Once there was only the Curwood Forest between childhood friends, Cassie and Julian. Now there is a whole lot more...Cassie doesn't mind living in a small house by the old Curwood Forest, because just across the river lives her best friend Julian and his sweet, storytelling mother, Violeta.Julian doesn't mind living in a mansion with sweeping gardens that don't belong to him, or having a distant, grumpy man for a father, because he has Cassie and her wildness, her loving parents, and their garden with its rambling veggie patch.But when Violeta is lost from their lives, Cassie begins to fear that nothing can shift the shadow that has settled on her dearest friend.Years later, with Julian at boarding school and becoming more and more of a stranger to her, Cassie finds herself drawn into the mysterious world of her new tutor, Alisa, and she can't escape the growing feeling that everyone around her has something to hide. Then her own parents vanish from her home, and Cassie is thrown into an adventure more wondrous and terrifying than any of Violeta's tales.Can Cassie find her way back to her parents? To Julian? To herself? Or will she take the darker road, one that seems to have been waiting for her all along?
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this "elegant and entertaining" (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments "does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world--in fact, many worlds--we've been missing" (USA TODAY). Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary--to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer. Page by page, Horowitz shows how much more there is to see--if only we would really look. Trained as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. So turn off the phone and other electronic devices and be in the real world--where strangers communicate by geometry as they walk toward one another, where sounds reveal shadows, where posture can display humility, and the underside of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe--where, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds.
"Living a life with natural and intuitive psychic abilities but not using them, is living half a life. You have no idea what you are missing." -Uma Alexandra BeepatUma Alexandra Beepat has been communicating with Spirit her entire life - it's a gift, but that doesn't mean it's always been easy. In Chronicles of a Spirit Walker, Uma shares her journey as she walked a tightrope between this world and the next while learning to embrace her soul purpose. Along the way she has dealt with the skepticism of others and her own concern that she might be crazy; however, the challenges are far outweighed by the countless blessings and miracles Spirit has given her and her clients. From the long-deceased guru who guided her to his ashram to the friend from beyond the grave teaching a lesson to his living skeptical friend - each story is a testament to the power of Spirit to cross the veil and support us in our everyday lives. Chronicles of a Spirit Walker also shares tips and exercises we can use to create a deeper connection with Spirit. Whether you are a developing medium searching for your tribe, or simply wondering if those signs from your loved one are real, the stories in Chronicles of a Spirit Walker will warm your heart and send those chills of validation up your spine.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS BY ANDREW LANG There is no real biography of Alexandre Dumas. Nobody has collected and sifted all his correspondence, tracked his every movement, and pursued him through newspapers and legal documents. Letters and other papers (if they have been preserved) should be as abundant in the case of Dumas as they are scanty in the case of Moli re. But they are left to the dust of unsearched offices; and it is curious that in France so little has been systematically written about her most popular if not her greatest novelist. Many treatises on one or other point in the life and work of Dumas exist, but there is nothing like Boswell's Johnson or Lockhart's Scott. The M moires by the novelist himself cover only part of his career, Les Enfances Dumas; and they bear the same resemblance to a serious conscientious autobiography as Vingt Ans Apr s bears to Mr. Gardiner's History of England. They contain facts, indeed, but facts beheld through the radiant prismatic fancy of the author, who, if he had a good story to tell, dressed it up "with a cocked hat and a sword," as was the manner of an earlier novelist. The volumes of travel, and the delightful work on Dumas's domestic menagerie, Mes B tes, also contain personal confessions, as does the novel, Ange Pitou, with the Causeries, and other books. Fortunately Dumas wrote most about his early life, and the early life of most people is more interesting than the records of their later years. In its limitation to his years of youth, the M moires of Dumas resemble that equally delightful book, the long autobiographical fragment by George Sand. Both may contain much Dichtung as well as Wahrheit: at least we see the youth of the great novelists as they liked to see it themselves. The M moires, with Mes B tes, possess this advantage over most of the books, that the most crabbed critic cannot say that Dumas did not write them himself. In these works, certainly, he was unaided by Maquet or any other collaborator. They are all his own, and the essential point of note is that they display all the humour, the goodness of heart, the overflowing joy in life, which make the charm of the novels. Here, unmixed, unadulterated, we have that essence of Dumas with which he transfigured the tame "copy" drawn up by Maquet and others under his direction. He told them where to find their historical materials, he gave them the leading ideas of the plot, told them how to block out the chapters, and then he took these chapters and infused into them his own spirit, the spirit which, in its pure shape, pervades every page of the M moires. They demonstrate that, while he received mechanical aid from collaborators, took from their hands the dry bones of his romances, it was he who made the dry bones live. He is now d'Artagnan, now Athos, now Gorenflot, now Chicot, -all these and many other personages are mere aspects of the immortal, the creative Alexandre.
