![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Running Press Kids, 19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-76 In this magnetic, informative. Illustrator’s agent: Emily Van Beek, Folio Literary Management. A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems About Sleeping Animals Kate Hosford, illus. She struggles with the sheer enormity of the idea: “Actually, my head was starting to hurt from all these thoughts.” It’s not until Uma’s grandmother notices her shoes that Uma can make infinity her own: “y love for her was as big as infinity.” Hosford’s (Big Bouffant) story is as much a look into the interior life of a sensitive girl as it is a meditation on a mathematical concept-a task for which Swiatkowska’s (This Baby) idiosyncratic portraits are perfectly suited. “How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity.” Friends, teachers, and family give Uma new ways to think about infinity-as an endless succession of ancestors, or as a noodle cut in half and in half again (Swiatkowska draws Uma cutting a python-sized noodle with a knife, demonstrating that things can become infinitely small, too). (Mathematicians and philosophers, too.) It opens with a little girl, too excited. How many stars were in the sky A million A billion Maybe the number was as big as. Dark-haired Uma sits wide-eyed in her backyard under a black, star-studded sky, torn between the charm of her new red shoes and the overwhelming size of the universe. Infinity and Me, by Kate Hosford, illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska, is also aimed at the very youngest scientists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It examines the importance of reading in the novel, its preoccupation with gender, and complex relationship with feminism. New introduction emphasizes Eliot's significance as a writer of fiction, and the literary qualities that have sometimes been overshadowed by her interest in philosophical ideas.A compelling story of a young girl's growth to adulthood, and the conflicts that arise from her growing independence. ![]() A new edition of one of Eliot's best-loved novels whose central figure, Maggie Tulliver, is one of English literature's great female characters.Haight and Juliette Atkinson Oxford World's Classics Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From their personal stories, both uplifting and heartbreaking, Philippa draws great strength in the weeks, months, and years that follow, as the confidence, conflicts, and poignant humanity of her fellow sisters serve to validate her love and sacred purpose.īut a time of great upheaval in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church approaches as the winds of change blow at gale force. ![]() Taking her place among a diverse group of extraordinary women, young and old, she is welcomed into the surprisingly rich and complex world of the devout, whom faith, fate, and circumstance have led there. In Sussex in the south of England, Philippa begins her new life inside Brede Abbey, a venerable, 130-year-old Benedictine monastery. Now in her forties, the World War II–widow has made a startling decision: She’s giving up her civil service career and elite social standing to join a convent as a postulant Roman Catholic nun. Following World War II, a British widow joins a Benedictine monastery in this poignant New York Times bestseller from the author of Black Narcissus.įor most of her adult life, Philippa Talbot has been a successful British professional. ![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, Susan Holloway Scott’s I, Eliza Hamilton was one of my most anticipated releases of 2017. ![]() I’ve been one of the lucky few in the scheme of things (more like in the scheme of the impossibility of getting Hamilton tickets) to see the show on Broadway, and last year, Ron Chernow came to my school and talked about Alexander Hamilton and his role in the musical. If you’re new to Fangirl Fury, this fangirl has been obsessed with Hamilton: An American Musical since her senior year of high school. I was home that weekend and thankfully didn’t have too much schoolwork so I dived right into reading. ![]() I started reading I, Eliza Hamilton the second weekend in September. Told from Eliza’s point-of-view, I, Eliza Hamilton explores Eliza’s life as she helps her husband shape the nation. ![]() But no one’s captured her attention as strongly as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s most prized aide. As the daughter of a respected general, Eliza is used to meeting the soldiers and dignitaries coming in and out of the Schuyler household. However, little has been said about his wife, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, who some argue is the true hero of Hamilton’s story. Summary: A Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton is one of the most important figures in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The purpose of the research is to reflect upon how gamification works and whether Playing Lean meets the purpose of making people understand the method. ![]() The object of study will be Lean Friends AS's application of the board game Playing Lean as educational learning tool for understanding the Lean Startup Methodology, facilitated in workshops with introduction and debrief. There are several studies on learning effects from gamification and on game-based learning, but there are few studies on entrepreneurship and innovation games, and no known studies on games with an emphasis of conveying the Lean Startup Methodology. ![]() The topic of this thesis is gamification as a tool to learn entrepreneurship and innovation methodology, represented by Playing Lean, a board