Snow Over Surabaya

Snow Over SurabayaNot many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names 'K'tut Tantri' and 'Surabaya Sue' being the best know she joined in the struggle for Indonesian independence after the Second World War and broadcast its revolutionary message to the world on Rebel Radio. But she did more and smuggled arms, and probably drugs, to help

light and fascinating side-stories

she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits - in the absence of a cure - of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills

from the inspiring proverbs printed on the kangas used to carry East African newborns on their mother's back to the Japanese ritual where Sumo wrestlers are asked to make infants cry

Richard Brodie dropped out of Harvard to join the computer revolution and write the first version of Microsoft Word

Expert answers to those big questions children ask

He wrote that the First Emperor was buried with palaces

Ken and Ching have transformed the way we cook and eat Chinese food

entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small

and foreign breeds--all featuring full-color identification photography plus photographs of varieties to show variations within the breed

It contains over 50 enticing and tasty dairy-free recipes - including favourite dishes made dairy-free and with brand new ideas to try

the tennis lessons and their suffocatingly strict mother

but awaiting her in the sky city is danger