Having dyslexia from childhood can make life difficult. I didn't let this phase me and worked at it to make something good come from it and I have in this autobiography. Its heartfelt, funny and serious and will leave you wanting to read more. From school days to holiday days, working life and living life, it's all here and all the uncertainties that life has to offer. By the time you get to the end you will understand, "why me?"

When Phil is strangely drawn to an old watch in a Beijing curio shop, he little realises that his whole life is about to change. With the help of the watch he travels back in time to take part in momentous episodes in the history of the 20th Century. Interwoven with his time travels adventures are the events shaping his life in the present day, back in his ancestral home in Scotland and in his lively bachelor existence in London. Phil is sometimes in command of the magical watch, and somet...

In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction. While the revolutionary regimes promised economic and social development and sought the unity of Arab nations, they did not account for social transformations, such as freedom of speech, that would eventually lead to their decline. But while radical Arab nationalism fell apart, authoritaria...