Boka er laget spesielt for opplæring i buntmakerfaget, men passer også for andre som arbeider med formgivning av klær og tilbehør. Den gir en innføring i faget mønsterlære. Det er et nært samspill mellom tekst og tegninger i boka. Har litteraturliste og stikkordregister.
Att lyckas lära sig något svårt stärker självkänslan och befrämjar hälsa och välmående. Därför är det viktigt att lärare stärker sin egen och elevers optimism om att alla kan utvecklas. Ett optimistiskt förhållningssätt är avgörande i arbetet med elever med olika funktionsnedsättningar, det vill säga en positiv specialpedagogik.I den här boken är positiv specialpedagogik som bygger på positiv pedagogik centralt. Bokens författare försöker konkretisera vad positiv specialpedagogik är genom att skriva fram centrala begrepp såsom self-efficacy och implicita teorier om den egna förmågan. Implikationen av dessa teorier är att lärare bör arbeta med alla sina elever för att stärka deras tilltro till sina förmågor och deras tro på att alla kan lära sig och utvecklas. Författarna försöker också genom konkreta exempel visa hur lärare kan fostra elever till att bli självständiga och delaktiga i samhället.
College rule (also known as medium ruled paper) is the most common lined paper in use in the United States. It is generally used in middle school through to college and is also popular with adults. This is a good choice for teen or adult notebooks and composition books (known as exercise books outside the US).
The first title in an international blockbuster trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure set in ancient Greece - the story of Alexander the Great. This first volume is the story of Alexander as a boy, born to a great king, Philip of Macedon, and his sensuous queen, Olympias, his swift ascent to manhood as a protege of Aristotle and close friend of Ptolemy, and the start of his great adventure to conquer the civilised world. A wonderful evocation of the far off and fascinating civilisation of ancient Greece, revealed in vibrant tones and scholarly detail.
THE BESTSELLING EPIC OF THE GLORY AND THE GRANDEUR INTRIGUES AND PASSIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE...AND THE WARRIOR KING WHOSE CONQUESTS BUILT AN ETERNAL LEGEND. ALEXANDER Volume II: THE SANDS OF AMMONA thousand years after Agamemnon fought the Trojan War. Alexander, the king of Macedonia and descendant of Achilles, follows in the footsteps of Greek legend. He has gathered a mighty force to liberate the Greek cities of Asia -- from legendary Sardis and Miletus to Halicarnassus. But vengeance is just one of Alexander's ambitions. Great oracles and loyal followers claim Alexander is more than mortal -- a powerful warrior, and insatiable scholar, a political genius. Yet, in battle after battle, one man blocks his way. Memnon of Rhodes, a Greek-born mercenary chosen by the Persian Great King to lead his vast army, is a cunning strategist who challenged Alexander's claim to the title of Lord of Asia. In Memnon, Alexander confronts an enemy who inspires his admiration. And in Memnon's wife, Barsine, he finds a woman who captures his heart. But neither bravery nor love can stem the tide of Alexander's destiny. For with Persia defeated, Alexander's thoughts turn to Egypt and beyond...
