Bøger af Anthony Barnett

Biggest issue yet of annual review of literature and the arts.Contributors include: Will Alexander, Rob Barnard, Ian Brinton, A. Childe, Tim Harris, William Hooker, Sung Jin, Natasha Jane Kennedy, Kumiko Kiuchi, Peter Larkin, D. S. Marriott, Anya Reeve, Harriett Rose, Barry Schwabsky, Diane Simpson, Dave Soldier, David Strother, Peter Todd, Nick Totton, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ian Wiblin, James Wilson

It started as the greatest feat of exploration in the history of humanity-using the newly developed Interstellar Drive to propel a crew of scientists to a solar system 40 light years distant to explore Earth-like planets. It ended with the likely destruction of Earth by an unknown enemy with awesome destructive power.It is 200 years in the future. Scientific advances have made it possible to travel to the nearest stars in a timeframe of months on highly sophisticated spacecraft capable of supporting hundreds of personnel in relative comfort. Exploring new worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 System, scientists discover the first evidence of humanoid intelligence. But they are being tracked by civilizations of much more advanced life forms with an almost unimaginable power to destroy and a history of hatred and fear going back many generations.First Officer Jon Webster, his beautiful girlfriend nurse Sally Pardoe and brilliant scientist Axel Eff are key characters on this first manned extra-solar spaceship. We travel with them to explore new worlds and experience the extreme dangers they encounter. The excitement of exploration and discovery is palpable, but then eclipsed by fear and potential disaster. The crew must determine the source of this alien power and how it can be combatted. If necessary, they must make the ultimate sacrifice to keep Earth safe.A high risk plan is devised to at least delay, and hopefully prevent, Earths' destruction. Aided by a few survivors from an almost extinct humanoid race, the crew offer themselves as bait to an amoral alien dictatorship and summon all their ingenuity to combat them. We share their suspense in this "race against time", hear their arguments to save Earth and how they cope with their aggressive captors.But-success against the enemy is nothing compared with the intransigence of the rulers of Earth. How can you successfully negotiate with a powerful enemy when your own rulers fail to support you? The author is a Professor of Medicine in a major university in the United Kingdom. He has written many medical/academic books and scientific articles over a long career. He also has a longstanding interest in astronomy and cosmology and this is his first science fiction novel. Whilst the story is exciting and indeed compelling, throughout he has tried to ensure that scientific advances/breakthroughs are described which break no physical laws and are at least within the bounds of possibility. Enjoy!

Last call for humanity? Americans can now secure or destroy the world.

On April 2 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force was sailing for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina's surrender 74 days later set Margaret Thatcher on course for her second election victory. Anthony Barnett's Iron Britannia, first published in 1982, turned down the din of war and diagnosed something rotten in the British state. This new edition offers a new extended preface by Barnett, addressing UK foreign policy post-Falklands; plus additional texts Barnett wrote at the time.'A furious, sometimes gleeful and often witty polemic against the decaying British political system which the conflict revealed.' Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books'Anthony Barnett makes a variety of telling points... Most tellingly of all, the concept he puts forward of 'Churchillism', the rhetoric of national unity which overrides party and class considerations.' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Times Literary Supplement'Done with almost Swiftian vigour. I warmly recommend it.' John Fowles, Guardian

In the past few decades a revolution in our approach to treating type 2 diabetes has occurred following the recognition that the condition is caused by multiple defects. A range of new treatments are now available, with many more forthcoming, utilising differing mechanisms of action that allow targeted and more effective therapy of this multifactorial disease than ever before. The increasing requirement in the UK to move much of diabetes practice into the community requires much more detailed knowledge of the condition by GPs and practice nurses. In this bespoke book, the authors aim to show how new mechanisms of glucose control and advances in treatments arising from this can tailor treatment to the individual in primary care. This book incorporates the recently published ADA/EASD guidelines and the 2015 update from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Essential reading for the multi-professional diabetes care team, this book should also be of interest to hospital specialists in training.

Before New Labour came to power and when even the prospect of reform of Britain's House of Lords was regarded with scepticism, the authors of this book developed the idea of selecting part of a new upper house by lot. This is a new edition of the original proposal.