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One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a
cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue
Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old
boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female
orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set
for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction
in recent years.
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Life of Pi (Paperback)
Lolita Chakrabarti; Yann Martel
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Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "Life of Pi will
make you believe in the power of theatre" (Times). After a cargo
ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five
survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan,
a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi. Time is
against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? Based on one of
the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction - winner of
the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide
- and featuring breath-taking puppetry and state-of-the-art
visuals, Life of Pi is a universally acclaimed, smash hit
adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope. Adapted by
acclaimed playwright Lolita Chakrabarti, this edition was published
to coincide with the West End premiere in November 2021.
A unique cookbook that includes more than one hundred recipes
for "little chefs." Each recipe contains a list of ingredients,
detailed cooking directions, a photo of the finished dish, and
"tips from the chef " Most of the recipes feature fruits and
vegetables to ensure children are eating nutritious foods.
Nevin Martell has been writing about food and culture for more
than a decade and a half. His work regularly appears in the
"Washington Post," "Wine Enthusiast," "Cheese Connoisseur,"
"Plate," and CityEats.com.
X-kit Achieve! Literature Study Guides make nationally prescribed novels and dramas accessible to learners to help them prepare for exams.
They provide insight into the author and context of the writing, analysis of critical themes, plots and characters and plenty of exercises for exam preparation.
This study guide concentrates on Life Of Pi, one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan -- and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With
nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes
in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman
carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator
begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp
called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith,
Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and
magical. A New York Times Bestseller An Australian Independent
Bookseller Bestseller #1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List
#1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List #1 on Maclean's Bestseller
List #1 on National Post's Bestseller List #1 on McNally Robinson's
Bestseller List An ABA Indie Bestseller
In this concise and practical book, Martel advocates for a
content-based approach to foreign language curriculum design that
emphasizes communicative competence, cognitive engagement, and
social justice. Intended primarily for busy teachers with limited
preparation time, the book includes: An introduction to
content-based instruction and its use to date in foreign language
education Step-by-step strategies for designing content-based unit
plans, lesson plans, and assessments A complete curricular unit
that serves as a guiding example, including nine lesson plans and a
summative assessment The book is accompanied by a website that will
feature additional examples of content-based curricular materials
across a range of languages and proficiency levels, available at
http://cbi.middcreate.net/movingbeyond.
Dual Pandemics: Creating Racially Just Responses to a Changing
Environment through Research, Practice and Education commits to
promoting and disseminating knowledge that calls for the
dismantling of systemic racism and creating racially just responses
to the dual pandemics. COVID-19 and anti-racist uprisings as a
result of the murders of Mr. George Floyd and many other African
Americans and other people of color due to police violence has
unprecedented impact on our society. While these two pandemics
appear to be different in nature, both pandemics attest to the fact
that systemic racism continues to be a grand challenge and that
COVID-19 differentially affects communities and people of color as
well as socially disadvantaged groups. This book offers
intellectually sound examination, conceptualization, and rigor in
providing viable, socially just, responsive paths forward. The
volume include chapters that focus on anti-racist pedagogy in
social work education, conceptual discussion contributing to
refining a shared understanding of constructs relevant to
anti-racist social work, and micro, mezzo, and macro social work
practice that aims to prevent or eliminate the negative impact of
racism as well as promote racial justice, equity, and inclusion
among individuals, families, groups, organizations, or communities.
This book will be of great value to students and scholars of Social
Work, Public Policy, Race and Ethnic Studies. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of
Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.
In a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major
global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our
understanding of alternative societies that could be better for
humans and the environment. Bringing together a wide range of
approaches and new strands of economic and social thinking from
across the US, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and
Africa, Luke Martell critically assesses contemporary alternatives
and shows the ways forward with a convincing argument of pluralist
socialism. Presenting a much-needed introduction to the debate on
alternatives to capitalism, this ambitious book is not about how
things are, but how they can be!
