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Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back.In a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the survivor who became a Roman lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, curator of drains, and representative of the Emperor. He was confidant and friend to the great and good, an unparalleled chronicler of the Vesuvius catastrophe, and eyewitness to the terror of Emperor Domitian.The younger Pliny was adopted by his uncle, admiral of the fleet and author of the Natural History, an extraordinary compendium of knowledge and the world’s first full-length encyclopaedia. The younger Pliny inherited his uncle’s notebooks and carried their pearls of wisdom with him down the years.Daisy Dunn breathes vivid life back into the Plinys. Reading from the Natural History and the Younger Pliny’s Letters, she resurrects the relationship between the two men to expose their beliefs on life, death and the natural world in the first century. Interweaving their work, and positioning the Plinys in relation to the devastating eruption, Dunn’s biography is a celebration of two outstanding minds of the Roman Empire, and their lasting influence on the world thereafter. .

Richard Douthwaite is an economist, journalist and author of several books including The Growth Illusion, Short Circuit and The Ecology of Money. He co- founded The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability in Feasta in 1998. The word feasta (pronounced fasta) means “in the future” and is taken from an old Irish poem. Feasta sees itself as a collective thinking process about that future.The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 marks a turning point in human history. Many of the contributors to this book believe that the period in which incomes could be expected to rise year after year has come to an end and that we now have to learn to live with economies that shrink rather than grow. Feasta’s focus is on examining alternatives to this growth compulsion. Contributors are from Feasta’s international network of experts including Nate Hagens, Tom Konrad, Kenneth Moulder, Dmitry Orlov and Dan Sullivan from the United States. The book will released in the UK this November and will receive attention in the American market through extensive on-line peak oil networks. This is the North American edition which has been Americanized. Topics include: energy availability, business innovations and transportation