Julia’s story begins in the sixties. Visiting London as a young woman, she meets Franco, a charming Venetian, and they fall in love. After several flights between New Zealand and Italy, and lengthy family discussions, the couple marry and settle on the Lido of Venice. And so Julia’s adjustment to married life and the Venetian lifestyle begins amid the challenge of learning not only Italian but also the local dialect. Two daughters soon follow, as do friendships with the locals – both Italians and expats from a host of countries. Julia immerses herself in Italian culture and language, with often hilarious results. Captivated by her surroundings, Julia develops a deep interest in the rich history of the islands that make up Venice. Every building, every canal, and every island tells a story about the people who settled the Venetian Lagoon over the countries. Beautiful and vibrant, Venice forms a fascinating background to Julia’s life as she raises their bilingual daughters and gradually integrates with the help of her husband, her family, and her friends. Eventually, the family transfers to New Zealand, and now it is Franco and their daughters who have to adjust! Julia and her family return to Italy regularly, keeping their familial and friendship ties strong. The Golden Sands of Change is a tribute, a story about Julia’s love for Italy, and her magical experiences while living there and on her frequent visits back.

Discover the uplifting, heartwarming Golden Sands Bay series from Georgina Troy 'I want to visit now. Loved the characters and the community helping each other' ★★★★★ Reader Review 'Full of fun and laughter, with secrets and romance thrown in, my type of book' ★★★★★ Reader Review This boxset contains the complete Golden Sands Bay series from Georgina Troy Summer Sundaes at Golden Sands Bay Love Begins at Golden Sands Bay Winter Whimsy at Golden Sands Bay Sunny Days at Golden Sands Bay Snow Angels at Golden Sands Bay Summer Sundaes at Golden Sands Bay When Sacha Collins, cafe owner and sundae-maker extraordinaire, meets Italian archaeologist, Alessandro Salvatore in Rome, she's grateful to him for being her tour guide. Now he’s turned up in the seaside village where she lives and is setting up a gelateria in direct competition to her retro Summer Sundaes Café. She's only been running her café for two years since taking over from her father. Until now the only other shops on the boardwalk have been a wool shop, an antique shop and a second-hand book shop. These have helped rather than hindered her custom. How will her creative sundaes made from fresh Jersey ice cream compete with his delicious Italian gelato? Sacha is worried. Is there enough custom for both businesses to thrive? Who is behind the strange changes being made on the boardwalk? And when the oldest resident on the boardwalk is threatened with eviction can Sacha and Alessandro come together and find a way of helping her? Love Begins at Golden Sands Bay Bella is happiest running her tiny antique business from the front room of her cottage on the Boardwalk. To ensure she has enough income coming in, she also rents out two of her bedrooms to paying lodgers. But she didn't count on having a secret crush on Jack Collins, one of her lodgers and her best friend's brother... Winter Whimsy at Golden Sands Bay When Lexi Davies discovers that her father has sold the fishermen’s cottages where she lives and runs her holiday business, she is heartbroken. Then Oliver Whimsy arrives at the boardwalk and announces that he is the new owner and Lexi realises that the future she was looking forward to enjoying at her cottages is over. Oliver might be handsome, wealthy and very sexy, but he’s new to the island and has already made a terrible impression on the locals. When the Scottish entrepreneur offers Lexi a job, she’s unsure whether she should accept. Unfortunately, she has little alternative if she wants to keep a roof over her head for the winter. Sunny Days at Golden Sands Bay When artist Jools Jones’, new man Finn Gallichan, leaves the Boardwalk to go travelling for several months she’s not too worried. She has her paintings to keep her busy and helps her grandmother run their second hand bookshop, Boardwalk Books. She’s happy to wait for Finn’s return, to pick up where they left off, as absence makes the heart grow fonder – right? Snow Angels at Golden Sands Bay Portia Fortescue has traded in the hustle and bustle of London to help renovate a magnificent French manor house on the beautiful island of Jersey with her boyfriend Charlie. But what they hoped would be a blissful escape to the chateau, turns out to be more of a DIY SOS. As the winter snow sets in, the stress of restoring the derelict building begins to take its toll on their relationship. Portia has known heartbreak before, but thought she’d found her happy-ever-after with Charlie...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

This book deciphers the three ultimate questions in human philosophy from a new and simplified perspective. It opens up the underlying logical relationship between life, the universe, and human society. It completely overturns the traditional scientific perception and understanding of happiness. The book redefines the nature of organisms and the essence of life by peeling back the layers of contradictions in the evolution of organisms and the evolution of human civilization. This book proposes the hypothesis of female and male particles, basexon and baseyon, that can reach the upper bound of human imagination to reinterpret the natural significance of several existing scientific cognitions. The analysis of the complexity trap of current scientific cognition is also included. The book proposes two major visions for transforming human society: forgetting about learning and the trust revolution. These visions serve as a guide for the reader's thoughts and actions on how to achieve a true sense of freedom and happiness. The book contains numerous interesting and subversive ideas, which are discussed at length throughout the text. Due to space limitations, only a few examples can be listed here. - Biological nature is a strategic choice for survival, reproduction, security, and connection in terms of energy balance, intake, and lock-in. - Voluntary mutation is a strategy for trial and error and preparation for the next evolutionary leap. - Biological inheritance and passive variation are determined by four stratified genes, which are sequentially influenced by the environment. - The physical form of life is characterized by a boundary that separates the inside from the outside. The crucial phases of the birth of life forms, both biotic and abiotic, involve material combination and aggregation. - The use of language and thinking by humans has advantages during the connections among humans, but it also brings the disadvantage of complexity and reliance on shifting trust mechanisms. - Organisms follow a biological constitution in the pursuit of bioactivity, their origin similar to the law of abiogenesis in the cosmos.

A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental changes, with their particular effects and impact on land use, share common issues regarding the relation between the social construction of land via property rights and the dynamics of a changing environment. Making these common issues explicit and discussing the different approaches to them is the central objective of this book. Through examining a variety of cases from the Arctic to the Australian coast, the contributors take a transdisciplinary look at the winners and losers of climate change, discuss approaches to dealing with changing environmental conditions, and stimulate pathways for further research. This book is essential reading for lawyers, planners, property rights experts and environmentalists.