Kirjahaku

Danny Redding is the fastest superkart racer in the city. His younger brother Chris knows that one day he will be faster. But in between fantasy and destiny another life exists. A life of fear, of anger and of courage. The life of the Boxkart Rebel.' The Boxkart Rebel YA novel about the courage it takes to go your own way, to get through life no matter the hardships. It is also about family and about racing. The Boxkart Rebel is a celebration the life that burns in all youth.

In the 1970s, the author made two journeys across North Africa, keeping a diary on both adventures. Morocco and Egypt were two very different countries then, and the diaries capture a time when the author was both coming of age and stumbling out to a wider world to experience something very new, and sometimes frightening. When he travelled to Morocco in 1974 on his own, he was still a teenager, and within hours of landing on African soil for the first time, he had been ripped off by a Canadian. It proved to be a steep learning curve as with little money he went from Tangier down to the desert.When he travelled through Egypt, he was now a student and more worldly wise.The book captures a time that is now long lost and is unique for that as very little has been written that records what it was like to explore two countries that, in their different ways, were going through periods of transition. This was a time when the likes of the Rolling Stones among many had been coming to North Africa to find escape and inspiration and yet few details have emerged of what they found at the time.The account is both vivid and down to earth. This is no luxurious trip. It's trains, buses and beat-up cars; searing heat under canvas, or bad hotels.This particular version is text only so that readers can adjust the size of the text to suit their needs. Fully illustrated editions are also available.

In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish, probably composed in the second half of the fifteenth century, was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. This eagerly awaited edition of the play, published in association with the National Library of Wales, offers a conservatively edited text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page – vital for comparative purposes. Also included are a complete vocabulary, detailed linguistic notes, and a thorough introduction dealing with the language of the play, the hagiographic background of the St Kea material and the origins of other parts in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. The theme of the play is the contention between St Kea, patron of Kea parish in Cornwall, and Teudar, a local tyrant. This is combined with a long section dealing with the dispute over tribute payments between King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius Hiberius; Queen Guinevere’s adultery with Arthur’s nephew Modred; the latter’s invitation to Cheldric and his Saxon hordes to come to Britain to assist him in his conflict with his uncle; and Arthur’s battle with Modred. Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for Cornish language publications.

In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish, probably composed in the second half of the fifteenth century, was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. This eagerly awaited edition of the play, published in association with the National Library of Wales, offers a conservatively edited text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page – vital for comparative purposes. Also included are a complete vocabulary, detailed linguistic notes, and a thorough introduction dealing with the language of the play, the hagiographic background of the St Kea material and the origins of other parts in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. The theme of the play is the contention between St Kea, patron of Kea parish in Cornwall, and Teudar, a local tyrant. This is combined with a long section dealing with the dispute over tribute payments between King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius Hiberius; Queen Guinevere’s adultery with Arthur’s nephew Modred; the latter’s invitation to Cheldric and his Saxon hordes to come to Britain to assist him in his conflict with his uncle; and Arthur’s battle with Modred. Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for Cornish language publications.

Through Squadron histories, log books, official reports and interviews with the people who flew clipped winged Mark XVI Spitfires to dive-bomb V1 and V2 rocket sites at night in 1944; a story as fascinating as the Dam Busters raid or the Battle of Britain is at last fully told, the 60th anniversary of Operation Big Ben, having previously been cloaked in secrecy.

Ikigai is the unique Japanese way of living life with purpose. This book shows for the first time, with genuine insight, how the Japanese themselves strive to achieve this, all from the perspective of the monk Ok-a-da. This is a short guide written deliberately so because living life with a purpose does not require many different steps. Like many aspects of life, it is doing a few things very well and consistently. The book also corrects a number of errors that other authors make when attempting to bring the concept to a non-Japanese audience, errors that will send people down the wrong path.This uplifting little book provides an easy to follow guide, all packed into easy-to-digest chapters, and will give you the confidence to change your life for the better.O-ka-da lives on Sanuki Hiroshima, an island paradise in the Seto Inland Sea. Graham Thomas, who has co-authored and translated O-ka-da's writings lives a few miles away on another island. Together they have concentrated on the aspects of ikigai that will make a difference in the reader's life. They also highlight that ikigai is not about finding a purpose in life but living life with purpose: an important difference. Please enjoy it.