The robin was hardly understood when David Lack
- Britain's most influential ornithologist
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE' Eye-opening extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times ' Superb' Literary Review The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946 scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world growing to encompass five generations of children Today they are some of the best-studied people on the planet & the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born schooled parent & die This is the tale of these studies & the remarkable discoveries that have come from them Touching almost every person in Britain today they are one of our best-kept secrets' If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path look no further than this book highly readable a goldmine of social history' Eric Kaufmann Literary Review' Hugely engaging the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric passionate bunch' Nick Curtis Evening Standard ...

As a young widow with futures to secure for her two daughters Glenda Mc Kinley is torn between remaining at her beloved estate Pinmuir in the Scottish Highlands or following the plans her deceased husband made to join his brother in America Though her inclination is to stay among all that is dear & familiar she is forced to reconsider when her daughter Caitlin's health takes a turn for the worse & the family doctor suggests a change of scenery would do her good The family's imminent departure for Colorado comes as a blow to Ros the eldest girl who has fallen in love with Clive son of their estate manager For her sister's sake however she agrees to try life on her uncle's cattle ranch & the family travel half the world away to start anew America is a whole new world to the Mc Kinley family & in spite of the hospitable welcome they receive from Gordon Mc Kinley the scale of the country & hard realities of ranch life come as a shock to the family who pine for the things & people they left behind in Scotland When a gentle unassuming cowboy falls for Glenda she has a strong incentive to stay & make a new life But with Ros yearning for the man waiting for her back in Scotland can the family ever find true happiness when each must pursue a different dream? ...

Michelle de Kretser's fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now & a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship Pippa is a writer who longs for success Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time Driven by riveting stories & unforgettable characters here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy loneliness & our flawed perception of other people Profoundly moving as well as bitingly funny The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past & the future can transform distort & undo the present Travelling from Sydney to Paris & Sri Lanka this mesmerising novel feels at once firmly classic & exhilaratingly contemporary ...

Michelle de Kretser's fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now & a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship 384 pages Kretser Michelle de ...

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Transform your home into a permanently clear & clutter-free space with the incredible Kon Mari Method Japan's expert declutterer & professional cleaner Marie Kondo will help you tidy your rooms once & for all with her inspirational step-by-step method The key to successful tidying is to tackle your home in the correct order to keep only the things you really love & to do it all at once
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This is a beautiful hardback edition of Marie Kondo's classic book Transform your home into a permanently clear & clutter-free space with the incredible Kon Mari Method Japan's expert declutterer & professional cleaner Marie Kondo will help you tidy your rooms once & for all with her inspirational step-by-step method The key to successful tidying is to tackle your home in the correct order to keep only the things you really love & to do it all at once
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Two & a half decades ago Ascended Master Teachers Arten & Pursah appeared to Gary Renard & held a series of conversations with him that elaborated on the teachings of two spiritual classics The Gospel of Thomas & A Course in Miracles Gary immortalized what he learned in the books of his bestselling series The Disappearance of the Universe Your Immortal Reality & Love Has Forgotten No One This fourth book is a companion to the original trilogy yet written to stand alone an invitation for new readers into this fascinating work This book explores seven of the lifetimes in which the incarnations of Jesus & Buddha lived together beginning in 700 BC when they were known as Saka & Hiroji Arten & Pursah through the spiritual lessons that Jesus & Buddha learn on their path clarify the difference between duality & non-duality When you are able to internalize these lessons you will be saved countless years in your spiritual development ...

' She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; & that being her slave I should execute her will in all things' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859 A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain mesmerism phrenology & experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral philsophy
- the ideal of imaginative sympathy or the ability to see into others' minds & emotions Narrated by an egoccentric morbid young clairvoyant man whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self as well as being a remarkable portrait of a misdeveloped artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life The Lifted Veil is now one of the most widely read & critically discussed of Eliot's works Published as a companion piece to The Lifted Veil Brother Jacob is by contrast Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating & reading Yet both stories reveal Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them & the boundaries of art & the self Helen Small's introduction casts new light on works which fully deserve to be read alongside Eliot's novels ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more
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