This collection of computer crack-ups is perfect for anyone who's utterly nutty about the net. It's packed full of cyber sillies & jokes with byte as well as top-tips on where to find the web pages. It also has advice on how to surf safely & how to get started if you're new to the net. So make sure you're not the last to log on for laughter & lots, lots, more. ...

Begun in 1984 the oak collection of Chevithorne Barton is the largest & most comprehensive in Britain & almost certainly in the world, with 380 named oaks & over 220 species. This beautifully illustrated book describes & shows oaks from Europe, North Africa, Persia, Tibet, China, Japan, Mexico & the US flourishing deep in the Devon countryside. This book is a must for all tree lovers.

With a preface by Michael Heseltine.

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Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family. Peter is the only person to have traced Obama's roots from the present back through more than twenty generations, thanks to the Luo tribe's remarkable oral tradition.

Seen though the eyes of the Obama family this will be the story of an African dynasty going back over 400 years. It is a truly astonishing drama culminating in the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009 watched by Obama's African family on a flickering television clustered under a group of trees in the twilight of Kobama village in Kenya. A very special hundred or so men, women & children amongst billions all around the world who viewed the momentous event of the swearing in of the first black president.

This book establishes the early ancestry of the Obama family in the Alego region, telling the story of farmers & fishermen, of love & tribal warfare, of families lost & found. It traces the Obama roots from famous tribal warriors in the seventeenth century to the first encounters with the white man in the early 1900s; generation by generation we follow the family through colonial rule & the fight for Kenyan independence, including the Mau Mau & the relationship of Barack Obama's father with President Kenyatta.

This is a book about a family whose destiny is unknown to them. It is a true testament to the belief that any person can make their mark in the world no matter how humble their origins.





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Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family. Peter is the only person to have traced Obama's roots from the present back through more than twenty generations, thanks to the Luo tribe's remarkable oral tradition.

Seen though the eyes of the Obama family this will be the story of an African dynasty going back over 400 years. It is a truly astonishing drama culminating in the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, watched by Obama's African family on a flickering television clustered under a group of trees in the twilight of Kobama village in Kenya. A very special hundred or so men, women & children amongst billions all around the world who viewed the momentous event of the swearing in of the first black President of the United States.

This book establishes the early ancestry of the Obama family in the Alego region, telling the story of farmers & fishermen, of love & tribal warfare, of families lost & found. It traces the Obama roots from famous tribal warriors in the seventeenth century to the first encounters with the white man in the early 1900s; generation by generation we follow the family through colonial rule & the fight for Kenyan independence, including the Mau Mau & the relationship of Barack Obama's father with President Kenyatta.

This is a book about a family whose destiny is unknown to them. It is a true testament to the belief that any person can make their mark in the world no matter how humble their origins.





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Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family. Peter is the only person to have traced Obama's roots from the present back through more than twenty generations, thanks to the Luo tribe's remarkable oral tradition.

Seen though the eyes of the Obama family this will be the story of an African dynasty going back over 400 years. It is a truly astonishing drama culminating in the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, watched by Obama's African family on a flickering television clustered under a group of trees in the twilight of Kobama village in Kenya. A very special hundred or so men, women & children amongst billions all around the world who viewed the momentous event of the swearing in of the first black President of the United States.

This book establishes the early ancestry of the Obama family in the Alego region, telling the story of farmers & fishermen, of love & tribal warfare, of families lost & found. It traces the Obama roots from famous tribal warriors in the seventeenth century to the first encounters with the white man in the early 1900s; generation by generation we follow the family through colonial rule & the fight for Kenyan independence, including the Mau Mau & the relationship of Barack Obama's father with President Kenyatta.

This is a book about a family whose destiny is unknown to them. It is a true testament to the belief that any person can make their mark in the world no matter how humble their origins.





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Is the universe alive? Are there hidden connections within it, revealed in history & in sacred texts? Can we understand or even learn to control these secrets? Have we neglected an entirely separate science that works according to a different set of principles? Certainly by the time of the Renaissance in Europe, there were many thinkers who answered in the affirmative to all of these questions. Despite the growth of modern science & a general disenchantment of the world, the 'occult' or 'esoteric' tradition has evolved in the West, manifesting itself in such diverse groups as the Freemasons, the Mormons, Christian Scientists, the Theosophists, New Age, & American Fundamentalism. Paradoxically, the turn to science & the triumph of evolution in the nineteenth century produced an explosion of occultism, increasing its power as a kind of super-science. Gothic, fantastic, & supernatural fiction flourished, while Spiritualism emerged as a serious inquiry into the possibility of contacting the dead. After all, if you could communicate with the living at great distances, why should a similar teletechnology not be possible to the other world? Disciplines had not yet hardened, & the borders were as yet undefined between parapsychology & psychology, between mythology & anthropology. Mesmerism became hypnotism, & the subconscious came to be recognized as more than a medium's stomping ground. This book describes the growth & meandering path of the occult tradition over the past five hundred years, & shows how the esoteric world view fits together. ...

Is the universe alive? Are there hidden connections within it, revealed in history & in sacred texts? Can we understand or even learn to control these secrets? Have we neglected an entirely separate science that works according to a different set of principles?

Certainly by the time of the Renaissance in Europe, there were many thinkers who answered in the affirmative to all of these questions. Despite the growth of modern science & a general disenchantment of the world, the 'occult' or 'esoteric' tradition has evolved in the West, manifesting itself in such diverse groups as the Freemasons, the Mormons, Christian Scientists, the Theosophists, New Ageists & American Fundamentalism. Paradoxically, the turn to science & the triumph of evolution in the nineteenth century produced an explosion of occultism, increasing its power as a kind of super-science. Gothic, fantastic, & supernatural fiction flourished, while Spiritualism emerged as a serious inquiry into the possibility of contacting the dead. After all, if you could communicate with the living at great distances, why should a similar teletechnology not be possible to the other world?

Disciplines had not yet hardened, & the borders were as yet undefined between parapsychology & psychology, between mythology & anthropology. Mesmerism became hypnotism, & the subconscious came to be recognized as more than a medium's stomping ground. This book describes the growth & meandering path of the occult tradition over the past five hundred years, & shows how the esoteric world view fits together.



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