This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Discover the pomodoro technique—a time-tested method for maximizing focus, efficiency, and accomplishment. Dive into the history, principles, and science behind the technique, gaining invaluable insights into how to work smarter, not harder. From setting up your workspace to choosing tasks suitable for pomodoro sessions, you'll learn practical strategies for integrating pomodoro seamlessly into your daily routine.

"I recognized that Michael Hunter knows what he is talking about the minute I opened this book. Hunter is the kind of guy--and the kind of work--that you get when you combine passion, creativity, inventiveness, and elbow grease. This book makes me hungry, and Michael Hunter makes me proud to be a hunter and angler."--Steven Rinella, outdoorsman, host of the TV series and podcast MeatEater, and author The MeatEater Fish and Game CookbookWell...

Hugely popular outdoorsman, hunter, and chef Michael Hunter shares a stunning and indispensable guide to cooking wild food outdoors with 80+ recipes, techniques, and stories of hunting and fishing in the wild.Seasoned outdoorsman, hunter, and angler Michael Hunter takes readers on his adventures in the wild across North America. In this highly anticipated book, Hunter shares his passion for nature, hunting wild food, and takes cooking outside in over 80 recipes—fre...

A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain—named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial TimesIn early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usu...

Discover the pomodoro technique—a time-tested method for maximizing focus, efficiency, and accomplishment. Dive into the history, principles, and science behind the technique, gaining invaluable insights into how to work smarter, not harder. From setting up your workspace to choosing tasks suitable for pomodoro sessions, you'll learn practical strategies for integrating pomodoro seamlessly into your daily routine.With step-by-step instructions, actionable tips, and...

Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a handful of such cases before 1750, and this book offers a detailed analysis of three of them. Thomas Aikenhead was executed for his atheistic opinions at Edinburgh in 1697; Tinkler Ducket was convicted of atheism by the Vice-Chancellor's court at the University of Cambridge in 1739; whereas Ar...

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in the formation of the philosophical tradition.Through a new reading of its ideology and poetics, Hunter reestablishes the Shijing as a work of major intel...

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in the formation of the philosophical tradition.Through a new reading of its ideology and poetics, Hunter reestablishes the Shijing as a work of major intel...

The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged, but the complexity and eclecticism of his ideas has also become increasingly apparent. This volume presents an important group of studies of Boyle by Michael Hunter, the leading expert on Boyle’s life and thought. It forms a sequel to two previous books: Hunter’s Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (2000) and The Boyle Papers: Understanding ...

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being acclaimed in their own right. Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society when it was chartered in 1662 and author of the famous Micrographia (1665), Hooke also showed unparalleled ing...

The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.

This is the story of the illegitimate son of a young immigrant woman who was on the run from her abusive husband. It’s the story of a child whose father died when the boy was only four. It’s about growing up with PTSD and alcoholism and abuse and family dysfunction. It’s about a man who thought he knew what God and Christianity is all about and yet he fell so far into sin that it destroyed everything in his life and he ended up in prison. It’s also the story of how this same man finally re...