‘As an enthusiastic recreational cyclist I have frequently found myself mulling over matters of discipleship and ministry whilst pedalling through the Yorkshire countryside. In the process I have come to recognise many connections between them.’Drawing on his experiences of ministerial formation in South Africa during the latter years of apartheid, and of thirty-five years of ministry in Yorkshire, the Bishop of Selby John B. Thomson takes readers on a unique and fascinating journe...

Sharing Friendship represents a post-liberal approach to ecclesiology and theology generated out of the history, practices and traditions of the Anglican Church. Drawing on the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, this book explores the way friendship for the stranger emerges from contextually grounded reflection and conversations with contemporary Anglican theologians within the English tradition, including John Milbank, Oliver O’Donovan, Rowan Williams, Daniel Hardy and Anthony Thisel...

This book presents the theological work of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctive kind of 'liberation theology'. John Thomson offers an original construal of this diffuse, controversial, yet highly significant modern theologian and ethicist. Organising Hauerwas' corpus in terms of the focal concept of liberation, Thomson shows that it possesses a greater degree of coherence than its usual expression in ad hoc essays or sermons. John Thomson locates Hauerwas in relation to a wide range of figure...

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Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, Thomson's family hired an undertaker to exhume the body and move it to the family plot about 100 ...

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紀實攝影先驅約翰．湯姆生經典代表作四、五千哩的跋涉，兩百餘幅珍貴寫實影像替動盪的年代，留下永恆的瞬間1868-1872年之間，英國攝影師湯姆生帶著笨拙的相機和設備，闖蕩中國大江南北，用鏡頭記錄了自己在中國、香港、臺灣各地的居遊生活。他挑戰當時中國人民對於鏡頭的排斥之心，翻山越嶺、跋山涉水，以濕版攝影技術替各地的人民、村落、建築及活動留下彌足珍貴的影像。湯姆生的鏡頭下除了當時的顯赫人物、朝廷重臣如李鴻章、奕訢、瑞麟等人，更多的是販夫走卒、尋常百姓，他不僅以照片記錄所到之處的山水風光、所遇之人民樣貌，家庭聚會、消遣娛樂、商賈買賣等常民生活也是他拍攝的重點，他並以帶有溫度的文字，寫下當時所見的藝術、習俗及風土民情，精確傳達彼時的生活景象，帶領讀者一窺社會各階層的日常樣貌。湯姆生後來將這些照片與文字整理出版成書，即為《湯姆生鏡頭下的晚清中國：十九世紀末的中國與中國人影像》。原書於十九世紀出版時...

History of and Lessons from the Spanish Flu to Make the Best of the Current New Pandemic Virus CrisisAre you curious to learn of the Spanish Flu which occurred over 100 years ago?Would be interested to get a better idea on what you can do to prepare during a pandemic?Would you like to get a guide that would teach you to be safe during the current new pandemic virus situation and make the best of it?If you an...

Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, Solid Air, Inside Out and One World? Did any fall so far? Small Hours is an intimate, unflinching biography of one of the great maverick artists. Though Martyn never had a hit single, his extraordinary voice, innovative guitar playing and profoundly soulful songs secured his status as a much admired pioneer. Covered by Eric Clapton, revered by Lee Scratch Perry, produced by Phil Collins, Martyn influenc...

An engaging account of the natural history of rock and boulder-strewn shores around Britain's coastline.Rocky Shores explores the species, communities and landscape of the narrow strip of land surrounding much of the British Isles. While it may be limited in extent, this habitat is incredibly biodiverse, and this insightful book details all the patterns of marine life that might be encountered on sheltered and exposed shores, from the inhospitable splash z...

Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. By the time John retired in 2010, he'd survived five venomous snake bites.Many of those familiar with John and his shows wouldn't know that he was also an Olympic athlete, a top state...