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Sci-fi action adventure sequel to the 1982 film 'Tron'. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) is the rebellious technological whizzkid son of leading video-game developer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). After his father mysteriously disappears, Sam finds himself pulled into the dangerous virtual world that his father has been inhabiting for the past 20 years.
Along with Kevin's loyal confidante, fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a perilous journey across a terrifyingly advanced neon-lit cyber universe created by Kevin himself, populated with state-of-the-art vehicles and weapons - and a ruthless enemy who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. Beau Garrett and Michael Sheen co-star.
Richard Jefferies (1848-87) remains one of the most thoughtful and
most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations
to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short factually
based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines,
drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which
he had been born, which when brought together in book form brought
him recognition (though not wealth) and which continued to be read
and admired after his early death. The Gamekeeper at Home (also
reissued in this series) and The Amateur Poacher were both
collections of essays in the style of reminiscences of a rural way
of life which, though never idyllic, was by the 1870s beginning to
undergo a period of rapid change, through both the onset of
mechanisation and agricultural depression.
Richard Jefferies (1848 87) remains one of the most thoughtful and
most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations
to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short factually
based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines,
drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which
he had been born, which when brought together in book form brought
him recognition (though not wealth) and which continued to be read
and admired after his early death. The Gamekeeper at Home and The
Amateur Poacher (also reissued in this series) were both
collections of essays in the style of reminiscences of a rural way
of life which, though never idyllic, was by the 1870s beginning to
undergo a period of rapid change, through both the onset of
mechanisation and agricultural depression.
The Story of My Heart, first published in 1883, is one of the
stranger autobiographies in the English language. It describes
almost nothing about the writer's life, education, family or work.
Opening with a mystical experience on a green hill in the south of
England seventeen years before - the date is exact, in a book that
is otherwise so exalted above mere facts - it is the record of the
author's striving for 'soul-life', for communion with the beauty of
nature. In impassioned prose, with echoes of Blake and Shelley,
Jefferies relates the history of his feeling of identification with
the sun, wind, space and the pulse of natural life. The book is a
prayer to the physical world, a pantheistic rejection of modern
urban life and technique: 'the sun was stronger than science; the
hills more than philosophy'. Some of the most striking passages in
The Story of My Heart are descriptions of the controlled chaos of
London, which represented for Jefferies the vortex of modern modern
human life, a force that is 'driving, pushing, carried on in a
stress of feverish force like a bullet'. A neglected classic of
English nature writing, The Story of My Heart speaks to today's
ecological concerns in the language of another era.
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After London (Paperback)
Richard Jefferies
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Richard Jefferies (1848 87) remains one of the most thoughtful and
most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations
to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually
based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines,
drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which
he had been born, which, when brought together in book form,
brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to
be read and admired after his early death. This two-volume work,
first published in 1880, contains a collection of essays first
published in The Standard. Jefferies describes the daily life and
circumstances of Victorian English farmers, labourers and their
wives without sentimentality, illustrating daily hardships as well
as idyllic pastimes, and providing an accurate and thus valuable
description of a now vanished way of life.
Richard Jefferies (1848 87) remains one of the most thoughtful and
most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations
to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually
based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines,
drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which
he had been born, which, when brought together in book form,
brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to
be read and admired after his early death. This two-volume work,
first published in 1880, contains a collection of essays first
published in The Standard. Jefferies describes the daily life and
circumstances of Victorian English farmers, labourers and their
wives without sentimentality, illustrating daily hardships as well
as idyllic pastimes, and providing an accurate and thus valuable
description of a now vanished way of life.
Richard Jefferies (1848 1887) remains one of the most thoughtful
and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had
aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short,
factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other
magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community
into which he had been born, which when collected in book form
brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to
be read and admired after his early death. Wild Life in a Southern
County, published in 1879, examines the habitats of the Downs and
the birds and animals which live there. Written in Jefferies'
highly descriptive style, these essays reveal his deep love and
knowledge of the countryside. The sense of wonder evoked by the
natural world, which permeates all of Jefferies' works, is fully
exemplified in this volume.
Richard Jefferies (1848 1887) remains one of the most thoughtful
and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had
aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short,
factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other
magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community
into which he had been born, which when collected in book form
brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to
be read and admired after his early death. The Hills and the Vale,
first released in 1909, contains a collection of published and
unpublished essays and articles. Written in Jefferies' highly
descriptive style, these essays describe rural life and nature in
England, illustrating folk traditions and important natural events
in rural communities. The sense of wonder evoked by the natural
world, which permeates all of Jefferies' works, is fully
exemplified in this volume.
Richard Jefferies (1848 87) remains one of the most thoughtful and
most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations
to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually
based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines,
drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which
he had been born, which, when brought together in book form,
brought him recognition (though not wealth) and which continued to
be read and admired after his early death. This volume, first
published posthumously in 1892, contains a collection of essays
concerning rural farmers and labourers previously published before
Jefferies had achieved public recognition. Jefferies vividly
describes the daily life and circumstances of Victorian English
farmers, labourers and their wives without sentimentality,
illustrating hardships in addition to idyllic pastimes, providing a
realistic and valuable description of a now vanished way of life.
