He was a devoted husband and family man, a great patron of the arts and sciences, keen to advance Britain's agricultural capacity ('Farmer George') and determined that her horizons should be global. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. Plumb, twentieth century) and as the pompous monarch of the musical Hamilton (twenty-first century).Īndrew Roberts's magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of England's most disastrous kings' (J.H. George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. *Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, 2021*Īndrew Roberts, one of Britain's premier historians, overturns the received wisdom on George III *Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year, 2022* *Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars' Distinguished Book Award, 2021* *Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2022*
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Cohen discusses how to get down on the floor and join children on their own terms. After identifying why it can be hard for adults to play, Dr. We help them express and understand deep emotions, foster connection, aid the process of emotional healing-and have a great time ourselves while we're at it.Īnyone can be a playful parent-all it takes is a sense of adventure and a willingness to let down your guard and try something new. Through play we join our kids in their world. That's why "playful parenting" is so important and so successful in building strong, close bonds between parents and children. Cohen points out, play is children's complex and fluid way of exploring the world, communicating hard-to-express feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply blowing off steam. Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As Dr. From eliciting a giggle during baby's first game of peek-a-boo to cracking jokes with a teenager while hanging out at the mall, Playful Parenting is a complete guide to using play to raise strong, confident children. Cohen, Ph.D., demonstrates in this delightful new book, play can be the basis for an innovative and rewarding approach to parenting. Parents have heard that play is a child's work-but play is not for kids only. This is Hallmark channel original, and that should tell you everything you need to know. Published in 1870, a time when Ironclads were new technology and the seas were as mysterious a realm as the depths of space are to us today, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea burst onto bookshelves and into libraries the world over. There are better versions out there, that's all I can really say. I'm not entirely sure why but I find myself struggling to really get engaged into this version, maybe I'm burnt out on the same old story, maybe the distinctly average writing and cinematography left me less than impressed or maybe it's just not that good. Telling the timeless tale of a group taken prisoner by Captain Nemo after being stranded at sea, they bear witness to the marvels of his submarine and the wonders of the ocean. Starring Ben Cross, Richard Crenna and Paul "Due South" Gross it's another fairly loyal but slightly compacted version of the original novel and the first one with even remotely "Modern" special effects. The Jules Verne classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea has been adapted many times, too many times arguably and this is a demonstration of that. It is often assumed that he was installed as Throne Minister by Palace apparatchiks sympathetic to Shell Thropp, the youngest of the three Thropp siblings. 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The announcement of the death of Charles Portis elicited a social-media groundswell of mourning and appreciation from his fans. WRITERS REFLECT ON CHARLES PORTIS’S LIFE AND LEGACY Using the Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and other telescopes, astronomers observe the hidden interiors of distorted galaxies to learn what the component galaxies looked like. Tracing the history of merging galaxies by studying their present structures. NASA's Chandra Finds Supermassive Black Hole Burping Nearby Researchers use NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes to look for bursts of activity driven by galactic collisions, including increased amounts of feeding by the supermassive black holes at the centers of the galaxies. Observing the effects of mergers on the stars and black holes in the interacting galaxies. 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