6/26/2023 0 Comments Look after us rod campbell![]() ![]() Look After Us is the perfect first book to start talking to very young children about wildlife conservation and how important it is for us all to look after the natural world, from tigers and orangutans to elephants and camels. ![]() This book features simple, repeating text on each page to encourage little ones to join in with reading the story, and bright colourful artwork. With a special fold-out ending that shows the difference conservation efforts have made to whales, Look After Us has a positive message about the importance of looking after our world and the animals that live in it. A first board book about endangered animals by Rod Campbell, creator of the bestselling preschool classic Dear Zoo: lift the flaps to meet elephants, tigers, orangutans and more! Babies and toddlers will love lifting the sturdy card flaps to discover five different endangered animals in their natural habitats. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Complete works of winnie the pooh![]() The original English manuscripts are held at Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, Milne's alma mater to whom he had bequeathed the works. The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list. The stories are set in Hundred Acre Wood, which was inspired by Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex-situated 30 miles (48 km) south of London-where the Londoner Milne's country home was located. Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). ![]() The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). The character is based on a stuffed toy that Milne had bought for his son Christopher Robin in Harrods department store. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925. ![]() ![]() Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scene between Lewis and Edgar was all pretence, and at some point there was just Edgar there shouting alone while Lewis went out through the French window, ran along the terrace and killed Christian. The revelation comes when Miss Marple discovers the truth. ![]() So we are led to believe that someone killed them because they were a danger. Next we know there are two new deaths: Alex, and Ernie, one of the boys who claimed he had seen something the night of the crime. So Alex shares with Miss Marple the idea that what happened the night Christian was killed was actually an illusion for the audience. He mentions that the theatre is an illusion to fool the audience it is all wood and cardboard, but the audience are happy to be tricked it is real. The person who actually mentions the idea was Inspector Curry when he is talking to Alex Restarrick. I was pretty sure who the killer was as I got on with the book. ![]() ![]() Whether attending a meeting, sharing a post online, or mustering the nerve to ask for a favor, we often assume our actions, input, and requests will be overlooked or rejected. Weaving together compelling stories with cutting edge science, Bohns answers the questions we all want to know (but may be afraid to ask): How much did she take to heart what I said earlier? Do they know they can push back on my suggestions? Did he notice whether I was there today? Will they agree to help me if I ask? In You Have More Influence Than You Think social psychologist Vanessa Bohns draws from her original research to illustrate why we fail to recognize the influence we have, and how that lack of awareness can lead us to miss opportunities or accidentally misuse our power. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to have for how our words, actions, and even our mere presence affect other people. If you’ve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you weren’t actually any of those things. An original investigation of our hidden power to persuade, and how to wield it wisely. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments David kenyon webster book![]() ![]() In September 2003, Variety Magazine honored Bailey as one of the top ten emerging actors to watch. He's physically attractive and exudes an effortless sincerity, he has the whole actors ball of wax". fame was quoted in Variety as saying " I see Eion as a reincarnation of Henry Fonda. The movie's legendary writer-producer Larry Gelbart of M.A.S.H. Eion was nominated for a Golden Satellite award and hailed by critics for a "beautifully understated performance that brings a striking balance to the piece". Miniseries Band of Brothers, character roles in "Fight Club", "Almost Famous", "Center Stage" and leading man opposite Antonio Banderas in HBOs "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself". Eion is known for his performances in the Emmy and Golden Globe winning HBO ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Post office bukowski amazon![]() ![]() ![]() I know, from the documentaries, he was a bum, a drunk and a jerk, and I accept that since he seemed to have. He spent, as most writer’s do, a career in obscurity, but late in his life, to his surprise, and many others fame came his way. Much like Henry Miller’s non-fiction, Bukowski believed that, even as a drunk, if he were honest and treated his thoughts like a craftsman would, he’d be a rare voice in the literary world. He seemed like a terrible person in many ways but there was something oddly refreshing about how little he tried to hide it. There were no grand flourishes or overwrought metaphors. Unlike the majority of writers he wasn’t primarily interested in impressing anyone. He gave me Post Office, about Bukowski’s drunken Kakfaesque experiences as as poet working with mail. It was my friend Rich Grudman who first told me to read Bukowski. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Umberto eco history of ugliness![]() ![]() In a final chapter added to the second Italian edition, Eco examines how Aquinas’s aesthetics came to be absorbed and superseded in late medieval times and draws instructive parallels between Thomistic methodology and contemporary structuralism. He discusses Aquinas’s views on art and compares his poetics with Dante’s. He examines the concrete application of these theories in Aquinas’s reflections on God, mankind, music, poetry, and scripture. Setting the stage with an account of the vivid aesthetic and artistic sensibility that flourished in medieval times, Eco examines Aquinas’s conception of transcendental beauty, his theory of aesthetic perception or visio, and his account of the three conditions of beauty-integrity, proportion, and clarity-that, centuries later, emerged again in the writings of the young James Joyce. Inheriting his basic ideas and conceptions of art and beauty from the classical world, Aquinas transformed or modified these ideas in the light of Christian theology and of developments in metaphysics and optics during the thirteenth century. The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Think and get rich![]() ![]() If that sounds confusing, you aren’t alone! The trouble is we actually create our reality but what we are thinking and dreaming. Why the difference? It’s really quite simple, yet for far too many it remains a mystery – it’s all about what you are thinking. Have you ever wondered why some people with equal opportunities land up in such different places – one person is living in wealth with all the comforts of home, while the other person struggles to even pay their rent. ![]() In fact, it could be you! Are you content with life as it is or do you find yourself dreaming your way to riches? If you answered yes, then you are definitely on the right track because without your imagination – without dreaming – you are not going to get there! From rags to riches – it happens more often than you might think. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Bridge of souls by victoria schwab![]() ![]() And to make matters worse, her ghostly best friend, Jacob, is becoming far stronger than he ought to be, able to manipulate objects in the physical world.įellow in-betweener Lara would tell Cassidy that it’s time to send Jacob on, but Cassidy doesn’t even want to contemplate it – especially not when the ominous skeleton reappears in New Orleans. ![]() But though Cassidy is gaining confidence as an in-betweener (someone capable of traveling between our world and the Veil, and responsible for sending lingering ghosts “on”), she’s troubled by a vision she had in Paris of a skeleton – on this side of the Veil – watching her from a train platform. ![]() In this third installment of Victoria Schwab’s City of Ghosts series, Cassidy Blake finds herself in New Orleans, where her parents are filming segments about the city’s haunted history for their television show. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Solarpunk by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro![]() ![]() ![]() Agora imagine a humanidade sob o impacto dessas mudanças. Imagine um mundo sustentável, movido por energias limpas e renováveis, menos agressivas ao meio ambiente. Silva, Roberta Spindler, and Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro. Originally published in Brazil and translated for the first time from the Portuguese by Fábio Fernandes, this anthology of optimistic science fiction features nine authors from Brazil and Portugal including Carlos Orsi, Telmo Marçal, Romeu Martins, Antonio Luiz M. The stories in this anthology explore terrorism against green corporations, large space ships propelled by the pressure of solar radiation, the advent of photosynthetic humans, and how different society might be if we had switched to renewable energies much earlier in history. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures and alternate histories. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. ![]() Updated: Coming in August 2018 is the English translation. ![]() |