Goupi Red Hands is a bucolic loner, slow, shrewd, self-sufficient, and devoted to his existence in harmony with his rural life. He despises his family's secretive, small-minded, mean lives in deepest 1930s agricultural France. When a close relative arrives from Paris to marry a cousin, another family member is murdered. Goupi investigates, and uncovers the murderer in a dramatic denouement. This is a Gallic romp, amusing, and filled with unusual detail on French country life.

Goupi Red Hands

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Véry, Pierre

Mystery

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Pierre Véry's gripping mystery The Murder of Father Christmas involves a double murder and a double theft of precious stones from a church in a small town in Lorraine in the midst of a snowstorm around Christmas time. Despite the absence from the story of the peasant-sleuth Goupi Red Hands, the hero of Alan Grimes's previous translations of Véry, a racy and highly readable version is provided here of a fine example of the French roman noir.

The Murder of Father Christmas

Literature & Fiction

The Jesus Secret

Religion & Spirituality

Og, Aim

Christian Books & Bibles

Believe And Behold It Is!

Dolphins have become one of the ocean's most sought-after creatures. Since antiquity, Dolphins have possessed an undeniable, mysterious and compelling allure for humankind, which in recent years has intensified, inspiring everything from New Age fervour to multi-million dollar theme parks. In our profit-driven age, suppliers are never far behind demand, and having discovered people will eagerly pay exorbitant sums for the opportunity to get close, lucrative captive "Dolphin-swim" attractions have sprung up in many tropical vacation destinations. A recent BBC poll found "Swimming with Dolphins" topping the list of "50 Things To Do Before You Die." Rekindling the Waters: The Truth About Swimming with Dolphins is an intimate exposé of this popular phenomenon, illuminating the little-known dark side of this increasingly controversial activity. What really lies behind the dolphins' smile may surprise you. Dolphins are among the world's most beloved and beleaguered creatures and a closer look reveals the shocking truth: how a whimsical or well-earned holiday excursion to swim with captive Dolphins can support horrendous suffering. An examination of the latest scientific research regarding Dolphin behaviour, intelligence, self-awareness and culture is presented, and this rich and diverse evidence raises dynamic ethical questions, eliciting a call for change in the way we regard and treat our fellow beings. Hope lies in shifting the underlying attitudes responsible for our participation in such harmful activities. As people realize the detrimental reality, it is hoped these harmful activities will cease. Rekindling the Waters: The Truth About Swimming with Dolphins is essential reading for anyone who loves dolphins. With Dolphins as a symbol for Nature, this book shows us that by rekindling a wiser and more respectful relationship with them, we take a vital step toward a better, kinder world.

Rekindling the Waters: The Truth About Swimming With Dolphins

Science & Math

Lemieux, Leah

Biological Sciences

Society has always been threatened by those who presume to know the truth for us all. This threat has never been more keenly felt than it is today. After considering both religious belief and atheism, Jews, Myth and History encourages a quest for answers and discourages the belief that any of us possesses the whole truth. With clarity, information and deep probing it leads us towards increased awareness and tolerance, and towards finding our own path through the minefield of competing claims.   In this book, Alan Silver takes a broad look at Jewish origins, belief and practice. He considers the role of myth and history in producing the Bible’s epic story of the Jewish people, and compares this with what the flood of scholarship since the Enlightenment has revealed. He explains that the Bible is not, and was never intended to be, a history book and that reading it correctly means that it still can speak to us in the twenty-first century.

Jews, Myth and History: A Critical Exploration of Contemporary Jewish Belief and Its Origins

History

Silver, Alan

World

For a long time people have been contacting parts of the world through their sense organs which feed sensations for interpretations into their brain/mind assembly so as to produce views of or beliefs about these parts. People also create and communicate views to others. The means of contact and communication are called 'things that stand for other things' like images (pictures, sculptures, gestures, signs etc) and symbols (natural language, music and mathematics) which consist of a medium carrying meaning. The development of 'things' over thousands of years reflects the evolution of descriptive, explanatory and predictive qualities of beliefs. 'Heated bones', 'tarot cards' and many others and ultimately 'quantitative properties of conventional science' illustrate this development. Conventional science views parts of the world as phenomena classified according to shared properties which are used to create mathematical relations or models which translate notions, fundamental or not, into refutable relationships by exposing them to test of experience. There is another view of parts of the world, the view of related objects, the 'systemic view' of complexity and hierarchy which is claimed to be pervasive and indivisible. The aim of this book is to show how to convert the systemic view into systems science by following the method of conventional science so as to model aspects of the immense variety and diversity of objects (natural, technical, living, human and their conceivable combinations) and their activities. This is carried out by identifying features considered fundamental and pervasive such as the notions of properties, objects and their relations or interactions in terms of flow of energy or information, together with the symbolism of formalised natural language supplemented by mathematics.

Science and Design of Systems

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Korn, Janos

Psychology & Counseling

This book pushes literary theory into unexplored grounds to articulate the modern and contemporary condition of interstitiality through an innovative discussion of literary and philosophical underpinnings and interpretation of works by Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo. It will appeal to Italianists and anyone studying Italian literature.

Interstitial Writing: Calvino, Caproni, Sereni And Svevo

Bartoloni, Paolo

History & Criticism

<p>This is the first time that the personal letters and writings of Italian Novelist Italo Svevo have been brought together into one volume. These writings cover the period 1901- 1926 during which Svevo stayed in London. Under his real name of Ettore Schmitz, he managed a factory in Charlton that manufactured underwater paints for the Royal Navy. Svevo was perpetually surprised by England, which he admired and criticised in equal measure. His letters to his wife chronicle his day to day life in Charlton. The writings are intriguing because they reveal a different side of the novelist and allow a glimpse of how his English experiences filtered through into his fiction writing!</p>

This England Is So Different: Italo Svevo's London Writings

Biographies & Memoirs

Gatt-Rutter, John

Moloney, Brian

Arts & Literature

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