We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends & beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors & nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity & fed through a tube after a long series of excessive & hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O` Mahoney`s thoughtful, moving & unforgettable book on the western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying & made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve. ...

The wolf stalks the wilderness & our own imaginations. Uncover its mysteries in this beautifully written non-fiction picture book. Majestic & fierce, proud & strong, the wolf has always been a source of fascination
- & fear. It remains one of the most misunderstood of all creatures, frequently cast as our mortal enemy. The truth is that wolves & humans are more closely connected than we dare to admit. With beautifully lyrical language, Smriti Prasadam-Halls explores the lightning speed, echoing howl & family life of these mysterious animals, revealing astonishing facts & overturning misconceptions as she does so. Wildlife illustrator Jonathan Woodward brings the creatures to life with breathtaking papercut collage artwork. This is non-fiction storytelling at its very finest. The Ways of the Wolf has been endorsed by the UK Wolf Conservation Trust.
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Drifting through its cast of vivid, earthy characters in a series of impressionistic vignettes, ” The Wayward Bus”, published in ” Penguin Modern Classics”, is John Steinbeck`s Californian Canterbury Tales. ” The Wayward Bus” travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost & the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the l&, hot-blooded & uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, seventeen-year-old Kit, also known as Pimples, & Camille the stripper who dances at stag nights & takes the star-struck young Norma under her wing. This powerful & unsentimental novel becomes a story of crisis & passion, love & longing, as the travellers reveal their secrets & journey away from their pasts & towards, possibly, the promise of the future. ” The Wayward Bus”, with its profound insight into human desires & failings, remains one of Steinbeck`s most powerful novels. John Steinbeck (1902-68), winner of the Pulitzer Prize & the Nobel Prize for literature, is remembered as one of the greatest & best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the Second World War Steinbeck served as a war correspondent, with his collected dispatches published as ” Once There Was a War” (1958); in 1945 he was awarded the Norwegian Cross of Freedom for his novel ” The Moon is Down” (1942), a portrayal of Resistance efforts in northern Europe. His best-known works include the epics ” The Grapes of Wrath” (1939) & ” East of Eden” (1952), & his tragic novella ” Of Mice & Men” (1937). John Steinbeck`s complete works are published in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. If you enjoyed ” The Wayward Bus”, you might like Jack Kerouac`s ” On the Road”, also available in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. ` Sustained brilliance, complete credibility & vividness”. (” Saturday Review”). ” One of Steinbeck`s best books”. (” Newsweek”). ...

The 200th anniversary of Henry Mayhew`s birth is overshadowed by that of his friend & collaborator Charles Dickens. But in fact Mayhew was a pioneering investigative journalist whose writings & descriptions may have inspired some of Dickens` characters. In some respects, Mayhew was his own worst enemy. He was disorganised
- one of his books ended in mid-sentence
- & cantankerous, & perhaps as a result his funeral was sparsely attended. But embedded in his fine reportage, which included long & moving interviews with Londoners, are passages descriptive of London, of people`s appearances & of their shabby homes, which stand alongside Dickens` own writings for the quality & compassion of the prose.

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A detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Cranbrook, Hawkhurst & Bewl Water. Edition B2; Publication date April 2011 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES, PETER WOHLLEBEN, INVITES US TO RECONNECT WITH NATUREAs soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small & large processes are taking place, details that are long often fascinating & beautiful. But we`ve long forgotten how to recognise them. Peter Wohlleben, bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, invites us to become an expert, to take a closer look & interpret the signs that clouds, wind, plants & animals convey. Chaffinches become weather prophets, bees are live thermometers, courgettes tell us the time. The Weather Detective combines scientific research with charming anecdotes to explain the extraordinary cycles of life, death & regeneration that are evolving on our doorstep, bringing us closer to nature than ever before. A walk in the park will never be the same again ...

In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert Fitz Roy locked himself in his dressing room & cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, Fitz Roy`s storm-warning system & `forecasts` would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God`s great wrath, nineteenth-century meteorologists had to fight against convention & religious dogma. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment a generation of mavericks set out to explain the secrets of the atmosphere & learned to predict the future. Among them were Luke Howard, the first to classify the clouds, Francis Beaufort who quantified the winds, James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon, Samuel Morse whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings, & Fitz Roy himself, master sailor, scientific pioneer & founder of the Met Office. Reputations were built & shattered. Fractious debates raged over decades between scientists from London to Galway, Paris to New York. Explaining the atmosphere was one thing, but predicting what it was going to do seemed a step too far. In 1854, when a politician suggested to the Commons that Londoners might soon know the weather twenty-four hours in advance, the House roared with laughter. Peter Moore`s exhilarating account navigates treacherous seas, rough winds & uncovers the obsession that drove these men to great invention & greater understanding. ...

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The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky & interpret its signs, & combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be. This handbook has been the standard reference for almost 20 years for students on Day Skipper & Yachtmaster courses, & the handbook of choice for skippers & crew of cruising & racing yachts. It has now been completely redesigned for the third edition to be more user friendly, with new photos & updated explanatory text. The book also addresses new sources of weather information that have exploded on to the market. There are countless websites & apps providing forecast data, & The Weather Handbook guides users in how to use & interpret this information for themselves. ` The perfect introduction to understanding weather` Practical Boat Owner ...

Taking up where AN INVITATION TO THE WALTZ left off, THE WEATHER IN THE STREETS shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, & apprently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair & a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls & snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle & powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty & passionate portrayal of clandestine love. ...