is the most authoritative, detailed trade directory available for the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the Irish Republic. It lists some 1,500 publishers in 22 countries: Australia, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Irish Republic, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda the UK, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In addition to the coverage of publishers the 'Directory' offers in-depth coverage of the wider UK book trade: packagers, authors' agents, trade and allied associations and services. Detailed Appendices and Indexes include who owns whom, UK publishers classified by field of subject speciality, names and addresses of publishers' overseas representatives; overseas publishers represented in the UK; ISBN prefixes; names of key personnel; publishers imprints; agents and associations; UK publishers by post code.
The Healer
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The Emperor's Irish Slaves
Undaunted: Stories About the Irish in Australia
The Sportsmen of Changi
Australian prisoners of war playing sport, at times with their captors, does not fit the picture embedded in the popular imagination of horror and suffering in Japanese POW camps during WWII. But incredibly, sport flourished amidst the hellish conditions in these camps. The Sportsmen of Changi is a moving account of diggers for whom sport was not just a means to boost morale and an escape from a dreadful reality, but a way of feeling human in the face of inhuman suffering. Captives played Aussie Rules football at the infamous Changi Prison, and tennis on the Burmese side of the Burma-Thailand Railway. They played soccer, cricket, baseball or basketball and sometimes their prison guards even ...
Singapore
Set against a backdrop of superb color photographs, an elite team of Singapore's best fiction and non-fiction writers describes the inner workings of island life. Never before have so many top Singapore authors delved into the social and cultural fabric of this vibrant city-state. Contributers include Zuraidah Ibrahim, Gretchen Liu, Violet Oon, Adrian Tan, Ravi Veloo, and Paul Zach.
Singapore
Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental transformation and innovation. The government of the small island republlc, which currently covers about 720 sq km, has thoroughly transformed and extended the lands under its control to serve the needs and ambitions of its citizens. The systematic overhaul of the Singaporean environment reflects a deliberate policy of social transformation, a revolution controlled and monitored from above. While Singapore's achievements in the realm of economic and social development have been carefully observed, little has been said about the close connections between these accomplishments and territorial management. Based on an extended series of diachronic maps, this book illustrates the nature and depth of the territorial changes that have occurred since the early 1960s. The commentary that accompanies the maps shows how Singapore has used this ongoing territorial transformation to support its position in a globalized economy, and also as a tool of social and political management.
