From Joseph Vogelsang and his mysterious peep-box to Hollywood blockbusters and Netflix, Reto Andrea Savoldelli\'s survey of cinema and film is based on practical experience (he was once the enfant terrible of Swiss cinema) and years of contemplation and study. He examines the difference between film as the \"hypnotic monster\" mentioned by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini and the art of film

Winner of the Scottish Children\'s Book Award One ordinary day, Saul is on his way to the corner shop when a girl appears suddenly in the middle of the road. She doesn\'t understand traffic, or the things in shops, and she\'s wearing a long dress with ruffled sleeves. Her name is Agatha Black. Agatha Black is from 1812, and Saul needs to find a way to get her back there. With help from his friends

Country gardening isn\'t always glamorous, but it\'s certainly entertaining. Kick off your wellies, get comfortable and discover the pleasures and pitfalls of a year in the great outdoors. This funny and honest diary of gardening a four-acre plot is full of practical hints and tips, celebrating the British seasons in all their changeable

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Get the children\'s field guide to 86 bird species in Missouri, organized by color to help kids identify them. Stan Tekiela\'s famous Birds of Missouri Field Guide has been delighting bird watchers for years. Now, the award-winning author has written the perfect bird identification guide for children! The Kids\' Guide to Birds of Missouri features 86 of the most common and important birds to know,

The chapters in this volume are organised in such a way as to provide windows onto constructing, remaking, and dismantling sacred landscapes in cities in the north western Delta of Egypt, notably Thonis-Heracleion and Alexandria, and also more widely in Lower Egypt. They are drawn from a conference on the Religious Landscapes of Lower Egypt held at the University of Zurich and present case studies

Ecological Significance of Riparian Ecosystems: Challenges and Management Strategies examines the current issues related to river ecosystems, their environmental importance, pollution issues and potential management strategies. The book is divided into 4 key themes: Basics of river ecosystem, Natural phenomenon of river ecosystem, Human-induced problems of river ecosystem, and Management measures for

Choosing, deciding and changing constitute the common thread of everything that we want and that we do. The deep transformation of all social system, in all its dimensions has profoundly resented of the diverse possibility or in other respects, of the absence of possibility, precisely of choosing, deciding and changing. What are we really choosing today? The hetero-direction and the conditioning seem

1939, Los Angeles. Lillian Frost is shocked when her friend Edith Head hands her the script to a new film, based on a real bank robbery that occurred in 1936. Lillian\'s beau, LAPD detective Gene Morrow, was one of the officers on that case. It seems the scriptwriter has put Gene at the centre of a scandal, twisting fact with fiction - or has

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Thirty years after the publication of the best-seller Like Water for Chocolate comes Tita\'s Diary, an intimate look at the life of the main character who embodies love, passion and the communication of emotions through food in early 20th Century Mexico.When Tita falls in love with Pedro, she is told that being the youngest of three sisters, she will never be allowed to marry as she will have to care

Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) strengthens collaboration between children\'s most critical learning environments - school and home - for improved academic, behavioral, and social-emotional skills. This reader-friendly second edition of Sheridan and Kratochwill\'s important work offers innovative applications of CBC as an ecological, evidence-based approach. In this new edition, the authors

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey\'s most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and

Remarkable Golf Courses encompasses the extremes of the sport - from the highest golf course in La Paz, Bolivia, to the lowest, in Death Valley, USA; from the most northerly in the Arctic Circle to the most southerly in Tierra del Fuego.The many quirks of the golfing world are covered, such as the 18th green the other side of the River Lea which is serviced by an electric ferry, or the LA golf course

Jurgen Klopp\'s Liverpool Football Club are champions of England, Europe and the World. \'Robbo: Now You\'re Gonna Believe Us\' is the inside story of their record-breaking season as seen through the eyes of their popular left-back Andrew Robertson, revealing the Anfield dressing room secrets behind their remarkable

\"Herzen\'s novel played a significant part in the intellectual ferment of the 1840s. It is an important book in social and moral terms, and wonderfully expressive of Herzen\'s personality.\"--Isaiah BerlinAlexander Herzen was one of the major figures in Russian intellectual life in the nineteenth century. Who Is to Blame? was his first novel. A revealing document and a noteworthy contribution to Russian

Based on surviving evidence, this unique volume is an imagining of a seventeenth century spell book that might have been written by Lancashire `witch\' Jennet

A critical examination of the complex and revealing questions we must ask ourselves about our work and the value it brings to ourselves and others. According to recent studies, barely a third of American workers, and even fewer globally, feel \"engaged\" at work, and nearly half are \"unhappy\" doing what they do for a living. In the post-pandemic era with its turbulent job markets and spiraling economic