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A Book of Silence
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Sara Maitland
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After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth, Western and Eastern religious traditions, the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis, up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated Scottish moor, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home.
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Deep Beyond the Reef
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Tulipomania
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In 1630s' Holland thousands of people, from the wealthiest merchants to the lowest street traders, were caught up in a frenzy of buying and selling. The object of the speculation was not oil or gold, but the tulip, a delicate and exotic bloom that had just arrived from the east. Over three years, rare tulip bulbs changed hands for sums that would have bought a house in Amsterdam: a single bulb could sell for more than 300,000 at today's prices. Fortunes were made overnight, but then lost when, within a year, the market collapsed. Mike Dash recreates this bizarre episode in European history, separating myth from reality. He traces the hysterical boom and devastating bust, bringing to life a colourful cast of characters, and beautifully evoking Holland's Golden Age.
1001 Wines You Must Try Before You Die
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For thousands of years wine has been among humankind's greatest pleasures and most potent symbols. 1001 Wines You Must Try Before You Die identifies the wines and vintages most likely to please the palette, explains what makes them so special and suggests when they will show at their best.
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26.2 : Marathon Stories
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Traces the history of this solitary endurance feat and its place in contemporary popular culture in twenty-six informative and entertaining chapters.
Over one million people will run in an organized marathon this year. And fifty million will be standing along the sidelines, cheering them on. From London and Berlin to Los Angeles and Beijing, the same challenge will be issued and the same distance conquered 26.2 miles.
Hot on the heels of the world's fastest-growing independent athletic competition, authors Kathrine Switzer and Roger Robinson take the full measure of the marathon race an epic distance that has immortalized heroes, ignited scandals and created a multi-billion-dollar shoe industry.
In twenty-six informative and entertaining chapters, they trace the history of this solitary endurance feat and its current place in contemporary popular culture.
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2Do Before I Die
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A Book of Silence
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After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Her memoir of these experiences is interwoven with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth, Western and Eastern religious traditions, the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis, up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. "A Book of Silence" is a deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.
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A Brief History of the Human Race
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Michael Cook
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Surveying the whole of human history over the last ten thousand years, Michael Cook addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past.
Why did we first emerge as a species in Africa? How did the great world religions arise and the worship of many gods give way to just one? Zooming in on some of the details of history, from the arcane burial customs of ancient Mexican kings to the design of snuff boxes, Cook shows that humankind has rarely been slow to take advantage of an opportunity, from the domestication of the horse to the exploration of space.
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A Corner of a Foreign Field: the Indian history of a British sport
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Ramachandra Guha
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A book that seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book, but so too, in arresting and unexpected ways, do Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great English cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The extraordinary life of India's first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, introduces the reader to the still-unfinished struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the extraordinary passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan.
An important, pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in cricket and India,
A Corner of a Foreign Field
is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large, ...
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Adam's Curse : A future without men
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Genetically speaking, the big difference between men and women is that where women have two X chromosomes, men have one X and one Y. It is surprising that one chromosome difference out of our total of twenty-six can have such an important consquence, but it does. Is this relatively small genetic variance really sufficient to explain the differences between the sexes, not just the physical but the psychological, social, even cultural?
Drawing on his own work at the forefront of modern genetics and the exciting theories of evolutionary biology, Bryan Sykes takes us on a fascinating exploration into the science of sex and gender, and takes a scientific look at what makes men tick. From the most basic questions: Why are there only two sexes in humans? Why is there sex at all? To an examination of maleness: Is there a genetic cause for men's promiscuity? Is there such a thing as the male homosexual gene? Can science offer an explanation ...
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Affluenza : When too much is never enough
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Clive Hamilton & Richard Denniss
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The Western world is in the grip of a consumerism that is unique in human history. We overwork, we spend huge amounts on things we never use, then we chuck them out. The author of the bestselling Growth Fetish pries into our wardrobes, kitchens and backyards, and shows us what choice really means. Our houses are bigger than ever - but our families are smaller. We've got designer kitchens - but we rarely cook our own food. Our kids go to the best schools we can buy - but we hardly get to see them because we're always at work. We spend more on food for our pampered pets than we do on aid to famine-ridden countries. We've got more money to spend, and yet are further in debt than ever before. What is going on? The Western world is in the grip of a consumerism that is unique in human history. We aspire to the luxury lifestyles of the rich and famous, and we fail to acknowledge the things that have been crowded out: family, friends, and ...
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A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do
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Kathleen Baty
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A master class in personal safety today for women of all ages.
Whether you are leaving home to go to university, living alone and working late, looking after small children, or not as fleet of foot as you used to be, if you are a woman, you will have particular and inevitable concerns about safety.
This practical guide to staying safe in the modern world shows you how to: travel without trouble; avoid date-rape drugs; deal with men who won’t take no for an answer; protect yourself from a stalker; and deal with problems in the workplace or surfing the net. To empower you wherever you decide to go, there is also advice on self-defence techniques and useful self-defence products as well as a comprehensive resource guide.
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Altered English
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Jeffrey Kacirk
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An Anthology
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Weil, Simone
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An Anthropologist on Mars
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Oliver Sacks (Clinical Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College, New York, USA)
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This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
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An Imaginary Tale
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Paul J. Nahin
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Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use - from electrical engineering to aeronautics - that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In "An Imaginary Tale", Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i. He recreates the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up, and the colourful characters who tried to solve them. In 1878, when two brothers stole a mathematical papyrus from the ancient Egyptian burial site in the Valley of Kings, they led scholars to the earliest known occurrence of the square root of a negative number. The papyrus offered a specific numerical example of how to calculate the volume of a truncated square pyramid, which implied the need for i.In the first century, the mathematician-engineer Heron of Alexandria encountered 'i' in a separate project, ...
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Antarctica : Exploring a Fragile Eden
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Jonathan Scott & Angela Scott
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A beautiful large-format history of a surprisingly fragile Eden.
'A journey to Antarctica changes your life. It forces you to take a long hard look at the state of our planet and its last wild places!Antarctica promises man the chance to do something that he has never done before - commit to the preservation of a vast wilderness, simply because it exists.'
Best known for their African safaris, Jonathan and Angela Scott's other passion lies in their travels to Antarctica. When the sun sets at the end of a hot day in the Mara-Serengeti, they long for the austere and beautiful landscape of the Antarctic. A journey to the southern ocean offers an array of emblematic creatures - penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales. A spectacular number of birds flock to the breeding colonies there each year, and whales gather in the southern oceans to feed during the Antarctic summer making it the perfect location for whale ...
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A Plea for Eros
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Siri Hustvedt
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The author of the acclaimed novel What I Loved returns with a stunning collection of reflections on experience, language and literature, looking at identity, attraction, relationships, mental illness, the power of the imagination, and other topics. “Readers will find both emotional and intellectual resonance in Hustvedt’s deeply personal essays.” — Publishers Weekly.
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A Prisoner in the Garden : Opening Nelson Mandela's prison archive
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Nelson Mandela Foundation
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A prisoner in the Garden
is a living record of Nelson Mandela's 27 years in prison. It includes rare photographs and video footage, Mandela's handwritten letter to family, friends and the the authorities, his personal diaries and notes, official records, medical records and legal documents. Together they form an extraordinary picture of prison life but, even more remarkably, of a man who, together with his close comrades, never gave up the fight for freedom and the vision of a liberated country.
First published 2005.
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Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide
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Maureen Dowd
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Four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out the way it was supposed to. The sexes are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever, from the bedroom to the boardroom to the Situation Room. Dowd explores the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat in America
First published 2005.
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