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This is the biggest A-Z reference book on symbolic objects you'll ever find.įrom the popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias', this is the largest, most definitive guide to the secret and ancient knowledge of signs and symbols, some of which has been lost over thousands of years. Unlock the lost and hidden meanings of the world's ancient and modern signs and symbols with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. Her extensive anthropological research, conducted over nine years, illuminates an Arab-Berber Muslim society in which men wear full face veils and are matrifocused toward women, who are the property-holders of tent households forming powerful matrilocal coalitions. Konstantina Isidoros provides a rich ethnographic portrait of this unique desert society's life in one of Earth's most extreme ecosystems. This is a proud nomadic people uniquely championing human rights and international law for self-determination of their ancient heartlands: the western Sahara Desert in North Africa. Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats. But then I was recruited by the Laundry, and learned better. It was a conviction encouraged by every crazy news item from the Middle East, every ludicrous White House prayer breakfast on the TV. Like the majority of ordinary British citizens, I used to be a good old-fashioned atheist, secure in my conviction that folks who believed-in angels and demons, supernatural manifestations and demiurges, snake-fondling and babbling in tongues and the world being only a few thousand years old-were all superstitious idiots. Now Bob must use all of his skills to learn the secret of the Fuller Memorandum in order to save the world - and avoid becoming an item on the Eater of Souls' dinner menu. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science FictionĬomputational demonologist Bob Howard is taking a much-needed break from the field to catch up on his filing in The Laundry's archives when a top secret dossier known as The Fuller Memorandum vanishes - along with his boss, who the agency's executives believe stole the file.ĭetermined to discover exactly what the memorandum contained (and perhaps clear his boss), Bob runs afoul of Russian agents, ancient demons, and the apostles of a hideous faith, who have plans to raise a very unpleasant undead entity known as the Eater of Souls.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. The importance of this classic in attracting young people to careers in science and technology, as well as developing abiding interests among all its readers in spaceflight, has been widely noted. Leaving post-war America does not mean leaving all your enemies behind!Ĭareful and exciting science, witty, smart dialog, its lessons of responsibility and the transition from “boys” to “men” have made ROCKET SHIP GALILEO one of Heinlein’s most influential books since its first publication in 1947. Reaching the moon proves even tougher than expected, and the moon has plenty of surprises in store. Despite mysterious sabotage attempts and a restraining “court order”, Doctor Cargraves and the three – Art, Morrie and Ross – manage to blast off successfully. The Galileo Club had just finished its latest backyard launch of a miniature rocket – with mixed results – when the uncle of one of the three club members arrives with a startling proposal: to join him in preparing his “cut-rate” rocket and making mankind’s first trip to the moon. Have the secret yearnings of childhood sexuality and the wild excitement of the first stirrings of perversity ever been so eloquently described as in this novel? When Orville discovers an old book on physical culture and begins frantically working out to improve his body, he worries that he isn't sweating enough. Published in the UK in 1945, ten years after the terrible accident in which the author, riding his bicycle, was hit by a car and permanently injured, this amazing (and thinly disguised) autobiographical novel is the graceful and astonishingly erotic tale of Orville Pym, a creative child who has lost his mother to some mysterious disease and "has not yet learned to bear the strain of feeling unsafe with another person." Hating "other people" who imagined "that they understood his mind because he was a boy," our elegant but damaged little hero, "longing for escape, freedom, loneliness and adventure," wanders around the grounds of a hotel where he has been taken by his father to vacation with his older brothers. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger. Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. From thousands and thousands and thousands of twisted volumes, here goes – John Waters's "Five Books You Should Read to Live a Happy Life If Something Is Basically the Matter with You."Īnd yes, it's all fiction. Configuration of playback channels stereophonic Content category spoken word Content type codeĬontent type MARC source rdacontent. Note Unabridged Capture and storage technique digital storage Carrier category online resource Carrier category codeĬarrier MARC source rdacarrier. Rearsby, Leicestershire, Wavesound from W.Label Behind the sun, Deborah Challinor Link Instantiates Accompanying matter technical information on music Cataloging source TEFOD Challinor, Deborah PerformerNote Narrator: Helen Duff Duff, Helen Series statement Overdrive And in the land behind the sun, the only thing they have is each other. On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bondâbut there are others on board who will change their lives forever. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable Harriet Clarke. Language eng Summary Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation for prostitution and theft. Label Behind the sun Title Behind the sun Statement of responsibility Deborah Challinor Creator Reading “Prodigal Summer,” you’ll learn a lot of plant and animal biology-and also a lot about people and their dreams and yearnings. The novel is told by three characters in alternating chapters: Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist whose chapters are all titled “Predators” Garnett Walker, an old native son who’s determined to revive the American chestnut tree (his chapters aptly titled “Old Chestnuts”) and Lusa Landowski Widener, an entomologist recently married into a large local family and soon left with keeping the family farm afloat, in “Moth Love” chapters. What Kingsolver does so well is create three characters who want something large and concrete that they can champion. Kingsolver, educated as an evolutionary biologist, is the rare writer who can mesh great characters and engaging plot with science and ecology. Tangled in lush growth, love and loss, creation and re-creation. There’s no better time to read Barbara Kingsolver’s “Prodigal Summer,” set in the Virginia mountains and teeming with insects and animals You’re thinking about the deep green of the mountains and the bird calls, and everything in thick bloom. It’s winter, and admit it: You’re yearning for the long days of summer. "My journey through stand-up was quite quick, though, 'cause then I started doing sketch humour, and then I got my own TV show. "The closest thing I saw to stage work was stand-up, so I took the stand-up route and went to the Edinburgh Festival and did things like that. "I'd always wanted to do comedy, but it was the '90s and they were closing a lot of the repertory theatres," she said in 2012 about her shift in direction. Like every British actor since forever, she had parts in The Bill and London Burning. Derek at the men's health clinic - The Catherine Tate Show - BBC comedyĬatherine Tate started her career in dramatic theatre, with parts in productions of Blood Wedding, All My Sons, The Way of the World and The Prince's Play, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Servant of Two Masters. One of Gladwell's later works, Outliers: The Story of Success, is available on download and explores the reasons behind high achievement in some individuals. Blink is narrated by Malcolm Gladwell and is available as an audio download or CD. In Blink, Gladwell's second non-fiction work, readers will begin to understand the inner workings of their mind how they make decisions and why others might make different choices. In 2005, Time magazine named him as one of its 100 most influential people. Gladwell has received several awards and honors in addition to his success as an author. His first book, The Tipping Point, was published in 2000 and enjoyed critical success along with sales of over 1.7 million copies. The author later moved to New York City where, in 1996, he became a staff writer for The New Yorker. Gladwell stayed in Canada until graduating college in 1984, with the exception of a brief stint in 1982 when he interned with the National Journalism Center in Washington, DC. While he was born in England, the author moved to Canada at the age of six. Gladwell grew up the son of a British father and a Jamaican-born mother. Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian writer and author of many best-selling non-fiction titles about interesting and current aspects of sociology and psychology as they apply to the social sciences. |