John Grote struggled to construct an intelligible account of philosophy at a time when radical change and sectarian conflict made understanding and clarity a rarity. This book answers three questions:* How did John Grote develop and contribute to modern Cambridge and British philosophy?* What is the significance of these contributions to modern philosophy in general and British Idealism and language philosophy in particular?* How were his ideas and his idealism incorporated into the modern philosophical tradition?Grote influenced his contemporaries, such as his students Henry Sidgwick and John Venn, in both style and content; he forged a brilliantly original philosophy of knowledge, ethics, politics and language, from a synthesis of the major British and European philosophies of his day; his social and political theory provide the origins of the 'new liberal' ideas later to reach their zenith in the writings of Green, Sidgwick, and Collingwood; he founded the 'Cambridge style' associated with Moore, Russell, Broad, McTaggart and Wittgenstein; and he was also a major influence on Oakeshott.

A fascinating biography of Peter I of Russia, otherwise known as Peter the Great.

LA is a beast. A city that swallows most with its glamour and glitz. Not Sarah Fuller though. Stubborn and relentless, Sarah refuses to be changed by her surroundings. Often, she takes a cynical approach, judging the world around her, though never taking anything too seriously. Thrown back into the dating arena in her late thirties, Sarah encounters brand new challenges. Readers will laugh out loud at the adventures and mishaps this sassy protagonist gets herself into. She explores LA life, seeing it through her unique lens. Hair extensions, goat yoga, socialites and all the strangeness that comes out of LA weave together in this crazy, episodic adventure. Can you handle the absurdities?? Fans of Chelsea Handler and Sex in the City will love Everyone in LA is an Asshole, a series that doesn’t hold back and says what we’re all secretly thinking.

Written during World War I by Harry Brodribb Irving, this is a study of the crimes of some of the world's most infamous criminals. Irving spent much of his life in the theatre, and his flair for the dramatic is displayed in his writings.He went on to found 'Our Society' with, amongst others, Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle. 'Our Society' survives today as the so called 'Murder' Club in London, where old crimes are discussed at regularly held dinners.

Are you a fan of the modern generation of royals? How much do you know about the lives of Prince William, his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and the rest of the Royal Family? If you're a fan, then this is a great book which will give you fascinating information about royals both past and present. Separated into sections containing information on individual royals, traditions of the monarchy, kings and queens from history, and of course Queen Elizabeth II, you will find more than 100 amazing facts inside!

Dominic Clemow first began to write poems as a way of expressing feelings of sadness and loss after a relationship ended. His interest in poetry has grown and developed since then. He writes with feeling and passion, particularly about the pivotal moments of life, such as going on a date, marriage and break-ups - times when we are faced with choices that may transform our lives for ever. I love you more than words can say, More and more every single day, You're the one I think about before I go to sleep, And the one I'm happy with, so I'm yours to keep.

Over 25 storys of famous love affairs of the royalty and nobility of Europe throughout history.

Throughout the course of my life, I have written a number of poems and was fortunate to have been left my late father's unpublished work, plus those of my past best friend. It seemed to me, therefore, that it would be appropriate to amalgamate them in one book, in part as tribute to their memory and on a personal level, to leave a permanent record for future generations to read and enjoy. I have always felt that poetry should reflect one's innermost feelings and expressed in a simple, honest and uncomplicated manner, to enable the reader to share that feeling and thus provoke a lasting emotion. To that end, I believe these poems will appeal to all age groups as they contain a rich mixture of emotions - love, humour, melancholy - and thought-provoking themes, and trust that in time, this book will become a favourite companion.

Encourage students to record their scientific knowledge and understanding using these easy-to-use sheets. The activities will encourage students to think and help you to gather evidence and assess what they know and can do. The teachers' notes contain further assessment activities, with anticipated student responses.

