connor court publishing pty ltd jan 2013 (7 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 23 colour photos, 60 black and white photos. For Enid Blyton, Old Thatch was 'a wonderful place to write stories in.' From her 400 year old home to the surrounding Thames Valley, where she set her most celebrated mystery series, this book is a gateway to some captivating places. Along river pathways and leafy lanes, around stately manors, snow-covered churches and country pubs, its journey will delight Enid Blyton at Old Thatch is NOT another analysis of why her books still sell in their millions. Nor is it a politically-correct critique of golliwogs and the supposedly hidden lives of Noddy and Big Ears. This book is a celebration of place, of a beautiful village along the banks of the Thames 40 miles west of London, where Enid Blyton lived in a 400 year-old thatched house called 'Old Thatch'. Step back in time with Enid's daughter, Gillian Baverstock, to a childhood she remembered fondly. 'Old Thatch' is now open to the public in spring and summer and its owners, Jacky and David Hawthorne have one of the best award-winning gardens in Britain. Enid Blyton also set one of her most exciting children's series, the Mystery stories, in the village and surrounding areas such as Marlow, Taplow and the ancient woodland, Burnham Beeches. Enid Blyton at Old Thatch is about escapism with a touch of history and fantasy. It is also a great travel guide to one of England's most green and pleasant landscapes. Enjoy it - life is too short to be serious all the time! 'It looks like a fairytale house, bit it is real and wonderful.' 'Old Thatch experiences the best of the four seasons in style - riverside fun in summer, leafy autumns, cosy firesides on wintry days and spring blossoms.' 'Even many Bourne end residents who number themselves as Blyton fans do not realise that the author set her best series of children's novels in their village and surrounds.' 'Many of the Find-Outer settings were part of the early childhood landscape of Gillian, Enid Blyton's daughter.' 'Stepping back into the Find-Outers' world also means walking beside the Thames river path, catching the London train, boating, exploring a stately mansion such as Cliveden near Taplow or discovering the charms of nearby villages.' 'Many places close to Bourne end open pathways to other writers who lived in the general vicinity. These include Miton, Thomas Gray, G.K. Chesterton, Kenneth Grahame and the Shelleys.' ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tess Livingstone is the biographer of Australia's Cardinal George Pell, and the editor of seven other books - on business, education, theology, and a children's book. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK and the USA.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - As I Have Loved You is a much needed resource for parents. Using easy to understand language and graphics, it offers parents advice and materials for training their own children in a well integrated sexuality according to the mind of the Church. The inspiration for this book comes from Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body, and the specific teaching of the Pontifical Council for the Family's document, 'Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.' The materials have been trialled for the past eight years, and have been used in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and Britain.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book is an autobiographical account of one family's journey through the puzzling maze of autism, as narrated by mother Rochelle Miller. Sometimes wry and irreverent, it tells of the challenges and triumphs involved with caring for two sons with Autism Spectrum Disorder, examining a serious subject in a sometimes not-so-serious light. --- 'There is much pain and some black humour along the path of raising autistic children but also quiet pride and solace gained by seeing progress made, however incremental. Rochelle Miller has raised not one but two children on the autism spectrum with the help and support of Ben and many others, she has now written her personal story with clarity and vibrance.' - The Honourable Tim Fischer AC, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Lessons in Humility is the bizarre story of Barry Dickins' life as a teacher. He gained his Diploma Of Education at The Melbourne State College forty years ago although he failed Classroom Management. He has taught Drama and Creative Literature to cherubs at a primary school and prayer-composition at a secondary college. The recollection unfolds at the point of doom but cheerfully expands when the author experiences enlightenment when he is put in with Grade Ones forever. Barry Dickins' writing has been called 'The defeat of the desperate by the bizarre' which means of course that his stage characters are inevitably overcome by not themselves but their surroundings. Join the catastrophic but noble hunt for meaning as our indefatigable community-loving teacher collides with life head-on. Nietzsche once wrote that 'only with laughter do we slay' and never was that epithet truer for a willing servant of education who not only clashes with bureaucracies but can't comprehend society either. What he is brilliant at is never teaching but the forgotten art of listening. Children adore to be carefully heard and practising that fact is what gets him through Hell in one piece. The fantastic and fatal daily hurts and contradictions are faithfully recorded here by a writer who loves poor people so well he knows what lollies they've knocked off. Many essays have been composed and published upon teaching in the 200 years of the strap. Many are marvellous but this is true. You too will feel as you have held class at The Boil Street Special School in Sickening Road. The author learns the timely lesson in modesty at the rickety helm of teaching chaos. It's not that his kids are stupid but that he is arrogant. He teaches poorly because he listens worse. It is only when he surrenders his portrait of himself as an artist to the wheelie bin of life that he finally learns that teaching is to do with others and not vanity. Vanity is interesting but it will never get the soul a Roadworthy Certificate.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'At the end of these days of Spiritual Exercises, I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to you, your Eminence, for your spiritual guidance, which has been offered with such theological competence and spiritual depth. From my angle of vision, I have been able to see, on the wall of the Chapel, the image of Jesus kneeling before St Peter in order to wash his feet. Through your meditations, this image has spoken to me. I have recognized that precisely here, in this attitude, in this act of extreme humility, the new priesthood of Jesus is realized. It is realized in his act of solidarity with us, with our weaknesses, our suffering, and our temptations, even to the point of death. I have also seen the red vestments of Jesus with new eyes that speak to me of his blood. You, worthy Cardinal, have taught us that the blood of Jesus was, on account of his prayer, 'oxygenated' by the Holy Spirit. In this way, it has become the power of resurrection and the source of life for us'. POPE BENEDICT XVI.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'We need to support those who tell the truth' -- Bess Nungarrayi Price. There is a reluctance to scrutinise and address the fundamental cultural generators of Aboriginal violence. Where violence is seen as part of culture, too often it is defended as the cultures right to practice it.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Here at last is a scientific voice from the developing world that dissects the West's current obsession with 'dangerous man-made climate change'. Hans Christian Andersen's 19th century fairy tale, The Emperor's New Clothes, serves as a parable for today's anthropogenic global warming hoax that has politicians, journalists and academics around the developed world bending the knee to the new green religion of climate alarmism. Like the boy in the fairy tale, the author points out that the climate 'emperor' also has no clothes. Making extensive use of documentary evidence from across the scientific spectrum he demonstrates that the alleged 'consensus' of the climate scientists is non-existent. The writer examines in detail the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and finds there is no credible scientific evidence to back up the claims of imminent climate catastrophe. The present book has particular significance, given that the developing world will suffer most if deprived of sources of urgently needed cheap energy as a result of the West's futile, indeed hypocritical, crusade to 'save the planet' by outlawing fossil fuels. The New Emperors' Novel Clothes is an important addition to the growing body of scientific literature refuting the claims of the climate alarmists. Let's hope more of our politicians are starting to pay attention.