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The Death of Grass

The Death of Grass

John Christopher

A thought experiment in future-shock survivalism' Robert MacFarlane 'Gripping ... of all science fiction's apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting' Financial Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE A post-apocalyptic vision of ...
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane

The Old Ways is the stunning fourth book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane.
Landmarks

Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.
Mountains Of The Mind

Mountains Of The Mind

Robert MacFarlane

Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places won the Boardman Tasker prize for mountain literature in 2007. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year ...
When Variety Was King: Memoir of a TV Pioneer: Featuring ...

When Variety Was King: Memoir of a TV Pioneer: Featuring ...

Frank Peppiatt

“Be sure Peter MacFarlane gets this,” I said to the receptionist. “Who?” she said. “ Peter MacFarlane. He's a television producer.” “Oh, another one of these Lorne Greene TV academy grads.” “Yeah.” “I can't tell one from the other, they're all so ...
Holloway

Holloway

Robert Macfarlane

A beautiful piece of nature writing, illustrated with spectacular etchings of woodland scenes.
The Shed That Fed a Million Children

The Shed That Fed a Million Children

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

In 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life and radically change the lives of others.
Decisions of the Court of Session: from November 1825 to ...

Decisions of the Court of Session: from November 1825 to ...

Scotland. Court of Session

5. of process contains an extract, is not the deed ' of the late Peter Macfarlane, merchant in Alloa ? ' II. Whether, on or about the said 19th day of November 1831 , ' the said Peter Macfarlane was a person of a weak and facile mind, * and easily  ...
Silt

Silt

Robert Macfarlane

In this special e-book edition, the Broomway section of The Old Ways appears alongside a run of twenty-two photographs taken that day by David, which form a haunting counterpoint to the text itself.
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

Philip Hoare

Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones’ Robert Macfarlane From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to ...
Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in ...

Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in ...

Robert MacFarlane

This is a wide-ranging and elegantly written study of how 19th century culture thought about, and thought with, the idea of originality.
Session Cases: Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and ...

Session Cases: Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and ...

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Whether the codicil, bearing date the 19th day of November, 1831, is not the deed of the late Peter Macfarlane, merchant in Alloa 2 “ 2. Whether, on or about the said 19th day of November, 1831, the said Peter Macfarlane was a person of a ...
Wild Places

Wild Places

Robert MacFarlane

Certain birds, animals, trees and objects – snow-hares, falcons, beeches, crows, suns, white stones – recur, and as it progresses this densely patterned book begins to bind tighter and tighter.
Cases Decided in the Court of Session

Cases Decided in the Court of Session

Scotland. Court of Session

Whether the codicil, bearing date the 19th day of November, 1831, is not the deed of the late Peter Macfarlane, merchant in Alloa ? " 2. "Whether, on or about the said 19th day of November, 1831, the said Peter Macfarlane was a person of a ...
Silent No More

Silent No More

Kate Swift

Pete Burton...Elizabeth Brawley-Robert...Nikki Stone...Kaz MacFarlane...Christina Courtney...Clare Wilson and Kimberely Jeffrey Line Five...Veronica Westby... Michael Antony Kuryk...Kerry Westwood...Sandy...Sharon Spiers...Lizzie Mcglynn.
I-476, Mid-County Expressway, I-95 to I-76, ...

I-476, Mid-County Expressway, I-95 to I-76, ...

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ALFRED 295 GETZ FRANK C. JR. . 317 WALLINGFORD HILLS TESTIMONY 419 CAHILL JOSEPH P. 524 AMICONE LUCILLE 574 MACFARLANE GLORIA 614 SGRO MR. 6 MRS. M. 621 TRONCELLITI ALFRED E. 753 MILLER ROBERT ...
Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the ...

Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the ...

Daniel Macfarlane

A number of individuals provided encouragement, advice, or ideas: Cecil Chabot, Murray Clamen, Jim Clifford, Michèle Dagenais, Robert Englebert, Jameel Hampton, Lynne Heasley, Sean Kheraj, Maurice Labelle, Nancy Langston, Josh  ...
A Historical Sketch of the United Presbyterian Church, ...

A Historical Sketch of the United Presbyterian Church, ...

Peter MacFarlane

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Fraternis

Fraternis

Peter Macfarlane

Fraternis begins moments after another devastating attack on US soil.
I left my husband for the au pair:

I left my husband for the au pair:

Michele Macfarlane

This book, bravely written with raw honesty, is a candid memoir of how two women found each other at an inopportune time in both of their lives.
Fraternis

Fraternis

Peter Macfarlane

The G8 logo then gave away to caricatures of The President, The Prime Ministers of Japan and England and a brief slapstick among the three ensued, followed by a simple sign off: “Compliments of FraterX.” The whole event took just over a ...
Summer Gone

Summer Gone

David Macfarlane

Bay Newling, divorced and estranged from his young son, clings to his vision of a long-ago perfect summer in the midst of life's many disappointments.
Germs and Tissues: Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian ...

Germs and Tissues: Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian ...

Hyung Wook Park

This book examines their distinct research pathways, especially their different ways of approaching the immunological changes of the host organism during embryogenesis and foetal development.
Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the ...

Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the ...

Stephen Bell

Including frank interviews with key figures like Bob Johnson, Bernie Fraser, Ian Macfarlane and Paul Keating this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the politics of money.

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