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For the millions of home cooks who swear by the ease and
convenience of the slow cooker, this book provides a new array of
healthy, delicious recipes. And for the millions of vegetarians
looking for simple, hearty fare, this book introduces them to the
magic of slow cooking. The book proves that slow cookers can be
used for much more than just tough, inexpensive cuts of meat. They
are perfect for vegetarian and healthy cooking because slow cooking
is a foolproof way to make beans, grains, root vegetables, in
preparations such as Spicy White Bean and Sweet potato Stew with
Collards, Balsamic-Glazed Carrots and Parsnips, and Boston Brown
Bread. Stuffed vegetables such as Bell Peppers Stuffed with
Couscous and Lentils, are moist and tender, with none of the oven's
dryness. Even desserts such as Chocolate Fancy Fondue and
Brandy-Laced Pear Brown Betty, are sensational.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner of the Goldsmiths
Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 Winner of the
2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 'A beautiful,
vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as
unexpected as it is daring.' --John Banville, Guardian A noir
narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, The Long
Take is one of the most remarkable - and unclassifiable - books of
recent years. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress
disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks
instead to the city for freedom, anonymity and repair. As he moves
from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco we witness a crucial
period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film
noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but - as those dark,
classic movies made clear - the country needed outsiders to study
and dramatise its new anxieties. While Walker tries to piece his
life together, America is beginning to come apart: deeply paranoid,
doubting its own certainties, riven by social and racial division,
spiralling corruption and the collapse of the inner cities. The
Long Take is about a good man, brutalised by war, haunted by
violence and apparently doomed to return to it - yet resolved to
find kindness again, in the world and in himself. Robin Robertson's
The Long Take is a work of thrilling originality.
Many cycles predicting the "end of times" fi ll our modern dialog
from the coming of the Millennium to 2012. Robin Robertson helps to
clarify these prophesies and offers insight into the central issues
of our challenges and their life-changing implications.
For eighteen hundred years, the prophecies in the "Book of
Revelation" have captured the collective Western imagination. Saint
John's rich imagery and the dramatic urgency of the looming
disasters he predicts have both fascinated and frightened us with
the apparent message that the end of time is near. Robin Robertson
deciphers the mystical theology and visions of the prophets, seers,
and shamans. His analysis incorporates the insights of modern
mathematics and Chaos Theory, as well as his personal insights
gained through his work as a Jungian therapist and teacher.
Robertson holds a mirror to humanity's need to know Self and God.
He explains that Saint John's vision foretells the massive change
in consciousness that is happening in our time.
"At the End of Time" contains the 22 chapters from and reinterprets
the message of The Book of Revelation in terms of the changes in
human consciousness and its ability to adapt the symbolic language
of our personal and collective unconscious. The author helps us to
comprehend the meaning of such psychic intuitive understandings.
Roberston helps the reader face the deeper parts of his or her
self--those parts that fear transformation, change, and death. Yet
these are the very keys to experiencing a new dimension of
ourselves and may be encouraged and utilized in a positive manner.
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Bacchae (Paperback)
Euripides, Robin Robertson, Daniel Mendelsohn
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Grimoire (Hardcover)
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Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 ‘I’ve long admired
Robin Robertson’s narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you
will love this book.’ Val McDermid The new book from the author
of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of
both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. Like some
lost chapters from the Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells
stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the
extraordinary: tales of violence, madness and retribution, of
second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies, changelings and doubles,
all bound within a larger mythology, narrated by a doomed
shape-changer – a man, beast or god. A grimoire is a manual for
invoking spirits. Here, Robin Robertson and his brother Tim
Robertson – whose accompanying images are as unforgettable as
cave-paintings – raise strange new forms which speak not only of
the potency of our myths and superstitions, but how they were used
to balance and explain the world and its predicaments. From one of
our most powerful lyric poets, this is a book of curses and
visions, gifts both desired and unwelcome, characters on the cusp
of their transformation – whether women seeking revenge or saving
their broken children, or men trying to save themselves. Haunting
and elemental, Grimoire is full of the same charged beauty as the
Scottish landscape – a beauty that can switch, with a mere change
in the weather, to hostility and terror.
