Every ancient author writing about the Low Countries, was preoccupied with the complete contrast between the civilized people of the Roman Empire and the tribes of noble savages or barbarians living outside it. Julius Caesar exploited this preconception to enhance his own reputation, boasting that he had overcome the "bravest of all Gauls"; Tacitus employed the same stereotypes when he described the Batavian Revolt; and, in Late Antiquity, the Franks were still described as resembling monsters.  The reality was different. The presence of the Roman army along the River Rhine radically changed the way of life in the small Roman province of Germania Inferior, and the need to maintain and feed this large army became a significant incentive for economic change. The tribes living along the lower reaches of the Rhine and close to the North Sea gradually began to resemble their occupiers.  Historian Jona Lendering and archaeologist Arjen Bosman have combined their considerable expertise to create a successful synthesis of historical and archaeological evidence, in this history of Rome s Lower Rhine frontier.

Edge of Empire

Variant: Edge of empire

Warehouse 200

Learn about the emotions behind the faces of over 90 different children, then use the included mirror to practice understanding your own feelings! See why kids are happy, sad, mad/frustrated, surprised, scared, brave, bored, silly, and/or tired with beautiful photographs showing every bit of context (like welcoming a new sibling, falling off a bike, or getting ready to sleep). Every spread shows the same emotion on 10 different children's faces so family members and educators can demonstrate emotions look different for everyone. Created with neurodiverse children in mind! Complete with family discussion questions and a feelings wheel in the back matter.

Little Faces Big Feelings

Variant: Little Faces Big Feelings

Children's Picture Book English-Egyptian Arabic/Masri (??????? ???????) "Am I small?" - Tamia is not sure and keeps asking various animals that she meets on her journey. Eventually she finds the surprising answer... 200+ Languages and Dialects The picture book Am I small? has been translated into over 200 languages and dialects since its publication. It is available for every country on earth in at least one official language. Please note: This book is a bilingual picture book with a 1:1 translation created by professional human translators (see translator's credits for details).

Am I Small? هل أنا صغيرة؟

Variant: Am I small? هل أنا صغيرة؟

Dos décadas después de su primera publicación llega la 2.ª edición de Hoppenfeld. Tratamiento y rehabilitación de fracturas, dirigida a todas aquellas personas interesadas en el tratamiento posterior de las fracturas, incluidos estudiantes de medicina, enfermería o terapia física u ocupacional; estudiantes de posgrado de cirugía ortopédica, medicina deportiva de atención primaria o medicina física y rehabilitación; y médicos de todas las especialidades. La autoría de la 1.ª edición estuvo a cargo de Stanley Hoppenfeld, probablemente el autor contemporáneo que más ha influido, durante más de una generación, en la comprensión y apreciación de la exploración física y neurológica ortopédicas, así como en los enfoques quirúrgicos anatómicos contemporáneos.Esta 2.ª edición está redactada por destacados ortopedistas y especialistas en rehabilitación. De acuerdo con la visión original del Dr. Hoppenfeld, el libro se subdivide en secciones anatómicas con énfasis en la comprensión de la relación entre el cuidado conservador o quirúrgico de las fracturas y la restauración funcional de la movilidad de las articulaciones para mejorar los resultados de los pacientes. El libro es intrínsecamente multidisciplinario y refleja un abordaje de (S0(Batención total(S1(B a las fracturas.

Hoppenfeld. Tratamiento Y Rehabilitación De Fracturas

Variant: Hoppenfeld. Tratamiento y rehabilitación de fracturas

A child is born and everything is made anew. In this blur of new beginnings there are tears and laughter, new words and new silences: this is an unmaking and remaking of the self. From short stories about unnerved fathers and lost mothers, to poems about 'half-built Lego palaces' and friends who share their deepest secrets, Blood & Cord is a raw exploration of new parenthood. Voicing silenced conversations about loss, grief, and loneliness, as well as the joys and laughter that are part and parcel of becoming a parent, the stories told within offer a refreshingly honest account of life after new life. This collection is a hand in the dark, offering comfort and solidarity to any new parent.

