Ever since he was a child John Regan has been haunted by dreams that seduce him and frighten him to his core. In college he meets Diane and his dreams subside. But when Diane is taken from him, his dreams return, as do vivid memories of an abusive father. To save himself, John returns to the forest where he found solace as a child, to walk the Appalachian Trail through the Berkshires. There his dreams suddenly merge with events so startling that John's life is changed forever.Throu...

Many biological studies on insect management do not consider economics or fundamental economic principles. This book brings together economists and entomologists to explain the principles, successes, and challenges of effective insect management. It highlights the importance of economic analyses for decision making and the feasibility of such approaches, and examines integrated pest management (IPM) practices from around the world with an emphasis on agriculture and public health. The book...

**"An illuminating, enchanting, and occasionally alarming portrait of an earth in flux." ?Robert Moor, author of On Trails and In TreesAn urgent and illuminating portrait of forest migration, and of the people studying the forests of the past, protecting the forests of the present, and planting the forests of the future.**Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the s...

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels, travel writing, plays, autobiography, and political writing. But despi...

Oggi parliamo fin troppo di insegnamento, educazione e formazione, ma molto poco di «maestri». Certo, la figura del maestro è avvolta da un’aura retorica che può intimidire, e porta con sé l’asimmetria del rapporto con il discepolo e quella tensione erotica che li lega. Attraverso una serie di figure esemplari – Virgilio e Dante, Abelardo ed Eloisa, Tycho Brahe e Giovanni Keplero, il Baal Shem Tov, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger e Hannah Arendt, ma anche i saggi confuciani e buddhisti – ...

Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism.In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver the prestigious Norton Lectures, he had departed Europe just days after the outbreak of war, leaving behind not only a growing political maelstrom but also his life in France, where his wife, eldest daught...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 5 from the 1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 24 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, Voltaire, Alfred Bester, Clifford D. Simak, Richard Matheson, Murray Leinster, H. G. Wells, Fredric Brown, Donald A. Woll...

Written originally as a series of entries in a travel diary and now considered one of the most important memoirs of our time, Sketches from a Life is George F. Kennan's peerless, impressionistic record of his experiences with twentieth-century history.Beginning with his first foreign service post in 1927 and ending seven decades later, Kennan's account is rich with the insight of a major historical participant. Whether relating the perils of Hitler's Germa...

A fresh and fascinating take on fish, the fishing industry, and our shared future, from one of our most intrepid and entertaining nonfiction writers.Slippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first time in history, humans are eating more farmed fish than wild, and our fish consumption is predicted to increase. But wit...

One of the most influential chef-restaurateurs of all time reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food.From his first apprenticeship in France to his Michelin-starred restaurant empire, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s cuisine is inspired by the freshest ingredients, the simplest techniques, and the drive to make the ordinary perfect. It all started at home.Jean-Georges was born in Alsace in eastern France to a family in the coal business. He spen...

"A wonderful addition to the literature on the American Revolution, full of enlightening facts and figures." —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewGeorge C. Daughan’s magnificently detailed account of the battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much on economic concerns as political ones. When Massachusetts militiamen turned out in overwhelming numbers to fight the B...

A wry and thought-provoking tale about the defiant, eccentric figures obsessed with Australia’s deadliest reptiles.Raymond Hoser is known as the Snakeman, a moniker he has zealously defended. As a day job, Hoser runs a business in Melbourne that offers several services. One service is snake removal, a common trade in Australia. Another is snake shows, most often performed at children’s birthday parties. But by the 2010s, Hoser had become famous around the world for...