Are you a fan of royal wildchild Prince Harry? Do you know everything there is to know about the third in line to the throne? Then this is the book for you! In this easy-to-digest eBook are 101 facts about your favourite prince - do you know all of them?Test yourself and your friends with these handily-packaged facts easily organised into categories for maximum enjoyment. Sections include his upbringing, his army career, and of course information about his most controversial moments - including his now infamous Vegas party...

Do you enjoy reading poetry? Are you looking for something out of the ordinary? A poem can affect our mood and make us see the world differently. It can convey a wealth of emotion in just a few short lines. The skill of the poet is in choosing the right words to get his message across and create a lasting impact on the reader so that they will want to revisit the poem time and again. The Awakening is a collection of poems that does just that. The poems in this book embrace the fantastical and dream-like nature of our world, telling stories of the search for contentment and ultimately redemption, as well as the darkness and confusion that may tempt and consume us along the way. Dip inside this book to discover poems about a range of experiences from love and loss and relationships, through compulsion and self-destruction and what it is that makes us human. If you like poetry, you are certain to want to add The Awakening to your collection.

How to be Brilliant at Electricity, Light and Sound contains practical activities will help children to acquire knowledge and understanding of electrical circuits, the everyday effects of light and how we see, and how sounds are made.

First Class Phonics is a series of books designed to help children quickly become proficient readers and writers by using Synthetic Phonics, a high-quality teaching method recognised all over the world. In Synthetic Phonics, children focus on the skills that enable them to read and spell words accurately. It is essential that children develop the ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds in order to read fluently.The eight books in the series provide a complete reading programme in which children are taught to recognise the importance of every sound they hear in the spoken word and learn to blend these sounds so that they can read words from the very beginning of the program.Children progress from blending simple single sounds in Book One to using digraphs (two letter sounds) and trigraphs (three letter sounds) in later books. In the earlier books children are taught one letter or letter group for each sound but are gradually introduced to different groups of letters that make the same sound as well as the different sounds that can be made from an identical group of letters.Children are also taught words that they cannot initially 'sound out' as 'tricky words' that are learnt by sight. As children learn the different sounds that a group of letters can make these words cease to be 'tricky words'.With lots of fun activities to reinforce learning in each book and a complete story in which children practice the skills they have learnt children quickly become fluent readers with a love for books.

First Class Phonics is a series of books designed to help children quickly become proficient readers and writers.These books use Synthetic Phonics, a high-quality teaching method recognised all over the world. In Synthetic Phonics, children focus on the skills that enable them to read and spell words accurately. They recognise the importance of every sound they hear in the spoken word and learn to blend these sounds so that they can read words from the very beginning of the program.It is essential that children develop the ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds in order to read fluently. This book provides a range of fun activities to ensure this happens.Book 4 introduces more diagraphs (two-letter sounds) and trigraphs (three-letter sounds). It covers the sounds air, ve, ow (owl), oy, wh, ea, ur, ear, ai, ew, aw, ow (blow), y and oi. It teaches the tricky words come, some, where, why, what and here. The last chapter contains a story that uses only words built from the sounds taught in this book.

These writings are from a young woman who has had to face obsticles no person should have to. She has put her feelings into her writings for people going through similar experiences. Silent War gives readers an insight into Haleys life and and what she has been through. Pieces about teenage love, heartbreak, medical journeys, losing someone and much more these writings are all from the heart.

These 10 Geography Lesson plans cover the programs of study for Key Stage 1 Geography as set out in the National Curriculum and are based around the QCA topics 'Our school and the local area' and 'An Island Home' which studies a contrasting locality. Within each lesson are opportunities to develop geographical enquiry and skills through knowledge and understanding of places, patterns and processes, as well as development and change. Each lesson includes practical activities and as well as setting out lesson objectives and outcomes. The lesson plans also offer extension activities for cross-curricular work and ICT opportunities as well as assessment.

