Syria Burning : A Short History of a Catastrophe by Charles Glass

Syria Burning : A Short History of a Catastrophe by Charles GlassSince the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee their homes. Militant Sunni groups, such as ISIS, have taken control of large swathes of the nation. The impact of this catastrophe is now being felt on the streets of Europe and the United States. Veteran Middle East expert Charles Glass combines

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No Voyage and Other Poems

including:Charles Dickens on the smell of booksMaya Angelou on the pleasures of reading aloudVirginia Woolf on finding space for writingNick Hornby on reading for pure enjoymentand much more

Nicola Sturgeon and many more - reflect on the long-standing idea that women

in black families

This sparkling selection of writing by the best of new

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2 million mixed people in Britain and millions more elsewhere

between 1978 and 1979

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