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The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growing\ninto a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of an\nunconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family and\nhow it shapes us—for better or worse.Sexology follows the strange, wonderful, fluxional world of the Crickholmes, where\nnonconformism is celebrated, siblings form autonomous republics, and eccentricity reigns\nsupreme. The Crickholme siblings youthful exploits take them on myriad paths: a hermetic\npsychic, a dog trainer, an ice cream purveyoress, a missing person. Between memories,\nfactoids, letters, and old photographs, Matty investigates how their offbeat rearing made them\nthe adults they became, and how fantasy and convention collide.\n\nAlex Kovacs’s writings have received acclaim for their invention, wit, and astute observations of\nour absurd world. Sexology brings this intellectual playfulness to the story of the Crickholmes\nwith a unique prose that evokes the complex emotional landscapes of W.G. Sebald’s novels and\nthe sometimes-gentle, sometimes-devastating style of Susanna Clarke. The result is an\nentrancing, incomparable medley.

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growing\ninto a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of an\nunconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family and\nhow it shapes us—for better or worse.Sexology follows the strange, wonderful, fluxional world of the Crickholmes, where\nnonconformism is celebrated, siblings form autonomous republics, and eccentricity reigns\nsupreme. The Crickholme siblings youthful exploits take them on myriad paths: a hermetic\npsychic, a dog trainer, an ice cream purveyoress, a missing person. Between memories,\nfactoids, letters, and old photographs, Matty investigates how their offbeat rearing made them\nthe adults they became, and how fantasy and convention collide.\n\nAlex Kovacs’s writings have received acclaim for their invention, wit, and astute observations of\nour absurd world. Sexology brings this intellectual playfulness to the story of the Crickholmes\nwith a unique prose that evokes the complex emotional landscapes of W.G. Sebald’s novels and\nthe sometimes-gentle, sometimes-devastating style of Susanna Clarke. The result is an\nentrancing, incomparable medley.

Charles Kovacs characterizes different plants, from fungi, algae and lichens, to the lily and rose families. He describes the parts of each plant and their growth cycle.\n\nIt is recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Classes 5 and 6 (age 10-12).

Charles Kovacs characterizes different plants, from fungi, algae and lichens, to the lily and rose families. He describes the parts of each plant and their growth cycle.\n\nIt is recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Classes 5 and 6 (age 10-12).

This marvellous retelling of the most exciting stories from Roman history charts the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest empires.\n\nReaders will experience the founding of Rome and the early battles with Carthage and Hannibal; meet some of the world's most intriguing historical figures, including Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra; and discover the conquests of Gaul and Britain, before learning about the decline and fall of the Empire under the Huns and the beginning of the Dark Ages.\n\nThis is a fascinating and engaging resource for teachers and home schoolers which is used in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum for 11–12 year olds.

This marvellous retelling of the most exciting stories from Roman history charts the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest empires.\n\nReaders will experience the founding of Rome and the early battles with Carthage and Hannibal; meet some of the world's most intriguing historical figures, including Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra; and discover the conquests of Gaul and Britain, before learning about the decline and fall of the Empire under the Huns and the beginning of the Dark Ages.\n\nThis is a fascinating and engaging resource for teachers and home schoolers which is used in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum for 11–12 year olds.

This high-interest title explores the history and lore behind castles and forts around the world that are reported to be haunted. The book tells the stories of paranormal occurrences in royal places and ghostly garrisons. Evaluate the evidence of historical records and eyewitness accounts.

A wonderful overview of human physiology and anatomy for children which is written in Charles Kovacs' warm and expressive style. \n\nReaders will explore health and the human body, including sleep, warmth and food; physiology, including circulation, digestion, breathing and the senses; and anatomy, including bones, joints and muscles. \n\nThis is a fascinating and engaging resource for teachers and home schoolers, recommended for Classes 7 and 8 (ages 12?14) in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum.

‘Lyrical, haunting and profoundly moving, Nothing to My Name is a story of survival, identity and the fragile hope that passes from mother to daughter’ Jean Kwok \n\n‘Nothing to My Name lives honestly in its history – foolhardy and loving and yet uncharted. A formidable and astonishing new voice’ T. Kira Madden\n\n‘A gripping story of family bonds, redemption and triumph. A masterful debut!’ Marcela Fuentes\n\n1948, Zhoushan, China. Twelve-year-old Ah Xue watches her mother earn a living combing the hair of the wealthy women in their small fishing village, as reports of civil war and the rising Communist revolution grow closer to home.\n\nYears later, Mimosa grows up in the shadow of her parents’ struggles, while the looming tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to pull her family apart.\n\nAnd Fei, raised as a boy by the activist father she can’t help but idolise, grapples with her identity in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nSpanning four decades and three generations, Nothing to My Name braids an unforgettable story of the ordinary women caught in the tides of societal upheaval, but bound by an insuppressible instinct to survive. From an astonishing new writer, it explores with remarkable tenderness the enduring repercussions of trauma, the search for stability in disorder, and the often contradictory nature of familial love.

