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Oi, you snivelling pig-dogs! Are you ready for a Viking adventure?
Velda is a small girl with a big axe. The only problem is, everyone
thinks she can't be a proper Viking because she's "just a little
girl". PURLEASE! She sets sail with Freya, captain of the
dragonship Valkyrie, and her notoriously ferocious crew for a life
of awesome adventure (and very loud belching). But when the
Valkyrie and her crew are captured by the Queen of the Saxons,
Velda is the only one who can free her friends. The small and
mighty Viking must travel to the mysterious Islands of Deadly Doom,
but there's just one problem, er, well more than one, actually --
she doesn't have a ship, a crew, or a clue how to get there... Join
Velda on her quest as she makes some unlikely new friends and takes
on terrifying tasks, all while proving she's the awesomest Viking
around.
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Tired of Thorfinn
and his too-nice ways getting them into trouble, his dad decides
it's time for Thorfinn to earn his gruesome Viking name. Stuck on a
longboat with a ragtag bunch of adventurers who'd like to throw him
overboard, how will the Nicest Viking cope with a dangerous voyage
to Scotland? Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a funny, illustrated,
action-packed new series for young readers which bridges the gap
between Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where
manners mean nothing and politeness is pointless!
Oi, you snivelling pig-dogs! Are you ready for a Viking adventure?
Velda is a small girl with a big axe, and she knows how to use it.
Alongside her misfit crew, she's living her best Viking life,
sailing the seas in her very own longship and teaching anyone who
thinks she's 'just a little girl' a lesson. But when a raid on the
vault of the treasure-obsessed Count Stollenberg goes wrong, Velda
is forced into a deal to bring him the legendary Frost Hammer. The
only teensy tiny issue is that it belongs to the Frost Giants, who
are anything but teensy tiny. Velda and her crew must trek across
snow and ice to break into the giants' mountain home, but it seems
the Frost Giants are happier to see them than they expected. A bit
too happy, in fact... Join Velda on her mission as she schemes her
way out of scrapes and battles enormous enemies, all while proving
she's the awesomest Viking around.
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. On a raiding
voyage to Scotland, Thorfinn and his friends Velda and Oswald are
kidnapped by Ranald MacRanald, chieftain of the Clan MacRanald.
Little does Ranald he know that his methods of 'torture' (making
the Nicest Viking sew with the women and clean the castle from top
to bottom) are actually Thorfinn's idea of a brilliant Scottish
holiday! Will Chief Harald the Skull-Splitter come to his son's
'rescue' before Thorfinn drives the Rotten Scots crazy with
politeness? Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a funny, illustrated,
action-packed new series for young readers which bridges the gap
between Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where
manners mean nothing and politeness is pointless!
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Harald, Thorfinn
and the other Vikings are preparing to compete in the annual
Gruesome Games, held on the Scottish island of Uraig. It falls to
Thorfinn to save their village, but in a competition where
belching, axe-throwing, pie-clobbering and goat-throwing are great
point scorers, what help will a terribly nice Viking with a talent
for baking be? Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a funny, illustrated,
action-packed new series for young readers which bridges the gap
between Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where
manners mean nothing and politeness is pointless!
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. The king of
Norway is coming to visit Indgar village and Thorfinn is named Head
Chef for the greatest feast the village has ever seen. Apparently
the king has a taste for exotic fish, but he's also been known to
catapult chefs who displease him into the sea! Thorfinn sets sail
for Orkney with a ragtag crew to visit his Uncle Rolf and learn how
to cook and catch fish. But it seems a poisoner is at large and he
has his eyes on the poisson... Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a
funny, illustrated, action-packed new series for young readers
which bridges the gap between Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy
Kid, set in a world where manners mean nothing and politeness is
pointless!
Should organizations carry a health warning? Do they have the
capacity to get under the skin? How do they cause emotional stress
or physical ailments? What are the ailments that different work
places infect? What is a healthy organization lower stress, less
sickness or systemic effectiveness?And importantly, What do the
characteristic patterns of organizational ailments reveal about
organizational positioning and strategy in relation to their market
and environment? These are crucial questions for directors,
managers, HR, consultants, psychotherapists, counselors and the
work force.This groundbreaking book seeks to address questions that
underlie organizational health and humanity. Each chapter develops
the relation between bodily experience of the individual and
experience of the body of corporate and social organization. An
early chapter addresses the seemingly catastrophic risks of giving
birth - to bodily life, emotional liveliness, and belonging. An
endnote describes a death and its meaning that, like its earlier
bookend, describes how we might be connected in humanity.Leadership
that contains anxiety applies the theory and practice of
individual, group and organizational dynamics. In being informed by
psychoanalysis, group and open-systems theory, this book seeks to
develop tools for organizational change not top down or bottom up,
but outside in and inside out. How are the individual s defenses
against emotional conflicts embodied in the work group? What draws
people to specific kinds of workplace and work group culture? How
do the complex bodily, emotional and social experiences of work
interact? What makes people go sick or stay at work when they are
unwell?More than that, how can we begin to define the spirit or
soul of an organization in a way that goes beyond its morale, its
esprit de corps? And if there is such a thing, how can
thoughtfulness about it provide a nourishing skin to keep body and
soul together under the fire of overstretched working lives, and
the often disjointed complex of inter-related systems that
contemporary organizations comprise?"
