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From the vantage point of later middle life, Ian McDonald''s collection looks into the heart of time passing: the coming death of ageing parents, the old men, the ''archive'' of a disappearing Guyana who die one by one, the sight of ''my own lines of age'' and the loss of pleasure in the glittering carnival of the senses. There are rich blessings of the arrival of a new child coming unexpected at this stage of life; and the consolations from books and in the power of art to preserve - at least for a time. But the very joys are made more piquant by the inescapable sense of the transitoriness of all things. Poems of moving domestic intimacy and humour (''To alarm their father''s half to death / New-born babies hold their breath''), valedictory requiems for the characters who have given Georgetown life its flavour and regret for the country''s loss of civility during its darkest recent years and songs in praise of nature are all part of a vision which looks into the darkness but says, ''Yes, it is as you say, / But let us get just one thing straight: / There is beauty in the world / ... And the star-tree blossoms in the night, / Night that will have an end'' and asserts, ''Between silence and silence, there should be only praise.'' Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.

Twee kinderen worden elkaars eerste liefde, maar dit lijkt voorbestemd om te mislukken mede door de vooroordelen en de bestaande geschiedenis rond ras en de invloed van de volwassenen in de kinderen hun omgeving.

Ian McDonald''s poetry embraces Caribbean possibility with a romantic fervour which still acknowledges what is harsh and painful in the region. He has both the gift to see ''the ibis-bird in pigeons'' and an ironical consciousness of the poet''s gilding eye. There are love poems of lyric grace and stunning simplicity; exuberant paeans to nature in all its beauty, fierceness and cruelty; narratives which grip and characters who are powerfully memorable. Here is a celebration of life which is made all the more intense by the consciousness of mortality which lurks behind every vivid occasion. Readers who have enjoyed Ian McDonald''s recent work in the much praised collections Mercy Ward and Essequibo will be delighted by these earlier poems, only a few of which have been available to date in anthologies and Caribbean literary journals. Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.

The Future Is Ourselves The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald.

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 10th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy from 2015. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass. Featuring Paolo Bacigalupi • Elizabeth Bear • Greg Bear • Jeffrey Ford • Neil Gaiman • Nalo Hopkinson • Nisi Shawl • Simon Ings • Gwyneth Jones • Caitlin R. Kiernan • Anne Leckie • Kelly Link • Usman T. Malik • Ian McDonald • Vonda McIntrye • Sam J. Miller • Tamsyn Muir • Robert Reed • Alastair Reynolds • Kim Stanley Robinson • Kelly Robson • Geoff Ryman • Nike Sulway • Catherynne Valente • Genevieve Valentine • Kai Ashante Wilson • Alyssa Wong

Peter Hamilton brings his trademark flair for narrative sweep and epic ideas to a short novel that tells the story of an near- immortal mankind that grew from the Roman Empire. Paired with WATCHING TREES GROW is TENDELEO¿S STORY the Theodore Sturgeon award-winning new Chaga short novel from the acclaimed Ian McDonald.

Should economies boost national saving in response to their aging populations? The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD 1996) has expressed concern over the aging of populations throughout the world and called for higher saving now.2 A judgment on the most desirable level of saving can be based on the notion that saving is a means to redistribute consumption over time. A high level of saving shifts consumption into the future. A low level of saving shifts consumption toward the present. The optimal rate of saving balances consumption now against consumption in the future in a way that maximizes the total utility enjoyed by all people-that is, by those living now and those living in the future.

Los Angeles has its Necroville or "City of the Dead"--off-limits to living humans--but on the Night of the Dead, Necroville throws the wildest party L.A. has ever seen and mysterious events threaten all of humanity

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A meteorite falls on Africa''s Mount Kilimanjaro and the area is transformed into a new world which provides the local inhabitants with all the necessities of life, as well as immortality. The story is told by an Irish woman reporter who is sent to investigate the meteorite.

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A history of the Mellotron and discussions by the musicians who were inspired by this unpredictable keyboard.

Takes a patient centred approach, the starting point being the patient''s presenting problem and its evolution. The focus is on clinical diagnosis and principles of management. This is not a comprehensive textbook; it contains what the editors consider to be core knowledge and skills for the practising clinician.