|
Showing 1 - 25 of
37 matches in All Departments
|
The Book of Jade
David Park Barnitz
|
R759
Discovery Miles 7 590
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
'God's Living Postcards' is the first feature length book by David
Parks.
It is a story that closely parallels the author's life from 1991 to
2000 and beyond. The multilevel tale has a number of supporting
themes including spiritual discovery, the awakening realization of
happiness through creativity and grace in the face of aging and
death. It is essentially a series of closely interwoven short
stories that is intended to educate, entertain and inspire.
David is a visual artist and as such paints with words and brings
to lucid reality the diverse environments of major cities such as
Paris or Hong Kong and the exquisite natural radiance of less
densely populated destinations like Moorea. He does this by
inserting himself as the book's central character. From this
perspective he is well able to recreate the spaces in which he
finds himself and to most effectively present the affiliated
lessons and experiences.
'God's Living Postcards' depicts a decade long spiritual
progression that is subtle early on and later blossoms into an
evident love affair between a man and his God. Although that
relationship takes place within the framework of the Christian
faith, it is respecting and understanding toward all true spiritual
seekers. It is not so much about establishing particulars in
worship practice as it is about embracing the family of man in the
ideal of faith, hope and love.
David eloquently works through some of the great challenges of life
including the demise of romantic love, the frustration of empty
employment and the finality and heartache of death. He avails
himself to a lush tapestry of insights and they come from various
sources within the wide-ranging backdrops. It is apparent that in
his world there exists a great open walled class that is ever
ongoing. There is merely a single requirement for admission; a mind
hungry for wisdom and ultimate truth.
This is the story of one man's search for transcendence in the face
of barrenness and despair. It is a near literal account of personal
victory against the long odds of doubt and cynicism. It is an
articulate affirmation that there is an abiding light in any
darkness and that with our minds so attuned we will always be able
to find it. 'God's Living Postcards' is an exultant celebration of
the grand escapade that can be known at any time and in any place
on this strange and marvelous place called Earth.
WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'I loved this
delicate, beautifully written novella about fathers and sons' David
Nicholls 'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle 'Wrings the
heart' Bernard MacLaverty 'A mighty book' Frank McGuinness
'Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and
powerlessness as could be written' Lisa McInerney AN IRISH TIMES
BOOK OF THE YEAR The world is shrouded in snow. With transport
ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and
treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in
student lodgings. But on this solitary drive from Belfast to
Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map
or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted
by memory and clouded in regret. Travelling in a Strange Land is a
work of exquisite loss and transformative grace. It is a novel
about fathers and sons, grief, memory, family and love; about the
gulfs that lie between us and those we love, and the wrong turns
that we take on our way to find them.
'It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as
close as I've seen in a very long time' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'A bold
and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption' IRISH
TIMES Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the
endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if
solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on
the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael
understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final
journey. As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert - a
strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption
- he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories: of
Vietnam and the dying days of war, and to face a final accounting
for what was done. 'Another compact marvel ... This is a meditative
novel that, while investing heavily in a patient build-up of
atmosphere, never forgets the need to put a foot on the gas' DAILY
MAIL 'David Park's novels are always elegantly written' INDEPENDENT
'Unflinching, courageous, wise, alert to the thrill and sorrow of
violence ... Adds to David Park's status as a superb novelist'
FRANK MCGUINNESS
'Subtle, understated, not without a hint of menace and always
courageous ... An important book' Irish Times 'Marvellously
compelling ... Park takes that most difficult of subjects - recent
history - and with graceful integrity explores the difficulties
involved in coming to terms with the legacies of the past ...
beautifully described in Park's crystalline prose' Daily Mail It is
December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of
people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a university
art teacher, goes on a pilgrimage to the city of his youth with
troubled teenage son Jack; middle-aged couple Marion and Richard
take a break from running their garden centre to celebrate Marion's
birthday; and Karen, a single mother struggling to make ends meet,
joins her daughter's hen party. As these people brush against each
other in the squares, museums and parks of Amsterdam, their lives
are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a
city that challenges what has gone before.