Blood & Cord

Variant: Blood & cord

King Alfred is dead and the achievements that made him great are in jeopardy. Rebels challenge the succession of his son Edward to the Wessex throne, and his old ally in Mercia is sick. The Vikings in the Danelaw sense the time has come to complete their conquest of England.   It falls on Alfred's firstborn, his daughter, Æthelflæd, to unite the Anglo-Saxons. Reluctantly, she takes up the challenge. But can a woman rebuild ruined towns and lead men into battle against hardened Viking warriors? And can Æthelflæd fulfil her father's dream of uniting England?   Based on contemporary sources and archaeological evidence, King Alfred's Daughter is rich in drama, family conflict and historical achievement.

King Alfred's Daughter

Variant: King Alfred's daughter

Adam Brook is an insurance investigator tasked with exploring a case of suspected arson in the village of Leviton on the south-west coast of England. Questions surround a Mr Askew, who inherited the property and recently had planning permission refused.   As he pursues the truth about the fire over the course of forty-eight hours, Adam quickly finds himself out of his depth in the close-knit community. In this dark comedy of games, claims and combustion, the visitor discovers that in Leviton buildings aren't the only things subject to kindling.

Bonfire Season

Variant: Bonfire season

"This afternoon I shall go to my own funeral service before I watch them bury me under six feet of London clay."   When kindly provincial solicitor, Andrew Soulsby, fails to listen to his instincts he is condemned to live an evil man's life in a tailspin to destruction. Plagued by dark memories that do not belong to him and arrested for crimes of which he has no knowledge, he faces professional ruin, bankruptcy and a prison cell.    Can Andrew discover what has happened to him, and will he find a way to survive if he regains the love of his wife and children, or is the truth altogether more terrifying?    Fantasy meets grim reality in this gripping medico-legal mystery thriller with an original twist, making you question what it means to have a soul, a sense of self.

Hosting Andrew

Variant: Hosting Andrew

The memoir of the author of Nork from Nowhere and The Icecream Terrorist, showing the tales in his life that sparked inspiration for his novels. A cross between a 21st-century Dumping Ground and The Story of Tracy Beaker and the Victorian Tom Brown's School Days with hints of Travel Guide To Mountaineering & Alternative Living. Explores themes of overcoming adversity, sticking to your principles and discovering the Path to Happiness.

Yeti Seeks Mate

Variant: Yeti seeks mate

Caradea, Eastern Europe, Spring 2030. Marta Ionescu, thirty-four and single, lives alone on the run-down Goval estate. She has good friends, a secure job and runs a popular youth club. But with her elderly mother growing increasingly fragile and her boyfriend, Arpad, frequently absent and drinking heavily, Marta's optimism is fading fast. Worse, she has discovered a series of photographs that suggest Arpad might be involved in sex-trafficking.   Her dream of settling down and having children in limbo, Marta decides to look elsewhere for the husband of her dreams. But Arpad does not take his rejection kindly and when Marta agrees to help newly widowed Michael Brancusi with his troubled teenage daughter Steffi, she sets off a chain of events that threatens the people and things she loves and, ultimately, her own life.

Europia

Variant: Europia

It is summer of 1938, in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.    Life for the Dusek family - and their six-year-old son Jan - has been stable, unhurried, and full of promise.   But times are changing. An idyllic childhood gives way to impending invasion and looming war. Jan's parents choose to leave everything behind, to face an uncertain future.   A following vivid and hazardous journey across Europe is often seen by Jan as an adventure rather than a danger. The family settle in England just two weeks before the start of World War Two, ready to put the past behind them as they build a new life in a new land.   It is summer of 2019, as Jan returns to Karlovy for the first time in 80 years.   An International Film Festival is in progress. How much more has the world changed? What remains the same? What other timeless and terrible challenges will bring about further immigration, settlement and belonging? Can the only strengthening shield be the power of love?

