Think Grand Designs. Think The Good Life. Combine the two, and you will have some idea of the new life the Norman family are creating for themselves in the French Pyrenees. Norman's Folly charts the three year period between coming across a "little piece of paradise" in 2006 and leaving their comfortable life in the UK in 2009. There's no divorce, bankruptcy or other crisis, so favoured by TV producers. Instead, Norman's Folly is a series of insightful and often amusing anecdotes following the family's attempts to undertake everyday activities and integrate into the Basque community.
An excellent introduction to the study of population and its significance for many of the key social, political, cultural and environmental issues facing the world today. It covers population growth, ageing, migration and mobility, parenting, health inequalities, and much more... The authors do not shy away from areas of continuing debate, providing both sides of an argument and encouraging readers to follow up the original sources" - Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography, Centre for Urban, Regional & Development Studies, Newcastle University and Vice President, British Society for Population Studies, 2011-2013 Population and Society is an undergraduate introduction to population that explains the latest trends in population studies. The text provides a detailed and completely accessible overview that: situates demographic events - fertility, mortality and migration - within the context of broader social impacts and theorisations like social inequalities, individualisation and life course analysis uses global illustrative examples to demonstrate the importance of data and data interpretation in population studies is illustrated throughout with pedagogic features, like chapter opening summaries, suggestions for further readings and case study examples. This text will be widely used as the standard and most up-to-date text on population and society for courses across the social sciences.
This book isn't going to solve every problem in the world, but I have a feeling that it could change your world. I truly want you to be happy, healthy and fulfilled. And a world full of happy, healthy, fulfilled people would be an amazing place to live and to learn, wouldn't it? My gift to you is everything that I have learned so far about living the best life. That's the best life for you, whatever that looks like and feels like. Let me add that the best life is not necessarily the perfect life – we are all human, and we all make mistakes, we all have our struggles. And we're forever learning. I'm personally still learning about how to connect with my heart as well as my more logical head, and this book is part of that journey for me. And here's the point. If we can work out who we want to be in the world, and then live according to those principles, we'll be much closer to being happy, healthy and fulfilled. It's not about having more (money or possessions), nor is it about achieving more (educational achievements, role achievements, sports achievements), though those things may be a part of your best life. It's more to do with who you want to be in and to the world. It's not about doing things faster, it's not a race to the finish line, nor a competition with others. It is about living and being the best you can be in the moment, and enjoying the journey. It's about doing what you love, every day. It's about deepening the relationships you have with others in your life. Here's who I aim to be to the world: a sunbeam. Warming, nurturing, enabling growth, illuminating, somehow child-like and curious. Maybe you'll catch a glimmer of that sunbeam's warmth as you read on. So how do you work out who you want to be? Read on, and I hope you will find some answers. These are things that have worked for me. And if you don't find your own answers immediately, let your sub-conscious work on it, and they'll come if you listen to your intuition.
This is the first major study to comprehensively analyze the art and architecture of the archdiocese of Bari and Canosa during the Byzantine period and the upheaval of the Norman conquest. The book places Bari and Canosa in a Mediterranean context, arguing that international connections with the eastern Mediterranean were a continuous thread that shaped art and architecture throughout the Byzantine and Norman eras. Clare Vernon has examined a wide variety of media, including architecture, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, epigraphy and luxury portable objects, as well as patronage, to illustrate how cross-cultural encounters, the first crusade, slavery and continuities and disruptions in the relationship with Constantinople, shaped the visual culture of the archdiocese. From Byzantine to Norman Italy will appeal to students and scholars of Byzantine art, the medieval Mediterranean and the Italo-Norman world.
In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subjected to torture, starvation and arbitrary death. In Four Thousand Lives, Clare Ungerson tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, East Kent, to which up to 4,000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas. The whole rescue was funded by the British Jewish community, with help from American Jewry. Most of the men had to leave their families behind. Would they get them out in time? And how would the people of Sandwich – a town the same size as the camp – react to so many German speaking Jewish foreigners? There was a well-organised branch of the British Union of Fascists in Sandwich. Lady Pearson, the BUF candidate for Canterbury, was President of the Sandwich Chamber of Commerce and Captain Gordon Canning, a prominent Fascist and close friend of Oswald Mosley, lived there and he and his grand friends used to meet there to play golf. This background adds to the drama of the race against time to save lives. Four Thousand Lives is not just a story of salvation, but also a revealing account of how a small English community reacted to the arrival of so many German Jews in their midst.
The National Trust cares for the finest collection of historic buildings, gardens, parks, landscape and coastline in the world. Its famous and well-respected series of guidebooks provides the essential companion to your visit and a lasting souvenir of the experience. And now you can buy the guide before your visit. Authoritative texts and superb illustrations illuminate the history of the place and tell the stories of the people who have lived and worked there. Every guidebook sold goes to help the work of the National Trust. If you want to learn more about the property, go to www.nationaltrust.org.uk
This is the first major study to comprehensively analyze the art and architecture of the archdiocese of Bari and Canosa during the Byzantine period and the upheaval of the Norman conquest. The book places Bari and Canosa in a Mediterranean context, arguing that international connections with the eastern Mediterranean were a continuous thread that shaped art and architecture throughout the Byzantine and Norman eras. Clare Vernon has examined a wide variety of media, including architecture, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, epigraphy and luxury portable objects, as well as patronage, to illustrate how cross-cultural encounters, the first crusade, slavery and continuities and disruptions in the relationship with Constantinople, shaped the visual culture of the archdiocese. From Byzantine to Norman Italy will appeal to students and scholars of Byzantine art, the medieval Mediterranean and the Italo-Norman world.
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