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EAN: 9781472976062
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A new illustrated edition of the classic book of cricketing advice.\n\nForeword by former England Test cricketer and bestselling author Derek Pringle.\n\nThe advice found in Don'ts for Cricketers was originally printed in 1906 and contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining, timeless and amusing advice for cricketers of all abilities. The content, ranging from technique and equipment to etiquette on the field, provides a fascinating snapshot of life in early twentieth-century Britain. \n\nAdvice includes: \n\n'Don't be in two minds about how you are going to play the ball, for that way madness lies.'\n\n'Don't be sulky or sad if your bowling is punished or your captain takes you off bowling when you want to continue.'\n\n'Don't forget the motto of that famous old cricket club, I Zingari: \"Keep your promise, keep your temper, keep your wicket up.\"'

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Brand: Miss Read
EAN: 9780752882321
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A row of cottages comes up for sale in Fairacre - although with less than desirable tenants at either end, who could possibly want to buy it?\n\nMiss Read heard about the sale of Tyler's Row from the always well-informed Mrs Pringle - and before long, Fairacre was alive with rumours. Why were the present owners selling? Was it true that a football pools winner was about to buy it? Had Tyler's Row been condemned - or was it to be restored?\n\nAll rumours are soon laid to rest when Peter and Diana Hale arrive in Fairacre to view Tyler's Row, with plans to knock the middle two cottages into one and create their own rural haven.\n\nBut the Hales soon discover that Fairacre is no utopia, but a normal English village with all the usual troubles...

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Brand: Philip Kirby;margaret J. Snowling
EAN: 9780228014362
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of \"Percy,\" a \"bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his age.\" Yet, in spite of his intelligence, Percy had great difficulty learning to read. \n\nPercy was one of the first children to be described as having word-blindness, better known today as dyslexia. In this first comprehensive history of dyslexia Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling chart a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia's current status as the most globally recognized specific learning difficulty. In an engaging narrative style, Kirby and Snowling tell the story of dyslexia, examining its origins and revealing the many scientists, teachers, and campaigners who put it on the map. Through this history they explain current debates over the diagnosis of dyslexia and its impact on learning.\n\nFor those who have lived experience of dyslexia, professionals who have supported them, and scholars of social history, education, psychology, and childhood studies, Dyslexia reflects on the place of literacy in society - whom it has benefited, and whom it has left behind.

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Brand: David Lodge
EAN: 9780099554189
Categoria: Libri e riviste

When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves.

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Brand: Freda Lightfoot
EAN: 9781800328044
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Chocolate can also be bitter...It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone dotes on Aunty Dot, as much as they do on her homemade sweets. The plump, smiling woman has provided a loving home for many a troubled child over the years, and Lizzie Pringle is no exception.\n\nLizzie would do anything for her foster mother - even take on local sweet manufacturer and notorious bully, Cedric Finch. Until, that is, she falls for his son, Charlie.\n\nMeanwhile, Dena can't believe that Barry Holmes would hurt her beloved daughter: he's been like a favourite uncle to the little girl. But rumours are rife and her fears only grow...\n\nA thrilling saga of new love and old rivalries set around a sumptuous sweet shop in 1950s Manchester, perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Rosie Goodwin.\n\nPraise for Candy Kisses 'You can't put a price on Freda Lightfoot's stories from Manchester's 1950s Champion Street Market. They bubble with enough life and colour to brighten up the dreariest day and they have characters you can easily take to your heart' Northern Echo\n\n'Brings to life the characters and the goings on in a close local community' 5* Reader review\n\n'Superb reading with a mixture of pathos and victory' 5* Reader review\n\n'This book will tug at your heart' 5* Reader review

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Brand: Olivia Manning
EAN: 9781786091130
Categoria: Libri e riviste

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK\n\n'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters\n\n'Wonderfully entertaining' Observer\n\nAutumn, 1939. Newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the train to Bucharest. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. As Guy's world collides with that of his new bride, Harriet realises how little she knows the man she has married. Manning's masterpiece, alive with exhilarating characters, is a haunting evocation of young love and the uncertainty of war.

