Staying Human is the latest addition to Bloodaxe's bestselling Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies. These anthologies have introduced many thousands of new readers to modern poetry as well as offering poetry lovers a broad, international selec
Get creative with this amazingly innovative colouring book, full of beautifully-designed cards and envelopes to tear out and colour. The twenty four beautiful summertime designs include seashells, flowers, dragonflies and more and are perfect for all ages to decorate and send to family and friends. Autorid: Rebecca Jones
Set in Cleveland, this novel tells a story containing many themes. When Matty's beautiful mother passes away from cancer, he is forced to navigate both the city and his own coming of age all by himself. We follow him and his partner Jack through the progression of their own friendship along with the experiences that both of them live through.
Join the four newest fairies on their adventures in the Magic Forest! These Forever Fairies will learn all there is to know about how fairies help save the day. Welcome back to the Magic Forest! Nova and her best fairy friends Lulu, Coco and Zali are ready for their next fairy pod trial, this time for the Shimmerbuds who know all about fairy medicine. Nova isnt very speedy, but she loves helping the forest animals! When the forest trolls interrupt the challenge with more shenanigans, Nova has to think fast. Can she and the other fairies work together and mend the mess? The second book in a beautifully told adventure series featuring magic, excitement and fairies! Gorgeous black and white illustrations throughout Authored by the brilliant Maddy Mara and perfect for fans of The Dragon Girls Autorid: Maddy Mara
Whether you are a complete novice or have some experience with houseplants, this book will equip you with the fundamental knowledge needed to create a thriving open terrarium environment for your Plant.This guide serves as an introductory resource, designed to acquaint you with the essential principles and techniques of terrarium gardening. You will gain a general understanding of the requirements, characteristics, and benefits of open terrariums, as well as the unique attributes and care needs of this plant.Inside this book, you will find: Introduction to Terrariums: Uncover the concept of open terrariums and their advantages as self-contained ecosystems. Explore its natural habitat, growth patterns, and the numerous benefits it offers as a houseplant. Essential Growing Requirements: Gain insight into the specific environmental conditions that promote optimal plant growth, such as light, temperature, humidity, and soil composition. Discover how to create an ideal microclimate within your open terrarium to foster the health and vitality of your plant. Planting and Maintenance Techniques: Learn step-by-step instructions for planting your plant in an open terrarium, including proper positioning, soil preparation, and watering practices. Understand how to provide ongoing care, such as pruning, fertilization, and pest management, to ensure your plant thrives. Troubleshooting and Common Mistakes: Identify potential challenges and issues that may arise during the cultivation . Find practical solutions to common problems and learn how to prevent and address common mistakes to maintain a flourishing terrarium ecosystem.Although this guide provides a general overview of open terrarium gardening and Plant care, it is important to note that it does not delve into specific details or advanced techniques. Instead, it serves as an indispensable starting point for beginners, empowering them with a solid foundation of knowledge to embark on their terrarium journey with confidence.By the end of this book you will possess the essential skills and understanding necessary to create a beautiful and thriving open terrarium with plant as its centerpiece.Embark on this green-fingered adventure and embrace the joy of nurturing and appreciating these fascinating botanical microcosms.
The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she's talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why--for better or (sometimes) worse--antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a museum, Beard introduces the idea ofthauma, or wonder, that kick-started a lifetime engaging with classics. It was not the canonical "greats" of ancient literature and art that initially drew her in, she confesses, but rather the more intimate, messy, and humdrum evidence of daily life in the remote past.Confronting the uses and abuses of symbols of the ancient world, Beard reminds us that the traditions and "masterpieces" of Greece and Rome have certainly been politicized, but they belong to neither the left nor the right. Happily, no one owns the past. She warns us not to let a sense of reverence or overfamiliarity dampen the "shock of the old," arguing that one of the most important things that classics teach us is how to grapple with complicated and controversial things. "The Greeks and Romans are long dead, they cannot answer back, and you can say what you like about them," she reminds readers. "The simple fact that classics belong to none of us can offer a safe space to argue about the most difficult debates we face now."Beard welcomes everyone into classics. "It is not compulsory to be excited by the ancient world," she writes. "But it can be a shame not to be." This charming, sharp, and readable book from one of the world's most entertaining classicists offers something for both new and established fans of classics, bringing new wonder and curiosity to even the most ancient of ideas.
LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | INDIE BESTSELLER | New York Times's 10 Books our Readers Are Most Excited About | Boston Globe's Best Books of Summer 2025 | A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Nonfiction BookWhether it's the mighty pyramids of Egypt or the majestic temples of Mexico, we have a good idea of what the past looked like. But what about our other senses: The tang of Roman fish sauce and the springy crust of Egyptian sourdough? The boom of medieval cannons and the clash of Viking swords? The frenzied plays of an Aztec ballgame...and the chilling reality that the losers might also lose their lives?History often neglects the tastes, textures, sounds, and smells that were an intimate part of our ancestors' lives, but a new generation of researchers is resurrecting those hidden details, pioneering an exciting new discipline called experimental archaeology. These are scientists gone rogue: They make human mummies. They investigate the unsolved murders of ancient bog bodies. They carve primitive spears and go hunting, then knap their own obsidian blades to skin the game. They build perilous boats and plunge out onto the open sea-all in the name of experiencing history as it was, with all its dangers, disappointments, and unexpected delights.Beloved author Sam Kean joins these experimental archaeologists on their adventures across the globe, from the Andes to the South Seas. He fires medieval catapults, tries his hand at ancient surgery and tattooing, builds Roman-style roads-and, in novelistic interludes, spins gripping tales about the lives of our ancestors with vivid imagination and his signature meticulous research.Lively, offbeat, and filled with stunning revelations about our past, Dinner with King Tut sheds light on days long gone and the intrepid experts resurrecting them today, with startling, lifelike detail and more than a few laughs along the way.
★A USA TODAY bestseller!★In the magical city of Nevermoor, long-buried secrets are coming to light, and Morrigan Crow’s life is about to turn upside down. When Morrigan is invited into Nevermoor’s wealthy Silver District, she discovers a world of extravagance and a family mystery she’s eager to unravel. She could never imagine where it will lead: a white wedding, a golden dragon, and a red pool of blood. Embroiled in suspicion and danger, Morrigan leaps head first into a murder investigation, while also grappling with her ever-growing Wundersmith powers. And although her friends are there to help, she fears that could change if they learn she’s keeping a terrible secret of her own. As shadowy forces awaken in Nevermoor, can Morrigan find a killer and solve the mystery in her own past … before the clock strikes midnight? Jessica Townsend weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and mystery in this thrilling new installment of the Nevermoor series.
An updated edition of the groundbreaking book that changed how parents, educators, and professionals respond to problem behaviors in kids. In her pioneering, paradigm-shifting book Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist Dr. Mona Delahooke reshaped how we view and respond to children's challenging behaviors. In this second edition, she reminds us that problem behaviors are just the tip of the iceberg--signaling deeper, unmet needs that are best addressed in the context of relational safety. This updated edition features: Neuroscience-based strategies to address the root causes of behaviors Accessible worksheets, charts, and handouts to promote resilience and build satisfying, secure relationships A new chapter with answers to common questions from the Beyond Behaviors community Designed to support children diagnosed with: Conduct disorder Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) Sensory processing disorder (SPD) Anxiety and depression As well as: Autistic children and teens And those experiencing: Developmental or learning differences Aggressive, confusing, or unpredictable behaviors Tantrums and meltdowns Disconnection or shutdown Trauma, toxic stress, or adverse childhood experiences
It's the most wonderful time of the year in Wishing Wood, where the forest sparkles with fairy lights, the snow is falling, the fire is crackling and love is in the air. From the bestselling author of The Wisteria Tree Cottage comes the perfect romance to warm your heart this Christmas. Evergreen Winter lives an unconventional life. Her home is a ramshackle red caravan and her Clydesdale horse Thunder is her only companion. She's never anywhere long enough to put down roots, and that's just the way she likes it. Until she arrives at beautiful Wishing Wood eight days before Christmas... When Evergreen accepted the job to play the role of Mrs Christmas at the magical treehouse resort nestled within lush forest she never expected her Santa Claus to be the very gorgeous Heath Brookfield. From the moment they meet their connection is electric, and each day they play husband and wife Evergreen gets a glimpse of how incredible her life could be if she stayed in Wishing Wood for good. But the last time Evergreen opened her heart to love she lost everything and she swore she'd never rely on anyone ever again. Heath believes he's the one person who can change her mind. But with Evergreen set to leave on Christmas Eve, Heath doesn't have long. Can he convince her to stay or will she ride away forever in her little red caravan taking his heart with her? Perfect for fans of Jill Mansell, Trisha Ashley and Sarah Morgan, this unforgettable romance is guaranteed to make you smile and melt your heart. Like a creamy hot chocolate with marshmallows, you won't want to put this deliciously heartwarming novel down.
