Product Description: Mike's World takes a tightly focused view of a single Michael Smith performance persona, "Mike," as it has developed over the course of many years and through innumerable presentation formats. The character Mike functions metaphorically as a kind of ever-hopeful Candide, adrift in a world of rapid technological advances that he seems incapable of fully comprehending, and stymied by the depersonalization and isolation that have accompanied late twentieth-century life...read more

Product Description: Fancy a year out between school and further studies? Thinking of letting the rat-race wait? You need The Gap Year Book - a definitive, practical guide to planning and taking a year out. Packed with essential advice on pre-trip preparation and planning, the inside track on when and where to go, and numerous ideas on what to do, this book is a one-stop gap year shop...read more

Product Description: Worldwide employment guides! Filled with fascinating work-travel opportunitiesWorking in a foreign country is becoming commonplace as the job market broadens globally. Students, business people, teachers, professionals and others regularly take off for a career in an unknown land...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)