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Grootmense praat darem vreeslik snaaks! Eers is dit oor blompotte langs jou kop en geld wat nie op rûe groei nie, dan weer oor honde en katte wat uit die lug uit reën en kraaie wat tonge steel… verbeel jou!
Maar wat nog snaakser is, is dat prinses Vlooi al hierdie dinge kan sien wanneer sy haar groot pienk bril opsit.
Wanneer haar bril haar bruin oë soos twee heerlike sjokoladekoekies laat lyk, weet Vlooi sommer dadelik: nou gaan die poppe dans. Regtig!
The sensational new novel from the author of The History of Bees
Translated into 36 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller's
Prize, and the most successful Norwegian author of her generation,
Maja Lunde returns with a heart-wrenching tale, set in the distant
past and the dystopian future, about extinction and survival,
family and hope. Mikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton
of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an
expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse, a
journey that tests not only his physicality, but his heart. In
1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several
Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the
magnificent horses to their native land. The veterinarian has
dedicated her life to saving the breed from extinction,
prioritizing the wild horses, even over her own son. Europe's
future is uncertain in 2064, but Eva is willing to sacrifice nearly
everything to hold onto her family's farm. Her teenage daughter
implores Eva to leave the farm and Norway, but a pregnant wild mare
Eva is tending is about to foal. Then, a young woman named Louise
unexpectedly arrives on the farm, with mysterious intentions that
will either bring them all together, or devastate them one by one.
Spanning continents and centuries, The Last Wild Horses is a
powerful tale of survival and connection-of humans, animals, and
the indestructible bonds that unite us all. Translated from the
Norwegian by Diane Oatley
A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us,
rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller
reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day.
Costs are rising, the gap between the rich and poor is increasing,
natural resources are depleted, and the effects of climate change
are starting to take hold. We are under increasing social and
environmental stress. But, as leading economist Maja Göpel argues
here, there is another path forward. She invites us to imagine what
we want our future to look like, and offers solutions that will
help us to get there. It’s time to question our principles, set
new goals, and re-evaluate our priorities. Time to rethink our
world and find new ways of living that don’t drain our planet any
further. We need a fair distribution of wealth, and a way to
reconcile the social with the ecological. We need to work smarter,
not harder. Critical, yet full of encouragement, Maja Göpel
chooses surprising and enlightening examples to illustrate how we
can leave behind our familiar ways of living to achieve a better
future.
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Heidi (Paperback, Classic ed.)
Johanna Spyri; Illustrated by Maja Dusikova
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The story of Heidi is as fresh today as it was when it was written. It’s impossible not to love the little girl who scrambles through mountain meadows with the goats and Peter, brings joy (and soft rolls) to the blind grandmother, helps Klara learn to walk again, and restores hope and love to Grandfather.
Published in cooperation with the esteemed Swiss publisher NordSüd and illustrated with glowing watercolors by the internationally acclaimed artist Maja Dusíková, this beautiful classic is sure to become a favorite.
A boy befriends a baby gargoyle in this magical wordless story in
graphic-novel style from award-winning creators Jo Ellen Bogart and
Maja Kastelic. Anthony's house is full of family photos - of his
parents' trip to Paris, his great aunt, and Anthony himself as a
toddler, holding his favorite rock. When Anthony wakes up one
morning, he sees that his "rock" has cracked open - it's hollow
inside. He doesn't see the little face peering out from the closet.
