Author: Julia Salazar
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN: 1482403668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Spanish is especially fun to learn on vacation. Readers are invited to hit the road in this introduction to some key Spanish vocabulary. They'll see a motocicleta (motorcycle), a lago (lake), and a venado (deer) on the way to their destination. Pronunciations, word keys, and labeled photographs add support for the accessible text. Readers will be practicing Spanish whenever they're on the road.
Spanish Words on the Road
Author: Julia Salazar
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN: 1482403668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Spanish is especially fun to learn on vacation. Readers are invited to hit the road in this introduction to some key Spanish vocabulary. They'll see a motocicleta (motorcycle), a lago (lake), and a venado (deer) on the way to their destination. Pronunciations, word keys, and labeled photographs add support for the accessible text. Readers will be practicing Spanish whenever they're on the road.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN: 1482403668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Spanish is especially fun to learn on vacation. Readers are invited to hit the road in this introduction to some key Spanish vocabulary. They'll see a motocicleta (motorcycle), a lago (lake), and a venado (deer) on the way to their destination. Pronunciations, word keys, and labeled photographs add support for the accessible text. Readers will be practicing Spanish whenever they're on the road.
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The Road to the NBA
Author: Curtis W. Carter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453531254
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Road to the NBA, Volume 3 continues the tradition of the first two volumes. It is a basketball sports book that has a “Powerful Analysis” of the workings of the professional basketball world as we know it. The reality of life and its circumstances are made vivid in this new addition to the series. Perseverance, determination, diligence, confidence, spiritual strength, academic success, and internal desire are the building blocks to the foundation that is laid in this must-read edition. The amazing grace of God lights up this whole story! The dramatic reality will keep you glued to the pages until the very end.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453531254
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Road to the NBA, Volume 3 continues the tradition of the first two volumes. It is a basketball sports book that has a “Powerful Analysis” of the workings of the professional basketball world as we know it. The reality of life and its circumstances are made vivid in this new addition to the series. Perseverance, determination, diligence, confidence, spiritual strength, academic success, and internal desire are the building blocks to the foundation that is laid in this must-read edition. The amazing grace of God lights up this whole story! The dramatic reality will keep you glued to the pages until the very end.
The Road Taken
Author: Michelle Damiani
Publisher: Rialto Press
ISBN: 883588134X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
It’s time to discover the world…together. Author and clinical psychologist Michelle Damiani weaves together her story of a family year in an Italian village with the captivating experiences of 36 other contributors to create The Road Taken: How to Dream, Plan, and Live Your Family Adventure Abroad, the definitive manual for parents who crave the family-bonding and horizon-broadening of an international expedition. Whether you want to spend a season catching lizards together in a remote jungle or a year making friends in a French village or an extended stretch circumnavigating the globe, The Road Taken will— shatter the myth that only trust fund babies can afford the global adventure of a lifetime by offering practical strategies to make money abroad inspire families to think outside the box and discover which experiences would be meaningful for them demystify the visa process and guide families to their new home share principles grounded in child psychology so parents can help their children with the inevitable transition adjustment like homesickness, culture shock, and anxiety describe the adventages and disadvantages of various educational options, including worldschooling, boatschooling, roadschooling as well as the more traditional local schools or international schools, and even hybrids of these embolden parents to step bravely into the unknown of possible hardships like language learning and medical issues and travel snafus offer comprehensive information on everything from banking to phones to what to do with your mail More than a how-to book, The Road Taken inspires families to venture out of their comfort zones to create lives of freedom and fulfillment, at home and abroad. The well-researched and organized topics encourage families to dream and make that dream happen. It’s also the perfect book for those who love thrilling adventure tales. Even if you are just looking for ideas to spice up the next family vacation, this book is for you. “Who knew there was a practical guide to making magic?” “You may want to start packing your bags.” “I thoroughly enjoyed The Road Taken and recommend it to anyone thinking of moving abroad or just armchair dreaming...” “This book will open your mind about what is achievable and it will inspire you with how travel can strengthen family bonds and family understanding of the world.” “Made me wish I’d moved abroad when my kids were younger, but really put some ideas in my head about retirement!
