New Releases by Hugh Scott

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First Published in 2002. Scott gives a fascinating account of an expedition that took place in 1937 to the Yemen when the country was closed to Europeans by order of the Imam. Ostensibly a scientific expedition, it possesses great political, cultural, and anthropological interest. The tense negotiations which preceded the expedition and the ultimate success assured that this work remains perhaps the most important account ever written of that forbidding land that occupies the southern half of the Arabian shore.

The Story of N analyzes the notion of sustainability from a fresh perspective, the integration of human activities with the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen, and provides a supportive alternative to studying sustainability through the lens of climate change and the cycling of carbon. It is the first book to examine the social processes by which industrial societies learned to bypass a fundamental ecological limit and, later, began addressing the resulting concerns by establishing limits of t.

For almost three hundred years the noble T''ang Dynasty fostered a period of artistic and intellectual endeavor which has never been equaled in the history of China. Sculpture, ceramics, glass, and textiles were some of the major artifacts that emerged from this glorious renaissance of Chinese taste and skill. This book is the story of the T''ang told through objects in the author''s collection, one of the most representative in private hands. It includes a marvelous array of gold and silver mirrors, jade, jewelry and gilt bronzes. The 124 illustrations, 24 in full color are accompanied by a history of the T''ang era, and a chapter on each of the categories in the collection gives a comprehensive background to the illustrations. The knowledgeable comments of a well-known collector are authoritative, and will be invaluable to other collectors, was well as to all connosseurs of Chinese art.

An American war veteran finds himself faced with the harsh realities of his military exploits. Robert Anderson expects a winery consulting job, but instead is thrust into a dangerous scheme to recover a gold fortune missing since 1975.

Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated with the production, transportation, and refining of petroleum over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, this book demonstrates that a pollution control ethic based on the efficient use of resources emerged early in the century and met with enough success to undermine the first calls for strict government-enforced regulations. Redefining Efficiency also chronicles the failure of this efficiency-based pollution control ethic and its replacement by another. This second ethic required society first to define its environmental objectives and then to institute policies to achieve those objectives. The resulting regulations, by restructuring the economics of pollution control, have since redefined the notion of industrial efficiency.

Dad said the town''s cathedral was built by giants. There are no such beings as giants - are there? One day young Harry is confronted with some curious things. A book-eating bookseller. A giant head staring from a toy shop window. Teachers limbs stretching to amazing lengths. What can it all mean?

La familia Smith -una familia com n y feliz- sale de vacaciones. En la carretera, pasan de largo a un anciano con traje caf y bast n, quien sonr e desde el borde del camino. Nada hay de extra o en ello, s lo que m s adelante lo ven de nuevo, y luego otra vez... Muy pronto, se ven inmersos en un misterio sombr o y sobrenatural.

Ours is a literal world. We spend so many words arguing the fundamental truth of a few ancient metaphors that we finally close them to personal meaning. Or we commit our energies to washing every literary form and figure of speech cleanly away to protect our definitions of correctness and to make everyday thinking even safer. But the arguing gives us doctrines. And the purging denies us poetry. And when all the metaphors are gone, we find we''ve lost the richest ways of knowing. We find we''ve even narrowed the possibility. Divina is a line of speculative, dimensional, and metaphorical books that will Challenge conventional wisdom, Offer alternative theories, Recreate noumenal experiences, Reach for poetry, and Promise other ways of knowing. The most rewarding reading addresses us personally and challenges what we believe. Divina will bring you books that do just that, chosen and published with the same dedication and editorial sensibility that have established our commitment t literary quality.The ancient myth of Psyche and Eros holds the key to transforming men''s and women''s relationships today. Scott''s solution is based on freeing and empowering women.

Every summer John and Maggie are sent to stay with Great-grandfather Harris in the country. But their parents don''t know he has special powers. Ghost story. 10 yrs+.

A spine-chilling supernatural tale

Waking late at night, Stella discovers her friend Daniel at her door, terrified, pleading to be let in. The fearful scratching sounds that follow give credence to his tale of haunted woods and creepy scrabbling twigs. Soon after, the two friends save a woman from her burning house, not realizing at first that the two occurrences are linked. But then a psychic investigator arrives and, as events quickly become even more sinister and dramatic, there seems to be only one conclusion: some weird, supernatural power is at work. A power that threatens to consume anyone in its path.

Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.

Illustrated by Peter Haswell.