![]() Which for me, is exactly how I learn best. The Great Circle will talk you through the subjects, use visual aids, presentations, Q&A's and practical exercises to teach the PPL syllabus. The course presentations break down each subject so perfectly and mixed with an engaging teaching style, it makes these subjects interesting and fun to learn. BUT Adam's teaching ability is exceptional. I passed all 9 exams in 5 days and that included subjects I entered with virtually zero prior knowledge with. I don't learn well from just reading a book and trying to remember it's facts, especially when the topic is as dull as Air Law! Adam's PPL ground school was a godsend. I was struggling with reading my way through the Pooleys flight books and becoming disheartened with my flying and PPL as a result. ![]() I don't think a better PPL Ground School exists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() These expansions will help readers properly integrate intuitive eating into their daily lives and make peace with food. ![]() It includes new material on diet culture, weight stigma, and baby-led weaning. This revised edition is entirely updated throughout. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Praise for Moebius Library: The World of Edena: A beautiful, full-color 8 x 10–inch hardcover, The Art of Edena features Moebius’s timeless illustrations with science-fiction stories translated to English for this publication. This celebration of the imagery and creative enthusiasm Moebius held for his Edena universe includes the short stories “Seeing Naples,” “Another Planet,” “The Repairmen,” and “Dying to See Naples,” as Moebius explores his imagination with two of his favorite characters, Stel and Atan.Ĭreated in close collaboration with Moebius Production in France, Moebius Library: The Art of Edena is a comprehensive collection of Edena material featuring artwork that has never before been seen by American readers. Moebius Library: The Art of Edena collects four fantastic Edena-related short stories and a mother lode of Moebius illustrations. ![]() By Dana Folkard “MOEBIUS LIBRARY: THE ART OF EDENA,” THE SECOND CHAPTER PREVIEW!ĭark Horse is proud to announce the much-anticipated sequel to the New York Times best-selling graphic novel Moebius Library: The World of Edena, with Moebius Library: The Art of Edena, available in bookstores October 3, 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() You will even encounter witches, gods and even Death itself as you read through the wisdom-filled stories included in this volume.Lately, many versions of Aesop’s Fables were published including this comprehensive 12-volume collection which includes a total of 284 fables presented in a new, easy to understand translation. ![]() The stories teach the truths of life in a simple manner, relying on basic examples such as short tales about foxes, stags, lions and, of course, people. These fables carried the wisdom and understanding of the people, and used examples that included anything from foxes and horses to the mighty Heracles to convey their message.If you are interested in softly spoken, simple tales that carry some of the oldest universal truths and moral values that humanity has carried throughout the eons, Aesop’s Fables are the ideal collection to consider. 620 BCE – 564) was credited with the collection of numerous fables and stories that were passed down in Ancient Greece through word-of-mouth, throughout the generations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it seems weird to say but I've seen him on panels at NCTE and was at a roundtable session with him and he has a great energy. I appreciate everything he shares on Twitter and his overall essence. What I Think: David Bowles is one of my Latinx heroes. Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope. But trusting in his family’s traditions, his trusty accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Watch out for Joanna! She’s tough as nails. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Güero is also a nerd-reader, gamer, musician-who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is puro mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. ![]() In Spanish, “Güero” is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. He’s starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool. GoodReads Summary: Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. Genre/Format: Realistic Fiction/Novel in Verse ![]() ![]() I’ve taken multiple leaps of faith over the past decade from quitting my 9-5 job without a Plan B to moving to a new city…without a Plan B. Taking risks not only as an entrepreneur but also as an energy healer, which many consider very “woo-woo” or too “out there”, comes with a lot of vulnerability. I run a business helping women tackle setbacks through energy healing and holistic practices. 4 Steps To More Courage As a risk-taking entrepreneur, I couldn’t agree more with her statements on vulnerability. She discussed how feelings of worthiness impact the shame cycle we go through as human beings and actions we can take to become more resilient. Brene Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work, addressed the realities surrounding vulnerability. ![]() ![]() Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who comes short and short again…who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly…” – Teddy Roosevelt, 1910 In a recent presentation on courage, Dr. “It’s not the critic who counts…the credit goes to the who is actually in the arena. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Raised in Seattle, she studies at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla. The main character, Piyali Roy, is a young marine biologist of Bengali-Indian descent but identifying as stubbornly American. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people from different worlds collide. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. For settlers here, life is precarious: attacks by deadly tigers are common, and the threat of eviction and consequent social unrest is ever present. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. It won the 2004 Hutch Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Set in the Sundarbans, it follows an unlikely trio who travel up river together to find the rare Irrawaddy dolphin. The Hungry Tide (2004) is the fourth novel by Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh. ![]() ![]() While living in San Diego, Amelia had met and. ![]() ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Melody Carlson has written a poignant story, The Christmas Blessing, about a young woman during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I wonder what happened to Lewis Grassic Gibbon? Sunset Song is undoubtedly great, Cloud Howe is mediocre and dull, and this one is dreadful. Chris Guthrie is one of the great characters in Scottish Literature and no reader of Sunset Song and Cloud Howe should miss this last rich chapter in her tale. Grey Granite is the last and grimmest volume of the Scots Quair trilogy. In the face of violence and police brutality, his socialist idealism is forged into something harder and fiercer as he becomes a communist activist ready to sacrifice himself, his girlfriend and even the truth itself, for the cause. Ewan finds employment in a steel foundry and tries to lead a peaceful strike against the manufacture of armaments. In a society of factory owners, shopkeepers, policemen, petty clerks and industrial labourers, 'Chris Caledonia' must make her living as bets she can by working in Ma Cleghorn's boarding house. These are the Depression years of the 1930s, and Chris is far from the fields of her youth in Sunset Song. Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as hard as the granite of the buildings all around them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its myths invert reality: it claims to defend folk culture while in fact it is forging a high culture it claims to protect an old folk society while in fact helping to build up an anonymous mass society It preaches and defends cultural diversity, when in fact it imposes homogeneity both inside and, to a lesser extent, between political units. (Ibid., 124-25.) ![]() National ideology suffers from pervasive false consciousness. It is nationalism which engenders nations and not the other way around. (Ibid., p.55.) Nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires that ethnic boundaries should not cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries with a given state should not separate the power-holders from the rest. (Ibid., p.1 Clarke & Jones, op. Clarke & Charles Jones, eds., The Rights of Nations: Nations and Nationalism in a Changing World, Cork UP 1999, Introduction, p.7.) ![]() It is in reality the consequence of a new model of social organisation, based on deeply internalised education-dependent high cultures, each protected by its own state. (p.48 quoted in Desmond M. ∛ut nationalism is not the awakening of an old, latent, dormant force, though that is how it does indeed present itself. 1993, pp.3-4 - In ∼lassroom / Postcolonial Fiction, infra. See also Ernest Gellner, The Mightier Pen: The Double Standards of Inside-Out Colonialism, in Times Literary Supplement, 19 Feb. ![]() |