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Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way
Marnie is stuck.
Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long
afternoons and a life that often feels like it's passing her by.
Michael is coming undone.
Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking
himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.
When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire
to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves
alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new
friendship.
But can they survive the journey?
A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is
a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES 'ONE DAY is destined to be a
modern classic' - Daily Mirror Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY.
The multi-million copy bestseller that captures the experiences of
a generation. 'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of
malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled
without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and
Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation.
Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on
this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year
that follows?
Describes the life, achievements, rise to power, and influences of the military leader who crowned himself Emperor of the French and established dominance over Europe.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town,
Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local
opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground.
Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done,
and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have
made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces
too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life
has treated them with less than justice.
Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical
Resources has become recognised as one of the few seminal technical
studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971,
Virgil Thomson hailed it as 'a classic'. Cowell aimed to 'point out
the influence the overtone series has exerted on music throughout
its history, how many musical materials of all ages are related to
it, and how ... a large palette of musical materials can be
assembled'. In this respect Cowell was anticipating many of the
ideas to be realized in electronic music by Stockhausen and others.
For this 1996 edition, David Nicholls has provided an explanatory
essay and annotations to Cowell's text. The essay traces the
sources for the book and attempts to place Cowell's theories in the
broader context of musical modernism.
Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in
suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development
of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the
garden suburb. Community Green uniquely connects the past, present
and future of planning for small open spaces around the narrative
of internal reserves. The distinctive planned spaces are typically
enclosed on every side, hidden within residential blocks, serving
as local pocket parks and reflecting the evolving values of
community life from the garden city movement to contemporary new
urbanism. This book resuscitates the enclosed, almost secretive
reserve from history as a distinctive form of local open space
whose problems and potentialities are relevant to many other green
community spaces. In so doing, it opens up even wider connections
between localism and globalism, the past and the future, and for
connecting community initiatives to broader global challenges of
cohesion, health, food, and climate change. This fully illustrated
book charts the outcomes and implications of this evolution across
several continents, injecting human stories of civic initiatives,
struggles and triumphs along the way. Community Green will be of
interest to a wide readership interested in studying, managing and
improving the quality of all small open spaces in the urban
landscape.
The Cambridge History of American Music is the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. The volume begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores the historical and cultural events of musical life for the period up to 1900. Other contributors then examine the growth of popular music, including film and stage music, jazz, rock, and immigrant, folk, and regional music. The volume also includes chapters on twentieth-century art music, including the experimental, serial, and tonal traditions.
NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TOM HOLLANDER AND SASKIA REEVES
David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that
graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and
family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014. Douglas Petersen understands
his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is
leaving home. He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering
together. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too,
he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a
lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the
respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him
all over again. The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the
itinerary planned and printed. What could possibly go wrong?
Sir Charles Dilke's claim to a leading place in the pantheon of
Victorian radicalism, with Cobden, Bright and Chamberlain, has been
overshadowed by the sensational divorce case in 1886 that ruined
his career. Yet his political abilities were great and his career a
most remarkable one. He was regarded by many of his contemporaries
as a likely successor to Gladstone and a probable future Prime
Minister. It can be argued that his political eclipse was a crucial
contributing factor to the Liberal Party's failure to provide a
viable alternative to the rise of the Labour Party.
This is the first new biography of Dilke since Roy Jenkins' "Sir
Charles Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy," published in 1958. David
Nicholls has used substantial new material to provide what is
likely to be the definitive work on Dilke, shedding new light on
his character, personal life and political career, as well as on
the famous divorce scandal. This highly readable book is both an
account of a remarkable man and an important contribution to the
understanding of Victorian politics.
This detailed case study of Gazprom explores motivation behind the
company's foreign policies, it's strategies and tactics. It
examines the challenges Gazprom faces in the European market and
emphasizes the role of politics in Russsia's gas trade.
Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in
suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development
of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the
garden suburb. Community Green uniquely connects the past, present
and future of planning for small open spaces around the narrative
of internal reserves. The distinctive planned spaces are typically
enclosed on every side, hidden within residential blocks, serving
as local pocket parks and reflecting the evolving values of
community life from the garden city movement to contemporary new
urbanism. This book resuscitates the enclosed, almost secretive
reserve from history as a distinctive form of local open space
whose problems and potentialities are relevant to many other green
community spaces. In so doing, it opens up even wider connections
between localism and globalism, the past and the future, and for
connecting community initiatives to broader global challenges of
cohesion, health, food, and climate change. This fully illustrated
book charts the outcomes and implications of this evolution across
several continents, injecting human stories of civic initiatives,
struggles and triumphs along the way. Community Green will be of
interest to a wide readership interested in studying, managing and
improving the quality of all small open spaces in the urban
landscape.
Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: AS Chemistry First teaching:
September 2015 Next exams: June 2023 Checked by AQA examiners, this
is an essential study and revision guide for the 2015 AQA AS and
A-level Year 1 Chemistry specification concentrating on organic
chemistry and related physical chemistry topics for Paper 2. Tackle
new-style written exam questions with guidance on practical and
mathematical skills Avoid common mistakes and get advice on exams
with Exam Notes Focus on just the content you need with Essential
Notes Memorise terminology for required practicals and mathematical
and Working Scientifically aspects Practise exam-style questions
This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on
developing forestry products. The first chapter discusses
trade-offs between timber products from plantation forests and the
need to protect ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration. It
reviews ways of innovating business practices, the use of solid
wood, reconstituted products and woody biomass as products. The
second chapter explores hardwood tree management within
agroforestry systems for the production of veneer and high-quality
sawlogs. It reviews how to optimise production in alley cropping,
riparian buffers and silvopasture systems. The third chapter
assesses the range of non-timber forest products from tropical
forests. These include non-wood fiber resources, including bamboo,
rattan and agricultural biomass. These can be used to replace
traditional wood fibers in both building and non-structural
applications. The fourth chapter focusses on new processes and
applications of forestry products. It discusses cellulose pulp
conversion into cellulosic nanomaterials, hydrolysis of
hemicelluloses from wood to produce sugars for use in the food
industry, as well as extraction of polyphenols from bark for
nutraceuticals. The final chapter reviews alley cropping practices
to produce overstory nut crops. It discusses genetic improvement of
nut trees, orchard design and management as well as pest management
in nut tree alley cropping.
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural
approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social
situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been
particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the
emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural
studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary
research project that is part of that emergence, particularly
focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean
for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and
heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends
beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a
range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer
diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here
explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take
and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches,
offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in
country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous
specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural
communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set
of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking
about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century. This book will
be valuable reading for students and academics of Geography,
History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and
Sociology, introducing rural cultural studies as a new dynamic and
integrative discipline.
This A–Z biographical sourcebook provides information about the
life and times of Adolf Hitler, along with insight into the
political movement and world conflict he created. The Hitler regime
warns us of the destruction that ensues when a perverted ideology
and a cult of leadership are combined with a polity where power is
divorced from morality. This illustrated A–Z biographical
companion provides easily accessible information about the key
events in Hitler's life, his most important collaborators and
opponents, his domestic and foreign policies, the use of propaganda
and the forging of the Hitler cult, racial persecution and the
Holocaust, and Hitler as a war leader. Adolf Hitler also includes
an introduction, a chronology, maps, primary source documents, a
general bibliography, and index.
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural
approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social
situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been
particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the
emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural
studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary
research project that is part of that emergence, particularly
focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean
for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and
heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends
beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a
range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer
diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here
explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take
and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches,
offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in
country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous
specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural
communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set
of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking
about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century. This book will
be valuable reading for students and academics of Geography,
History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and
Sociology, introducing rural cultural studies as a new dynamic and
integrative discipline.
