This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences. Each poem has an occasion: some of the occasions are personal meetings, conversations, which unlock shared scenes and themes; some are historical in origin, their past often one of early Christian faith or religious conflict. The poems abound in art, in spe...

Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and it discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. This book features 60 beautiful and detailed maps of the empires' territories at different stages of their existence, and it organizes them thematically to reflect the different driving forces behind empires throughout history (such as faith, nomadic culture, nationhood, and capitalism). Each ...

Following in the successful nature-writing style of Robert MacFarlane and Gillian Clarke, Distance and Memory is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place—a house in northern Aberdeenshire—and threaded through with an unshowy commitment to the lost and the forgotten. In these painterly essays Peter Davidson provi...

Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens (1596—1687) was a remarkable figure: in addition to writing poetry, he composed music; was secretary to two Princes of Orange, Frederick Henry and William II; and became a friend to John Donne, Rembrandt, Descartes, and many other notable people of his time. In this book, Peter Davidson and Adriaan van der Weel offer a broad selection of Huygens’s poems and provide excellent translations for those written in Dutch, Latin, and a number of other lang...

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and...

Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book draws many astonishing, unfamiliar and beautiful texts, things and events, into a cartography of the secret and strange patterns of baroque cultures worldwide. The visual arts are examined across a wide temporal and geographical spa...

Someone is operating the largest stock market insider trading scheme in the history of the United States that is making millions of dollars in illegal profits. Whoever it is, has access to secret information about numerous major corporations before the information is made available to the general public. Perhaps it is a nationally-known radio or TV host of a financial program, a financial journalist, or maybe even a Pulitzer Prize winner.The perpetrator of the insider trading scheme...

In death, there is new life. A life of discovery to learn, grow, and to experience love and loss. A man's journey into the light, then into darkness, and from the darkness into the light. Where two people who are destined to be together, find each other in death. They are chosen to fulfil a shared purpose because of their hardships in life. Together they build a life, have a family find a sense of belonging and grow together. Then they Respond to a calling and to fulfil their purpose befor...

This is the calamitous, at times hilarious, story of Detective Inspector Doddie Macfarlane's attempt to lead his chaotic team of homicide detectives in their mission to solve the mysterious murder of much-loved pediatrician Dr. George Ross. His Inverness-based team is led on many a wild goose chase throughout the beauty of the Scottish Highlands before stumbling on the most unlikely of scenarios. You will laugh aloud at the antics of the police psychiatrist, Dr. Martin "Mental" Nunn, and b...

Peter Davidson, the author of Homicide Miami, the true crime story that inspired the film Pain and Gain, compiles the true stories of some of America's most notorious cannibal murderers.They violated one of civilized society’s most sacred taboos, and they’re anathema even in the twisted world of serial murder. Most frighteningly, the cannibal killer hides behind a mask of normalcy, as documented in the vivid profiles of American murderers who ate ...

An authoritative pocket guide to the birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are becoming increasingly popular with all kinds of visitors, not least birdwatchers, who can visit many national parks and reserves harbouring a bounty of amazing species. The three countries are home to about 1,000 species of birds including such rarities as Bengal Florican, Giant Ibis, Green Peafowl and Vietnamese Cutia. This concise and easy-to-use guide features...

Every once in a great while, a book comes along that provides a unique glimpse of what actually happens behind the scenes in some occupation or profession. "Memoirs Of A Recovering Teacher" is such a book."Memoirs Of A Recovering Teacher" consists of about one hundred stories about students, teachers, and administrators that are oft en revealing, humorous, absurd, or downright crazy. And, the truth is – all of these stories are true! They are based on the author's own actions and o...