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Plunge into the depths of the unknown in this thrilling work of
nonfiction, combining history, science, nature writing, and
environmentalism, that invites its reader to explore the deepest
recesses of our natural world. Oceans created, shaped, and sustain
not just human life, but all life on Planet Earth, and perhaps
beyond it. They are our history — from evolution to exploration
and colonialism; our present — from beach holidays to
transporting food and goods; and our future — we cannot survive
if sea levels are too low or too high, temperatures too cold or too
warm. They are also vast spaces of immense wonder and beauty, and
our relationship to them is innate and awe-inspired. Deep Water is
both a personal and wide-ranging reckoning with our complex
relationship with the natural world, a book shaped by tidal
movements and deep currents, lit by the presence of other minds and
other ways of being. It speaks directly and uncompromisingly of the
pressing urgency of the environmental catastrophe that is
overtaking us, but is also suffused with the glories of the ocean,
and the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers
whose work helps us to understand its secrets. For it is in this
work, and the new ways of seeing it offers us, that we will find a
means to understand our relationship not just with the planet, but
our past, and perhaps most importantly, our future.
On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II,
James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the
Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him.
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War
William Taft, his daughter Alice, and a gaggle of congressmen on a
mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea with the intent
of forging an agreement to divide up Asia. This clandestine pact
lit the fuse that would-decades later-result in a number of
devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, and the communist
revolution in China.
In 2005, James Bradley retraced that epic voyage and discovered the
remarkable truth about America's vast imperial past. Full of
fascinating characters brought brilliantly to life, "The Imperial
Cruise" will powerfully revise the way we understand U.S. history.
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From the author of bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The
Resurrectionist, and one of The Guardian's top eco-fictions, comes
a provocative, urgent novel about time, family and how a changing
planet might transform our lives. On a beach in Antarctica,
scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back
in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest
round of IVF treatment. That result, when it comes, will change
both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have
predicted. In a collapsing England, Adam will battle to survive an
apocalyptic storm. Against a backdrop of growing civil unrest at
home, Ellie will discover a strange affinity with beekeeping. In
the aftermath of a pandemic, a young man finds solace in building
virtual recreations of the dead. And new connections will be formed
from the most unlikely beginnings.
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment
in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory,
the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who
raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the
immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and
indomitable will of America.
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo
Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar
fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to
the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape
of hell itself, they raised a flag.
Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful
account of six very different young men who came together in a
moment that will live forever.
To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the
war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered
closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James
Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father
and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo
Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic
battle for the Pacific's most crucial island--an island riddled
with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight
to the last man.
But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened
after the victory. The men in the photo--three were killed during
the battle--were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become
reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering.
Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of
the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: "The real
heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back."
Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and
its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic
look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen
insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage
to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and
myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human
experience of war.
"From the Hardcover edition."
This collection of essays by James Bradley showcases his unique
vision: a speculative cosmology of the Trinity, drawing on the vast
history of Western philosophy. This journey led him into an
intensive study of a number of different thinkers, ancient and
modern, including Plato, John Scotus Eriugena, Duns Scotus, Hegel,
Schelling, Peirce, Whitehead and Collingwood.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American
flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications
towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but
also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men. Over
the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy
and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers
there-were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by
a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese
soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared.
When the war was over, the American government, along with the
Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima.
The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed, the
lives of the eight Flyboys were erased, and the parents, brothers,
sisters, and sweethearts they left behind were left to wonder.
Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of
those men. Bradley's quest for the truth took him from dusty attics
in American small towns, to untapped government archives containing
classified documents, to the heart of Japan, and finally to Chichi
Jima itself. What he discovered was a mystery that dated back far
before World War II-back 150 years, to America's westward expansion
and Japan's first confrontation with the western world. Bradley
brings into vivid focus these brave young men who went to war for
their country, and through their lives he also tells the larger
story of two nations in a hellish war. With no easy moralizing,
Bradley presents history in all its savage complexity, including
the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality and
the U.S. military strategy that justified attacks on millions of
civilians. And, after almost sixty years of mystery, Bradley
finally reveals the fate of the eight American Flyboys, all of whom
would ultimately face a moment and a decision that few of us can
even imagine. Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of
friendship and honor. It is about how we die, and how we
live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a young
Navy pilot named George H. W. Bush who would one day become
president of the United States. A masterpiece of historical
narrative, Flyboys will change forever our understanding of the
Pacific war and the very things we fight for.
Charles Darwin (1809-82) changed the world forever with the 1859
publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection. Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy is
an anthology of critical writings that grew out of a lecture
series, hosted by Auburn University, held on the occasion of the
two hundredth anniversary of Darwin's birth and the one hundred
fiftieth anniversary of the first edition of his most famous book.
Ideas in On the Origin of Species reordered the biological sciences
forever, spawned new disciplines including evolutionary psychology,
sociobiology, and evolutionary developmental biology, became
foundational for modern biomedical research and practice, inspired
new literature and literary criticism, were misused by 20th-century
eugenicists and social Darwinists, traumatized persons with certain
theological views, and continue to alter humankind's view of itself
and its place in the world. The seventeen contributors to this
anthology tell an interdisciplinary story of Charles Darwin the
person, Darwin's work and world-altering ideas, and Darwin's
legacy.
London, 1826. Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel
Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's
anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name
for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's
nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists
and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Mr Poll,
Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's
underworld, a place where everything and everyone is for sale, and
where - as Gabriel discovers - the taking of a life is easier than
it might seem.
In an intimate portrayal of high-concept big ideas, can we engineer
ourselves out of a problem of our own making? Set against the
backdrop of rapidly escalating climate catastrophe, scientists Kate
Larkin and Jay Gunesekera are recruited by tech billionaire and
mogul Davis Hucken to the forests of Tasmania, Australia. His
Foundation's mission is not only to halt the effects of climate
change, but to re-engineer and reverse the damage through the
ambitious process of reviving species lost to the earth over time,
including a clandestine ambition to resurrect the Neanderthals.
When Eve, the first child, is born and grows up in a world
crumbling around her, questions arise that she and Kate must face.
Is she human or not, real or unnatural, and is she the ghost
species or are we? As more and more of us are waking up to the
truth about our climate, and our need to reverse the damage we have
caused, Ghost Species is timely, poignant and reflective on what it
means to be human on a personal and a global scale.
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