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Fr Fabers most famous essays Kindness Death and SelfDeceit Includes also Heaven Hell Frequent Confession Wounded Feelings Taking Scandal The Monotony of Piety Confidence Spiritual Reading Weariness in WellDoing and All Men Have a Special Vocation Fr Faber knows intimately the weakness of our poor hearts and offers remedies like a wise doctor
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This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room first performed in 1960 to Celebration which premiered in 2000The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the playwrights death and coincides with Pinter at the Pinter a celebratory season staging twenty of his oneact plays at the Harold Pinter Theatre London 2018With a foreword by Antonia Fraser The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
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Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets including Patrick Kavanagh Louis MacNeice Thomas Kinsella John Montague Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley
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After Robert Aickmans death in 1981 the manuscript of The Model a wintry rococo fable set in Czarist Russia was located among his papers Aickman had told a friend he considered this novella to be one of the best things I have ever written if not the very best It was duly published for the first time in 1987 The Model tells of Elena a grave girl inclined to losing herself in dreams of becoming a student ballerina or coryphee Her dolour darkens further when she learns she is to be sold into marital slavery by her father so as to settle the familys debts Refusing an unendurable future she sets out to the city of Smorevsk to pursue her dream First however she must traverse a landscape crowded by highly curious characters and creatures A must for Aickman fans A model of eloquent elegant enchantment Robert Bloch Psycho
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Naturalist Joe Huttos latest adventures in wildlife observation take him to Wyomings Wind River Mountains Hutto is living in a tent at 12000 feet where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers Huttos job is to find out why For months at a time he follows the bighorn herds meets mountain lions and bears weathers injury and storms and beautifully observes the incredible splendor of the Rocky Mountains Hutto has a deep connection to Wyoming having managed a large cattle ranch in his past He weaves Wyomings history of the cowboy mountain ecology and the lives of the bighorn sheep into a beautiful flowing narrative Ultimately he discovers that the lambs are dying of a form of nutritional muscular dystrophy due to selenium deficiency which is caused by acid rain a grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution Here is a new twist on a cautionary tale and a new voice eloquently expressing the urgency that we mend our ways
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Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers Huttos job is to find out whyFor months at a time he follows the bighorn herds meets mountain lions and bears weathers injury and storms and beautifully observes the incredible splendor of the Rocky MountainsHutto has a deep connection to Wyoming having managed a large cattle ranch in his past He weaves Wyomings history of the cowboy mountain ecology and the lives of the bighorn sheep into a beautiful flowing narrative Ultimately he discovers that the lambs are dying of cystic fibrosis due to selenium deficiency which is caused by acid rain a grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution Here is a new twist on a cautionary tale and a new voice eloquently expressing the urgency that we mend our ways
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Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures These mysterious nocturnal creatures are thought to be symbols of wisdom omens of death and bringers of prophecy In fact owls are one of the oldest species of vertebrate animal with fossils dating back 60 million yearsOwls have been a source of inspiration to writers artists historians and naturalists alike In a muchanticipated volume on one of Britains most fascinating group of birds Mike Toms draws on a wealth of experience and research providing a comprehensive natural history of British owlsThe first part of the book covers various aspects of owl taxonomy origins anatomy behaviour and ecology and looks across the British owl species drawing comparisons and highlighting differences The second part takes each species in turn to provide a more detailed perspective fleshing out relevant conservation issues behaviour and statusToms explores Britains beloved Barn Owl Tawny Owl and Snowy Owl amongst several others He uses the vast database and latest research from his work with the British Trust for Ornithology BTO to focus particularly on the specifics of owls breeding ecology their dispersal patterns diet vocalisations description population changes and mortality He addresses conservation issues changes in legislation and potential changes in the status of one of Britains most iconic birds providing a fascinating overview of the biology and history of British owls