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Brand: L. M. Montgomery
EAN: 9780141360072
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Anne of Windy Willows is the fourth book about the red-haired Anne Shirley from Green Gables.\n\nNow a young woman and her romance with Gilbert Blythe beginning to flourish, Anne Shirley becomes Principal of Summerside High School. But Summerside is virtually ruled by the Pringle family, who don't want Anne at the school. It takes all of Anne's courage and tact, and the comfort she draws from the eccentric household at Windy Willows, to overcome local prejudice and confront the dreaded Pringles.\n\nThe book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more..\n\nThe Puffin Classics relaunch includes:\nA Little Princess\nAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\nAlice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass\nAnne of Green Gables series\nBlack Beauty\nHans Andersen's Fairy Tales\nHeidi\nJourney to the Centre of the Earth\nLittle Women\nPeter Pan\nTales of the Greek Heroes\nThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\nThe Adventures of King Arthur\nThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\nThe Call of the Wild\nThe Jungle Book\nThe Odyssey\nThe Secret Garden\nThe Wind in the Willows\nThe Wizard of Oz\nTreasure Island

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Brand: Adrian Goldsworthy
EAN: 9781780221007
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The fourth novel in a brilliant Napoleonic series from acclaimed historian Adrian Goldsworthy.\n\nThe year is 1809, and the recruiting sergeants are hard at work, as the British army gathers strength for the next phase of the campaign against Bonaparte on the Spanish Peninsula. Captain Billy Pringle of the 106th Foot, however, has a somewhat more urgent reason to leave the country: having become embroiled in an ill-advised duel with a lieutenant in the 14th Light Dragoons, a posting to Spain would avoid any awkwardness for the regiment.\n\nAlong with his friend Lieutenant Williams - whose sister Kitty was the cause of the duel - and the doughty veteran Sergeant Dobson, Pringle takes on the task of training Spanish troops to stand alongside their British allies. But what seems at first like easy duty soon turns into a desperate fight for survival as they find themselves besieged in the strategic fortress of Cuidad Rodrigo. \n\nFor Bonaparte, taking the fortress will be the first step towards pushing the British back to the sea, and the task is entrusted to one of his most daring and successful generals, Marshal Ney. And Ney in his turn has found the perfect officer to lead the assault, a man not only desperate for advancement but also thirsting for revenge - a man whom Williams knows only too well.

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Brand: Zoe Wicomb
EAN: 9781913512101
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Juggling with our perception of time and reality, Still Life tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of Scottish poet and abolitionist Thomas Pringle. In her efforts to resurrect Pringle, the writer summons the spectre of Mary Prince, the West Indian slave whose History Pringle published, along with Hinza, his adopted black South African son. \n\nAs these voices vie for control over the text and the lines between life writing and fiction-making begin to blur, yet another voice enters the chorus: Sir Nicholas Greene, the self-regarding poet from Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. Their adventures through time and space, from Victorian South Africa and London to the author's desk in Glasgow in the present day, offer a poignant yet often playful exploration of colonial history and racial oppression

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Brand: Olivia Manning
EAN: 9788866202141
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Bucarest, 1940. La \"guerra fittizia\" ha lasciato il posto alle armi e la sempre più pressante minaccia dell'invasione tedesca fa crescere inquietudine e incertezza nella comunità straniera. Guy e Harriet Pringle, trasferitisi per lavoro nella capitale rumena subito dopo il matrimonio, non trovano un accordo sul modo di affrontare il pericolo imminente. Harriet preme per lasciare il Paese, Guy, determinato a restare, continua a spendersi per gli amici e temporeggia finché le vie di fuga non sono quasi tutte chiuse. Il loro conflitto privato diventa ben presto il simbolo del dramma di un'intera generazione costretta dalla storia a scelte laceranti, della lotta senza possibilità di soluzione tra pragmatismo e idealismo. \"La città caduta\" il secondo romanzo della \"Trilogia dei Balcani\", ispirata a Olivia Manning dalla propria vicenda personale.

