Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and oil, to urbanization and ethnicity, this Very Short Introduction paints a broad pict...

A Pulitzer Prize winner's "magisterial" biography of the Civil War–era Massachusetts senator, a Radical Republican who fought for slavery's abolition ( The New York Times).In his follow-up to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines the life of the Massachusetts legislator from 1860 to his death in 1874.As a leader of the Radical Republicans, Sumner made the abolition of slavery his p...

Ash is James Herbert’s last and most controversial novel. It will make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction.Fear will let you in. Terror will keep you there.David Ash, ghost hunter and parapsychologist, arrives at Comraich Castle – a desolate, ancient place with a dark heart – to investigate a series of disturbing events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse, fed and now unleashed by the evil of...

Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: "A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse." — BooklistA co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century by the Smithsonian Institute, Helen Caldicott presents a valuable collection of her interviews with prominent figures and environmentalists—in which she:*Scrutinizes ...

Édition enrichie (Avant-propos et notes)" Epouse frustrée d'un mari infirme, Constance Chatterley vit avec son garde-chasse une passion où le désir physique est indissociable de la complicité spirituelle. Bravant les interdits de leur milieu, les deux amants iront jusqu'au bout de leur défi et donneront naissance à un fils.Objet de scandale à sa parution en 1928, ce roman est pourtant bien davantage qu'un " classique de l'érotisme " : " J'ai toujours œuvré, ...

Can a ghost haunt a ghost?Can the dead reach out and touch the living?Can ancient evil be made manifest?These are the questions that confront paranormal investigator David Ash in James Herbert's The Ghosts of Sleath, when Ash is sent to the picturesque village of Sleath in the Chiltern Hills to look into mysterious reports of mass hauntings. What he discovers is a terrified community gripped by horrors and terrorized by ghosts from the ancient villag...

L’amante di Lady Chatterley, scritto da David Herbert Lawrence nel 1928, narra la storia di Constance, meglio conosciuta come "Connie" nel libro, una donna intellettuale, socialmente progressista e molto passionale della media borghesia scozzese. Sposata in Inghilterra con Clifford Chatterley, un uomo della bassa aristocrazia e molto intelligente, nel corso del romanzo Connie maturerà sia sessualmente che come donna; col tempo arriverà a disprezzare e ad allontanarsi dal debole e impotente...

Per il verismo tattile con il quale racconta l'amore sessuale, per la critica aperta alle convenzioni sociali, per l'apparente esaltazione dell'adulterio, l'opera più famosa di Lawrence (colpita da sentenze di oscenità e volgarità) uscì purgata nel 1928, in Inghilterra; sarà pubblicata in edizione integrale solo nel 1960. Lady Chatterley è una morta viva: l'ambizione e la sterilità emotiva del marito la imprigionano in una esistenza vuota e disperante, dalla quale la riscatta l'incontro co...

A "brilliant" look at America's sixteenth president by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln ( American Historical Review).First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship. In a dozen eloquent, witty, and incisive essays, the author of the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln offers a fresh perspective ...

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928.Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground edition issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929). Lawrence considered calling this book Tenderness at one time and made significant alterations to the original manuscript in order to make it palatable to readers. It has been published in three different versions.The publicatio...

Il terzo romanzo di D.H. Lawrence, pubblicato nel 1913, è considerato uno dei capolavori della letteratura inglese e uno dei libri più celebri del ventesimo secolo. È la storia di una madre, Gertrude Coppard, che prova un attaccamento quasi morboso nei confronti del figlio, sul quale riversa l’amore che non riceve dal marito, un rapporto che finirà per condizionare la vita del giovane che si ritroverà incatenato in una prigione fisica e psicologica. Proprio nell’epoca in cui Sigmund Freud ...

The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness to question received wisdom that define his acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner, Donald suggests that it was the commonalities between North...