The market and policy impetus to install increasingly utility-scale
solar systems, or solar farms (sometimes known as solar parks or
ranches), has seen products and applications develop ahead of the
collective industry knowledge and experience. Recently however, the
market has matured and investment opportunites for utility-scale
solar farms or parks as part of renewable energy policies have made
the sector more attractive. This book brings together the latest
technical, practical and financial information available to provide
an essential guide to solar farms, from design and planning to
installation and maintenance. The book builds on the challenges and
lessons learned from existing solar farms, that have been developed
across the world, including in Europe, the USA, Australia, China
and India. Topics covered include system design, system layout,
international installation standards, operation and maintenance,
grid penetration, planning applications, and skills required for
installation, operation and maintenance. Highly illustrated in full
colour, the book provides an essential practical guide for all
industry professionals involved in or contemplating utility-scale,
grid-connected solar systems.
From highly respected field academic Gordon Martel, The World
War Two Reader is a rare work that provides a complete and
up-to-date overview of the recent historiography on World War
Two.
Huge in scope, both geographically and thematically, this
excellent reader examines twenty-one articles by some of the best
known and most innovative scholars in the field. Taking a global
approach, Martel discusses all aspects of the war including:
- the military aspect
- the political and strategic backdrop
- ideology
- gender and women 's roles
- the home front
- social aspects.
Including a comprehensive introduction, chronology, guides to
key terms and figures, and introductions to chapters providing
context and historiographical background, The World War Two Reader
provides wide ranging and innovative reading for all students of
the history of the modern world.
Brings together the latest research and advances in task-based
language teaching and highlights the specific and practical
implications for morphologically-rich languages such as Russian.
Instructors and researchers working in the field of Russian
language teaching and learning, and interested in task-based
instruction, will save time with this comprehensive resource that
focuses on the factors and challenges unique to applying this
method to Russian specifically. Comprehensive coverage includes
topics such as the nature and types of tasks in course development,
authenticity in task design, the role of the instructor in TBLT,
teaching culture through TBLT, effective sequencing of tasks, the
intersection of explicit grammar instruction and/or focus on form
with task-based approaches, collaborative interaction within TBLT,
technology-mediated tasks. The ideal companion for anyone
interested in embracing TBLT and TSLT in their own pedagogical
practices.
A guide to how the right choice of words can liberate, strengthen,
and heal us. Not only are the words and phrases we use an
expression of our innermost thoughts, they also influence our
wellbeing and the overall nature of our character. Positive words
create a higher vibration and thus a positive experience of life.
Words with negative connotations, however, especially if used
frequently, create a limiting and possibly self-destructive reality
for us, since our brain cannot decide between what is real and what
only exists in our imagination. In this easy-to-follow guide,
therapist and coach Jacques Martel details how to create a more
positive, optimistic, healthy, and happy reality by choosing words
filled with freedom, wisdom, and love. The messages we transmit
through our words are understood more easily at the level of the
heart. Jacques explains how each word we speak or write carries a
power that increases or decreases our energy level. Sharing
practical communication tools, such as a table to convert words and
expressions from the negative to the positive, he reveals which
high-vibration words to use to change our lives for the better and
explores how to integrate them when speaking with family, friends,
coworkers, and in front of an audience for more effective
communication. He also shares healing words in mantras, guided
relaxation, and chants as well as a writing technique using words
that free us to bring emotional healing. When we are more aware of
our language, we understand that changing the words we use will
transform our reality and our lives. As we become more comfortable
communicating how we feel, our words truly become the mirror of our
heart and the reflection of our thoughts.
