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La Solitudine Dello Stupore: L'Opera Tragica E Meravigliosa Di Federico Di Svevia Imperatore
Alastair Fontana
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Aveva otto anni appena Federico, ma quella mattina di primavera avrebbe dovuto guardare la morte dritto negli occhi. Era un bimbo minuto, con la chioma rossa e gli occhi glauchi, e mai ci si sarebbe aspettato che sarebbe diventato re a quattordici anni e imperatore a diciassette. Che avrebbe fatto rinascere l'impero di Cesare ed Adriano. Che avrebbe spazzato via i secoli bui con la sua corte di letterati e matematici di ogni cultura e religione. O che avrebbe parlato sette lingue, scritto poesie d'amore in italiano, e vinto innumerevoli battaglie e guerre senza usare la spada. Mai, in quella mattina tiepida di marzo, si sarebbe potuto immaginare lo stupore profondo che la sua avventura avrebbe destato nei secoli a venire. Ma in questa sua avventura meravigliosa, compagna fedele sarebbe stata la morte pi che l'amore che pur gli riempiva il cuore. La morte che aveva guardato negli occhi quel giorno di primavera, lo avrebbe seguito come un cane fedele, come un'ombra al tramonto. Lo avrebbe tenuto sveglio nel cuore della notte, grondante di sudore, trasformando amici in nemici, carezze in pugnali, fino a diventare un'ossessione dell'anima. Questa la storia della vita incredibile di Federico e di come venne tradito.Questa una storia sulla grandezza e sulla vilt dell'animo umano. Una storia sulla tristezza infinita dell'amore tradito e sull'entusiasmo che trasforma l'universo. Ma soprattutto, questa una storia sulla solitudine che ci portiamo tutti dentro. Sempre troppo occupati per poterla notare, sino al giorno in cui distogliere lo sguardo dall'abisso non sar pi possibile. PREMIO ITALO CALVINO - XXXIII EDIZIONE "L'opera ha una struttura narrativa salda, dinamica e articolata. L'intreccio avvincente e non appiattito in maniera diacronica dalla trama, ma segue un procedimento narrativo fondato su salti temporali e analessi e su un montaggio alternato di tempi narrativi e punti di vista e focalizzazioni che rendono ricco e vivace tutto il racconto attraverso i due narratori." (Il Comitato di Lettura)
Racism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. Multiracism broadens the horizon on this global challenge, showing that racism has a diverse history with multiple roots and routes. Drawing on examples of racism from across the globe, with particular focus on cases from Asia and Africa, Alastair Bonnett rethinks the origins of racism and the connections between racism and modernity. Arguing that plural modernities are interwoven with plural racisms, he explores the relationship of racism to history, religion, politics, and nationalism, as well as to anti-Black prejudice and discourses of whiteness. Empirically rich, with numerous in-depth case studies, Multiracism equips readers to understand racism in a multipolar world where power is no longer the sole possession of the West. It provides and provokes a new, international, and post-Western vision of racism for the twenty-first century.
Racism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. Multiracism broadens the horizon on this global challenge, showing that racism has a diverse history with multiple roots and routes. Drawing on examples of racism from across the globe, with particular focus on cases from Asia and Africa, Alastair Bonnett rethinks the origins of racism and the connections between racism and modernity. Arguing that plural modernities are interwoven with plural racisms, he explores the relationship of racism to history, religion, politics, and nationalism, as well as to anti-Black prejudice and discourses of whiteness. Empirically rich, with numerous in-depth case studies, Multiracism equips readers to understand racism in a multipolar world where power is no longer the sole possession of the West. It provides and provokes a new, international, and post-Western vision of racism for the twenty-first century.