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Contrary to public perception sand dunes are not barren piles of sand They are alive with plant life The dunes themselves even move sometimes several inches a year InnbspDune CountrynbspJanice Emily Bowers takes readers from New Mexicos White Sands to Utahs Coral Pink Dunes to the Death Valley dunes of California and beyond Beautifully written and illustratednbspDune Countrynbspis a perfect introduction to the fragile ecosystems of sand dunes
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During a meteoric career that spanned from 1825 to 1834 David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna over many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest Despite his early death colleagues in Great Britain attached the Douglas name to more than 80 different species including the iconic timber tree of the region David Douglas a Naturalist at Work is a colorfully illustrated collection of essays that examines various aspects of Douglass career demonstrating the connections between his work in the Pacific Northwest of the 19th century and the place we know today From the Columbia Rivers perilous bar to luminous blooms of mountain wildflowers from everchanging frontiers of technology to the quiet seasonal rhythms of tribal families gathering roots these essays collapse time to shed light on people and landscapes This volume is the companion book to a major museum exhibit about Douglass Pacific Northwest travels that will open at the Northwest Museum of Arts amp Culture in Spokane in September 2012
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Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures These mysterious nocturnal creatures are thought to be symbols of wisdom omens of death and bringers of prophecy In fact owls are one of the oldest species of vertebrate animal with fossils dating back 60 million yearsOwls have been a source of inspiration to writers artists historians and naturalists alike In a muchanticipated volume on one of Britains most fascinating group of birds Mike Toms draws on a wealth of experience and research providing a comprehensive natural history of British owlsThe first part of the book covers various aspects of owl taxonomy origins anatomy behaviour and ecology and looks across the British owl species drawing comparisons and highlighting differences The second part takes each species in turn to provide a more detailed perspective fleshing out relevant conservation issues behaviour and statusToms explores Britains beloved Barn Owl Tawny Owl and Snowy Owl amongst several others He uses the vast database and latest research from his work with the British Trust for Ornithology BTO to focus particularly on the specifics of owls breeding ecology their dispersal patterns diet vocalisations description population changes and mortality He addresses conservation issues changes in legislation and potential changes in the status of one of Britains most iconic birds providing a fascinating overview of the biology and history of British owls
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A stirring reappraisal of the brilliant maligned psychoanalytic thinkerRobert S Corrington offers the first thorough reconsideration of Wilhelm Reichs life and work since Reichs death in 1957 Reich was seventeen years old at the outbreak of World War I and had already witnessed the suicides of his mother and father A native of Vienna he became a disciple of Freud but by his late twenties having already written his classic The Function of the Orgasm he fled the Third Reich and departed too from Freudian psychoanalysisIn The Mass Psychology of Fascism Reich first took the now classic position that social behavior has its every root in sexual behavior and repression But the psychoanalytic community was made uncomfortable by this claim and it was said by the time of Reichs death in an American prison on dubious charges brought by the federal government that Reich had squandered his prodigal genius and surrendered to his own paranoia and psychosis an opinion still responsible for the neglect and misconception of Reichs contribution to psychologyIn this transfixing psychobiography Corrington illuminates the themes and obsessions that unify Reichs work and reports on Reichs fascinating unrelenting oneman quest to probe the ultimate structures of self world and cosmos
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This book traces John Muirs adventures in Southern California from his first visit in 1877 to his death in Los Angeles in 1914 He pursued conservation goals and met with such luminaries as Andrew Carnegie and Theodore Roosevelt The book includes letters and newspaper articles from the time contemporary with Muirs visits
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Paperback Pub Date 20121101 Pages 192 Language English Publisher Faber and Faber The Alliterative Morte Arthure the title given to a fourthousand line poem written sometime around 1400 was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malorys prose Morte DArthurThe Death of King Arthur deals in the cutandthrust of warfare and politics the evertopical matter of Britains relationship with continental Europe and of its military interests overseasSimon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2006 so resourcefully and exuberantly showedHis new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of storytelling by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint
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