Anna writes books that make your heart hurt in the best and sometimes worst ways, compelling readers to think outside the box and question everything they thought they knew. Her stories are filled with romance that is twisted, angsty, and swoon-worthy, often leaving a lasting impact. When she isn't writing, she can be found reading, binge-watching a drama-filled TV series, or planning her next book.
On 8 September 1941, 11 weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not end for 2 and a half years and as many as 2 million Soviet lives would be lost. This narrative history is interwoven with personal stories of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides
The siege of Leningrad is one of the great stories of extraordinary and heroic endurance in World War II
In Isla Negra Pablo Neruda set out to explore his landscape, his roots and experience in an attempt to gather into unity the various “lives” he had left behind in the huge span of his writing career. From the more than a hundred poems he created a poetic autobiography centred round his home of Isla Negra. Neruda had come to consider Isla Negra, a small village on the Pacific coast of Chile, as the centre of his world. The poems move from childhood impressions and awakenings through his early loves, travels and the dawning of his political awareness to self-scrutiny and self-definition. Among their variety Neruda embraces the apparent contradictions of his life. Through-out the poems present and past interact, and this collection becomes the most revealing of Neruda’s long career. The poems of Isla Negra display the astonishing abundance of the human imagination when mingled with memory.
The Ukraine is one of the most neglected countries in the world. It has a population of 52 million - larger than Britain's - and a land mass the size of France; it also has Chernobyl, and after Russia is the largest nuclear power. The word 'Ukraine' means 'borderland' and for most of its history the lands that make up present-day Ukraine have been a collection of other countries' border regions. Prior to Stalinism and Nazism, Ukraine was ethnically extremely diverse, including Russians, Poles, Jews, Greeks and Armenians. Their ghosts linger in language, literature, and architecture, quite distinct from Russia's.
A classic and vivid history of Ukraine 'Gripping history' The Times'Beautifully written and lovingly researched' Daily Telegraph
The fascinating history of an unknown people A vivid mixture of history and reporting, The Shaman's Coat tells the story of some of the world's least-known peoples-the indigenous tribes of Siberia. Russia's equivalent to the Native Americans or Australian Aborigines, they divide into two dozen different and ancient nationalities-among them Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, and Chukchi. Though they number more than one million and have begun to demand land rights and political autonomy since the fall of communism, most Westerners are not even aware that they exist. Journalist and historian Anna Reid traveled the length and breadth of Siberia-one-twelfth of the world's land surface, larger than the United States and Western Europe combined-to tell the story of its people. Drawing on sources ranging from folktales to KGB reports, and on interviews with shamans and Buddhist monks, reindeer herders and whale hunters, camp survivors and Party apparatchiks, The Shaman's Coat travels through four hundred years of history, from the Cossacks' campaigns against the last of the Tatar khans to native rights activists against oil development. The result is a moving group portrait of extraordinary and threatened peoples, and a unique and intrepid travel chronicle.
Designing Climate Resilient Rainwater Harvesting Systems
There is no more fundamental substance to life on earth than water. Three quarter of the Earth's surface is covered by either saltwater or freshwater, yet millions face a daily struggle to access enough water for survival. The effects of ongoing climate change have expanded the water crisis to areas previously considered water secure. This book addresses the role rainwater harvesting (rwh) can play in developing a resilient water infrastructure that will prove adaptive to climate change. The book features three sections.The first section presents the concepts underpinning a new approach to water infrastructure. The term "the worth of water" was developed to reflect the importance of the social life of water. This encompasses all human relationships with water including the social, cultural, hydrological, political, economic, technical and spiritual. A technology portfolio showcasing the worth of water from the Qanats of the ancient world to the modern Rain Cities is presented. Other concepts discussed include the circular economy of water and the concept of multiple waters for multiple users of multiple qualities. Water and its properties are a function of its peculiar molecular structure and this is illustrated in the book. Rainwater harvesting is considered by the authors as containing an inherent treatment train which functions as a complex water treatment system providing physical, chemical and biological removal mechanisms. Part two presents a new design methodology together with design templates and worked examples for the hydraulic and economic analysis of rwh systems. A state-of-the-art literature review of the potential health implications of utilizing rwh is also presented. The final section of the book discusses how rwh can play a vital role in contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and to living within the Planetary Boundaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter1: The circular economy of water (CEW).- Chapter2: Water treatment: pollution removal mechanisms in the rainwater harvesting process.- Chapter3: Supply & demand: multiple waters for multiple purposes and multiple uses.- Chapter4: The components of a rainwater harvesting system: modular, standardised, plug and play.- Chapter5: Climate resilient RWH: a technological portfolio.- Chapter6: Rainwater harvesting design.- Chapter7: The economics of rainwater harvesting.- Chapter8: Rainwater harvesting and the sustainable development goals (SDG's).
Educating Musicians for Sustainability explores the intersections of sustainability and music, investigating how sustainability affects the development and professional preparation of musicians while asking the question, 'What does sustainability have to do with music?'
The extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution.
Książka, która ma szansę wpisać się do kanonu dzieł historycznych dotyczących współczesnej historii Europy Wschodniej. Anna Reid opisuje potworne wydarzenia rozgrywające się w oblężonym przez Niemców Leningradzie, często oddając głos mieszkańcom – ludziom, którzy musieli przetrwać ponad dwa lata (od jesieni 1941 do stycznia 1944) w prawdziwym piekle, cierpiąc choroby i głód. Autorka postrzega sytuację w oblężonym Leningradzie jako wielkie zjawisko społeczne, bada i opisuje ekstremalne, często niedopuszczalne w normalnych warunkach, zachowania, do których ta sytuacja zmusza. 'Blokada' jest również istotnym głosem w dyskusji nad obrazem oblężenia Leningradu. Tym, który przez lata utrwalała radziecka propaganda i tym, który historyk winien jest ludziom. O autorze Anna Reid – dziennikarka, historyk, autorka bardzo dobrze przyjętych książek: 'Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine', 'The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia'