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Rose lives with her dog, John Brown. They are happy together, just the two of them. But she reckons without the mysterious midnight cat, and it was John Brown who realised that things were going to change.
Philippa's life is changed forever one summer when she meets a furry, shadowy little creature called a nimbin, who adopts her and takes over her beach bag as its home. Not many people know about the nimbin, but Philippa shares the secret with her new friend, Greg, and together the three of them experience the most surprising - and maddening - summer ever.
Like her father Kelly is a dreamer. The 20,000 dollars won in the lottery will surely make all their dreams come true.
Mr Hope invents wonderful new devices, Mrs. Hope likes burnt toast. Marissa watches the waves. And Dion listens to the whispers of the wind. But when Mr. Owen Mortlock and his brother Selwyn decide to build some apartments, everything is suddenly different. The wind goes away, the ocean vanishes from their windows, and that's not even the worst bit . . . But of course, there's always hope . . . and there's always a breeze somewhere.
An industrious spider spends her days and nights spinning perfect webs.
Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau, whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was transmitted when music represented sex. Wagner ...
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Hannibal is a fierce, hungry rabbit who leaves home to find out why he is different to all the other rabbits.
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Wagner identifies a pattern—a childhood of creative play leads to deep-seat...