Just Jill is an inspirational and moving account of one woman's triumph over adversity and how she used her own experience of disability to benefit others.When she was growing up during the 1940s very few people were aware that Jill Allen-King had lost one eye as the result of measles when she was a baby. Her disability was a taboo subject and she attended a normal school, progressed to catering college and secured employment as a cook. However, tragedy struck for the second time when glaucoma rendered her completely blind at the age of 24 on what should have been one of the happiest occasions of her life - her wedding day.For the next seven years Jill barely left the house, too scared to go outside unaccompanied and afraid that she would never again be able to participate in the activities she loved, such as dancing. The birth of her daughter, Jacqueline, gave her renewed purpose but could not give her back the thing she desperately needed - her independence. It was only when Jill got her first guide dog that she began to rediscover the world outside her front door and take those first giant steps towards regaining her confidence and freedom. Jill's autobiography charts her journey from partially sighted child to totally blind adult and beyond, a process of readjusting and learning through grit and determination and then using her knowledge and experience to do everything in her power to help others and to campaign for reforms to secure a safer, fairer and more disability-aware environment. It is a story that will provide encouragement to those that are struggling to cope with disabilities and also educate people from all spheres of life about the challenges and needs of disabled people. At the age of 70, Jill continues to fight for the cause, and hopefully her story will inspire others to take up the baton.

Lucrarea de fa?? are ?n vedere tratarea unei adev?rate realit??i europene ?nc? nerezolvat?: migra?ia. Ea este un fenomen cu care se confrunt? aproape toate popoarele lumii, efectele ei marc?nd societatea, fie din perspectiva celor care pleac? dintr-o ?ar? (a emigran?ilor), fie din perspectiva celor care vin ?ntr-o ?ar? (a imigran?ilor). Personal eu am sim?it emigra?ia ca pe o tr?ire pe un interval ?n care omul vie?uie?te ?ntre dou? lumi, lumi ca dou? p?r?i din sine pe care nu poate s? le mai uneasc? pentru a fi un ?ntreg. Lectura acestei lucr?ri este o incursiune ?n via?a emigrantului, cu motiva?ia lui, cu lumea lui din ?ara de unde pleac?, cu lumea lui ?n ?ara unde se a?az?, cu efectele ?i schimb?rile pe care le provoac? acest fenomen la nivel individual ?i social. Este o incursiune ?n apropierea unor realit??i occidentale unde emigran?ii ?ncearc? s? supravie?uiasc? discrimin?rilor ?i umilin?elor. Este tr?irea re?ntoarcerii acas?, ?n apropierea anotimpurilor ?i a eternit??ilor rom?ne?ti.

Se poate comunica i e necesar sǎ se comunice cu valorile literaturii universale, pǎstrandu-se o perspectivǎ istoricǎ, citindu-l pe Sofocle ca pe contemporanul lui Pericle. Dar, am nceput sǎ nelegem, spre deosebire de secolul trecut, istoricist, cǎ tot att de necesarǎ, ba poate chiar mai fecundǎ, e o comunicare cu trecutul, adoptndu-se o perspectivǎ actualizatoare, citindu-l pe Sofocle ca pe contemporanul nostru. Dincolo de aceastǎ perspectivǎ care, n cele din urmǎ, e i ea oarecum istoricistǎ, doar cǎ istoria e localizatǎ n actualitate, se deschide o perspectivǎ a sincroniei literare care dispune sǎ-l citim pe Sofocle ca pe contemporanul nimǎnui ori al tuturor, ca pe un martor al esenialitǎii umane i nu numai al unei existene istoric cantonate. ncercare ambiioasǎ, ce nǎzuiete sǎ derelativizeze valorile literar-artistice, pǎstrnd totodatǎ contiina unei relativitǎi a formelor i figurilor pe care o hermeneuticǎ a textelor se cuvine sǎ o punǎ n luminǎ. Relativitate impusǎ chiar de prezena autorului, a cititorului interpret, a scriitorului i hermeneutului n comentariile sale. n cartea aceasta a attor cǎri, scribul interpret apare n textele sale ca i pictorul ce se zugrǎvete pictnd n propriile sale tablouri. Sǎ-i fie iertatǎ aceastǎ ultimǎ deertǎciune.” (Nicolae Balot)

