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Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that time he was shut off from all news and contact with anyone other than his jailers and, later, his fellow hostages, amongst them John McCarthy.

A wildly inventive treasury of the most artful words ever written about numbers. Mathematics and writing may seem to exist in opposite realms, but as William Frucht reveals, the world of numbers has always held a special fascination for men and women of letters. Imaginary Numbers displays the fruits of this cross-fertilization by collecting the best creative writing about mathematical topics from the past hundred years. In this engaging anthology, we can explore the many ways writers have played with mathematical ideas. Delve into the fourth dimension and infinity, into fantasy and philosophy with such masters as Lewis Carroll, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Philip K. Dick, Martin Gardner, and Alan Lightman. Revel in renowned tales by Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, cult classics such as Connie Willis's "The Schwartzschild Radius,"and lesser-known gems by such visionaries as William Gibson and A. K. Dewdney. For mathematical mavens and literary lions alike, Imaginary Numbers adds up to one fascinating read.

This selection, which includes early love poems, songs from the novels, landscape poems from The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake, and the complete narrative poems "William and Helen" and "Marmion," reveals Sir Walter Scott as a poet speaking for a people.

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell." "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time."

To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify.

It is no wonder that Yu Hua’s stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well.

This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.

Any pain not transformed will be transferred. - The Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery invites you to take a virtual and spiritual journey through your inner landscape - that invisible and most powerful part of who you are, to uncover, accept, transform and heal emotional pain. Traumatic and unwanted experiences teach fear. The Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery teaches love, and how to choose love over fear. The information contained in this book is rooted in ancient wisdom from West Africa and can transport you away from the belief that the world is out to 'get' you, and into the truth that the world is out to 'gift' you. Created as a continuous learning tool for graduates of The Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery program, this book can be of service to anyone committed to learning how to stop transferring pain and become the best version of themselves.

An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.

The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tell the story of the noble Oroonoko, a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. The tale depicts the overthrow of a hero by a civilization that considers itself superior to him.

Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage.

Martin Buber - social activist, teacher and religious writer - was one of the 20th century's most important and passionate representatives of the human spirit. Two of his most influential works - The Way Of Man and Ten Rungs - resonate to this day. As enlightening and redemptive as they were more than 50 years ago, they are published here in a single volume for the first time. The tales and aphorisms retold by Buber in Ten Rungs are drawn from Hasidic lore, where the various ways in which individuals learn to perfect themselves are the "rungs" on a ladder leading up to a higher realm. The Way Of Man is a masterwork of economy in which Buber relates and interprets six traditional Hasidic stories that offer guidance and wisdom for any age. With a recognisable debt to the Hasidic emphasis on joyful worship, Buber's thoughts on spirituality are as inspirational and valid today as they were in the mid-20th century.

Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death and regeneration he has observed in his woodland.

A walk in the woods will never be the same again.

When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.

The Mahabharata is some 3,500 years old and is the longest poem in any language. It is one of the founding epics of Indian culture and, with its mixture of cosmic drama and profound philosophy (one small section forms the BHAGHAVAD GITA) it holds aunique place in world literature. In this drastically shortened prose rendering, Narayan uses all his extraordinary talents to convey to a modern reader why this is such a great story. Filled with vivid characters, obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes, Narayan's MAHABHARATA is an enormously enjoyable experience and the perfect introduction to the otherwise bewildering Indian cosmology.

This text contains the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's recomposition of Homer's Iliad - Kings, The Husbands and War Music.

When Michael Herr went to Vietnam in 1967 he was virtually unknown as a writer. Since then Dispatches has been recognised as the most terrifyingly powerful account of what it was like to fight in, and survive, the war in Vietnam.

A collection of poems by Anne Michaels. The poems are meditations on how love changes in order to survive, how we move from obsolete science to new perceptions, and how, in her words, the same loneliness that closes us/ Opens us again.

Horatio Nelson was a national hero who secured a century of maritime supremacy for his country and became the focus of British identity and aspiration. Generous and brave, sometimes vain and occasionally weak, he is still the butt of half-admiring jokes: bawdy when his name is coupled with that of Emma Hamilton; respectful in relation to his great naval achievements.