Gardening for Beginners Book is a fabulous gift for friends, family and loved ones of any age seeking to take up the free and healthy past-time of Horticulture. As we become more aware of our environment and wild life, with this book you can take the plunge of creating a mini eco system around your home for a healthier lifestyle and creating a blaze of colour. The book comes with many great gardening ideas including the growing of your own organic vegetables for healthier eating and giving new life to items around your home that can be recycled and given a new lease of life as part of the garden landscape. Gardening for Beginners has been 2 years in the making by Alastair R Agutter Best Selling author of specialist books and found within this publication only encouragement with step by step guides and many great ideas for making your home into a little piece of Eden. Full Colour and Large American A4 Format. INSIDE THIS BOOK: Introduction A Big Welcome to Gardening for Beginners Chapter One - Garden Tools Chapter Two - Garden Equipment Chapter Three - Garden Soils Chapter Four - Garden Soil Preparation Chapter Five - Container Recycling Chapter Six - Hanging Baskets Chapter Seven - Garden Pots and Tubs Chapter Eight - Plant Conditions Chapter Nine - Growing Strawberries Chapter Ten - Healthy Roses Chapter Eleven - Growing Organic Vegetables Chapter Twelve - Garden Plants in Sunny Areas Chapter Thirteen - Garden Plants in Shaded Areas Chapter Fourteen - Propagating Plant Cuttings Chapter Fifteen - Growing and Pruning Fruit Trees Chapter Sixteen - Gardening Good Life and Ideas Reference
Creating The New Internet Super Highway
Alastair R Agutter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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FULL DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: This book covers my notes and work when I had a eureka moment in early 2013 and realized it was possible to create a new 'Internet Super Highway' and one that could be a free collaboration program.The creating of a new higher level of the World Wide Web is a major breakthrough as demand becomes forever greater surrounding more users and packet data.Every web site owner can embrace and adopt this new virtual world of development for a faster and more enjoyable connectivity experience from compression for their users and new customers.From careful research I was able to establish the average bounce rate of a business web site was over 40% and over 94% of all web sites are not optimized for their users or browser rendering engine technology software.So I decided to start flat packing things as folk would say, and by running optimization tools and tests, I found I could change the speed of any average web site, where it would perform at least 3 to 4 times faster by my methods, that I regard today in comparison to any other web sites being downloaded as super fast speed by stealth BOOK BACK COVER DETAILS: The Internet and World Wide Web was created and invented from a physical world of computing.Today society operates in a Virtual World of Technology and born from that Creating The New Internet Super Highway.The arrival of a new era for greater advancement and beyond one dimensional thinking.Today there are over 94 million web sites and counting. It was only a matter of time by understanding the realms of Natural Law could be found even within a Virtual World Quantum Mechanics and Natural Branching busy at work reaching beyond convention for a faster method of packet data delivery by flat packing the World Wide Web by stealth.Quotation: "Even a virtual world created by technology, continues to be re-shaped by the power of Natural Law in the form of Quantum Mechanics and Natural Branching." Alastair R Agutter.This book is particularly relevant today for Web5G designers, programmers and developers for an insight to how packet data and photons travel with your information and the various speeds as we now start to embrace the new Web5G era
Why does the prison system, with its stated objectives of reform and rehabilitation, turns three out of four first-offenders into recidivists to harass the community again and again? Alastair W. MacLeod, drawing on relevant psychiatric literature to interpret the findings of a small-scale study of criminality made with the cooperation of inmates in a Canadian penitentiary, advances the hypothesis that damaging degrees of deprivation brought about by various kinds of social isolation during critical life periods can seriously handicap the individual in learning and using the social skills essential to living a noncriminal life. Jurists, penologists, theologians, savants, and journalists have authored an impressive library of books and articles on crime, punishment, and correction. Only more recently have psychiatrists begun to add their observations, speculative thought, and recommendations to the literature. This study has been written in a spirit of confidence shared by many psychiatrists that the complex causes of criminality can be better understood than they are now, and that this understanding can be used both to lessen the incidence of crime and to increase the effectiveness of rehabilitation practices. Recidivism: A Deficiency Disease is derived from a series of lectures given by MacLeod in 1958 under the terms of the Isaac Ray Lectureship Award. These lectures were based on observations made during a study conducted in a Canadian Federal penitentiary early in 1955 under official auspices of the McGill University Department of Psychiatry and the Montreal Mental Hygiene Institute, and with the collaboration and support of the John Howard Society of Quebec.
