Colour your way to better focus! Colouring books.. .for grown-ups! Remember the long hours spent colouring in the lines of your most-cherished colouring books, full box of crayons within reach, the demanding adult world tuned out? Secretly long for an excuse to retreat back into that world? Now you can. Find your inner artist & colour your way to better focus! Mindfulness helps us to appreciate the world around us
- to feel centred, less stressed & more fully alive. Art for Mindfulness offers the perfect aid
- 60 stunning blank winter wonderland scenes to help focus your mind, unlock your creativity & calm your conscious as you pour colour into them. With an introduction from art therapist & mindfulness practitioner Imi Lo, plus accompanying"es with each illustration to inspire meditation as you go through, Art for Mindfulness is the beautiful colouring book for grown-ups you can mindfully complete. So pick up your pencil, unleash your creativity & watch your well-being thrive!

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The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations & letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard`s unborn daughter It is strange that you exist, but you don’t know anything about what the world looks like. It’s strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one’s skin. It’s strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pyjamas, a shoe. In my life that almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months, I will see you for the first time. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it anew. While new life is on the horizon, the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about everything from the moon, winter boots & messiness, to owls & birthdays. Taking nothing for granted, he fills these everyday familiar objects & ideas with new meaning. Startling, compassionate, & exquisitely beautiful, Knausgaard`s writing is like nothing else. Somehow, he shows the world as it really is, at once mundane & sublime. ...

Winter is a withdrawal: quiet & dark & cold. But in the dim light frost shimmers, stars twinkle & hearths blaze as we come together to keep out the chill. In spite of the season, life persists: visiting birds fill our skies, familiar creatures find clever ways to survive, & the world reveals winter riches to those willing to venture outdoors.; In prose & poetry spanning seven hundred years, Winter delights in the brisk pleasures & enduring beauty of the year`s turning. Featuring new writing from Patrick Barkham, Satish Kumar & Anita Sethi, extracts from the work of Robert Macfarlane, James Joyce & Kathleen Jamie, & a range of exciting new voices from across the UK, this invigorating collection evokes the joys & the consolations of this magical time of year. ...

BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, New York Times... ` Capacious, surprising, generous... A book with Christmas at its heart` Guardian ` Dazzling. Grief & pain are transfigured by luminous moments of humour, insight & connection... Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen` Daily Telegraph` Graceful, mischievous, joyful... Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness & hope` Independent`A novel of great ferocity, tenderness & generosity of spirit... Luminously beautiful` Observer From the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn & How to be both... The unmissable second novel in Ali Smith`s acclaimed ` Seasonal` quartet -- a Christmas story like no other Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare & shivering. The summer`s leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. & if there`s ice, there`ll be fire. In Ali Smith`s Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith`s shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory & warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It`s the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter. ...

When the temperature cools down & the nights become longer, we tend to crave our favourite comfort foods
- slow-cooked meats,
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As ethnic tensions escalate into war, Marija returns in confusion to her native Croatia
- call it a mid-life crisis. She soon
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Witches are odd. That much is clear to Tiffany. But she likes them. In an odd sort of way. Just as she likes Rol&. In a friend sort of way (which most certainly isn`t odd). But Tiffany hasn`t really got time to think about Rol&, because she has accidentally danced with Winter himself
- the Wintersmith. & now the Wintersmith has a bit of a crush on Tiffany. According to her friend Daft Wullie, if Tiffany kisses the Wintersmith (an awful thought), her nose turns blue & fall off. According to the witches, if she doesn`t shake off her admirer, there will never be another springtime...
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Street plan of the city & the surrounding area. An enlargement for the city centre shows the pedestrian zone & one way streets. Both plans show public transport, car parks, theatres, museums, etc. On the reverse, there is an index, a diagram with regional bus routes & a list of places of interest. Map legend & all the text is in German only. ...

Winterthur – Tösstal area at 1:50, 000 in a series from Hallwag covering Switzerland’s popular hiking regions on light, waterproof & tear-resistant maps highlighting long-distance paths: the nine national routes plus special regional routes, as well as other local hiking trails. Cartography is similar to that used both in Hallwag’s hiking atlases & in the walking series from Kümmerly + Frey at 1:60, 000 covering the whole country. The maps have contours at 50m or 25m intervals according to the terrain, enhanced by graphic relief & shading. A special feature of this series is an overprint indicating the nine national long-distance routes, plus regional long-distance trails. The overprint also shows other local paths, distinguishing between sign-posted hiking paths, mountain paths where proper walking shoes are necessary, & alpine paths requiring special equipment for glacier traverses & light climbing. Mountain huts are marked, plus various types of accommodation: campsites, youth hostels, “ Friends of Nature” houses, & secluded hotels & restaurants. Road network indicates local bus routes with stops. Railways, narrow gauge mountain railways, cable car lines, & chair lifts are shown, with various symbols highlighting places of interest, viewpoints, picnic sites, swimming pools, etc. The maps have a 1km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH1903 Bessel), with latitude & longitude shown as margin ticks at 5’. * Map legend

Includes:: English.* On the reverse, an index of towns & villages

Includes:: names of geographical features such as mountains, alpine passes, glaciers, lakes, rivers, as well as places of interest. Also provided is a small road map at 1:301, 000 of a wider region around the area covered by each title.



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Map No. 1072, Winterthur, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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