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Medea (Paperback)
Euripides; Translated by Robin Robertson
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The old songs will have to change.
No more hymns to our faithlessness and deceit.
Apollo, god of song, lord of the lyre,
never passed on the flame of poetry to us.
But if we had that voice, what songs
we'd sing of men's failings, and their blame. History is made by
women, just as much as men.
Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a
younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is
even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman
to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely
intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the
greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible.
Euripides' devastating tragedy is shockingly modern in the sharp
psychological exploration of the characters and the gripping
interactions between them. Award-winning poet Robin Robertson has
captured both the vitality of Euripides' drama and the beauty of
his phrasing, reinvigorating this masterpiece for the twenty-first
century.
Robin Robertson has built a publishing record of successful books
in the vegetarian/vegan category. Her earlier cookbook, Fresh from
the Vegetarian Slow-Cooker, established her bona fides as an expert
on the creative use of slow-cookers, and her entire body of work
speaks to her ingenuity in the kitchen and the breadth of enticing
ingredients and flavors with which she works. Fresh from the Vegan
Slow-Cooker provides practical guidence on how to work with
different models of slow-cookers, taking into account the sizes of
various machines, the variety of settings they offer, and the
quirks and personalities of each device. She addresses any
lingering skepticism readers may have about whether slow-cookers
can have delicious, meat-free applications, and she shows how to
take into account the water content of vegetables and the
absorptive qualities of grains when vegan slow-cooking. Fresh from
the Vegan Slow-Cooker includes eleven recipe chapters, four of
which focus on main courses. There are homey and comforting foods
in the American and European style, such as a Rustic Pot Pie Topped
with Chive Biscuits and a Ziti with Mushroom and Bell Pepper Ragu,
and there are lots of East Asian, South and Southeast Asian, and
Mexican/Latin dishes, too. Beans, which cook slowly under any
circumstance, are fabulously well-suited to the slow cooker, and
Robertson includes such appealing recipes as a Crockery Cassoulet
and a Greek-Style Beans with Tomatoes and Spinach. Eighteen robust
chilis and stews - two more categories that do well in the
slow-cooker - include a warming Chipotle Black Bean Chili with
Winter Squash and a surprising but yummy Seitan Stroganoff. Beyond
the mains, there are chapters devoted to snacks and appetizers,
desserts, breads and breakfasts, and even one on drinks. The many
soy-free and gluten-free recipes are clearly identified.
Altogether, the collection offers readers loads of ways to expand
their vegan repertoire and to get maximum value from their
investment in a slow-cooker.
This book represents the best of the first three years of the
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology conferences. While chaos
theory has been a topic of considerable interest in the physical
and biological sciences, its applications in psychology and related
fields have been obscured until recently by its complexity.
Nevertheless, a small but rapidly growing community of
psychologists, neurobiologists, sociologists, mathematicians, and
philosophers have been coming together to discuss its implications
and explore its research possibilities.
Chaos theory has been termed the first authentic paradigm shift
since the advent of quantum physics. Whether this is true or not,
it unquestionably bears profound implications for many fields of
thought. These include the cognitive analysis of the mind, the
nature of personality, the dynamics of psychotherapy and
counseling, understanding brain events and behavioral records, the
dynamics of social organization, and the psychology of prediction.
To each of these topics, chaos theory brings the perspective of
dynamic self-organizing processes of exquisite complexity.
Behavior, the nervous system, and social processes exhibit many of
the classical characteristics of chaotic systems -- they are
deterministic and globally predictable and yet do not submit to
precise predictability.
