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An authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day.\n\n\nMore than a million hectares of Britain has the status of common land, most of it consisting of semi-natural environments of mountain, moorland, wetland or heath. Formerly much more extensive, common land was, and in many places remains, an integral part of the pastoral economy. Even where it is no longer used by farmers, it plays an increasingly important role in modern life, as recreational space and for its value for nature conservation.\n\n \nThis book provides for the first time an authoritative survey of the history of common land across all three nations of Great Britain from medieval times to the present day. It charts how commons have been viewed and valued across the centuries, how they have been used, and how their vegetation has changed, highlighting parallels and differences between the histories of common land in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\n \nIt traces the distinctive legal status of common land and the management regimes which regulated the exercise of common rights; considers the role of commons as spaces for communal gatherings and as a resource for the poor; charts the loss of common land (but also its persistence) during the era of enclosure in the century 1760-1860; and explores the changing conceptions of the value and right use of commons since the nineteenth century, and the impact this has had on their ecological character. Eight case studies of individual commons illustrate the richness of common landscapes and their history at local level. They include crofters' common grazings in Sutherland, mountain commons in the Lake District and Snowdonia, lowland commons in Co. Durham, Herefordshire and the New Forest, turbary allotments in Lincolnshire, and the urban commons of Wimbledon and Putney Heath.

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Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced after the American Civil War, the first Winchester, the M1866, would go on to see military service as far afield as Bulgaria, but it was in the hands of civilians that it would become known as 'The gun that won the west'. Offering a lethal combination of portability, ruggedness and ammunition interchangeability with pistol sidearms, the Winchesters and their innovative and elegant breech-loading system represented a revolutionary design. They were used by a staggering variety of military and civilian groups - gold-miners, trappers, hunters, farmers, lawmen, professional gunmen and Native Americans. It equipped a whole generation of settlers and as such left an imprint on American culture that continues to resonate today. This book explores the Winchesters' unique place in history, revealing the technical secrets of their success with a full array of colour artwork, period illustrations and close-up photographs.

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Brand: Tom James
EAN: 9780750998109
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Winchester is world famous as the ancient capital of England. Much of the medieval heritage of the city survives today, as revealed in the pages of this book, together with more recent scenes, in a series of pictures carefully selected to illustrate the development of Winchester and how it has changed through the centuries. Each picture has been meticulously researched, using an unprecedented range of sources, to provide a wealth of information and new insights into the city’s past.\n\nThe book concentrates on the period since the 18th century, when the city was at its lowest ebb and much of it was lying derelict. Winchester’s population at some 4,000 was still well below the estimate of 11,000 in 1300 and in continuing decline after 60% mortality during the Black Death of 1348. It did not exceed 10,000 again until between 1841 and 1851, when a burgeoning population grew dramatically, and the walled area filled up once again.\n\nAll who know the ancient city will enjoy this very readable and splendidly illustrated account of its past; while those with an interest in local history will welcome its examination of the city’s evolution over the past 250 years, together with the invaluable photographic archive it makes available and explains. The book is as entertaining as it is informative.

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Motherly love can drive her to the absolute edge…\n\nFor nine years, Drew Baker has been running from her brutal husband and the dark deeds of the night she left him. Focused on protecting her ten-year-old son, Drew reluctantly settles into a small town, eager to find proof of her husband’s true nature so she can stop looking over her shoulder.\n\nBut Drew is also on the run from her own terrible crimes—ones that mean prison and separation from her son should the police catch up to her before her husband does. If only she could remember that night and what really transpired…\n\nWithout warning, the unthinkable happens, and Drew is plunged into the most nightmarish situation a woman and mother could imagine. Desperate to save her child, Drew takes matters into her own hands, proving that anyone is capable of darkness, and nowhere is safe for those who fear themselves.

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The OS Landranger Active Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps, perfect for day trips and short breaks. Tough, durable and weatherproof, covered in a lightweight protective plastic coating that can be written on, so that your favourite routes can be easily highlighted. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area and includes places of interest, tourist information, picnic areas and camp sites, plus Rights of Way information for England and Wales. OS Landranger Active now includes a digital version of the paper map, accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps.

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'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety.\n\nIn The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating characters who played such a vital part in its execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who spent half a century guiding the project towards fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary editor became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, and why Tolkien found it so hard to define 'walrus'. \n\nWritten by the bestselling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne and The Map That Changed the World, The Meaning of Everything is an enthralling account of the creation of the world's greatest dictionary.

