How to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children's lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, 'adultification', and the government's 'nappy curriculum' which 'schoolifies' them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three [...]
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Walter Sickert, the prominent English post-Impressionist painter, was also a unique and highly perceptive writer about a wide variety of matters connected to the world of art. His pungent and vivid reflections range from long meditations on Whistler's work and influence on the medium of etching, to [...]
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.
Dr. Li[...]
Professional garden designer Gordon Hayward provides the tools to help homeowners tackle new garden designs and fix old ones with the confidence and know-how to succeed. He demonstrates the guiding principles behind his own designs: taking clues from the style, materials and proportions of existing [...]
A detailed look at the common characteristics found in most successful traders While there are a variety of approaches to trading in the financial markets, profitable traders tend to share similar underlying characteristics.[...]
"The Iconic House" features one hundred of the most important and influential architect-designed houses from around the world. With seminal works from such icons as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, as well as modern-day greats including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de[...]
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the fre[...]
"Ultimately a story of love, reconciliation, and triumph over adversity."--"Library Journal""A scorching account of the dark underside of family life."--Richard Selzer"Wonderfully written."--"Kirkus Reviews""A book of unsparing and at times brutal candor . . . reminding us of the fragility of childh[...]
Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo. A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects. The strangest thing: the murder seems to have been inspired by an old crime novel, a book called The Kill.[...]
An astonishing landmark novel in four books, The Kills is both a political thriller and a bravura literary performance. Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.[...]
A National Trust guidebook covering history, horticulture, garden history, history of art, architecture, social history, natural environment and conservation.[...]
Conversations in the House of Life offers a new translation of a text first published as The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth (2005). The composition is a dialogue between a Master, perhaps the god Thoth himself, and a Disciple, named "The-one-who-loves-knowledge." Originally written in Demotic, the t[...]
This title is suitable for children aged 3 to 5 years old. Welcome to Pig's house and to Richard Scarry's lively introduction to the things children find in their very own homes. Everything from doors and windows to pots, pans, tubs, and toothbrushes is labelled, while sly portrayals of 'angry broth[...]