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“henry disney”

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  • Guided by Knowledge, Inspired by Love

    by Henry Disney ...
    Entomologist, poet and devout Christian Henry Disney illustrates the harmonious relationship between science, art and religion in his sixth published collection of poetry.----The sensitive, observant nature of a scientific and a Christian outlook exemplifies a realistic view of man, nature and God. Disney offers an individual perspective that presents a unified view of the complexities of life. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swansong

    by Henry Disney ...
    The final collection of poems by a scientist and poet near the end of an extraordinary life. They reflect on unusual incidents in his life and comments on contemporary concerns of life today. Comments cover politics, current conflicts across the world, impacts of climate change and other concerns are treated with clarity and insight. Some may challenge the reader. Others may reflect concerns ... Read more

    $5.45 USD

  • Guided by Knowledge, Inspired by Love

    by Henry Disney ...
     Henry Disney's is, to borrow a phrase, a beautiful mind, and also a tough mind.  This little book of poems is a rare journey through the penetrating ideas and questioning, the deep and unsentimental Christian faith, and the rigorous scientific thinking of a very honest man.  Disney has worked out the worldview that he shares with his readers in these poems, over a lifetime, with blinkers ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • War is a Failure of Politics - A Collection of Poems

    by Henry Disney ...
    Henry Disney was born in 1938 and was separated from his parents for part of the War; while his future wife had to be dug from the remains of her home following a bombing raid. After the War he was partly brought up in the Sudan, he served on active service in Cyprus during his National service in 1958, and he carried out research on parasites, their hosts and insect vectors in Belize and Cameroon ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Come What May

    by Henry Disney ...
    Poems "from a beautiful mind, and also a tough mind"Kitty Ferguson's review, on Amazon, of his 2009 collectionOnce again Henry Disney offers the reader a collection ranging across some childhood memories, youthful military service in Cyprus, his varied experience as a scientist of repute (in Belize, Cameroon, Yorkshire and Cambridge), reflections on people and situations, political comment, his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Teach us of Love

    by Henry Disney ...
    This collection of stirring verses gathers into a single volume previously unpublished poems primarily concerned with musings about the author’s Christian faith–a faith which is neither facile nor sentimental–a faith which is less concerned with abstract doctrine than with living out the Gospel in every day living and in how one relates to the variety of people one encounters. Topics include ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • REITERATION

    by Henry Disney ...
    "Henry Disney's is, to borrow a phrase, a beautiful mind, and also a tough mind." So wrote Kitty Ferguson in her review of his sixth collection. This seventh collection of poems reinforces this perception. His delight in nature, ideas and humanity is never sentimental. His poems are as challenging as ever as he ranges over his varied experience and encounters with a diversity of people. Topics ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    by Carole Tonkinson ...
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    The descendants of the Gaels are scattered far and wide across the world - a diaspora that is at once cherished and overlooked. This unique, heartfelt book brings vividly to life through raps, secular psalms, love poems and aphorisms the Gaelic experience as it was, as it is and as it might be. Shore to Shore/Cladach gu Cladach is a vital legacy of the multimedia project Struileag, at the heart of ... Read more

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  • Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

    Edited by Helen Cooper ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two separate and very ancient Celtic motifs of the Beheading and the Exchange of Winnings, ... Read more

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  • Much Ado About Nothing (Mobi Classics)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. First published in 1600, it is likely to have been first performed in the autumn or winter of 1598-1599, and it remains one of Shakespeare's most enduring and exhilarating plays on stage. Stylistically, it shares numerous characteristics with modern romantic comedies including the two pairs of lovers, in this case the romantic leads, ... Read more

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  • Break, Blow, Burn

    Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

    by Camille Paglia ...
    America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD