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1Geneva. City of sunlight and bright reflections. Of billowing white sails on the lake - sturdy, irregular buildings above, their rippling images on the water below. Of myriad flowers surrounding blue-green pools of fountains - duets of exploding colours. Of small quaint bridges arching over and...

METRIC EDITIONS: NOTE For linear measure all measurements are shown in either metres or millimetres. A decimal point is used to distinguish metres and millimetres, the figures to the left of the decimal point being metres and those to the right millimetres. To save needless repetition,the...

spring, Present Nara Prefecture, Japan Masashigi Kusunoki, the sensei of this dojo, was making tea. He knelt on the reed lalami, his kimono, light grey on dark grey, swirled around him as if he were the eye of a great dark whirlpool. He poured the steaming hot water into the earthenware cup...

PrologueFifty miles out of Washington they swung north away from the Shenandoah and the soft Virginia countryside turned raggedly poor and lonely.In a little while they drove through a heavily rebutted underpass which traversed Interstate Highway 81 and then, just past the West Virginia border,...