The young naturalist W N P Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude' It begins as an ambitious teenager's notes on the natural world & then following his diagnosis at the age of twenty-six transforms into a deeply moving account of battling the disease His prose is full of humour & fierce intelligence & combines a passion for life with clear-sighted reflections on the nature of death Barbellion selected & edited this manuscript himself in 1917 adding a fictional editor's note announcing his own demise This Penguin Classics edition

Includes:: ' The Last Diary' which covers the period between submission of the manuscript & Barbellion's actual death in 1919

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What if every choice you made created an alternate reality? Atticus Higginbottom aka Tick is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day he receives a strange letter informing him that dangerous
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- events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself Tick will be sent twelve riddles that when solved will reveal the time & place of an extraordinary happening Will Tick have the courage to follow the twelve clues & discover the life he was meant to live?

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Designed as a standalone work of fiction as well as a deluxe handout for use with The Curse of Nineveh campaign this journal is a beautiful in-world artefact in its own right Neve Journal brings the curse of Nabu home as young investigator Neve Selcibuc sets out to uncover the truth behind a series of unexplained events in the streets of London What she uncovers will require more than her own pen & wits to solve leading in to her recruiting investigators for The Curse of Nineveh campaign ...

' Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible' In equal measure famous & infamous Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey Mac Donald a convicted murderer & Joe Mc Ginniss the author of a book about the crime Lauded as one of the Modern Libraries 100 Best Works of Nonfiction The Journalist & the Murderer is fascinating & controversial a contemporary classic of reportage ...

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature These exact & complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life
- covering her marriage to Ted Hughes & her struggle with depression
- are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel & The Colossus' Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity
- 1950s New England pre-co-ed Cambridge pre-mass tourism Benidorm where she & Hughes honeymooned the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962 These & other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here & now The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling & unique' John Carey Sunday Times


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Building on the success of his Life with Full Attention A Practical Course in Mindfulness Maitreyabandhu here offers a challenging but profoundly useful work on how to practise Buddhism in everyday life Drawing on examples from the life of the Buddha as well as weaving in astute references to poetry & art Maitreyabandhu gives an easily understood outline of the system of spiritual life as undertaken by Buddhists in the Triratna Community The journey starts with our own mind particularly when we begin to look into the truth of things
- the truth of the old man on the escalator the friend in hospital the coffin we help carry to the graveside What we find in our guide the Buddha is a man with a 'fit' mind a healthy happy non-neurotic honest-to-goodness mind To get fit we need to work on becoming a happy healthy human being We need to integrate our thinking faculty with our emotions We need to wake up to thought & tune in to direct experience & we need to work against the ever-rising tide of trivia dissipation & overstimulation of the modern world Maitreyabandhu takes us on this journey with practical week-by-week exercises focusing on cultivating mindful awareness being happy integrating & simplifying our lives knowing ourselves & truly being ourselves
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A haunting echo of today this beautiful book explores the unimaginable decision to abandon home in the face of war ...

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Junior Magazine Design Awards (best Picture Book & Best New Talent categories) & the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award 2013! 'A thought-provoking story with a powerful message about conservation' says The Guardian's Julia Eccleshare Other titles from Frann Preston-Gannon include Dinosaur Farm (March 2013) both in paperback & box set The ice is melting so Polar Bear sets off in search of a new home Join him on his adventures across the seas & discover the many friends he meets along the way This beautifully illustrated story has a powerful message of conservation & is full of things for parents & children to talk about Frann was the winner of an amazing Sendak Fellowship & spent a month living with the great Maurice Sendak himself at his home in Connecticut USA She worked on The Journey Home during her stay ...

-A new edition of a Barefoot bestseller with sales to date of over 13000 copies -This action-packed book is ideal for teaching different colours & types of transport & for developing map-reading skills -AR Level 39 -This splendid sing-along b ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play America is in the depths of the Great Depression Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon In this masterful atmospheric adventure a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father During her extraordinary odyssey she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions a magnificent protective wolf & a hardened drifter (John Cusack) A brilliant moving tapestry woven of courage & perseverance Actors Meredith Salenger John Cusack Ray Wise Scatman Crothers & Verna Bloom Director Jeremy Paul Kagan Certificate PGYear 1985 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English ; French ; German
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles Dutch ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; French ; German Duration 1 hour 37 minutes (approx)
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