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Outdoor enthusiast, cyclist and acclaimed travel writer Simon Parker was restless for a new adventure, but with a small baby his explorations needed to begin at home. He decided to cycle through all 15 of the UK's national parks in the anniversary year of the first one's founding, the Peak District. This became a life-changing journey through a landscape, and nation, in flux.

Brought to you by Penguin. In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District. It was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife, but the fight to restore the landscape had already begun. Lee Schofield, ecologist and site...

The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. "An investigative triumph and a warning." —David Corn, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Russian...

A sixth-generation funeral director and writer of the popular ""must read"" (Time magazine) blog Confessions of a Funeral Director reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and...

An entertaining history of rural life in Aotearoa, told through artefacts, gadgets and ephemera that tell a story that goes deeper than the objects themselves. The most fun you'll ever have learning about rural life in New Zealand. Told through a varied selection of items from the everyday...

The triumphant New York Times bestseller! “Warm and oddly patriotic...A working-class hero is something to be.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times An uproarious and “utterly charming” (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that...

The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over 50 years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America. And for over a decade beginning in the late 1940s, umpire Bob Motley called balls and strikes for many of their games, working alongside such legends as Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays.

One of the most ubiquitous indicators of human activity, roads typically promise development and prosperity. Yet they carry with them the threat of disruption to both human and animal lives. Jones surveys the myriad, innovative ways stakeholders across the world have sought to reduce animal-vehicle collisions and minimize road-crossing risks for wildlife, including efforts undertaken at the famed fauna overpasses of Banff National Park, the Singapore Eco-Link, "tunnels of love" in the Australian Alps, and others.

Picture yourself as a young mother with a three-year-old daughter and a newborn at the playground. In the moment you’ve turned to the diaper bag, your toddler disappears—at first, all you can feel is terror, and then instinctively you look up—and there she is at the top of the slide, looking so proud of herself. At this moment, you might find yourself deluged with conflicting feelings, including anger and relief and resentment and gratitude and fear and even flashes of hate—you told her to wait for you before running off.

Forty-eight stories of brave sparrows, wilds winds, and how to live in times of climate change. A prize-winning book by the natural storyteller Georgiana Keable, sharing long experience with children in the forests and snows of Norway. Meet the girl who became a fish, married a bear, and had a tree as her mum and dad. Meet the boy who tried to stop the wind, fetched fire from the center of the earth on the back of a bird, and whose father was the river. 

Each of us experiences life as a continual flood of sensations and thoughts that give us a powerful sense of being a singular individual ‘I’. But defining ourselves this way misses much that is unique and extraordinary about being human. We are the product of four billion years of evolution...

"Walt has been far more than a dissertation director, but a genuine friend who has given me untold hours of attention, advice, support, and encouragement. He has made me feel like a genuine partner in exploring the biological foundations of social life."-Charles Wilmoth

As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland to find a bit of land that they could call their own. They had in mind keeping a few chickens, a kitchen garden, and renting out some camping space; instead, they fell in love with Lynbreck Croft - 150 acres of opportunity and beauty, shrouded by the Cairngorms and deep in the Highlands of Scotland.

Spending the night in juvie wasn't the worst thing to happen to seven-year-old Teresa that summer. When her much-anticipated cross-country vacation turns to abduction, Teresa is forced to care for her mother, sister, and twin brothers. Homeless, abused, and afraid in the slums of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Teresa finds joy in her adventures while fantasizing of a better life. Keeping this dream alive throughout her childhood is what drives her to end the cycle of abuse and poverty. 

Hier ist der verbesserte Text in Deutsch: Drei mutige Frauen zwischen Emanzipation und Wahlrecht, Aufbruch und Abenteuer, Liebe und Freundschaft: Der neue mitreißende Roman von Bestsellerautorin Stephanie Schuster (Die Wunderfrauen) 1909: Viktoria schlägt sich mehr schlecht als recht als Sekretärin durch. Das Leben als ledige Mutter ist hart, ihre Träume werden von Pflichten erstickt. Bis sie Agnes und Elisabeth in den Alpen begegnet: Agnes studiert entgegen aller Widerstände als eine der ersten Frauen Architektur.

Grüne Wiesen, süße Kälbchen, der Käse, wie er immer schon war, und ein naturnahes Leben – das ist die Landidylle aus TV-Serien. 5-Tonner mit 300 PS, viele Stunden harte Arbeit, jede Menge Lärm und Matsch und der ewige Kampf mit der EU-Bürokratie – das ist die Realität für über 250.000 landwirtschaftliche Betriebe in Deutschland. Annemarie Paulsen sieht und kennt beide Seiten, zieht aus beidem den Witz und nimmt ihre Follower mit in die Milchkammer, auf die Weide, in den Alltag einer Bäuerin.

Where the Wild Things Were centers on the exploding, contentious national conversation about the nature of childhood and parenting in the postwar US emblematized by Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. Renowned scholar Henry Jenkins demonstrates that the language that shaped a growing field of advice literature for parents also informed the period's fictions—in film, television, and elsewhere—produced for and consumed by children. 

Kennst du den "Streitwolf", der nachts im Schlafzimmer lauert, oder den "Entscheidungswolf", der deine Partnerschaft zerfrisst? Tobias und Laura Goldfarb decken in ihrem Bestseller die 13 gefährlichsten Beziehungskiller auf, die selbst die größte Liebe schleichend zerstören können. Statt...

"Wild, stark, unbezwingbar: Die Urkraft des Mannes entfalten“ ist kein gewöhnliches Hörbuch – es ist ein Ruf zurück zu deiner wahren Natur. In einer Welt, die von Erwartungen, Rollenbildern und Anpassung geprägt ist, lädt dich dieses Buch ein, deine maskuline Essenz neu zu entdecken und zu leben. Es richtet sich an Männer, die spüren, dass in ihnen mehr steckt als das, was sie im Alltag zeigen – Männer, die bereit sind, ihre innere Kraft zu entfesseln. In dir schlummert eine rohe, ungezähmte Energie – und dieses Hörbuch hilft dir, sie zu wecken.

After Kiran loses her mother, she escapes to the Welsh countryside—to allow herself to grieve away from turbulent city life in London, to leave her toxic family behind, and to find solace in the purity of the natural world. I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth. This is a reflective book about finding friendship in the most unexpected places—and what nature and a small community in the Welsh Valleys can teach us about life.