Your guide to social mobility on every occasion. Never be stuck for something to say in the company of strangers and new friends with The little book of almost everything. Knowing everything is impossible but knowing a little about a lot gives you the upper hand in any situation. With The little book of almost everything you will be in the procession of basic knowledge and understanding of a wide range of subjects, making you the person with the broadest range and appeal. This book is a comprehensive exploration of multiple subjects, including Art, Humanities, Technology, Science, Health, Philosophy, Civilisations, and Humans. By examining the intersections between these areas, I hope to offer a broad understanding of the world we inhabit and our place in it. Whether you are an academic, a curious reader, or someone who simply seeks to expand your horizons, this book provides a wealth of knowledge and insights to enhance your understanding of the multifaceted world around us. So, come on this journey of discovery and explore the many fascinating facets of human experience.

“Entertaining. . . . practical, ghostly, and often very funny tales . . . including those by saints like Rumi as well as lay storytellers from Turkey and Persia.” —Publishers Weekly The stories in this book are drawn from the dozens of Sufi tales that Douglas-Klotz has enjoyed telling in his seminars over the past 20 years. Most of them appear in works of the classical Sufis, such as Rumi, Attar, or S’adi. To preserve some of the in-person feeling and bring the language up to date, he has given them his own improvised turns. “If you want to hear a good story but prefer to read it instead, then read Douglas-Klotz! He writes as if he’s sitting in your living room, invited over for afternoon tea to entertain you with some heart-pleasing, often humorous, yet soul-searching Sufi stories. His modernization of these old texts is gentle and mindful, yet unapologetic.” —Maryam Mafi, from the foreword

Let Mary Medlicott help you with a key skill - telling stories without a book. Ideas and activities are carefully explored so you feel confident and enjoy the experience as much as the children will.

The stories featured in this book come from all over the world. The Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage sets out the requirement that children be provided with 'positive images that challenge children's thinking and help them embrace differences in gender, ethnicity, language, religion, culture...' Stories are powerful medium that engage and envelop young children, helping them to enter unfamiliar worlds and begin to empathise with characters from different backgrounds. This book provides a range of stories through which young children can explore and learn about other cultures. Each activity page will include: * The story * Adult-led and independent activity ideas to follow up the story * Related songs, poems and rhymes * A list of additional stories, information books and websites * Relevant links with the EYFS Areas of Learning and Development

Hundreds of family traditions to share with your little ones! Play an exciting game of Slapjack with your kids. Spark their creativity with the perfect rainy day craft. Send those sleepy eyes off to bed with an enchanting tale of adventure. A collection that you'll turn to time and time again, The Little Book for Dads offers hundreds of your favorite stories, games, and jokes to share with your entire family. From reading Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp to building a Tin Can Telephone to playing a game of Crazy Eights, this book will inspire hours of fun and laughter as you revisit these classic childhood treasures with your little ones.

Explore the history and customs connected to the nativity of Jesus in this collection featuring colorfully illustrated lithographs. The perfect companion for Christmas festivities, this little book explores the rich history surrounding the nativity. Filled with more than seventy-five entries featuring fascinating details behind the story of Jesus’s birth, the crèche, the Magi, the Immaculate Conception, and so much more, these pages illuminate the many ways the first Christmas is celebrated throughout the world. Beautifully illustrated with vibrant lithographs taken from prayer books and missals, The Little Book of the Nativity is a joyful and charming treasure for a family to gather around year after year.

This collection of stories is intended to show children from underprivileged families that rich and lazy people who do not have to work for a living are the enemies of the working class. The author (1883 – 1951) was a committed socialist from a Viennese aristocratic Catholic family. She was sometimes called the Red Countess.

Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there? In this book, author Alda Sigmundsdóttir presents twenty translated elf stories from Icelandic folklore, along with fascinating notes on the context from which they sprung. The international media has had a particular infatuation with the Icelanders’ elf belief, generally using it to propagate some kind of “kooky Icelanders” myth. Yet Iceland’s elf folklore, at its core, reflects the plight of a nation living in abject poverty on the edge of the inhabitable world, and its people’s heroic efforts to survive, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. That is what the stories of the elves, or hidden people, are really about. In a country that was, at times, virtually uninhabitable, where poverty was endemic and death and grief a part of daily life, the Icelanders nurtured a belief in a world that existed parallel to their own. This was the world of the hidden people, which more often than not was a projection of the most fervent dreams and desires of the human population. The hidden people lived inside hillocks, cliffs, or boulders, very close to the abodes of the humans. Their homes were furnished with fine, sumptuous objects. Their clothes were luxurious, their adornments beautiful. Their livestock was better and fatter, their sheep yielded more wool than regular sheep, their crops were more bounteous. They even had supernatural powers: they could make themselves visible or invisible at will, and they could see the future. To the Icelanders, stories of elves and hidden people are an integral part of the cultural and psychological fabric of their nation. They are a part of their identity, a reflection of the struggles, hopes, resilience, and endurance of their people. What you will read about in The Little Book of the Hidden People: • The fascination in the international media: why are they so obsessed with elves? • The meaning of elf: what do hidden people stories tell us about the psyche of the Icelanders of old? • The elves' badassery—they could make or break your fortune so you’d better be nice! • The ljúflingar ... hidden men who became the lovers of mortal women • Glamorous and regal: why were the elves so damn good-looking? • The grim realities: what do scholars believe about all those children abducted by elves? ... and so much more!

- Richly illustrated with beautiful lithographs - Beautifully packaged - hardback, foam filled, with gilt edging - From the highly successful The Little Book of... series with more than 535,000 copies sold With this little book of antique chromo prints, dive into the fascinating world of fairy tales. From fairies and witches, magicians and ogres, to fantastic creatures and childhood heroes, this pocket-sized encyclopedia delves into the most beloved stories from around the world.