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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A GUARDIAN AND
FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The most exquisite kind of
literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I
reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. '
OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the
Dead 'Could not be more timely... It's funny and absurd, but it's
also frightening, because even as Gospodinov plays with the idea as
fiction, the reader begins to recognise something rather closer to
home... A writer of great warmth as well as skill' GUARDIAN 'In
equal measure playful and profound, Time Shelter renders the
philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved
it' CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs 'A genrebusting
novel of ideas... Gospodinov's vision of tomorrow is the nightmare
from which Europe knows it must awake. And accident, in combination
with the book's own merits, may just have created a classic' THE
TIMES 'Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and
irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and
mind-bending book' DAVE EGGERS, author of The Circle 'Touching and
intelligent' NEW YORK TIMES 'A powerful and brilliant novel:
clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic' SANDRO VERONESI, author of
The Hummingbird 'An immensely enjoyable book which achieves depth
with an affable narrative voice' IRISH TIMES In Time Shelter, an
enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past'
that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each
floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients
back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is
tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from
1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even
afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an
increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time
shelter', hoping to escape from the horrors of our present - a
development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past
begins to invade the present. Intricately crafted, and eloquently
translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter cements Georgi
Gospodinov's reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our
times, a major voice in international literature. Georgi Gospodinov
is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. Originally from
Bulgaria, his novels have won his country's most prestigious
literary prize twice and have been shortlisted for more than a
dozen international prizes - including the 2015 PEN Literary Award
for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Premio Strega
Europeo, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der
Welt Literaturpreis. He has won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for
Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and
the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo, among others.
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Spawn Origins Volume 13
Todd McFarlane, David Hine; Artworks by Angel Medina, Nat Jones, Philip Tan, …
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Fresh from surviving the tortures of hell, Spawn learns he harbors
many souls within him that help him beat back the monsters of
Armageddon. Meanwhile, God is not in his Heaven, and all is wrong
with the world. The goddess Kali is doing some head-hunting in
India, while the Angel Zera takes on the Forgotten Ones in a battle
to control the hosts of Heaven. Wanda's family is being torn apart
as Spawn bares his heart to Cyan, and a new foe; The Disciple
stands between Spawn and preventing the apocalypse. Â
Collects Spawn Issues #152 - 163
This book presents URBAL, an approach that applies impact pathway
mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and
their territories, change and impact food system sustainability.
Around the world, people are finding innovative ways to make their
food systems more sustainable. However, documenting and
understanding how these innovations impact the sustainability of
food system can be a challenge. The Urban Driven Innovations for
Sustainable Food Systems (URBAL) methodology responds to these
constraints by providing innovations with a simple, open-source,
resource-efficient tool that is easily appropriated and adaptable
to different contexts. URBAL is designed to respond to the demands
of field stakeholders, whether public or private, to accompany and
guide them in their actions and decision-making with regard to
sustainability objectives. This book presents this qualitative and
participatory impact assessment method of food innovations and
applies it to several cases of food innovation around the world,
including the impact of agricultural districts in Milan, chefs and
gastronomy in Brasilia, e-commerce in Vietnam, eco-friendly farm
systems in Berlin and The Nourish to Flourish governance process in
Cape Town. The book demonstrates how food innovations can impact
different dimensions of sustainability, positively and negatively,
and identify the elements that facilitate or hinder these impacts.
The volume reflects on how to strengthen the capacity of these
stakeholders to disseminate their innovations on other scales to
contribute to the transition towards more sustainable food systems.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars
working on sustainable food systems, urban food, food innovation
and impact assessment, as well as policymakers, practitioners and
funders interested in these areas.
