Focusing on the bond between abandoned dogs and their rescuers, this heartwarming narrative explores themes of love, hope, and redemption. It highlights the struggles faced by these animals and the compassionate individuals who dedicate their lives to saving them. Through touching stories, the book showcases the transformative power of kindness and the deep connections formed between humans and dogs, inspiring readers to reflect on the importance of empathy and the impact of second chances.
Anthony Smith Book order (chronological)
Anthony D. Smith was a foundational figure in the interdisciplinary study of nationalism and ethnicity. His seminal work distinguished between 'civic' and 'ethnic' forms of nations and nationalism, proposing that all nations possess dominant 'ethnic cores'. While acknowledging the modern nature of nationalism, Smith's scholarship uniquely emphasized the pre-modern roots that shape national identities. His insights continue to be central to understanding the complex origins and manifestations of nations.
Ballooning
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Who starts a journey without knowing where it will finish? Who lands without brakes, falls over, and is delighted and eager to do it again? Today's balloon pilots! This stunning color album reveals the beauty, excitement and joy of ballooning, from the Sahara to Antarctica. Competition flying, special shapes, ballooning clubs, model hot air balloons, exotic flying, showmen, films and stunt flying are brought vividly to life. Coverage also includes record breakers, the singletons, the birth of propane man, and the science of ballooning. This lavishly illustrated, lighter-than-air journey covers every aspect of ballooning.
Software for the self. Technology and culture
- 140 pages
- 5 hours of reading
In this volume, which is based on the 1994 T.S. Eliot Lectures, the author places contemporary issues, such as the effect of modern technology on society and the individual, in the context of much longer discussions about the nature and role of the arts. A much longer historical process is at work by which culture is constantly undergoing re-definition, as is the whole of our apparatus of response. Smith argues, for example, that the roots of virtual reality are to be sought in older western conceptions of space, and in techniques of representing space.