Η Πο?ηση, οι εμπνε?σει? και τα μην?ματα που προσωπικ? και αυθ?ρμητα εκπ?μπονται απ? την ψυχ? του ποιητ? δ?σκολα περιγρ?φονται και αναλ?ονται. Ο Γι?ργο? Σεφ?ρη? δεν ?θελε να μιλ? και να εξηγε? τ?ποτα απολ?τω? για τα ποι?ματ? του. Ο Euros Bowen ?λεγε πω? ?η Πο?ηση δεν ε?ναι λ?ξει?, αλλ? ο χορ?? τη? φωτι???! Την παραλληλ?ζει δε με τη φωτι?, ?χι με την ?ννοια τη? καταστροφ?? και τη? απ?λειψη?, αλλ? με την εξαιρετικ? ?ννοια του καυτηριασμο?, τη? κ?θαρση? και επομ?νω? τη? θεραπε?α?. Κι αυτ? τα στοιχε?α προσφ?ρονται π?ντα... αθ?ρυβα!

“Love thy God, and love Him only,And thy breast will ne’er be lonely.In that One Great Spirit meetAll things mighty, grave, and sweet.Vainly strives the soul to mingleWith a being of our kind;Vainly hearts with hearts are twined:For the deepest still is single.An impalpable resistanceHolds like natures still at distance.Mortal: love that Holy One,Or dwell for aye alone.”De Vere In no province of the vast Roman empire, as it existed in the middle of the third century, did Nature wear a richer or a more joyous garb than she displayed in Proconsular Africa, a territory of which Carthage was the metropolis, and Sicca might be considered the centre. The latter city, which was the seat of a Roman colony, lay upon a precipitous or steep bank, which led up along a chain of hills to a mountainous track in the direction of the north and east. In striking contrast with this wild and barren region was the view presented by the west and south, where for many miles stretched a smiling champaign, exuberantly wooded, and varied with a thousand hues, till it was terminated at length by the successive tiers of the Atlas, and the dim and fantastic forms of the Numidian mountains. The immediate neighbourhood of the city was occupied by gardens, vineyards, corn-fields, and meadows, crossed or encircled here by noble avenues of trees or the re-mains of primeval forests, there by the clustering groves which wealth and luxury had created. This spacious plain, though level when compared with the northern heights by which the city was backed, and the peaks and crags which skirted the southern and western horizon, was discovered, as light and shadow travelled with the sun, to be diversified with hill and dale, upland and hollow; while orange gardens, orchards, olive and palm plantations held their appropriate sites on the slopes or the bottoms. Through the mass of green, which extended still more thickly from the west round to the north, might be seen at intervals two solid causeways tracking their persevering course to the Mediterranean coast, the one to the ancient rival of Rome, the other to Hippo Regius in Numidia. Tourists might have complained of the absence of water from the scene; but the native peasant would have explained to them that the eye alone had reason to be discontented, and that the thick foliage and the uneven surface did but conceal what mother earth with no niggard bounty supplied. The Bagradas, issuing from the spurs of the Atlas, made up in depth what it wanted in breadth of bed, and ploughed the rich and yielding mould with its rapid stream, till, after passing Sicca in its way, it fell into the sea near Carthage. It was but the largest of a multitude of others, most of them tributaries to it, deepening as much as they increased it. While channels had been cut from the larger rills for the irrigation of the open land, brooks, which sprang up in the gravel which lay against the hills, had been artificially banked with cut stones or paved with pebbles; and where neither springs nor rivulets were to be found, wells had been dug, sometimes to the vast depth of as much as 200 fathoms, with such effect that the spurting column of water had in some instances drowned the zealous workmen who had been the first to reach it. And, while such were the resources of less favoured localities or seasons, profuse rains descended over the whole region for one half of the year, and the thick summer dews compensated by night for the daily tribute extorted by an African sun.