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* From the award-winning author of The Seafarers and Wintering comes a fascinating exploration of the most miraculous substance on Earth: water. It falls in a moment. When the heaviest droplets of ice can no longer be held, the first raindrop slips from the sky and plunges, down through the damp, cold air, thawing as it plummets. Splashing into the sodden hillside, rainfall merging with river source, it flows for the first time. The Waterlands is a new story of water, revealing its natural rhythms and miraculous power. Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources in the upland moors; saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries; serene and spectacular lochs; crystal-clear chalk streams; blanket bogs that are both land and liquid, a thin skin of peat over millennia-old water. On this epic journey, award-winning writer Stephen Rutt visits these places where life flourishes, revealing how water shapes the land, shapes our lives and how we shape it in return. Beautifully blending geography, ecology, climate writing and social history, The Waterlands is a captivating retelling of the water cycle, and an urgent call to protect our most essential resource. Youll never see a raindrop the same way again. Praise for The Seafarers and Wintering: A beautifully illuminating portrait of lives lived largely on the wing and at sea. Julian Hoffman, author of Lifelines A poignant testament to how we can find peace in the rhythms of the natural world. The Times, Nature Books of the Year 2019 Rutt's dreamy prose is as cool and elegant as the season he charts. Jon Dunn, BBC Wildlife Autorid: Stephen Rutt

The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest's North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain's finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain's nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory's generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis's rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

This book has incredible strategies and techniques which are broken down into easy-to-follow steps to help you toilet-train your child/adult with autism and other disabilities. This method is based on 'behavioural training' that can be used at any age, & ability and can also be used for some neurotypical children who struggle to grasp the concept of toilet training. This book aims to empower parents, carers, and professionals by giving them the tools and techniques to implement a well-organised toilet training program and get their child to use the toilet independently. By the end of this book, you will feel fully prepared to embark on this journey.

A Kitsune dreaming of a wider world. A prince seeking purpose. A love that defies the odds. Trapped in a dull and unfilling role as palace maid, Rin dreams of rising higher in the immortal court. Determined to change her lot in life, she plans to use her illusion power to spy on her ruler's rival and prove her worth. But when her mission fails, she's turned human as punishment. Now she has until the next full moon to seduce a human prince, break his engagement, and upend his treaty with a rival kingdom without her Kitsune magic or voice, otherwise she'll become a common fox. Hikaru is the dutiful oldest son and heir. Whatever he's asked, he does without complaint. Outwardly, at least. Inwardly, he pines to be a poet, scholar, or anything but a prince. Then he finds a mysterious woman wandering alone beside spirit invested woods, and while he knows he shouldn't, he brings her home. She cannot speak, but there's something bewitching about her, drawing him in becoming a dangerous temptation he cannot afford, because peace depends on his marriage to another... Rin thought it would be simple. Kitsune are experts at deceiving mortals, after all. But the foreign human heart beating in chest threatens to betray her. To save her life, she has to destroy his, and the more time they spend together, the harder it is to deny her growing feelings. Now Rin is caught between two impossible choices: either let fate tear them apart or risk her magic and life for love.

The Idiot is one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's greatest and most haunting novels. Returning to St. Petersburg after years of illness, Prince Lev Myshkin enters society with openness, compassion and honesty that others mistake for weakness. As he becomes entangled in love, jealousy, pride and corruption, Dostoevsky explores innocence, cruelty, faith and the fragile possibility of goodness in a broken world. Deeply psychological and unforgettable, this masterpiece remains one of the defining works of world literature. Autorid: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michelle Datin, Copyright