This collection of poems looks into and through our troubled world by means of a poetic sensibility that transforms history into metaphysics and disaster into possibility. Here is the voice of one of contemporary poetry's new masters

Powerful reading... From brilliant opening to its shocking conclusion, The Damnation Game is a compelling work

This is a collection of stories about nature and people

From his childhood in the segregrated Soth to his current fight with Parkinson

It tells the hillarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria

After his mother’s death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna

It is story about mouse. Ralph is not like the other mice at the Mountain View Inn. He is always looking for adventure.

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.

Developming is about inproving the qulity of people's lives, expanding their ability to shape their own futures

The cities was created in 1999 as a global coalition of cities and their development partners committed to scaling up successful approaches to urban poverty reduction. By promoting the positive effects of urbanisation, the alliance supports learning between cities and governments, international development agencies and financial institutions.