Publisher: Rialto Press
ISBN: 883588134X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
It’s time to discover the world…together. Author and clinical psychologist Michelle Damiani weaves together her story of a family year in an Italian village with the captivating experiences of 36 other contributors to create The Road Taken: How to Dream, Plan, and Live Your Family Adventure Abroad, the definitive manual for parents who crave the family-bonding and horizon-broadening of an international expedition. Whether you want to spend a season catching lizards together in a remote jungle or a year making friends in a French village or an extended stretch circumnavigating the globe, The Road Taken will— shatter the myth that only trust fund babies can afford the global adventure of a lifetime by offering practical strategies to make money abroad inspire families to think outside the box and discover which experiences would be meaningful for them demystify the visa process and guide families to their new home share principles grounded in child psychology so parents can help their children with the inevitable transition adjustment like homesickness, culture shock, and anxiety describe the adventages and disadvantages of various educational options, including worldschooling, boatschooling, roadschooling as well as the more traditional local schools or international schools, and even hybrids of these embolden parents to step bravely into the unknown of possible hardships like language learning and medical issues and travel snafus offer comprehensive information on everything from banking to phones to what to do with your mail More than a how-to book, The Road Taken inspires families to venture out of their comfort zones to create lives of freedom and fulfillment, at home and abroad. The well-researched and organized topics encourage families to dream and make that dream happen. It’s also the perfect book for those who love thrilling adventure tales. Even if you are just looking for ideas to spice up the next family vacation, this book is for you. “Who knew there was a practical guide to making magic?” “You may want to start packing your bags.” “I thoroughly enjoyed The Road Taken and recommend it to anyone thinking of moving abroad or just armchair dreaming...” “This book will open your mind about what is achievable and it will inspire you with how travel can strengthen family bonds and family understanding of the world.” “Made me wish I’d moved abroad when my kids were younger, but really put some ideas in my head about retirement!
On the Road to Baghdad, Or, Traveling Biculturalism
Author: Gönül Pultar
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780976704218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
About the Book This is a collection of essays on fiction written in English, Spanish, and Bengali that has emerged recently. This fiction is seen to reflect biculturalism, that is the amalgam of two cultures that are both hegemonic in their own ways. This approach provides insight into the works discussed by uncovering elements of the the seemingly "other," non-Euroculture, and elevates both cultures to the same level. Authors discussed in the essays include: Black British Caryl Phillips, Chicana Sandra Cisneros, Chinese American Maxine Hong Kingston, Cuban American Dolores Prida, Danish Izak Dinesen, Greek Americans Nikos Papandreou and Catherine Temma Davidson, Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Japanese American John Okada, New Zealander Patricia Grace, Peruvian José Maria Arguedas, Turkish American Güneli Gün, and contemporary English-language Indian authors Vikram Chandra, Chitra B. Divakaruni, Attia Hosain, Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, as well as Rabindranath Tagore. Praise "Perhaps only a decade ago, such an ambitious, world-spanning project would have seemed absurd outside a congress of anthropologists or bankers. Today, it represents a state-of-the-art sensibility reflecting the efforts of an equally vari- ous geocultural assembly of scholars. The implications for a community of readers not only interested in but competently sensitive to such far-flung narrative geographies is equally stunning." - William Boelhower, University of Padua. Italy. Author of Through a Glass Darkly, Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature.
