Luc Durtain
Luc Durtain
The key concept for danish hygge is to enjoy life in peace and harmony. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are affected by our surroundings. Danish hygge is about caring, and when we do not care for our surroundings, clutter begins to spread its way into our lives, and hygge is no longer a possibility. The good news is that we can deliberately change this situation. When you start caring about your home and your surroundings you will find that you have much more time for fun and hygge. Once you know what you appreciate, where your stuff is, and can understand the difference between what is good and what is bad for you to own, you will be free to enjoy the life you truly deserve. You're about to discover... oThe danish lifestyle called hygge oHow to apply hygge to your work space oHow to make your home more cozy and comfy oHow to include hygge into your kitchen oHow to live hygge during all seasons in your daily life Hygge may have originated in scandinavia, but it's an idea that deserves to spread throughout the world. It's a perfect fit with both minimalism and gratitude, and if you're interested in either, you'll love the insights shared in this book. Don't buy into the idea that you have to own all the goodies, travel to exotic places, and climb the highest mountains (literal and figurative) to have a valuable life.
Ma Kimbell, une motocyclette sur laquelle à travers Alpes et Riviera, un jeune homme s'enfuit loin de l'amour. Huit jours en selle, rencontres à toute vitesse, gens et paysages, plats inattendus et idées involontaires. À travers cent incidents lentement narrés, le curry du capitaine, le perdreau ou l'aïoli, le merveilleux salon musical, la chartreuse de Montrieux, le gardien aux tempes vertes, les orages et les pannes, une passion - d'abord méconnue de Claude lui-même - agrandit devant lui le monde de toutes parts. Peut-être le mieux est-il de rouler avec Claude, sans arrière-pensée, d'aventure en aventure, tantôt à 100, tantôt à 15 à l'heure, sur sa machine américaine.
Ash always finds its way onto her tongue. Sanna Mordecai is nineteen, and for eleven months she has been the girl who got it wrong. The crescent birthmark in her palm — the oracle's mark, the one that once burned hot and true with visions — has gone cold and flat and useless. She presses her thumb into it until it hurts. Nothing answers. In the gray village of Ashburrow, beneath the silent bulk of Mount Ashen, everyone remembers the day her prophecy failed. The day she vomited blood into the ash while the crowd laughed. The day Elder Thalira said, "The mountain does not give its secrets to those who demand them." Now the fissures on the slopes are widening. The elders insist there is nothing to fear — the mountain has been quiet since before anyone's grandparents were born. But Sanna does not trust quiet. Quiet means pressure building. Quiet means the mountain holding its breath while the ground grows thin beneath their feet. When the speaking stone finally answers her again, it does not bring comfort. It brings fire. A vision of a broken kingdom in the valley below. A forbidden spell. A bloodline cursed long before she was born. And a crown built on blood. Her old friend Corbin Wren — ink-stained, jumpy, no longer quite someone she can trust — knows far more than he is telling her. The elders who shamed her have secrets buried as deep as the mountain's roots. And every day the fissures widen, the speaking stone demands a higher price for the truth. The whole village is watching, certain she will fail again. But this time, if Sanna gets the prophecy wrong, no one survives to laugh. To save Ashburrow, Sanna must claim the power that once shamed her, unearth the lie at the root of her people, and decide whether a girl the whole village wrote off can become the last oracle Ash Mountain will ever need. The Last Oracle of Ash Mountain is an enchanting young-adult fantasy adventure about a broken kingdom, a forbidden spell, a cursed bloodline, a doubted heroine, hard-won prophecy, and a crown built on blood. Perfect for readers who love YA epic fantasy, reluctant prophets and chosen-one stories, volcanic and elemental magic, slow-burn friendships, and heroines who rise from failure to claim their power.
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.
Brescia, 1912. Il pilota Ettore Noris si imbarca in un'impresa senza precedenti: tentare l'attraversamento dell'oceano Atlantico in volo solitario, senza scali. "La veste d'amianto", con la sua fiduciosa esaltazione della tecnica, può pertanto dirsi una tipica espressione delle speranze dell'epoca, rese narrativamente attraverso dense suggestioni futuristiche. Ettore Noris rappresenta, in questo senso, la manifestazione tangibile del mito superomistico: eroe modernissimo, interprete di un'avventura che, all'epoca in cui Flavia Steno la descrive, non è neanche immaginabile. Il mondo reale dovrà aspettare il 1919, prima che il Vickers Vimy - pilotato da Alcock e Whitten-Brown - persegua effettivamente quello che nel romanzo è lo scopo del protagonista. Amelia Cottini Osta (1877-1946) nasce a Lugano. Autrice dapprima di articoli e romanzi d'appendice, si afferma successivamente come corrispondente di guerra, distinguendosi come una fra le uniche donne ad aver documentato la Prima Guerra Mondiale direttamente dal fronte. Il 27 luglio 1944, avendo osteggiato il morente regime fascista in un suo articolo, verrà condannata in contumacia a quindici anni. Nascostasi in un cascinale insieme a dei partigiani - nei pressi di Moncalvo - attenderà la fine della guerra, di cui, fino alla morte, denuncerà le crudeltà. È autrice, fra i tanti romanzi, di 'Fra cielo e mare', 'Il pallone fantasma' e 'L'ultimo sogno'.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Looking out for number one is the conscious effort to make rational decisions that lead to the greatest amount of happiness over the long term, so long as those actions do not involve the use of force or fraud against anyone else. #2 Happiness is the state of mind you experience when you are experiencing pleasure. It is the main objective of life, and all other objectives are means to achieving it. The more rational your decisions and actions are, the more often you will experience results that lead to happiness. #3 The brain's Weight-and-Balance Happiness Scale, which is a biological computer chip, weighs every alternative available to you and chooses the one that will result in the greatest amount of happiness for you. However, it can malfunction and make decisions that aren't in your best interest. #4 The problem of choosing inappropriate subobjectives stems from irrational thinking. However, having too many subobjectives can be a result of buying into the generally accepted notion that winning at everything is admirable. This can lead to several bad consequences.
