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An enchantingly profound meditation on our connection to the natural world and finding meaning beyond the demands of our daily lives, as told through the story of a pear orchard and the man who raised it Thirty years ago, Colin Harrison came across an ad in a local newspaper for an abandoned...

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic ...

A spellbinding guide to the entwined evolution of humans and flowers—and what they can teach us about life The love story between flowers and humans is millions of years old. Over millennia of ecological changes and challenges, flowers have inspired us, comforted us, and taught us some of our...

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by Willa Cather, published under the name Willa Sibert Cather. Heavily influenced by the works of Henry James, the book tells the story of bridge builder Bartley Alexander. Through his relationship with Actress Hilda Burgoyne while he is married his wife, Winnifred, he meets his moral downfall, and through another set of circumstances he meets his physical. (Summary by Miranda Stinson)

Starting tertiary study can feel exciting but can also feel quite overwhelming. Tertiary Talks is a six-part podcast series designed to support students preparing for university or TAFE by sharing practical advice, lived experience, and real-world strategies to help make the transition smoother. Valuable links: Vision Australia: Vision Australia | Vision Australia. Blindness and low vision services Blind Citizens Australia: Blind Citizens Australia Stand Up For Your Rights: Stand up for your rights | Vision Australia. Blindness and low vision services Pupil Project (featuring Benj): The ...

"Cynthia's Revels," the second "comical satire," was acted in 1600, and, as a play, is even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every Man Out of His Humour." Here personal satire seems to have absorbed everything, and while much of the caricature is admirable, especially in the detail of witty and trenchantly satirical dialogue, the central idea of a fountain of self-love is not very well carried out, and the persons revert at times to abstractions, the action to allegory. [Let's see if you agree!] - Summary by Prof. Felix E. Schelling Cast list:Cynthia: Devorah Allen Echo: Sonia ...

In writing this book, author, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez traveled thousands of miles by plane, motor vehicle, boat, and foot. Each chapter includes his fishing with a notable person in the worlds of fishing and conservation. His fishing partners in this book include Bob White, Chris...

Welcome to Conversations in Reproductive Medicine: an RBMO Podcast. The official podcast of the journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online, hosted by co-Chief Editors Professor Nick Macklon (Medical Director at London Women's Clinic, UK) and Prof Juan García Velasco (Chief Scientific Officer at IVI RMA Global, Spain).Our first podcast series meets the people behind the papers; exploring the evolution of assisted reproductive technology through the first-hand experiences of the groundbreaking scientists who have guided its development.

The Restless Planet tells the story of the Earth across its full four-and-a-half-billion-year history—from the supernova that forged its atoms to the ice ages, mass extinctions, and long chain of contingencies that eventually produced us. Drawing on geology, biology, astronomy, and chemistry, Robert W. Jansen places the listening in each moment of deep time: breathing the air, feeling the ground, looking at a sky no human eye has ever seen.

Netta Syrett was the niece of Grant Allen and a "new woman" in her own right. Educated at the University of Cambridge, she tried to make a career in teaching before becoming a novelist and playwright. This novel, The Day's Journey, tells the story of an ideal marriage which turns up side down when the husband falls in love with another woman. - Summary by Stav Nisser

In The Threshold of Collective Intelligence, Peter Belter takes readers from Paleolithic Europe to Arctic wastelands, from the grandeur of imperial Rome to the cold logic of modern nuclear arsenals, following one question across deep time: what does it take for intelligence to stop dying locally and start becoming history?

The baron is busy building ventures which are doomed to fail. He thinks the next one would be better, and mourns the absence of his wife who went to beg for money from rich friends for his failing ventures. To this world of love, anger and disappointment, Erika is born, now a keen girl of 14. This story is about her way to fit in, solve her complicated relationships with her parents, and find love. Ossip Schubin is the pseudonym of Aloisia Kirschner, a popular Austrian novelist. - Summary by Stav Nisser

Qué es La revolución de la empatía Podcast Son analisis científicos semanales de artículos científicos de fácil comprención basados en la visión del libro La Revolución de la Empatía de divulgación que mezcla historia, ciencia y ética para defender que la empatía puede ser el motor de un cambio profundo en nuestra forma de organizarnos como sociedad. Color (Editorial RenoDrac): https://www.renodrac.es/es/inicio/221-libro-la-revolucion-de-la-empatia-9788494752940.html B/N (McGraw Hill, disponible en España y Latam): https://libros.cc/La-revolucion-de-empatia.htm

Vous rêvez d'un chien bien dans ses pattes… et bien éduqué ? Voilà LE guide qu'il vous faut ! Tony Silvestre, fondateur d'Esprit Dog et éducateur canin n° 1 sur les réseaux, partage ici des méthodes simples, bienveillantes et déjà testées par des milliers de maîtres. Dans ce guide ultra-pratique, vous allez apprendre à : Choisir la race qui vous correspond : taille, énergie, caractère, besoins réels. Comprendre votre chien : signaux, émotions, langage corporel et rythme de vie.

A determinedly tight knit family of sisters comes to unexpected tribulation after a ship arrives containing romantic complication and hidden pasts.

"This is the land of the lost, one of those happy spots where no questions are asked. Of course, the fact of a person's being here is usually all the explanation necessary." The Story of a New Zealand River is a romance set in the Northland region of New Zealand, in the time when the forests of New Zealand's grandest tree, the kauri, were being logged for their exquisite timber. The novel begins as Alice Roland and her free-spirited daughter Asia are being rowed in a black punt by handsome and cultured David Bruce up the Kaipara harbour to their new home at a raw kauri logging settlement in a ...

A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

What could be more entrancing than Northanger Abbey? Catherine quite fears the Abbey. Find out why! - Summary by Victoria Bell

Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of ...

Philomène’s Marriages' is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and also in Paris, and is a translation from the French of a new work by the gifted and popular authoress, Henry Gréville, whose works have become so famous and popular, that they no longer require any elaborate introduction to the reading public. The heroine’s life in this charming story is one of every-day occurrences, made up of the never-ending round of country pleasures and duties, narrated in a most fascinating manner, amid scenes of French life in Normandy, and is an admirable picture of peasant country ...