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  The Creatures Time Forgot

  Ray Bradbury

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  In "The Creatures Time Forgot," Ray Bradbury weaves a poignant and imaginative tale that explores the themes of nostalgia, memory, and the inexorable passage of time. The story follows the protagonist, who embarks on a journey back to a forgotten world, where ancient creatures and lost wonders linger in the recesses of his mind.
  As the narrative unfolds, the protagonist reflects on his childhood and the vivid, fantastical memories that shaped his perception of reality. Through a series of rich and evocative descriptions, Bradbury captures the essence of a bygone era, invoking a sense of longing for the innocence and wonder of youth. The creatures of the past symbolize not only the innocence lost but also the enduring power of imagination and the impact of memories that remain etched in our hearts.
  Bradbury's lyrical prose draws readers into a world where the boundaries between reality and dreams blur, and where the creatures of our past serve as reminders of the beauty and fragility of life. The story invites readers to confront their own memories and consider how they shape our present and future.
  "The Creatures Time Forgot" is a testament to Bradbury's mastery of storytelling, revealing his ability to evoke deep emotions and provoke thoughtful reflections on the nature of existence. This tale resonates with anyone who has ever looked back at their past with a sense of wonder and nostalgia, making it a memorable and impactful reading experience.

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  Extraordinary Pools

  Naina Gupta

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  A visual feast of 49 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world.
  This book is a sumptuous celebration of swimming pools as playgrounds of pioneering design and architectural excess. Banish memories of crowded leisure centres and sun lounger-clad lidos, these are pools designed for pleasure, not purpose. Swimming pools are no longer simply places to swim, they are versatile sites of activity and excess. They can be vital lifelines providing communities with safe access to water, domestic symbols of affluence, and the avant-garde spectacle of hotel developers.
  Naina Gupta uncovers some of the most spectacular swimming pools from around the world, including Berthold Lubetkin's modernist Penguin Pool at London Zoo, the world's largest infinity pool at Marina Bay Sands, Ricardo Bofill's blood-red garden pool in Spain, and London's unparalleled Sky Pool. Extraordinary Pools also includes 4 extended essays on various aspects of pool culture, such as the use of empty swimming pools in California by skateboarders. 
  Illustrated throughout with awe-inspiring colour photography, Extraordinary Pools is a mosaic of exceptional public and private pools, reasserting the protean quality of the swimming pool as a space of activity, pleasure and excess.

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  The China Freedom Trap - My Life...

  Dolkun Isa

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  From the president of The World Uyghur Congress, a nominee by Canadian and Finish parliamentarians for the Nobel Peace Prize, 2023
  		 
  Dolkun Isa was declared to be a terrorist by the Chinese Communist Party. His crime? Advocating for basic human, civil and religious freedoms for the people of East Turkestan. The country was taken over by the forces of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. This was primarily achieved through persuasion as opposed to an armed invasion. What the leaders signed up for and were promised are why seventy years later, the Uygur people have been the subject of international headlines. Why have peaceful peoples been abused, terrorized and systematically used for slave labour and even murdered in camps by the Chinese Communist Party?
  		 
  In The China Freedom Trap, Dolkun Isa details his experiences working as an Uyghur political figure in the West and the barriers he has faced due to China's growing influence on liberal institutions. He describes his co-founding of the World Uyghur Congress and the ways in which China has attempted to disrupt and discredit Uyghur activism to further its agenda. Through its Transnational repression and significant influence in INTERPOL, China built a false narrative about Mr. Isa's work and life. Declaring him a separatist and terrorist, they convinced the agency to issue an INTERPOL Red Notice. That shadowed Isa for 21 years and almost cost him his life as he narrowly escaped extradition to China. During detention and deportation in democratic countries, Isa also finds himself uncovering corruption and peeling back the layers of the liberal institutions to see China at its rotting core.
  		 
  This book serves as a historical account of the political activities and behind-the-scenes diplomatic battles between China, the Uyghurs, and other interested or invested countries and institutions; a personal history of Isa’s struggle for the freedom of himself and his people; and ultimately, as a warning to other activists, policymakers, and interested parties: China's power and influence run more profound than most can fathom, they are growing, and they cannot be ignored.
  		 
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  		 
  Dolkun Isa is the President of the World Uyghur Congress.
  		 
