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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer's childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s, a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the rock-strewn banks of wild, tumbling rivers became the backdrop for a variety of adventures and ...

This best-selling textbook is intended primarily for students who plan to make a career in some field of medicine. With over 220 images and tables, the authors rely on basic physics principles to promote an understanding of the function of the various organ systems of the body. Includes an Instructor's Guide with answers to all of the problems in the book.

Based on hundreds of interviews with gardeners, gamekeepers, maids, governesses, lairds, chauffeurs, cooks, and housekeepers, this book is a portrait of the Scottish country estate in its heyday in the 1920s.

In The Final Hike Rod Grant draws on his long and varied experience to explore nature, life and death and the fate of man in his lyrical and moving style. In his poem The Final Hike from which the title of the book is taken, he describes the last of his annual April 5 pilgrimages to the Dungeness Spit. In the Soul at Bay he draws on his early work to describe the anguish of a young man facing the challenges of life and his own frailties in pow...

In Reaching for the Sky Rod Grant continues his search through the medium of his verse for meaning and beauty in the world around him and from his long personal experience. In Old he accepts the fact of his age and the choices he now faces. In the poem Reaching for the Sky from which the title of his book was taken he celebrates mankind's great achievements in space while noting the ultimate limits to his dream of reaching the stars. Included ...

In his new book Harvest Rod Grant uses his verse to explore the current state of humanity as well as its prospects for the future as Homo Sapiens. In the title poem Harvest, he uses his experience gardening as a springboard to a hopeful outlook for his personal future. In Solstice, the book's final poem, he looks to the Earth's yearly cycles to ponder his own mortality.

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Rod Grant uses the magic of words to capture images, ideas and emotions drawn from his long and varied experience. His lyrical poems deal with love, destiny, despair and hope -- the full range of the human condition. The poems are brief and to the point, and were written to be reread and remembered.

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