'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have
been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate
change. This set of books begins to bridge the gap.' Achim Steiner,
UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of United Nations
Environment Programme 'Important reading for students and
practitioners alike.' Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group II
(Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) 'Fills an important gap in our understanding
... It is policy-relevant and deserves to be widely read.' Richard
Klein, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
(SEI), Sweden The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is
highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the
IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing
countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to
enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be
effective at reducing risks. These authoritative volumes, resulting
from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to
Climate Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, are
the first to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at
stake. Climate Change and Vulnerability discusses who is vulnerable
to climate change, the nature of their vulnerability and the causes
of their vulnerability for parts of the world that have been poorly
researched until now. Climate Change and Adaptation covers current
practices for managing climate risks to food security, water
resources, livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, needs for
effective management of climate risks, the changing nature of the
risks, strategies for adaptation, and the need to integrate these
strategies into development planning and resource management.
"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly
the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic
narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the
Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a
starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ." But for our
narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a
"vagrant in time" who has distanced his life from contemporary
reality by reading old news, wearing tattered old clothes, and
haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century. In an
apricot-colored building in Zurich, surrounded by curiously planted
forget-me-nots, Gaustine has opened the first "clinic for the
past," an institution that offers an inspired treatment for
Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in
minute detail, allowing patients to transport themselves back in
time to unlock what is left of their fading memories. Serving as
Gaustine's assistant, the narrator is tasked with collecting the
flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s
shirt buttons to nostalgic scents and even wisps of afternoon
light. But as the charade becomes more convincing, an increasing
number of healthy people seek out the clinic to escape from the
dead-end of their daily lives-a development that results in an
unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present.
Through sharply satirical, labyrinth-like vignettes reminiscent of
Italo Calvino and Franz Kafka, the narrator recounts in
breathtaking prose just how he became entrenched in a plot to stop
time itself. "A trickster at heart, and often very funny" (Garth
Greenwell, The New Yorker), prolific Bulgarian author Georgi
Gospodinov masterfully stalks the tragedies of the last century,
including our own, in what becomes a haunting and eerily prescient
novel teeming with ideas. Exquisitely translated by Angela Rodel,
Time Shelter is a truly unforgettable classic from "one of Europe's
most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists" (Dave Eggers).
A radical re-examination of the rise of the largest popular
movement in early nineteenth-century Britain draws on a wide range
of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and
impact of early Methodism in Bedfordshire, an unlikely stronghold
This radical re-examination of the rise of the largest popular
movement in early nineteenth-century Britain draws on a wide range
of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and
impact of early Methodism in Bedfordshire, an unlikely stronghold.
The study digs beneath the seemingly steady advance portrayed by
official membership statistics to uncover a much more unstable and
rapidly changing picture in which different generations and social
groups appropriated the religious structures of the movement as
vehicles to express a wide variety of aspirations and grievances.
This book provides valuable lessons that will improve public policy
and the quality of decisions that will affect generations to come.
Richard Moss, Senior Director Climate and Energy, United Nations
Foundation An excellent addition to the body of knowledge on
adaptation to climate change from the developing world, which has
been largely missing until now. Saleemul Huq, Director, Climate
Change Programme, International Institute for Environment and
Development This important volume is a valuable effort on
adaptation to climate change that needs to be on the desks of those
seeking coping strategies for longer term responses to evolving
climate changes. Roger Kasperson, Emeritus, Clark University,
USAThe IPCC, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007, makes clear
that while climate change mitigation is vital, the world must also
begin to adapt. But how best can this be achieved? This
authoritative volume (along with its companion on vulnerability),
resulting from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and
Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched with the
IPCC in 2002, is the first to provide an in-depth investigation of
the stakes in developing countries. It covers current practices for
managing climate risks, deficits between current practices and
needs, the changing nature of the risks due to human caused climate
change, strategies for adapting to changing risks, and the need to
integrate these strategies into development planning and resource
management. The book also identifies obstacles to effective
adaptation and explores measures needed to create conditions that
are favourable to climate change adaptation.Published with TWAS and
START
Many parts of the developing world are subject to variable and
extreme climate, the impacts of which impede development and point
to the need to improve the understanding and management of climate
risks. These needs are being amplified by human-caused climate
change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is
highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the
IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing
countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to
enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be
effective at reducing risks. Climate Change and Adaptation and its
companion volume Climate Change and Vulnerability, resulting from
the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate
Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, are the first
to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at stake.
