How can the small, isolated island of Bermuda help us to understand the early expansion of English America? First discovered by Europeans in 1505, the island of Bermuda had no indigenous population and no permanent European presence until the early seventeenth century. Settled five years after Virginia and eight years before Plymouth, Bermuda is a foundational site of English colonization. Its history reveals strikingly different paths of potential colonial development as a place where slave-owning puritan tobacco planters raised large families, engaged overseas markets, built ships, created a Christian commonwealth, hanged witches, wrestled to define racial difference, and welcomed godly pirates raiding Spanish America. In Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints, Michael J. Jarvis presents readers with a new narrative social and cultural history of Bermuda. Adopting a holistic, multidisciplinary approach that draws upon thirty years of research and archaeological fieldwork, Jarvis recounts Bermuda's turbulent, dynamic past from the Sea Venture's dramatic 1609 shipwreck through the 1684 dissolution of the Bermuda Company. He argues that the island was the first of England's colonies to produce a successful staple, form a stable community, turn a profit, transplant civic institutions, and harness bound African knowledge and labor. Bermuda was a tabula rasa that fired the imaginations of English thinkers aspiring to create an American utopia. It was also England's first puritan colony, founded as a covenanted Christian commonwealth in 1612 by self-consciously religious settlers who committed themselves to building a moral society. By the 1670s, Bermuda had become England's most densely populated possession and was poised to become an intercolonial maritime hub after freeing itself from its antiquated parent company. The first scholarly monograph in eighty years on this important, neglected colony's first century, Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints is a worthy prequel to In the Eye of All Trade, Jarvis's masterful first book. Revealing the dynamic interplay of race, gender, slavery, and environment at the dawn of English America, Jarvis's work challenges us to rethink how Europeans and Africans became distinctly American within the crucible of colonization.

Written and reviewed by a team of experienced South African teachers, occupational therapists, speech therapists and physiotherapists, Smart-Kids Am I ready for school? is perfect for making sure your child is ready for primary school. Helpful ideas and advice combined with colourful and stimulating activities test emotional, physical and mental readiness. The activities cover important developmental aspects, such as body image; perception of self, others and the environment; memory; coordination; and speech and hearing. The detailed notes with each activity explain the concepts and suggest extension activities for extra practice. There is also a detailed glossary of words used to describe children's development; an explanation of the roles of occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists and play therapists; valuable information about choosing the right school; and a list of the South African organisations that provide help and support for parents and children.

Slimkoppe: Is ek reg vir skool? - geskryf en hersien deur 'n span ervare onderwysers, arbeids-, spraak- en fisioterapeute --- bied al die raad en hulp wat jy nodig het met voorskoolse kinders. Gedetailleerde notas en advies, gekombineer met stimulerende, kleurryke aktiwiteite, toets of kinders liggaamlik, verstandelik en emosioneel gereed is vir skool. Die aktiwiteite dek al die belangrike ontwikkelingsaspekte, soos liggaamsbeeld, selfbeeld, die kind se persepsie van ander, waarneming van die omgewing, geheue, koordinasie, spraak en gehoor. Die uitvoerige notas en wenke help ouers en onderwysers verstaan hoekom dit belangrik is dat die kind spesifieke aktiwiteite moet baasraak, verduidelik hoe by elkeen te werk gegaan moet word en doen voorstelle aan die hand vir kinders wat ekstra oefening nodig het. 'n Volledige lys is ingesluit van al die terme wat gebruik word om na kinders se ontwikkeling te verwys. Die rol van arbeids-, spraak-, fisio- en speelterapeute, en die van sielkundiges, word verduidelik. Waardevolle raad help ouers om die regte skool te kies. En 'n lys is ook opgeneem van Suid-Afrikaanse organisasies wat aan ouers en kinders addisionele raad en steun kan verleen.

In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position ""in the eye of all trade."" Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. In doing so, he shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution starkly revealed the extent of British America's integration before 1775 as it shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster at the conflict's start. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy.

Ever wish there was a book of Rome that wasn't so so boring? like a storybook/travel fun-book?

One that you didn't have to strip the useful pages out of?

Or maybe you'll wish to do something while flying or sitting in the train? like read a poem or play a game.

It wouldn't be a book you'd need to toss out when you arrive home...no...

rather you could experiment with the Roman recipes inside, or even review your memories in the journal pages ahead.

The Devils of Rome Made Me Do It, is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--forces of positive and negative hide inside every man, history, thought, idea...and everything else, just look at Adam and Eve!

This compilation is a twilight zone treasure that will take the reader through a fascinating journey of what is Roman. It is a collection of wisdom and life experience in the Roman name of the word. It may be the very staple to either replace or use along side your favorite Rome travel guide.