Can we still have joy in a world of pain and anxiety?The troubles around us and in our lives lead many of us into a joyless experience where despair and hopelessness are the norm. Yet something within us still longs for a joy that transcends our challenges and gives us meaning and satisfaction.Alastair Sterne says that our inner longings for joy actually point us to a God of joy who gives us both the capacity for joy and the realities of joyful experience. Sterne explores pathways to joy and why we often experience the absence of joy. He then offers theologically grounded and research-based practices for becoming people of joyful presence. Even if we are not temperamentally happy enthusiasts, we can gradually cultivate the deep abiding joy that we were created for and that enriches the world around us.
The Reality of Climate Change
Alastair R Agutter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Climate Change and Conservation for me started over 50 years ago. In fact, in the introduction of my first published book in 1989, I warned of Climate Change and Deforestation. So as a Marine Biologist and Ichthyologist, starting my apprenticeship at the waters edge at just 7 years of age, this book has something to say.I hope you grab a copy of the book to gauge what is really going on, and how our lives are being affected now. Many of the views and reports today being aired surrounding climate change by the United Nations, Governments, and Institutions, can very often seem distant issues and have no bearing, or relevance, to folks real lives.To most folk 40 to 50 years ago "climate change" was probably not on anyone's radar. However, even back in the 1960's and 1970's there did exist signs of change then, and not for the better. Please read on.....As each year has past on, even as a small boy to a young man, you would notice change and decline to our environment, less fish, less worms and an ever increasing film of dead algae and oil spillage caught in the saltwater pools and also covering silt banks and sand bars with a distinct smell. The warning and pre-cursor to our impact on Earth and especially surrounding fossil fuels, came with the sinking of SS Torrey Canyon off the Cornish Coast in 1967, spilling over 120,000 tons of crude oil that even reached the Thames Estuary, leaving massive devastation to the environment around Britain.So my book here "The Reality of Climate Change" provides an accurate account of how everyday Folks lives are now being affected, at the coal face as they say In the book, I wrote and warned of serious neurological diseases from air pollution including Alzheimer's that I was convinced like other degenerative diseases of cell damage has been caused from air pollution toxins, preventing the renewal of brain cell tissues and other critical nerve system cell structures.I felt compelled to write this book, as I really care about our home (Mother Earth) and all the world's majestic life creatures we share it with. No longer can the few of us do all the heavy lifting, we need your help to challenge our negligent politicians and Corporate Empires.Now since writing the book, I am pleased to see more folk in the media are now starting to feature "Climate Change" and especially welcome Sky Broadcasting launching "Ocean Sea Rescue" exposing the plight to our dying Seas, Rivers and Oceans."On the 12th of October 2015 BBC's Newsnight Team Broadcast a News Feature on Air Pollution which confirms my findings in this 'NEW' Book on Climate Change regarding serious Health issues including Respiratory Disorders, Dementia, Alzheimer's etc.""On Monday the 22nd of November 2015 there was a Special Sky News Report, where HRH Prince Charles accurately stated the planet faces catastrophe and needs to be put on life support now to prevent ever increasing disasters as a result of Climate Change."At the time of writing this book, there are two specific numbers you need to remember and these are 275 and 400 What relevance are the above numbers you may rightly ask?FACT: 275 Is the parts per million number of Carbon Dioxide for starting all of life on Earth and in layman terms, many millions of years ago.FACT: 400 Is the parts per million number of Carbon Dioxide today in the Earth's atmosphere and these factual measurements are courtesy of friends and colleagues at NASA (nasa.gov).Ever wondered why there is a rise in Respiratory Disorders, Alzheimer's, Dementia the list goes on....over 50,000 folk in Britain will die this year and rising from air pollution. Governments target the smokers as a diversionary tactic, yet diesel vehicles, including public transport is just, if not more lethal to your health Enjoy the book, for I know you will find it to be an eye opener
Social Media the Sum of Everything Equals Zero
Alastair R Agutter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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"I Never Write Books for the Good of My Health, but to Contribute and Help I became very concerned in 2015, hence writing the book, regarding Personal users and Folk in Business (Brand, Image, Reputation) using Social Media and Social Networks. For I feared many Citizens and Businesses did not fully understand the Environment. I in fact wrote in the book sighting Facebook of Events to come, now that Day has arrived, as Governments Sharpen their Knives." Having been involved with the World Wide Web since it's commercial beginning, back in the mid 1990's as a Computer Scientist and Developer. I like to think I can offer some clear water, regarding such a phenomena we know as Social Media, and where even in a Virtual World, the real physical presence of Sir Isaac Newton's Natural Law is evident, and using both Quantum Mechanics and Natural Branching, even in an Artificial Intelligence environment, as written about in my book titled Creating the New Internet Super Highway. So this new realm is not for the complacent. As further evidence of this power today has been with the Weaponization of Social Media. SOME OF THE AUTHOR'S PROFESSIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Acknowledged in 1999 by the Hudson Institute for Contributingand Advancing the Computer Sciences Internationally for Humanity. Acknowledged in 2008 by the American Autobiographical Society, for the advancement of Computer Sciences for Humanity. Noted in Phillips Who's Who Directory 2001. CONTENTS INSIDE THIS BOOK: Introduction Social Media Roots The Phenomena, Branding and ImageMarketing Making Money Legal Aspects Human Health Cyber Bullying Twitter Facebook Google Plus YouTube Linked-in Weaponization of Social Media The others Conclusions Useful Links
Mopsworth Custard Mission to Mars
Alastair MacDonald
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2020
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NASA is preparing for its first manned mission to Mars. Benjy, Elicia, Rio, Murray the Martian and Sir Ralph are in charge of producing the astronauts food for the journey. Mopsworth Custard is on every menu, in fact Mopsworth Custard is critical to NASA'a whole trip to Mars. All is going well until an accident with a cowpat sees Benjy, Elicia, Rio, Murray and Sir Ralph fly off to Mars. How will they get back to Earth? But the most important question...what will Benjy, Elicia, Rio and Sir Ralph find on Mars? The journey to Mars is full of fun for the young astronauts. But not for the people back at NASA. They are pulling their hair out. On Mars, is when the fun really begins. If the young astronauts are to return to Earth, Benjy must learn to ride a camel. Elicia must to learn how throw a javelin. Rio must to learn how use rocket boots. And Sir Ralph, the Queen of England's corgi must learn how to become a TV cameraman. If not they will never get back to Earth.
Discovering Flying Trapeze
Alastair Pilgrim
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Flying Trapeze has exploded in popularity as a recreational activity in recent years with over 200 schools, clubs and resorts now open on six continents. Whether you are a complete beginner or a regular flyer, this book will accompany you from your very first swing, through a series of skill progressions (including over 50 different tricks and catches), right up to advanced somersaulting tricks and flying out-of-lines. The book is illustrated with hundreds of clear and simple step-by-step diagrams explaining basic concepts, fundamental techniques, useful training tips and common problems. You'll learn everything you need to know as you arrive for your class, right from learning your trick on the practice bar, to climbing the ladder, leaving the board and making a catch. You'll also discover the roles of the instructors you will meet and learn how to use the safety equipment such as the safety net and the safety lines. The book also covers a variety of topics that will become relevant as you start to practice more regularly and at a more advanced level, such as helping out on the platform, performing in Flying Trapeze shows, using hand grips and understanding catch timings. Written by Alastair Pilgrim, the founder of flying-trapeze.com, and including contributions fromTim Cayrol, an experienced performing-arts physiotherapist, this book is an invaluable tool for the recreational trapeze artist. This book is most suitable for beginner and intermediate level flying trapeze enthusiasts. For a more advanced book, check out 'The Fundamentals of Flying Trapeze'.