Richard Jefferies (1848 1887) remains one of the most thoughtful
and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had
aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short,
factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other
magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community
into which he had been born, which, when brought together in book
form, brought him recognition (though not wealth) and which
continued to be read and admired after his early death. This
volume, first published in 1884, contains a collection of essays
and articles previously published during his career. Written in
Jefferies' highly descriptive style, these essays describe rural
life and nature in England, illustrating folk traditions and
important natural events in rural communities. The mysticism and
wonder of the natural world which exemplifies Jefferies' works is
fully illustrated in these essays.
If you're at the sharp end of management, juggling conflicting
demands to keep your organization's promises to customers, with
ever-reducing resources whilst implementing the latest digital
change programme and keeping your team happy - this is the book for
you. Active Operations Management gives you the framework and tools
to help you take control and make the most of the evolving world of
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lean operations demand a new approach to give people and
organizations the confidence they need to thrive and deliver in the
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showing you how to raise productivity, improve staff engagement and
wellbeing. Online resources which support your control of the truly
agile operation. Neil Bentley and Richard Jeffery have spent over
30 years working with operations managers to simplify and bring
structure to the challenges of managing in complex organizations.
Today their Active Operations Management methodology is used by
thousands of managers, raising performance and ensuring the
wellbeing of those involved.
Richard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an
adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel
rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science
fiction. Imagining a mysterious natural catastrophe that plunges
its people into a barbaric future, Jefferies remarkable novel
drowns and destroys London and depicts a challenging 'Wild
England'dominated by nature and filled with evolved animals and
devolved humans. Of its time but also distinctively modern, After
London can, in its uneasy expression ofVictorian and post-Victorian
anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural
resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of
the Anthropocene. This new critical edition provides one of the
earliest examples of a global catastrophe novel that is part of a
flowering of 19th-century science fiction. It situates After London
in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the
evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural
issues of the period.
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The Story of My Heart (Hardcover)
Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams; Afterword by Scott Slovic
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R576
R474
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While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams
and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite
autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard
Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while
wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. Brooke and
Terry, like John Fowles, Henry Miller, and Rachel Carson before,
were inspired by the prescient words of this visionary writer, who
describes ineffable feelings of being at one with nature. In an
introduction and essays set alongside Jefferies' writing, the
Williams share their personal pilgrimage to Wiltshire to understand
this man of "cosmic consciousness" and how their exploration of
Jefferies deepened their own relationship while illuminating
dilemmas of modernity, the intrinsic need for wildness, and what it
means to be human in the twenty-first century.
Terry Tempest Williams is the author of fourteen books including
"Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" and "When Women
Were Birds." Recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, she
teaches at Dartmouth and the University of Utah where she is the
Annie Clark Tanner scholar in the environmental humanities graduate
program. Her work has been anthologized and translated
worldwide.
Brooke Williams has spent thirty years advocating for wildness,
most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and as
executive director of the Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming. He is the
author of four books including "Halflives: Reconciling Work and
Wildness," and dozens of articles. Brooke and Terry have been
married since 1975. They live with their dogs in Jackson, Wyoming,
and Castle Valley, Utah.
Praise for Terry Tempest Williams' "When Women Were Birds"
"Williams displays a Whitmanesque embrace of the world and its
contradictions...As the pages accumulate, her voice grows in
majesty and power until it become a full-fledged aria." --"San
Francisco Chronicle"
Praise for Brooke Williams' "Halflives: Reconciling Work and
Wildness"
..".a compact yet breathtaking treatise." --"Publishers
Weekly"
Richard Jefferies (1848 1887) remains one of the most thoughtful
and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had
aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short,
factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other
magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community
into which he had been born, which when collected in book form
brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to
be read and admired after his early death. Wild Life in a Southern
County, published in 1879, examines the habitats of the Downs and
the birds and animals which live there. Written in Jefferies'
highly descriptive style, these essays reveal his deep love and
knowledge of the countryside. The sense of wonder evoked by the
natural world, which permeates all of Jefferies' works, is fully
exemplified in this volume.
Richard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an
adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel
rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science
fiction. Imagining a mysterious natural catastrophe that plunges
its people into a barbaric future, Jefferies remarkable novel
drowns and destroys London and depicts a challenging 'Wild England'
dominated by nature and filled with evolved animals and devolved
humans. Of its time but also distinctively modern, After London
can, in its uneasy expression of Victorian and post-Victorian
anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural
resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of
the Anthropocene. This new critical edition provides one of the
earliest examples of a global catastrophe novel that is part of a
flowering of nineteenth-century science fiction. It situates After
London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to
the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and
cultural issues of the period.
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The Scarlet Shawl
Richard Jefferies
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The Scarlet Shawl
Richard Jefferies
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