Real-life 7-year-old Sophia Spencer was bullied for loving bugs until hundreds of women scientists rallied around her. Now Sophie tells her inspiring story in this picture book that celebrates women in science, bugs of all kinds, and the importance of staying true to yourself. Makes a perfect gift for nature lovers on Earth Day and every day! Sophia Spencer has loved bugs ever since a butterfly landed on her shoulder--and wouldn't leave!--at a butterfly conservancy when she was only two-and-a-half years old. In preschool and kindergarten, Sophia was thrilled to share what she knew about grasshoppers (her very favorite insects), as well as ants and fireflies... but by first grade, not everyone shared her enthusiasm. Some students bullied her, and Sophia stopped talking about bugs altogether. When Sophia's mother wrote to an entomological society looking for a bug scientist to be a pen pal for her daughter, she and Sophie were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response--letters, photos, and videos came flooding in. Using the hashtag BugsR4Girls, scientists tweeted hundreds of times to tell Sophia to keep up her interest in bugs--and it worked! Sophia has since appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, and NPR, and she continues to share her love of bugs with others.
Sophia will be entering into the 6th grade this year (2015) and has always been interested in words, phrases, analogies and idioms. One of her more quirky attributes is the ability to take an idiom and use it in an entirely new way that somehow actually fits the current situation. Sophia sees things differently than most people and this compliments her ability to churn out poetry that is sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes funny, and sometimes sad. When Sophia was a small child we read to her almost every night, mostly the same old children's books we have all come to love/hate, but occasionally we would read Shel Silverstein and of course Dr. Seuss, these she loved. I will never forget the time when Sophia was able to recite all of Shel Silverstein's "Hungry Mungry" after only hearing it twice. She has a gift, and while this current collection represents Sophia's efforts in its infancy, I do hope you will enjoy it. By the way if you are reading these poems out loud it helps if you imagine Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" with a guitar singing Silverstein's "The Giving Tree." -Good Luck- John S. Fitch, Sophia's Dad
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Ein Verhältnis mit dem Chef – für Lauren ein No-Go! Zum Glück ist ihr neuer Boss ein riesiger Mistkerl, arrogant, selbstverliebt und großkotzig. Leider ist er aber auch furchtbar attraktiv und scannt sie mit diesem einen bestimmten Blick, der sie bis in ihre Träume verfolgt. Finley Shaw hat sich fest vorgenommen, aus seinen Fehlern zu lernen. Deshalb lautet sein oberstes Gebot: Lass die Finger von deiner Assistentin! Doch er kann nicht aufhören, Lauren anzugaffen, als wäre sie das saftigste Stück Steak, das er jemals auf seinem Teller hatte. Dabei hat er im Augenblick sehr viel größere Probleme am Hals, die seinen Ruf gefährden, als nur die Frage, wie er Lauren ins Bett bekommen könnte. Er weiß, dass er sie in ein Spinnennetz ziehen wird, das mächtiger ist, als er zu glauben vermag ...
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Nina Baxter collectionne les déceptions amoureuses depuis toujours... Mais peu importe, tout cela ne fait que la rendre plus forte ! Un jour, elle a l'opportunité de partir en tournée avec The Point, LE plus grand groupe pop-rock du moment. Sans doute le rêve de toutes les jeunes filles de son âge. Sauf elle. Très vite, elle prend conscience que derrière les paillettes et les cris hystériques de ses fans, le groupe cache de lourds secrets. Alors qu'elle se rapproche de Jamie, la star de la bande, elle voit les rapports entre les rockers se fissurer. Cela fait des mois qu'ils n'ont plus écrit de nouvelles chansons... Rivalités, disputes, mais aussi jalousies (Sigrid, la petite amie actuelle de Jamie ne compte pas se laisser faire)... Nina va devoir adopter un nouveau rôle : celui qui consiste à recoller les morceaux. Elle sait qu'elle peut calmer le jeu lorsqu'ils sont tous ensemble, mais peut-elle se contrôler quand elle se retrouve en tête à tête avec Jamie ?
Harlequin Heartwarming brings you four new wholesome reads for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: A FAMILY LIKE HANNAH'S Seasons of Alaska • by Carol Ross Hannah James barely survived after her lifelong dream was crushed. Luckily she believes in second chances. But can she believe in love when Tate Addison suddenly appears? Once her foe, he seems awfully friendly now… THE LITTLE DALE REMEDY Creatures Great and Small • by Eleanor Jones For Meg Maguire, England's Lake District seems like the perfect place to recover from the accident that ended her career as a jockey. And Ross Noble seems like just the man to help her ride again. But if Meg wants to regain her strength, she's going to have to heal emotionally, too. And falling for the troubled, brooding Ross won't make that easy. MAKE ME A MATCH "Baby, Baby" by Melinda Curtis "The Matchmaker Wore Skates" by Cari Lynn Webb "Suddenly Sophie" by Anna J. Stewart It's three weeks before Valentine's Day and three bachelors and best friends are stuck in a rut. The only way out is to play matchmaker. And win. FIRST COMES MARRIAGE by Sophia Sasson Dr. Meera Malhotra would rather call her impending nuptials planned than arranged, but she's certain her fiancé is her perfect match. Still, she jumps at the opportunity to spend the month before her wedding doing a medical rotation in small-town USA. Getting a taste of independence and improving public health are all part of her plan. Falling for a cowboy? Not so much. Look for four new tender stories every month from Harlequin Heartwarming!
Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: THE COWBOY’S TWINS Family Secrets by Tara Taylor Quinn The Western segment of the Family Secrets cooking competition show is great for ratings. But as producer Natasha Stevens gets closer to her handsome cowboy cohost, Spencer Longfellow—and his adorable kids—she’s faced with a decision. One that has nothing to do with business. MENDING THE DOCTOR’S HEART State of the Union by Sophia Sasson Dr. Anna Atao has treated patients in some of the most dangerous and remote places on earth. There’s no disaster she can’t handle. Except the one that tore her life apart five years ago. Now a tsunami on the tiny island of Guam has forced her to return to the site of her personal tragedy…and the man she left there when her world fell apart. A BAXTER’S REDEMPTION by Patricia Johns She was once the belle of Haggerston, Montana. Wealthy and beautiful, Isabelle Baxter never thought about the people she stepped on. Now she’s back, claiming she’s changed. James Hunter refuses to trust this new and improved Isabelle. No matter how much she draws him in… HIS BEST FRIEND’S WIFE The Finnegan Sisters by Lee McKenzie Paul Woodward has only ever loved one woman: Annie Finnegan. He stayed away because she was married to his best friend. Now the widow and single mom is busy looking after a big family, and Paul doesn’t want to be just her friend anymore. But if he pushes for more he risks losing everything.
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
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