This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory
internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and
practice. The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced
back to the work of Kurt Lewin, and it has taken particular shape
in the hands of the Barangers, Bion and Ferro. The book's focus is
on developments in field theory post-Bion ('Post-Bionian Field
Theory') in Italy, with contributions from Brazil, Serbia and the
USA, in the form of chapters by Boffito, Civitarese, Fagundes,
Levine, Mazzacane, Mojović, Morgan-Jones and Snell and Penna and
Hopper. Among the themes the book explores are the transformative
potentials of play and the centrality of dreaming. The book is
informed by a psychoanalysis not so much of decoding and
archeological uncovering as one of being and becoming, within a
shared ‘field’ in which therapist and patient are partners in
creating, exploring and developing. The chapter by MojovÃc and the
commentary by Penna and Hopper extend the use of field theory: in
other historical and geographical developments field theory and
group analysis have productively been brought together, notably in
Argentina where the two are most closely linked. This book will be
essential reading for students and scholars of Psychology and
Psychotherapy interested in field theory and contemporary
psychoanalysis. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and
Counselling.
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Harald the
Skull-Splitter and fellow chief Magnus the Bone-Breaker find a
massive treasure chest in the remote Western Isles of Scotland.
Thorfinn and his rival Olaf must guard it overnight, but despite
their best efforts, they can't help falling asleep. In the morning
the treasure has disappeared and now Thorfinn's village is at
stake. Can Thorfinn the Nicest Viking and his friends find the
missing loot in time to save their village? Thorfinn the Nicest
Viking is a funny, illustrated, action-packed new series for young
readers which bridges the gap between Horrid Henry and Diary of a
Wimpy Kid, set in a world where manners mean nothing and politeness
is pointless!
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Indgar villagers
are out watching an elk polo match, the village is attached, and
Thorfinn's mum goes missing, presumed kidnapped. Harald, Velda
Thorfinn and his boisterous brothers chase the mysterious raiders
across the North Sea towards Scotland. Will Thorfinn the Nicest
Viking manage to find his mum and bring her back home safe and
sound? Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a funny, illustrated,
action-packed new series for young readers which bridges the gap
between Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where
manners mean nothing and politeness is pointless!
This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's
anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how
Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the
extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration,
and hygiene were for him not metaphors but rather key political
concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political
anarchism, the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical
concerns whose effects on the individual and society were
measurable by social statistics and explainable by
bio-social-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a
refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin's
anarchism.
This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's
anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how
Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the
extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration,
and hygiene were for him not metaphors but rather key political
concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political
anarchism, the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical
concerns whose effects on the individual and society were
measurable by social statistics and explainable by
bio-social-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a
refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin's
anarchism.
This is everything the little monster needs to create monster
mayhem. Filled with dressing up ideas, a monster board game,
fearsomely funny monster jokes and devilishly delicious pizza
recipes, 'Be a Little Monster' guarantees hours of howling great
fun!
Using the frameworks of psychoanalysis, group relations, systemic
organisational observation, consulting and research, this book
explores the relationship between the health of the work force and
the health of organisations. It seeks to do this through an
exploration of experience that has three dimensions linked in a
single matrix: The bodily, the emotional and the social. This
exploration is inspired by Bion's original idea of the protomental
matrix from which the group dynamics of basic assumption mentality
are derived, leading to his initial ideas about group diseases and
their cures.
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. When Chief Harald
is poisoned by a putrid sleeping potion, Thorfinn suspects visiting
soothsayer Ragwich. Banished for offending the power-hungry wise
man, Thorfinn and his friends set sail to find the world's best
potion maker to brew a cure. Unfortunately, the antidote requires a
very rare ingredient. Can Thorfinn find the cure and wake Harald
before Ragwich takes control of the village? Thorfinn and the
Putrid Potion is the eighth adventure for Thorfinn the Nicest
Viking in this funny, action-packed illustrated series for young
readers which bridges the gap between Horrid Henry and Diary of a
Wimpy Kid, set in a world where manners mean nothing and politeness
is pointless!
Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is
serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down
Joshuah Kemp's revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered
the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is
limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that
takes mankind to the brink. A breakneck-paced crime thriller,
ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had
so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the
onward rush of the plot. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and
the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this
future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that
leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the
stars. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle,
world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet
believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard
Morgan is set to join the genre's world-wide elite.