Later, he discovers the newly hatched creature and they become
friends. Anthony asks his mother about the rock, and she shows him
a photo album of a trip to Paris. Anthony sees that his friend
resembles the gargoyles at Notre-Dame cathedral. Back in his room,
he shows the photos to the baby gargoyle who looks at them with
longing. News arrives that Anthony's great aunt is in hospital. The
family travel to Paris to visit, and Anthony secretly brings the
baby gargoyle. When the family have a chance to climb Notre-Dame's
tower, Anthony and his friend wander from one gargoyle to the next
... until the baby gargoyle sees one that looks just like him. A
bittersweet story of true friendship and letting go. Key Text
Features comic comic strips Correlates to the Common Core State
Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use
illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters,
setting, or events. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how
characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
***THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** 'Fans of Cloud Atlas
and Never Let Me Go will love The History of Bees' Good
Housekeeping 'Dystopian and electric, this book is set to blow
minds everywhere' Stylist 'Haunting and poignant ... an important
and wonderful book' Dave Goulson, bestselling author of Bee Quest
In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling
and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of
beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a
spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees - and to their
children and one another - against the backdrop of an urgent,
global crisis. England, 1851. William is a biologist and seed
merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive-one that will
give both him and his children honour and fame. United States,
2007. George is a beekeeper and fights an uphill battle against
modern farming, but hopes that his son can be their salvation.
China, 2098. Tao hand paints pollen onto the fruit trees now that
the bees have long since disappeared. When Tao's young son is taken
away by the authorities after a tragic accident-and is kept in the
dark about his whereabouts and condition-she sets out on a grueling
journey to find out what happened to him. Haunting, illuminating,
and deftly written, The History of Bees joins these three very
different narratives into one gripping and thought provoking story
that is just as much about the powerful relationships between
children and parents as it is about our very relationship to nature
and humanity. Praise for The History of Bees: 'Spectacular and
deeply moving. Lunde has elegantly woven together a tale of science
and science fiction, dystopia and hope, and the trials of the
individual and the strengths of family' Lisa See, New York Times
bestselling author 'Such is the genius of debut novelist Maja Lunde
that her tale of three eras-the long past, the tenuous present and
the biologically damned future-is strung on the fragile hope of the
survival of bees' Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling
author 'As a lover of honeybees and a fan of speculative fiction, I
was doubly smitten by The History of Bees. Maja Lunde's novel is an
urgent reminder of how much our survival depends on those
remarkable insects. It is also a gripping account of how-despite
the cruelest losses-humanity may abide and individual families can
heal' Jean Hegland, author of Into the Forest 'By turns devastating
and hopeful, The History of Beesresonates powerfully with our most
pressing environmental concerns. Following three separate but
interconnected timelines, Lunde shows us the past, the present, and
a terrifying future in a riveting story as complex as a honeycomb'
Bryn Greenwood, New York Times bestselling author 'Here is a story
that is sweeping in scope but intimate in detail' Laura McBride,
author of We Are Called to Rise 'A brilliant and beautiful novel'
Jan Askelund, Stavanger Aftenblad 'She does everything right [...]
She paints on a broad canvas, the topic is highly important and the
language is both comprehensive and precise' Geir Vestad, Hamar
Arbeiderblad'One can easily understand the buzz ...' Maria Arolilja
Ro, Adresseavisa 'The settings portrayed in the novel are
impressively visual and each character is perfectly naturally
rooted in his or her own era and environment' Janneken Overland,
Klassekampen 'Maja Lunde will reach a big audience with The History
of Bees. (...) She has written a novel many will read in one go,
and then sit down and think, about life, the world and the future.
That is unique and it is very well done' Annette Orre,
littkritikk.no 'The History of Bees is a fascinating and
brilliantly written novel that elegantly moves between the various
stories and timelines' Oddmund Hagen, Dag og Tid
Inspire and share with your child the wonderful world of art and
encourage their creative abilities! Authors Maja Pitamic and Jill
Laidlaw explore the stories and meanings of 20 masterpieces of
Western Art as inspiratio n for children to create their own
exciting and creative art projects. Covering a diverse range of
media - from tissue paper mosaic to charcoal drawing - to encourage
and develop your child's creative abilities. The activities are
designed for children age d 6 and up, with a range of simple and
more challenging activities to suit the abilities of both younger
and older children.