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The volume is co-published by the Winchester Excavations Committee and forms Volume 11 of the Winchester Studies series.\n\nFollowing the success of volumes IV (Windsor and Eton) and V (York) in the series of Historic Towns Atlases, the new volume maps and explains the history of Winchester \nface=Calibri>- a city which has played such an important part in English history from Roman times onwards.\n\nCombining many full-colour maps with an authoritative but very readable text, the atlas shows how the Roman city of Venta Belgarum became the second-most important city in England for several centuries: a walled town, the seat of kings and an ecclesiastical centre almost unparalleled in the country, before gently declining into a judicial centre and county town.\n\nThe Atlas is centred on a detailed map of the city at the scale of 1:2500, showing Winchester's historic buildings and structures on a map of the city as it was in 1800. A series of maps show how Winchester was at key points in its history, charting its development and changing shape. The Atlas includes an early OS map, modern maps and historic aerial photographs, as well as colour illustrations, many of which have never been published before.\n\nThe introduction offers a full history of how and why Winchester developed from prehistoric times onwards, in a series of chapters written by historians but aimed at the general reader. It also includes a comprehensive reference gazetteer listing every place shown on the maps, with a map location, a brief history, and further reading for those interested in finding out more.\n\nLike its companion volumes, the maps, text, gazetteer and illustrations are presented in an A3 stiff card binder, and the format allows for maps of different date to be compared side-by-side.

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The reissue of a Simon Winchester classic\n\nIn 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling and often funny reading. \n\nWith a new introduction and additional material in many of the chapters, this revised edition tells us what has happened while the author's been away.

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Edited by Martin Biddle with a catalogue of the known coins of the mint by Yvonne Harvey, this volume records and illustrates the minting of silver pennies in Winchester between the reigns of Alfred the Great and Henry III, a period of three and a half centuries. At the Mint, which was situated in the area of the High Street to the east of where the city’s cross now stands, at least 24 million silver pennies (possibly as many as 50 million) were struck. Five and a half thousand survive in museums and collections all over the world. These have been sought out and photographed (some 3200 coins in 6400 images detailing both sides), and minutely catalogued by Yvonne Harvey for this volume.\n\n\n\nDuring the period from late in the reign of Alfred to the time of Henry III, dies for striking the coins were produced centrally under royal authority in the most sophisticated system of monetary control at the time in the western world. In this first account of a major English mint to have been made in forty years, a team of leading authorities have studied and analysed the use the Winchester moneyers made of the dies, and together with the size, weight, and the surviving number of coins from each pair of dies, have produced a detailed account of the varying fortunes of the mint over this period. Their results are critical for the economic history of England and the changing status of Winchester over this long period, and provide the richest available source for the history of the name of the city and the personal names of its citizens in the later Anglo-Saxon period.

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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.\n \n\n\n In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows. Across the twentieth century, water was dammed and drained in Holland so that a new province, Flevoland, rose up, unchartered and requiring new thinking. In 1850, California legislated the theft of land from Native Americans. An apology came in 2019 from the governor, but what of the call for reparations or return? What of government confiscation of land in India, or questions of fairness when it comes to New Zealand's Maori population and the legacy of settlers?\n\n\n The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, Simon Winchester explores the the stewardship of land, the ways it is delineated and changes hands, the great disputes, and the questions of restoration - particularly in the light of climate change and colonialist reparation.\n\n\n A global study, this is an exquisite exploration of what the ownership of land might really mean - not in dry-as-dust legal terms, but for the people who live on it.

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'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday Telegraph\n\nSimon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology. In breathtaking detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt to this day.

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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.\n \n\n\n In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows. Across the twentieth century, water was dammed and drained in Holland so that a new province, Flevoland, rose up, unchartered and requiring new thinking. In 1850, California legislated the theft of land from Native Americans. An apology came in 2019 from the governor, but what of the call for reparations or return? What of government confiscation of land in India, or questions of fairness when it comes to New Zealand's Maori population and the legacy of settlers?\n\n\n The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, Simon Winchester explores the the stewardship of land, the ways it is delineated and changes hands, the great disputes, and the questions of restoration - particularly in the light of climate change and colonialist reparation.\n\n\n A global study, this is an exquisite exploration of what the ownership of land might really mean - not in dry-as-dust legal terms, but for the people who live on it.