First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation
in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main
church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in
London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one
of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round
nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is
extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture
with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any
English building of its period. It also holds one of the most
famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Major
developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of
the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher Wren, and a substantial
restoration programme in the early 1840s. Despite its extraordinary
importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or
critical attention, a gap that is remedied by this volume. It
considers the New Temple as a whole in the Middle Ages, and
allaspects of the church itself from its foundation in the twelfth
century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. Richly illustrated
with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use
of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material
available for study, including drawings, photographs, and plaster
casts. Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip
Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William
Whyte, Christopher Wilson. Robin Griffith-Jones is Master of the
Temple at the Temple Church; David Park is a Professor at the
Courtauld Institute of Art.
The short Heroic Age of physics that started in 1925 was one of the
rare occasions when a deep consideration of the question: What does
physics really say? was necessary in carrying out numerical
calculations. In many parts of microphysics the calculations have
now become relatively straightforward if not easy, but most
physicists seem to agree that some questions of principle remain to
be resolved, even if they do not think it is very important to do
so. This situation has affected the way people think and write
about quantum mechanics, a gingerly approach to fundamentals and a
tendency to emphasize what fifty years ago was new in the new
theory at the expense of continuity with what came before it.
Nowadays those who look into the subject are more likely to be
struck by unexpected similarities between quantum and classical
mechanics than by dramatic contrasts they had been led to expect.
It is often said that the hardest part of understanding quantum
mechanics is to understand that there is nothing to understand; all
the same, to think quantum mechanically it helps to have firm
mental connections with classical physics and to know exactly what
these connections do and do not imply. This book originated more
than a decade ago as informal lecture notes OP, prepared for use in
a course taught from time to time to advanced undergraduates at
Williams College."
Health Care Reform Simplified describes the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It translates the law's complex
language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what
the new law does, when its provisionstake effect, and how to plan
for individual, family, and business health coverage. This book
outlines the financial impact of the law and how it affects
businesses, insurers, hospitals, and doctors. Most important, this
book gives consumers and employers the critical informationfor
making informed choices about new options for private and public
health insurance coverage. It also describes how the law interacts
with Medicare and Medicaid. Finally, it looks at the potential
roadblockspolitical and judicial, as well as economicthat may
derail some of the provisions. But with nearly half the Act's
provisions in force already, there is no time to losein
understanding how this legislationaffects U.S. health care
providers and consumerstoday. Explains health reform in
easy-to-understand terms Provides guidance on options for anyone
buying health insurance, whether for family or employees Details
the impact on businesses, medical professionals, and insurers
Charts the potential impact of political opposition to the act
Explains who will pay for reform and where the cost savings
lieunder both best and worst scenarios What you'll learn The
provisions of the new health care law. The options for families and
individuals, and how to decide whether to keep existing insurance,
switch to a different plan, or get new coverage at an exchange or
co-op The mandates for having insurance coverage and the penalties
for failing to comply New government subsidies and tax breaks for
health care, and who qualifies for them Options for businesses, and
how employers can decide whether to keep existing plans, purchase
plans through exchanges, or provide vouchers to employees The
impact of health care reform on hospitals, doctors, insurers, and
patient care The roadblocks and potholes on the way to reform and
how the law may change in the years to come Who this book is
for
Health Care Reform Simplified is an excellent resource for
people who make health care decisions for their families, or for
managers who make decisions about insurance coverage for employees.
Health care professionals and those working in the insurance
industry will also find it a useful overview of the changes that
haveoccurred and those yet to come. Table of Contents Overview:
Health Care Reform Past and Future Early Changes: Health Care
Reform's First Ups, Downs New Choices: Individual, Family Insurance
Options Business Trends: Tackling Taxes, Mandates, Incentives
Insurance Shift: Law Changes Market Rules, Regulations New
Medicine: Law Attacks Errors and Inefficiencies Medi-Growth:
Medicaid, Medicare Poised to Expand Info Overload: Law Brings
Communication Challenges Who Pays?Health Care Reform to Cost$1.4
Trillion War on Reform: New Law Faces Legal, Political Attacks
|
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems - AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, Bologna, Italy, July 16, 2002, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2002 ed.)
Julian Padget, Onn Shehory, David Parkes, Norman Sadeh, William E. Walsh
|
R1,602
Discovery Miles 16 020
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC 2002, held in Bologna, Italy in July 2002 during the AAMAS 2002 conference. The 20 revised full papers presented together with an introductory survey by the volume editors were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book gives a unique overview of the state of the art of designing mechanisms and systems for agent-mediated e-commerce- The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic auctions, negotiations, and electronic markets.