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780976704218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
About the Book This is a collection of essays on fiction written in English, Spanish, and Bengali that has emerged recently. This fiction is seen to reflect biculturalism, that is the amalgam of two cultures that are both hegemonic in their own ways. This approach provides insight into the works discussed by uncovering elements of the the seemingly "other," non-Euroculture, and elevates both cultures to the same level. Authors discussed in the essays include: Black British Caryl Phillips, Chicana Sandra Cisneros, Chinese American Maxine Hong Kingston, Cuban American Dolores Prida, Danish Izak Dinesen, Greek Americans Nikos Papandreou and Catherine Temma Davidson, Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Japanese American John Okada, New Zealander Patricia Grace, Peruvian José Maria Arguedas, Turkish American Güneli Gün, and contemporary English-language Indian authors Vikram Chandra, Chitra B. Divakaruni, Attia Hosain, Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, as well as Rabindranath Tagore. Praise "Perhaps only a decade ago, such an ambitious, world-spanning project would have seemed absurd outside a congress of anthropologists or bankers. Today, it represents a state-of-the-art sensibility reflecting the efforts of an equally vari- ous geocultural assembly of scholars. The implications for a community of readers not only interested in but competently sensitive to such far-flung narrative geographies is equally stunning." - William Boelhower, University of Padua. Italy. Author of Through a Glass Darkly, Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature.
Roads of Her Own
Author: Alexandra Ganser
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042029145
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Reading Jack Kerouac’s classic On the Road through Virginia Woolf’s canonical A Room of One’s Own, the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which, despite its popularity, has received little attention in literary and cultural criticism: women’s road narratives. The study shows how women’s literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the Whitmanesque “open road”, or, more generally, the “freedom of the road”. Women writers have participated in this powerful American myth, yet at the same time also have rejected that myth as fundamentally based on gendered and racial/ethnic hierarchies and power structures, and modified it in the process of writing back to it. The book analyzes stories about female runaways, outlaws, questers, adventurers, kidnappees, biker chicks, travelling saleswomen, and picaras and makes theoretical observations on the debates regarding discourses of spatiality and mobility—debates which have defined the so-called spatial turn in the humanities. The analytical concept of transdifference is introduced to theorize the dissonant plurality of social and cultural affiliations as well as the narrative tensions produced by such pluralities in order to better understand the textual worlds of women’s multiple belongings as they are present in these writings. Roads of Her Own is thus not only situated in the broader context of a constructivist cultural studies, but also, by discussing narrative mobility under the sign of gender, combines insights from social theory and philosophy, feminist cultural geography, and literary studies. Key names and concepts: Doreen Massey – Rosi Braidotti – Literary Studies – Spatial Turn – Gendered Space and Mobility – Nomadism – Road writing – Transdifference – American Culture – Popular Culture – Women’s Literature after the Second Wave – Quest – Picara.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042029145
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Reading Jack Kerouac’s classic On the Road through Virginia Woolf’s canonical A Room of One’s Own, the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which, despite its popularity, has received little attention in literary and cultural criticism: women’s road narratives. The study shows how women’s literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the Whitmanesque “open road”, or, more generally, the “freedom of the road”. Women writers have participated in this powerful American myth, yet at the same time also have rejected that myth as fundamentally based on gendered and racial/ethnic hierarchies and power structures, and modified it in the process of writing back to it. The book analyzes stories about female runaways, outlaws, questers, adventurers, kidnappees, biker chicks, travelling saleswomen, and picaras and makes theoretical observations on the debates regarding discourses of spatiality and mobility—debates which have defined the so-called spatial turn in the humanities. The analytical concept of transdifference is introduced to theorize the dissonant plurality of social and cultural affiliations as well as the narrative tensions produced by such pluralities in order to better understand the textual worlds of women’s multiple belongings as they are present in these writings. Roads of Her Own is thus not only situated in the broader context of a constructivist cultural studies, but also, by discussing narrative mobility under the sign of gender, combines insights from social theory and philosophy, feminist cultural geography, and literary studies. Key names and concepts: Doreen Massey – Rosi Braidotti – Literary Studies – Spatial Turn – Gendered Space and Mobility – Nomadism – Road writing – Transdifference – American Culture – Popular Culture – Women’s Literature after the Second Wave – Quest – Picara.