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The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water – the Atlantic.\n\n\n One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved into the most important and most travelled ocean in our world.\n\n\n In this utterly original biography, Simon Winchester explores the life of the Atlantic; it's birth, its relationship with mankind, and what lies in store for it once man has left the stage. He charts the development of the first settlements by the Oceanside – the communities of Celts and Vikings and whose lives depended on the sea – and delves into the age of exploration, venturing to forgotten worlds. The building of some of the world's most beautiful port cities – London, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Casablanca – is also examined, along with the creation of settlements and colonies in and around the sea.\n\n\n Completely unique and highly readable, Atlantic takes its reader on a wonderful journey through time, along the waves of our planet's most significant ocean.

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EAN: 9780007532407
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From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation.\n\n\n For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum – out of many, one – has been featured on America’s official government seals and stamped on its currency. But how did America become ‘one nation, indivisible’? In this monumental history, Simon Winchester addresses this question, introducing the fearless trailblazers whose achievements forged and unified America.\n\n\n Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. He treks vast swaths of territory, introducing these fascinating pioneers – some, such as Washington and Jefferson, Lewis and Clark being familiar, some forgotten, some hardly known – who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.\n\n\n ‘The Men Who United the States’ is a fresh, lively, and erudite look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together, from one of our most entertaining, probing, and insightful observers.

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EAN: 9788820394578
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Simon Winchester ripercorre in questo volume gli sviluppi della tecnologia dall'era industriale all'era digitale per concentrarsi sul fattore che più di tutti ne ha favorito il progresso: la precisione. \r\n\r\n«I perfezionisti è un libro di avventura. Di straordinarie avventure. E il suo autore, Simon Winchester, è un irresistibile affabulatore che ha la capacità di farti entrare nel mondo fantastico dell'ingegneria di precisione» - Massimo Bucciantini, il Sole 24ore\r\n\r\n\r\nIl libro ci riporta alle origini della civiltà industriale, tra le grandi menti della scienza che inaugurarono la produzione moderna in Inghilterra, tracciando un percorso cronologico che arriva fino agli sviluppi più innovativi tuttora in corso in America, in Asia e in Europa occidentale. L'applicazione di strumenti e metodi di precisione ha condotto alla creazione e alla produzione di massa di oggetti come fucili, orologi, specchi, obiettivi e macchine fotografiche, fino a scoperte rivoluzionarie come l'ingegneria genetica, i microchip e l'acceleratore di particelle. Nel presentare le idee e i metodi che hanno trasformato il mondo moderno, Winchester si interroga inoltre su questioni quali: perché la precisione è così importante? Quali strumenti impieghiamo per misurarla? Chi li ha inventati e perfezionati? Arrivando così a ricostruire una innovativa microstoria attraverso la lente di ingrandimento della precisione.

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A chi appartiene la terra? È possibile rivendicarne la proprietà? La questione è da sempre materia di uno scontro di carattere etico, politico e ideologico, ma nella maggior parte dei casi sono state le armi a risolvere la contesa.\r\nIn questo libro, il giornalista britannico Simon Winchester affronta il tema della gestione della terra da parte dell’uomo, i modi in cui viene spartita e passata di mano, le grandi controversie legate al cambiamento climatico e alla riparazione del colonialismo.\r\nUno studio globale che va dal grande furto ai danni dei nativi americani alla creazione di nuove province sottratte all’acqua in Olanda, passando per la confisca delle terre in India fino alle rivendicazioni della popolazione Maori in Nuova Zelanda.\r\nUn’affascinante esplorazione di ciò che la proprietà della terra potrebbe realmente significare, non in termini aridamente burocratici, ma per le persone che la abitano.

