Author: Simone Lazaroo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Vogel and winner of the Hungerford Award, The World Waiting to be Made,was first published in 1994. In her first novel Simone Lazaroo describes the experiences of the Dias family (a Eurasian father from malacca, Australian mother and twin three year old daughters) as they take up a new life in Australia.
The World Waiting to be Made
Author: Simone Lazaroo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Vogel and winner of the Hungerford Award, The World Waiting to be Made,was first published in 1994. In her first novel Simone Lazaroo describes the experiences of the Dias family (a Eurasian father from malacca, Australian mother and twin three year old daughters) as they take up a new life in Australia.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Vogel and winner of the Hungerford Award, The World Waiting to be Made,was first published in 1994. In her first novel Simone Lazaroo describes the experiences of the Dias family (a Eurasian father from malacca, Australian mother and twin three year old daughters) as they take up a new life in Australia.
A World Waiting to Be Born
Author: M. Scott Peck
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307425827
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Just as The Road Less Traveled provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck, M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply ailing society. Our illness is Incivility--morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and materialism so ingrained in our routine behavior that we do not even recognize them. There is a deepening awareness that something is seriously wrong with our personal and organizational lives. Using examples from his own life, case histories, and dramatic scenarios of businesses that made a conscious decision to bring civility to their organizations , Dr. Peck demonstrates how change can be effected and how we and our organizations can be restored to health. This wise, practical, and radical book is a blueprint for achieving personal and societal well-being.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307425827
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Just as The Road Less Traveled provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck, M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply ailing society. Our illness is Incivility--morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and materialism so ingrained in our routine behavior that we do not even recognize them. There is a deepening awareness that something is seriously wrong with our personal and organizational lives. Using examples from his own life, case histories, and dramatic scenarios of businesses that made a conscious decision to bring civility to their organizations , Dr. Peck demonstrates how change can be effected and how we and our organizations can be restored to health. This wise, practical, and radical book is a blueprint for achieving personal and societal well-being.
The World is Waiting for You
Author: Barbara Kerley
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426311141
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"A stirring invitation to leap, dive, soar, plunge and thrill to the natural world's wonders and glories." --Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a question kids get asked over and over. But very few connections are made for kids between the present and the future. This book shows kids a pathway from their current interests and talents to a future career or interest. And in so doing, it also encourages adventure, exploration, and discovery, three core principles of National Geographic's mission. It's a celebration of possibility--so simple and so profound. Jumping in puddles can inspire scuba diving. Dirty hands can lead to dinosaur bones Backyard star-gazing inspires future astronauts. Perfectly selected photos make the connections compelling and the future real for kids, then rich back matter brings the message home with inspirational quotes from the real-life adventurers pictured in the images. Grown-ups won't be able to resist sharing this inspirational message with kids, and kids won't be able to resist the invitation to let their imaginations run wild.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426311141
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"A stirring invitation to leap, dive, soar, plunge and thrill to the natural world's wonders and glories." --Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a question kids get asked over and over. But very few connections are made for kids between the present and the future. This book shows kids a pathway from their current interests and talents to a future career or interest. And in so doing, it also encourages adventure, exploration, and discovery, three core principles of National Geographic's mission. It's a celebration of possibility--so simple and so profound. Jumping in puddles can inspire scuba diving. Dirty hands can lead to dinosaur bones Backyard star-gazing inspires future astronauts. Perfectly selected photos make the connections compelling and the future real for kids, then rich back matter brings the message home with inspirational quotes from the real-life adventurers pictured in the images. Grown-ups won't be able to resist sharing this inspirational message with kids, and kids won't be able to resist the invitation to let their imaginations run wild.
Waiting for the End of the World
Author: Richard Ross
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568984667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A fascinating collection of photographs of bomb shelters around the world. Various sites people have built to protect themselves from the unthinkable
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568984667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A fascinating collection of photographs of bomb shelters around the world. Various sites people have built to protect themselves from the unthinkable
When the World was Waiting for You
Author: Gillian Shields
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547606061
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell the story of a family of bunnies anticipating the birth of a new baby.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547606061
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell the story of a family of bunnies anticipating the birth of a new baby.
