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![]() The Old Bear & Friends series has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide! Her illustrations are unique, using layers of colour pencil to build a more full & finely detailed finished image. Her tales of adventure and discovery are both heartwarming and fun, captivating the imaginations of children and adults alike. Inspired by a childhood teddy bear given to her by her grandmother, Jane has written and illustrated more than 20 picture books featuring Old Bear. Jane continued to nurture her passion through adulthood and studied illustration and design, later becoming an Art teacher and settling down with her husband Ivan and their 3 children Owen, Alison & Ralph. When she wasn’t doing this she would spend days at a time sitting in her favorite tree, reading the likes of Arthur Ransome and Enid Blyton. ![]() ![]() Her holidays were spent wandering fields and lanes, conjuring up fantastical worlds with pencil and sketchbook. First published in 1986, it later became the inspiration for BAFTA award winning TV series Old Bear Stories.Īs a child growing up in Norfolk, Jane developed a love for writing and drawing. ![]() Recognized in both publishing and TV, Jane Hissey is best known for her children’s book series Old Bear & Friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1951 to 1953, when he settled in San Francisco, he taught French in an adult education program, painted, and wrote art criticism. ![]() He received a Master’s degree from Columbia University in 1947 and a Doctorate de l’Université de Paris (Sorbonne) in 1950. Navy in World War II as a ship's commander. ![]() Following his undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he served in the U.S. Though imbued with the commonplace, his poetry cannot be simply described as polemic or personal protest, for it stands on his craftsmanship, thematics, and grounding in tradition.įerlinghetti was born in Yonkers in 1919, son of Carlo Ferlinghetti who was from the province of Brescia and Clemence Albertine Mendes-Monsanto. Often concerned with politics and social issues, Ferlinghetti’s poetry countered the literary elite's definition of art and the artist's role in the world. A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has written poetry, translation, fiction, theater, art criticism, film narration, and essays. ![]() ![]() They'll enable you to define your vision and nail down plans for funding, marketing, networking, and long-term strategy. ![]() ![]() Lee's illustrated, colorful worksheets and step-by-step instructions are playful yet practical, transforming drudgery into joy. Fishpond New Zealand, The Right-brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success by Jennifer Lee Chris GuillebeauBuy. The key is using, rather than stifling, imagination and intuition. Turn Passionate Ideas into Profitable Enterprises Do you dream of making a living doing what you love but find the process of creating a viable business plan like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Jennifer Lee knows what it's like to make the entrepreneurial leap - and how to do it successfully. ![]() ![]() Perhaps, Epstein would argue, you’ve already made your life far easier-precisely by procrastinating and dabbling around.Ĭommenting upon this, Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World, adds a few further recommendations: Especially if you are young and/or clueless as to what your next career move should be. Regardless of what you think, read Epstein’s Range and face his arguments. However, the author of Range, David Epstein, believes the opposite: the ones who succeed are actually the ones who’ve refused to specialize and are able to see things from a broader perspective. ![]() On the face of it, the time of polymaths is long gone: there are very few Da Vincis, Michelangelos, and Galileos around, and even fewer of them command the same respect these people did back in their own days. If you want to succeed in this wicked modern world of ours, he says, you need to have something much more than a certain specialty. Have you ever heard that old adage “Jack of all trades, master of none”? How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World ![]() ![]() ![]() Leemet, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the last member, and he relates their sad and beautiful story, which is also the story of a fading ancient world forced to make way for progress. They kept the ancient ways and knew the Snakish words, but Christianty was the future and they were doomed to fade away. Only one tiny forest community held out, and only temporarily. They sent more troops, and many battles later the Christian Duchy of Estonia was established. Peaceful methods are slow and both Meinhard and Rome were impatient. In 1193, Pope Celestine III called for a crusade against the pagans in Northern Europe (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) where Saint Meinhard of Segeberg was already actively and peacefully working to change the locals religion. These were useful as the Estonians eventually evolved into Vikings, and they did their fair share of sacking and getting sacked, but then Christianity arrived. ![]() As time progressed, and the area became covered with forests, people started creating semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer communities (Mesolithic period) which eventually transformed into hill fort settlements (Bronze age). Humans first settled in Estonia around 11,000 years ago when the ice from the last glacier melted. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being Me 10:25am 10:24am G Documentary/Factual Once friendships have been made is it all smooth sailing? This program looks at common friendship challenges like arguments, exclusion, gossiping and teasing. ![]()
![]() The stage is thus set for La Signora to work her magic, drawing out the secrets and the romance in her students' lives. He recruits Nora, whose repatriation to Ireland is precipitated by the death of her longtime married Sicilian lover, to teach Italian language and culture. After being passed over for the principal's job he desperately wants, underappreciated teacher Aidan Dunne is offered, as a pacifier, the job of spearheading a program of adult education classes. ![]() A banker with a spendthrift girlfriend a studious teenager with an overprotective older sister a thug looking to go straight while needing a place to stash illegal goods-the lives of these and many other Dubliners are touched by Signora, nee Nora O'Donoghue, whose adult education class, ""Introduction to Italian,"" becomes a lesson in what it means to be alive, in Binchy's richly satisfying new novel. ![]() ![]() She stomped up the front steps girding her loins for battle, as her father himself would have said. It was fueled by humiliation, and despair, and the absolute certainty that her father must be turning in his grave. ![]() It was the self-loathing of someone who can’t quite bring herself to leave home and have done with it. It was being relegated to a chamber in the attic, with faded furnishings that advertised her relative worth in the household. It was the pitying glances she had from acquaintances who never met her at dinner anymore. Anger was watching her father’s money be poured into new gowns and bonnets and frilly things…so numerous that her stepmother and stepsister couldn’t find days enough in the year to wear them all. Anger was watching the crops wilt and the hedges overgrow because her stepmother begrudged the money needed to maintain the estate. Daltry – who had held that title for a matter of mere months – started ruling the roost, that Kate really learned the meaning of anger.Īnger was watching tenants on the estate be forced to pay double the rent or leave cottages where they’d lived their whole lives. ![]() But it wasn’t until he was gone, and the new Mrs. Before her father died seven years earlier, she found herself sometimes irritated with her new stepmother. ![]() It should be said that the condition wasn’t unfamiliar to her. Miss Katherine Daltry, known to almost all as Kate, got down from her horse seething with rage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Would you be willing to try another one of John Lee’s performances? ![]() What do you think your next listen will be? Would you try another book from Laurent Binet and/or John Lee? Weird storytelling just didn't work for me. Who were these men, arguably two of the most discreet heroes of the twentieth century? In Laurent Binet's captivating debut novel, we follow Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England from their recruitment to their harrowing parachute drop into a war zone, from their stealth attack on Heydrich's car to their own brutal death in the basement of a Prague church.Ī seemingly effortlessly blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Laurent Binet's remarkable imagination, HHhH- an international best seller and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman - is a work at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing, a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible - until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service - killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History. ![]() HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. ![]() |