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On a winter's evening in 2041, 14-year-old Tom arrives at Albans School, tucked away in an isolated Blue Mountains location west of Sydney - a special school for children with disabilities. Tom doesn't speak, can't hear and has no word recognition. Watching Tom's arrival from the school library is Abbey, a book that no one has ever read. Abbey's desperate need to be read drives her to find a way to communicate with Tom and unleashes a terrify...

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Dreamcraft is a book that crosses distances and straddles boundaries. Moving from whistleblower law to the mimetic properties of DNA, from "the entropic spread / of the drifting cosmos / after the big bang" to "the push of lawn grass / under foot, " Scott interrogates topics that have occupied his later life and writing.

This book is a unique meditation on poetry, history, philosophy, religion, and politics from one of the most important poets of our time. It is the result of decades of deep thinking about the fate of poetry in human history as well as the nature of our shared human condition.

In Reading the Dream the poet and scholar Peter Dale Scott has composed a poem in prose for our time. This is a work of art emerging from a passionate social vision. Scott examines our present state of post-secularity through the imagination of the past. Using devices such as the rational and nonrational, or the yin and the yang, Scott focuses not just on the reasoned current of written history but also on myths, beliefs, and even dreams. The ...

This book showcases new research on various aspects of twentieth century European retailing, that challenges the traditional view that Europe was a "follower" of America in retail innovation.

This is the second Omnibus edition featuring the young Probationary Detective Constable McNab and his ghostly mentor and companion, Dr. Joseph Bell, expert in deductive reasoning and forensic medicine and the real-life model for Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. In this edition there are again three case studies set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland:The Selkie of Calaròin - McNab's boss, Chief Inspector McFarlane enlists McNab's help in a persona...

Erstmals erscheint ín deutscher Sprache eine zweiteilige Ausgabe mit vielen umfangreichen Essays aus der Feder von Peter Dale Scott, einem Pionier im Bereich der Forschung zum Tiefen Staat in den USA. Das Resultat ist ein Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika seit 1945 und ihren einschneidenden Episoden wie dem Vietnamkrieg, Iran-Contra und den 9/11-Terrorangriffen.

Erstmals erscheint ín deutscher Sprache eine zweiteilige Ausgabe mit vielen umfangreichen Essays aus der Feder von Peter Dale Scott, einem Pionier im Bereich der Forschung zum Tiefen Staat in den USA. Das Resultat ist ein Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika seit 1945 und ihren einschneidenden Episoden wie dem Vietnamkrieg, Iran-Contra und den 9/11-Terrorangriffen.

this book provides everything you need to know, including: - UK legislation, biosecurity and pig-related choices - Creating an optimal pig environment - Feeding, handling and transporting pigs - Disease prevention strategies, from vaccination to piglet care - Common diseases and how to recognise them - Making the most of your vet - Raising a pig from weaning to finishing - Breeding pigs - Keeping pet pigs

A collection of seven short plays about gay life

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What Is AI? Why Will It Affect You? How Do You Survive and Thrive through the AI Revolution? Sensationalism about AI has reached new heights, and getting a useful understanding of it has never been more important. AI will extend and accelerate thinking, delivering unprecedented abundance. But it will also require us to navigate a path of challenges ranging from today's issues of bias, privacy, and explainability, to job displacement throug...

What Is AI? Why Will It Affect You? How Do You Survive and Thrive through the AI Revolution? Sensationalism about AI has reached new heights, and getting a useful understanding of it has never been more important. AI will extend and accelerate thinking, delivering unprecedented abundance. But it will also require us to navigate a path of challenges ranging from today's issues of bias, privacy, and explainability, to job displacement throug...

Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human experience. Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is part literary criticism and part memoir. This biography/memoir of Czes¿aw Mi¿osz is a first hand account of the poet's life and his...

This is a trilogy of science fiction stories set in the near future. It is a time of transition when fossil fuels are no longer supplied and when there are new advances in transport and education. The three stories are:Orion - with air transport uncertain and limited to small aircraft. The Orion, an innovation based on a past concept, is ready to take to the sky but its potential is jeopardised by the threat of sabotage. Only head of security,...

This is an omnibus edition consisting of the three stories in the Ghost and Detective McNab series with all being set in modern day Edinburgh, Scotland. A Misplaced Body introduces the young Probationary Detective Constable Hamish McNab who is sent on his first case to investigate a body which has been found in the lecture room at the Old Medical School. When he arrives, the body is missing but he is unexpectedly befriended by the ghost of a f...

Ecstatic Pessimist address several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.

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