The acclaimed novel of Spain`s economic crisis
- a timely masterpiece. Under a weak winter sun in small-town Spain, a man discovers
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These photographs reveal not only the seaside resorts & clifftop walks we all know, in a new light, the also depict the more dramatic & remote stretches of coast that are relatively inaccessible. The pictures are more than studies of empty landscape, for they reveal man's essential & natural affinity with the l&, & nowhere is this more poignantly apparent in a seafaring nation, than at the interface between rock & water, terra firma & the tidal ocean. ...

In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world`s rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity & essential regulators of global air & water cycles. Since that time, new research & technological advances have greatly increased our knowledge of how rainforests are being affected by changing patterns of resource use. Increasing concern about climate change has made it more important than ever to understand the state of the world`s tropical forests. This book provides an up-to-date picture of the health of the world`s tropical forests. Claude Martin, an eminent scientist & conservationist, integrates information from remote imaging, ecology, & economics to explain deforestation & forest health throughout the world. He explains how urbanization, an increasingly global economy, & a worldwide demand for biofuels put new pressure on rainforest l&. He examines the policies & market forces that have successfully preserved forests in some areas & discusses the economic benefits of protected areas. Using evidence from ice core records & past forest cover patterns, he predicts the most likely effects of climate change. ...

Little ones can join in the fun On the Farm by pulling out the sliders, jiggling the animals & making all the different noises! Quack along with the ducks, moo with the cows & neigh with the horses. Children will love playing with this bright & colourful board book with gentle rhyming text & beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Axel Scheffler. Also available: In the Jungle ...

This is the story of a life in crisis, set in the world of high finance. At the age of twenty-eight, Dubliner Geri Molloy has put her troubled past behind her to become a major player at Steiner's investment bank in London, earning $850k a year doing business with a reclusive hedge fund manager in Hong Kong who, in return for his patronage, likes to ask her about Kant & watch while she eats exotic Asian delicacies. For five years Geri has had it all, but in the months leading up to the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991, her life starts to unravel. Abandoned by her corporate financier boyfriend, in the grip of a debilitating insomnia, & drinking far too much, Geri becomes entangled in a hostile takeover involving her boss, her client & her ex. With her career on the line as a consequence, & no one to turn to, she is close to losing it, in every sense. Taut & fast-paced, On the Floor is about making money & taking risks; it's about getting away with it, & what happens when you're no longer one step ahead; ultimately, though, it's a reminder to never, ever underestimate the personal cost of success. ...

On the High Line is the first illustrated guide to the elevated park that has transformed an entire neighbourhood of New York City. Illustrated with some 400 colour photos, including the work of notable photographer & horticulturist Rick Darke, & featuring a gatefold map, it is an engaging, friend-at-your-side guide to everything that a visitor sees when strolling through the park: the innovative gardens & their thousands of plants from around the world; the art, architecture & landscape design by highly recognizable names such as Piet Oudolf, Olaf Eliasson & Pentagram; & a neighbourhood whose lively history

Includes:: the Titanic, the Manhattan Project, S&M clubs & the Tenth Avenue Cowboy. This book captures like no other the countless details that make a walk along the High Line such an unforgettable experience.

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Thirty feet in the air, rebuilt & planted on one-&-a-half miles of abandoned, elevated railroad track snaking through Manhattans West Side, the High Line has turned the dream of escape offered by most urban parks inside out. On the High Line is an engaging, friend-at-your-side guide to everything that a visitor sees when strolling through the park: the innovative gardens & their thousands of plants from around the world; the architecture, both old & new; & a neighbourhood whose lively history

Includes:: the Titanic, the Manhattan Project, S&M clubs & the Tenth Avenue Cowboy. This book captures like no other the countless details that make a walk along the High Line such an unforgettable experience.

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Maps have long intrigued & guided us
- from the days of the early philosophers to today`s digital, smartphone-enabled cartographic
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From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps
- Simon Garfield, the bestselling Just My Type author, turns his gaze to maps. Maps fascinate
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For three years, Carol Donaldson lived in a caravan on the North Kent Marshes while working for the RSPB, Britain`s largest wildlife conservation charity. Despite the hardship of frozen pipes & electricity which blew out in every storm, what began as a short term financial decision turned into a way of life she came to love. It was a simple life, under a willow tree & close to nature in a home that let the outside in. But Carol was then evicted, a devastating event which also brought about the end of a long term relationship. Carol moved to a nearby town & settled down to a more conventional life. Yet the new sense of security she felt from owning her own home was matched by a powerful urge to escape into the landscapes of the estuary, to find the unconventional people she knew who still lived there, on the watery margins. So in 2014 Carol set out on a series of walks across the marshes, travelling from Gravesend to Whitstable. Both an act of pilgrimage to a landscape she loves & an investigation into why people are drawn to live there, Carol meets the houseboat & caravan owners, the hermits who live in the woods & the men who choose to die in these remote places. On the Marshes brings us a fresh, honest & unflinching book for our times. Able to evoke the landscape of a marginalised corner of Engl&, Carol weaves her own story of alienation with those who have made the marshes their home. Along the way she never shies from confronting the issues of cultural conflict so relevant today, between marsh dwellers & corporate Engl&, between private ownership & conservation, between two ways of living. ...