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First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest,
Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard
work on its subject. Carswell deliberately shakes the image of
Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual misdemeanours,
drinking bouts and waywardness that other, more reverential,
biographies choose to overlook. Catherine Carswell's real
achievement is to bring alive the personality of a great man:
passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and
triumphant . . . the very archetype of the supreme creative artist.
Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to
escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that
links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal
joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the greater historical and
political events of the time. Sunset Song, the first and most
celebrated book of the trilogy, covers the early years of the
twentieth century, including the First World War. Chris survives,
with her son Ewan, but the tragedy has struck and her wild spirit
is subdued. In Cloud Howe, as the minister's wife, Chris learns to
love again, and we witness the cruel gossip and high comedy of
small village life until, once again, Chris suffers a terrible
loss. Grey Granite focuses on her son Ewan and his passionate
involvement with justice for the common man. For Chris, with her
intuitive strength, nothing lasts - only the land endures.
Goli Otok is a naked island off the coast of Croatia that served as
a penal colony for political prisoners of Yugoslavia after World
War II. Thousands were Partisan fighters against the German
occupation caught on the Soviet side of the ideological split
between Moscow and Belgrade in 1948. Many leaders of the pro-Soviet
faction were slain trying to flee eastward. Other leaders and
thousands of followers were imprisoned on Goli Otok. Many died
there. Years later, Sergei Korneichuk, a Red Army intelligence
agent is assigned to Belgrade under cover as a correspondent of
Radio Moscow. His activities reveal how the seeds were sown for the
collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
We live a miracle everyday, a world of coloured reflections in a
river, scents of flowers, birdsong, a warm breeze. Buried below our
living experience, science has discovered a world of atoms and
vibrations, a world of blind elementary forces. These forces
operate everywhere in the known universe, including the chemistry
of our bodies. Most poignantly they operate in our brains. How does
the miracle of our conscious life emerge from this dry world of
atomic forces? Should we expect science to give a satisfactory
answer to this question? Practical developments such as genetic
engineering and brain imaging have brought a contemporary vitality
to these questions. The book explores the linked hierarchy of
science, from physics to brain structure. Within this journey,
progressively deeper questions are asked about the nature and
limits of scientific explanation. Diagrams and photographs are used
to assist the text. Many of the diagrams are novel and illustrate
ideas in a compact way.
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The Smart Scene (Paperback)
Julie Saltmarsh, Tom Crawford
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Introduced in 1998, the Smart car has revolutionised our cities.
Over one million Smarts have left the factory and the car itself
has been a global success. Introduced in the UK in 2000, there are
now over 50,000 Smarts in the UK. This book looks at the impact of
the Smart car in the UK, and of its history and genesis beforehand.
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