'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen'Absorbing and often very moving' - Peter Parker, Spectator'Sir, we are homosexuals . . .'So began the letter penned by Roger Butler and sent to several British newspaper editors - some of whom were so shocked they thought it was a hoax - in June 1960. Writing such a letter seven years before the d...

This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland reveals how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future.

Get First Flights and become an Ace RC Pilot!Park Flyers are fun, affordable model aircraft for your neighborhood open space.First Flights gives you the key skills and essential tips to fly with proficiency.Tailored to 3 channel electric trainers and motor gliders. Illustrated, with "At a Glance" pages for easy learning.Get First Flights to:•Get started in the rapidly growing RC electric park flyer hobby!•Learn key setup tips and basic maneuve...

Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Association of University Teachers, or AUT (...

Creating your ultimate bliss is a book based on the true life experiences of the author. Spiritualawakening is a process that we all experience at some stage in our life., Someexperience it at an early age, whereas some when much older.....yet experience it we will.Most, if not all of us, struggle through life with various forms of stress, at work, at home, inrelationships, financially, mentally, health wise, or even spiritually. Creating your ultimate bliss...

New Efficient Government looks at the growing financial and debt burdens affecting government, and how streamlined, focused spending can reduce burdens and increase effectiveness.The increasing relevance of environmental management and sustainability is explored, with a discussion of the harmonization of different political views with conservation measures, and the failure of privatization to secure watershed resources. Discussed are the options for more efficient land use decision...

Web 2.0 has become the buzz word for describing social media available on the Internet, such as blogs, photo and file sharing systems and social networking sites. These Web 2.0 applications are rapidly transforming citizen-citizen and citizen-government interactions in a manner not seen before. In recognition of these trends, governments are already taking a very close look at Web 2.0 and online communities in order to leverage them for designing products and services and for providing cit...

Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow presents this chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year.Featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix and many more.Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those we have...

The blockbuster New York Times bestselling short story collection based on master storyteller Stephen King’s classic novel The Stand!Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential ...

This book describes the mechanisms that allow aquatic photosynthetic organisms to contribute about half of the global primary productivity; in order to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide and producing oxygen, they transform the original anoxic atmosphere of the Earth over geological time. Aquatic photosynthesis is performed by a wide diversity of organisms, predominantly involving cyanobacteria, and algae derived from the “red-lineage”, unlike terrestrial primary produc...

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy which brought him into the national spotlight, not without some notoriety, in his later years.

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive tension in musical studies between universalistic and culturally relevant approaches to the study of rhythm. Reacting to commonplace ideas in (Western) music pedagogy, the essa...