Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money.Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Peter learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals.After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a gunner on a Liberator bomber, Peter headed to Africa and a richly varied career as an agric...

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Whitehead learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals. After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a gunner on a Liberator bomber, Whitehead headed to Africa and had a richly varied career as an agric...

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Die Corona-Krise brachte es an den Tag: Seit Beginn des Jahres 2020 ist die Fassade der westlichen Demokratien zusammengebrochen. Beim Umgang mit der Pandemie griffen die Machthaber fast allerorts zu autoritären Methoden. Ihre Instrumentalisierung geriet zu einem Eliten-Komplott, das jede Verschwörungstheorie in den Schatten stellt. Nichts hat die reale Funktion des bürgerlichen Staates so klar ins Licht gerückt wie diese Krise. Regierungen arbeiten als Exekutiven für Big Money, Big Pharma...

Astrophilosopy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion: Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe applies Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy and the associated process philosophies of Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, and others to the interdisciplinary layers of astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, and the impact of discovery. This collection, edited by Andrew M. Davis and Roland Faber, asks questions such as “How have process thinkers imagined universal creative evolution...

A true story set in the 1970's. Do you remember when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous?A young aspiring hash dealer moves to London and is recruited to help organise the well fundedGREAT WESTERN FESTIVAL. It's not long before he realises the Rock and Roll festival is headed for disaster but he could never imagine what a huge disaster it would turn out to be. While working on the festival he continues selling ever larger amounts of hash and gets involved in the smu...

Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.This will be a landmark in military history: a collaborative venture between historians from 20 different countries addressing every aspect of the two world wars. The scope of the book is enormous. From frontline combat to civilian experience, women and children in wartime, genocide etc.The Face of BattleLeadership in the warsCivilians in the warsNational experiencesCultural impact

Les phénomènes quantiques et les systèmes complexes défient nos intuitions les plus fondamentales sur la réalité. Comment interpréter un monde où des particules semblent être à la fois ondes et corpuscules, où des systèmes s’organisent spontanément pour produire des comportements émergents inattendus ? Ces défis ne sont pas uniquement scientifiques : ils posent également des questions philosophiques profondes sur la nature même de la réalité, du temps, et de la causalité.Cet ouvrag...

Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection, notably Peter Marcuse, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Zvi Tauber, Arnold L. Farr and editor, Charles Reitz, are deeply engaged with the foundational theories of Marcuse and Marx with regard to...

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States. Volume 2, American Catholics, American Cultur...

Full-cast dramatisations of three of Jack Higgins’ best-known novelsJack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands War thriller Exocet.T...