Dóttir konungs var mikið veik og engin leið virtist til að bjarga henni nnur en ef spádómur rættist um að stúlkan yrði heilbrigð ef hún borðaði sérstakt epli. Konungur bar nú út boð um að hver sá sem myndi finna slíkt epli skyldi fá að eiga dóttur hans fyrir konu. Bóndi nokkur sendir þrjá syni sína til hallarinnar með epli að reyna að bjarga konungsdótturinni. Yngsta syni bóndans, Aula Bárði tekst að bjarga konungsdótturinni en þar með er sagan ekki ll því konungnum leist alls kostar ekkert á piltinn og færir honum fleiri verkefni til að leysa. Nú voru góð ráð dýr fyrir bóndann því hann treysti ekki Bárði til að leysa verkefnin. Ævintýri Grimmsbræðra eru lngu orðin þekkt um allan heim enda verið þýdd á fleiri hundruð tungumál. Þjóðsgur Grimmsbræðra hafa tekið tluverðum breytingum í aldanna rás án þess þó að missa upprunalegan boðskap sinn og í dag ganga þjóðsgur Jacobs og Wilhelms einfaldlega undir nafninu Ævintýri Grimmsbræðra. Bræðurnir Jacob og Wilhelm fæddust í Þýskalandi. Þeir voru málvísindamenn og smdu þjóðsgur til að efla og styrkja þjóðsagnalist heimalandsins. Bræðurnir nutu tluverðrar hylli fyrir þjóðsgur sínar á 19. ld þótt margar þeirra hafi þótt verulega óhugnalegar. Meðal annarra þekktra ævintýra Grimmsbræðra eru Mjalllhvít, Rauðhetta og Öskubuska.
Dóttir konungs var mikið veik og engin leið virtist til að bjarga henni nnur en ef spádómur rættist um að stúlkan yrði heilbrigð ef hún borðaði sérstakt epli. Konungur bar nú út boð um að hver sá sem myndi finna slíkt epli skyldi fá að eiga dóttur hans fyrir konu. Bóndi nokkur sendir þrjá syni sína til hallarinnar með epli að reyna að bjarga konungsdótturinni. Yngsta syni bóndans, Aula Bárði tekst að bjarga konungsdótturinni en þar með er sagan ekki ll því konungnum leist alls kostar ekkert á piltinn og færir honum fleiri verkefni til að leysa. Nú voru góð ráð dýr fyrir bóndann því hann treysti ekki Bárði til að leysa verkefnin. Ævintýri Grimmsbræðra eru lngu orðin þekkt um allan heim enda verið þýdd á fleiri hundruð tungumál. Þjóðsgur Grimmsbræðra hafa tekið tluverðum breytingum í aldanna rás án þess þó að missa upprunalegan boðskap sinn og í dag ganga þjóðsgur Jacobs og Wilhelms einfaldlega undir nafninu Ævintýri Grimmsbræðra. Bræðurnir Jacob og Wilhelm fæddust í Þýskalandi. Þeir voru málvísindamenn og smdu þjóðsgur til að efla og styrkja þjóðsagnalist heimalandsins. Bræðurnir nutu tluverðrar hylli fyrir þjóðsgur sínar á 19. ld þótt margar þeirra hafi þótt verulega óhugnalegar. Meðal annarra þekktra ævintýra Grimmsbræðra eru Mjalllhvít, Rauðhetta og Öskubuska.
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.
There were two cockerels on the farm: one lived in the henhouse and the other was a weather vane. Both thought they were better than the other, but what was the truth?
Non lo sapeva, Kazimiera, che era pericoloso rivelare il proprio nome a donne sconosciute e svestite? Attraversando la foresta, Kazimiera s'imbatte in una radura. Una bellissima donna, vestita soltanto delle onde color fuoco dei suoi capelli che le avvolgono la pelle nuda, è a bagno nel ruscello. Kazimiera è attratta da lei, ma è tormentata dal ricordo delle molte storie narrate nel suo villaggio a proposito di esseri strani e pericolosi che attirano i viandanti solitari con i loro capelli e le labbra umide. Chi è la donna, e cosa vuole fare a Kazimiera?
Non lo sapeva, Kazimiera, che era pericoloso rivelare il proprio nome a donne sconosciute e svestite? Attraversando la foresta, Kazimiera s'imbatte in una radura. Una bellissima donna, vestita soltanto delle onde color fuoco dei suoi capelli che le avvolgono la pelle nuda, è a bagno nel ruscello. Kazimiera è attratta da lei, ma è tormentata dal ricordo delle molte storie narrate nel suo villaggio a proposito di esseri strani e pericolosi che attirano i viandanti solitari con i loro capelli e le labbra umide. Chi è la donna, e cosa vuole fare a Kazimiera?
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.