No . 133
The Trusty Servant
Mark Cronshaw ( C , 68-72 ) has written a new textbook . Energy in Perspective provides broad coverage of energy supply and use . It discusses how energy is produced , transformed , delivered to end users , and consumed . Cronshaw discusses all of this at an undergraduate level , accessible to students of varying backgrounds . The link between economic development and energy consumption is presented , which facilitates understanding of how global energy consumption growth is inevitable as economic development occurs . Coverage includes separate chapters on the oil , natural gas , coal , and electricity sectors . The book discusses the technological implications of energy transitions such as increased use of renewables or changes in the use of nuclear energy . It closes with a discussion of future energy use .
244 Pages . Springer . ISBN : 978-3030635404
John Komurki is the nom de plume of John R . J . Gray ( H , 97-02 ), who published a poetry chapbook late last year .
Wörterbuch comprises a series of sparse and enigmatic texts . Resembling poetry , they are in fact abstracted from a multilingual dictionary published in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II . Excavated in this way from their original context , these texts become a meditation on the ravages of war , and in particular its impact on civilian populations , as well as a reflection on the ways in which violence deforms language .
22 pages . Gato Negro Ediciones , Mexico City . Available from the publisher and the Institute of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles .
Iain McGilchrist ( Coll , 66-71 ) has completed his magnum opus The Matter With Things : Our Brains , Our Delusions , and the Unmaking of the World .
David Lorimer ( CoRo , 80-86 ) writes : In 1890 , William James published his ground-breaking Principles of Psychology in two volumes amounting to nearly 1,400 pages . 130 years later comes a work of comparable magnitude and genius , Iain McGilchrist ’ s Magnum Opus The Matter with Things , also in two volumes and based on a staggering 5,700 references . This makes Iain the William James of our time , and indeed he quotes extensively from many of his books . In Iain ’ s case , his work might have been entitled Hemispheric Principles / Foundations of Neuropsychology and Philosophy : it represents a Principia in the field and is in my view the most important seminal work of philosophy in the broadest sense since the publication of Process and Reality by A . N . Whitehead in 1929 . This must be one of the greatest books ever written by a Wykehamist , in my view !
1500 pages . Perspectiva . ISBN : 978-1914568060
In his book The Searchers , Robert Sackville-West ( F , 71-75 ) explores the extraordinary resilience and determination of those dedicating their lives to finding and identifying soldiers declared missing in the First World War , Sackville-West ’ s meticulously researched volume is a powerful meditation on the legacy of war and a search that continues to this day
By the end of the First World War , the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown . Most were presumed dead , lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders . In The Searchers , Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary , moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing .
It was a search that would span a century : from the department set up to investigate the fate of missing comrades in the war ’ s aftermath , to the present day , when DNA profiling continues to aid efforts to recover , identify and honour these men . As the rest of the country found ways to repair and move on , countless families were consumed by this mission , undertaking arduous , often hopeless , journeys to discover what happened to their husbands , brothers and sons .
Giving prominence to the deep , personal battles of those left behind , The Searchers brings the legacy of war vividly to life in a testament to the bravery , compassion and resilience of the human spirit .
368 pages . Bloomsbury Publishing Plc . ISBN : 978-1526613158
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