Twenty success stories of the World Wildlife Fund's efforts to save endangered species detail the animals, their habitats, and the hazards that threaten them

Saving the Animals

Stonehouse, Bernard

Business & Money

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Great Racing Disasters

Sports & Outdoors

Weldome, John

Individual Sports

Anything but Rover: The Art and Science of Naming Your Dog : A Breed by Breed Guide Including Mongrels

Humor & Entertainment

MAYLE, PETER

Robins, Arthur

Humor

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The Habsburgs

EDWARD CRANKSHAW

Sick Friends

Gold, Ivan

Literature & Fiction

Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City

Victorian cities, so long the object of derision as a byword for deprivation, are now celebrated as an urban ideal. They are widely heralded among modern planners and politicians for their active citizenship, local democracy, and civic spirit. This is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain’s greatest civic renaissance. Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of the Victorian city, as seen by Dickens, Engels and Carlyle; the influence of the medieval Gothic ideal of faith, community and order espoused by Pugin and Ruskin; the reaction led by Macaulay and Mill, who were repelled by the faux medievalism of the early Victorian years and who championed progress and industry; the pride in self-government, identified with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans; the identification with the city republics of the Italian renaissance – commerce, trade and patronage; the change from the civic to the municipal, and greater powers over health, education and housing, especially in Joe Chamberlain’s Birmingham; and finally at the end of the century, the retreat from the urban to the rural ideal, led by William Morris and the garden-city movement of Ebenezer Howard.

Building Jerusalem: The Rise And Fall of the Victorian City

History

Hunt, Tristram

Middle East

H[subscript 2]O begins by transporting us back to the Big Bang and the formation of galaxies to witness the birth of water's constituent elements: hydrogen and oxygen. Philip Ball shows how these two elements spread through unimaginable expanses of space before combining to form seas and rivers, clouds and snowflakes, cosmic ice, the cytoplasm of cells and the matrix of life itself. He explains how the oceans were formed four billion years ago; where water is to be found on other planets; why ice floats when most solids sink; why, despite being highly corrosive, water is good for us; why there are at least fifteen kinds of ice and perhaps two kinds of liquid water; how scientists have consistently misunderstood water for centuries; and why wars have been waged over it. Philip Ball's offbeat and intelligent book conducts us on a journey through the history of science, folklore, the wilder scientific fringes, cutting-edge chemistry, physics, cell biology and ecology, to give a fascinating new perspective on life and the substance that sustains it.

H20: A Biography of Water

BALL, PHILIP

Science & Math

Anthony Pagden begins his history with the ancient Greeks, who saw themselves as ‘extreme voyagers’. They were explorers, they lived in many different places and they were witnesses to one of the most decisive turning points in human history: the moment when the nomadic life gave way to one which was agricultural, city-dwelling and settled. He then moves on to consider the Romans, who transformed migration into a form of domination and sought to impose ‘civility’ – that is, the lifestyle and laws of the city – upon all whom they conquered. The book culminates in an account of the great European overseas migrations, and the consequences of the initial encounters between ‘civilised’ Europeans and ‘barbarian’ aborigines, the dramatic effects of which are still felt acutely today. Drawing upon literary, anthropological and historical sources from throughout Europe, Peoples and Empires tells the stories of the great movement of peoples in European history. It is a gripping narrative told by one of the finest and most cosmopolitan historians in the Anglophone world.

Peoples and Empires (Universal History)

A.R. Pagden

When his beloved wife died in 1861, Robert Browning's world changed forever. He left Italy, his home for the last fifteen years (the whole of his married life) and returned to London with his career in tatters and a twelve-year-old son who spoke better Italian than English. Henry James said of Browning that there would be 'no more interesting chapter of his biography than that of his return from his long Italian absence, stricken and lonely...to address himself to a future indefinite and obscure'. Pamela Neville-Sington has taken her cue from the novelist and begins her life of Robert Browning with the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.After her death Browning knew he had to break free from Elizabeth's influence to find a way to survive - to live, possibly to love, and to write - without her. He sought to put his marriage behind him, yet the desire to cling to her memory - and to preserve the myth surrounding their life together - was overwhelming. As the story unfolds, we witness Browning's struggle to raise young Pen alone and at the same time to rediscover his poetic inspiration. We also see a lonely man drawn dangerously close to three very different women - the sensitive Julia Wedgwood, the adoring American Katharine Bronson, and the impetuous Louisa, Lady Ashburton.

Robert Browning: A Life After Death

Biographies & Memoirs

NEVILLE-SINGTON, Pamela

Community & Culture

Ann Widdecombe's The Clematis Tree opens deceptively with a party in a sunny Surrey garden. It is a happy day, with relations and friends celebrating the christening of Mark and Claire's new daughter, Pippa. Jeremy, their young son, spots a pet rabbit racing across the large garden and rushes through the main gate and out into the lane. A speeding sports car knocks him down and although Jeremy survives, he is now severely brain-damaged. Widdecombe shows how a middle-class couple and their family are forced to cope with a catastrophe they never imagined could happen to them. Although also drawing on her parliamentary knowledge, The Clematis Tree is about people - at work, on holiday, living day by day - and how they, in their different ways, react when death threatens. What is Claire's guilty secret, she who is so outwardly efficient in dealing with Jeremy in his utterly dependent state? Mark ponders escape, but has he the nerve? Does the attention lavished on Jeremy foster Pippa's resentment? Can Claire's wealthy, self-made father provide a solution? And what effect does Claire's younger sister, Sally, an MP, have when she launches a Private Member's Bill that would legalise euthanasia?

Clematis Tree

Widdecombe, Ann

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