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Time on Rock
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATURE With great lyricism, Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing and the developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber, she shows us how placing hand and foot on rock becomes a profound new way into the landscape. Anna takes us from the gritstone rocks of the Peak District and Yorkshire to the gabbro pinnacles of the Cuillin, the slate of North Wales and the high plateau of the Cairngorms. Each landscape, and each type of rock, brings its own challenges and invites us into the history of a place.
Space Below My Feet
A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers. 'A story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains ... magnificent' OBSERVER In 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch rider in the Army and went to live rough in Wales and Cornwall, climbing and living on practically nothing. She hitch-hiked her way around, travelling from Skye to Chamonix and many places in between, with all her possessions on her back, although these amounted to little more than a rope and a sleeping bag. When the money ran out, she worked as a forester, went winkle-picking on the Isle of Skye, acted as the helmsman of a schooner and did a stint as an artist's model. And always there were the mountains, drawing her away from a 'proper' job. Throughout this unique story, there are acutely observed accounts of mountaineering exploits as Moffat tackles the toughest climbs and goes on to become Britain's leading female climber - and the first woman to qualify as a mountain guide.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes which took place during the Second World War were prosecuted.
Planning for Death
The volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden). Laws and customary practice provided a legal framework for all post-mortem property devolution. However, personal preference and varied succession strategies meant that individuals could plan for death by various legal means. These individual legal acts could include matrimonial property arrangements (marriage contracts, morning gifts) and legal means of altering heirship by subtracting or adding heirs. Wills and testamentary practice are given special attention, while the volume also discusses the timing of the legal acts, suggesting that while some people made careful and timely arrangements, others only reacted to sudden events. Contributors are Christian Hagen, R.H. Helmholz, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Marko Lamberg, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Federica Masè, Anthony Musson, Tuula Rantala, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, and Jakub Wysmułek.
Ian Fleming
A fascinating and unprecedented insight into the mind and life of the creator of James Bond.
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern suburban existence filtered through a wickedly Monty Pythonesque lens. Whether it’s discovering that the world really does stop at the end of the city’s map book, or a family’s lesson in tolerance through an alien cultural exchange student, Tan’s deft, sweet social satire brings us face-to-face with the humor and absurdity of modern life.
Anna Fleming
Aatelistyttö Anna Fleming on vanhempiensa kuoleman jälkeen joutunut ankaran setänsä herra Flemingin holhouksen alle. Vartuttuaan Anna saa kosijan saksalaisesta nuorukaisesta, mutta setä ei ole vakuuttunut – onko saksalaisella tarpeeksi varallisuutta ja asemaa avioliittoa varten? Santeri Ivalon "Anna Fleming" on kuin 1590-luvun Ruotsin "Romeo ja Julia". Romaani julkaistiin alun perin vuonna 1898, ja kirjailijaa inspiroi historiallinen henkilö Anna Joakimsdotter Fleming. Santeri Ivalo (1866–1937) oli suomalainen kirjailija, toimittaja ja historioitsija. Ivalo kirjoitti erityisesti historiallisia romaaneja. Hänen tunnetuimpia teoksiaan on 1880-luvun arvomuutoksia kuvaava romaani "Aikansa lapsipuoli", joka julkaistiin vuonna 1895. Ivalo oli merkittävä toimittaja, ja hän oli perustamassa Päivälehteä vuonna 1889. Päivälehdestä tuli myöhemmin Helsingin Sanomat. Ivalo toimi sekä Päivälehden että Helsingin Sanomien päätoimittajana.
Smashing the State of Dumb-stuck
Most people are solving problems in the wrong way most of the time. But it is possible to remedy the situation. Smashing the state of dumb-stuck is rich in practical insights for real-world problem solving.
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How Reading Changed My Life
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist). “Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly “Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize universal comfort—God, sex, food, family, friends—reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. . . . I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.”—from How Reading Changed My Life
