{"title":"Ambleside Online Year 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBooks from the AO Year 12 booklist collected for your convenience!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFind all the recommended academic books and free-reads for\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/collections\/ambleside-online-year-12\" title=\"Ambleside Online's Year 12\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmbleside Online Year 12\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-nature-study-by-anna-botsford-comstock","title":"The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock","description":"\u003cp\u003eA matchless handbook for decades, this classic work has been the natural history bible for countless teachers and others who seek information about their environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common plants and animals, and even less about the earth beneath their feet and the skies overhead, this book is for the most part as valid and helpful today as it was when first written in 1911--and revised in the spirit of its authors by a group of naturalists in 1939. After all, dandelions, toads, robins, and constellations have changed little since then! And modern society's concern with the quality of life and the impact of people on soil, water, and wildlife makes this book even more relevant. Nature-study, as used in this handbook, encompasses all living things except humans, as well as all nonliving things such as rocks and minerals, the heavens, and weather. Of the living things described, most are common in the northeastern states, and many, such as the dandelion, milkweed, and mullein, and the house mouse, muskrat, and red fox, are so widespread that people living outside the United States will recognize them easily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Botsford Comstock very appropriately took the view that we should know first and best the things closest to us. Only then, when we have an intimate knowledge of our neighbors, should we, journey farther afield to learn about more distant things. Teachers and children will find the material in this book invaluable in that regard. Details of the most common, but in some ways the most interesting, things are brought out, first by careful, nontechnical descriptions of the things themselves and later by thoughtful questions and study units. Because the most common things are treated in greatest detail, materials for study are easy to find. Whether the reader lives in the inner city or in the rural outback, the handbook is a treasure trove of information. A teacher does not need to know much about nature to use this handbook. The information is there for the novice and the expert alike. All that is needed is an inquiring mind, senses to observe, and a willingness to think about nature on a personal level. To enter this book in search of information about any common organism, stone, or object in the sky is to open the door to a fresh and lively acquaintance with one's environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe late \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/collections\/anna-comstock\" title=\"Anna Botsford Comstock\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Botsford Comstock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was the founder and first head of the Department of Nature Study at Cornell University and the first woman to be appointed to the Cornell faculty. 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Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in its influence on modern thought and literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWilliam Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them--the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories--and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. 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One mother said, 'We should elect this man President.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Elaine Majors, Chapel Hill NC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thank you for challenging public education - in your\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eeditorial, your evening program at Carnegie Hall, your book, and all the rest.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Sandra Booth, Spring Valley NY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is as refreshing to read and hear your words as it is to study Zen.... Good show.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- John Warfield, Huntingdon VA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword, by Zachary Slayback\u003cbr\u003ePreface - About the Author\u003cbr\u003e1. The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher\u003cbr\u003e2. The Psychopathic School\u003cbr\u003e3. The Green Monongahela\u003cbr\u003e4. 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But soon Elizabeth learns that her first impressions may not have been correct, and the quiet, genteel Mr. Darcy might be her true love after all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a girl \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/collections\/jane-austen\" title=\"Jane Austen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane Austen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are \u003cb\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/b\u003e (1811), \u003cb\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/b\u003e (1813), \u003cb\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/b\u003e (1814) and \u003cb\u003eEmma\u003c\/b\u003e (1816). 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Readers will respect the uncompromising ending.\"-- \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The novel is cleverly written with a good sense of the realistic and a good ear for dialouge, qualities which will attract any reader.\"- \u003ci\u003eBestsellers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Robert Cormier has written a brilliant novel.\"- \u003ci\u003eChildren's Book Revie Service\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn ALA Best Book for Young Adults\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobert Cormier (1925-2000) \u003c\/b\u003echanged the face of young adult literature over the course of his illustrious career. 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Life of pi -- In which the author is in Germany to witness the world's fastest mental multiplication. It is a roundabout way to begin telling the story of circles, a transcendental tale that leads him to a New York sofa. -- Chapter 5. The x-factor -- In which the author explains why numbers are good but letters are better. He visits a man in the English countryside who collects slide rules and hears the tragic tale of their demise. Includes an exposition of logarithms and how to make a superegg. -- Chapter 6. Playtime -- In which the author is on a mathematical puzzle quest. He investigates the legacy of two Chinese men-one was a dim-witted recluse and the other fell off the earth-and then flies to Oklahoma to meet a magician. -- Chapter 7. Secrets of succession -- In which the author is first confronted with the infinite. He encounters an unstoppable snail and a devilish family of numbers. -- Chapter 8. Gold finger -- In which the author meets a Londoner with a claw who claims to have discovered the secret of beautiful teeth. -- Chapter 9. Chance is a fine thing -- In which the author remembers the dukes of hasard and goes gambling in Reno. He takes a walk through randomness and ends up in an office block in Newport Beach-where, if he looked across the ocean, he might be able to spot a lottery winner on a desert island in the South Pacific -- Chapter 10. Situation normal -- In which the author's farinaceous overindulgence is an attempt to savor the birth of statistics. -- Chapter 11. The end of the line -- In which the author terminates his journey with potato chips and crochet. 