Death has to happen. Tha'ts what bein' alive is all about. You're alive & then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.' But it can. & it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc as here they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living... ...

Death has to happen. Thats what bein alive is all about. Youre alive & then youre dead. It cant just stop happening. But it can. & it has. Death is missing
- presumed.er.gone (and on a little farm far far away a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe). Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesnt come for you then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You cant have the undead wandering about like lost souls. Theres no telling what might happen particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living...
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The Letherii Empire is in turmoil. Rhulad Sengar the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths spirals into madness while the Errant once a farseeing god appears suddenly blind to the future. Driven by the corruption & self-interest the empire edges ever-closer to all-out war with its neighbouring kingdoms. & the great Edur fleet draws ominously ever closer. With Karsa Orlong & Icarium Lifestealer among its warriors that blood will be spilled is certain. But a band of fugitives look to escape from Lether. One of them Fear Sengar seeks the soul of Scabandari Bloodeye for he hopes that with its help they might halt the Tiste Edur & so save the emperor his brother. But another is Scabandaris old enemy: Silchas Ruin brother of Anomander Rake. He carries scars inflicted by Scabandari & such bloodshed cannot go unanswered. There is to be a reckoning & it will be on an unimaginable scale... ...

A comprehensive guide on how to raise pheasants & red-leg partridges. It provides an understanding of each species choosing the breeding stock incubating the eggs rearing the chicks to release & then nurturing the game through to the start of the shooting season. It is a hands-on practical guide that draws on a wide-range of accepted best practice including experiences of overseas success stories. Advice is given on rearing game in a low-cost & efficient manner without compromising quality & ensuring the welfare of the birds is paramount. ...

A Reason for Everything" is a brilliant & surprising fusion of science & biography. It is a very human book about the Englishness of evolutionary theory & the lives & personalities
- often eccentric & controversial
- of those who made it. The idea of evolution by natural selection was first announced in Britain & it has until recently been defended in Britain more passionately than anywhere else. At the heart of the theory is the notion of adaptation to the environment. When 'adaptationists' look at living creatures they believe that each of their features has a purpose for which it has been shaped by selection. They tend to assume that there is actually a reason for everything. & for scientists after Darwin that has been an extremely productive assumption. A number of thinkers developed this idea to levels of sophistication undreamed of in Darwin's time. The most important were Ronald Aylmer Fisher J.B.S. Haldane John Maynard Smith Bill Hamilton & Richard Dawkins. Kohn writes with great insight about the families & the universities that helped shape these men & about their politics which ranged from the far right to the Communist Party. Fisher was a practising Christian; Dawkins is a famously militant atheist. Some were notoriously difficult & eccentric as people; their feuds often were (and are) stormy. He opens the book with a deft & moving portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace Darwin's contemporary & generous rival. "A Reason for Everything" is about far more than a narrow argument within biology. It is about Britain & natural history butterflies & snails impassioned beliefs & ideological struggles. Kohn writes with quiet humour & sympathy about how each of these individuals responded to a chilling & inspiring vision of nature."

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' Composed by a writer still with one foot in childhood & whose autism was at least as challenging & life-defining as our son's THE REASON I JUMP was a revelatory godsend. Reading it felt as if for the first time our own son was talking to us about what was happening inside his head.' Written by Naoki Higishida when he was only thirteen this remarkable book explains the often baffling behaviour of autistic children & shows the way they think & feel
- such as about the people around them time & beauty noise & themselves. Naoki abundantly proves that autistic people do possess imagination humour & empathy but also makes clear with great poignancy how badly they need our compassion patience & understanding. David Mitchell & his wife have translated Naoki's book so that it might help others dealing with autism & generally illuminate a little-understood condition. Like The Diving Bell & the Butterfly it gives us an exceptional chance to enter the mind of another & see the world from a strange & fascinating perspective. The book also features eleven original illustrations inspired by Naoki's words by the artistic duo Kai & Sunny.
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Reason to Breathe" by Rebecca Donovan is a US bestselling phenomenon. An utterly addictive & heartbreaking novel that will leave readers breathless & desperate for more. All fans of Jodi Picoult & new adult author fiction such Colleen Hoover's " Slammed" Tammara Webber's " Easy" & Abbi Glines' " Vincent Boys" will love Rebecca Donovan's incredible writing. A must-read. A passionate love. A brutal betrayal. Unwavering hope. In a town where most people worry about what to be seen in & who to be seen with Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. She's more concerned with feigning perfection pulling down her sleeves to conceal the bruises. Emma doesn't want anyone to know how far from perfect her life truly is. When Emma unexpectedly finds love it challenges her to recognize her own worth
- but at the risk of revealing the terrible secret she's desperate to hide. Praise for " Reason to Breathe": " Emotionally intense & heart-achingly beautiful " Reason to Breathe" will linger long in your thoughts after you turn the last page". (Tracey Garvis-Graves " New York Times" bestselling author of " On the Island"). "USA Today" bestselling author Rebecca Donovan has been a writer most of her life but has just recently been deemed an author. Her debut novels " Reason to Breathe" & its sequel " Barely Breathing" have resonated with readers around the world. Rebecca is currently working on the third & final instalment of the " Breathing Series" " Out of Breath". She lives in a small town in Massachusetts USA."
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Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the worlds leading social theorists to how we understand society & the social. Bruno Latours contention is that the word social as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon it is used to indicate a stablilized state of affairs a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. But Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material in a comparable way to an adjective such as wooden or steely. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling; & a type of material distinct from others. Latour shows why the social cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain & disputes attempts to provide a social explanations of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of the social to redefine the notion & allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the assemblages of nature Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach a sociology of associations has become known as Actor-Network-Theory & this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network Theory or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents. ...

A wondeful collection of fantasy short stories from the renowned author of the Thomas Covenant series. Stephen Donaldson has been one of the worlds most popular fantasy writers ever since his first million-selling Thomas Covenant trilogy in 1977. In 1990 he took a new direction with the Gap series the bestselling sf epic acclaimed as his best work ever. Now in his first collection since 1984 he returns to mainstream fantasy with eight stunning stories that reveal an astonishing mastery of the shorter form. Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere mysticism & menace including The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; The Killing Stroke in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; & Penance a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield searching for the dying. Spellbinding unpredictable & always entertaining this new collection displays the remarkable imagination & extraordinary range of a writer at the height of his powers & confirms Stephen Donaldsons position as a master of modern fantasy. ...

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.. . Working as a lady's companion the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until on a trip to the South of France she meets Maxim de Winter a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous & brooding Manderley the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. & the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers.. . Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love & the struggle to find her identity. ...