Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. FIRST EDITION. Signed by author Wanda Keay on the half title page. Foreword by Dr. Roger Tory Peterson. Numerous colour illustrations. Enclosed is an insert for the book launch. The DJ has no tears and is not price-clipped. 156 pages. Weight over 1 lb.
Kirk Langner, known as Piece Maker, embarks on a challenging nine-day hike through the rugged Appalachian Trail in North Carolina and Tennessee. Unbeknownst to him, this journey will lead to unexpected experiences that will profoundly alter his life. As he navigates the trail’s physical demands, he encounters unforeseen challenges that test not only his endurance but also his perspective on life.
The decline in the coal and steel industries in Wales has reduced the amount of freight traffic over the last 30 years. However, this has been offset by a boom in passenger numbers and over 40 new stations have opened, many reviving branch lines closed during the Beeching era. This book illustrates the changing railway scene in Wales from the 1980s to the present day, focusing on unusual or rarely seen aspects of the network.
This book will empower experienced project managers and their business counterparts to understand and manage the risks of challenging business change projects. Providing principles and guidance, it shows project managers and owners how to guide projects home when mere excellence of technique or blind adherence to procedures would leave them at sea.
Focusing on the literary movement of comic poetry in the U.S., this book delves into the works of notable poets like Denise Duhamel and Billy Collins. It highlights how their use of incongruity and satire not only evokes laughter but also tackles significant social issues. By providing historical context, the book illustrates the psychological impact of comic poetry, suggesting that it offers a unique perspective that can lead to moments of clarity and insight amidst the chaos of reason.
"On India's south-western or Malabar coast is situated an ancient Hindu temple devoted to the famous god Shiva and his consort the fearsome Kali. But an earlier dedication was to the Buddhist/Jaina goddess Pattini, whose mortal husband was tried and killed in a series of brutal events still commemorated in the temple's ritual year. And before this the story gets even stranger, as there are said to be the remains of a secret, underground shrine, the home to a mystery cult dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Greek, Roman & Near Eastern merchants travelled to India after a regular, if epic, sea journey of two thousand miles across the Arabian Ocean, making their first landfall at a port known in the ancient world as Musiris. The story begins on the banks of the Nile when Isis and Osiris were the beating heart of Egypt's most popular religion. I will trace their origins to the Egypt's pyramid age in the middle of the second millennia BCE and even earlier. A great deal of this book is devoted to describing what is known about their cult from Egyptian records. This, I shall argue, is the basis for what comes later in the time-line, when Greek and Roman Empires dominated the Mediterranean world. Now Isis and Osiris become the focus of a global religion and the basis of the most popular of all classical mystery cults."-- Back cover