Una selección de 100 álbumes esencialesDescubra qué es lo que lleva a 100 de los mejores álbumes de las últimas cuatro décadas a superar a la competencia.Una lectura obligada para cualquier persona curiosa por descubrir nuevos sonidos esenciales.Repleto de enlaces y sugerencias para leer, escuchar, ver y disfrutar.Robin Murray se aleja de los clásicos y profundiza en su colección de discos. Ya sea el hip-hop con bajo...

Listen To This If You Love Great Music is a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in music. Featuring 100 of the best albums from the last four decades, clashmusic.com editor Robin Murray shares his passion for exceptional music and offers insightful takes on what elevates these records above the competition.Robin steers clear of the usual classics – The Beatles and The Clash, for example – and instead goes deep into his record collection to pu...

This is a series of short stories for children. Austin and Avery are siblings, who have many adventures. Growing up isnt so hard when you have family and friends to rely on. Having a sibling is a precious gift and finding out about life together is treasure in itself.

One in five people experience chronic pain but for those with spinal cord injury, ongoing pain affects as many as two out of three people and many rate dealing with pain as one of the most difficult consequences of their injury.The Spinal Cord Injury Pain Book is unique in providing the latest information on how pain works as well as addressing the specific pain challenges for people with spinal cord injury.Its practical ‘toolbox’ offers the best p...

In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of “dark ecology” in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking.” The ecological thought, he says, should include “negativity and irony, ugliness and horror.” Focusing on this concept of “dark ecology” and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American ...

The Pain Book: Finding hope when it hurts provides an up-to-date overview of how pain works and the best pain treatments now available.Authors Professor Philip Siddall, Rebecca McCabe and Dr Robin Murray have devoted much of their lives to working with people in pain and are lead clinicians in the HammondCare Pain Management Service at Greenwich Hospital.The Pain Book helps people face pain by using plain language to explain the source and types of pain, h...

Romance and the French Revolution! Politics and love! Scaramouche, published in 1921, explores age-old tensions that continue into the present.“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad …” So begins this historical tale of romantic adventure. Andre-Louis Moreau is an orphan and cousin of the beloved Aline. He is raised by his godfather, the Lord of Gavrillac, and matures into an educated lawyer—while Aline sets her mind on marrying the rich but...

What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny is an audacious anthology, featuring tales of terror from some of the brightest lights in UK comedy.Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this unique exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror to see if they do, as believed, make the most comfortable of bedfellows.Featuring the talents ofMitch Benn, Katy Brand, Neil Edmond, Ri...

It was a war that shaped the modern world, fought on five continents, claiming the lives of ten million people. Two great nations met each other on the field of battle for the first time. But were they so very different? For the first time, and drawing widely on archive material in the form of original letters and diaries, Peter Doyle and Robin Schäfer bring together the two sides, 'Fritz' and 'Tommy', to examine cultural and military nuances that have until now been left ...

A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARAn authoritative new translation of Thucydides's masterpiece.Thucydides has been essential reading for centuries. A sweeping narrative that vividly depicts the events of the war between Athens and Sparta that began in 431 BCE and would continue until 404, his History depicts a conflict that embroiled not only mainland Greece but Greek states from the eastern Mediterranean to as far west as I...

Everyone can run.It is the simplest of sports, requiring only a pair of trainers and the open road. Its simplicity is part of its beauty. But why do we do it? Obsessive amateur runner Robin Harvie wants to understand what makes him run mile after mile, venturing far from home into remote places, and into the solitude of his own mind, pushing himself to the limit and beyond. Is it to break out of the clutter of his everyday life, into a freedom in which he has only himself to rely u...

Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience.In the dark opening months of the First World War, Britain became engrossed by 'The Brides in the Bath' trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the ...