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«Lo sapevate? Uno degli autori dell'Oxford English Dictionary era un omicida rinchiuso in un manicomio criminale. Un libro straordinario racconta la storia del prestigioso dizionario inglese e di un pazzo geniale che ne diventa lessicografo» - Robinson, La Repubblica«Buon pomeriggio a voi, signore. Sono il professor James Murray della Philological Society di Londra, direttore editoriale dell'Oxford English Dictionary. È un vero onore e un vero piacere fare finalmente la vostra conoscenza, perché voi siete senza dubbio il mio più assiduo collaboratore, il dottor W.C. Minor, vero?». Ci fu una breve pausa, un'aria di momentaneo e reciproco imbarazzo. Un orologio ticchettava rumorosamente. Si udirono passi attutiti nell'ingresso. Un lontano sbattere di chiavi. E poi l'uomo dietro la scrivania si schiarì la voce e parlò: «Me ne rincresce, signore, ma non sono io. Non è affatto come pensate. In realtà io sono il direttore del manicomio criminale di Broadmoor. Il dottor Minor è qui, senza dubbio. ma è un detenuto. È ricoverato da più di vent'anni. È il nostro paziente di più antica data.»\r\nNel cuore di quella grande impresa dello\r\nspirito moderno che fu la redazione dell’Oxford\r\nEnglish Dictionary è nascosta da sempre\r\nuna storia straordinaria. Il primo a scoprirla,\r\ne in parte a viverla, fu il professor\r\nJames Murray, anima e responsabile del\r\nmaestoso progetto. Dopo anni di lavoro,\r\nMurray si rese infatti conto di come una\r\nparte consistente dei lemmi – che qualsiasi\r\n«letterato» poteva redigere, su base volontaria\r\n– arrivassero alla redazione da un unico\r\nposto in Inghilterra, e recassero in calce\r\nsempre la stessa firma: «W.C. Minor». A\r\nquesto punto Murray decise di incontrare\r\nil suo prezioso e infaticabile collaboratore,\r\nsalvo scoprire che il luogo da cui tutte quelle\r\nlettere partivano era Broadmoor, e il loro\r\nautore uno degli ospiti più in vista del temibile\r\nmanicomio. Sì, anni prima, per le\r\nstrade di Londra, W.C. Minor – un medico\r\nmilitare reduce dalla Guerra di Secessione,\r\ne vittima di una gravissima sindrome paranoide\r\n– aveva ucciso un passante, e adesso\r\nera rinchiuso in una cella dove gli era stato\r\nconcesso di trasferire la sua collezione di libri\r\nantichi. L’incontro fra questi due personaggi\r\nera già materia per un grande romanzo\r\nvittoriano. A Simon Winchester, in\r\nfondo, non è rimasto che scriverlo. Ma, d’altra\r\nparte, solo lui avrebbe potuto farlo.

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THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGY\n\nHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life was troubled: he was imprisoned for debt, turned out of his home, his work was plagiarised, his wife went insane and the scientific establishment shunned him.\n\n It was not until 1829, when a Yorkshire aristocrat recognised his genius, that he was returned to London in triumph: The Map That Changed the World is his story.\n\n'For a geologist, this is a must read' Amazon Reviewer\n\n'It serves to lift a genius from academic semi-obscurity and to award him the acknowledgement he undoubtedly deserves' Amazon Reviewer\n\n'Never realised how seminal this map was' Amazon Reviewer

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An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!\n\nThe compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand of those words. \n\nBut when the committee insisted on honouring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, a millionaire and American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane . . . charged with murder!\n_____________________\n\n'A weird and wonderful story of an eccentric friendship, and a slice of history' Sunday Times\n\n'What a revelation. Beautifully told and awe-inspiring' Daily Mail\n\n'Simon Winchester could not have told it better . . . a splendid book' Economist \n\n'Masterful . . . one of those rare stories that combine human drama and historical significance' Independent

