This is a story about growing up in the English Lake District. Through the eyes of Hannah Ryan we get a glimpse at her world and what matters to her. What child hasn't wanted a pet? But what happens when that pet arrives? What child doesn't have dreams, fears and frustrations? Who hasn't made mistakes? "'Many a mickle..." is the start of a Scottish saying that has passed from one generation to the next. Now it is Hannah's turn. Through learning what the little things are, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery--the final destination unknown.
This is a story about growing up in the English Lake District. Through the eyes of Hannah Ryan we get a glimpse at her world and what matters to her. What child hasn't wanted a pet? But what happens when that pet arrives? What child doesn't have dreams, fears and frustrations? Who hasn't made mistakes? "'Many a mickle..." is the start of a Scottish saying that has passed from one generation to the next. Now it is Hannah's turn. Through learning what the little things are, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery--the final destination unknown.
Here is French as it's really spoken-in conversations and jokes that are full of everyday slang and colloquialisms. Students learn through lively, natural dialogues that show the language in use; practice exercises and review chapters that test comprehension; jokes that reinforce vocabulary; notes that indicate appropriate usage; and fascinating features that explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions.
The Recognition of the Lord (Isvarapratyabhijña) by the Kashmirian Utpaladeva (c. 925–975) is a landmark in the history of nondual Saivism, and one of the masterpieces of Indian philosophy. The detailed commentary (Viv?ti) on it by the author himself was so far considered almost entirely lost, but three chapters of this major work were recently recovered from marginal annotations in manuscripts of other commentaries on Utpaladeva’s treatise. The book provides the first critical edition, annotated translation and study of one of these chapters, which endeavours to justify a fundamental paradox of the system—namely, the idea that Siva (understood as an infinite, omniscient, and omnipotent consciousness) has a dynamic essence since the core of consciousness is a subtle form of action, and yet is by no means limited by the temporal and spatial sequence that affects all ordinary acts and agents.
Alfred North Whitehead has never gone out of print, but for a time he was decidedly out of fashion in the English-speaking world. In a splendid work that serves as both introduction and erudite commentary, Isabelle Stengers—one of today’s leading philosophers of science—goes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead’s thought. The product of thirty years’ engagement with the mathematician-philosopher’s entire canon, this volume establishes Whitehead as a daring thinker on par with Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault.Reading the texts in broadly chronological order while highlighting major works, Stengers deftly unpacks Whitehead’s often complicated language, explaining the seismic shifts in his thinking and showing how he called into question all that philosophers had considered settled after Descartes and Kant. She demonstrates that the implications of Whitehead’s philosophical theories and specialized knowledge of the various sciences come yoked with his innovative, revisionist take on God. Whitehead’s God exists within a specific epistemological realm created by a radically complex and often highly mathematical language.“To think with Whitehead today,” Stengers writes, “means to sign on in advance to an adventure that will leave none of the terms we normally use as they were.”
The only handbook of idiomatic usage for learners who are tired of looking up individual words of a Haitian Creole idioms only to have the whole phrase adding up to nonsense.
From the winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's book, comes a beautiful meditation on what makes a home. Each creature featured in this beautiful collection shows a unique way that they build their home, and poetic text accompanies each, making this both a narrative, non-fiction treasury and a poetic reflection on what nature can teach us. Discover how a beaver builds a safe dam for it's family and how a tailor bird forages for grasses and animal hairs to use as threads, to sew a truly tailor-made nest. In this book, children and parents alike will discover in vivid colour and poetry, all the wild ways there are to build a home.
Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by states for political interests with mainly conventional military means, as originally suggested by Carl von Clausewitz in the 19th century. This study shows how alternative social organizations to the state can be viewed as political actors using war as a political instrument.
