In the near future bees are extinct
- until five unconnected individuals in different parts of the world are stung. Immediately
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Generation Kill" is about the young men sent to fight their nations first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan & Iraq you have never really met any of these people who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason the media simply doesnt get them. As we all know news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction comply with analysis from retired army grandees & other experts punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the medias presentation of recent wars rather like extras in " The Triumph of the Will". They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted. Now " Generation Kill" tells the soldiers story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines many of them veterans of Afghanistan whose elite reconnaissance unit spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers. Its about surviving death. Its about taking part in a war many questioned before it even began. Evan Wright was the only reporter with First Recon which operated well ahead of most other forces usually behind enemy lines. They were among the first marines sent into the fight & one of the last units still engaged on the outskirts of Iraq even after the city centre fell. " Generation Kill" is not just a combat chronicle but an inside look at how people fighting in war actually experience it. It is both an action narrative like " Black Hawk Down" & a detailed portrait of a generation at war along the lines of " Band of Brothers". It is not a book you are going to forget in a hurry." ...

The unique model of apartheid colonisation & military occupation that Israel imposes on the Palestinians along with myriad violations of international law have made Palestine the moral cause of a generation. Yet many people continue to ask 'what can we do?' Generation Palestine helps to answer this question by bringing together Palestinian & international activists in the Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement. The movement aims to pressure Israel until it complies with International Law mirroring the model that was successfully utilised against South African apartheid. With essays written by a wide selection of contributors Generation Palestine follows the BDS movement's model of inclusivity & collaboration. Contributors include Archbishop Desmond Tutu Ken Loach Iain Banks Ronnie Kasrils Professor Richard Falk Ilan Pappe Omar Barghouti Ramzy Baroud & Archbishop Attallah Hannah alongside other internationally acclaimed artists writers academics & grassroots activists. ...

Andy Dag & Claire have been handed a society beyond their means. Twentysomethings brought up with divorce Watergate & Three Mile Island & scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies recession crack & Ronald Reagan they represent the new generation- Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertisers target market they have quit dreary careers & cut themselves adrift in the California desert. Unsure of their futures they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking & working in no future Mc Jobs in the service industry. Underemployed overeducated & intensely private & unpredicatable they have nowhere to direct their anger no one to assuage their fears & no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories: disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead TV shows Elvis moments & semi-disposible Swedish furniture. ...

Andy Dag & Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings brought up with divorce Watergate & Three Mile Island & scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies recession crack & Ronald Reagan they represent the new generation
- Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market they have quit dreary careers & cut themselves adrift in the California desert. Unsure of their futures they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking & working in no future Mc Jobs in the service industry. Underemployed overeducated & intensely private & unpredicatable they have nowhere to direct their anger no one to assuage their fears & no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories: disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead TV shows ' Elvis moments' & semi-disposible Swedish furniture.. .
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Our fates lie in our genes & not in the stars said James Watson codiscoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project the biosciences have promised miracle cures & radical new ways of understanding who we are. But where is the new world we were promised? In Genes Cells & Brains feminist sociologist Hilary Rose & neuroscientist Steven Rose take on the bioscience industry & its claims. Examining the rivalries between public & private sequencers the establishment of biobanks & the rise of stem cell research they ask why the promised cornucopia of health benefits has failed to emerge. Has bioethics simply become an enterprise? As bodies become increasingly commodified perhaps the failure to deliver on these promises lies in genomics itself. ...

Three & a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlantas Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence & terror. The woman has been hit by a car but naked & brutalised its clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. & this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth
- Saras patient is just the first victim of a sick sadistic killer. Wrestling the case away from the local police chief Will & his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt. & Sara Will & Faith
- each with their own wounds & their own secrets
- are all that stand between a madman & his next crime...


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Human (and) nature. Epic journeys to the ends of the earth: Salgado's opus on our planet in its natural state. On a very fortuitous day in 1970 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder he had an epiphany: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward
- though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer
- the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado who always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-&-white images " shot very little color in his early career before giving it up completely. Having been raised on a rural farm in Brazil far from civilization & without television Salgado possessed a deep love & respect for nature; he was also particularly sensitive to the ways in which human beings are affected by their often devastating socio-economic conditions. Of the myriad works Salgado has produced in his esteemed career three long-term projects stand out: " Workers" (1993) documenting the vanishing way of life of manual laborers across the world " Migrations" (2000) a tribute to mass migration driven by hunger natural disasters environmental degradation & demographic pressure & this new opus " Genesis" the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains deserts & oceans the animals & peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society
- the land & life of a still-pristine planet. " Some 46 per cent of the planet is still as it was in the time of genesis " Salgado reminds us. " We must preserve what exists." The Genesis project along with Salgado's Instituto Terra are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet reversing the damage done to it & preserving it for the future. Over 32 trips
- traveled by foot light aircraft seagoing vessels canoes & even balloons through extreme heat & cold & in sometimes dangerous conditions
- Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature animals & indigenous peoples in such shocking & intense beauty as to take one's breath away. Mastering the monochrome with an extreme deftness to rival the virtuoso Ansel Adams Salgado brings black & white photography to a new dimension; the tonal variations in his works the contrasts of light & dark recall the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt & Georges de la Tour. On the earth is instilled a glistening textured fabric so intricate in its weave that even the most finite details seem to extend to infinity. What does one discover in " Genesis"? The ancient animal species & volcanoes of the Galapagos; penguins sea lions cormorants & whales of the Antarctic & South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators & jaguars; African lions leopards & elephants; the isolated Zo'e tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Kurowai people of West Papua; nimadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads & their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa & the Kamchatka Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro & Jurua rivers in the Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska...and beyond. Having gone quite literally in some cases where no man has gone before & having spent so much time energy & passion dedicated to the making of this work Salgado likens " Genesis" to "my love letter to the planet.""




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The description of creation as it appears in the Bible makes no sense. The first page of Genesis" features no humans at all. The substance of heaven & earth arise spontaneously at God's comm&. Light is mentioned twice whales appear before birds. Vegetation appears after light but before day is separated from night. Could it be however that the creation story in " Genesis" was written as it was because that is in fact the correct order of events at the beginning of the world? Can science
- while agreeing with Darwinian evolution the big bang theory & the complexity & deep age of the universe
- prove the order of events as described in the Bible to be true? In " The Genesis Enigma" respected scientist Andrew Parker brings the latest discoveries to bear on this controversial & contentious question & reveals in stunning detail how the world & all of the life on it came into being."

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A gripping high-concept thriller for fans of Dan Brown & Sam Bourne. In the sunburnt deserts of eastern Turkey archaeologists are unearthing a stone temple the worlds most ancient building. When Journalist Rob Luttrell is sent to report on the dig he is intrigued to learn that someone deliberately buried the site 10 000 years ago. Why? Meanwhile in London a bizarre attack is baffling the police. When a weird killing takes place on the Isle of Man followed by another in rural Dorset DC Mark Forrester begins to discern a curious pattern in these apparently random murders. What weaves together these two stories is the Genesis Secret: a revelation so shocking it may threaten the social structure of the world. Only one man knows the secret & he is intent on destroying the evidence before it can be uncovered. Spanning the globe from the ruined castles of Ireland to the desolate wastes of Kurdistan Tom Knoxs intense & compelling thriller weaves together genuine historical evidence scientific insights & Biblical mysteries into an electrifying tale that grips the reader mercilessly from beginning to end. ...