A warm uplifting story of love and adventure Maggie Williams knew she'd love Africa long before she arrived but never dreamed it would become her home. But you don't end up living in Africa on a whim and certainly not when you're heading towards retirement - there has to be something pretty special going on and for Maggie it was falling in love with a group of eager young girls and a handsome chief in waiting. This hadn't been in the plan. The trip was supposed to be about escaping a boring life, forgetting about growing old for a while and tackling the serious business of putting something back. It was absolutely nothing to do with relationships or her need to look young forever. She was wrong on both counts. This is the story of how she trades her comfortable life for the red dust of Africa, dancing to the drums in Ghana, sailing with the dolphins in South Africa and meditating with Buddhist monks in Thailand. We share her thoughts and feelings as this amazing journey unfolds and meet all those people who helped make this a truly remarkable adventure - Fred, Agnes, Latif, Nachena, Richard, Liz, Band and of course the charmer himself, Choo. (2 Additional sentences to go on back cover ) 5p from every copy sold will be donated to Maltiti First Steps Cover paintings by OSFA Art Works, Tamale, Ghana
We began with conversations about the sea. We meditated together on chance, discovery, agency, beauty, and material ecology. We talked about the delicate care of treading the world, the confluence of the personal and the professional, and the possibilities of storytelling. We thought about what happens when we encounter stuff, when we take it, change it, do something with it. When we display it, or sculpt it, or collect it. When we make something an object, and an object of looking.Then we met on the beach. We walked and talked about loss, home, agency, and liminality. We collected things: We picked up stones, feathers, seaweed. We pointed to stuff, gathered it, let it strike our fancy. Every shell nurtured a conversation among the artists, scientists, historians, poets, archivists, surfers, philosophers, and pirates who had joined the walk. We brought the sea-things back, manipulated them, and displayed them as works of art.Walk on the Beach is a souvenir of that project, a record of our bounty. It emerges from the process at the heart of art historical work: close looking. Thinking through objects, thinking with objects. Letting the things help us tell their stories.
Spring 1625. Jack, a young Scottish baker longing for adventure, seizes the opportunity to work on a trading boat, the Eagle, bound for Belgium and France. When the Eagle is forced to halt in La Rochelle for repairs, Jack discovers that his childhood friend Robin has gone missing after fighting for the Huguenots in the Battle of Blavet. Feeling obliged to seek him out, Jack's new journey takes him across northern Spain, where suspicion of both foreigners and non-Catholics is widespread. After encountering thieves masquerading as pilgrims, Jack discovers that possessing a book by Galileo can be dangerous: he needs to leave in a hurry! Set in the turbulent world of 17th century Europe, this story draws on real historical figures in a Britain and Europe uncannily like our own.
An anxious young woman's life begins to unravel, revealing the deceptions that lie at its foundation. Geillis' husband Hendrie returns home wounded from fighting for the Army of the Dutch Republic against Spain. On his trail, three young people arrive, but they are too late: Hendrie has already returned to the Netherlands. As the secret of his double life is uncovered, the ensuing story is one of hospitality, kinship, loyalty, and heartbreak. Set in Midlothian, Scotland in 1603, debut author Maggie Williams Richmond delves into her family history to bring together the tensions of both then and now: race, religion, and politics.
Inspired by a passage in Vladmir Nabokov's Transparent Things (1972), and also compiled as a future love letter to The Material Collective, the essays collected here play with the transparency of pedagogy, scholarship, and writing, as well as with objects that can be seen through, such as crystals and stained glass. As Nabokov wrote,"When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines!"For the art and literary historians gathered together in this volume (Angela Bennett Segler, Jennifer Borland, Karen Eileen Overbey, Nancy Thompson, and Maggie M. Williams), all students of medieval material, these tensions between surface and depth, present and past, concentration and skimming are all too familiar. The inherent contradictions of medieval objects, their irreducibility to either the purely intellectual or the merely physical, are at once the delights and the dangers of the art historian's work. This book thus offeres a dialogue on the question of how our encounters with physical things spark a process and how objects might allow unique collisions between the past and the present, the human and the inanimate, the practice of history and lived experience. As works of medieval studies or art history, these essays are incomplete, awkward, and provisional. Some of them may read like embarrassing teenage poetry. This collection is that dusty box in the basement: it is full of raw, unedited, transparent expressions of affect, of the sort we have learned to hide.Table of Contents: Maggie M. Williams and Karen Eileen Overbey - "Introduction: Dear Material Collective"; Karen Eileen Overbey - "Reflections on the Surface, or, Notes for a Tantric Art History"; Jennifer Borland - "Encountering the Inauthentic"; Angela Bennett Segler - "Touched for the Very First Time: Losing My Manuscript Virginity"; Nancy Thompson - "Close Encounters with Luminous Objects
Migration, Mobility and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films: Interculturing Cinema draws on existing scholarship on global movements and intercultural communication in cinema to analyze six cross-cultural films. Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams locate key themes that tie into the complexity and implications of global movements, including migrants’ experiences of culture-shock, cultural assimilation and/or integration, cultural identities in transition, social mobility and movements, and the short-term intercultural impact that sojourners experience in unfamiliar cultural space. Mukherjee and Williams explore how intercultural communication functions in the storytelling and in the formation of character relationships in these films, arguing that the depictions of migration, mobility, and the resulting intercultural communications are complex and stressful moments of conflict that lead to mixed results. Scholars of film studies, communication, migrant studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.
