Philosophy & Religion

Earth Then and Now

Earth Then and Now records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past one hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, picture, and space agencies to create a powerful collection of images. Each pair of photographs has been selected to tell a compelling story - of a melting glacier, an expanding desert, an ever-rising cityscape or a natural disaster - presenting a stark visual comparison.

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The Frock-Coated Communist

Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman.
Yet Engels was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race.
Far more than Karl Marx's right-hand man, he was also a profound thinker in his own right.
"The Frock-Coated Communist" combines history and ideas in this exceptionally enjoyable biography.

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What the Curlew Said

This extra-ordinary work of autobiography concludes the story of John Moriarty's life in Connemara during the 1980s and the return to his native Kerry. He relates the particularities of his time at Toombeloa, Roundstone and environs, where he worked restoring gardens and building his own house. He describes his adopted family and the children of the household, with sorties to Dublin for Christmas his neighbourhood and community the writer Tim Robinson returned pine martens, the fish and flora of a historic landscape a lecture tour in Canada, organized by his former students his engagement with the immensities of the natural and spiritual worlds. He calls to account the literatures and legacies of European thought made manifest in the western extremities of Ireland as they bear witness to his own inner and outer journey, now documented in this compelling and writerly masterwork.

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