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Three deftly spun, emotionally resonant stories with the feel of time-honoured fables but the freshness of a contemporary voice. When Tashi's mother falls ill and is unable to work, Tashi looks to the monkeys on a Himalayan tea plantation for help...Yazul and his clan, trapped inside their desert fortress by bandits, are saved from starvation by fiercesome dragon kites...Issa, the old mountain guide, has his life turned upside down when he stumbles upon a camel sheltering a baby girl in a desert storm...

Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, and has money to burn. In this timely, revealing and evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces the emirate's dramatic development and the sometimes ruinous effect of extreme wealth on its people and their desert culture. And as its rulers fund another giant leap forward, she probes behind the official facade to examine whether this secretive and controlled society can realise its breathtaking plans to transform relations between East and West. " The Good War ," for which Studs Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize, is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Terkel as interviewer. As always, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what "People" magazine has called a splendid epic history of World War II. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the Painting Out the Stars free epub global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history.

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Author: Mal Peet,Elspeth Graham,Michael Foreman
Number of Pages: 144 pages
Published Date: 02 Jun 2011
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781406324860
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