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Book Encounters with Rikki

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  • Author : Julie Strauss Bettinger
  • Publisher : Inkshares
  • Release : 2016-01-26
  • ISBN : 1941758541
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Encounters with Rikki written by Julie Strauss Bettinger and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Rikki tells the true story of the incredible partnership between Chuck and Rikki, a very special rescue dog. Rikki first found her home with Chuck and Patty Mitchell in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Even though the golden retriever was a shy, shell-shocked puppy still adapting to the stress of displacement, Chuck recognized her innate abilities as a therapy dog. Together they bring healing and hope to recovering patients, accident victims, and the mentally ill. Soon Rikki's quiet confidence attracts the attention of advocates of child victims. Called upon to testify in court, child witnesses must recall horrific memories in the presence of their abusers; the tireless work of Chuck and Rikki allows these children to do so with a therapy dog by their side. Inspiring and heartfelt, Rikki's story illustrates the far-reaching effects of the human-animal bond.

Book Encounters with Rikki

Download or read book Encounters with Rikki written by Julie S. Bettinger and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encounters With Archetypes

Download or read book Encounters With Archetypes written by Tamra Stambaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters With Archetypes integrates the study of archetypes with the concept of encounters. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth, is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and features accelerated content, creative products, differentiated tasks, engaging activities, and the use of in-depth analysis models to develop sophisticated skills in the language arts. Through the lens of encounter, students will examine the patterns, symbols, and motifs associated with common archetypes by analyzing fictional and informational texts, speeches, and visual media. Students will follow various archetype encounters with conflicts and challenges to explore questions such as “How do archetypes reflect the human experience?” and “How do archetypes reveal human strengths and weaknesses?" Ideal for gifted classrooms or gifted pull-out groups, the unit features texts from Sandra Cisneros, Louis Untermeyer, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou; biographies of Oprah Winfrey, Mother Teresa, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride, and Lin-Manuel Miranda; a speech from President Ronald Reagan; a novel study featuring Wonder by R. J. Palacio and/or Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan; and art from Pieter Bruegel. Grades 4-5

Book Encounters Beyond the Gallery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Renate Dohmen
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-08-24
  • ISBN : 1786720256
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Encounters Beyond the Gallery written by Renate Dohmen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perception, as well as anthropological theory for ways to create connections between seemingly disparate worlds. Embracing a unique and experimental format, the book imagines encounters between the art works and art worlds of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tamil women, the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru and a fictional female contemporary artist named Rikki T, in order to rethink normative aesthetic and cultural categories. Its method reflects the message of the book, and embraces a plurality of voices and perspectives to steer critical attention towards the complexity of artistic life beyond the gallery.

Book Dog Smart

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  • Author : Jennifer S. Holland
  • Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
  • Release : 2024-05-21
  • ISBN : 1426224257
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Dog Smart written by Jennifer S. Holland and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge science narrative, chock-full of heartwarming case studies, is one woman’s quest to learn the true meaning of dog intelligence. This delightful narrative takes readers on a powerful search to unlock the secrets of dog cognition, based on evidence from trainers, owners, behaviorists, and the animals themselves. With in-depth reporting and more than a few personal adventures, bestselling author Jennifer S. Holland digs into what intelligence really means. Readers will meet a pack of genius dogs, each of whom embodies a particular kind of smarts. Holland spends time with Cat Warren, who trains cadaver dogs, to learn about "nose intelligence.” To unpack emotional intelligence, she examines an unlikely dog friendship; to unpack task learning ability, she seeks out an agility trainer. She interviews police-dog trainers (volunteering to be attacked by one in the name of science), service-dog trainers, and trainers who rehabilitates "bad" dogs. And she gets to know breeds that are considered especially intelligent—border collies, cattle dogs, and German shepherds—to discover whether they are truly "smarter," or just more in tune with humans. In between field experiences, Holland spends time with dogs in a variety of settings—a rescue center, a dog park, a boarding facility— while pondering the lessons they teach us about ourselves. And she’ll pose entrancing philosophical questions: How do we define intelligence in another being? Where do "instinct" and "intelligence" meet and diverge? Both surprising and heartwarming, this book is one woman’s quest to understand the world’s smartest dogs—and how they got that way.

Book Netsuke

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rikki Ducornet
  • Publisher : Coffee House Press
  • Release : 2011-05-01
  • ISBN : 1566892716
  • Pages : 127 pages

Download or read book Netsuke written by Rikki Ducornet and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and contain his lovers as he does his collection of rare netsuke, the precious miniature sculptures gifted to him by his wife. This riveting exploration of one psychoanalyst’s abuse of power unearths the startling introspection present within even the darkest heart.

