![]() ![]() ![]() The text of the Hong Kong Convention was developed over three and a half years, with input from IMO Member States and relevant non-governmental organizations, and in co-operation with the International Labour Organization and the Parties to the Basel Convention. It also addresses concerns raised about the working and environmental conditions at many of the world's ship recycling locations. ![]() The Hong Kong Convention intends to address all the issues around ship recycling, including the fact that ships sold for scrapping may contain environmentally hazardous substances such as asbestos, heavy metals, hydrocarbons, ozone-depleting substances and others. The Convention is aimed at ensuring that ships, when being recycled after reaching the end of their operational lives, do not pose any unnecessary risks to human health, safety and to the environment. The Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 (the Hong Kong Convention), was adopted at a diplomatic conference held in Hong Kong, China, from 11 to, which was attended by delegates from 63 countries. The development of the Hong Kong Convention ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Somebody ought to have a kin,” she wrote in My Own Two Feet, “so I hurled in a younger sibling to clarify Beezus’ epithet. It jumped out at Cleary (while composing Henry Huggins) that the greater part of the characters she had made hitherto had no siblings or sisters. In the Henry Huggins books Beezus was one of Henry’s companions, and her more youthful sister Ramona was for the most part a vermin to Henry, Beezus and the other kids. The Ramona books became out of Cleary’s before Henry Huggins series and happen in the same neighborhood. ![]() Here and there known as the Beezus and Ramona series, starting 2012 the books were being advertised by HarperCollins as “The Complete Ramona Collection”. Two books in the series were named Newbery Honor books, Ramona and Her Father and Ramona Quimby, Age eight Ramona as well as her mother got the National Book Award. The last book, Ramona’s World, was distributed in 1999. The principal book, Ramona and Beezus, showed up in 1955. The Ramona books are a progression of eight diverting youngsters’ books by Beverly Cleary that inside on Ramona Quimby, her family and companions. ![]() ![]() But for some reason, Eat Pray Love became a tsunami. I’d never been a bestselling author before (I always joke that my first three books had sold “upwards of dozens of copies”), and heaven knows there were already plenty of divorce memoirs, travel memoirs and spiritual memoirs out there on the market before mine hit the bookstores in 2006. Certainly nothing in my life had prepared me for such monumental success. ![]() ![]() In this exclusive extract from a new anthology that brings together the stories of those whose lives were changed by Elizabeth Gilbert’s global phenomenon, the author herself reflects on the inestimable impact of Eat Pray Love ten years after the journey first began.įor the past ten years, I’ve been trying to figure out why Eat Pray Love became such a giant phenomenon in the first place. ![]() ![]() To date I’ve written twelve novels including Be Careful What You Wish For, Me and Mr Darcy, which won Best New Fiction Award at the Jane Austen Regency World Awards, Love From Paris which was shortlisted for the RNA Comedy Award and my latest, Confessions of a Forty-something F#k Up. My first novel, What’s New, Pussycat? was published in 2000, a week before my 30th birthday and immediately made the top ten. After a slight detour which involved a redundancy and saw me travelling to Sydney, Australia and landing a job at Vogue, a chance article about novelists under the age of thirty inspired me to finally take the plunge and try my hand at writing a novel. After graduating from Liverpool University with a degree in English Literature, I moved to London where I worked for various magazines. ![]() ![]() ![]() My childhood dream was always to become a writer. ![]() ![]() Pan, Samira Ahmed - have penned some of the most widely celebrated books of the year, thanks to their crucial and unique takes on important topics like race, grief, family, and faith. The Best YA Books of 2018 are a huge indication of just how impactful the last year of young adult books has been, and many debut authors - Elizabeth Acevedo, Tomi Adeyemi, Emily X.R. But now is a better time than ever to hunker down with some fantastic books, and I've got 30 young adult debut novels from 2018 you definitely don't want to overlook. BookFaceFriday The Midnights by Sarah Nicole Smetana Posted on Decemby Tessa Terry We’re ringing in this BookFaceFriday As we wait for the clock to strike twelve, some of us will be reading in the New Year instead. So, it's pretty likely that you're staring down the last couple of weeks of the year with a huge stack of yet-to-be-read books on your bedside table. The Midnights follows Susannah through a sort of in-between year, one in which she loses someone precious and perhaps gains something priceless. So much happened in the last 12 months, and it can be difficult to remember every celebrity feud, every political scandal, and every viral meme, let alone every book you wanted to rea before the year was over. Near the end of Sarah Nicole Smetana’s debut novel The Midnights, her protagonist, Susannah, muses about the strangeness of these in-between moments, these points of intersection between one thing and the next. ![]() ![]() It was also a tumultuous year politically, socially, and culturally. ![]() It can't be denied that 2018 was an incredible year for books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lost Languages is an archaeological and linguistic detective story that will appeal to anyone interested in ancient peoples and the intricacies of language.