In this companion volume to Deity and Domination, David Nicholls
broadens his examination of the relationship between religion and
politics. Focusing on the images and concepts of God and the state
predominant in eighteenth-century discourse, he shows how these
were interrelated and reflect the language of the wider cultural
contexts. Nicholls argues that the way a community pictures God
will inevitably reflect (and also affect) its general understanding
of authority, whether it be in state, in family or in other social
institutions. Much language about God, for example, has a primarily
political reference: in psalms, hymns and sermons God is called
king, judge, lord, ruler and to him are ascribed might, majesty,
dominion, power and sovereignty. But if political rhetoric is
frequently incorporated into religious discourse, the reverse is
also true: many key concepts of modern political theory are
secularised theological concepts. In his consideration of this
important and neglected relationship Nicholls sheds new light on
religion and politics in the eighteenth century.
Metaphors animate Shakespeare's corpus, and one of the most
prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal
lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail,
variations on the body metaphor abound in the works of Shakespeare.
Attention to the political dimensions of this metaphor in
Shakespeare and the Body Politic permits readers to examine the
sentiments of romantic love and family life, the enjoyment of
peace, prosperity and justice, and the spirited pursuit of honor
and glory as they inevitably emerge within the social, moral, and
religious limits of particular political communities. The lessons
to be learned from such an examination are both timely and
timeless. For the tensions between the desires and pursuits of
individuals and the health of the community forge the sinews of
every body politic, regardless of the form it may take or even
where and when one might encounter it. In his plays and poetry
Shakespeare illuminates these tensions within the body politic,
which itself constitutes the framework for a flourishing community
of human beings and citizens-from the ancient city-states of Greece
and Rome to the Christian cities and kingdoms of early modern
Europe. The contributors to this volume attend to the political
context and role of political actors within the diverse works of
Shakespeare that they explore. Their arguments thus exhibit
together Shakespeare's political thought. By examining his plays
and poetry with the seriousness they deserve, Shakespeare's
audiences and readers not only discover an education in human and
political virtue, but also find themselves written into his lines.
Shakespeare's body of work is indeed politic, and the whole that it
forms incorporates us all.
Metaphors animate Shakespeare's corpus, and one of the most
prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal
lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail,
variations on the body metaphor abound in the works of Shakespeare.
Attention to the political dimensions of this metaphor in
Shakespeare and the Body Politic permits readers to examine the
sentiments of romantic love and family life, the enjoyment of
peace, prosperity and justice, and the spirited pursuit of honor
and glory as they inevitably emerge within the social, moral, and
religious limits of particular political communities. The lessons
to be learned from such an examination are both timely and
timeless. For the tensions between the desires and pursuits of
individuals and the health of the community forge the sinews of
every body politic, regardless of the form it may take or even
where and when one might encounter it. In his plays and poetry
Shakespeare illuminates these tensions within the body politic,
which itself constitutes the framework for a flourishing community
of human beings and citizens-from the ancient city-states of Greece
and Rome to the Christian cities and kingdoms of early modern
Europe. The contributors to this volume attend to the political
context and role of political actors within the diverse works of
Shakespeare that they explore. Their arguments thus exhibit
together Shakespeare's political thought. By examining his plays
and poetry with the seriousness they deserve, Shakespeare's
audiences and readers not only discover an education in human and
political virtue, but also find themselves written into his lines.
Shakespeare's body of work is indeed politic, and the whole that it
forms incorporates us all.
`Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald
Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000
people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images
of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially political, while
concepts of might, majesty, dominion, and power are used of both
God and the state. This ambitious and original work explores the
relations between these images and their political context through
the analogy between divine and civil government, and considers what
images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the
twentieth century. David Nicholls suggests that religious
conceptions have often affected political thinking - theological
rhetoric, child of political experience, may also be mother of
political change. Drawing upon politics, theology, history,
sociology, anthropology, and literary criticism, this important new
book will be essential reading for all concerned with the relation
between Christianity and politics.
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