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1 review
Robert MacFarlane

Granta Books, 2007

beautiful evocation of a disappearing landscape
I love books about travel, esp in Britain, and I love nature. So I thought this book might be the perfect match. I was not disappointed! First, the book is filled with detailed descriptions of what he is seeing, so that you are seeing it too. His writing reminds me much of Chet Raymo's. I was esp fascinated with the map he made of the wild areas he is exploring. Its a map that doesn't look like ...

The Peregrine (New York Review Books Classics)

1 review
J.A. Baker

NYRB Classics, 2004

...red in tooth and claw
This is nature, hard core. The line between Baker and his prey disappears during the year he spends with these birds. Magnificent, heart-stopping, sense-exploding writing. I read it slowly because it made me more observant of everything I miss when I rush. Makes you a better creature on the earth for reading it.

Mountains of the Mind: How Desolate and Forbidding Heights Were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable ...

7 reviews
Robert Macfarlane

Pantheon, 2003

The Magic of Mountains
From the opening recollection to the last sentence, Macfarlane's history of how mountains have been imagined left me aching to read more. The final words took me by surprise; I fully expected to turn the page for at least a few more spellbinding paragraphs. While the author's own experiences with altitude, ice, and snow are interspersed throughout, this is not at all a flimsy excuse to offer up ...

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (New York Review Books Classics)

1 review
Tim Robinson

NYRB Classics, 2008

An extradinarily intimate "outsider's" view of west Ireland
This collection of 14 shorter pieces by Tim Robinson, mathematician, teacher, artist and cartographer, gives a portrait of the west of Ireland which is unrivalled in recent writing from that country. Its' integrating device, and central metaphor, is the map. A map, stripped bare, is a distillation of topographical knowledege about an area. Onto this rudimentary two-dimensional scaffolding layer ...

Vital Corporation: How American Businesses -- Large And Small -- Double Profits in Two Years or Less

1 review
Garry Jacobs, Robert Macfarlane

Diane Pub Co, 1990

This is a great book.
Garry Jacobs is a straight forward guy that has helped turn around MANY companies like Navistar,Intel, Phillips Petroleum and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. Although you may not be able to follow the instructions exactly, the book has alot of great information for company growth and how to focus your energy. It's a great look in the mirror for any size company.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1970 (Vol. 85, No. 6)
Hal Clement, W. Macfarlane, ...

Conde Nast Publications, 1970

Digest Format. Includes: "Star Light" (pt 3 of 4) by Hal Clement; "Meet a Crazy Lady Week" by W. Macfarlane; "Brillo" by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison; "Heavy Thinker" by Howard L. Myers; "Excelsior!" by Robert Chilson. Science Fact: "Backpack Spacecraft" by Walter B. Hendrickson, Jr.

Mountains of the Mind

1 review
Robert Macfarlane

Granta Books, 2004

Good trees, but a disappointing forest
In this book, MacFarlane tries to trace the process by which humans - - well, European humans - - came to view mountains as places of beauty, glory, and adventure. He doesn't succeed in giving us an answer but he provides a lot of stories, and a little history, on these thems. He builds the story around themes such as scientific research into geology, glaciers, and the nature of time; fear ...

Wild Swim

1 review
Kate Rew, Robert Macfarlane

Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2008

gorgeous
I love this book- it makes you want to swim in every place she writes about, and until then feel like you have through the evocative and playful prose. I have so far given two as gifts and they've both been loved.

Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations: A Systematic Literature Review (Studies in Urban ...
Trisha Greenhalgh, Glenn Robert, ...

BMJ Books, 2007

This is a systematic review on how innovations in health service practice and organisation can be disseminated and implemented. This is an academic text, originally commissioned by the Department of Health from University College London and University of Surrey, using a variety of research methods. The results of the review are discussed in detail in separate chapters covering particular innovations and the relevant contexts. The book is ...

Berge im Kopf
Robert Macfarlane

AS Verlag, Zürich, 2005

Henry Villard And The Northern Pacific
Robert S. MacFarlane

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006

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