Izaak Walton (1593-1683) is best known for his graceful, lucid if not always practical book The Compleat Angler. It has stayed in print since it first appeared in 1653.
More than just a writer of devout pastoral, Walton is one of the fathers of modern literary biography. This selection includes his lively portraits of Donne, Herbert and others, and reminiscences of Jonson written in old age. A devoted churchman, in his writing Walton helps define what it was to be Anglican at a time when the Church was in upheaval. One historian said Walton `invented Anglicanism'. He certainly shaped it in ways which are potent today.
Walton is here set in a context which complicates and then corrects the reductive view of him, encapsulated by Gosse, as `that immortal piscatory linen-draper'.

Psychologisch essay waarin betoogd wordt dat 'ongebonden zijn' een voorwaarde is voor persoonlijke ontplooiing.

Een neuroloog beschrijft hoe het is om zelf patiënt te zijn.

Beknopt verslag van 24 echtpaartherapieën bij koppels van wie de relaties te lijden hebben onder allerhande problemen.

Studie over het organiserend vermogen van de hersenen als sleutelprincipe bij waarneming en herinnering.

In elk bedrijf, maar ook in elke familie of vriendengroep, weet je precies wie je moet hebben als je wilt dat het geregeld wordt. Mensen die er altijd staan, en die verantwoordelijkheid tonen. Mensen die zorgen voor olie in de machine, waar anderen zand strooien.Tussen weten wat moet gebeuren en doen wat moet gebeuren zit in woorden niet veel verschil. Maar doen maakt al het verschil. Dit verschil is wat we eigenaarschap noemen. Doen betekent leiderschap tonen. En dat kost moeite. Maar moeite doen maakt je sterker. Het maakt flexibel, creatiever, weerbaarder en je oplossend vermogen neemt toe. En je hoeft er zeker geen commando voor te zijn.

Overal ter wereld sterven rivieren door vervuiling, droogte en indamming. Al sinds mensenheugenis moeten rivieren dienstbaar zijn voor vervoer, voor energie, als bron van voedsel, als open riool. Wereldwijd is er echter ook een beweging gaande die het leven en de rechten van rivieren en andere natuur wil erkennen en wil vastleggen in de wet om verdere vernietiging tegen te gaan.Natuurschrijver Robert Macfarlane is diep overtuigd van deze Rights of Nature. In Leeft een rivier? neemt hij zijn lezers mee op een reis langs drie grote stroomgebieden, in Ecuador, India en Canada. Van nevelwouden naar lagunes en van kreken naar kolkende watermassa’s. Alle drie de rivieren worden bedreigd en voor alle drie wordt een strijd geleverd.Leeft een rivier? is Macfarlanes meest persoonlijke én politieke boek tot nu toe. Het bruist van de fascinerende ideeën, onvergetelijke personages en verhalen, en van de haarscherpe natuurobservaties die zijn handelsmerk zijn. Hij verweeft cultuur- en natuurgeschiedenis, reportages, reis- en natuurverslagen met poëtisch proza.

De (biologische) evolutie en de (spirituele) bewustwording en ontwikkeling van de mens. Dit werk is het baanbrekende nieuwe boek van bestsellerauteur Gregg Braden waarin hij buitengewone ontdekkingen deelt voor een gezonder en langer leven. Er duiken steeds meer aanwijzingen op dat we meer zijn dan het product van willekeurige mutaties of het resultaat van een toevallige samenloop van biologisch gunstige omstandigheden. Fossielen, DNA, grotschilderingen uit de Oudheid en grafheuvels zijn slechts een afspiegeling van wat er in het verleden is gebeurd. Ze vertellen niet waarom en hoe de dingen gebeurden. Zolang we niet terug in de tijd kunnen reizen, zullen we waarschijnlijk nooit helemaal achter het geheim van ons bestaan komen.

Een succesvol man ziet zich onverwacht geconfronteerd met de vraag naar de zin van het leven. 

Als je het contact met de innerlijke stilte in je verliest, verlies je het contact met jezelf. Wanneer je het contact met jezelf verliest, verlies je jezelf in de wereld. Je diepste besef van jezelf, van wie je bent, hangt nauw samen met innerlijke stilte. Dat is het IK-BEN dat dieper gaat dan naam en vorm

Alle verhalen over de eekhoorn, de mier en de vele andere dieren die Toon Tellegen tussen 1984 en 2000 publiceerde bijeengebracht. Het boek bevat alle verhalen uit 'Er ging geen dag voorbij', 'Toen niemand iets te doen had', 'Langzaam, zo snel als zij konden', 'Het feest op de maan', 'Misschien waren zij nergens', 'Bijna iedereen kon omvallen', 'Brieven aan niemand anders' en 'De verjaardag van alle anderen'. Plus twaalf niet apart gebundelde verhalen.