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  Windswept: Life Nature and Deep...

  Annie Worsley

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  ‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE 
  ‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
  A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather. 
  Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon, as she watches otters play tag across the beach, as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, rivers scythed paths through mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later. 
  With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, Windswept evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is her paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK. 
  Annie Worsley's Windswept is a top-tier memoir that intertwines personal narratives with the history of Britain's ecosystems. Her commitment to environmental conservation and habitat protection is evident throughout, making this autobiography a must-read for those interested in European non-fiction. 
  For fans of Raynor Winn (Landlines), Sharon Blackie (The Enchanted Life), John Lewis-Stempel (England), Will Millard (The Way of the Hermit), and John D Burns (Wild Winter). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Beyond Your Doorstep - A...

  Hal Borland

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  The inspiring classic on the virtues of embracing the great outdoors from the nationally bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay. 
   
   
   
  Over the course of his career, Hal Borland wrote eight nature books and hundreds of "outdoor editorials" for the Sunday New York Times, extolling the virtues of the countryside. From his home on one hundred acres in rural Connecticut, Borland wrote of the natural wonders, both big and small, that surrounded him every day. Beyond Your Doorstep is his guide to venturing into the outdoors around your home, wherever it is, and discovering the countryside within reach. 
   
   
   
  The beauty to be found in roadsides, meadows, woodlands, and bogs are explored in elegant prose. Borland takes up birds, animals, and plants—both edible and poisonous—and the miraculous ways in which they are threaded together throughout the natural world. Part introductory field guide and part incitement to exploration, Beyond Your Doorstep is a classic of nature writing and a must-listen for anyone looking to renew his or her relationship to the outdoors.

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  Shepherd’s Sight - A Farming Life

  Barbara McLean

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  A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd 
  		 
  For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd’s Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.  
  		 
  Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant prose. As she moves through the calendar year, she also reflects on years past, offering a long view on climate, stewardship, and agriculture. 
  		 
  With its vivid description and absorbing storytelling, Shepherd’s Sight offers an unforgettable glimpse of a life lived on the land.

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  Unplagued

  Santiago Machain

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  Unplagued explores the profound transformation of human civilization in an era largely free from the devastating plagues that once shaped history. This comprehensive volume examines how science, technology, medicine, politics, economics, society, culture, and the environment have evolved in the absence of widespread infectious disease. Through a global lens, the book delves into the triumphs and tensions of the modern world, highlighting both the opportunities and the new challenges that have emerged. It offers a nuanced portrait of a world where humanity’s ingenuity has conquered old threats, only to face new complexities—climate change, inequality, conflict, and the quest for meaning and connection. Drawing on lessons from the past and present, the book invites readers to reflect on the future and the responsibilities that come with progress.

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  Selling The Intangible - Turn...

  Meera Kothand

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  Does any of this sound familiar to you?  
  You’ve put your heart and soul into creating a product only to have it completely bomb.  
  Or maybe you’ve seen that happen to your friends or peers in the online space, and you’re dead scared that’s going to be you because you have no clue what you’re doing.  
  You’re grateful to be able to serve clients one-on-one, but you’re exhausted! The idea of creating a digital product to add passive income to your revenue streams sounds oh-so-good!  
  Maybe you have an idea for a digital product but getting it out there seems like this enormously daunting task with a gazillion steps, and you don’t want to shell out thousands for anther course or coach.  
  Or perhaps you’re void of ideas, but you’re just itching to try digital products.  
  Nodding yes?  
  Digital products are an overwhelming, exhausting affair, especially when you don't know what to focus on.  
  No matter what type of digital product you’re creating (and yes there are a few!), there are some core components you need to focus on if you want to create successful digital products and have them as a staple in your business model.  
  This isn’t just about knowing what tools to use or what platform to sell your product on (you should never start there).  
  You need a coherent holistic strategy to be successful at it in the long run.  
  Selling the Intangible will introduce you to these core components in the form of bite-sized strategies and pro tips so that you have a plan for success before you even start.  
  Think of it as your digital product road map.  
  Here’s what’s packed into this how-to guide: How to create perpetual customer journeys so that your audience keep coming back to buy more. The right (and wrong!) digital products to create for the various stages of business growth. STOP creating the wrong ones that set you back months! The truth about winning offers and the secret hack to ensure your product sells Answers to the following questions: - How soon is too soon to add a product? - Should you sell on an external marketplace like Amazon, Udemy, or Coursera vs. on your own site? - Do you need webinars for all your funnels? And more.  
  Imagine knowing the exact steps you need to take to get your product created, launched, and selling successfully….  
  Imagine cultivating an audience who are clamoring to get their hands on “your next thing”….  
  Imagine never having to chase the next sale….  
  If you're thinking about creating a digital product or you've felt burned-out and overwhelmed from creating digital products before, this book will be right up your alley.  
  Intrigued yet?  
  Then scroll to the top and buy now.  
  Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.  
  ©2021 Meera Kothand (P)2022 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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  Teaching Primary Programming...

  Phil Bagge

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  Scratch teaching and learning made easy thanks to up-to-date, classroom-tested methodologies. Draws on the expertise of Code-IT and HIAS.

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