This volume is the first to explore ideas from chaos theory in a
broad, psychological perspective. Its introduction, by the
prominent neuroscientist Walter Freeman, sets the tone for diverse
discussions of the role of chaos theory in behavioral research, the
study of personality, psychotherapy and counseling, mathematical
cognitive psychology, social organization, systems philosophy, and
the understanding of the brain.
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Grimoire (Paperback)
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Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 From the author of The
Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the
Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. 'I've long admired
Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you
will love this book.' Val McDermid Like some lost chapters from the
Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells stories of ordinary people
caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence,
madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies,
changelings and doubles, all bound within a larger mythology,
narrated by a doomed shape-changer - a man, beast or god. A
grimoire is a manual for invoking spirits. Here, Robin Robertson
and his brother Tim Robertson - whose accompanying images are as
unforgettable as cave-paintings - raise strange new forms which
speak not only of the potency of our myths and superstitions, but
how they were used to balance and explain the world and its
predicaments. From one of our most powerful lyric poets, this is a
book of curses and visions, gifts both desired and unwelcome,
characters on the cusp of their transformation - whether women
seeking revenge or saving their broken children, or men trying to
save themselves. Haunting and elemental, Grimoire is full of the
same charged beauty as the Scottish landscape - a beauty that can
switch, with a mere change in the weather, to hostility and terror.
A collection of stories from some of the world's greatest writers
about their own public humiliation. Humiliation is not, of course,
unique to writers. However, the world of letters does seem to offer
a near-perfect micro-climate for embarrassment and shame. There is
something about the conjunction of high-mindedness and low income
that is inherently comic; something about the very idea of deeply
private thoughts - carefully worked and honed into art over the
years - being presented to a public audience of dubious strangers,
that strays perilously close to tragedy. Here, in over eighty
contributions, are stories about the writer's audience, the fellow
readers, the organiser, the venue, the 'hospitality', or the often
interminable journey there and back. Then there are the experiences
of teaching and being taught, reviewing and being reviewed, of
festivals and writers' retreats, symposia, signing sessions,
literary parties and prizes, the trips abroad, with all the
attendant joys of translation and, finally, the bright worlds of
television and radio that can bring so many more people to share in
your shame. These are the best stories: those told against the
teller. And for the reader, apart from the sheer schadenfreude of
it all, there is admiration too: for that acknowledgement of human
frailty, of punctured pride, but also of the seeming absurdity of
trying to bring private art into the public space. Contributions
from, amongst others: Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, Julian
Barnes, Louis de Bernieres, Margaret Drabble, Roddy Doyle, AL
Kennedy, John Lanchester, Patrick McCabe, Rick Moody, Andrew
Motion, Andrew O'Hagan, Colm Toibin, Irvine Welsh, James Wood.
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Medea (Paperback)
Euripides; Translated by Robin Robertson
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THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN
BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018) Euripides' Medea, the brutally
powerful ancient Greek tragedy that reverberates down the
centuries, has been brought to fresh and urgent life by one of our
best modern poets. Medea has been betrayed. Her husband Jason has
left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he
made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is
not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and
fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working
out the greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible... Suitable
for the general reader as well as for students and performers. 'In
Robertson's lucid, free-running verse, Medea's power is released
into the world, fresh and appalling, in words that seem spoken for
the first time' Anne Enright 'This version of Medea is vivid,
strong, readable and brings triumphantly into modern focus the
tragic sensibility of the ancient Greeks' John Banville
'Robertson's achievement is to make the dialogue flow without
losing the unsettling poetry of the original' Financial Times
In this clear, engaging book, Robin Robertson draws parallels
between alchemy and chaos theory and shows how to apply them to our
inner development. He is not proposing they replace traditional
spiritual paths, but rather that they reflect deep structures in
the psyche that any inner journey awakens. The model they provide
necessarily underlies all paths of spiritual transformation and
describes a framework for the stages through which any seeker goes.
No matter what your particular calling, these insights enrich
understanding of the transformative process, whether outside in the
world, or within your life.
