A soaring autobiographical poem meditating on death & celebrating life from one of our most cherished critically acclaimed & bestselling writers 112 pages James Clive ...

Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind & downstream from three Superfund sites For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages birth defects & cancer in her town ultimately drawing connections between environmental contamination & these maladies When she brought her findings to environmental health researchers Cook sparked the United States first large-scale community-based participatory research project In The River Is in Us author Elizabeth Hoover takes us deep into this remarkable community that has partnered with scientists & developed grassroots programs to fight the contamination of its lands & reclaim its health & culture Through in-depth research into archives newspapers & public meetings as well as numerous interviews with community members & scientists Hoover shows the exact efforts taken by Akwesasnes massive research project & the grassroots efforts to preserve the Native culture & lands She also documents how contaminants have altered tribal life including changes to the Mohawk fishing culture & the rise of diabetes in Akwesasne Featuring community members such as farmers health-care providers area leaders & environmental specialists while rigorously evaluating the efficacy of tribal efforts to preserve its culture & protect its health The River Is in Us offers important lessons for improving environmental health research & health care plus detailed insights into the struggles & methods of indigenous groups This moving uplifting book is an essential read for anyone interested in Native Americans social justice & the pollutants contaminating our food water & bodies ...

The first in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller Dilly Court London 1854 twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The sins of the past are not forgotten in this chilling suspense thriller starring Ray Liotta Christian Slater & Ving Rhames When the first body was discovered it seemed a coincidence But now homicide detective Jack Verdon (Liotta) has cause to worry the victims of a series of brutal sex murders are all his former girlfriends Suspected by the FBI agent who&s taken over the case (Slater) & suspended by his captain (Rhames) Jack must work outside the law if he&s to find the killer save his future & protect what&s left of his past Actors Ray Liotta Christian Slater Ving Rhames Gisele Fraga Sarah Ann Schultz Michael Rodrick Melora Walters & Chris Leblanc Director Rich Cowan Certificate 18 years & over Year 2011 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English ; Hindi Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 28 minutes (approx)
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This guide covers the River Nene from Blisworth in to the Dog in a Doublet sluice below Peterborough Commentary & essential notes support clear mapping by Iain Smith

Includes:: the Grand Union Canal Northampton Arm The 2016 edition has been thoroughly revised & updated

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In his previous books Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain & mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders Recently however he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice & in light of recent neuroscientific evidence & theories The River of Consciousness will be a broader & more direct look at how the brain & mind work as always incorporating Sacks' rich historical & personal context Advances in neuroscience have revolutionized our ability to visualize the brain in action For the first time we are able to close the gap between the philosophical questions which have consumed the world's thinkers since the eighteenth century & the true physiological basis of perception & consciousness In The River of Consciousness Sacks will examine questions of memory time & consciousness How do we think how do we remember? Do different individuals have different speeds or ways of thinking? Is memory reliable? How do the neural correlates of memory differ for true memories & false memories? How do we construct our sense of time our visual world? What is consciousness neurologically speaking? & most importantly what is creativity? Sacks completed the research for this book before he died & with instructions on how it was to be put together This is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works ...

In his previous books Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain & mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders Recently however he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice & in light of recent neuroscientific evidence & theories The River of Consciousness will be a broader & more direct look at how the brain & mind work as always incorporating Sacks' rich historical & personal context Advances in neuroscience have revolutionized our ability to visualize the brain in action For the first time we are able to close the gap between the philosophical questions which have consumed the world's thinkers since the eighteenth century & the true physiological basis of perception & consciousness In The River of Consciousness Sacks will examine questions of memory time & consciousness How do we think how do we remember? Do different individuals have different speeds or ways of thinking? Is memory reliable? How do the neural correlates of memory differ for true memories & false memories? How do we construct our sense of time our visual world? What is consciousness neurologically speaking? & most importantly what is creativity? Sacks completed the research for this book before he died & with instructions on how it was to be put together This is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works ...

Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists & sanctions It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world Drawing both on his own family's stories & his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present & of how the world might transform the country's future In The River of Lost Footsteps Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma in part through a telling of his own family's history in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical dramatic & appalling His maternal grandfather U Thant rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s & on his father's side the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries Through their stories & others he portrays Burma's rise & decline in the modern world from the time of Portuguese pirates & renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism the devastation of World War II a sixty-year civil war that continues today military repression & the emergence of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal & global a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible & enthralling Thant Myint-U is the author of Where China Meets India & has written articles for the New York Times the Washington Post & the New Statesman ...

Something was approaching the burrow Something deadly Something that made Sylvan's fur bristle with fear Knowing their lives are under threat Sylvan & his brother & sisters have no choice but to abandon their burrow for ever Together they set out on an epic journey along the Great River; but with dangers lurking at every turn will they ever find a safe place to call home? Now available in paperback this exciting & beautifully-illustrated animal adventure has the makings of a future children's classic ' Just the sort of book I would have loved as a child' Gill Lewis ...

Meet animal lover Tiger Days! A br&-new young fiction series about animals friendship & adventure by bestselling author Sarah Lean Beautiful black-&-white illustrations throughout When Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House she never knows what to expect Tiger meets Lucky
- an injured otter who can't survive by himself Tiger has an important job to do
- feeding & caring for Lucky & also exploring the riverbank in search of the perfect place for him to live She desperately wants Lucky to get better but saying goodbye to her new friend won't be easy No day is ever dull for Tiger!

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