Byron Rogers' biography of Wales' s national poet and vicar, R.S. Thomas has been hailed as a ' masterpiece' , even as a work of ' genius' , by reviewers from Craig Brown to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Within someone considered a wintry, austere and unsociable curmudgeon, Rogers has unearthed an extremely funny story - ' riotously' so, in Rowan Williams' words. Thomas is widely considered as one of the twentieth-century' s greatest English language poets. His bitter yet beautiful collections on Wales, its landscape, people and identity, reflect a life of political and spiritual asceticism. Indeed, Thomas is a man who banned vacuum cleaners from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, and whose attempts to seek out more authentically Welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud English holidaymakers. To Thomas' s many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetry.

The Man Who Went Into the West

Variant: The man who went into the west

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Them is an eye-opening, outrageously funny exploration of extremism, which makes both author and reader think twice about the looking-glass world of 'us' and 'them' . . . A Sunday Times bestseller and the book that launched Jon Ronson's inimitable career - with an introduction by Russell Brand. My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did. What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists - Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen - that believe in it. Along the way, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, and witnesses international CEOs and politicians participate in a bizarre pagan ritual in the forests of northern California. 'This book is chilling and hilarious by turns.' - Independent 'A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world.' - Louis Theroux, Guardian

Them Adventures With Extremists P/B

Variant: Them Adventures With Extremists P/B

Damian Ortega - Masks

Variant: Damian Ortega - Masks

About the BookCultureShock! Korea is a compelling, elegantly-written and funny guide for anyone planning a stay in South Korea.  Can you tell your bibimbap from your gimbap? Why is age such a big deal when addressing people? Do people really give bathroom tissue and laundry detergent at housewarming parties? What's so appealing about noraebangs? When introduced to someone, do you shake hands, bow or do both? And why do Koreans cheer you on by exclaiming, "Fighting!"? Whether you're in South Korea to do business, seek pleasure or find your inner Hallyu diva, if you are lucky enough to find yourself on this peninsula where stunning natural scenery meets hyper-modern cities, get the most out of your stay with this essential and fun-to-read guide. About the SeriesCultureShock! is a dynamic, indispensable series of guides for travellers looking to truly understand the countries they are visiting, working in or moving to. Each title explains the country's customs, traditions and social and business etiquette in a lively, informative style. CultureShock! authors, all of whom have experienced the joys and pitfalls of cultural adaptation, are ideally placed to provide warm and helpful advice to those who seek to integrate seamlessly into diverse cultures.

Korea

Variant: Korea

What is the one thing you least expect to experience when you wake up in the morning? Waking up on the kitchen table? Waking up to find out that you wetted your bed? No, no! Emma's situation is a little different. One morning, Emma wakes up to find that something unimaginable has happened to her. There are bumps on both sides of her head, and soon they grow into antlers like seeds growing into a plant! She needs to find out how this difference will make her "cooler". The Girl with Antlers is the story of a child who faces the thing that makes her different and comes to accept it. At first, Emma won't leave the house because of the antlers that have grown on her head. However, her grandpa's wise words make her change her mind. This is a story that makes us question what is 'normal' and tells us how our differences can transform us into more colourful and compassionate people.

Girl With Antlers

Variant: Girl With Antlers

Bunny is back for new adventures! This time she is in Portugal with Mommy, Poppy, and Bearli. There they will discover new places, try new things, explore new tastes, and meet salty new sea friends who invite them to consider a life of gratitude. Join Bunny for this new experience and be a part of her ongoing adventures. This is the second book of The Bunny Chronicles series, the first of which was released in July 2019.

Magical Portugal

Variant: Magical Portugal

All the lakes of the world are drying up. A direct result of human dereliction, lakes and waterways on every continent are disappearing at unprecedented speed. These waterways are our future, yet they continue to evaporate before our very eyes. If the climate crisis is not arrested, our planet will wither and die. Despite this grim possibility, there is no need to spread fear in the hearts and minds of our children. Rather, we must build hope for the future -for their future. In this third book of our Woodpecker series, our bird heroes uphold this sense of hope as they band together for the sake of a magnificent lake hidden deep in the forest. They show us that where there is unity, there is power. And we can't help but smile when they triumph and the lake is saved. Neither avatars nor wishful thinking will save our planet. We need to educate our children and ensure they understand the steps they can and must take in caring for the world.

The Lake of the Woodpeckers

Variant: The lake of the woodpeckers

Why Are Some Animals Less Popular? is the second book of our animal series where we enjoy the surprises of the animal kingdom with our children. Fun, not boring. It's captivating, intriguing and more importantly, full of surprises. Why? Because we are so sick and tired of listening to the same old animal stories for years. It is a huge world! There are so many animals that live on the land, in the air, and in water. Come and let's meet with the less popular animals through the second book of our series. Yet more, let's make their models, take them to school, listen to their amazing sounds and mesmerize with the wonders of the world, look at them with love! With QR codes on every page to listen to the sounds of each animal.

