Tony Wolf

Kirja, jota voit koskettaa, tunnustella ja kuunnella! Kosketa papukaijan nokkaa ja alpakan turkkia, kokeile, miten sileä koalan turkki on, ja kuuntele niiden ääniä.

Kirja, jota voit koskettaa, tunnustella ja kuunnella! Paljon puuhailtavaa! Kosketa koiran kuonoa ja hiiren häntää, silitä kissanpentua ja kananpoikasta, paina karhun mahaa, kutita apinaa ja kuuntele niiden kaikkien ääniä.

Kirja, jota voit koskettaa, tunnustella ja kuunnella! Kosketa delfiinin ihoa, tunne hylkeen turkin pehmeys, kuuntele lokin ääntä ja... tutki, miten monta upeaa eläintä meressä elää!

Teenagers are tough and anyone who has their own needs help. Witty, enjoyable and genuinely insightful, Get Out of My Life is now updated with how to deal with everything from social media to online threats and porn, as well as looking at all the difficult issues of bringing up teenagers, school, sex, drugs and more. But it's the title of the second chapter, 'What They Do and Why' that best captures the book's spirit and technique, explaining how to translate teenage behaviour into its true, often less complicated meaning. One key mistake, for instance, is getting in no-win conflicts instead of having the wisdom to shut up when shutting up would be the most effective, albeit least satisfying, thing to do. Another is taking offence when the teenager views you, the adult, as idiotic. And there's advice on what to do when this happens. The message is clear: parenting adolescents is inherently difficult. Don't judge yourself too harshly!

The year is 1865. Falsely imprisoned for high treason, Captain John Ashton awaits execution by hanging - but instead finds himself on the run from the law and desperate to redeem his good name. Ashton assumes the guise of Spring Heeled Jack, an agile, phantomesque figure of folklore, and begins a campaign of harassment and intimidation against those who framed him. Quickly, however, he finds himself drawn into the intrigues of London's shadow-world, including a deadly game of cat and mouse against a rooftop-dwelling serial killer ... In the great tradition of penny dreadful adventure tales, this action-packed novel re-imagines the urban legend of Spring Heeled Jack as a superhero origin story, told as the memoir and confession of Spring Heeled Jack himself.

In late Victorian England, even as the sword was being rendered useless on the battlefield, swordsmanship was experiencing a unique revival. Captain Alfred Hutton and Egerton Castle, both devoted fencers and amateur historians, led a systematic study and reconstruction of combat with all the weapons of the Elizabethan arsenal - the elegant rapier, deadly sword and buckler, and the massive two-handed sword. Their work found practical expression in classes, exhibitions, academic lectures and theatrical combat, for audiences as diverse as school children, soldiers and the Prince of Wales. Yet for all of their efforts, Hutton and Castle did not establish a tradition of historical swordsmanship that survived their own generation. Instead, their books and essays were largely forgotten until the second revival of ancient swordplay in the late 20th century, and today's researchers often view these early efforts with a cavalier or dismissive eye. In Ancient Swordplay: the Revival of Elizabethan Swordplay in Victorian England, 19th-century martial arts scholar, theatrical fight director and martial artist Tony Wolf reexamines Hutton and Castle's work, both through their own words and those of their enthusiasts, students and critics. Rather than earnest but misguided amateur scholars, they are revealed to be the inventors of a systematic study and practice of lost fighting arts that has only been exceeded in recent years, worthy of being celebrated as the true pioneers in the field.