Using many examples drawn from classroom practice, this guide supports and aims to extend the student teacher's own subject knowledge and understanding of science in the context of the primary classroom. It offers an accessible guide to all the main concepts of Key Stages one and two science teaching. Illustrating the importance of issues such as resourcing and assessing science in the primary classroom, the book offers guidance for practicing teachers who consider themselves "non-specialists" in science.
Maggie Ross's superb memoir of her sojourn in the wilderness is filled with living and dying, joy and pain, healing and hurting, and, most important, the "love that indwells and is revealed in the most unexpected places." Weary and wounded, yearning for deep solitude, Ross takes a job as a caretaker in a place of luminous--sometimes terrifying--beauty on the northwest coast of the United States. Here she meets a local woman called Muskrat who becomes her companion and teacher. From a harsh and unforgiving life, Muskrat has distilled impressive wisdom and an extraordinary, unselfconscious spirituality. Living out a generosity and loving-kindness born of suffering, she helps Ross find healing from damage inflicted by the abuse of power--damage that culminates in a life-threatening illness. Muskrat is not her only teacher. There are the dogs, Pomo and Kelly, and the bird, Raven, whose joyous play, tender and violent affection, mischief, and fidelity reveal a new vision of life during a long, slow convalescence. Ross receives healing, too, from the land, from the work necessary to its seasons, from the wildlife, which appears strangely unafraid, and from the small and large kindnesses of her rural neighbors. Like Henry David Thoreau and Annie Dillard, she describes landscapes of rare beauty that reveal the true meaning of sacrament "in the smallest wood orchid and the vast wildness of the sea. . . . the last flimsy boundaries between sacred and secular melted away." We emerge from this near-mythic tale--from its frustrations, its tragedies and epiphanies--illuminated, refreshed, with a new vital perception of the sanctity of our common humanity and of wilderness as a context for the transfiguration of pain.
Your health and wellness affect every area of your life. You can't fulfill your hopes and dreams when you're carrying excess emotional and physical baggage. So many people today are plagued by depression, low self-esteem, fear, and an assortment of chronic diseases. We live in a toxic world, but we're not helpless. There is hope. Through God's word you can unlock the keys that will change your life and impact those around you. You are God's masterpiece and He created you for a purpose. It's time to discover your destiny"--Back cover.
This series, designed for Key Stage 3, caters for all abilities through an easy-to-use format. It encourages exploration and investigation, relating science to everyday situations and features step-by-step guides to experiments. Extension material is included for all ability pupils.
The Marciano Love-Child Alessandro Marciano threw Scarlett out on the street without a second glance she had betrayed him! Now he has returned to claim the woman who lit his desire like no other. He has a proposition for Scarlett: he ll bankrupt her or bed her. The choice is hers. But when Alessandro is faced with Scarletts child, his son, there isnt a choice at all The Italian Billionaires Secret Love-Child Charlie Chandler gave herself body and soul to her dark and handsome Mediterranean lover. But her dreams were shattered when she discovered the truth the Italian who had seduced her was ruthless tycoon Riccardo di Napoli. Once Riccardo discovered pregnancy had been the consequence of their passion, nothing would stop him from claiming the child and Charlie as his own! The Rich Mans Love-Child Flynn MacCormac never wanted to see Caitlin Burns again. But she has an explosive revelation she was pregnant when she left him! Flynn cant send her away a second time. He doesnt trust her, but they share a passion nothing can destroy
FAERY SEDUCTIVE ESCAPE: Ashley Jones sees her chance to escape from Faery on Midsummer's Night, when the fae assume human guises. Faery prince Tiarnan Dairine hates mortals, but he's entranced by the woman whose human disguise is so very convincing. When the night is over and their two worlds collide, will Tiarnan forgive her for being human? ILLUMINATIONS: When Darius and his friend Jamie find Gemma, a young scullery maid, peeking through a shaded window at a menage scene with one of their guests, they have just the right punishment for her. They mean to teach her a lesson...and this time she'll be the one with an audience. TWO WITH A VIEW: Neighbours Natalie and Cyrus are caught up in a mutual game of voyeurism, and they soon find that 'look, but don't touch' is a rule by which they can't abide. Engaged in a sensual battle for control, they discover the one thing that leaves them powerless-their feelings for one another. PRYING EYES: Fashion model Michael Richard has always wanted his professional partner, girl-next-door type Amelia Wilson. But Amelia has a dirty little secret-she likes to watch. Will Michael find it a turn-off? Or will he help her take it to a whole new level?
An updated edition of the best-selling vocabulary practice book. Whether you're studying on your own or in class, English Vocabulary in Use Elementary covers all the words and phrases you need at this level to understand and be understood in English. This edition is fully updated to make the book even more relevant and accessible. This pack contains the new edition of English Vocabulary in Use Elementary with answers and CD-ROM. The CD-ROM includes interactive games as well as hundreds of practice exercises, providing further practice for every unit, audio recordings, customisable tests and a built-in dictionary. You can even record your voice and listen back to practise pronunciation.
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