Waiting for the End of the World
Author: Madison Smartt Bell
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453235493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
An “exhilirating” novel of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Straight Cut (The New Yorker). As a staff photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan, Clarence Dmitri Larkin is exposed to the fraying underbelly of New York City. Drawn in by the stories of the sick, the lost, and the insane, Larkin’s own dark impulses lead him through the streets of Brooklyn’s shadowy warehouse district. Increasingly isolated from the world around him, Larkin falls in with a disturbed cell of outcasts. Their ringleader, empowered by confused visions of grandeur and revolution, launches an outlandish scheme to plant an atomic bomb in the catacombs under Times Square. Narrated with unsettling plausibility, Bell’s debut novel demonstrates the remarkable literary skill celebrated in his later novels, such as Soldier’s Joy and The Year of Silence. With “real brilliance . . . full of fire . . . Bell provides promise: promise of his own talent and promise that young American writers are not all retreating from ‘big’ subjects” (The New York Times). “Every sentence [Bell] writes is a joy. His power is exhilarating.” —The New Yorker
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453235493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
An “exhilirating” novel of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Straight Cut (The New Yorker). As a staff photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan, Clarence Dmitri Larkin is exposed to the fraying underbelly of New York City. Drawn in by the stories of the sick, the lost, and the insane, Larkin’s own dark impulses lead him through the streets of Brooklyn’s shadowy warehouse district. Increasingly isolated from the world around him, Larkin falls in with a disturbed cell of outcasts. Their ringleader, empowered by confused visions of grandeur and revolution, launches an outlandish scheme to plant an atomic bomb in the catacombs under Times Square. Narrated with unsettling plausibility, Bell’s debut novel demonstrates the remarkable literary skill celebrated in his later novels, such as Soldier’s Joy and The Year of Silence. With “real brilliance . . . full of fire . . . Bell provides promise: promise of his own talent and promise that young American writers are not all retreating from ‘big’ subjects” (The New York Times). “Every sentence [Bell] writes is a joy. His power is exhilarating.” —The New Yorker
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595585893
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called “stunningly insightful” and “a book that will inspire hope” by Publishers Weekly. Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change. The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room–only crowds and standing ovations. Walker’s clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly “a light in darkness”—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595585893
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called “stunningly insightful” and “a book that will inspire hope” by Publishers Weekly. Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change. The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room–only crowds and standing ovations. Walker’s clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly “a light in darkness”—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.
You Are Ready!
Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780062953520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Bold illustrations and easy-to-read text encourage children who are going out into the world to spread their wings, knowing they have everything they need inside them.
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780062953520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Bold illustrations and easy-to-read text encourage children who are going out into the world to spread their wings, knowing they have everything they need inside them.
The World Waiting to Be
Author: Louis Brodsky
Publisher: Time Being Books
ISBN: 1568091915
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
In this fifty-eight-poem collection, Brodsky examines the highs and lows authors experience as they practice their craft. Portraying everything from writer's block and the terror of the blank page to the overwhelming joy of finishing a work, The World Waiting To Be is both lamentation and love song to creative inspiration and the intersection of time and eternity, in the act of writing.
Publisher: Time Being Books
ISBN: 1568091915
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
In this fifty-eight-poem collection, Brodsky examines the highs and lows authors experience as they practice their craft. Portraying everything from writer's block and the terror of the blank page to the overwhelming joy of finishing a work, The World Waiting To Be is both lamentation and love song to creative inspiration and the intersection of time and eternity, in the act of writing.
Why Are We Waiting?
Author: Nicholas Stern
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action. The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and sustainable prosperity. Why, then, are we waiting? In this book, Nicholas Stern explains why, notwithstanding the great attractions of a new path, it has been so difficult to tackle climate change effectively. He makes a compelling case for climate action now and sets out the forms that action should take. Stern argues that the risks and costs of climate change are worse than estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006—and far worse than implied by standard economic models. He reminds us that we have a choice. We can rely on past technologies, methods, and institutions—or we can embrace change, innovation, and international collaboration. The first might bring us some short-term growth but would lead eventually to chaos, conflict, and destruction. The second could bring about better lives for all and growth that is sustainable over the long term, and help win the battle against worldwide poverty. The science warns of the dangers of neglect; the economics and technology show what we can do and the great benefits that will follow; an examination of the ethics points strongly to a moral imperative for action. Why are we waiting?
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action. The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and sustainable prosperity. Why, then, are we waiting? In this book, Nicholas Stern explains why, notwithstanding the great attractions of a new path, it has been so difficult to tackle climate change effectively. He makes a compelling case for climate action now and sets out the forms that action should take. Stern argues that the risks and costs of climate change are worse than estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006—and far worse than implied by standard economic models. He reminds us that we have a choice. We can rely on past technologies, methods, and institutions—or we can embrace change, innovation, and international collaboration. The first might bring us some short-term growth but would lead eventually to chaos, conflict, and destruction. The second could bring about better lives for all and growth that is sustainable over the long term, and help win the battle against worldwide poverty. The science warns of the dangers of neglect; the economics and technology show what we can do and the great benefits that will follow; an examination of the ethics points strongly to a moral imperative for action. Why are we waiting?