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Swimming to the Top of the Tide

Four seasons of immersion in New England's Great Marsh "Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature's most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future." -Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A House Among the TreesThe Great Marsh is the largest continuous stretch of salt marsh in New England, extending from Cape Ann to New Hampshire. Patricia Hanlon and her husband built their home and raised their children alongside it. But it is not until the children are grown that they begin to

An Identification Guide to Birds of Britain and Northern Europe 2nd edition

An entry-level photographic introduction to birds and birdwatching, featuring 150 of the commoner bird species most likely to be seen in the fields and gardens of Britain and Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction covers geography, climate, taxonomy and nomenclature, habitats, bird identification, and the best places to watch birds. Common birds are then identified using six descriptive groups: seabirds, waders, birds of prey, game birds, woodpeckers and other exotic-looking birds and passerines

Of Bridges

Offers a philosophical history of bridges--both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts--and the acts of cultural connection they embody. "Always," wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live." Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity.A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant times and places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built and where they lead. He probes links forged by religion between life's transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties of music, illustrated by the case

Religious Affects

In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing on affect theory, evolutionary biology, and poststructuralist theory, Schaefer builds on the recent materialist shift in religious studies to relocate religious practices in the affective realm--an insight that helps us better understand how religion is lived in conjunction with systems of power. To demonstrate religion's animality and how it works affectively, Schaefer turns to a series of case studies, including the documentary Jesus Camp and contemporary American Islamophobia. Placing affect theory in conversation with post-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Schaefer explores the extent to which nonhuman animals have the capacity to practice religion, linking human forms of religion and

In the Darkness of the Night

\nNew into paperback! Emily Rand takes us on a gentle journey through the night, looking at all the sounds and activity that happen whilst you\'re tucked up warm in your bed!\n

Dear Spookysaur PB

It's time to have a SPOOKTASTIC Halloween with another picture book in the Dear Dinosaur series, written by Chae Strathie and illustrated by Nicky O'Byrne. Join the mighty T. Rex and Max as they exchange letters ahead of one of the most exciting times of the year: HALLOWEEN! It's time to get dressed, be spooky... and maybe a little

Scherenkenntnisse Kindergarten

Dieses Buch enth lt 20 vollfarbige Arbeitsbl tter f r die Scherenarbeit f r Vorschulkinder. Auf diese Weise kann Ihr Kind seine Feinmotorik, Grobmotorik, visuelle Wahrnehmungsf higkeit und Aufmerksamkeit auf Dauer entwickeln.Der Preis dieses Buches beinhaltet die Erlaubnis, 10 weitere B cher der Reihe im PDF-Format kostenlos herunterzuladen. Details zu a) wie PDFs heruntergeladen werden k nnen und b) wo das Passwort zu finden ist, finden Sie im Buch.Die folgenden herunterladbaren PDF-B cher helfen Ihrem Kind, einen ausgezeichneten Start in die Schule zu schaffen.PDF-DownloadsAusschneiden ynd Einfugen - Roboter von James ManningAusschneiden ynd Einfugen - Monsterfabrik von James ManningAusschneiden ynd Einfugen - Monsterfabrik Band 2 von James Manning

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Democracy and Constitutions

As things stand, a commitment to weak democracy and strong constitutionalism ensures that a range of elite groups, actors, and institutions - political, economic, intellectual, and legal - hold considerable sway over constitutional matters, leaving less room for the participation of ordinary people. With the continued primacy of liberal constitutionalism, constitutional law has come to represent and facilitate the centrality of judicial power and authority. In Democracy and Constitutions, Allan C. Hutchinson warns against this deference to a legal elite on questions of constitutional meaning. For Hutchinson, an over-reliance on constitutional law, and a lack of attention to democratic politics, keeps people from influencing the moral and political character of society; it saps civic energies and relegates ordinary people to the sidelines.Engaging and provocative,

Sorting Out the Mixed Economy

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In Colombia, Latin Americans and U.S. advisors ended up decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. By the 1960s, they had remade the country's housing projects, river valleys, and universities. They had also generated new lessons for the United States itself. When the Johnson administration

RSL 11+ Comprehension, Multiple Choice

Leeds United in the 21st Century

The story of Leeds United's roller coaster ride through the 21st century from Champions League semi-finals to financial mismanagement, boardroom wrangles and relegation - and hope of their eventual return to the top

A Question of Science: Why is ice slippery? And other questions about materials

\nA science series that answers the funny, sometimes icky questions that kids really ask!\n

