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Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Harry Eyres
R992 R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Save R190 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "the necessary distance" has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations and investigations of human beings in relation to their home planet carried out over millennia. In particular, it reveals a split between the ancient idea of the Earth as nurturing mother and the more recent conception of the Earth as a neutral resource able to be infinitely exploited by humankind. The 1968 Earthrise photograph, showing the beauty and fragility of the Earth, helped spark a worldwide environmental movement; now the comprehensive coverage of global change provided by satellites has the potential to convince us beyond reasonable doubt of the huge alterations being wrought upon the Earth and its climate system as a result of human actions, and of the need to act more responsibly.

Hotel Elisio (Paperback): Harry Eyres Hotel Elisio (Paperback)
Harry Eyres
R192 R173 Discovery Miles 1 730 Save R19 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brixton poet, publisher and journalist charts an emotional journey from his sheltered southern English childhood through wanderings in Spain, to love and disappointment in South London. The themes in these poems include nature as redemptive force, environmental degradation and the fate of poetry.

A Contemplation of Wine (Paperback): H.Warner Allen A Contemplation of Wine (Paperback)
H.Warner Allen; Introduction by Harry Eyres
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R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this unique study of wine through the ages, journalist and World War I frontline reporter, Hubert Warner Allen (1881-1968) casts an observant eye over the way wine appears in literature, from the words of the Roman connoisseurs to the excesses of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales heroes, taking in the debatable wisdom of the 18th-century epicurean Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and the sagacity of the legendary Edwardian wine-writer, George Saintsbury - and many more. Warner Allen's observations are both fascinating and highly entertaining. As Harry Eyres, who introduces this book, says: "Literary, historical, discursive, personal: this is very much the opposite of modern wine writing, and presents another era seen through a glass darkly." The Classic Editions breathe new life into some of the finest wine-related titles written in the English language over the last 150 years. Although these books are very much products of their time - a time when the world of fine wine was confined mostly to the frontiers of France and the Iberian Peninsula and a First Growth Bordeaux or Grand Cru Burgundy wouldn't be beyond the average purse - together they recapture a world of convivial, enthusiastic amateurs and larger-than-life characters whose love of fine vintages mirrored that of life itself.

Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Harry Eyres Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Harry Eyres
R1,650 R1,459 Discovery Miles 14 590 Save R191 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "the necessary distance" has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations and investigations of human beings in relation to their home planet carried out over millennia. In particular, it reveals a split between the ancient idea of the Earth as nurturing mother and the more recent conception of the Earth as a neutral resource able to be infinitely exploited by humankind. The 1968 Earthrise photograph, showing the beauty and fragility of the Earth, helped spark a worldwide environmental movement; now the comprehensive coverage of global change provided by satellites has the potential to convince us beyond reasonable doubt of the huge alterations being wrought upon the Earth and its climate system as a result of human actions, and of the need to act more responsibly.

Johnson's Brexit Dictionary - Or an A to Z of What Brexit Really Means (Hardcover): Harry Eyres, George Myerson Johnson's Brexit Dictionary - Or an A to Z of What Brexit Really Means (Hardcover)
Harry Eyres, George Myerson 1
R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'A delight' Stephen Fry BLUNDER To mistake, grossly, to err very widely. 'Someone has blundered'(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'Charge of the Brexit Brigade') EUTHANASIA An easy death. Strangulation by EU regulations, according to Brexiters. 'Brexit' seems to mean many things, but none of them is clear. Fortunately, help is at hand from Harry Eyres and George Myerson, who offer us pithy and incisive definitions of the key terms associated with this momentous process. From 'COCK-UP' to 'WRETCHED' via 'BUFOON' and 'MAY', Johnson's Brexit Dictionary is a delightful, witty and essential compendium inspired by Dr Johnson's original, and updated for our turbulent times.

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