Book Manual of Composition and Rhetoric

Download or read book Manual of Composition and Rhetoric written by John Hays Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Close Encounters of the Invasive Kind

Download or read book Close Encounters of the Invasive Kind written by Sarah Seymore and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the breakthrough of postcolonial studies, British science-fiction authors already saw the opportunity to discuss political and ethical issues of imperialism by projecting human history and behavior onto the alien 'Other.' In this thesis, the case studies of 15 novels of alien-encounter science fiction illuminate the treatment of colonial and postcolonial concepts - such as colonialism, neo-colonialism, Empire, paternalism, hybridity, mimicry and science and technology - as a means of conquest and resistance. The analysis also shows that the Empire is still a vital background for British science fiction. Thesis. (Series: Anglistik / Amerikanistik; English / American Studies - Vol. 35)

Book The Stain

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  • Author : Rikki Ducornet
  • Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781564780850
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Stain written by Rikki Ducornet and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In?"The Stain"?Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.

Book Gazelle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rikki Ducornet
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307426009
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Gazelle written by Rikki Ducornet and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth–moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth’s imagination, primed by an explicit edition of The Arabian Nights, leads her to fantasies about her father’s friend, a gentle, older man named Ramses Ragab, a perfume maker who visits their house regularly to play games of war and who opens her up to the mystery of hieroglyphics and the art of exotic scents.

Book Rikki Fulton s The Reverend I M  Jolly

Download or read book Rikki Fulton s The Reverend I M Jolly written by Rikki Fulton and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rev I. M. Jolly is one of the funniest and most enduring television characters ever created, brought to life by Scotland's best-loved comedian Rikki Fulton. Everyone has their favourite sketch, their favourite line or their funniest Jolly moment. But beyond the glamour of LAST CALL and away from the cameras, the Rev I. M. Jolly has a problem. Attendances at his regular Sunday services have slipped to a record low, and the Synod are not pleased. And when an ultimatum arrives in the post telling him he has one year to get bums on pews or he'll be looking for other employment, Jolly realises it's going to be hard work. But should he tell his wife, the dreaded Ephesia, or will that only make things ten times worse? How I Found God, and Why He Was Hiding From Me is the hilarious story of the Reverend I. M. Jolly, created by Rikki Fulton and brought to life by award winning writer Tony Roper.Follow Jolly's adventures as he nearly wins the lottery, thinks Ephesia has a fancy man, visits Erica's Erotic Massage Parlous, can't seem to get anyone to come to church on a Sunday, even if he pays them, and contemplates a life of unemployment, indolence and even more misery - if that's actually possible.

Book Rikki Tikki Tavi

Download or read book Rikki Tikki Tavi written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Ink Lion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is the story of a mongoose whose bravery knows no bounds and the family he is endeared to and looks after with a fiery passion. After a small flood Rikki-Tikki-Tavi finds himself rescued by a family in India and he is curious to discover more about his new surroundings. He finds there is danger lurking in the shadows that threatens his new family. Rikki will stop at nothing to make sure they are safe. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a timeless classic from Rudyard Kipling that should be enjoyed by all. - 10 unique color illustrations

Book The Cost of Loving

Download or read book The Cost of Loving written by Megan Marshall and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brightfellow

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  • Author : Rikki Ducornet
  • Publisher : Coffee House Press
  • Release : 2016-06-13
  • ISBN : 1566894417
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Brightfellow written by Rikki Ducornet and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Rikki Ducornet: “A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.” —New York Times “Ducornet—surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses.” —Jeff VanderMeer “Linguistically explosive. . . . One of the most interesting American writers around.” —The Nation “Ducornet celebrates the playful and rebellious nature of art, and the anarchic ability of the imagination to subvert physical limitations.” —Times Literary Supplement A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, and all is found, then lost. A fragrant, voluptuous novel of imposture, misplaced affection, and emotional deformity. An artist and writer, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert Coover, Jorge Luis Borges, Forrest Gander, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely, including, most recently, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago, Chile.

Book RIKKI TIKKI TAVI and the MYSTERY in the GARDEN

Download or read book RIKKI TIKKI TAVI and the MYSTERY in the GARDEN written by Rudyard Kippling and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jungle Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rudyard Kipling
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death Game 2090

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  • Author : W. G. Armintrout
  • Publisher : Iron Crown Enterprises
  • Release : 1990-12
  • ISBN : 9781558061323
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Death Game 2090 written by W. G. Armintrout and published by Iron Crown Enterprises. This book was released on 1990-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: