Half The World Away

Whether you are planning your next vacation or exploring the world from home, you owe it to your planet to know the places that make it exceptional throughout the solar system. The World’s Greatest Geological Wonders: 36 Spectacular Sites is your gateway to an unrivaled adventure. In 36 lavishly illustrated half-hour lectures that are suitable for nonscientists and geology enthusiasts alike, Professor Michael E. Wysession of Washington University in St. Louis introduces you to Earth’s most outstanding geological destinations.

Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji, the Galapagos Islands. These natural wonders are on everyone’s list of must-see attractions that are both spectacular and geologically fascinating. But what of Ha Long Bay, the Columbia Glacier, Erta Ale lava lake, and the Great Blue Hole? They also belong on the list, along with more than 200 other sites, both famous and obscure, that are well worth a visit to see breathtaking vistas combined with the grandeur of geological forces in action.

The World Heritage project with Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei, Korekyojinn, &c.), Yamamoto Seiichi (ROVO, Omoide Hatoba, ex.BOREDOMS, &c.), Kido Natsuki (Bondage Fruit, Salle Gaveau, Korekyojinn, &c.), and Nasuno Mitsuru (Altered States, Umbeltipo Trio, Korekyojinn, &c.) in a CD and DVD release, each with a unique set of compositions and improvisations recorded live and in studio. Amazing and awe-inspiring music from the forefront of modern Japanese improvising rock, highly recommended!..

One of the great contemporary jazz singers. To say it with Lee Hildebrand's (music critic and music historian) words: "the most authentic and most creative voice of this generation." …

Half a world away from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man. But for the world’s dictators his ideas can be the catalyst for the end of their regime.