Download or read book Where Skylarks Sing written by Patrick Davies and published by Caravan Books UK. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching a major crossroads in 2021, Patrick Davies did the only thing he could think of – he set off alone with a pair of walking boots and a tent to walk the length of Britain in the hope of finding escape and answers. To many, Patrick appeared to have it all – a loving family, an enviable career that took him around the world, a rewarding future clearly mapped out. Then everything abruptly changed. He found himself returning to Britain without a job or a home to discover a family reeling from his father’s dementia diagnosis and a country tearing itself apart after Brexit. In sharing his 1400-mile journey from the southernmost point of England to the northern tip of Scotland, Patrick explores issues of identity and belonging, anticipatory grief and the meaning of home against the backdrop of a world turned upside down. Where Skylarks Sing is an inspiring story of endurance and the healing power of walking told through the beautiful and varied landscapes of Britain.
Download or read book And the Skylark Sings with Me written by David H. Albert and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells the story of how he and his partner Ellen followed their daughter's interests in designing a home school program and used the resources within their community to fill the gaps in their knowledge areas.
Download or read book Skylarks with Rosie written by Stephen Moss and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As spring arrives, Stephen Moss’s Somerset garden is awash with birdsong: chiffchaffs, wrens, robins and more. Overhead, buzzards soar, ravens tumble and the season gathers pace. But this equinox is unlike any other. As the nation goes into lockdown, Stephen records the wildlife around his home, with his fox-red Labrador, Rosie, by his side. When old routines fall away, and blue skies are no longer crisscrossed by contrails, they discover the bumblebees, butterflies and birdsong on their local patch. This evocative account underlines how a global crisis changed the way we relate to the natural world, giving us hope for the future. And it puts down a marker for a new normal: when, during that brief but unforgettable spring, nature gave us comfort, hope and joy.
Download or read book To Hear the Skylark s Song written by Huw Lewis and published by Parthian Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A thoughtful and passionate memoir, moving and respectful' Tessa Hadley Huw Lewis was born in Merthyr in 1964. His father an engineer at the Hoover factory, his mother first a housewife then a nurse. He has two older sisters and a younger brother, they were all brought up in the village of Aberfan in south Wales. To Hear the Skylark's Song is a memoir about how Aberfan survived and eventually thrived after the terrible disaster of the 21st of October 1966, when Pantglas school took the full force of thousands of tons of colliery waste and a community lost a generation of children. It is a story about how people held a community together and created a space for each other to thrive. It is also a wonderfully thoughtful and insightful story of what it was like to grow up in a Valley's community in the 70s: a thriving place of people, shops, clubs, chapel concerts, coal mines, interwoven with gossip and stories and, of course, the annual bus trip to Barry Island. Aberfan found a way to carry on, and Huw vividly brings to life how the sense of community provided strength and comfort in the shadow of a lifetime-long grief. A community that continues to innovate and inspire.
Download or read book The Skylark written by Christina Georgina Rossetti and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina Rossetti's poem focusing on a skylark in nature is illustrated with paintings from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Download or read book To a Skylark written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A skylark sings music written by Henry Portnoj and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumbing Us Down written by John Taylor Gatto and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).
Download or read book The Great American Delusion written by Patrick Davies and published by Caravan Books UK. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something has been going badly wrong in America. But what is really happening, why, and what does it mean? Could the US itself now be the greatest threat to the future of the West? What does Joe Biden need to do to get America back on track? In this fascinating account of America today, Patrick Davies, former British Deputy Ambassador to the US, sets out to understand how America, blinded by myths of its own exceptionalism, has failed to tackle serious political, social and economic problems which are exacerbating divisions in its society, poisoning its politics and ultimately fuelling America’s decline. The Great American Delusion asks whether, with global power shifting eastwards, the US can save itself and, with it, the Western world before it’s too late. Patrick Davies worked alongside the Obama and Trump White Houses for five years. He has more than 30 years’ experience of America, its people and its politics.
Download or read book Birds of Song and Story written by Joseph Grinnell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of poems and prose inspired by birds, written by an American couple. Each chapter is dedicated to one species, and contains both a poem and an introduction to the habits of each bird. Featured titles include The Grosbeaks, the Hermit-Thrush, and the Orioles.
Download or read book The Naturalisation of Animals Plants in New Zealand written by George Malcolm Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin written by Natural History Society of Dublin and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selborne Magazine and Nature Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Skylarks Sing written by David Peter Marsden and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behaviour Development and Evolution written by Patrick Bateson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible book, eminent biologist Professor Sir Patrick Bateson suggests that the nature/nurture dichotomy we often use to think about questions of development in both humans and animals is misleading. Instead, he argues that we should pay attention to whole systems, rather than to simple causes, when trying to understand the complexity of development. In his wide-ranging approach Bateson discusses why so much behaviour appears to be well-designed. He explores issues such as ‘imprinting’ and its importance to the attachment of offspring to their parents; the mutual benefits that characterise communication between parent and offspring; the importance of play in learning how to choose and control the optimal conditions in which to thrive; and the vital function of adaptability in the interplay between development and evolution. Bateson disputes the idea that a simple link can be found between genetics and behaviour. What an individual human or animal does in its life depends on the reciprocal nature of its relationships with the world about it. This knowledge also points to ways in which an animal’s own behaviour can provide the variation that influences the subsequent course of evolution. This has relevance not only for our scientific approaches to the systems of development and evolution, but also on how humans change institutional rules that have become dysfunctional, or design public health measures when mismatches occur between themselves and their environments. It affects how we think about ourselves and our own capacity for change.
Download or read book Life on the Wing written by Derwent May and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dainty avocets prancing along the seashore to panic-stricken waxwings frenziedly gobbling berries, from barking barnacle geese to soaring skylarks, Derwent May writes about birds in a very special way. As he goes in search of birdlife in a variety of places - the English lanes and rolling corn fields that he loves, the lonely Essex marshes, the remote bird-haunted islands of Grassholm and Fair Isle - May reveals just what it feels like to be a birdwatcher. With him, the reader will experience the excitement of fresh discoveries, the peace and contentment that birds can bring and the comedy to be found both in the behaviour of birds and the human response to them. May is an alert observer of avian habits and manners, describing them vividly and poetically, but underlying everything he writes is scientific knowledge and a wealth of experience. Employing all of these skills and drawing on his popular weekly 'Feather Reports' column from The Times, May creates a fascinating chronicle of a year in the life of our birds, from robins to rarities, with Peter Brown's illustrations adding the perfect finishing touch.
Download or read book Bird Moment Haiku written by Patricia Herlihy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty two haiku about birds observed in the garden and out and about in the South of England, UK.
