Download or read book There Plant Eyes written by M. Leona Godin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight. “[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy." —The New Yorker There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind.” For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil). Godin—who began losing her vision at age ten—illuminates the often-surprising history of both the condition of blindness and the myths and ideas that have grown up around it over the course of generations. She combines an analysis of blindness in art and culture (from King Lear to Star Wars) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) to paint a vivid personal and cultural history. A genre-defying work, There Plant Eyes reveals just how essential blindness and vision are to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.
Download or read book My One Extraordinary Life written by Leona King and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease I began journaling. It became a healing process. In between relapses I began writing stories of my youth and continued to what could now be called the last third of my life. Reflections of happy days spent with my grandparents, helping to care for my younger siblings, to my escape from a controlling mother. I began to realize how the conditions and environment they were living under created the turmoil and circumstances of those years. I continued to write my life through marriage, foster children, exchange students, several businesses and countless friends. The entire process made me realized what an extraordinary life I’d lived so far. How much better can it get? I can hardly wait.
Download or read book My Name is Leona written by Carol Gahara Harris and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leona, a little girl who does not like her name, finds out that her name was picked just for her, on purpose, with love, and deliberately, by her parents.
Download or read book Star Darlings Leona s Unlucky Mission written by Ahmet Zappa and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leona is very focused on her studies and is especially busy as the lead vocalist in the Star Darlings band. Star-Zaps start buzzing, and the girls know it's probably time for one of them to head to Wishworld. It's Leona's turn, and she's bursting with excitement. She can't wait to get there and become a successful Wish-Granter. But she'll have to challenge herself to put her own desires aside and truly understand what her Wisher needs—before her Countdown Clock runs out of time.
Download or read book Leona s Legacy written by Kelly Simons and published by The Guest Cottage, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leona Ahnen grew up a confirmed tomboy on her family's Southern Wisconsin farm during the 1930s, in the depths of America's Great Depression. Her poignant story, as told to friend and author Kelly Simons, is the recounting of the mutual struggle and never-ending work that bound her family and neighbors to the land and to each other. Leona's Legacy is a heartfelt, true tale of shared toil and celebration, gentle laughter and quiet fear, real suffering and honest joy. Leona's Legacy will take you back to a time when life was hard but simple, work physically demanding but satisfying, and children's imaginations powered them through adventures with Tom Mix and The Lone Ranger as they sat enthralled next to a crystal-powered radio set. Join Leona and her grade school classmates as they scheme to undermine a strict new teacher, go along for a wild ride on a runaway hay wagon, and feel the hair stand up on your neck during family ghost stories. Readers of all ages will appreciate this nostalgic trip over the back roads and barnyards of a rural America still untouched by the horror and cynicism of World War II. Let Leona's Legacy remind you of the real people and community values that still make our country strong. Book jacket.
Download or read book Nabokov written by Leona Toker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov’s concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokov’s and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Toker’s book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject’s own favored devices.
Download or read book The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.
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Download or read book Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads. Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway. The book's many tributaries—from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico—are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One. "The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains." —Christian Science Monitor And don’t miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!
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