The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0307386457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0307386457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
Redemption Road
Author: Brendan McManus, SJ
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 0829444122
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Sometimes the best cure for a wounded soul is a really long walk . . . One June morning, Fr. Brendan McManus stepped out for a much-needed walk—to be exact, a 500-mile hike on Spain’s renowned Camino de Santiago. A few years earlier, his brother had committed suicide, and the tragedy left Brendan physically, psychologically, and spiritually wounded. Something radical was required to rekindle his passion for life and renew his faith in God. Redemption Road is the story of a broken man putting one foot in front of the other as he attempts to let go of the anger, guilt, and sorrow that have been weighing him down. But the road to healing is fraught with peril: steep hills and intense heat, wrong turns and blistered feet. Worse still, a nagging leg injury could thwart Brendan’s ultimate goal of reaching the Camino’s end and honoring his brother in a symbolic act at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Constantly tempted to quit his quest, Brendan relies on the principles of Ignatian spirituality to guide him on his journey from desolation to consolation. For anyone going through the process of grieving, Redemption Road offers real hope— not that the path to peace will be easy, but that Christ, who himself suffered and died, will be with us every step of the way and lead us at last to wholeness and healing.
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 0829444122
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Sometimes the best cure for a wounded soul is a really long walk . . . One June morning, Fr. Brendan McManus stepped out for a much-needed walk—to be exact, a 500-mile hike on Spain’s renowned Camino de Santiago. A few years earlier, his brother had committed suicide, and the tragedy left Brendan physically, psychologically, and spiritually wounded. Something radical was required to rekindle his passion for life and renew his faith in God. Redemption Road is the story of a broken man putting one foot in front of the other as he attempts to let go of the anger, guilt, and sorrow that have been weighing him down. But the road to healing is fraught with peril: steep hills and intense heat, wrong turns and blistered feet. Worse still, a nagging leg injury could thwart Brendan’s ultimate goal of reaching the Camino’s end and honoring his brother in a symbolic act at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Constantly tempted to quit his quest, Brendan relies on the principles of Ignatian spirituality to guide him on his journey from desolation to consolation. For anyone going through the process of grieving, Redemption Road offers real hope— not that the path to peace will be easy, but that Christ, who himself suffered and died, will be with us every step of the way and lead us at last to wholeness and healing.
A dash into Spain, or, notes on the road
The Road that Has No End
Author: Tim Travis
Publisher: Down The Road Publishing
ISBN: 9780975442708
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This story is written as it happens, on the road. Digital technology and dot-com know-how are in harmony with minimalist living. The result is salt-of-the-earth drama related on the fly through an internet journal, culminating in a series of captivating true stories. A winning combination of integrity and know-how, with a relaxing informal prose, become informative nonfiction that reads like a novel. This first book progresses from the shedding of a traditional lifestyle to discoveries made on their bicycle journey from Arizona, USA to Panama City, Panama. On bicycle, the Travises are exposed to the ground level of society, an experience few outsiders will ever know. Along the way, the Travises witness a religious pilgrimage in Chalma, Mexico, visited ancient Aztec and Mayan ruins, were attacked by an airplane spraying pesticides in Guatemala and saw alligators, scarlet Macaws and three-toed sloths in the jungles and cloud forests of Costa Rica. You can check on their location, catch up on the latest news, and view stunning photographs from their global bicycle tour at their extensive web site: http://www.downtheroad.org.
Publisher: Down The Road Publishing
ISBN: 9780975442708
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This story is written as it happens, on the road. Digital technology and dot-com know-how are in harmony with minimalist living. The result is salt-of-the-earth drama related on the fly through an internet journal, culminating in a series of captivating true stories. A winning combination of integrity and know-how, with a relaxing informal prose, become informative nonfiction that reads like a novel. This first book progresses from the shedding of a traditional lifestyle to discoveries made on their bicycle journey from Arizona, USA to Panama City, Panama. On bicycle, the Travises are exposed to the ground level of society, an experience few outsiders will ever know. Along the way, the Travises witness a religious pilgrimage in Chalma, Mexico, visited ancient Aztec and Mayan ruins, were attacked by an airplane spraying pesticides in Guatemala and saw alligators, scarlet Macaws and three-toed sloths in the jungles and cloud forests of Costa Rica. You can check on their location, catch up on the latest news, and view stunning photographs from their global bicycle tour at their extensive web site: http://www.downtheroad.org.