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The Blue Door
A unique and heartbreaking memoir of a child's imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp during World War II.1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing...'On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe and the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away from Norwegian-born Lise and her siblings. Then one day, her friends and neighbours start to disappear, and she begins to realise that they are not safe after all.Through ten-year-old eyes, Lise tells of her family's two-year imprisonment in POW camps and the brutal treatment received at the hands of their Japanese captors. For respite from the rat-infested floor of their shelter they adopt a blue door, which sits on concrete posts in the ground. They live on it during the day as young Lise plots ways to protect her family from disease, starvation and the desperate behaviour of fellow prisoners. This is a little girl's heartbreaking tale of survival.'A devastating portrayal of a child's loss of innocence to humiliating cruelty' Observer* The Blue Door is published in paperback as The Little Captive.
The Little Captive
'I took hold of the fence and pressed my face into the wire, asking myself what I had done to be made a prisoner?' On the Indonesian island of Java, eight-year-old Lise enjoys a happy childhood, thousands of miles away from the war raging in Europe. Then, one day in 1942, her friends and neighbours start to disappear. For two years, Lise and her family were imprisoned in POW camps, surviving starvation, illness and brutal treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors - but they never gave up hope. This is the remarkable true story of a little girl who, even in the darkest depths of war, was able to look beyond the barbed wire, to a time when she would be free. First published in hardback as The Blue Door.
Oxygen and Sunshine
Anjali has a dream marriage, a wonderful husband, lovely children and a cozy satisfying life. But like all dreams, hers would end too. What happens as tragedy strikes her when she least expects it? The home she has built very carefully has broken into pieces. Does Anjali find her home again? This book is a sweeping saga of love stories: of a lover, of a wife, of a mother, of a grandmother and of a woman who blooms into her own and finds herself. Journey with Anjali as her life unfolds with hopes, dreams and aspirations, with love, loneliness and disappointments, and with adventure, excitement and success.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
This 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentaries. Includes Parts IX and X of the original set — ballads 266-305 — plus indexes, glossary.
Catchment and River Basin Management
The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water – governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. The authors present a systematic analysis of case study river systems drawn from Australia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, UK and USA to provide an integrated global assessment of the scale and key features of catchment management. A key premise explored is that despite the diversity of jurisdictions and catchments there are commonalities to a successful approach. The authors show that environmental and public health water quality criteria must be integrated with the economic ...
Innovation for Sustainability
The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for sustainability. Combining work from both emerging and established scholars in different academic fields, this book provides an integrated understanding of the topic from four perspectives. First, the big picture: frameworks, types, and drivers; second, strategy and leadership; third, measurement and assessment and fourth, tools, methods and technologies. Chapter 11 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The editors donate their remuneration for this book to conservation organisation the WWF.
De kleine gevangene
Java, 1942. De achtjarige Lise leidt een idyllisch leventje en de oorlog lijkt ver weg. Totdat het eiland plotseling wordt bezet door de Japanners. Binnen enkele maanden worden alle Europeanen - voornamelijk Nederlandse en Vlaamse moeders en kinderen die gescheiden worden van de vaders - gevangen gezet. Twee jaar lang zal Lise samen met haar moeder, haar jongere zusje Karin en haar babybroertje Lasse onder de meest erbarmelijke omstandigheden in een Jappenkamp verblijven, waar martelingen en doodslag aan de orde van de dag zijn. De jonge Lise bedenkt allerlei manieren om haar zieke en verzwakte moeder te beschermen en om Karin en Lasse voor uithongering en gruwelijke wreedheden te behoeden. Haar uithoudingsvermogen en haar wil om te overleven blijken sterker dan het sterkste prikkeldraad.
The English and Scottish Ballads
Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.
Major Companies of Europe, 1999
This annual directory has been revised and updated for 1999 to provide a comprehensive source of information on the major public and private companies of Western Europe. It includes detailed information on each of the 24,000 companies featured over the four volume set.
