Böcker av Roger Osborne

They say that life starts again at 40. For me, it has been. After a toxic relationship, which lasted more than twenty years, I started from scratch, changing place, work, and habits. Now I am a completely different person. But I still feel the need to give and receive love, to have a healthy and happy relationship. Easy to say! Approaching my 50s was not so easy. But I did not give up. I knew this was going to be tough, but after months and months of trying, I was beginning to despair. Finally, I approached a person who looked interesting to me. Her name was Yulia. She was my age, was looking for a life partner, and seemed quite in line with what I was looking for. When I met Yulia, I felt everything should be fine, that she was the right person. We both knew that we were about to make our dream real. You will love this passionate short story!

Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a "mutilation"), and periods of obscurity and rediscovery, the text has been reshaped and repackaged by many hands. Furphy's first editors at the Bulletin diluted his socialist message and "corrected" his Australian slang to create a more marketable book. Later, literary players including Vance and Nettie Palmer, Miles Franklin, Kate Baker and Angus & Robertson all took an interest in how Furphy's work should be published.In a fascinating piece of literary detective work, Osborne traces the book's journey and shows how economic and cultural forces helped to shape the novel we read today.

'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.'Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office after leading Britain to victory in 1945.

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. Sweeping in its scope and comprehensive in its coverage, Civilzation tells the story of the western world from its origins to the present.

In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. This book tells the story of those decades, the moments of inspiration, the rivalries, skulduggery and death threats, and the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen.

By using different ways of describing the world of scientific endeavour, the author has produced a fascinating visually beautiful and highly entertaining book which allows us to witness the birth of a new science - the science of geology.