Why Are Some Animals Less Popular?

Variant: Why are some animals less popular?

An acutely-sensitive eleven-year-old girl is scorned by her fifth-grade teacher. Assaulted by her mother's boyfriend, a fourteen-year-old girl longs to be loved by her teenaged crush. An immigrant woman who fled her homeland is forced to travel across county by the man who promised her a better life. A war veteran's family falls apart as he combats the consequences of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. And an Anglican nun struggles to comfort a woman who's been sentenced to the gallows. The characters in these stories exist in different locations and periods in time. They have vastly different lives, yet they are all connected by the devastating effects of physical and/or emotional trauma. Everything about a person, from the way they think, remember, learn, how they feel about themselves and others, and the way they view and understand the world, is affected and shaped by their experience. Australia is known as the lucky country, but as we know luck is relative. Open Wounds is a collection of unflinching Australian short stories that shines a light on those moments in life that are as profound as they are traumatic.

Open Wounds

Variant: Open wounds

Nuclear power plant disasters threaten the entire planet. From so-called 'developed' Russia to Japan, USA to France; in the aftermath of an accident, thousands of people are deprived of their basic human right to health and subjected to lies and suppression of information. Workers of the nuclear power plant, people who live in that region as well as in other parts of that country, residents of close countries and even consumers from distant places who have to buy the contaminated products; every single one of them is affected. Nuclear Disasters: Chernobyl and Fukushima covers the impacts of accidents in these two nuclear power plants with more clarity since a reasonable amount of time has passed for data accuracy. Even a country as developed as Japan failed to take the first measure after a nuclear power plant accident, iodine tablet distribution, and it has already led to great consequences. A significant lesson learned from all these accidents is that, just like the global climate change, nuclear power plants concern an area larger than the jurisdiction of the state that they are built in, namely they concern every living organism on this planet. Therefore, all the people who will suffer from the negative effects have the right to resist nuclear energy regardless of whichever country a reactor is built in.

Nuclear Disasters

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How is it possible for a tiny little bird to peck a hole in the trunk of a huge tree? With ten hits per second, and force 100 times stronger than gravity, woodpeckers are one of the most interesting and inspiring members of the bird kingdom. They use their magnificent beaks and amazing strength to hammer holes in trees -- and that's where they make their nests. Woodpecker couples are a great example of solidarity. Males and females work together to build a nest and gather food, and males share in the duty of sitting on their eggs. They provide us with an opportunity to rethink all that is around us. In this new century, libraries are full of books containing new ideas and the embracing value of solidarity. The Woodpeckers' Cooperative is a modern fairy tale about the danger of failing to prepare for winter -- as well as the importance of community and cooperation. A good children's story should catch a child's full attention. At Dixi Books, capturing a child's imagination is our priority and our promise.

Woodpeckers Cooperative

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A cautionary tale with depth and humour, A Garden on Top of the World is environmental fiction for ages 12 and up. Includes resources on gardening, urban gardens, heirloom seeds and organic foods. The year is 2066 and life in Greenland is much warmer, more crowded, and lacking in fresh food. Sixteen-year-old Jonnie lives in the Relocation city of Shamed. Hundred-story high rises house extended families from American coastal cities relocated after the Sixth Sea Rise. Work and school are conducted from overcrowded apartments, and homeless people camp out in the streets. Red is a homeless man who takes up temporary residence in a pigeon coop on the roof. After Red talks about the seeds in the birds' droppings, Jonnie gets interested in heirloom seeds. The family business has just been awarded a lucrative contract from Monarcho, the international conglomerate that holds patents to much of the world's seeds. Jonnie knows little about how food grows because meals come in packages ordered online and delivered by drone. Dishes are manufactured in the home using 3D printers. Armed with a new understanding of old-fashioned garden-grown food, Jonnie is determined to create her own garden on the roof of her high rise. Jonnie's search for who she is and what she might be able to offer the world is one that will resonate with readers of all ages. The information she learns about healthy food, sustainable agriculture, and urban gardens may inspire readers to start their own gardens.

A Garden on Top of the World

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A Rat's Tale is the charming story of two sisters who are forced to go on a journey where innocence is lost, but strange and wonderful friendships are made. With their tummies rumbling and the cupboard bare, elder sister Lisa declares she's going out into the alley to find something to eat. Younger sister Hannah is worried because she knows a cat is lurking just outside the front door. Lisa cannot bear the thought of her younger sister going hungry, so when Hannah falls asleep she creeps outside in search of food. She's only outside for a minute when the cat spots her. Lisa runs for her life and gets horribly lost. As she walks the city's dark and scary streets, she fears she'll never find her way home - or see Hannah again. Lisa meets a frightening-looking creature she's never seen before. When the creature helps her to find her way home, both Lisa and Hannah learn they should never judge a book by its cover, and that the most unlikely creatures can become life-long friends.

