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  NumBots Scrapheap Stories - A...

  Tor Caldwell

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  Penguin longs to be as close to the stars as possible, so he decides to make the long journey up the Scrapheap Mountain. Will he make it to the top? 
  
  At Maths Circle, our core purpose is to make children feel confident with maths. 
  
  In Penguin and the Mountain, Penguin perseveres through a long and difficult journey to achieve his goal. This story encourages children to approach problems and obstacles with a proactive mindset and that when setting long-term objectives, it is easier to break them down into manageable steps, and work towards them over time. 
  
  We've created these audio stories and accompanying activities, all centred around the theme of growth mindset and resilience, to inspire confidence not just in maths, but in all areas of development. You can download the accompanying activities at numbots.com/audio-stories.
  
  NumBots is an award-winning maths learning platform that helps children achieve the 'triple win' of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction.

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  My Way! - Leadership Styles Of...

  Anurag Sikder

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  What makes a leader? Is a person born a leader or does circumstance decide their ability to lead a group? The subject of leadership still invites heated debates while trying to understand the depth of this skill. To follow a leader is to believe in their motives and subscribe to their vision. Successful leaders are those who are able to read the situation and design their approach according to it. The approach is indicative of the style each leader has. The leadership style plays a key role in deciding the extent of success of a leader. Every situation is unique and has its own expectations from its leaders. These leaders need to be equipped with specific qualities to form a rare combination for success. 
  This is the first of a 3 volume compendium about common styles of leadership. This volume will focus on leaders from the 5th Century A.D. till the 19th Century A.D. Each leadership style is explained through the stories of 6 epitomical leaders. These chosen leaders are renowned dictators who are known today for their extreme methods and notoriety. Their individual reigns as the head of their country/tribe/principality were long and storied. 
  The leaders profiled in this book are:Attila the HunWu ZetianGenghis KhanVlad the ImpalerIvan the TerribleKing Leopold 2nd

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  D-Day: The Twenty-Four Hours...

  Ibnul Jaif Farabi

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  The clock strikes midnight over the English Channel. In the darkness, thousands of young men board aircraft and landing craft, their hearts pounding with a mix of raw terror and fierce resolve. This is the eve of the greatest amphibious assault in history, a desperate gamble where the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. For the next twenty-four hours, nothing will go according to plan, and ordinary soldiers will be forced to make decisions that will echo through the ages. 
  Drawing upon a monumental archive of firsthand testimonies, historian and narrator Ibnul Jaif Farabi reconstructs the D-Day invasion in unprecedented, immersive detail. This is the complete story, told from the command bunkers of Supreme Headquarters to the flooded fields where paratroopers landed alone, from the gun decks of battleships to the bullet-swept sands of Omaha Beach. It captures the strategic dilemmas, the catastrophic misunderstandings, and the breathtaking ingenuity displayed by Allied and German forces alike. 
  Listeners will experience the invasion through the ears of those who lived it. You will feel the visceral chaos of the landing craft ramps dropping, the deafening roar of naval bombardment, and the eerie silence of the French countryside at dawn. This narrative delivers a profound understanding of the battle's complexity, the sheer scale of the operation, and the human cost of liberation, separating enduring myth from gritty, documented reality. 
  Prepare to embark on a definitive auditory journey into the heart of the Normandy invasion, a masterful chronicle of courage, sacrifice, and the pivotal day that forged the modern world.

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  A Journey from Prince of Wales's...

  Samuel Hearne

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  Samuel Hearne's three, eighteenth century journeys on the Barren Lands of northern Canada were undertaken on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company in an attempt to discover a reputed source of copper and to advance the company's fur trading interests in the region.  
  Travelling almost entirely with First Nations people, sharing their food, their tents, their frequent hardships and near starvation, Hearne paints an invaluable first-hand description of life in that wild and dangerous part of the world. He never flinches away from describing the sometimes brutal realities of tribal life, but never loses sight of his position as an outsider.

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  Baby

  George MacDonald

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Baby by George MacDonald. This was the fortnightly poetry project for February 22nd, 2009.

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  Convivio

  Dante Alighieri

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  Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four trattati, or "books": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that goes off in multiple thematic directions.The Convivio is a kind of vernacular encyclopedia of the knowledge of Dante's time; it touches on many areas of learning, not only philosophy but also politics, linguistics, science, and history. The treatise begins with the prefatory book, or proem, which explains why a book like the Convivio is needed and why Dante is writing it in the vernacular instead of Latin. It is one of Dante's early defenses of the vernacular, expressed in greater detail in his (slightly earlier) linguistic treatise De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular). Books 2 and 3 form a unit, both focusing on Dante's new love after the death of Beatrice—his love for Lady Philosophy, "the most beautiful and dignified daughter of the Emperor of the universe," as he calls her. Book 2 discusses allegory and Lady Philosophy (in connection with the canzone Voi che ’ntendendo il terzo ciel movete [You who move the third heaven with an act of the intellect], which opens the book), and also brings such subjects as astronomy, angelology, and the soul's immortality. Book 3 is a hymn of praise for philosophy, launched by an allegorical interpretation of Dante's great canzone Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona (Love, who speaks to me in my mind). In this book, Dante asserts that true philosophy cannot arise from any ulterior motives, such as prestige or money—it is only possible when the seeker has a love of wisdom for its own sake. Book 4 is by far the longest of the Convivio, and is noticeably distinct from the two books that precede it. The subject of book 4 is the nature of nobility. It opens with the longest canzone of the Convivio, Le dolci rime d’amor (Those sweet poems of love), which is explicitly about gentilezza or nobility, as well as a condemnation of avarice, asserting that reason and the spirit of acquisition are mutually incompatible. The first half of book 4's thirty chapters are dedicated to debunking the false idea of nobility as an inherited trait, one restricted to the aristocracy, while the final fifteen chapters delineate what true nobility consists of—the perfection of a thing according to its nature—and how nobility manifests in people at various stages of life. The Convivio, in its autobiographical passages and in the trajectories of its lines of thought, gives us a rich portrait of Dante himself, of great importance for an understanding of his work as a whole, especially the Divine Comedy. - Summary by Wikipedia

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