‘Lyrical, haunting and profoundly moving, Nothing to My Name is a story of survival, identity and the fragile hope that passes from mother to daughter’ Jean Kwok \n\n‘Nothing to My Name lives honestly in its history – foolhardy and loving and yet uncharted. A formidable and astonishing new voice’ T. Kira Madden\n\n‘A gripping story of family bonds, redemption and triumph. A masterful debut!’ Marcela Fuentes\n\n1948, Zhoushan, China. Twelve-year-old Ah Xue watches her mother earn a living combing the hair of the wealthy women in their small fishing village, as reports of civil war and the rising Communist revolution grow closer to home.\n\nYears later, Mimosa grows up in the shadow of her parents’ struggles, while the looming tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to pull her family apart.\n\nAnd Fei, raised as a boy by the activist father she can’t help but idolise, grapples with her identity in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nSpanning four decades and three generations, Nothing to My Name braids an unforgettable story of the ordinary women caught in the tides of societal upheaval, but bound by an insuppressible instinct to survive. From an astonishing new writer, it explores with remarkable tenderness the enduring repercussions of trauma, the search for stability in disorder, and the often contradictory nature of familial love.

A wonderful overview of human physiology and anatomy for children which is written in Charles Kovacs' warm and expressive style. \n\nReaders will explore health and the human body, including sleep, warmth and food; physiology, including circulation, digestion, breathing and the senses; and anatomy, including bones, joints and muscles. \n\nThis is a fascinating and engaging resource for teachers and home schoolers, recommended for Classes 7 and 8 (ages 12?14) in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum.

‘Lyrical, haunting and profoundly moving, Nothing to My Name is a story of survival, identity and the fragile hope that passes from mother to daughter’ Jean Kwok \n\n‘Nothing to My Name lives honestly in its history – foolhardy and loving and yet uncharted. A formidable and astonishing new voice’ T. Kira Madden\n\n‘A gripping story of family bonds, redemption and triumph. A masterful debut!’ Marcela Fuentes\n\n1948, Zhoushan, China. Twelve-year-old Ah Xue watches her mother earn a living combing the hair of the wealthy women in their small fishing village, as reports of civil war and the rising Communist revolution grow closer to home.\n\nYears later, Mimosa grows up in the shadow of her parents’ struggles, while the looming tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to pull her family apart.\n\nAnd Fei, raised as a boy by the activist father she can’t help but idolise, grapples with her identity in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nSpanning four decades and three generations, Nothing to My Name braids an unforgettable story of the ordinary women caught in the tides of societal upheaval, but bound by an insuppressible instinct to survive. From an astonishing new writer, it explores with remarkable tenderness the enduring repercussions of trauma, the search for stability in disorder, and the often contradictory nature of familial love.

‘Lyrical, haunting and profoundly moving, Nothing to My Name is a story of survival, identity and the fragile hope that passes from mother to daughter’ Jean Kwok \n\n‘Nothing to My Name lives honestly in its history – foolhardy and loving and yet uncharted. A formidable and astonishing new voice’ T. Kira Madden\n\n‘A gripping story of family bonds, redemption and triumph. A masterful debut!’ Marcela Fuentes\n\n1948, Zhoushan, China. Twelve-year-old Ah Xue watches her mother earn a living combing the hair of the wealthy women in their small fishing village, as reports of civil war and the rising Communist revolution grow closer to home.\n\nYears later, Mimosa grows up in the shadow of her parents’ struggles, while the looming tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to pull her family apart.\n\nAnd Fei, raised as a boy by the activist father she can’t help but idolise, grapples with her identity in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nSpanning four decades and three generations, Nothing to My Name braids an unforgettable story of the ordinary women caught in the tides of societal upheaval, but bound by an insuppressible instinct to survive. From an astonishing new writer, it explores with remarkable tenderness the enduring repercussions of trauma, the search for stability in disorder, and the often contradictory nature of familial love.

This high-interest title explores the history and lore behind castles and forts around the world that are reported to be haunted. The book tells the stories of paranormal occurrences in royal places and ghostly garrisons. Evaluate the evidence of historical records and eyewitness accounts.

An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. \nKovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when every person had their place in the hierarchy of society, to the awakening of individuality in modern times.\n\nIn the Steiner-Waldorf Education curriculum this period of history is taught in Class 8 (age 13-14).

A retelling of Greek mythology and ancient history as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 5-6 (age 10-12).\n\nThis welcome new addition to Charles Kovacs' work contains legendary stories of mythical heroes and historic figures from the dawn of western civilization. Through the fearless deeds of Heracles, Theseus and Odysseus to the Golden Age of Athens and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the narrative vividly portrays the journey from the mysteries of antiquity to the birth of modern medicine, science and philosophy.