Neurological Disorders is the latest and fifth monograph in the
series on management and treatment in major clinical specialties or
patient groups. Each book is complete in'its own right and has been
prepared by practising physicians with an interest in treatment and
management, together with scientists involved in clinical research.
The volumes are intended to fill a gap between standard textbooks
of medicine and therapeutics and research reviews, symposia and
original articles in superspecialist fields. It is the aim of the
series to give authoritative up-to-date advice on treatment and
management which will be of use to both specialists and
nonspecialists and to allow recent advances in pathophysiol ogy and
developments in treatment to be viewed in the context of
contemporary clinical practice. The approach is intentionally by
the minimum number didactic. Each volume has been written of
authors to ensure a degree of continuity and uniformity of style.
The first four volumes dealt respectively with gastrointestinal
diseases, rheumatic diseases, treatment in the elderly and car
diovascular disease. The present volume covers neurological
diseases. Chapter 1 is an introduction to drugs and the nervous
system. It reviews the chemical basis of neurotransmission and
mechanisms of drug action in neurological disease. There follows a
series of chapters discussing patient management in general and
drug treatment in particular in common neurological problems presen
ting in general medical practice. These include headache, cerebral
vascular disease, epilepsy and the movement disorders."
Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in Medicine,
Government, Insurance, and Business Need to Know describes the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Now that the
U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate and other key
parts of the lawwhat must busy healthcare professionals, insurance
industry professionals, business and HR managers, and policymakers
do? First, read this book. It translates the law's complex language
into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law
does, when its provisions take effect, and how to implement it.
This brand-new second edition also updates all the provisions and
explains the myriad ways the ACA is already being put into
practice. Health Care Reform Simplified, Second Edition, outlines
the financial impact of the law and how it affects businesses,
insurers, hospitals and doctors, and state and local governments.
Most important, this book gives consumers and employers critical
information for making informed choices about new options for
private and public health insurance coverage. It also describes how
the law interacts with Medicare and Medicaid. Finally, it looks at
the potential roadblockspolitical, judicial, and economicthat may
yet derail some of the provisions. But with more than half of the
Act's provisions in force already, and the Supreme Court's landmark
decision upholding the law, there is no time to lose in
understanding how the legislation affects you whether you are a
consumer or deliverer of health care in the U.S. This book:
Explains health reform in easy-to-understand terms Shows how the
law is playing out in the real world Explains the ways the law or
parts of it yet may be repealed by the 2012 election and the
implications for readers Provides HR professionals and managers
options for covering employees while explaining costs and benefits
Details the impact on medical professionals and insurers and steps
they must take now to comply with the law Shows policymakers the
way forward now that legal challenges have abated This edition,
completely updated to incorporate the newest regulations and the
practices that have been put into place in various states, will
prove an indispensable guide for those implementing the law, as
well as those receiving health care, in the coming years. What
you'll learn The provisions of the health care law, updated to take
into account new regulatory guidelines, as well as models and
processes developed at the state level. Options for families and
individuals, and how to decide whether to keep existing insurance,
switch to a different plan, or get new coverage at an exchange or
co-op New government subsidies and tax breaks for health care, and
who qualifies for them What government agencies, insurers, and
healthcare providers must do to comply with the law Options for
businesses, and how employers can decide whether to keep existing
plans, purchase plans through exchanges, or provide vouchers to
employees The impact of health care reform on hospitals, doctors,
insurers, and patient care The potential for a new Congress with a
new President to repeal provisions of the law Who this book is for
Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in Medicine,
Government, Insurance, and Business Need to Know is an excellent
resource for managers who make decisions about insurance coverage
for employees, healthcare professionals and those working in the
insurance industry who must understand and comply with the law's
provisions, and policymakers who must implement the law at the
state and local level. Individuals wondering about such things as
the individual mandate will also find the book a useful overview of
the changes that have occurred and those yet to come.