Company Law

Company Law brings clarity and sophisticated analysis to the ever-changing landscape of company law. Brenda Hannigan captures the dynamism of the subject, places the material in context, highlights its relevance and topicality, and guides students through all the major areas studied at undergraduate level.The book is divided into five distinct sections covering corporate structure (including legal personality and constitutional issues), corporate governance (including directors' duties and liabilities), shareholders' rights and remedies (including powers of decision-making and shareholder engagement), corporate finance (including share and loan capital), and corporate rescue and restructuring (including liabilities arising on insolvency).The author's accessible writing style and comprehensive approach to the subject makes this an ideal textbook for students of company

The Sky Is Bluer

Kathy Barron is a nurse in the war-torn African country of Rhodesia. In 1974 while on honeymoon in South Africa, a stranger triggers her long-supressed memory. 'I know you'll think I'm crazy, Rick, but that's the man I saw kill my brother.'But the police consider Kathy an unreliable witness. 'You were six-years-old, the light was poor and you've only come forward fifteen years later...leave the detective work to the police and go back to Rhodesia, Mrs Barron.'Three years on, the Rhodesian Bush War has intensified. Kathy and her family leave the country they love and emigrate to South Africa. She revisits the scene of her brother's murder - then starts her own search for his

Augmented Exploitation

Artificial Intelligence is a seemingly neutral technology, but it is increasingly used to manage workforces and make decisions to hire and fire employees. Its proliferation in the workplace gives the impression of a fairer, more efficient system of management. A machine can't discriminate, after all. Augmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of AI on workers' lives. While the consensus is that AI is a completely new way of managing a workplace, the authors show that, on the contrary, AI is used as most technologies are used under capitalism: as a smokescreen that hides the deep exploitation of workers. Going beyond platform work and the gig economy, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilise innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers, as well as to keep wages and worker

A Wild Idea

The incredible true story of an entrepreneur turned conservationist--the founder of the iconic companies The North Face and Esprit who used his fortune to protect over 12-million acres of land from development and exploitation and battle to save the wild.In 1991, Doug Tompkins left his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south to a shack in Patagonia. Instead of the Golden Gate Bridge, Tompkins now stared out the window at Volcano Michinmahuida, blanketed in snow and prowled by mountain lions. All of his possessions fit into a single duffel bag. Shielded by perfect nature, Tompkins regretted the corporate capitalism he had profited from for years. As founder of Esprit and The North Face, he had "made things nobody needed." Now, he declared, it was time to reverse the damage to the planet, and maybe even himself.In A Wild

Colonel Blood

Colonel Blood - Soldier, Robber and Trickster has it all: royalty, love-affairs, lusty wenches, war and fighting. But above all, an incredible robbery. This is the life of self-styled 'Colonel' Thomas Blood, the 17th century dashing Anglo-Irish adventurer who achieved fame by (almost) succeeding in stealing the Crown Jewels in 1671.But Blood did much more. He changed sides from being a Royalist to a Roundhead during the Civil War and also became involved in several treasonous plots. He saved a friend from being hanged and twice attempted to kidnap his longtime enemy, the Duke of Osborne. But despite being caught after his failed jewel robbery, he was saved by King Charles II. Why was the king so magnanimous? What hold did Blood have over the 'Merry Monarch'?D. Lawrence-Young has written one crime and over twenty

Georgie Grows a Dragon

Each night before bed, Georgie thinks about what she'll grow the next day. One morning she finds she's grown a dragon! This dragon isn't like her other plants: it doesn't like the sun, the soil, being watered, and it's much much, more

Star Trek: Starfleet Is

What is Starfleet?It is the universe's most famous and inspirational coalitions of all time. It has boldly gone where no pop culture franchise has gone before. It is the foundation for a thriving community of passionate fans.Creator Gene Roddenberry said Star Trek "was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms . . . If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there."After more than 50 years, 11 television series, 13 movies, and countless fan conventions later, Star

Becoming the 0.1%

The first-ever book to include authentic diary accounts of a 20-year-old recruit's experience training as a Royal Marines Commando. Becoming the 0.1% explores the psychology behind what it takes to be in the 0.1%, and shares practical insight into how to build an elite

SIMPLE DISNEY SONGS

(Easy Piano Songbook). Play 50 favorite Disney songs in the easiest of arrangements! Enjoy these classic and contemporary selections presented simply, with lyrics. Songs include: Almost There * The Bare Necessities * I've Got a Dream * If I Didn't Have You * Just Around the Riverbend * Let's Go Fly a Kite * Love Is an Open Door * Once upon a Dream * Reflection * Seize the Day * Under the Sea * When You Wish upon a Star * and