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Brand: Andrew Maynard
EAN: 9781642502633
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A Compelling Vision of the Future\n“Maynard has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the moment we’re in, chronicling how we got here, where we’re going, and what role we have in that journey” ?Ramona Pringle, Director of Creative Innovation Studio and Associate Professor, Ryerson University\n\n#1 New Release in Science & Math and Physics of Time\n\nHuman beings can?and do?change the future. Humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. At times entertaining, and at others profound, Future Rising provides an original perspective on our relationship with the future.\n\nWe have a responsibility to change the future for the better. As a species, we have become talented architects of our future. And yet, we so often struggle to come to terms with what this means. As innovation and rapidly shifting norms and expectations drive our world at breakneck speed, we sometimes need to find a still, quiet place to pause and think. Future Rising sets out to create such a quiet place, where we can take advantage of our species' knowledge of world history, and the importance of science to piece together a positive future.\n\nTo create a good future, rediscover the past. Our relationship with the future is inextricably intertwined with where we've come from, who we are, and what we aspire to. Written to be easy to pick up and hard to put down, Future Rising starts at the beginning of all things with the Big Bang and traces a pathway along the emergence of intelligent life, through what makes humans uniquely capable of imagining and creating different futures.\n\nIf you enjoy nonfiction science and history books like Life 3.0, The Future of Humanity, or Superintelligence, then you'll love Future Rising. In a series of sixty short reflections, Future Rising will take you on a journey into:\n\n\n\nWhat \"the future\" actually is\nHow it molds and guides our lives\nHow we can use the history of the world to change our future

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Brand: Olivia Manning
EAN: 9781786091543
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times\n\n'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer\n\nAthens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young couple are reunited, Guy once again becomes absorbed in his work, leading Harriet to seek the attention of a handsome young officer. But when Greece is defeated and Europe starts to crumble around them, Guy and Harriet are forced to find a new strength amidst the devastation. Manning's exquisite observations on love, marriage and friendship during wartime are brought vibrantly to life.

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Brand: Stacey June
EAN: 9781911632856
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'It's SO important to love yourself wholeheartedly and love your single life - Stacey shows you how.' - Melissa Ambrosini\n \nWe're encouraged to be comfortable doing our own thing these days. Female empowerment! Be independent! But many of us have yet to master the tools for living happily on our own.\n\nStacey June is here to help! With the assistance of a whole slew of experts, a wild variety of romantic and sexual partners, a few fairly average boyfriends, and some healers, yogis and 'kumbaya' moments, Stacey dives into the principles of being comfortable alone, living independently and going after every opportunity in life.\n\nLearn the ins and outs of why you're staying in a relationship for too long, dating for the wrong reasons, discovering that casual sex doesn't always feel 'single and fabulous' and a whole lot more. Practice self-care, go on a date with yourself and never stop believing in love - because it's completely possible to live happily solo while still being open to relationships.\n\nLet's stop wishing away our single lives, because the single pringle life is awesome.

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Brand: Douglas R. Macfarlane;mega Kar;jennifer M. Pringle
EAN: 9783527339990
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Written by experts who have been part of this field since its beginnings in both research and academia, this textbook introduces readers to this evolving topic and the broad range of applications that are being explored. \n The book begins by examining what it is that defines ionic liquids and what sets them apart from other materials. Chapters describe the various types of ionic liquids and the different techniques used to synthesize them, as well as their properties and some of the methods used in their measurement. Further chapters delve into synthetic and electrochemical applications and their broad use as \"Green\" solvents. Final chapters examine important applications in a wide variety of contexts, including such devices as solar cells and batteries, electrochemistry, and biotechnology. \n The result is a must-have resource for any researcher beginning to work in this growing field, including senior undergraduates and postgraduates.

