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The Tank in Action
Douglas Gordon Browne
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Discovery Miles 11 430
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This charming collection of 45 fairy stories from Grimm was
originally published in 1894. The tales are profusely illustrated
with the pen and ink drawings of the English artist, Gordon Browne.
Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in
children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books,
particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working
to republish these classic works in high quality editions, using
the original text and artwork so these works can delight another
generation of children.
It is Christmas Eve but eight-year-old Kitty cannot sleep. Through
her own thoughtless disobedience, her beloved little brother,
Johnny, lies critically ill in bed. That night, Kitty travels in a
dream to Naughty Children Land. She meets many strange people,
including Daddy Coax who is so tender-hearted that he cannot stand
to see naughty children punished, and gives them candy and toys
when they are bad, in the hopes he can "coax" them into being good.
She also meets the beautiful lady, Love, who offers naughty
children the kiss of forgiveness and the opportunity to return to
the Path of Obedience. To reach her home again, Kitty must find a
way to resist the many temptations she faces and win the Christmas
blessing!
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Gordon Brown is a BCU Level 5 sea coach based on the Isle of Skye,
Scotland. He shares his knowledge with you in his own succinct
humorous style and very visual approach. In this book, Gordon
covers topics of kayaking history, physiology, boat and paddle
dynamics, seamanship and navigation, safety and rescue, weather
forecasting, caves, rockhopping and tidal races, expeditions and
overnighting, as well as a wealth of tips and resources for the sea
paddler. Over seventy photographs and illustrations help to make
this an essential modern manual for the sea kayaker.
This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street
systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly
preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding
Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic
transactions. Real property has been instrumental in forming urban
settlements for 5000 years, but virtually all urban form
commentary, theory and research has ignored this reality. The
result is an incomplete and flawed understanding of cities. Real
property became a means of arranging spatial patterns caused by
millennia of human evolutionary and historical developments with
respect to access and movement. As a result, access to resources of
all types became a regulatory mechanism controlled, at least in
part, by real property ownership. The effects of real property on
urban spatial patterns are currently best seen by examining
American urban space, which has changed significantly over the past
200 years. This change, which began in the 1840s and established
path dependence through a combination of design thought,
sentimental pastoralism and financial prowess resulted in an urban
regime shift that diminished economic resilience. This book offers
a rethinking of how real property relates to real space, examines
the thought of form promoters, links space, property, neurological
evolution and settlement form, shows access is measurable and
describes the plusses and minuses of functionalism, rent seeking,
general purpose technology, grid-form street systems and what the
American Founding Fathers thought about urban form.
This title was first published in 2001. This volume contains Allan
Ramsay's "Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace's
Sabine Villa". It also features essays about Ramsay, Jacob More,
Jacob Philipp Hackert, the garden and country house in 18th-century
British thought, and the archaeology of the Licenza Valley. The
aims of the editors are three-fold: to print the text as Ramsay
would have wished to, had he been able; to publish the related
illustrations by Hackert, More and Ramsay; and to provide some
basic background facts and commentary. They hope to help the
contemporary reader understand the antiquarian context in which
Ramsay was writing and to appreciate Ramsay's contribution to our
understanding of the site conventionally known as Horace's Villa.
In the years between about 1810 and 1840, Edinburgh-long and
affectionately known as 'Auld Reekie'-came to think of itself and
be widely regarded as something else: the city became 'Modern
Athens', an epithet later turned to 'the Athens of the North'. The
phrase is very well-known. It is also much used by those who have
little understanding of the often confused and contradictory
messages hidden within the apparent convenience of a trite or
hackneyed term that conceals a myriad of nuanced meanings. This
book examines the circumstances underlying a remarkable change in
perception of a place and an age. It looks in detail at the 'when',
the 'by whom', the 'why', the 'how', and the 'with what
consequences' of this most interesting, if extremely complex,
transformation of one city into an image-physical or spiritual, or
both-of another. A very broad range of evidence is drawn upon, the
story having not only topographical, artistic, and architectural
dimensions but also social, cerebral, and philosophical ones.
Edinburgh may well have been considered 'Athenian'. But, in
essence, it remained what it had always been. Maybe, however, for a
brief period it was really a sort of hybrid: 'Auld Greekie'.
This special issue of the International Journal of Psychology had
its origins in the Quebec 98 Conference on Short-Term Memory, held
in Quebec City, Canada, in June 1998. Following this conference,
participants were invited to submit contributions based on, and
expanding upon, their presentation at this conference. The
enthusiastic response made it possible to collect the exciting
selection of articles that you will find herein. It must be noted
that because of the finite journal space available, the editors and
reviewers were faced with the difficult problem of selecting only a
limited number of the excellent articles that were submitted. The
outcome of this process is this special issue, which we believe
provides an up-to-date overview of current research on
short-term/working memory, including the challenges, controversies,
and recent theoretical advances in this field.
