![]() ![]() |a An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the author's explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood, and creativity. ![]() Get over yourself : wilderness, creativity and the power of awe Water on the brain Please pass the hacksaw - The city in a garden. You may squat down and feel a plant Garden of Hedon Rambling on - Backcountry brain. The smell of survival Birdbrain Box of rain - Five hours a month. The biophilia effect How many neuroscientists does it take to find a stinking milkvetch? - Nearby nature : the first five minutes. |a The cordial air - Looking for nature neurons. ![]() |a Includes bibliographical references (pages -280). |a xii, 280 pages : |b illustrations |c 25 cm Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923, |c |a The nature fix : |b why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative / |c Florence Williams. |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d YDXCP |d BDX |d BTCTA |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d CCPLG |d ZPP |d JQM |d IGA |d ABG |d TI2 |d SBRWN |d HEV ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The plot concerns a young bride returning to England and buying a house that it later transpires that she had lived in briefly as a young girl, and recalls a repressed memory of seeing her stepmother being strangled, possibly by her father, but (conveniently) she doesn’t see the murderer’s face. It took about half a page before the entire plot re-established itself in my memory, but luckily this wasn’t the case with Sleeping Murder. I remember re-reading A Murder is Announced for the second time about ten years after the first. ![]() There’s always the risk that the plot details come screaming back to you. Invariably that means ones that I was less than enamoured by the first time round, but having read some of them when I was very young, tastes and opinions change. ![]() Well, writing my top five Marples and Poirots awoke my old fondness for Dame Agatha’s work, so after that one, I went on Abebooks and picked out a few other cheap ones that I couldn’t remember much about. I said I wasn’t going to review any Agatha Christie’s in full in an earlier post, and then almost immediately broke that resolution with The Hollow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Geological Survey Alaska Science Center and studies wildlife health in the north. She is currently a research biologist at the U.S. in creative writing from Western Washington University and has worked for various universities, NGOs and government agencies. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an M.A. ![]() Her writing has also been featured in the New York Times, Audubon, Los Angeles Times and Outside. She recently received the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition award for Adventure Travel. She is the author of “The Sun is a Compass: A 4,000-mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds,” the gripping story of a biologist’s journey from Washington State to high above the Arctic Circle to rediscover birds, the natural world and her own love of science. Caroline Van Hemert is an Alaskan writer, adventurer and wildlife biologist whose journeys have taken her from the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean to the swamps of the Okavango Delta. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the things she has secretly promised tend to feature in her books: intricately-drawn characters, a dysfunctional family, lots of riding, snappy dialogue, a teaser followed by a flashback, “sexy mens”, on-the-money descriptions, multiple converging plotlines and unabashed Irishisms – or Keyes-isms. She knows who she’s writing for and we know why we love her. Part of the draw is the unspoken pact she seems to have with her readers. She doesn't allow a character cross the threshold of her books without excavating their psyche The thing about Keyes is that she gets people. On a dull winter night or in the depths of a hangover, there’s no better cure than a Keyes. We tuck them into our schoolbags when we should be studying loftier things. We reach for them, like a spouse’s hand, from sun loungers and hospital beds. In fact, there must be a great many, since she’s Ireland’s bestselling living author. ![]() I’m sure there are many readers like me, who turn to Keyes when no one else will do. I was exhausted by literature – exasperated with its coolness and impenetrability – and my tattered paperback of The Mystery of Mercy Close (found left behind in a holiday home), my earmarked copy of Angels, and my never-returned library copy of Rachel’s Holiday felt like literature’s last remaining bastions proof that words could still hold me and lift my spirits. Some time ago I went through a spell where I could only read books by Marian Keyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() a fun, enriching, and holistic reading experience."-School Library Journal, starred review A beautiful book."- Helen Frost, author of the Printz Honor-winning Keesha's House "Josephine dances through these pages with such exuberance, she brings light to each dark corner. "Baker's entire life spreads out in this tapestry of words."-Publishers Weekly, starred review ![]() "An engaging read aloud with many possibilities for discussion, follow up research and writing.but it doesn't have to be an educational lesson 's just a fun read."-Cindy Dobrez, Bookends, a Booklist Blog And it makes for a gripping tale."-The Denver Post "A triumph of a strong, determined African-American woman over prejudice and parochialism. "Scrupulously researched, high-spirited celebration of the color-line-crossing dancer."-Los Angeles Times "If your child's gotta sing and gotta dance, then she's gotta read this book, too."-Houston Style Magazine "An extraordinary dancer and woman is here celebrated with style and empathy."