Cet atlas est une mise à jour enrichie avec de nouvelles cartes et infographies. - Il présente de façon claire et synthétique sous forme de cartes ou d’infographies une grande quantité de statistiques diverses et variées. -Depuis 2015, la France compte désormais 18 régions administratives, 13 en métropole et 5 en outre-mer. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / Bourgogne Franche Comté / Bretagne / Centre-Val-de-Loire / Corse / Grand Est / Hauts-de-France / Île-de-France / Normandie / Nouvelle-Aquitaine / Occitanie / Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur / Pays de la Loire / Guadeloupe / Guyane /Martinique / Mayotte /Réunion. -Un outil incontournable pour tous : curieux, institutions, entreprises, enseignants ou étudiants.
A New York Times bestseller!¿ "Rhodes deftly captures a unique aspect of this historical event, with a perspective that is often under-represented in historical fiction. A poignant and honest look at the trials of racism that defined the historic land rush; a must-buy." -School Library Journal, starred review It's 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land they don't get to own.So when Will and his father hear about an upcoming land rush, they set out on a journey from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others to the place where land is free-if they can get to it fast enough. But the journey isn't easy-the terrain is rough, the bandits are brutal, and every interaction carries a heavy undercurrent of danger.And then there's the stranger they encounter and befriend: a mysterious soldier named Caesar, whose Union emblem brings more attention-and more trouble-than any of them need.All three are propelled by the promise of something long denied to them: freedom, land ownership, and a place to call home-but is a strong will enough to get them there?
From the world’s great concert halls to Los Angeles’s Skid Row, violinist Vijay Gupta’s searing memoir of prodigy, ambition, collapse, and renewal reveals how music is not just performance but also survival, a lifeline of human connection when everything else falls away—for readers of Jeremy Denk's Every Good Boy Does Fine Hua Hsu's Stay True, and Patrick Bringley’s All the Beauty in the World. By twenty-five, Vijay Gupta had lived several lifetimes: he played Carnegie Hall at eight, studied at Juilliard and Yale before most had finished high school, joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at nineteen, gave a celebrated TED Talk seen by millions, and launched a nonprofit. But behind the accolades was estrangement, addiction, and a private unraveling.Restrung is Gupta’s unflinching memoir of breaking apart and remaking a self. It begins with a boy raised between the strict devotion of Bengali immigrant parents and the ruthless demands of the conservatory. It follows him through the shimmering world of elite orchestras, into the depths of burnout and family collapse, and ultimately toward an unexpected reawakening—where he discovered that the music he’d spent his life studying was seen not as a curio of high culture or mere entertainment, but a lifeline of connection—most vividly in Skid Row, where people living through addiction, homelessness, and incarceration heard it as survival itself. There, audiences spoke to how they saw their own lives reflected in the stories of composers too often frozen into marble busts: the rage of Beethoven, the fragility of Schumann’s mind, the alienation of Bartók, the plight of Handel—who wrote Messiah bankrupt, ill, and broken, yet transformed despair into an enduring Hallelujah. Pico Iyer, in his foreword, calls Restrung “a rich and astonishing feast of stories” told with “vivid precision, unflinching candor, and heart,” a book that unsettles assumptions about success while illuminating how art restores not just audiences, but artists themselves.
