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'Holds up a mirror to a pioneering explorer of the deep seas' Financial Times 'Full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries - and unusual scientists' New Scientist 'One of the best things I've read in years' Martin MacInnes 'Hypnotic . . . beautifully written' New York Times 'A love letter to the ocean' Waterstones ____________ 11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near Nonsuch Island, a curious steel ball is lowered 3,000 feet into the sea. Crumpled inside, the famed zoologist William Beebe gazes out of the thick quartz windows, watching luminous marine life and never-before-seen creatures flit out of the inky darkness. A deep dive into Beebe's eyewitness accounts of underwater exploration, The Bathysphere Book blends research and storytelling, uncovering a magical world where ghostly glowing organisms test the limits of human understanding.
When all hope is gone, when the funds are depleted, when time has run out, when facing the impossible, when theres just no way these are the very times God loves to intersect our lives and display His all-sufficient wisdom and power. In his book, Thats Not Odd Thats God!, David Stanford, along with his wife, Debbie, invites you to accompany them on a hope-filled journey, revisiting ten specific instances in their life and thirty-year ministry, which clearly point to the divine providence of God. Be in awe at the ways God reveals His Person and demonstrates His provision. But this is not just a book about the Stanfords; it is a ten-part tribute to the knowledge, power, and compassion God wants to demonstrate in the lives of each of His childrensometimes in very unusual and unforgettable ways. From No way! to Yes, way! to Yaweh!, let the stories in this book encourage you to take a closer look at the work of God in your life. Then move forward, with the renewed courage and confidence which comes from pausing to recognize His unseen hand. You too, will want to join David and Debbie in joyfully proclaiming, Thats not odd thats God!
Following the success of his Suffolk Churches, David Stanford turns his attention to the neighbouring county of Essex, presenting 50 churches, chosen for their beauty, historical or anecdotal interest, in a series of captivating photographic portraits. The variety of the churches is breathtaking. The selection includes St Peter and St Paul, an ancient gem hidden away in the back streets of the London suburb of Dagenham, St Andrew Greensted Juxta Ongar, possibly the oldest surviving timber-built church in the world, St Clement West Thurrock, used for the funeral scene in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the Priory Church of St Laurence Blackmore, with its complex and dramatic history. David Stanford's atmospheric photography captures the spirit of these unique buildings as architectural heritage, as historic monuments and as places of Christian devotion.
Part architectural retrospective, part biography, and part cultural and social history, this volume is both a brilliant evocation of White's life and times and a portfolio of unforgettable images of his priceless legacy to New York. 141 illustrations.
This book addresses the largely neglected question of how the fusion of machines into the war machine will affect the human condition of warfare. It emphasizes the "mind" and the mechanisms of thought (intelligence, consciousness, emotion, memory, experience, etc.) to consider the effects of AI and autonomy on the human condition of war.
Radical Parliamentarians offers a new account of some of the most important and pivotal events of the English civil war of the 1640s, enhancing our understanding of the dramatic events of this period and shedding light on the long-term political and religious consequences of the conflict.
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Fifty churches in Suffolk, chosen for their beauty, historical or anecdotal interest, are here featured in a series of captivating photographic portraits by David Stanford. They range from bulky Saxon and Norman round tower churches through to a Restoration church influenced by Christopher Wren's London works. Many of these places of worship suffered the iconoclastic ravages of Puritan zealots, such as William Dowsing, who carried out a series of destructive trips across Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in the 1640s, smashing and obliterating what were seen as 'superstitious images'. The results of these raids are visible in churches across the county, although some have miraculously survived relatively unscathed while others have been the object of Victorian restoration programmes, some sensitive, others eccentric. David Stanford's atmospheric photography captures the spirit of these unique buildings as architectural heritage, as historic monuments and as places of Christian devotion.