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Salire in cima all'Empire State Building per l'appuntamento con uno stormo di uccelli migratori, ritrovarsi faccia a faccia con un cinghiale nei boschi inglesi, assistere al volo nuziale di una formica nel tragitto di ritorno dal supermercato, inseguire la magia estiva di un firmamento di lucciole; o ancora interrogarsi sulle analogie tra l'emicrania e i cambiamenti climatici, considerare i cigni in una prospettiva politica, cogliere le som...

Fulmineo, magnetico e aristocratico, il falco è dotato di indubbio fascino sugli esseri umani. Helen Macdonald, autrice di Io e Mabel, avvincente racconto del suo rapporto con un astore, ne traccia con appassionata competenza un ritratto a tutto tondo, dove alle caratteristiche biologiche, naturali ed etologiche di questo abilissimo predatore si sovrappongono le pratiche storiche che incrociano il suo mondo con quello degli uomini, n...

YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.`Fabulous... Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel` NEIL GAIMAN, author of CoralineThis is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you...An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. And the deaths quickly follow. A weapon like no other - Prophet - is targeting innocent people. B...

A delightful collection of nature poems introduced by author Helen Macdonald.

This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times.

I would like to thank everyone who helped to publish this book and especially thank my sister Ann Macdonald for motivating me to write this book. Thank you!

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon.THIS IS PROPHET.It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has n...

Fabulous . . . Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMANYOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no...

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Eine kraftvolle Liebeserklärung an die Natur, die uns umgibt >H wie Habicht< uns mit auf die Abendflüge der Mauersegler, erzählt von wilden Ebern in unseren Wäldern, von Mythen und Märchen und führt in versteckte Lebensräume, die heute zu verschwinden drohen. Und sie spürt der Frage nach, was die Entfremdung von der Natur für den Menschen eigentlich bedeutet. In ihren 41 Essays umkreist sie das Wechselspiel von Mensch und Natur - und lehrt ...

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Wir leben im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns und die zunehmende Entfremdung von der Natur gehört zu unserem Alltag. Doch was bedeutet das wirklich?Helen Macdonalds lang erwartetes Buch spürt dieser Frage nach und zeigt uns, was wir verlieren, wenn wir unseren Platz auf dem Planeten nicht radikal überdenken. Sie entführt uns zu den Abendflügen der Schwalben, erzählt von wilden Ebern, die nicht nur unsere Wälder, sondern auch unsere Mythen und Märche...

From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world

Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There ar...

This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times.

From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world

Drawing on ethnographic case studies the volume considers the relationship between global and national policies and their unintended effects, the emergence and impact of introducing new diagnostics, and the impact of the disease on health workers as well as patients.