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Brand: Lucy Pringle
EAN: 9781620558676
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A scientific investigation of the healing and energetic effects of crop circles\n\n In 1990 while studying the energetics of a crop circle, Lucy Pringle experienced a miraculous healing of a severe shoulder injury. Inspired, she expanded her research to investigate the physical, psychological, and energetic effects of these mysterious formations on people as well as on animals. In this book, alongside her stunning full-color aerial photographs of crop circles, Pringle shares the results of her research, including anecdotes from an 800-person questionnaire study, in combination with detailed scientific explanations by aerospace engineer and fellow crop circle researcher James Lyons.\n\n The authors discuss case histories of healing, from temporary respite from arthritis, Reynaud's, and Parkinson's, to the permanent cure of muscle strains and chronic pain, to emotional healing and feelings of peace and happiness. They explore the relationship of crop circle formations and consciousness, highlighting \"intention\" as a key factor in crop circle manifestation. Pringle describes the wide range of physiological effects--both positive and negative--caused by the frequencies in crop circles and shows how the negative symptoms may possibly be caused by heavy use of pesticides.\n\n Drawing on the science behind the formation of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, the authors explain how the same electromagnetic waves that produce these lights in the sky also interact with the Earth's magnetic field and ley lines to produce geometric-energetic patterns in fields--crop circles--akin to the cymatic patterns of sand on a vibrating drum surface. They reveal dowsing as a way to identify underlying sacred geometry within a field and explain how healing arises as the result of communication with the self-organizing energy field of a crop circle.\n\n With the first recorded appearance of a crop circle formation more than 4,000 years ago, crop circles are an ancient part of Earth's and humanity's intertwined history that we are only beginning to understand.

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Brand: Kirsty Wark
EAN: 9781444777628
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'ORIGINAL AND ENTHRALLING' Guardian\n'AFFECTING AND TENDER' The Times\n'COMPLETELY ENCHANTING' Penny Vincenzi \n\nElizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran. But did anyone really know her? In her will she leaves her beloved house, Holmlea, to a stranger - a young mother she'd seen pushing a pram down the road over thirty years ago. It now falls to Martha, once the baby in that pram, to answer the question: why? Martha is coping with her mother's dementia and the possibility of a new life on Arran could be a new start.\n\nA captivating story for fans of Rosamund Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Rachel Joyce of the richness behind the so-called ordinary lives of women and the secrets and threads that hold them together.\n\nAnd Kirsty Wark's second novel, The House by the Loch, a story of unlikely love and long-hidden family secrets set in the beautiful Scottish countryside, is out now.

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Brand: Carola Hieker;john Pringle
EAN: 9783030535469
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Leadership development aims to disrupt leaders’ behavioural and thought patterns. However, for many decades leadership development has not changed significantly: nobody seems to be disrupting the disrupters. It needs to evolve if leaders are to deal successfully with the disruptive challenges they face today – such as climate change, global health emergencies, digitization, an ageing workforce and the different expectations of millennials and Generation Z.\n\n\n\nThis book reflects critically on the future of leadership development and what is missing in traditional approaches. It is based on interviews with leadership development suppliers, HR professionals and leaders, as well as the authors’ industry experience. This book provides practical recommendations for how leadership development needs to change to support leaders as they navigate a volatile and uncertain world.

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Brand: Robert Greig Pringle
EAN: 9781803130774
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Too big for the Primary School reps, and in his day the tallest man to have played on Lancaster Park, Nugget Pringle won Wellington caps in his first season of senior rugby with the Oriental Club, and went on to win an All Black cap the following year, 1923. \n\nIn the training camp before the first test against New South Wales he proved a great entertainer and his Salome was a scream, but a cauliflower ear (one of many) led to his withdrawal from the match. He scored a try in the second test, which the All Blacks won handsomely, but, despite every endeavour for the next 4 years, failed to gain a second cap. En route he played for and against the All Blacks and against New Zealand Maoris, winning all three and scoring a try in two. \n\nFate's fickle fingers nonetheless conspired, through injury, illness, selection policy and sheer misfortune, to cause him to miss further home internationals as well as tours to Australia and South Africa. Most importantly, although a hot favourite all season, he missed out by a whisker on a place with the 1924/25 Invincibles.\n\nWith the benefit of contemporary press cuttings in the family scrapbook, and from the archives, we follow here his playing career at club, representative and national level, while we also learn of his achievements in the worlds of athletics and cricket, and how he gained the unusual distinction of playing both rugby and cricket, as well as winning the shot put, on Athletic Park.\n\nA genial giant who gave his all for the game he loved, but, in terms of his playing career and All Black appearances, was he the Unluckiest All Black?\n\nJudge for yourself.

