![]() ![]() While some of the creatures rent from Dixon's imagination seem every bit as fantastical to a modern reader as they appeared to readers in the early '80s, others now don't seem so very far-fetched. With the removal of this interference, I was able to let nature get back to work'. Reflecting in the new foreword he has written exclusively for this edition, he notes, 'the book was about the natural forces of evolution, and man, with his big feet and his big hands, had too much of an influence, twisting the course of nature away from anything that can be predicted. To some, this was seen as sacrilege, but Dixon himself only ever saw the decision to obliterate his own species from his vision as a practical one. In 1981 St Martin's Press published After Man, the first edition of palaeontologist Dougal Dixon's vision of an 'alternative evolution': one without mankind. Features a new cover and more than 10 pages of never before seen sketches and production material. An expanded edition of Dougal Dixon's classic illustrated work of speculative biology, published to celebrate the book's 40th anniversary. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He parlayed his wealth into an empire and developed a remote resort in which he lives. government granted amnesty to draft dodgers. As the years passed, Richard went straight and returned to the States after the U.S. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes. Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes."-Publisher.īook Synopsis A hit HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history-the U.S. ![]() About the Book "Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the government worker? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ace without discipleship.Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know.It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic book on living as a Christian. ![]() |