'Robert Burns - Women' features 12 works written by Robert Burns which were inspired by women in his life. These women include his wife, Jean Armour, Nancy Mc'Lehose and Anna Park. This book shows Robert's love of women, from his youth, till his death. It shows the different types of relationships he had with the 12 different women and the outcome of those relationships, whether good or bad...A modern translation is provided for each poem followed by facts about when, where, and possibly, why they were written. This gives you quick, easy to understand information about Burns, and 12 of the women in his life. One of the obstacles to understanding Burns' poetry is the language he used, specifically the Scots words and dialects - which can be difficult to understand. This is why there is a full modern English translation of each poem included directly after the original. There is also an extensive glossary of Scots words and their modern English equivalent included.This is the first book in the 'Enjoying Robert Burns'series.
This book looks at 12 works written by Robert Burns which were inspired by Nature. A number of these works were written in 1787 during Robert's 'Grand Tour' of the highlands, others were written a little closer to home...We look at the works themselves, give a modern translation of each one and look at when, where and possibly, why they were written. This gives you quick, easy to understand information about Burns poetry and also about the man himself.One of the biggest problems with reading Burns poetry is the language he used, specifically the scots words and dialects, which can be difficult to understand. To help with this there is a full modern English translation of each poem directly after the original poem. There is also an extensive glossary of scots words and their modern English equivalent included. This is the second book in the "Enjoying Robert Burns" series.
Robert Burns loved a good night out This book looks at 12 of his works that were inspired by Food, Drink and generally having a good time. Each poem has a modern translation and some facts on when, where and sometimes why they were written. This gives you quick, easy to understand information about the poems and Robert Burns himself. The poems include 'Address to a Haggis', 'Scotch Drink', 'Tam O' Shanter' and 'John Barleycorn Must Die'. One of the biggest problems with reading Burns poetry is the language he used, specifically the scots words and dialects, which can be difficult to understand. This is why there is a full modern English translation of each poem directly after the original poem. There is also an extensive glossary of Scots words and their modern English equivalent included. This is the third book in the "Enjoying Robert Burns" series.
Join a new generation of investors taking on Wall Street. Become an insider in the investing game by discovering a powerful set of tools to put more money in your pocket and get your money working for you. What the f*ck is investing? is the latest book offering a quick, easy and little known guide to creating wealth that anyone can follow.In this book, you will learn: How to free up money to invest How to avoid costly money mistakes The seven types of income The power of compounding Types of investor Types of investment - Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Gold, Real Estate, Commodities, Cryptocurrencies, Foreign Exchange and Annuities How to value investments and companies using three different and easy methods - easy to follow step by step examples shown How to read financial statements How to cut through investing jargon Investment strategies: Value investing, dividend investing and growth investing Goal setting, financial planning and risk Asset allocation How to choose a broker What types of accounts to use How to actually make a trade Even if you know nothing about money and investing, What the f*ck is investng? will help you to become financially successful. It is easy to read and provides a step-by-step guide that you can follow.What the f*ck is investing? is the ultimate beginners guide for you because it will show you how to build wealth and become financially free.Take the first and easiest step to financial freedom by reading What the f*ck is investing? now.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLast Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to deed. Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost. Living Better is Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life affirming account of his lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical, psychological and psychiatric study, which explores his own childhood, family and other relationships, and examines the impact of his professional and political life on himself and those around him. But it also lays bare his relentless quest to understand depression not just through his own life but through different treatments. Every bit as direct and driven, clever and candid as he is, this is a book filled with pain, but also hope -- he examines how his successes have been in part because of rather than despite his mental health problems -- and love. We all know someone with depression. There is barely a family untouched by it. We may be talking about it more than we did, back in the era of 'boys don't cry' - they did you know - and when a brave face or a stiff upper lip or a best foot forward was seen as the only way to go. But we still don't talk about it enough. There is still stigma, and shame, and taboo. There is still the feeling that admitting to being sad or anxious makes us weak. It took me years, decades even to get to this point, but I passionately believe that the reverse is true and that speaking honestly about our feelings and experiences (whether as a depressive or as the friend or relative of a depressive) is the first and best step on the road to recovery. So that is what I have tried to do here.
'This book could save lives' STEPHEN FRY Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life affirming account of his lifelong struggle with depression