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review The Wall Street Journal Best Books of the Year "Truly amazing."-Richie Partington, Richie's Picks "Honors the colorful exuberance of both the Jazz era and Baker's life."-Booklist ![]() ![]() ![]() *REVIEW* – The Archer, by Ruby Rodrigo January 13, 2023. ![]() *REVIEW* – Absolution, Anise Storm and Taylor L Ray January 31, 2023.*ARC REVIEW* – IMMORAL STEPS, IMMORAL SERIES BOOK 1, BY MARISSA FARRAR February 12, 2023.And no future for a man whose fate was decided long ago.Ī Readers Review Follow us on Twitter My Tweets A Reader\’s Review Blog No hope for a woman who’s had her heart broken. Then the fake relationship starts to feel real.īut there’s no chance for them. It will keep the swarming society mothers from throwing their daughters at him.Īnd it will keep Eva’s mother from bothering her about marriage. The one who doesn’t have time for her own interests.Įspecially not her interest in the charismatic, mysterious Finn Hughes.Ī fake relationship is the answer to both their problems. ![]() All the while knowing there’s a ticking clock on his ability to lead.Įva Morelli is the oldest daughter. He’s managed the business from a young age while his father served as the figurehead. No one knows that the men in his line have a debilitating, early-onset illness. His family is as wealthy as the Rockefellers. ![]() ![]() Raised by a single mother and grandmother in the small community of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Watt-Cloutier describes life in the traditional ice-based hunting culture of an Inuit community and reveals how Indigenous life, human rights, and the threat of climate change are inextricably linked. ![]() The Right to Be Cold is the human story of life on the front lines of climate change, told by a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential Indigenous environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world. She decides to take a stand against its destruction. It is the story of an Inuk woman finding her place in the world, only to find her native land giving way to the inexorable warming of the planet. The Right to Be Cold is Watt-Cloutier’s memoir of growing up in the Arctic reaches of Quebec during these unsettling times. ![]() In Inuktitut, the language of Inuit, the elders say that the weather is Uggianaqtuq-behaving in strange and unexpected ways. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her native Nunavik, a region that is part of the homeland of the Inuit in Canada. ![]() For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These have usually come in small waves of about two: an Old Pretender and a Young Pretender, their object being to sow dissension in the realm, and if possible to confuse the Royal issue by pretending to be heirs to the throne. I remember this passage on ‘the Pretenders’ making me weep with laughter when I was a schoolboy:Įnglish history has always been subject to Waves of Pretenders. There are only two dates in history: 55BC, when the Romans came and 1066, when the Normans did and everything is either a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. Taking as its maxim ‘History is what you can remember’, it tells the story of Britain as if narrated by a tipsy man distantly recalling the history lessons he snoozed through as a boy. Written in 1930, it’s the best, well, the funniest book of British history ever written. Since we’re discussing Diary of a Nobody and Three Men in a Boat, it would be remiss not to give a nod to another classic of English comedy, WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman’s 1066 and All That, available for a penny here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it God’s responsibility, or the law’s? Or is it his own responsibility as a father? Eventualy, Hieronimo reluctantly takes it upon himself to avenge Horatio’s death, but through The Spanish Tragedy, Kyd suggests that even when revenge seems like the only way to get justice, it’s still not worth it. Hieronimo demands revenge however, he questions whose responsibility it is to seek it. After Hieronimo’s son, Horatio, a war hero and honorable man, is murdered by Lorenzo, the son of the Duke of Castile and the nephew of the King of Spain, Hieronimo swears justice for his son. Revenge motivates several of the characters, but the play focuses mainly on the story of Hieronimo, the Knight Marshal of Spain. The Spanish Tragedy paved the way for other revenge plays of the day-such as Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy-and like other revenge plays, Kyd’s tragedy explores revenge and the ethics of taking justice into one’s own hands. ![]() Thomas Kyd’s play The Spanish Tragedy is widely regarded as the very first revenge play of the Elizabethan era. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books in print exceed seven million and have been translated into over thirty languages. He has an MA degree in Biblical Studies from Multnomah University and an Honorary Doctorate from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon and has taught on the adjunct faculties of both.Ī New York Times bestselling author, Randy has written more than forty books, including the bestsellers Heaven, The Treasure Principle, and the Gold Medallion winner Safely Home. He accomplishes this by analyzing, teaching, and applying the biblical truth.īefore starting EPM in 1990, Randy served as a pastor for fourteen years. His ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity. ![]() Randy Alcorn is an author and the Founder and Director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit ministry dedicated to teaching principles of God’s Word and assisting the church in ministering to the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. ![]() |