Īndrew Robinson's many books include The Story of Writing. The struggle to decipher these three scripts and six others-including the Phaistos disc of Crete and the Zapotec script of Mexico-is recounted with extraordinary depth and erudition in this wonderfully illustrated book. And on isolated Easter Island, the Rongorongo script, inscribed on wood with sharks' teeth, has long been an irresistible magnet for ambitious scholars. Yet the language spoken by the Etruscans remains wrapped in mystery. ![]() Then there are the Etruscans, builders of sensational tombs and the cultural conduit through whom the Greek alphabet reached Rome and the rest of Europe. Perhaps the greatest challenge is the Indus script, the onl writing of the four "first" civilizations that cannot be read and a potential key to better understanding the impressive Indus Valley civilization. He then tackles the important scripts that have yet to be cracked. ![]() Here, Andrew Robinson investigates the most famous examples, beginning with the stories of three great decipherments: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets. ![]() Whether it's the possibility of hearing the voices of ancient peoples or the puzzle solver's taste for the challenges posed by breaking codes, undeciphered scripts have long tantalized the public. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Think of the difference in approach – according to your knowledge of Revelation Space or lack of it – as watching a movie in which the production hid some Easter eggs: old-time fans will recognize them and be delighted, but newcomers will enjoy the story nonetheless. ![]() Still, there is a number of details that surface now and then that can shed more light on the background if you are familiar with Revelation Space, and I was pleasantly surprised by the discovery that I remembered much more than I thought possible, which added to my enjoyment of the story. It’s been a long time since I read Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space trilogy and I have to admit that I approached this new installment with some trepidation, because I know my memory of details and characters might be faulty: I saw that the author said Inhibitor Phase can be read as a standalone, and that’s partly true, because any reference to the previous works (and also the previous timeline of events) is offered in such a way as to provide enough information without need for lengthy and distracting explanations. I received this novel from Orbit Books through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review: my thanks to both of them for this opportunity. ![]() ![]() I already care enough to know how Odd's life will turn out. I will be finishing this series, no matter how pointless it gets. Will surely listen to his other audiobooks.ģ/5 stars. I'll never prefer audiobooks over text, but at least I'm starting to appreciate it a lot. I realized that if the right person narrates it, then it would turn out good, for me. I now take back my statement of how I hated audiobooks. Even the way he portrayed the characters was amazing. It was an easy listen, plus David Erin Baker narrated it perfectly. Plus Odd trying to explain that he's not crazy. The whole book was composed of father _ and sister _ did this and that. This is the third one and I still don't see the point of the series, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. ![]() The thing with this series is that no matter how pointless each book may seem, I still find myself enjoying each one way or another. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, Britain was an island defined by borders, and border-people were known for their second sight. The popularity and ubiquity of ghosts derive from the fact that, alone among the nations of Europe, England is bordered by ancient Celtic nations. The Roman legionaries said England was a land of spirits. We were believed by the ancients to live at the edge of the world, in a land engulfed by mist and twilight. ![]() The English have always loved ghosts and ghost stories. ![]() And the imminence of the festival of Hallowe’en, supposedly the time of supernatural encounters, may encourage such speculations. The rational wisdom of this world may be foolishness. It remains utterly inexplicable, and it may give pause to those who trust solely to materialist explanations of the world. It is for me a genuine instance of the uncanny. It is as clear to me now as it was then, some 30 years ago. It then returned into the sleeping person. It rose from the person as if waking from sleep and then bowed down, at the foot of the bed, apparently in mourning. It was about six or seven inches taller than its host, and its outline seemed to glitter. A silvery shape, or image, rose from a sleeping person. I have seen the ghost of a living being, however. I have never seen ghosts of the dead but I am still afraid of them. Acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd has made a study of documented 'unnatural’ happenings across the length and breadth of our haunted land ![]() As Hallowe’en approaches, the spirits grow restless. ![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrations, in black and white with large quantities of off-putting green, are striking. The tolls of parental resentment, jealousy, envy, and magic manifest in the queen’s behavior as the story progresses. The dwarves are barely seen, but many familiar plot points remain in this graphic adaptation. Also called “the fairest one of all” by the magic mirror, Verona is banished by the queen. The royal family’s lives are richly described, with the inclusion of a new character: trusted lady-in-waiting Verona. They appear throughout the story, continually weaving their evil magic into the queen’s life and encouraging her to do horrible deeds. The queen discovers that three witchy sisters-the king’s cousins-brokered this supernatural deal. He bargained away his soul to give the beautiful wife he cherished the child she longed for and was devastated when she died in childbirth. The bitter man never showed his daughter any love, frequently telling her she was ugly. How does she develop into a murderous monster? Valentino constructs an emotionally complex story that investigates the queen’s origins as the daughter of a cruel mirror maker. ![]() ![]() The evil stepmother in this retelling of “Snow White” starts life as a commoner who marries the king and becomes a loving mother to his little girl. ![]() |