  He was a student-leader in pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1988. He founded the Students' Science and Culture Union at the university in 1987, working on programs to eliminate illiteracy, promote science and lead other students in East Turkistan. After enduring persecution from the Chinese government, he fled China in 1994, sought asylum in Europe, and became a German citizen in 2006. He has worked to mobilize the Uyghur diaspora community to collectively advocate for their rights. In 1997, an Interpol Red Notice was issued against him, deleted 21 years later, in 2018.
  		 
  Dolkun’s organization was nominated for the 2023 Noble Peace Prize, a testament to his dedication to enlightening the world about the plight of his fellow citizens from East Turkestan, better known as Xinjiang province.

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  1939: the world catches fire -...

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  1939: The World Catches Fire The Second World War: A Seven-Volume Series, Volume One Quentin Drummond Anderson 
  The last summer ended on a September morning. By nightfall, the world had changed beyond retrieval. 
  In the opening volume of his landmark seven-volume narrative history of the Second World War, Quentin Drummond Anderson — author of War Beneath the Waves, The Fearless Fifteen, and Warriors of the First Nations — brings the year that started everything to devastating life. From the final, luminous weeks of an uneasy European peace to the closing days of a winter in which Finland was holding back the Red Army against all probability, 1939: The World Catches Fire tells the full story of how the world stumbled into the most destructive conflict in human history. 
  Poland is destroyed in thirty-five days. The Atlantic opens as a killing ground. A pocket battleship hunts the South Atlantic and meets its end with a grace that the war it belongs to does not deserve. A garrison of 182 men holds a peninsula for seven days against everything Germany can throw at them. Codebreakers take their posts in a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire. Refugees run for borders that are closing faster than they can reach them. And in the chancelleries and the war rooms and the ordinary streets of a dozen nations, men and women try to understand what has happened to the world they were living in last summer. 
  1939: The World Catches Fire is history written at the pace of events — immediate, authoritative, and deeply human. Drawing on the full range of primary sources, from the diaries of Churchill and Guderian to the testimony of Polish survivors and Finnish ski troops, Drummond Anderson delivers military history at its highest: the grand strategic sweep and the individual life, held in the same hand, illuminating each other.

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  The Old Testament in the Light...

  Theophilus G. Pinches

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  The Old Testament read against the Assyrian and Babylonian tablets - the flood, the tower, the kings named in both - by the Museum scholar who deciphered much of the material himself. This edition adds a gallery of 60 plates after painters including John Martin, Max Pietschmann and Lucas van Valckenborch, together with 11 restored and coloured illustrations.

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  Paranoia: A Journey Into Extreme...

  Daniel Freeman

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  'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK’ JOHN HUMPHRYS 
  'FASCINATING… SHOCKING' SPECTATOR 
  What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? 
  Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years at the vanguard of paranoia research and treatment. This remarkable and moving book tells the story of that journey. 
  For decades, conventional wisdom held that paranoia was only experienced by people with severe mental health problems and little could be done to rectify its disastrous effects. Paranoia gives us a front row seat as Freeman turns the traditional view on its head. 
  He develops life-changing treatments for clinical paranoia – often using state-of-the-art technology like virtual reality. He reveals that suspicion is rife in society, with paranoia widespread, conspiracy theories rampant and emotion all too often trumping evidence. He discovers the causes of mistrust, including the role of genes, trauma, lack of sleep, worry, low self-confidence, cannabis use and hearing voices, and delves into the murky world of Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Lighting up the narrative throughout are the rarely heard voices of people whose lives have been almost wrecked by paranoia – and then in many cases transformed by Freeman’s groundbreaking treatments. 
  This is also a practical book. Freeman shows how we can measure our own levels of mistrust. He explains how we can remedy things if those levels are higher than we’d like, because although mistrust can seem engrained, things can change for the better. Ultimately, it can be overcome. Compelling and compassionate, this is a gripping tale from the front line of suspicion – an impassioned plea for the urgent rebuilding of trust between us all. 
  Daniel Freeman's Paranoia is a compelling mix of autobiography, neuroscience, and social science. It offers a deep understanding of paranoia, its medical implications, and the anxieties and phobias it can cause, providing self-help strategies for patients. 
  For fans of Lucy Johnstone (Users and Abusers of Psychiatry), Esmé Weijun Wang (The Collected Schizophrenias), Irvin D. Yalom (Hour of the Heart), Dr Joseph Jebelli (The Brain at Rest), and Paul Gilbert (CFT Made Simple). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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