game innovation developed for learning the Lean Startup Methodology (LSM). Gamification as a concept has recently emerged and entered the field of learning in a range of areas, from business to education. ![]() The philosophy and method of Lean Startup has received increased attention in entrepreneurship and business practices. Gamification and the Lean Startup methodology have become buzzwords in academic literature and form the basis for this thesis. ![]() ![]() On Florida's Captiva Island, Anne Lindbergh enjoyed a brief respite from the obligations of family and career. As the full import of Hitler's designs became clear, critics decried Lindbergh as a Nazi apologist. Newspapers covered the case as "the crime of the century" and were equally omnipresent at the 1935 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was executed for the murder in 1936.Īs World War II approached, coverage of the Lindberghs took another turn, as Charles Lindbergh offered generally admiring reports on Nazi Germany's development of the airplane. The infant was missing for more than two months, amid a hail of ransom notes, before his body was discovered near the couple's New Jersey home. The spotlight made Anne Lindbergh uneasy even before the 1932 kidnapping and murder of her first-born son. ![]() ![]() Yet marriage to a vivid figure was not easy. Putting her literary talents on display before an adoring public, Anne Lindbergh also produced a list of best-selling books. The couple's travels in the early days of globe-trotting aviation drew breathless and often relentless attention from the media. diplomat, was vaulted into celebrity by her marriage to aviator Charles Lindbergh. Writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the daughter of a respected U.S. Leonard McCombe/Time-Life Pictures/Getty Images ![]() Anne Morrow Lindbergh photographed at home in Darien, Conn., in 1956. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for The Girl Before "Gripping.A powerful, moving debut by therapist Olsen in which cruelty is counterbalanced by compassion and love."- Booklist (starred review) "Easily the most disturbing and unsettling book I have read this year. As recollections of her past collide with new revelations, Clara must question everything she thought she knew, to come to terms with the truth of her history and to summon the strength to navigate her future. ![]() We see her now, sequestered in an institution, questioned by men and women who call her a different name-Diana-and who accuse her husband of unspeakable crimes. We see her growing up, raised with her sisters by the stern Mama and Papa G, becoming a poised and educated young woman, falling desperately in love with the forbidden son of her adoptive parents. In chapters that alternate between past and present, the novel slowly unpeels the layers of Clara's fractured life. The last thing her husband yells to her is to say nothing. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman's life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true.wasn't? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through captivating readings, wonderful natural recordings and more, the audio edition of The Lost Words is a stunning celebration of the nature and the power of language. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book evokes the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages.Īcross a rich and vivid natural soundscape, Edith Bowman, Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews and Benjamin Zephaniah, iconic voices of modern Britain, bring the magic of nature and language to listeners. It is a joyful celebration - in art and word - of nearby nature and its wonders. ![]() The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. A wild landscape of imagination and play is rapidly fading from our children's minds. These are the words of the natural world Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The book that has taken root in schools across Britain, inspired creative thinkers, young and old, and restored the vanishing poetry of nature.Īll over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. ![]() Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, read by Edith Bowman, Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews and Benjamin Zephaniah.īRITISH BOOK AWARDS CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ![]() ![]() Tactics evolved dramatically, helped by an increased foreign influence. Suddenly defenders had no-get-out-of-jail-free card, goalkeepers had to be able to field and play the ball and the pace of the game quickened immeasurably. The creation of the Premier League coincided with one of the most seismic rule changes in football the abolition of the back-pass. ![]() And then, almost overnight, it all changed. It was the era of the midfield general, reducers, big men up front and getting it in the mixer 4-4-2 was the order of the day. The game was physical, bruising and attritional, based on strength over speed, aggression over finesse. Back in 1992, English football was stuck in the dark ages, emerging from a five-year ban from European competition. ![]() An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League tactics, published to coincide with 25 years of the competition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The various facets of Latin American history organised according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. ![]() All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably. ![]() An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Thus, he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organised the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. ![]() |