"Climate Change and Adaptation" covers current practices for
managing climate risks to food security, water resources,
livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, deficits between
current practices and needs for effective management of climate
risks, the changing nature of the risks due to human-caused climate
change, strategies for adapting to climate change to lessen the
risks, and the need to integrate these strategies into development
planning and resource management. The book also identifies
obstacles to effective adaptation and explore measures needed to
create conditions that are favorable to climate change adaptation.
The findings and lessons will be of use to policymakers and
managers responsible for understanding and avoidingpotentially
adverse effects from climate change on sustainable development,
food security, agriculture, water resources, forests, fisheries,
grazing lands, biodiversity and public health. Citizen activists
who are concerned about reducing the threats from climate change to
the poor, sustainable development, biodiversity, and sensitive
environmental systems and resources will learn about options for
management of the threats.
'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have
been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate
change. This set of books begins to bridge the gap.' Achim Steiner,
UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of United Nations
Environment Programme 'Important reading for students and
practitioners alike.' Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group II
(Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) 'Fills an important gap in our understanding
... It is policy-relevant and deserves to be widely read.' Richard
Klein, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
(SEI), Sweden The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is
highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the
IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing
countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to
enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be
effective at reducing risks. These authoritative volumes, resulting
from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to
Climate Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, are
the first to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at
stake. Climate Change and Vulnerability discusses who is vulnerable
to climate change, the nature of their vulnerability and the causes
of their vulnerability for parts of the world that have been poorly
researched until now. Climate Change and Adaptation covers current
practices for managing climate risks to food security, water
resources, livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, needs for
effective management of climate risks, the changing nature of the
risks, strategies for adaptation, and the need to integrate these
strategies into development planning and resource management.
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Spawn Origins, Volume 27
Todd McFarlane, David Hine; Artworks by Philip Tan, Rodel Noora, Brian Haberlin
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As Armageddon consumed the world, Spawn turned against his masters,
destroying all life on Earth. While God and Satan continue their
endless conflict in a parallel universe, Spawn has re-created the
world and resurrected the human race, in what has become known as
the White Light. The portals to Heaven and Hell are closed, leaving
humanity free from the influence of angels and demons. Â
Collects Spawn Issues #161 – 166
This year's 25th anniversary edition has been extensively updated
to present the latest guidance on good practice in residential
conveyancing and is a crucial resource for answering queries
arising from day-to-day transactions. It includes new or updated
guidance on: - Welsh Land Transaction Tax - new chapter - mobile
homes - new chapter - changes to SDLT, including higher rate and
changes to tax relief - revisions to the Standard Conditions of
Sale and Standard Commercial Property Conditions - new office
leases - leaseholds - the latest guidance from HM Land Registry -
searches, including new guidance on coal and brine searches - Money
Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information
on the Payer) Regulations 2017 and the LSAG guidance - latest
advice from the Law Society and HM Land Registry on property fraud.
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Jamie's Dog (Hardcover)
Marion E (Marion Eleanor) Gridley; Don Rodell
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Jamie's Dog (Paperback)
Marion E (Marion Eleanor) Gridley; Don Rodell
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About the author: Anne Rodell is an Associate Professor at The
University of Law in Guildford. Prior to joining the university she
specialised in commercial property at an international law firm.
Synopsis: Property Practice provides a thorough, up-to-date and
practical explanation of how a property is transferred from a
seller to a buyer, or leased by a landlord to a tenant, including
the remedies available when the transaction does not proceed
smoothly. It also includes an introduction to the planning system
and to the main taxes relevant to property transactions. The legal
principles and rules contained within this study manual are stated
as at 1 October 2020. This book is part of a series of 15 study
manuals that cover SQE1, from the University of Law.
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Charlie's Dream (Paperback)
Rodel Creer; Illustrated by Herald David B Canadalla
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