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'This book is a delight ... the world is full of little surprises, momentary little fountains of pleasure and beauty, that could be visible to all of us if we learned to stop and notice as Miranda Keeling does.' Philip Pullman 'An odd, beautiful book ... Buy an extra copy to give to someone you love.' Neil Gaiman January: A man walking along Caledonian Road falls over onto the huge roll of bubble wrap he is hugging, perhaps for just this sort of situation. Inspired by her popular Twitter account, The Year I Stopped to Notice brings together Miranda Keeling's observations of the magic, humour, strangeness and beauty in ordinary life. Through the changing seasons, on city streets and on buses,...
One day, in my ordinary life, a fairy-tale came to visit... In "Something Old, Something New, Something Red," airline stewardess Nicki LeFlore will not stand, nor fly, for her broken engagement. Maybe the love of her life just needed a dose of an old Southern recipe from Aunt Martha to overcome his lapse in sanity! "We Interrupt This Marriage" makes Callie Ann Dickerson overdose on fresh fruit facials in hopes of ridding her mind of the holiday customer that keeps stealing her heart one smoothie at a time. Poppy Vanlandingham had no intention of ever wearing a glass slipper again or riding away in a carriage; she just wanted the plumbing fixed! "The Firing of Prince Charming" was the only th...
'We make it clear in our literature that we are looking for extraordinary couples - progressive people who are open to radical ways of doing things.' Jo and Alex are the perfect professional couple - the ideal modern family. But at the centre of their comfortable lives a void has opened and Jo is desperate to find a solution. Her unorthodox search leads her to Gloria. Can Gloria help? Or is that not her aim at all?
A reminder of the pleasure to be found in stopping to notice things. Wherever we go, life is happening. And all too often, we let it pass us by. We’re caught up in our phones, in our heads, in a conversation from three weeks ago. But if we slow down, open our eyes and look around, it’s possible to observe the tiny miracles that are occurring all around us. In The Place I’m In, Miranda Keeling, author of The Year I Stopped to Notice and writer and presenter of multi-award-winning podcast Stopping to Notice shares observations she’s collected from years of paying attention. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes weird but always strangely appealing, they invite you to look at the world anew, slow down, and take the time to notice.
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This sixth edition provides an overview of fetal and neonatal pathology through a system-based approach. This book contains new chapters on immunology, with a continued focus on molecular aspects of pathology in the perinatal setting. The general principles of perinatal pathology and their clinical situations are also discussed, along with specific pathological entities and their organ systems. Keeling’s Fetal and Neonatal Pathology, sixth edition aims to help the reader treat common problems through anatomical pathology findings and is relevant to practicing and trainee pathologists, obstetricians, maternal and fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists, and pediatricians.
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.