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Yoga Animals introduces children to yoga and mindfulness through an engaging story and illustrated step-by-step yoga poses.
Mindful Storytime presents: Crab & Whale. An imaginative and engaging way to introduce mindfulness to children. How can a tiny crab help a big, beached whale? This charming and heartwarming story is the first book in the Mindful Storytime series. Authors Mark Pallis and Christiane Kerr bring their considerable experience to bear by subtly introducing mindfulness for kids in a delightful story that children will enjoy again and again. The book also includes a mindful breathing exercise and affirmation for children. For those interested in mindfulness for kids, this book is a must. "A truly heartwarming story celebrating kindness and gently introducing children to the life-changing power of mi...
It's a beautiful day at the seashore, but Crab isn't feeling very happy. What could help make her feel better? This first book of yoga is sure to delight children aged 3 and up. Readers will follow Crab's day along the seashore and learn with her as she is taught 13 yoga poses by her friends. First, Crab will do it, and then it's the reader's turn to try. Poses in the book are devised by expert yoga instructor and author, Christiane Kerr, to inspire happiness and confidence. Each pose is easy to learn and is accompanied by simple step-by-step instructions and pictures. With its gentle story, beautiful illustrations and straight-foward approach to practice, Yoga Animals at the Seashore is a book that is sure to stimulate a life-long love of yoga.
Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? Rewriting Language provides one possible answer: by engaging readers with the issue, literary texts can help to raise awareness and thereby promote wider linguistic change.
Dog has been having fun bounding around all day and doesn't want to go to bed! With the help of his farmyard friends, from Hen tucked up in her coop to Cow in her shed, Dog learns 13 bedtime yoga poses to help him settle down to sleep. Children are invited to practice simple poses explained by a yoga expert to help them stretch and balance, breathe and relax. Child-friendly illustrations clearly demonstrate poses, and notes to the parent are included.
New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse how these contexts challenge our conceptions of who reads, what reading is, how we read, where we read, and for what purposes – and then responds to the questions this analysis raises. Is our reading experience becoming a ‘flat’ one? And does reading in a media environment favour quick reading? Alongside these questions, the contributors unpack emerging strategies of reading.They consider, for example, how paying attention to readers’ emotional reactions as an indispensable component of reading affects our conception of the reading process. Other chapters consider how reading can be explored through such topics as experimental literature, the contemporary encyclopedic novel and the healing power of books.
"The magical book that will have your kids asleep in minutes." —The New York Post This groundbreaking #1 international bestseller is sure to calm racing minds and make bedtime easy and fun for kids and parents! Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep? Do anxiety or worries ever interfere with bedtime? Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly routine. When Roger can’t fall asleep, Mommy Rabbit takes him to see Uncle Yawn, who knows just what to do. Children will join Roger on his journey and be lulled to sleep alongside their new friend. Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s simple story uses a unique and distinct l...
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.
Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation on the one hand, transformation, adaptation and (re)mediation on the other. These two poles inform our comparative and interdisciplinary project. The volume is situated within the particular intercultural and intermedial context of contemporary cultural representation. Vulnerability is explored as a si...
John Tyndall (1822–1893) is best known as a leading natural philosopher and trenchant public intellectual of the Victorian age. He discovered the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, explained why the sky is blue, and spoke and wrote controversially on the relationship between science and religion. Few people were aware that he also wrote poetry. The Poetry of John Tyndall contains his 76 extant poems, the majority of which have not been transcribed or published before, and are succinctly annotated in a style similar to that used for the letters published in The Correspondence of John Tyndall.The poems are complemented by an extended introduction, which was written by the three editors...