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River Poems (Hardcover)
Various; Edited by Henry Hughes; Contributions by William Shakespeare, Alice Oswald, Seamus Heaney, …
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Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris
and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the
Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities from
London to New York, so it is natural that poets have for centuries
drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents.
English poets from Shakespeare and Dryden, Wordsworth and Byron to
Ted Hughes, John Betjeman and Alice Oswald; Irish poets - Eavan
Boland, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, to name but a few; Scottish
and Welsh poets from Henry Vaughan and Robert Louis Stevenson to
Robin Robertson and Gillian Clarke. A whole raft of American poets
from Whitman, Emerson and Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, Mary
Oliver, Natasha Trethewey and Grace Paley. Folk songs.
African-American spirituals. Poems from ancient Egypt and Rome.
From medieval China and Japan. And a truly international selection
of modern poets from Europe (France, Italy, Russia, Serbia), India,
Africa, Australia and South and Central America, all combining in
celebration of the rivers of the world. From the Mississippi to the
Limpopo. From the Dart to the Danube. Plunge in.
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Swithering (Paperback)
Robin Robertson
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WINNER OF THE 2006 FORWARD PRIZE In Scots, the verb 'swither' has
two meanings: to be doubtful, to waver, to be in two minds; and to
appear in shifting forms - indeterminate and volatile. From
disarmingly direct poems about the end of childhood to erotically
charged lyrics about the ends of desire, Robertson's powerful third
collection is stalked and haunted by both senses. Hard-edged,
pitch-perfect, effortlessly various, Swithering is a book of brave
and black romance, locating its voice in that space where great
change is an ever-present possibility. Swithering has just won the
Forward Prize for Best Collection and is also shortlisted for this
year's T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Bacchae (Paperback)
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This stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson
(Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlist 2018), has reinvigorated
Euripides' devastating take of a god's revenge for contemporary
readers, bringing the ancient verse to fervid, brutal life.
Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, has come to Thebes, and the
women are streaming out of the city to worship him on the mountain,
drinking and dancing in wild frenzy. The king, Pentheus, denouces
this so-called 'god' as a charlatan. But no mortal can deny a god
and no man can ever stand against Dionysus. 'The dialogue is taut,
volcanic and often exquisitely beautiful... Euripides deserves to
have his exquisite verse transformed into modern speech, and in
Robertson I believe he has found a poet who can do that.' Edith
Hall, Literary Review
Take a trip around the world with delicious, meatless, dairy-free,
and egg-free recipes ranging from mildly spiced to nearly
incendiary. Explore the spicy cuisines of the US, South America,
Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, and
Asia. Some of the recipes include: Tunisian Couscous, Szechuan
Noodle Salad, Jambalaya, Penne Arrabbiata, Thai Coconut Soup, and
Red Hot White Bean Chili. Organized by global region, these 200
inventive recipes are all made using readily available ingredients.
Best of all, you can adjust the heat yourself and enjoy these
recipes hot, or not!
Robin Robertson's fourth collection is an intense, moving,
bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are
written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly
contemporary. The poet's gaze--whether on the natural world or the
details of his own life-- is unflinching and clear, its utter
seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humor.
Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic
retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems here pitch the power and
wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. This
is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep that confirms
Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work
today.
To "swither" means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no
faltering in these poems; any uncertainty is not in the lines or
the sounds or the images, but only in the themes of flux and change
and transformation that thread their way through this powerful
third collection. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable
cohesion and range that calls on his knowledge of folklore and myth
to fuse the old ways with the new. From raw, exposed poems about
the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the end of
desire, from a brilliant retelling of the metamorphosis and death
of Actaeon to the final freeing of the waters in "Holding Proteus,"
these are close examinations of nature--of the bright epiphanies of
passion and loss.
At times sombre, at times exultant, Robertson's poems are always
firmly rooted in the world we see, the life we experience:
original, precise, and startlingly clear.
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