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Two lives One night sky Roisin & Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica searching for a comet overhead While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland ablaze with a passion for science & the skies Francois was raised by his restless young mother who dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her back on her past As we loop back through their lives we see their paths cross as they come closer & closer to this moment brought together by the infinite possibilities of the night sky ...

At the end of life our comfort lies mainly in relationships In this book Daniel Miller one of the world's leading anthropologists examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness Threading together a series of personal stories based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community friendship & kinship but also loneliness & isolation This is a book about people's lives not their deaths about the hospice patients rather than the hospice It focuses on the comfort given by friends carers & relatives through both face-to-face relations & increasingly online communication Miller asks whether the loneliness & isolation he uncovers is the result of a decline of English patterns of socialising or their continuation This moving & deeply humane book combines warmth & sharp observation with anthropological insight & practical suggestions for the use of media by the hospice It will be of interest not only to students & scholars of anthropology sociology social policy & media & cultural studies but also to healthcare professionals & indeed to anyone who would like to know more about the role of relationships in the final stage of our lives ...

As their holiday unfolds Colin & Maria are locked into their own intimacy They groom themselves meticulously as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell & become drawn into a fantasy of violence & obsession ...

' The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times' Ian Rankin In this first novel by Muriel Spark
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If you want God & long for union with him yet sometimes wonder what that means or whether it can mean anything at all you are already walking with the God who comeslf you have ever had an obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better greater more wonderful than you deserve or desirethat there is a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect you are already drawn into the central mystery of salvation Your hope is not a mocking dream; God creates in human hearts a huge desire & a sense of need because he wants to fill them with the gift of himself' So begins this much acclaimed modern spiritual classic in which Maria Boulding explores the self-giving nature of God & the many ways that he comes to us in the events of our lives in others & in prayer Its central message is that God comes to the empty & the needy Whether our need is material or spiritual here is a book of immense hope comfort & promise Maria Boulding is a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire & in recent years has been living as a hermit ...

' Stories are something you carry with you something to last your entire life to be passed on to your children & their children for evermore' Duncan Williamson Duncan Williamson came from a family of Travelling People who told stories around the campfire for entertainment & for teaching As a child Duncan learnt the ways of the world through stories ' My father's knowledge told us how to live in this world as natural human beings -- not to be greedy not to be foolish not to be daft or selfish -- by stories' In this collection he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk & fairy tales For over sixty years Duncan travelled around Scotland -- on foot then in a horse & cart & later an old van -- collecting tales which not only come from the Travelling People but from the crofters farmers & shepherds he met along the way This collection

Includes:: tales about cunning foxes & storytelling cats hunchbacked ogres & beautiful unicorns helpful broonies & mysterious fairies rich kings & fearsome warriors as well as those about ordinary folk trying to make their way in the world The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice full of colour humour & life

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The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority & scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness & the central place of the Navy & naval activity in the life of the nation & government It describes not just battles voyages & cruises but how the Navy was manned how it was supplied with timber hemp & iron how its men (and sometimes women) were fed & above all how it was financed & directed It was during the century & a half covered by this book that the successful organizing of these last three
- victualling money & management
- took the Navy to the heart of the British state It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated & mutually dependent Britain & the Navy then became

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Following the success of his previous book The Commando Way Damian Mc Kinney delves deeper into the links & lessons of achieving high performance in the military & business worlds Drawing on his own experience as a Royal Marine & as a highly successful international business consultant Mc Kinney writes about the values of being a Marine that have served him well in his commercial life He suggests that the 'commando entrepreneur' is a particularly vital & valuable role in business success the strengths offered by a disciplined 'maverick' able to innovate outside the restrictions of everyday business What are the characteristics of a commando entrepreneur? Mc Kinney explores these through interviews with renowned global business leaders case studies of work undertaken by his consultancy & stories from military history From this unique range of advice & experience he provides guidance for senior business people to help them discover & unleash their commando entrepreneur & improve both individual & company performance ...

The Commissar of the title played by Nonna Mordyukova is a Soviet functionary wielding power over a remote Jewish village Neither she nor the villagers care for the status quo but over a period of several weeks both come to accept the situation & to establish a detente ...