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Brand: Ian Pringle
EAN: 9781909982932
Categoria: Libri e riviste

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small children, survived the crash only for most of them to be gunned down in cold blood shortly after the crash by terrorists loyal to the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) leader Joshua Nkomo.\nJust days before the plane was shot down, the Rhodesian leader, Ian Smith, had met secretly with Nkomo for discussions, brokered by Britain, Zambia and Nigeria. However, this event dramatically changed the political landscape and wrecked a plan by the British government to mould an alliance between Smith and the Ndebele leader Nkomo, and smoothed the path for the Shona leader Robert Mugabe to become the first leader of Zimbabwe.\nIn this fascinating two-part account, Ian Pringle (author of Dingo Firestorm), describes the Viscount tragedy and the military response. He uses exclusive interviews with two survivors of the crash and the massacre, and with the first person to arrive at the horrendous crash scene (commanding officer of the Rhodesian SAS Regiment), as well as accounts from other key witnesses, to recreate the tragic event. He describes the white-hot anger felt by the small white community in Rhodesia, who howled for revenge and demanded martial law and total war.\nThe Rhodesian military responded with Operation Gatling, a risky three-phased revenge attack on Nkomo's guerilla bases and infrastructure in Zambia. The prime target was Nkomo's military headquarters on the outskirts of Lusaka, the Zambian capital. The author uses a cockpit voice recording from the lead Canberra bomber, and exclusive interviews with the lead navigator and pilots involved in the raid to tell a fascinating, authentic and gripping story of the audacious attack, which became known as the Green Leader Raid.\nOn the same day as Green Leader, two more bases in Zambia were attacked using air power and elite paratroops and helitroops in a well-honed tactic known as vertical envelopment. Pringle uses his own experience as a jet and helicopter pilot, and skydiver, as well as top-secret documents and interviews with key personnel involved in Operation Gatling to recreate a gripping account of Rhodesia's first large-scale attacks on Zambia. He describes the aftermath, another tragedy and a reprisal attack in Angola, which brought southern Africa to the very brink of a full-scale regional war.\nGreen Leader is an exciting recreation of a calamitous time in southern African history.

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Brand: Emily Pringle
EAN: 9781138237872
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museums today. The book analyses a range of art organisations and draws on numerous interviews with museum professionals to outline the limitations of existing models of museum research.\n\nArguing for a more democratic formulation in tune with the current needs and ambitions of the art institution, Emily Pringle puts forward a framework for practitioner-led, co-produced research that redefines how knowledge is created in the museum. Recognising that museums today negotiate multiple agendas, the book outlines the value of constructing the art museum professional as a practitioner researcher and their work as a mode of practice-based research, be they educators, archivists, curators or conservators. Locating these arguments within the framework of new museology, critical pedagogy, professional and organisational studies and epistemology, the book offers insights and guidance for those interested in how art museums function and the role research plays within these complex institutions.\n\nRethinking Research in the Art Museum provides a timely and important resource for museum professionals and scholars, students, artists and community members. It should be of particular interest to those invested in exploring how art museums can continue to make the most of their unique resources, whilst becoming more collaborative, inclusive and relevant to the twenty-first century.