A Rat's Tale

Variant: A Rat's Tale

Come with Roberto the Sea Boy on a visit it his friends who live deep in the ocean. You'll meet turtles, a tonguefish, and even a giant whale. Would you like to meet Roberto too? Inside, he gives you the secret of how to meet him. Seas all around the world are in trouble. They need your help. So does Roberto.

Sea Boy Roberto

Variant: Sea Boy Roberto

In fairy tales, it's usually easy to guess what animals will do, or who they will befriend. But this fairy tale is different. A young wolf decides to leave the pack, the only home they have ever known. They want to leave so badly, but how will they manage on their own? The adventurous young wolf has positive experiences as well as negative ones, but they never lose heart. As they navigate their new life, they discover the graces of the forest, and makes friends with other unexpected animals. The best part of Young Wolf is that its ending is another beginning. It is our hope that children will continue the story with ideas of their own, which can be written in a special reserved section at the end of the book. Let us see how the story continues...

Young Wolf

Variant: Young Wolf

Sunfish and Moonlight are two big-hearted sea creatures who love each other and who want to have a family. But the water where they live is too warm and they cannot spawn their babies. They decide to leave their home and go on an extraordinary adventure to a place where the water is colder. Straight from the tales told by Sunfish's mother, the North Star becomes their compass on a journey where they not only fight with hostile fish but escape from humans hunting them from big ships. Despite ongoing concerns about the seas' rising temperatures, they avoid all dangers and eventually spawn a family of many babies. Explaining global climate change to young children is by far one of the most challenging tasks an adult can face. A contemporary fable of love and adventure for young children, Sunfish and Moonlight creates awareness of global warming and its effects on the environment.

Sunfish and Moonlight

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****SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ENGLISH CHESS FEDERATION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019**** Sally's breathtaking story, first published in Russia in 1998 and which has been reprinted multiple times, is a memoir of her time with Tal, with whom she remained friends long after they divorced right up until his death in 1992. Full of detail about Tal and their life together, it is a tale of triumph and tragedy, love, parenthood, sorrow, jealousy, betrayal and revenge. Colored by a historical and social background including the Second World War, the Soviet chess scene, Rigan high society, the shadow economy in the Soviet Union, and Jewish emigration, it contains a fascinating portrait of Misha's mysterious family and is illustrated with photos from Sally's private archive. And it all just happens to be true....

Checkmate! The Love Story of Mikhail Tal and Sally Landau

Variant: Checkmate! The Love Story of Mikhail Tal and Sally Landau

Mount Fuji 360 Book - Yusuke Oono

Variant: Mount Fuji 360 Book - Yusuke Oono

More than 100 popular shop designs collected from all over Japan! Although managing a shop today has become increasingly difficult due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still many shops throughout Japan that still beloved by their customers. This book introduces the details of each shop's design, offering examples and the name of each designer. Every shop was opened with the owners' unique ideas for conveying their concept through interior design, logos, packaging, member cards and more. This title will surely be indispensable as a source of inspiration and ideas with excellent customer appeal.

Graphic Designs and Images For Small Bakeries and Sweet Shop

Variant: Graphic Designs and Images for Small Bakeries and Sweet Shop

Gentle and dignified princesses with sparkly eyes bring you into Macoto's art world. This is the third collection of Macoto Takahashi's artworks to celebrate his 70th anniversary as an artist in 2023. Macoto has created many works on the theme of princess heroines in different kinds of fairy tales. His works abound with flowers and animals filled with loving prayers that remind us that all life is precious and each and every creature deserves equal happiness. This is why Macoto's fans named the artist's unique utopian worldview "Macotopia", a world that the artist continues to pursue even today. This book includes a selection from Macoto's iconic large format works complete with the J/E bilingual introduction at the end of each article.

Etoile

Variant: Etoile

The first collection of Makura Kurama's art. The world of Makura Kurama is full of darkness and beauty. The owners, guests, neighbors, and other characters that appear in the antique shop suffer from grief, fear, or pain in their minds. The gothic-style costumes and motifs, such as skeletons, dolls, corpses, taxidermy, natural specimens, and of course love, lends a dark, fantastical atmosphere to the stories. But these stories never become incurable tragedies. Makura Kurama's refined brushwork and the sense of hope, of finding light in the darkness, always bring a redemptive element to the stories. This book is the first art collection of Makura Kurama's work and includes short stories, comics, and illustrations. Even those who know Makura Kurama's work will be fascinated by these stories, which are never as despairing and painful as they first seem as they end in happiness. Why not ring the bell of a peculiar antique shop and see for yourself?