As young boys both Jacques Rebière & Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa.

As the concerns of the old century fade & the First World War divides Europe, the two men

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As young boys both Jacques Rebière & Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa.

As the concerns of the old century fade & the First World War divides Europe, the two men

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Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men & women really are.
Jacques Rebière & Thomas Midwinter,
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A unique & compelling study of history & morality in the twentieth century, this book examines the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Rwanda & Bosnia. In modern technological war, victims are distant & responsibility is fragmented. The scientists making the atomic bomb thought they were only providing a weapon: how it was used was the responsibility of society. The people who dropped the bomb were only obeying orders. The machinery of political decision-taking was so complex that no one among the politicians was unambiguously responsible. No one thought of themselves as causing the horrors of Hiroshima. One topic of the book is tribalism: about how, in Rwanda & in the former Yugoslavia, people who once lived together became trapped into mutual fear & hatred. Another topic is how, in Stalin's Russia, Mao's China & in Cambodia, systems of belief made atrocities possible. The analysis of Nazism looks at the emotionally powerful combination of tribalism & belief which enabled people to do things otherwise unimaginable. Drawing on accounts of participants, victims & observers, Jonathan Glover shows that different atrocities have common patterns which suggest weak points in our psychology. The resulting picture is used as a guide for the ethics we should create if we hope to ove ...

This is the story of Humbert, a working horse, Mister Firkin, his master, & the Lord Mayor of London. Mister Firkin was a scrap-iron dealer & he would travel the streets of London with Humbert, shouting ' Any scrap, any old iron for sale?' The Brewery horses are terrible snobs & show off about how important they are because they are used in the Lord Mayor's Show. But when disaster strikes, it's Humbert who rushes to rescue & escorts the Mayor to Mansion House. ...

* Cities cover just 2% of the world's surface, but consume 75% of the world's resources
* Global food production increased by
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* Cities cover just 2% of the world's surface, but consume 75% of the world's resources
* Global food production increased by
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A goblin has come to visit & you'd better take care... because he says he's hungry, hungry, hungry! He will chase you all around the house
- but if you offer him a jellybean, all will be well! A bouncing, rhythmic text with an irresistible refrain joins forces with wildly exuberant illustration to create a jolly romp of a picture book.
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In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new breed of fuelless transport systems
- & weapons beyond our imagination. Of course it never happened. Or did it? Forty years on a chance encounter with one of the engineers who made that prediction forces a highly sceptical aerospace & defence journalist, Nick Cook, to consider the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code
- & has covered up ever since. His investigations moved from the corridors of NASA to the dark heartland of America's classified weapons establishment, where it became clear that a half century ago, in the dying days of the Third Reich, Nazi scientists were racing to perfect a Pandora's Box of high technology that would deliver Germany from defeat. History says that they failed. But the trail that takes Cook deep into the once-impenetrable empire of SS General Hans Kammler
- the man charged by Adolf Hitler with perfecting German secret weapons technology
- says otherwise. In his pursuit of Kammler, Cook finally establishes the truth: America is determined to hang onto its secrets, but the stakes are enormous & others are now in the race to acquire a suppressed technology.



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What would have happened had America not dropped the atom bomb at the end of the Second World War? How long would the US government have been able to hold on to the secret of one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century & retain its atomic weapons monopoly? The bomb programme was the culmination of a huge, multi-billion research development project involving thousands of personnel across the States. But what if, at almost exactly the same time, America had discovered another strand of weapons science even more powerful than the bomb
- the creation of a weightless aircraft which needs no fuel but can fly at 170, 000 miles per second ? How would the US have constructed such a programme
- & held on to the secret for so long? Defence journalist Nick Cook enters the labyrinth of a 50-year conspiracy to suppress a technology based on anti-gravity way ahead of its time.

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