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MORPURGO, MICHAEL

Birmingham, Christian

Animals

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Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought

Religion & Spirituality

Ross, Nancy W.

Buddhism

Against Therapy

Masson, Jeffrey

Self-Help

Wild Flowers (Collins New Naturalist)

John Scott Lennox Gilmour

Max Walters

This work provides a clear exposition of Jung's theories showing his ideas to be relevant to the times in which we live. His emphasis on the spiritual aspect to existence contrasts with Freud's insistence on the physical.

Jung

Science & Math

Storr,Anthony

Behavioral Sciences

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

[Read by Gildart Jackson] Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject. -- Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the revelatory ascents over the great Victorian cities and sprawling industrial towns of Northern Europe, the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise, and the French photographer Felix Nadar -- to the terrifying high-altitude flights of James Glaisher, FRS, who rose above seven miles without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology as well as the environmental notion - so important to us today - of a ''fragile'' planet. Balloons were also used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the American Civil War, including a memorable flight by General Custer. -- Readers will discover the many writers and dreamers -- from Mary Shelley to Edgar Allan Poe, from Charles Dickens to Jules Verne -- who felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. Moreover, through the strange allure of the great balloonists, Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision.

Engineering & Transportation

HOLMES, Richard

Transportation

“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

Jasanoff, Maya

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