George Myerson

Yvonne Rydin

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A New Rhetoric

The Language Of Environment

From the bliss of lingering in a warm bed on a winter morning, to a bracing springtime walk by the seaside, A PRIVATE HISTORY OF HAPPINESS offers the reader a wealth of delightfully fresh perceptions of where and how happiness may be found. These 99 moments of happiness are arranged by theme – Morning, Friendship, Garden, Family, Leisure, Nature, Food and Drink, Well-being, Creativity, Love and Evening – and each is followed by a brief description and commentary that sets the extract in context and encourages further reflection. Drawing on a wide and international range of literary sources – from Ptolemy to Tolstoy – George Myerson reveals that small, unpretentious joys have been shared by human beings across cultures and over thousands of years. He invites us to discover the happiness in our own lives that can be found here and now.

Ninety-Nine Moments of Joy from Around the World

A Private History Of Happiness

Genetically modified (GM) food is a worldwide issue of public concern. Since the mid-1990s, genetic crises and fears have captured center stage in the media, politics and ethics. GM food messes up the purity of natural divisions. This book dissects the genetic debate, from the Flavr Savr tomato to the cancer-programmed lab rat, UncoMouse. Haraway asks the difficult questions, taking us into the ambiguous and unsettling terrain of cyborg hybrids, the spliced new beings who erase the pre-existing categories of 'human¿ and 'non-human¿. Myerson discusses this far-ranging controversy, from Greenpeace and Monsanto to genetics, hypercapitalism, World Wide Webs and the dawning of the 21st-century 'FemaleMan¿. Compact format.

Postmodern Encounters

Donna Haraway and GM Foods

Genetically modified food is a worldwide issue of public concern.

This guide introduces you to the life and work of one of the greatest ninteenth century novelists. In this guide Eliot's themes are explored with reference to her major novels. Both contemporary and modern critical approaches to her work are clearly considered and presented.

Simone de Beauvoir's the Second Sex

Long before Rodney Marsh, or Derek Dougan, Tim Coleman invented football's awkward squad. At the beginning of the twentieth century footballers were poorly paid wage slaves to the stern club owners. But Coleman led the first players' strike. He was a joker, a card - perhaps also the first ever media-literate footballer who knew the importance of a sparky quote in the right place - but he would not be taken advantage of. He stood up for himself, and for others. Then, in 1914, playing for Nottingham Forest after successful spells with Arsenal and Everton, he joined up with the Footballers' Battalion, and found himself on the Western Front in the run-up to the Somme. There he won the Military Medal for bravery. But he also participated in some of the most remarkable football matches ever played, when, scratch teams played on improvised pitches and contested the Army Cup - right alongside the trenches and shell holes of the front line.In later life he quietly sank into obscurity, cleaning windows in Kent, his illustrious past unknown to those around him. This is the first biography of one of British football's most remarkable figures: a virtually unknown individual who nevertheless achieved things beyond the experience and the character of most players. This is the story of a forgotten sporting hero to follow up Aurum's successful All-Round Genius. This is the remarkable story of those who played football on the Western Front. It is a contender for the 2009 William Hill. It is about one of Arsenal's earliest heroes.

From Woolwich Arsenal to the Western Front

Fighting for Football

This text investigates the background of Thus Spake Zarathustra, offering a concise summary of the book and giving close-up explanations of the most important arguments.

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