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La giovane e ambiziosa Alina Petrova è una promessa della danza classica; figlia di un celebre ballerino, sempre alla disperata ricerca della perfezione, ostaggio di un inevitabile confronto con il genio paterno. Il suo sogno è di danzare sulle note de Il lago di cigni, nel ruolo della principessa Odette. Librarsi finalmente libera da ogni vincolo, mostrando la persona che è senza inibizioni, fragilità e paure. Dopo avere brillantemente superato un provino, inizia a frequentare, in compagnia del fratello Gavriel, la prestigiosa Accademia della Juilliard a New York. Dennis Blake, bello e strafottente, è un ballerino di danza moderna, consapevole del proprio talento, molto legato alla sorella, Samantha, con cui condivide l'esperienza in Accademia. Nel loro passato una perdita importante, un dolore sordo che il tempo non riesce a mitigare. Per un capriccio del destino, Alina e Dennis si ritrovano a dividere la stessa stanza nel campus, e le loro vite, così come quelle di Gavriel e Samantha, si intrecciano con la danza, gli allenamenti, i sogni da inseguire, le lacrime, le mille piccole invidie tra allievi, la musica, le angherie degli insegnanti, la competizione, le scarpette, la scomodità, la ricerca di se stessi. Un anno per dimostrare il proprio talento, per affinare le capacità, per testarsi e presentarsi al mondo con quella determinazione che il palcoscenico richiede. Talvolta, però, nella ricerca e affermazione del proprio talento ci si può smarrire. È ciò che succede a Alina. Convinta che per essere Odette, la leggera e bellissima principessa, sia necessario smettere di mangiare.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018\n \n Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.\n \n\n\n Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical and intellectual landscapes. The items we value in our daily lives - a camera, phone, computer, bicycle, car, a dishwasher perhaps - all sport components that fit together with precision and operate with near perfection. We also assume that the more precise a device the better it is. And yet whilst we live lives peppered and larded with precision, we are not, when we come to think about it, entirely sure what precision is, or what it means. How and when did it begin to build the modern world?\n\n\n Simon Winchester seeks to answer these questions through stories of precision's pioneers. Exactly takes us back to the origins of the Industrial Age, to Britain where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John 'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. Thomas Jefferson exported their discoveries to the United States as manufacturing developed in the early twentieth century, with Britain's Henry Royce developing the Rolls Royce and Henry Ford mass producing cars, Hattori's Seiko and Leica lenses, to today's cutting-edge developments from Europe, Asia and North America.\n\n\n As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?

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Brand: Michele Winchester Vega;sharen Casazza;katie Helpley
EAN: 9781642503487
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Chicken Little’s Coping Skills for Kids (Ages 4-7) \nThis new take on the classic folktale is designed to help children identify and normalize their worries, fears, and anxieties. With the help of some farm animals for kids, Chicken Little, Come Out! The Sky Is Not Falling! fosters mental health awareness and provides strategies for improved coping. \n\n\nFeaturing a fun-filled barn, fluffy farm animals, and coping skills for kids. There’s a barn full of Chicken Little characters, but they don’t want to come out. It’s scary out there and they fear the sky is falling! But, with a lot of teamwork and a little help from Chicken Little, together they can calm their fears and phobias. All they need are the right behavioral stress reduction tools! \n\n\nA colorful animal story about mental health for kids. Chicken Little is confronting common fears and helping children with anxiety in a charming and new way. Using beautifully illustrated, relatable farm animals from the Chicken Little story, Psychiatric Social Worker, Dr. Winchester-Vega offers ways to manage and normalize children's mental health and foster conversation and understanding.\n\n\nInside, find:\n\n\n\n\nCoping skills for kids\nStrategies for reducing anxiety in children\nTwo bonus resources for parents, educators, and caregivers helping children with anxiety  \n\n\n\nIf you enjoyed books like What to Do When You Worry Too Much, Wilma Jean the Worry Machine, or Wemberly Worried, then you and your child will love Chicken Little, Come Out! The Sky is Not Falling!?

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Brand: Simon Winchester
EAN: 9788845928468
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Per secoli l'uomo si è rifiutato di affrontare il mare grigio, roboante e tempestoso che si estendeva al di là delle Colonne d'Ercole, abitato da mostri terrificanti come le Gorgoni e i Giganti Centimani o da razze bizzarre come i Cimmeri, gli Etiopi e i Pigmei; solo i Fenici, avidi e temerari, osarono sfidare quelle acque alla ricerca di un mollusco da cui estrarre il colore più ambito dalle élite di potere dell'età classica. Oggi l'Atlantico, nella percezione di molti, non è altro che un piccolo inconveniente, che dura giusto il tempo di un paio di film proiettati durante un volo intercontinentale. Fra questi due estremi sono intercorsi duemilacinquecento anni di esplorazioni, guerre, commerci e disastri, attraverso i quali l'oceano ha plasmato le ambizioni e la condotta di marinai, scienziati, mercanti e soldati, venendo visto, a seconda delle circostanze e della sorte, come un alleato o un nemico, una risorsa o un pericolo. Simon Winchester racconta l'ultra millenaria relazione fra l'Atlantico e gli esseri umani - predatori vichinghi e monaci irlandesi, cacciatori di balene e mercanti di schiavi, posatori di cavi e pirati -, mescolando storia e aneddoto, geografia e ricordi personali, scienza e affabulazione. Il risultato è un'epopea del \"mare interno della civiltà occidentale\" maestosa, sorprendente, burrascosa, cangiante - quasi quanto l'oceano stesso.

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Brand: Winchester
EAN: 810735015459