Alex the Alligator has a negative reaction to his best friend asking Alex's brother for help. Alex tells his mom that his friends are mean, that his brother, Andre, stole his friend, and that his friends do not like him. This book asks the readers to think about what really happened in the story and to come up with different strategies Alex could use to better handle his feelings with the same situation.

This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries. Some of these women are known today, some are not, yet all made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative jewellery, and illumination.This volume is the largest of its kind to document the lives...

**Full of joy and wisdom, a heart-stopping, emotional debut showing that a life isn't measured in how long it stretches, but in how much love it can hold.“Fans of A Man Called Ove will devour this, as I did. Like a perfect piece of music, there is not an off note in this entire book. I loved it.” —Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of Dolly All the Time**Alexander Kirk writes perfect love stories—but he doesn’t believe in them.

**Full of joy and wisdom, a heart-stopping, emotional debut showing that a life isn't measured in how long it stretches, but in how much love it can hold.“Fans of A Man Called Ove will devour this, as I did. Like a perfect piece of music, there is not an off note in this entire book. I loved it.” —Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of Dolly All the Time**Alexander Kirk writes perfect love stories—but he doesn’t believe in them.

The success of individual nation states today is often measured in terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and educational networks. This increased multifaceted international inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their citizenry, must relinquish a degree of contr...

A deeply moving story of love, loss and the extraordinary impact one life can have on another . . .‘Fans of A Man Called Ove and great writing will devour this’ ANNABEL MONAGHAN‘An absorbing, tender exploration of love’ JOSIE LLOYD‘A refreshingly nuanced take on romance tropes’ MAURENE GOOLife is not measured by the years we have, but by the love it holds.Al...

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated their ...

Educating from the Heart: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Transforming Education is based on the questions: "What does it mean to educate from the heart? What does it mean to educate with spirit?" It offers both theoretical overviews and practical approaches for educators, academics, education students and parents who are interested in transforming schools. Well-respected voices in the field of education provide a framework that includes recent findings from the world of n...

'Gray has managed to do the virtually impossible, and that is to say something new and perceptive about Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt' Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919**'A fascinating two-way mirror onto a world of privilege' Country LifeJennie Jerome and Sara Delano: two remarkable, often overlooked individuals who were key in shaping the characters of their sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ...

What meaning does the past hold for the present? History writing often prioritizes the ethos and actions of the "great men" of the past, those connected to formal expressions of power, as models worthy of imitation. The problem with such exemplars is that they craft a limited view of national identity, drawn from political, economic, religious, and social institutional superstructures. Inherently exclusionary, narratives of exemplary men inadequately represent the complexities of a metropo...

There has been growing attention paid to urban agriculture worldwide because of its role in making cities more environmentaly sustainable while also contributing to enhanced food access and social justice. This edited volume brings together current research and case studies concerning urban agriculture from both the Global North and the Global South. Its objective is to help bridge the long-standing divide between discussion of urban agriculture in the Global North and the Global South and...

Un’antica tenuta abbandonata con un’orribile storia alle spalle, apre le sue porte ad un gruppo di cinque persone intenzionate a scoprire se le leggende che si narrano sono vere.Gray Manor, tuttavia, non è come tutte le altre case infestate. Ben presto i suoi nuovi ospiti dovranno fare i conti con le loro paure e i loro peggiori incubi.Francesca, lasciata da poco dalla donna che amava, dovrà affrontare i ricordi più dolorosi del suo passato e della sua infanzia, ritrovandosi ...