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It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The future will require us to build better places,\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Kunstler says, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"or the future will belong to other people in other societies.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but in large part a cause. It is the everyday environment where most Americans live and work, and it represents a gathering calamity whose effects we have hardly begun to measure. In The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular, where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and blacktop. Now that the great suburban build-out is over, Kunstler argues, we are stuck with the consequences: a national living arrangement that destroys civic life while imposing enormous social costs and economic burdens. Kunstler explains how our present zoning laws impoverish the life of our communities, and how all our efforts to make automobiles happy have resulted in making human beings miserable. He shows how common building regulations have led to a crisis in affordable housing, and why street crime is directly related to our traditional disregard for the public realm. Kunstler takes the reader on a historical journey to understand how Americans came to view their landscape as a commodity for exploitation rather than a social resource. He explains why our towns and cities came to be wounded by the abstract dogmas of Modernism, and reveals the paradox of a people who yearn for places worthy of their affection, yet bend their efforts in an economic enterprise of destruction that degrades and defaces what they most deeply desire. Kunstler proposes sensible remedies for this American crisis of landscape and townscape: a return to sound principles of planning and the lost art of good place-making, an end to the tyranny of compulsive commuting, the un\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCARY PLACES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMERICAN SPACE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIFE ON THE GRIDIRON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDEN UPDATED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eYESTERDAY'S TOMORROW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSix \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOYRIDE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeven \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE EVIL EMPIRE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEight \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eHOW TO MESS UP A TOWN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eA PLACE CALLED HOME\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE LOSS OF COMMUNITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEleven \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHREE CITIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwelve \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eCAPITALS OF UNREALITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThirteen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBETTER PLACES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOTES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDEX\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Taylor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e A wonderfully entertaining useful and provocative account of the American environment by the auto, suburban developers, purblind zoning and corporate pirates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBill McKibben author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e A Funny, Angry, Colossally Important Tour of Our Built Landscape, Our Human Ecology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e A serious attempt to point out ways future builders can avoid the errors that have marred the American landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames G. Garrison \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Contributes to a discussion our society must hold if we are to shape our world as it continues to change at a dizzying pace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMichiko Kakutani \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Provocative and entertaining.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Howard Kunstler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the author of eight novels. 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Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCry, the Beloved Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCry, the Beloved Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\"We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCry, the Beloved Country\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethe statesman, the poet, and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.\"--Literary Critic Lewis Gannett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautiful novel, rich, firm and moving...its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events so compelling, and its understanding so compassionate that to read the book is to share intimately, even to the point of catharsis, in the grave human experience.\"-- \"The New York Times\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.\"-- \"The New Republic\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Paton\u003c\/strong\u003e, a native son of South Africa, was born in Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, in 1903. Paton's initial career was spent teaching in schools for the sons of rich, white South Africans, But at thirty, he suffered a severe attack of enteric fever, and in the time he had to reflect upon his life, he decided that he did not want to spend his life teaching the sons of the rich. He got a job as principal of Diepkloof Reformatory, a huge prison school for delinquent black boys, on the edge of Johannesburg. He worked at Diepkloof for ten years, and at the end of it Paton felt so strongly that he needed a change, that he sold his life insurance policies to finance a prison-study trip that took him to Scandinavia, England, and the United States. It was during this time that he unexpectedly wrote his first published novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCry, the Beloved Country\u003c\/i\u003e. It stands as the single most important novel in South African literature. 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One of the most prophetic dystopian works.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. \"A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history's keenest observers of human nature and civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave New World,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ehis masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. 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