LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016 Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast a badger an otter a deer a fox a swift What it was really like & through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down & grapple with the beast in us all So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks sleeping in a dirt hole & eating earthworms he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter & he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London & rooting in bins like an urban fox A passionate naturalist Foster realises that every creature creates a different world in its brain & lives in that world As humans we share sensory outputs lights smells & sound but trying to explore what it is actually like to live in another of these worlds belonging to another species is a fascinating & unique neuro-scientific challenge For Foster it is also a literary challenge Looking at what science can tell us about what happens in a fox's or badger's brain when it picks up a scent he then uses this to imagine their world for us to write it through their eyes or rather through the eyes of Charles the beast An intimate look at the life of animals neuroscience psychology nature writing memoir & more it is a journey of extraordinary thrills & surprises containing wonderful moments of humour & joy but also providing important lessons for all of us who share life on this precious planet ...

A combination of 45 years of education experience & wisdom this will be the preferred handbook for supervisors 176 pages Duffy Joseph F ...

The joys & challenges of being a writer are explored in this inspiring assemblage of wit wisdom & hard-won practical advice from some of the world's greatest authors musing on the art of writing & how they came to define themselves as writers From Samuel Johnson in eighteenth-century London to Lorrie Moore in twenty-first-century Wisconsin the contributors range from the canon to contemporary covering more than 250 years & come from all over the world Beautifully illustrated throughout this stunning anthology explores & illuminates the pleasures & pitfalls of the compulsion to write with advice about the whole messy business of writing literature & what it takes to be a writer The perfect gift for aspiring writers curious readers & anyone interested in what the world's greatest authors have to say about the art of writing ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Being AP is the incredible inside story of a sporting legend As AP Mc Coy nears the end of his career the characteristics that have driven him to dominate the most dangerous of sports remain as strong as ever Fearless & willing to sacrifice everything to achieve his goals this film reveals the exhaustive training routine injuries doubt triumphs failures & AP’s soul-searching to find a way to leave the stage With unprecedented access to AP & those closest to him Being AP celebrates an incredible man who became the greatest jump jockey the world has ever seen ...

The cruel early death of his wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly's middle-class middle-aged existence Miserably single outnumbered by his kids & haunted by life's screaming fragility he recounts his fight back against the hand of fate This irreverent & frank memoir follows Adam's snakes-&-ladders journey through his grief in the year following his wife's death as he struggles with small town tongue wagging the trauma of teenage bra shopping & online dating anarchy Adam's is the biggest mid-life crisis anyone could face & as he starts to build a new alternative life for himself & his children he shows not just how to survive bereavement but how to be transformed by it ...

Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions & potentials of human life Generations of theorists however have expunged life from their accounts treating it as the mere output of patterns codes structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural natural or social Building on his classic work The Perception of the Environment Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong at the heart of anthropological concern Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials what it means to make things the perception & formation of the ground the mingling of earth & sky in the weather-world the experiences of light sound & feeling the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge & the potential of drawing to unite observation & description Our humanity Ingold argues does not come ready-made but is continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring Ingold presents a radically new understanding of movement knowledge & description as

Dimensions not just of being in the world but of being alive to what is going on there

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Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers it altered the course of western philosophy Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relationship with the world Known as 'the Bible of existentialism' its impact on culture & literature was immediate & was felt worldwide from the absurd drama of Samuel Beckett to the soul-searching cries of the Beat poets Being & Nothingness is one of those rare books whose influence has affected the mind-set of subsequent generations Sixty years after its first publication its message remains as potent as ever
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Full of sensitive pastoral advice & shot through with arresting & illuminating theological insights Rowan Williams' new book explores the meaning & practice of four essential components of the Christian life baptism Bible Eucharist & prayer This book is an invitation to everyone to think through the essentials of the faith & how to live it making it an ideal gift for anyone at the start of their spiritual journey or thinking about confirmation ...

Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4&s The Archers since 1982 He is also the Earl of Portland & the voice of & Mind The Gap& on the Piccadilly Line Aimed primarily at the five million regular Archers listeners Timothy takes the reader behind the scenes of the longest running drama series in the world a British institution with a theme tune that Billy Connolly wants to be the National Anthem But that&s not all With wry self-deprecating humour Timothy recounts his enormously varied life
- a successful actor in TV film & theatre a voice specialist working in every vocal medium He&s also been an HGV truck driver a US tour guide a computer programmer & website designer an inventor with UK & US patents farm worker house renovator & he sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords for three years Unlike many acting memoirs this isn&t a succession of thespian tales of freezing digs forgotten lines & name dropping This is an articulate funny & thoughtful account of how to survive an insecure life
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The autobiography of actor Timothy Bentinck who has played the role of David Archer the Paterfamilias of the Archer family since 1982 336 pages 2x 8pp colour plate sections Bentinck Timothy ...