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Brand: Peter Pringle
EAN: 9788855224673
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In un dramma degno del Dottor Živago, nel quale si intrecciano scienza, amori, rivoluzioni e guerre, Peter Pringle ricostruisce la storia di Nikolaj Vavilov, lo scienziato che, agli albori della genetica, sognava di sconfiggere la fame nel mondo coltivando piante in grado di sopravvivere in ogni condizione climatica e ad ogni latitudine, nei deserti di sabbia e tra i ghiacci della tundra, e gettando così le basi per un grandioso progetto di raccolta e conservazione della biodiversità alimentare. Il progetto pionieristico di Vavilov si inscriveva nella grande utopia dei primi rivoluzionari bolscevichi, che non esitarono a finanziare le sue spedizioni nei cinque continenti alla ricerca di quelle centinaia di migliaia di semi che avrebbero dato vita a un meraviglioso museo vivente della varietà delle specie botaniche. Alla morte di Lenin, però, il sogno di Vavilov si trasformò in un incubo. La sua indipendenza di pensiero, la fedeltà alla scienza e i rapporti con studiosi di tutto il mondo ne decretarono l’emarginazione da parte degli scienziati fedeli a Stalin, che con l’aiuto della polizia segreta montarono contro di lui un corposo dossier di accuse di sabotaggio e spionaggio, impedendogli di fatto di portare avanti le sue ricerche. E così, l’uomo che sognava di sfamare il pianeta fu una delle vittime più illustri delle purghe staliniane, condannato – per una sorte tragicamente ironica – a morire di fame nelle prigioni sovietiche. Attraverso documenti inediti degli archivi dell’Urss, tra cui il dossier della polizia segreta contro Vavilov, Peter Pringle ricostruisce la trama che portò all’assassinio di questo studioso brillante e profondamente umano, vittima della demagogia anti-scientifica e della cieca ideologia. Un visionario che, come sottolinea Carlo Petrini nella prefazione al volume, già un secolo fa aveva capito che «la biodiversità agricola è la chiave per la sicurezza e la sovranità alimentare a livello mondiale».

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Brand: Paul Pringle
EAN: 9781250824103
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Ian Pringle
EAN: 9781911096726
Categoria: Libri e riviste

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small children, survived the crash only for most of them to be gunned down in cold blood shortly after the crash by terrorists loyal to the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) leader Joshua Nkomo. Just days before the plane was shot down, the Rhodesian leader, Ian Smith, had met secretly with Nkomo for discussions, brokered by Britain, Zambia and Nigeria. However, this event dramatically changed the political landscape and wrecked a plan by the British government to mould an alliance between Smith and the Ndebele leader Nkomo, and smoothed the path for the Shona leader Robert Mugabe to become the first leader of Zimbabwe. \n \nIn this fascinating two-part account, Ian Pringle (author of Dingo Firestorm), describes the Viscount tragedy and the military response. He uses exclusive interviews with two survivors of the crash and the massacre, and with the first person to arrive at the horrendous crash scene (commanding officer of the Rhodesian SAS Regiment), as well as accounts from other key witnesses, to recreate the tragic event. He describes the white-hot anger felt by the small white community in Rhodesia, who howled for revenge and demanded martial law and total war. The Rhodesian military responded with Operation Gatling, a risky three-phased revenge attack on Nkomo's guerilla bases and infrastructure in Zambia. The prime target was Nkomo's military headquarters on the outskirts of Lusaka, the Zambian capital. The author uses a cockpit voice recording from the lead Canberra bomber, and exclusive interviews with the lead navigator and pilots involved in the raid to tell a fascinating, authentic and gripping story of the audacious attack, which became known as the Green Leader Raid. On the same day as Green Leader, two more bases in Zambia were attacked using air power and elite paratroops and helitroops in a well-honed tactic known as vertical envelopment. \n \nPringle uses his own experience as a jet and helicopter pilot, and skydiver, as well as top-secret documents and interviews with key personnel involved in Operation Gatling to recreate a gripping account of Rhodesia's first large-scale attacks on Zambia. He describes the aftermath, another tragedy and a reprisal attack in Angola, which brought southern Africa to the very brink of a full-scale regional war. Green Leader is an exciting recreation of a calamitous time in southern African history.