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The Mare (Paperback)
Seth C. Martel
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R524
R440
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While she battles her own demons during the day, Indigo’s nights
are haunted by something much darker. Everyone else may be enjoying
the summer, but Indigo’s life isn’t going so well. Her dad’s
marriage just ended in a very public divorce, and now he’s
drinking again. Indy barely graduated from high school, she just
lost her job, and she doesn’t know what to do with her life. The
stress is causing her nightmarish sleep paralysis—or so she
thinks. Indy confides in her best friend, Kasia, who blames “The
Mare” for her troubles—the spirit of someone wronged that saps
its victim’s energy at night. It sounds crazy to Indy, but is it?
Steeped in the nostalgia of lazy summers and mixtapes, concert
tickets and coffee, The Mare is a story about friends, family, and
finding one’s way—with a touch of the supernatural and a
powerful, surprising twist.
The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a
critical survey into the function of law and governance during a
time period when humans have power to impact the Earth system. The
Anthropocene is a 'crisis of the earth system'. This book addresses
its implications for law and legal thinking in the 21st century.
Unpacking the challenges of the Anthropocene for advocates of
ecological law and politics, this handbook pursues a range of
approaches to the scientific fact of anthropocentrism, with
contributions from lawyers, philosophers, geographers and
environmental and political scientists. Rather than adopting a
hubristic normativity, the contributors engage methods, concepts
and legal instruments in a way that underscores the importance of
humility and an expansive ethical worldview. Contributors to this
volume are the leading scholars and future leaders in the field.
Rather than upholding orthodoxy, the handbook also problematizes
received wisdom and is grounded in the conviction that the ideas we
have inherited from the Holocene must all be open to question.
Engaging such issues as the Capitalocene, Gaia theory, the rights
of nature, posthumanism, the commons, geoengineering and civil
disobedience, this handbook will be of enormous interest to
academics, students and others with interests in ecological law and
the current environmental crisis.
When northern Kenyans find elephant bones, they lay down blossoms
and branches as a mark of respect, honouring their crucial
connection with the wildlife they live alongside. In our changing
world, these values are vitally important. For decades, northern
Kenya was one step away from a warzone, on the frontlines of
climate change and habitat loss. People slept with their shoes on,
fearing attack. Wildlife was decimated. Yet, facing the most
extreme challenges, people united. What began as a last-ditch
effort to save rhinos from extinction sparked a remarkable return
of wildlife, with the once-struggling cattle ranch Lewa named a UN
World Heritage Site for its outstanding value to humanity. This
served as a catalyst for much broader action. Communities created a
network of protected lands across an area larger than Switzerland.
Through conservation, they built peace, driving social,
environmental and political change. From tracking elephants through
the bush to gun battles with bandits and treks through Al-Qaeda
territory, Peter Martell tells the exciting story of a conservation
movement that gives hope. At a time when humanity is reassessing
its broken relationship with nature, these communities offer an
inspirational blueprint, proving that environmental change does not
have to divide, but can bring us together.
Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first
captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York
City borough-ravaged in the 1970s and '80s by disinvestment and
fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by
community activists-Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing
revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the
birthplace of hip-hop, the South Bronx remains America's poorest
urban congressional district. In this new edition, we meet the
present generation of activists who are transforming their
communities with the arts and greening, notably the restoration of
the Bronx River. For better or worse, real estate investors have
noticed, setting off new gentrification struggles.
A classic text that has been updated across the chapters, giving
students a broad perspective on all the work done since the text
was originally written, as well as the original perspective. A new
introduction examines the topics and arguments that historians have
raised since the original text was written, explaining what is new
about them and their impact on the original text, giving students
the tools to anaylse the context of the new material. Includes a
new timeline, and fully updated further reading, providing extended
context for students reading the text.
In a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major
global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our
understanding of alternative societies that could be better for
humans and the environment. Bringing together a wide range of
approaches and new strands of economic and social thinking from
across the US, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and
Africa, Luke Martell critically assesses contemporary alternatives
and shows the ways forward with a convincing argument of pluralist
socialism. Presenting a much-needed introduction to the debate on
alternatives to capitalism, this ambitious book is not about how
things are, but how they can be!
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