""The Grand Contraption" is the long-needed antidote to all those
top-heavy histories of scientific thought that pass brusquely over
the philosophies of the ancient world, eager to find the sure
footing of modernity. Park tells us not only what science now
knows, but how it got to know it: from an enthralling mix of myth,
genius, logic, careful observation, guesswork, invention, and a
dash of inspired lunacy."--Philip Ball, author of "Life's Matrix"
and consultant editor, "Nature"
"This book literally grabs you. The facts presented, the stories
told, the author's reflections on the information he presents, are
rendered beautifully-and masterfully. This is a labor of love, and
the passion with which David Park has written the book is readily
apparent and makes one want to keep on reading. And in doing so one
is richly rewarded with keen insights, judicious appraisals, and
with questions regarding courses of action and consequences that
are not only thought provoking but also relevant."--Silvan S.
Schweber, Brandeis University and Harvard University, author of
"QED and the Men Who Made It" (Princeton)
""The Grand Contraption" is an impressive feat of scholarship in
the history of science, and it is even more impressive if one
considers that it is written in clear and unpretentious English.
Park offers, in plain language, an attractive way to think about
cosmological ideas from a single perspective. No one will put this
book down without having their level of consciousness raised by a
few notches."--Christian Wildberg, Princeton University
"Physics, astronomy, geology, and poetry all come together here
in the grand quest to understand what out universe is and how it
works. "Only ahandful of authors have both the expertise and the
courage to write a book of this sweep and depth. David Park has
woven together a vast tapestry of humankind's vision of the cosmos,
from ancient myths to our contemporary curiosity about intelligent
life on other worlds."--Owen Gingerich. Professor of Astronomy
& the History of Science, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics
"An exceptional and well-written introduction to the history of
ideas, viewed from the perspective of their creators, who were
adapting their thinking to new facts and conceptions as they went.
We found the book engrossing and illuminating."--Elizabeth Wayland
Barber and Paul T. Barber, coauthors of "When They Severed Earth
from Sky"
This is an excellent and stimulating account of the history and
development of physics, a pleasure to read and of great value to
anyone with an interest in the nature of science.--John
Polkinghorne, The Times Higher Education SupplementA marvelous,
technically competent, literate, engagingly written book that every
student (whether a science major or not) in a science courseand
instructorsshould have to read.--James T. Cushing, American Journal
of PhysicsPhysicists should make every effort to enjoy this
well-conducted tour of the history of physics.--John Barrow, New
ScientistA brilliant presentation of the ideas of modern physics
presented in a richly painted historical setting. . . . This book
contains more physics than most physicists know, and more
intellectual history than most historians know, woven together in a
thoughtful, erudite, and enthusiastic presentation that is unique
in both popular and academic science writing. . . . The rise of
statistical physics, quantum mechanics, particle physics, and
cosmology are accompanied by trenchant examples that encapsulate
the core of current controversy, and the older material is informed
by recent sophistications of historical scholarship.--Choice
Having survived a brutal childhood in the heart of Belfast, Martin
has built a life that he never imagined, and always fears he does
not deserve. He has a devoted wife, a son and a daughter whose
academic success is launching her out of her proud father's orbit.
Returning home one night to find police cars waiting, he thinks his
sins have finally caught up with him, but instead the news is
wholly unexpected; a senseless and devastating tragedy. And in the
face of the trauma, which tears his fragile family apart, Martin
finds that the violence of his past has not gone but is merely
dormant; its call must be answered.
'I loved this book' Daily Mail Strangers come together to run.
Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is
increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the
darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. Cathy
thinks about the secret she has been unable to share. Running takes
Maurice past his daughter's house, the place he is not allowed to
enter. Over the nine weeks unexpected friendships are forged,
challenges faced and by the time of their final run together all
will grasp a new commitment to life itself.
From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the
lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake,
Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet 'An
outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly
enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts'
Irish Times 'The Poets' Wives is a marvellous triptych: lyrical,
respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical' Sunday Times
__________________ Three women, each destined to play the role of a
poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake - a poet,
painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society
that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of
Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under
Stalin's terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish
poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her
husband's death as she seeks to fulfil his final wish. Set across
continents and centuries, and in very different circumstances,
these three women confront the contradictions between art and life,
contemplate their emotional and physical sacrifices for another's
creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only
the flesh, but ultimately poetry itself. They find themselves
custodians of their husbands' work, work that has been woven with
love's intimacies and which has shaped their own lives in the most
unexpected of ways. Deeply insightful and beautifully wrought, The
Poets' Wives is David Park at his best - a novelist whose work has
the power to bring the hidden from the shadows, into a delicate and
shimmering light.
|
You may like...
Not available
|