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Brand: L Pringle
EAN: 9781635923254
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Follow a year in the life of an adorable sea otter as she creatively hunts for food, deftly avoids danger from a great white shark, and gives birth to a pup. Living off the coast of California in the Northern Pacific Ocean, Lutris the sea otter shares her life in a giant kelp forest habitat with many other otters and animals. Lutris is resourceful and relies on her keen sense of sight and smell to find food and survive. When her pup is born, Lutris lovingly tends to and teaches her daughter until she is ready to head out into the world on her own. Filled with important facts and gorgeous illustrations, readers will be fascinated by the story of these remarkable mammals. This latest title in the Secret Life series has been vetted by a sea otter expert and includes back matter with more in-depth information, a glossary, and further resources.

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Brand: David Pringle;tim Dedpulos
EAN: 9781787393202
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling out for. Lavishly illustrated and expertly informed, it is edited by Tim Dedopulos and David Pringle, editor and co-founder of the internationally acclaimed Interzone magazine, and features forewords by legendary authors Terry Pratchett and Ben Aaronovitch. They have assembled a team of expert contributors to compile a visually stunning, informative and fascinating guide to the world of fantasy, from its origins and early trailblazers to the cultural phenomena of today's mega fantasy properties.

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Brand: Laurence Pringle
EAN: 9781629792606
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This gorgeous and lyrical picture book from renowned science author Laurence Pringle and debut illustrator Kate Garchinsky follows a year in the life of a red fox named Vixen as she finds food, hunts, escapes threats, finds a mate, and raises her kits-all the way to the day that she and her mate watch their kits head off to lead their own secret lives. Stunning, realistic illustrations celebrate the beauty of these mysterious creatures as readers learn important facts through an engaging and fascinating story. The book also includes back matter with more in-depth information, a glossary, and further resources.

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Brand: Heather Pringle
EAN: 9780007148134
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Acclaimed science writer Heather Pringle uncovers the true story of the scientists and archaeologists Heinrich Himmler deployed to find proof for his theories of a prehistoric Aryan master race.\n\n\n What happens when science falls prey to a political agenda?\n\n\n Pre-history, according to Heinrich Himmler, must be re-written. Himmler, the chief of the SS and architect of the Nazi network of death camps, was obsessed with re-writing history. He was convinced that archaeologists had long ignored the great accomplishments of ancient Germanic peoples. Himmler believed that Germany's ancestors – the tall, blue-eyed, blond-haired Aryans – had evolved not in the savannahs of Africa with the rest of humanity, but in the icy barrens of the Arctic. There, refined and distilled by natural selection in a bitter land, they had become an invincible master race. But some 12,000 years ago, theorized Himmler, a natural cataclysm shook the earth, decimating the scattered Aryan colonies and now, only in select parts of the world – most notably northern Europe – did some true Aryan blood remain.\n\n\n Himmler's history was pure fiction, but his conviction was unshakable. In 1935 he founded the 'Ahnenerbe' – a research institute to manufacture archaeological evidence for political purposes – appointed himself president, and set about recruiting a bizarre mix of adventurers, mystics, careerists and reputable archaeologists to help write a new chapter in the ancient history of the Aryan race. Expeditions went sent out to Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Greenland and beyond, each backed by the power of the Third Reich to realize this bizarre scientific dream.\n\n\n ‘The Master Plan’ is also an expose of the German scientists and scholars who allowed their research to be used to justify extermination – many of whom resumed their academic positions at war's end.\n\n\n Intensely compelling and comprehensively researched, ‘The Master Plan’ is a story of delusion and excess; of scientific and political abuse on a global scale. It has all the energy of an adventure, but also the chilling truth of a terrifying episode in twentieth century history.

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Brand: L Pringle
EAN: 9781635925166
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Are kids going to love this book? Is a frog waterproof? The latest title in the popular Strange and Wonderful series delivers the awe-inspiring variety of frogs, the world's hoppiest amphibians. \n\nDid you know that the Goliath frog is more than a foot long? Or that the tiny gold frog could sit on a dime?  Some frogs have camouflage. Others wear bold colors warning their enemies that they are poisonous. Some frogs leap, others hop, one is a runner, and a few glide from tree to tree with their big, webbed hands and feet! Surprising facts and beautiful, realistic nature illustrations come together in this celebration of one of nature's most fascinating marvels.

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