Émile is Rousseau's landmark challenge to rigid, memory-based schooling, a radical vision of education that scandalized eighteenth-century France and was condemned and burned by church authorities. Yet the book's influence spread across Europe, inspiring reformers such as Basedow, Pestalozzi, and Froebel, and helping shape modern secular schooling and kindergartens. This volume presents selected extracts and translator's notes, preserving the parts of Rousseau most useful to parents and te...

Grow more food, with more confidence — right in your own backyard.If you've ever dreamed of harvesting abundant, beautiful vegetables at home—but felt overwhelmed by where to start—In Your Garden shows you how to grow like a professional, using simple, proven methods adapted for everyday life.From world-renowned market gardener Jean-Martin Fortier, this practical, full-color guide brings the power of biointensive, ecological farming into the home g...

In Jean-Henri Fabre's keen-eyed world, a coin, a fossil, or a beetle's burrow can open onto the whole history of life. The Life of the Weevil begins with meditations on numismatics and ancient currency, where Roman, Greek, and Provençal coins become miniature records of power, commerce, art, and civilization. Fabre then turns to stone beds and fossils, reading the landscape near Apt as a living archive of vanished seas, lakes, crocodiles, tortoises, fish, plants, insects, and especially we...

**“The clear, step-by-step plan that will help you stop guessing, stop stressing, and start using your money with confidence.”—Mel Robbins“The playbook the personal finance industry should have written a generation ago.”—Bill PerkinsThe new roadmap to financial longevity, from longtime TODAY show financial editor and New York Times bestselling author, Jean Chatzky**You’ve been saving for retirement for decades. But what happens when you get to the ...

Balinese rituals, art and a unique sense of time are what set Bali apart!This unique book describes the concept of time in Bali and the magical significance of religious rites and festivals that are bewilderingly complex yet endlessly intriguing. Authors Jean Couteau and Georges Breguet begin by unraveling the difficult Balinese calendar and making it accessible. This calendar forms the basis for an elaborate cycle of celebrations held at regular intervals...

“Echenoz is one of the contemporary literature's rare graceful magicians.” —BookforumJérôme Lindon is a genre-defying meditation on the friendship and working relationship between Jean Echenoz and his editor, the founder of Les Editions de Minuit, Jerome Lindon. Lindon published the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Robbe-Grillet, among so many other giants. This voice-driven ramble recounts in candid, understated, and hilarious glimps...

Fists of Glory provides a fascinating and intimate look at boxing from its origins in archaic Greece to its demise in late antiquity. Jean-Manuel Roubineau takes readers on a full sensory journey, replete with sights, smells, and percussive sounds, as he discusses all aspects of the sport, including rules and regulations, gear, weight classes, training regimens, cheating strategies, and boxing's relationship to other sporting contests like pankration. Roubineau's expertise as a pr...

A family secret. A vineyard steeped in history. A dream that became reality.An upmarket novel blending multigenerational family drama, a destined love story, and a woman’s journey toward trusting her inner voice and finding the courage to rewrite her life.Gia was born and raised on a vineyard in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. When her nonna’s spirit visits her at the age of five, it awakens a longing to understand her Italian heri...

Exiled from his community, a young Innu man finds himself adrift on the streets of Montreal.Released from prison after ten years spent behind bars for the murder of his violent, alcoholic father, Élie Mestenapeo finds himself out in the world again, but alone. Banished for life from his community, Nutashkuan, he heads south to Montreal, where he becomes part of a new community—Cree, Nakota, Inuit, Innu, Mohawk, and Atikamekw come together in Cabot Square. There, Él...

The events in this book take place in Naarm Melbourne Australia in 1991 and include Shannon’s interactions with her ex-lover, Hermione, and her long-time lesbian friend, Xia, who is dying of cancer. Shannon is a certified carpenter and also makes her living as a handywomyn doing odd jobs and maintenance work. She is doing a measure and quote for wheelchair access at the Women’s Liberation Building when she hears about the murder of Tom Clark who was one of the bosses at Trades Hall. After ...

An exquisite meditation on the mysterious Fayum portraitsJean-Christophe Bailly’s A Silent Apostrophe is a lyrical interdisciplinary study of the Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. This “truly remarkable essay,” in the words of art critic John Berger, explores the ongoing fascination with these nearly 2000-year-old images and, in so doing, tells an origin story of portraiture as we know it today. Drawing on a wealth of historical materials, Bailly sho...

She’s a fashion model trying to prove she’s more than a pretty face.He’s a guarded cowboy who doesn’t believe she belongs in his world.City girl Laura Oakes wants more than photo shoots and shallow praise. When an inheritance brings her to Sweetheart Creek, Texas, she leaves the runway behind and leaps into small-town life — determined to prove she’s capable of more.Too bad the rugged, serious cowboy she once crush...