Now more than ever, there is a need for early childhood
professionals to comprehensively integrate trauma-sensitive
practices into their work with children and families. This
essential resource offers instructional strategies teachers can use
daily to support their students dealing with trauma in early
learning environments. Readers will learn to create opportunities
for children to use their natural language—play—to reduce their
stress, to cope with adversity, to build resilience, and even to
heal from trauma. Nicholson and Kurtz provide vignettes, case study
examples, textboxes, photographs, and descriptions of adapted
therapeutic strategies ready for implementation in the classroom.
Practical and comprehensive, this book is ideal for both
prospective and veteran early childhood educators seeking to
understand trauma-informed practices when working with young
children (birth–8) in a range of environments.
This book examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and
multinationalism and the effects asymmetry produces on legitimacy
and stability in federal and quasi-federal systems. This is done
through a structured and exhaustive comparative analysis, covering
states in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Contrary to
traditional federal theory, contemporary scholars have linked
constitutional asymmetry with multinational federal systems, by
presenting asymmetry as a mechanism for diversity management. This
book offers insights on whether and how constitutional asymmetry is
linked with multinationalism and looks into the socio-economic,
cultural-ideological, historical, and separatist factors that
support the emergence of asymmetries. The work also provides a
legal analysis of whether constitutional asymmetry is a condition
or a threat to legitimacy and stability in federal systems. The
book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and
policy-makers in law and political science interested in the fields
of constitutional law, federal theory, multinationalism, and
minorities.
This book examines the actors that shape societal dynamics leading
to, or preventing, violent extremism from taking roots in their
communities, including state representatives, religious
institutions and civil society actors. The volume contributes to an
emerging stream of research focusing on intra- and inter-group
dynamics to explain the emergence and persistence of, or resilience
against, violent extremism. It utilises an actor-centric approach,
uncovering the landscape of actors that play relevant roles in
shaping societal dynamics leading to, or preventing, violent
extremism affecting their communities. The analysis builds on new
empirical evidence collected in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,
North Macedonia, Serbia, Iraq, Lebanon and Tunisia. This allows for
an innovative comparative perspective on two regions in the
European neighbourhood that are rarely studied together, even
though they seem to share common patterns of (de-)radicalisation
and violent extremism, despite their distinct historical, political
and cultural trajectories and relations with the EU. In both
regions, the book analyses the roles of, and interactions between,
state, political, religious, and civil society actors in shaping
community vulnerability to and/or resilience against violent
extremism. Different types of community leaders are equipped with
varying levels of authority, trust, legitimacy and influence on
community members. As such, the categories of actors analysed can
play either detrimental or beneficial roles, which makes
vulnerability and resilience to violent extremism two sides of the
same coin. This volume will be of much interest to students of
countering violent extremism, terrorism and political violence,
security studies and International Relations generally.
This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in
Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good
is fundamental to urban living; however, understanding of the term
varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly
complex in countries with experience of communism. In cities east
of the former Iron Curtain, the once ideologically imposed
principle of common good became gradually devalued throughout the
20th century due to the lack of citizen agency, only to reappear as
a response to the ills of neoliberal capitalism around the 2010s.
The book reveals how the idea of urban common good has been
reconstructed and practiced in European cities after socialism. It
documents the paradigm shift from city as a communal infrastructure
to city as a commodity, which lately has been challenged by the
approach to city as a commons. These transformations have been
traced and analysed within several urban themes: housing, public
transport, green infrastructure, public space, urban regeneration,
and spatial justice. A special focus is on the changes in the
public discourse in Poland and the perspectives of key urban
stakeholders in three case-study cities of Gdansk, Krakow, and
Lodz. The findings point to the need for drawing from best
practices of the socialist legacy, with its celebration of the
common. At the same time, they call for learning from the mistakes
of the recent past, in which the opportunity for citizen
empowerment has been unseized. The book is intended for
researchers, academics, and postgraduates, as well as practitioners
and anyone interested in rediscovering the inherent potential of
urban commonality. It will appeal to those working in human
geography, spatial planning, and other areas of urban studies.
Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study
investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen
countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information
on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to
understand the changes in the family at that time. The contributors
argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very
important social unit which continued to have considerable
influence on other social institutions such as the state and the
labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between
changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in
family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus
on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of
functions between family and work, and on problems which have
arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even
conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the
evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great
diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in
modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no
other institution could provide.
This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms that are
adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the
tension between contrasting interests of diversity and unity and
the converging or diverging effects they may have on the
functioning of a multilevel constitutional order. It does so by
targeting mainly the European experience but also drawing insights
from other jurisdictions. The volume draws on a well-rounded
theoretical framework that allows a comprehensive discussion of the
dialectics in multi-level systems.) It focuses on two of the most
relevant areas of constitutional law, namely the setup of
supranational institutions and the protection of fundamental human
rights. Finally, the work presents a fresh legal take on the
unity-diversity dichotomy. This collection is ideal for academics
working in the fields of constitutional law, international law,
federal theory, institutional design, management and accommodation
of diversity, and protection of fundamental rights. Political
scientists will also find the discussions very relevant as a
foundation for further research in their field. Policymakers
involved in constitutional engineering will be interested, as
mechanisms of accommodation, convergence, and divergence are
increasingly looked at as devices for managing multilevel polities.
The book outlines two separate processes for working with groups
and discusses their separate applications as well as how they work
together for a holistic approach to institutional transformation;
it emphasizes group level processes, including academic
departments, an area which currently lacks development. The text
integrates across a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary
fields, thus it brings institutional transformation concepts into
conversations across many boundaries highlighting how insights from
one field can address issues in another. The book is timely in
topic, focusing on solutions for institutional racism and sexism
and a pathway to collectively address calls for racial justice and
equity by blending theory and practice into a praxis for how to
implement and sustain socially just institutions; it includes
outcomes documenting the positive impacts of the practices
described in the text.
First book to provide a guide and introduction specifically focused
on methods for studying SES.
Now more than ever, there is a need for early childhood
professionals to comprehensively integrate trauma-sensitive
practices into their work with children and families. This
essential resource offers instructional strategies teachers can use
daily to support their students dealing with trauma in early
learning environments. Readers will learn to create opportunities
for children to use their natural language—play—to reduce their
stress, to cope with adversity, to build resilience, and even to
heal from trauma. Nicholson and Kurtz provide vignettes, case study
examples, textboxes, photographs, and descriptions of adapted
therapeutic strategies ready for implementation in the classroom.
Practical and comprehensive, this book is ideal for both
prospective and veteran early childhood educators seeking to
understand trauma-informed practices when working with young
children (birth–8) in a range of environments.
POWER, DESIRE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, REPRESENTATION, BEAUTY, AND
COMPASSION Widely considered to be one of the most influential
American living artists, Carrie Mae Weems has developed a practice
celebrated for her exploration of cultural identity, power
dynamics, desire, intimacy and social justice through a body of
work that challenges the prevailing representations of race,
gender, and class. Defined by the use of photography, installation,
film, performance and textile, her remarkably diverse and radical
practice questions dominant ideologies and historical narratives
created and disseminated within science, architecture, and mass
media. Published in the context of her solo exhibitions at Barbican
Art Gallery London and Kunstmuseum Basel, this book brings together
a selection of Weems’ own writings, lectures, and conversations
for the first time, providing personal insights into themes such as
the consequences of power, artistic appropriation, music as
inspiration, history-making, and the normative role of
architecture.
Who doesn't love baby animals? AMAZING FACTS ABOUT BABY ANIMALS is
an adorable celebration of all kinds of fuzzy, fluffy, scaly, and
feathery animal babies and their parents. Full of interesting,
weird, and funny facts about animals before they are born
(elephants are pregnant for 22 months!), when they are born (whales
are born tail-first so they don't drown!), and life as babies
(parrots give their offspring names! Baby macaques have snowball
fights!), this book couldn't be cuter.
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