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In The House Of Crossed Desires

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Chester likes to help his dad in the garden, and on the farm. Maybe he will become a farmer or a gardener ... Or does he have a completely different job in mind for when he grows up? A Job for Chester! is part of the Galaxy range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy provides captivating fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. The rich collection of highly decodable books immerses children in a range of cross-curricular topics and genres. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

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Join five animal friends for a fun day at school in this friendly, reassuring book. The activities introduce children to all sorts of things they will do at school, whilst helping them practise pen control, and there are simple activities on letters, numbers and shapes. Durable, wipe-clean pages mean children can practise again and again, and there are helpful notes for grown-ups at the front too.

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Join five animal friends as they start school in this delightful introduction to the school day, from getting dressed in the morning to home time. Charming illustrations describe the school day and some of the early years concepts children will learn, including colours, numbers and counting, getting dressed, seasons and more.

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Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States, considering issues of function, population, imagery, and growth. Contributors to the volume use ethnographic and cultural analysis to identify downtowns as products of the activities of planners, power elites, and consumers and as zones of conflict and competition. Whether claiming space on a world stage through architecture, media events, or historical tourism or facing the claims of different social groups for a place at the center, downtowns embody the heritage of the modern city and its future. Essays draw on extensive fieldwork and archival study in Beijing, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Nashville, Lima, Philadelphia, Mumbai, Havana, Beirut, and Paris, among other cities. They examine the visions of planners and developers, cultural producers, governments, theoreticians, immigrants, and outcasts. Through these perspectives, the book explores questions of space and place, consumption, mediation, and images as well as the processes by which urban elites learn from each other as well as contest local hegemony. Global Downtowns raises important questions for those who work with issues of urban centrality in governance, planning, investment, preservation, and social reform. The volume insists that however important the narratives of individual spaces—theories of American downtowns, images of global souks, or diasporic formations of ethnic enclaves as interconnected nodes—they also must be situated within a larger, dynamic framework of downtowns as centers of modern urban imagination.

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The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary narrative research on complexity.Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.

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My Dad is a beautifully illustrated, stereotype-busting celebration of all the everyday things one child's dad does to make him so wonderfully, daddish-ly awesome!He may not be a superhero, or an astronaut, or a secret agent… but my dad is still the best dad in the world! From baking cookies and gardening to playing make-believe and watching the sunset, a child reveals all the simple yet wonderful things he loves to do with his dad. With lyrical rhyming text and gentle illustrations, this is a joyous celebration of fatherhood which creates a special reading experience between a child and their father. Inspire a child to explore what makes the relationships in their own life special with this touching book.

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'Let's go outside! Let's run as fast as our legs can carry us. Let's make the best den in the whole wide world.' The great outdoors are waiting, ready to be filled with excitement and imagination. Explore the fun that can be had outdoors in all weathers and count how many children have gone outside to play in this joyful celebration of imaginative play and the simple pleasure of spending time outside everyday... and cosying up indoors at the end of the day.At the end of this simple and lyrical picture book are discussion prompts and outdoor activity suggestions, all ready for parents and children to say... LET'S GO OUTSIDE!

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Imaginative contemporary crime novel set in Romania

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Cambiar los contenidos, cambiar la educación es el resultado de una conjunción de textos, en el que cada autor y autora tienen la oportunidad de expresar lo que le sugería la interrelación entre la ya manida sociedad del conocimiento y la educación. Estamos educados en la perspectiva de poner a dicha sociedad como fuente de las consecuencias que se derivan para el discurso, las políticas y prácticas educativos. Después se haría el trabajo en dirección inversa: qué pueda hacer la educación para hacer efectiva la sociedad haciéndola más transparente, más atractiva y más justa, Para ese cometido se requiere volver sobre los principios fundamentales, que si bien no han dejado de tener vigencia, si que se han desdibujado y debilitado para que recuperen su fuerza para tener voz en los ámbitos en los que se piensa, se hace y se valoran las prácticas dominantes. Esta obra recoge las conferencias más importantes impartidas en un curso de verano (el de 2016) de la universidad Meléndez Pelayo en

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Continuamente, y casi desde que nacemos, recibimos mensajes sobre el amor que ayudan a crear falsos mitos: que para ser felices tenemos que encontrar nuestra media naranja, que los celos son una muestra de amor? Cuando la realidad choca contra estos falsos mitos se produce una frustración que provoca infelicidad y que, en casos extremos, puede derivar en violencia de género.En este libro encontrarás una serie de retos que te ayudarán a reflexionar. A descubrir tus propias respuestas. Enfréntate a ellos sin miedo, atrévete a pensar a tu manera. Porque para que la sociedad avance necesitamos jóvenes que se atrevan a abrazar la realidad con toda su complejidad.

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This book studies the transformations of the figure of Faust found in the Faust books dating from the 16th to the early 18th century, which laid the foundation for the literary fame of the figure of Faust as the devil's confederate.The figure of Faust was repeatedly reworked in many texts of this era, undergoing a considerable transformation in the process. At the center of the discussion in this volume lie the themes of curiositas and audacity, fear of damnation and an anguished conscience, melancholy and despair.Of particular interest are the junctures of Faust as sorcerer and learned man, caught between exemplary typification and individualisation processes, between legend and damnation.

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In a city ruled by hunger, the black market is Liza’s lifeline, where she sells or steals whatever she can get her hands on just for enough food to survive. Morality, after all, has become a fluid thing during the brutal year her city has been under siege. But when Liza's best friend proposes that they go to the secret police, rumored to give young women food in exchange for 'entertainment,' Liza thinks there surely must be some other way. Then her friend disappears, and Liza devises a plan to find her, entangling herself with two dangerous young men - one a member of the secret police, the other forced to live underground - and discovering there are some lines that should never be crossed.

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