Green Shadows, White Whale

Literature & Fiction

BRADBURY,RAY

Contemporary

Alfred.A. Knopf

A not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, where individuals and scholars are outcasts and where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Montag, trained by the state to be a destroyer, throws away his can of kerosene and begins to read a book.

Fahrenheit 451

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Harper Collins Education

A classic collection of stories -- all told on the skin of a man -- from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art! Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories -- voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations! the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man.

The Illustrated Man (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Science & Math

HarperVoyager

The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's 1940s short stories of a brutal, stark and unforgiving martian landscape were as shocking and visionary as they were insightful. 'The Martian Chronicles' tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a pin dot. Those few that survived found no welcome. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up. More rockets arrived from Earth, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them -- and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.

The Martian Chronicles

Genre Fiction

Flamingo

trade edition paperback, fine (as new)

History

Europe

We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalization, tackles Third World Debt as a situation that must be resolved if we are ever to see global stability. For every $1 the West gives to developing countries in aid, developing countries pay the West $9 in debt service. At the beginning of the new millennium we are witnessing a global debt crisis of unprecedented size. Sub-Saharan Africa owes $200 billion, Brazil $223.8 billion, Argentina $155 billion. Why does this matter? In this shocking, ground-breaking book, Noreena Hertz shows that these numbers matter because they account for millions of people dying of AIDS; for the rainforests being cut down; for poverty, illiteracy, terrorism and war. These numbers matter because they will affect all of our lives if the balance is not redressed. 'IOU' is a story of avarice but also of vulnerability; of power asymmetries and misuse of influence; of corrupt dictators and careless lenders; of Cold War interests and Wall Street pressure; of third world governments who get given it, and third world people who have no access to it. Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalisation, argues that this is not an issue of left or right: it is an issue of right versus wrong, of peace versus war. It must be addressed now.

Business & Money

Economics

One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451.In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them ‘Homecoming’, ‘Veldt’, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ and ‘The Long Rain’.Join an ill-fated crew of astronauts pushed to the brink of insanity by the incessant and highly corrosive rain on Venus, a high-tech virtual reality playroom that comes to life with terrible consequences, and a safari company offering tours for the wealthy back in time to the prehistoric era to stalk and kill dinosaurs, resulting in the present they return to being irrevocably altered.This collection is a rare treasure trove of wonder; as apprehensive about technology and the fate of humanity as it is elegiaic of its irrepressible progress. Each story presents an enlightening and poetic facet of Bradbury’s writing, every one as relevant now as when it was first written.

Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 (v. 1)

RAY BRADBURY STORIES VOLUM TPB (v. 2)

Literary

Dandelion Wine (English and French Edition)

Paperback. Pub Date :2008-12-01 Pages: 176 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A poignant and brilliant sequel to Dandelion Wine from the author of Fahrenheit 451.In Green Town Illinois. Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this. the second book in Bradbury's semi-fictionalised account of his childhood.As the school board's figure of authority Mr Calvin C.Quartermain attempts to outwit the boys at every turn. their antics increase and become ever more daring and mischevious.Once the shadow of winter draws across Green Town. the boys quickly realise that their enemy is not so much the senior members of their own community. but rather time itself which is ever ebbing away. just beyond the reach of their most daring trick yet: a bold attempt to sabotage the town's clock.

FAREWELL SUMMER PB

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Green Shadows, White Whale

Fahrenheit 451

The Illustrated Man (Flamingo Modern Classics)

The Martian Chronicles

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 (v. 1)

RAY BRADBURY STORIES VOLUM TPB (v. 2)

Dandelion Wine (English and French Edition)

FAREWELL SUMMER PB