Cognitive Architecture

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment. Discussing key biometric tools to help designers 'see' subliminal human behaviors and suggesting new ways to analyze designs before they are built, this new edition brings readers up-to-date on scientific tools relevant for assessing architecture and the human experience of the built environment. 　The new edition includes: 　　 　Over 100 full color photographs and drawings to illustrate key concepts.A new chapter on using biometrics to understand the human experience of place.A conclusion

The Precariat

This book presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly...these are The Precariat.Guy Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists. The rise of zero hours contracts, encouraged by fat cat corporations as risk-free employment, and by silicon valley as a way of outsourcing costs and responsibility, has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. At the same time, in its experience of lockdown, the western world is realizing the true value of these nurses, carers and key workers.The answer?

The Art of Shantae

Shantae She's the half-genie, belly-dancing, hair-whipping hero of her very own platforming video game franchise from WayForward TechnologiesThe Art of Shantae collects the fantastic artwork behind all five games in the Shantae series. Included are key artwork, rough concepts, style explorations, creature and environment designs, and much more Follow the creative development of Risky Boots, Rottytops, Sky, Bolo, and the titular heroine herself, in this fantastic hardcover celebration of Shantae

Confess

Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'Rob Halford has written one of the most candid and surprising memoirs of the year.. . Confess is a riproaring tale, a funny, often shocking and genuinely emotional story' The Telegraph'The Metal God shares stories from a life like no other, spending over 50 years in the heavy metal bubble, facing adversity head-on but always with a wry smile and horns held firmly aloft' Kerrang'Raw and searingly moving, Confess will delight metal heads and music fans alike' GQ'A unique and deeply revealing insight into the extraordinary life he has led' Metal TalkRob Halford, front man of global iconic metal band Judas Priest, is a true 'Metal God'.Raised in Britain's hard-working heavy industrial heartland he and his music were forged in the Black Country. CONFESS, his full autobiography, is an unforgettable rock 'n' roll story - a journey from a Walsall council estate to musical fame via alcoholism, addiction, police cells, ill-starred sexual trysts and bleak personal tragedy, through to rehab, coming out, redemption... and finding love.Now, he is telling his gospel truth. Told with Halford's trademark self-deprecating, deadpan Black Country humour, CONFESS is the story of an extraordinary five decades in the music industry. It is also the tale of unlikely encounters with everybody from Superman to Andy Warhol, Madonna, Jack Nicholson and the Queen.More than anything else, it's a celebration of the fire and power of heavy metal. Rob Halford has decided to Confess. Because it's good for the soul.

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Great Lives in Graphics: Jane Austen

Great Lives in Graphics: Jane Austen is a graphic retelling of Jane's story which gives children a colorful snapshot of her life and the world she grew up in, while educating them on everything from Regency culture to the wonders of storytelling.You may already know that Jane Austen was a writer, but did you know she was one of eight children? Or that she brewed her own?Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is

Becoming Leidah

An utterly gripping love story set in nineteenth-century Norway, about a woman rescued from the sea, the fisherman who marries her, their tiny and unusually gifted daughter, and the shapeshifter who follows their every move, perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey, Alice Hoffman, and Neil Gaiman.In the hinterlands of old Norway, Leidah Aldesteadt is born blue-skinned, with webbed hands and feet. Upon every turn of season, her mother, Maeva, worries as her daughter's peculiarities blossom--inside the root of the tiny child, a strange power is taking hold.Maeva tries to hide the girl from the suspicious townsfolk of the austere village of rken, just as she conceals her own magical ancestry from her daughter. And Maeva's adoring husband, Pieter, wants nothing more than for his new family to be accepted by all. But unlike Pieter, who is blinded by love, Maeva is aware that the

Gray's Anatomy for Students - Elsevier Science

Easy to read, superbly illustrated, and clinically relevant, Gray's Anatomy for Students, 4th Edition, is medical students' go-to text for essential information in human anatomy. This fully revised volume focuses on the core information students need to know, in an easy-access format and with additional multimedia tools that facilitate effective study and mastery of the material. A team of expert authors and global advisors share their extensive teaching and clinical experience, highlighted by more than 1,000 innovative, original illustrations throughout the text. - Helps students understand the practical applications of anatomical concepts through unique coverage of surface anatomy, correlative diagnostic images, and clinical case studies. Presents anatomy logically by body region, and now offers bonus eBook chapters for each major body