Karlovy Vary Goodbye

Variant: Karlovy Vary goodbye

In Other Lands Trees Speak Arabic

Variant: In Other Lands Trees Speak Arabic

The protagonist of Ti Amo is a woman who is in a deep and real, but relatively new relationship with a man from Milan. She has moved there, they have married, and they are close in every way. Then he is diagnosed with cancer. It's serious, but they try to go about their lives as best they can. But when the doctor tells the woman that her husband has less than a year to live - without telling the husband - death comes between them. She knows it's coming, but he doesn't - and he doesn't seem to want to know. Ti Amo is an incredibly beautiful and harrowing novel, filled with tenderness and grief, love and loneliness. It delves into the complex emotions of bereavement, and in less than 100 pages manages to encapsulate an extraordinary scope and depth, asking how and for whom we can live, when the one we love best is about to die.

Ti Amo

Variant: Ti Amo

8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her "the girl with the wheelchair". Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!

Obioma Plays Football

Variant: Obioma plays football

The Bird Master

Variant: The Bird Master

The Pearl Whisperer

Variant: The Pearl Whisperer

Once there was a street in Paris and it was called the Street of Tailors. This was years back, in the blue mists of memory.  Now it's the 1950s and Henri is the last tailor on the street. With meticulous precision he takes the measurements of men and notes them down in his leather-bound ledger. He draws on the cloth with a blue chalk, cuts the pieces and sews them together. When the suit is done, Henri adds a finishing touch: a blue Tekhelet thread hidden in the trousers somewhere, for luck. One day, the renowned French artist Yves Klein walks into the shop, and orders a suit.  Set in Paris, this atmospheric tale delicately intertwines three connected narratives and timelines, interspersed with observations of the colour blue. It is a meditation on truth and lies, memory and time and thought. It is a leap of the imagination, a leap into the void.

Blue Postcards

Variant: Blue postcards

Everyone has something interesting to say if you take the time to listen. The Interview Chain is a series of conversations-each interviewee was asked to nominate someone they admire as the next link.  Starting from a casual conversation on a boat on the Thames, the chain wended its way for over 23,000 miles, alighting on three continents and gathering up personal perspectives on issues that really matter in the world today.  The interviewees include a theatre director, a rabbi, a philanthropist, a sculptor, a New York Mayoral candidate, a pioneering documentary maker, and a man who rescues giant trees. Some have worked in challenging places-Kabul in the time of the Taliban, a Romanian orphanage, immigration detention centres, remote Indian villages, Ferguson Uprising, etc.

The Interview Chain

Variant: The interview chain

In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, they travel to Nairobi together for the first time to discover Napirai s roots and finally meet her father and half-siblings. Africa, My Passion is a poignant, touching and exciting story about one woman's love affair with a unique man, which led to a lifelong obsession with Africa. Moving, vividly recounted, eye-opening and, above all, filled with passionate hope and unparalleled detail, this is an extraordinary sequel to a bestselling series of memoirs.

Africa, My Passion

Variant: Africa, my passion

In Heavy Time psychogeographer Sonia Overall takes to the old pilgrim roads, navigating a route from Canterbury to Walsingham via London and her home town of Ely. Vivid in her evocation of a landscape of ancient chapels, ruined farms and suburban follies, Overall's secular pilgrimage elevates the ordinary, collecting roadside objects - feathers, a bingo card, a worn penny - as relics. Facing injury and interruption, she takes the path of the lone woman walker, seeking out 'thin places' where past and present collide, and where new ways of living might begin. 'It is a talisman of a book. Heavy Time doesn't just describe a pilgrimage, it becomes one, for both writer and reader. It is an invitation to resist 'busyness', to think of ourselves as explorers, to seek out 'the everyday divine'. It has sent me out looking for 'thin places: pockets in the landscape where the membrane is so tightly stretched that other worlds might shine through.' Beautiful and essential.' - Helen Mort

Heavy Time

Variant: Heavy time

Lulu's little brother, Zeki, is never daunted by new experiences. Mummy and Daddy prepare him well, so he's excited to show the doctor all the things he can do by himself: drinking from a cup, standing, clapping, playing and being ever so brave. He's so good he deserves the book and sticker he gets at the end for being such a good boy!