Author: Lawrence W. Fagg Publisher: Quest Books ISBN: 9780835605991 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 214
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A research professor of nuclear physics explores the mysterious essence of time in its two aspects---one of accurate measurement, the other of human sensation---as it is found in the concepts of modern physics and major religions.
Author: Mary Gordon Publisher: The Experiment, LLC ISBN: 1615191542 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 310
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The acclaimed program for fostering empathy and emotional literacy in children—with the goal of creating a more civil society, one child at a time Roots of Empathy—an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon—has already reached more than a million children in 14 countries, including Canada, the US, Japan, Australia, and the UK. Now, as The New York Times reports that “empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to college that starts in kindergarten,” Mary Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children—and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.
Author: Aleksandra Kasuba Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595335365 Category : Languages : en Pages : 109
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The Seven Faces of Time illustrates how an individual, responding to changes in familiar surroundings, spontaneously adjusts her outlook and behavior. Since the switch usually disrupts a set mode of thought and behavior, the book describes the various effects it can have on the individual's experience of time.
Author: Valeria Luiselli Publisher: Coffee House Press ISBN: 1566893550 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage--and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."--Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." —Publishers Weekly
Author: Frederick Voss Publisher: Bulfinch Press ISBN: 9780821224984 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 131
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Honoring Time magazine's seventy-fifth anniversary, this collection of seventy-five works of art commisioned for the magazine's covers features Andrew Wyeth's portrait of Eisenhower, Warhol's study of Michael Jackson, and other images by Ben Shahn, Roy Lichtenstein, and other artists. 22,500 first printing.
Author: Lewis Aleman Publisher: ISBN: 9780980060553 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
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For years Chester had loved movie star Rhonda Romero. When she had fallen so far as to sell her face for a cosmetic transplant, he knew he had to go back to time travel and save her.
Author: Erskine Caldwell Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 082031692X Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 134
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In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South--from South Carolina to Arkansas--to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen Their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass. First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years. Caldwell lets the poor speak for themselves. Supported by his commentary, they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them. Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks where they lived, the depleted fields where they plowed, and the churches where they worshipped.
Author: Andrew Davenport Publisher: BBC Children's Books ISBN: 9781405903929 Category : Board books Languages : en Pages : 18
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A delightful illustrated storybook based on an episode of the long-running preschool programme, In the Night Garden. All aboard the Ninky Nonk, Night Garden fans! It's time to go for a ride with Igglepiggle, Makka Pakka, Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos.
Author: Lawrence W. Fagg
Author: Elizabeth Doerr
Author: Mary Gordon
Author: Yousuf Karsh
Author: Aleksandra Kasuba
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Author: Frederick Voss
Author: Lewis Aleman
Author: Erskine Caldwell
Author: Andrew Davenport