Will turn out to be one of the most memorable reads of your life. Not a light hearted claim. "Listen ,when you are sad to the night sounds.Leaves rustling,birds stirring,sounds as the clouds scrape the moon, but specially listen to the frogs,their braying often only funny sound in the evil of a moonless night.It makes you happy.Warms the icy cold threads around the heart and cools the red hot madness of a crazed mind. His mother had spoken strange hea...

Highlights key innovations in citrus cultivation, from genetics to precision agriculture and integrated pest management (IPM).Covers advances in breeding and cultivation of a range of soft tropical fruits, including banana, lychee, papaya and pomegranate.Broad coverage of key stone tropical and subtropical fruits, including avocado, coconut, guava, jackfruit and mangoes.

It is the late 1980s in southern Sri Lanka and Bradley Sirisena's father is abducted and tortured during the violent struggle for power between the state and local insurgents. Savi, a Sri Lankan research student long settled in the UK, has lost her way in both her thesis and her life, when she receives a wedding invitation from the uncle she would rather ignore. Meanwhile in a coastal fort in Sri Lanka, her cousin Renu continues to try to uncover the secret of Bradley's father's disappeara...

The scandalous 1994 Thai novel hailed as a world-class masterpiece

The problem with self-help books that litter the shelves of the bookstores and bedside tables of the nation is that they expect you to do all the work. You are required to read them, remember key words, perhaps even put their teachings into practice in everyday life. Not this self-help book. This is the self-help book for people who want to take no steps at all. This is the self-help book for people lying on the sofa. This book will tell you how to reap the rewards of being a better person...

This is a first collection of poems by a poet based in Saltdean on the South Coast of the United Kingdom.

Paranoia is a profound exploration of the human psyche, delving into themes of existential dread, societal alienation, and the struggle for self-identity. Through a blend of philosophical musings, dark introspection, and sharp social critique, Plamen Chetelyazov crafts a narrative that is as haunting as it is thought-provoking.Set against the backdrop of everyday life, the protagonist's journey is a constant battle with internal and external realities—realities that are fragmented,...

I dont claim to have any profound answers or life changing insights; Ill leave that to others. But I do believe that we need to make an effort to be more present, particularly now when we are becoming so increasingly distracted. This value judgment is about as arrogant as I get, but thats what I notice in so many people today. I did try to be as truthful as possible about how wonderful, ironic, funny, sad, horrible, confusing, unfair, terrifying, ecstatic, and bizarre this life has appeare...

Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions,strange new games, dream transcripts, and a complete handbook of absurdist instructions, including one on the dangerous arts of pig-swallowing. With all the lyricism and wit which have made his columns in NOW magazine and his Dr. Poetry segments on CBC's Wordbeat so entertaining and provocative, this collection gathers for the first time the very...

"Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the...

As the first British Professor of Philosophy since 1882 to be invited to teach at the prestigious and enigmatic University of Tokyo - the Oxbridge of Japan - Simon May enjoyed a degree of access denied to other commentators. Each chapter of the book focuses on some everyday human matter, such as love, death, bureaucracy, hygiene, food, toilets, commuting, education, marriage and memory. Japanese attitudes to such issues are explored through a mixture of light-hearted anecdote and trenchant...

From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy’s childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II. Originally published in 1970, this translation is the first available in English.In twelve chapters that visit and revisit critical points in his boyhood, Twelve Views from the Distance presents a vanished time and place through the eyes of an accomplished poet. Recounting memories from h...