![]() The harrowing circumstances of their ordeal include a treacherous hike across miles of frozen wasteland, an 800-mile open-boat journey through savage seas, and a perilous trek across the uncharted mountain ranges of South Georgia Island. The ship became entrapped in ice, and the men were forced to abandon their mission and try to survive in the brutally harsh Antarctic wasteland for 19 months. In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton attempted to be the first explorer to cross Antarctica by foot "from sea to sea." On the eve of World War I, he set out with a crew of scientists and sailors on a specially designed ship, Endurance, but he and his team never reached their objective. ![]() ![]() Filled with intriguing details and written with dramatic intensity, this riveting account of the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition reads like a gripping adventure novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Told through the eyes of Bree, Laforet gracefully and humorously handles the issues that arise when overexcitability and worries get in the way of Bree making friends, and through Bree’s belly breathing technique, Laforet offers proven stress coping strategies to calm nerves.Īs a Gifted Intervention Specialist and parent of a gifted child, I have met many children like Bree, and I found Bree and the Nametag Worries to be heartwarming and believable. Despite some first day mishaps, Bree discovers other children with whom she identifies and a new friend.įor gifted children who struggle with anxiety and with fitting in Bree and The Nametag Worries by Christine Sromek Laforet is an ideal book to ease children through these authentic school transitions. As a gifted child, Bree is over excitable, curious and often misunderstood by classmates. ![]() Will her classmates like the name tag she has created? Will she make friends? These “worries” are further compounded by Bree’s active imagination and her learning differences. Six year old, Bree Wilson, is plagued by first day of school anxiety. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's wrenching when Coleman finally leaves, having extended her stay by two years, thin, bald, ill with parasites, and emotionally wrecked from dealing with the never-ending challenges of saving animals from encroaching civilization. There are poignant breakthroughs, unsettling setbacks, terrifying dangers, narrow escapes, heartbreaking separations and reunions, and hookups and relationships, all channeled through Coleman's honest, wry, self-effacing, and always entertaining narrative. The real story is her relationship with her first assignment, a puma named Wayra. She creates wonderfully descriptive profiles of her companions, both human and animal, and tells hair-raising tales of jungle life. Readers will be hooked by Coleman's compelling storytelling right from the opening pages as she describes her shell-shocked first days, completely out of her element. ![]() This memoir begins in 2007 as Coleman, a timid, lost 24-year-old, somehow finds herself signed up for 30 days of volunteer work at a trafficked-animal rescue camp in Bolivia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It discusses that some of the most radical renditions of language came not from the deconstructive inclinations of literary critics but from analytical philosophy's encounters with popular anthropology. It notes that language, along with culture, perhaps the most important keyword of the human sciences in the twentieth century, had a lengthy history in North America, where academic and popular studies of linguistics were strongly formed by ethnographic encounters with racial difference. It argues that cultural history's reception of French structural linguistics and post-structuralism was shaped by earlier linguistic turns in American anthropology and analytic philosophy. This chapter begins with a discussion of the New Cultural History, a movement commonly described as history's response to the growing influence of radical, continental conceptions of language. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() Bernstein received a surprising number of telegrams from the leading Broadway songwriters of the day, including Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Schwartz, and Jule Styne. West Side Story is a modern version of Romeo and Juliet, as there are two gangs (families), who constantly war against each other, but two lovers of opposite. Griffith, the show’s producers who, presumably intentionally mangled the song title “Maria” as “Martha” (c) from the lyricists/librettist team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, previous Bernstein collaborators, referencing Bernstein’s father, Samuel, who had wanted his son to join and take over the family business-the Samuel Bernstein Hair Company (d) from librettist Arthur Laurents (e) from Carol Lawrence, the original Maria (f) from Roger Stevens, an early producer and constant supporter (h) and from songwriter Cole Porter. ![]() Included in those saved are the seven on display here: (a) from Betty Bogart, wife of Humphrey Bogart and best known as Lauren Bacall (b) from Harold “Hal” S. Leonard Bernstein saved approximately 140 opening night telegrams that he received when West Side Story opened on Broadway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The conclusion to a trilogy that includes Gabriel's Rapture and Gabriel's InfernoĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:48:04 Boxid IA1897018 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier In an effort to confront his remaining demons, Gabriel begins a quest to discover more about his biological parents, beginning a chain of events that has startling repercussions for himself, Julianne, and his hope of having a family". And in Oxford, several individuals from their past appear, including an old nemesis intent on humiliating Julia and exposing one of Gabriel's darkest secrets. ![]() When she is given the honor of presenting an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel is forced to confront Julianne about the subject of her presentation-research that conflicts with his own. But Julianne's graduate program threatens Gabriel's plans, as the pressures of being a student become all consuming. Together, he's confident that they can face any challenge. "Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nebres made national news in 2021 when she became the first Black ballet dancer in the 65 years the New York City Ballet's production of The Nutcracker to dance the role of Marie, the story's heroine. Nebres currently studies at the School of American Ballet. ![]() She plans on expanding her little diverse library to underserved cities across New Jersey." Ballet ![]() Īfter recognizing a lack of diverse books for both children and adults, she and her sister, Libby, created a "little diverse library.stocked up with books written by and about people of color. Her mother, Danielle, was born and raised in New York City. Her grandparents immigrated from Trinidad and the Philippines, respectively. Nebres currently lives in Madison, New Jersey with her parents, brother, and sister. Later that year, she wrote Charlotte and The Nutcracker, a children's book about her experience. In 2019, at eleven years old, she become the first Black ballerina to dance the role of Marie in New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. Charlotte Nebres (born 2008 or 2009) is an American pre-professional ballet dancer. ![]() ![]() There are currently nine books in the Duck series and almost than 1.5 million copies have been sold. His Eddy and the Bear trilogy (which began with the much-loved Where's My Teddy in 1992) has sold nearly four and a half million copies and was made into an BAFTA award-winning animated television series.ĭuck in the Truck (published in 1999) heralded the start of another bestselling series, this time featuring the irrepressible Duck and his three friends - Frog, Goat and Sheep. The Infinite Journey, the second Book in the series, is published in early 2019. When that happens, a whole new adventure begins in a life beyond the Personality." "Our Personality creates its own dream from the deep-seated beliefs and emotions it harbours a dream that can be full of emotional distress, over-thinking and the constant investment in a future which never quite delivers on the belief: ‘When I get this I’ll be happy.’ The Story of ‘You’ suggests it’s possible to wake up out of that dream. In that identification, the Stillness and Love of our Original State is overshadowed by the suffering of the Personality. He says: "We enter this world as pure Oneness, (what I call our ‘original state of Being’) but we lose this as we become identified with our Personality. In 2018 he published The Story of 'You' his first book for adults, the first in a series called Life Beyond Personality. ![]() Jez is the author and illustrator of 48 books for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in How to be both, what was once a secondary concern is front and center : the creation of art, and its radical and transformative power. ![]() Form following content, this revolutionary novel was published in two versions, one with each part leading the thread.Īuthor of the novels Artful, There but for the, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, and The Accidental, and story collections Other stories and other stories, The whole story and other stories, and The First person and other stories, Ali Smith has long concerned herself with the role of art/the artist in culture. Part love story, part historical fiction, and threaded with mystery, the novel is comprised of part One and part One, each foregrounded with a visual element (a surveillance camera, an artful pair of eyes) suggesting themes of surveillance and sight, ‘looking’-all themes Smith fans will have encountered in her earlier works. A triumph of doubling, deception and discovery, How to be both considers the twin concepts of art and beauty alongside questions of justice, ‘moral conundrums’ and sexuality. ![]() In her 2014 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel How to be both, Ali Smith twists two narratives, that of a troubled teenager in contemporary Britain and that of a 1460s Renaissance fresco painter, into a single dazzling story. ![]() |