Following on from his hugely successful book Sea Kayak, Gordon
Brown brings his vast experience and unique style to this latest
publication Sea Kayak Safety and Rescue. Each chapter begins with a
real-life incident which sets the scene and helps to emphasise what
follows. The underlying principles are highlighted, practical
lessons learnt and the hard skills explored in detail. Numerous
colour photos complement and illustrate the text. This book is
essential reading for any sea kayaker, and will be enjoyed and
valued by both novice and experienced paddlers alike.
This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street
systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly
preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding
Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic
transactions. Real property has been instrumental in forming urban
settlements for 5000 years, but virtually all urban form
commentary, theory and research has ignored this reality. The
result is an incomplete and flawed understanding of cities. Real
property became a means of arranging spatial patterns caused by
millennia of human evolutionary and historical developments with
respect to access and movement. As a result, access to resources of
all types became a regulatory mechanism controlled, at least in
part, by real property ownership. The effects of real property on
urban spatial patterns are currently best seen by examining
American urban space, which has changed significantly over the past
200 years. This change, which began in the 1840s and established
path dependence through a combination of design thought,
sentimental pastoralism and financial prowess resulted in an urban
regime shift that diminished economic resilience. This book offers
a rethinking of how real property relates to real space, examines
the thought of form promoters, links space, property, neurological
evolution and settlement form, shows access is measurable and
describes the plusses and minuses of functionalism, rent seeking,
general purpose technology, grid-form street systems and what the
American Founding Fathers thought about urban form.
This title was first published in 2001. This volume contains Allan
Ramsay's "Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace's
Sabine Villa". It also features essays about Ramsay, Jacob More,
Jacob Philipp Hackert, the garden and country house in 18th-century
British thought, and the archaeology of the Licenza Valley. The
aims of the editors are three-fold: to print the text as Ramsay
would have wished to, had he been able; to publish the related
illustrations by Hackert, More and Ramsay; and to provide some
basic background facts and commentary. They hope to help the
contemporary reader understand the antiquarian context in which
Ramsay was writing and to appreciate Ramsay's contribution to our
understanding of the site conventionally known as Horace's Villa.
This book presents rich source material; it makes no claim to being
academic, though referring whenever possible to works available to
the authors (the bibliography more or less stops with Ian
Gordon-Brown's death in 1996). However, those interested in
Transpersonal Psychology as an academic discipline will be able to
avail themselves of the wealth of original material here and take
it into the world of comparative study. Its origins could be traced
back way beyond Jung, Frankl, Maslow and Assagioli to Far Eastern
and Aboriginal sources, to Greek and later Western teaching, to
other great transpersonal pioneers of the twentieth century and
forward into the twenty-first.
Originally published in 1935, when the province of Iringa in what
is now Tanzania was still under British administrative control,
this book is inevitably a product of its time, but nonetheless it
represents an important project in collaboration between an
anthropologist and a government official. Factors such as tribal
organization and changes of it to aid administration are discussed
as well as particular details relating to Hehe marriage and divorce
are also examined. With regard to the political organization of the
tribe the position of the headmen came under scrutiny as did the
existence and basis of local loyalties. A close study of the native
judicial system resulted in many mis-understandings between the
District Office and the tribal authorities.
Do you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel
some anxiety about the state of the world. Gordon Brown, Mohamed A.
El-Erian and Michael Spence certainly did. Three of the most
internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time,
these friends found their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a
cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor
policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening
inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global
co-operation. They shared their fears and frustrations. And the
more they talked, the more they realised that while past mistakes
had set the world on this bumpy course, a better path leading to a
brighter future exists. Informed by their different perspectives,
they sought a common goal: achievable solutions to fix our
fractured world. This book is the product of that thinking. Â
At the heart of today’s permacrisis are broken approaches to
growth, economic management, and governance. While these approaches
are broken, they are not beyond repair. An explanation of where
we’ve gone wrong, and a provocative, inspiring plan to do nothing
less than change the world, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured
World, written with Reid Lidow, sets out how we can prevent crises
and better manage the future for the benefit of the many and not
the few. The longer a problem goes unresolved, the worse it will
get; that’s what happens in a permacrisis – and that’s why we
must act now.
Originally published in 1935, when the province of Iringa in what
is now Tanzania was still under British administrative control,
this book is inevitably a product of its time, but nonetheless it
represents an important project in collaboration between an
anthropologist and a government official. Factors such as tribal
organization and changes of it to aid administration are discussed
as well as particular details relating to Hehe marriage and
divorce.
ADMINISTRATION OF WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES, 5th edition walks the
reader through wills, trusts and estates using the most up-to-date
material and an engaging writing style. Whether it's celebrity
wills, marginal key term definitions, extensive review materials,
or visual illustrations, ADMINISTRATION OF WILLS, TRUSTS, AND
ESTATES, 5th edition has what readers need to succeed. Plus, the
Fifth Edition is national in scope while going in-depth on a
state-by-state basis as well. And with an abundance of case studies
included in the text, readers can see how legal issues are applied
in real world settings.
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