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you
don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings
are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves
pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn is no ordinary
Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty
dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief
and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Vikings far and
wide are travelling to Scotland's Shetland Islands for the great
Fire Festival where they'll compete to become the ultimate champion
by creating dazzling fire displays. Chief Harald is determined to
be victorious but it seems as if Thorfinn has ruined their chances
against rival Viking Chief Magnus the Bone-Breaker, until he
remembers a story about a once-legendary dragon, now in hiding Can
Thorfinn and his ragtag crew track down the dreadful dragon and
persuade her to help them put on a winning performance? Thorfinn
and the Dreadful Dragon is the seventh adventure for Thorfinn the
Nicest Viking in this funny, action-packed illustrated series for
young readers which bridges the gap between Horrid Henry and Diary
of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where manners mean nothing and
politeness is pointless!
The world of psychotherapy training has changed dramatically since
the First edition of this guide. There have been major
organisational changes stimulated partly by the prospect of
statutory registration for Psychotherapists, resulting in pressure
for unity of standards, ethics and a common voice amongst the
umbrella organisations. But there have also been moves towards new
organisations that express the standards, values and commitment of
partidcular aspect of the work of Psychotherapy. This is
illustrated by the creation of the British Confederation of
Psychotherapy (BCP), and in the proliferation of courses, each
geared to a particular approach, method or patient groups.
MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES This must-read story is a confident,
action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF
novel from a multi-award-winning author. Four hundred years from
now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space
inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The
colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship
voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is
digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as
a matter of course. But some things never change. So when ex-envoy,
now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills
downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and
presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn?t be surprised.
Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body,
Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across
known space and to the very top of society.
MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES FEB 2018 This must-read story is a
confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic
noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author. Four hundred years
from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar
space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars.
The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony
ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is
digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as
a matter of course. But some things never change. So when ex-envoy,
now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills
downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and
presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn?t be surprised.
Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body,
Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across
known space and to the very top of society. For a first-time SF
writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so
brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and
enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.
This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order.
Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global
significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World.
An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmass poking above the
dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in
anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian
orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn't
just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the
tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested
wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist
revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and
the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything. Embarked on a journey
of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off
course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological
mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past
rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead,
they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage
young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage ...
Chris Faulkner has just landed the job of his dreams. But Shorn
Associates are market leaders in Conflict Investment. They expect
results, they expect the best. Chris has one very high-profile kill
to his name already but he will have to drive hard and go for kill
after kill if he's to keep his bosses happy. All he has to do in
the meantime is stay alive ... Morgan's new futuristic thriller is
perfect for any fan of the modern thriller. It combines the big
ideas of Michael Crichton with a pounding narrative drive.
Place-Names of Carmarthenshire is the first publication to
investigate all major place-names in the historic county of
Carmarthen (1536-1974), including the westerly parts of the county
transferred to modern Pembrokeshire after 1996. Tracing the history
of Welsh place-names casts light upon the ways in which our
ancestors lived and how they thought about the world around them.
The meaning of place-names, however, is not always easy to
determine because their written and spoken forms have often changed
over time and particularly when the language in a particular
location switched from Welsh to English. Fortunately,
Carmarthenshire was not so markedly affected in this respect as
many other parts of Wales but it is still easy to be mislead by
modern spellings: Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen) does not recall the name
of the mythological Myrddin (Merlin) in the Arthurian tales but is
derived from morddin (mor / 'sea' and din / 'fort') describing a
Roman maritime fort - the precursor of the medieval borough;
Llanboidy does not contain a llan ('church') but rather a nant
('stream') located near a beudy ('cow-shed'); Castelldwyran
actually means 'Durant's castle', being composed of castell
('castle') and an Anglo-Norman personal name Durant, rather than
dwyran ('two-thirds'). Illustrated with many images of the county,
Place-Names of Carmarthenshire examines more than 920 place-names
and features a 1,000-entry Glossary of place-name elements,
personal names and rivers, and is the result of the author's
detailed research in archives and reference libraries.
Fluoropolymer Additives, Second Edition provides practical
information on this group of additives, along with their
applications and proper and safe handling. Chapters cover how
commercial additives have been updated, providing a starting point
where readers can begin the process of selection of additives for
their own applications. Fully updated sections on applications
provide the readers with a step-by-step description of the
techniques necessary to select and incorporate these additives in
various products. This book is the only practical guide available
on the selection and use of fluoropolymer additives. It will help
readers optimize existing fluoropolymer applications and implement
new initiatives. In recent years, the application of fluoropolymer
additives has expanded significantly, with even the meaning of
'fluoropolymer additives' expanding from the relatively narrow
definition of PTFE powder fillers to a wide variety of
fluoropolymer elastomers used as processing aids for plastics
processing techniques in extrusion, injection molding, and film
blowing. In addition, fluropolymer additives are being increasingly
used in inks, lubricants, and coatings.
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