Download or read book Marvelous Minds written by Michael Siegal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children have a spontaneous interest in the world around them - whether the workings of the earth, sun, and stars, the nature of number, time and space, or the functioning of the body. Yet what is there in children's minds that is the key to their knowledge? This book examines what children can and do know, based on extensive studies from a range of different cultures. Topics include 'theory of mind' - the knowledge that others may have beliefs that differ from one's own and from reality, astronomy and geography, food, health and hygiene, processes of life and death, number and arithmetic, as well as autism and brain research on language and attention. Since what children say and do may not really reflect the depth of their knowledge of the world around them, our goal should be to discover new methods to accurately test children's knowledge, instead of trying to understand the range of failing answers they might give on the many tests that have been devised to determine what they know. Contrary to earlier studies, it is now established that in many areas considerable knowledge is within the grasp of young children with benefits for their later development. For example, although certain number concepts - in particular, fractions, proportions, and infinity - can be difficult to grasp, children generally do not need to undergo a fundamental change in their thinking and reasoning to master these. What the author of this book proposes is that children often display a capacity for understanding that we simply overlook. Written by a reknowned developmental psychologist, this book presents a fascinating exploration of children minds, and how we can better understand them.
Download or read book Marvelous Me written by Lisa Bullard and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From what you look like, to your favorite food, to what makes you mad, glad, or sad, there is no one quite like you! It's incredible but true, so go and be your best you!" --
Download or read book Caught in the World s Web written by Luther S. Hicks and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the revealing commentary, Caught in the World's Web, author Luther S. Hicks gives every believer piercing insights into one of Satan's most subtle and spiritually-destructive weapons-the world system. Pulling together more than two hundred New Testament references to the world, Hicks has created an enlightening primer on how every believer can improve their walk with God on a daily and permanent basis. With this unique and powerful message, readers will see the satanic snares causing us to sow seeds of corruption and reap harvests of negative consequences; Caught in the World's Web provides the spiritual glasses to see life in a whole new way!
Download or read book Grace on the Go written by Barbara Bartocci and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, imaginative guide to praying through the joys, trials, and tribulations of new parenthood.
Download or read book Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet written by Dan Smyer Yü and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author’s cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former military officers’ recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making, identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.
Download or read book Magnificent Mind At Any Age written by Daniel G. Amen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When your brain works right, so do you. When it's out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse. Yet amid all the advice about how to keep the rest of our body strong and healthy, we hear very little about how to keep the most complex and magnificent organ of all - the human brain - in top working order. In MAGNIFICENT MIND AT ANY AGE Daniel Amen demonstrates that the true key to satisfaction and success at any age is a healthy brain. By optimising our brain function we can all develop the qualities of a magnificent mind, such as increased memory and concentration; the ability to maintain warm and satisfying relationships and better impulse control and mastery over potential addictions. Daniel Amen demonstrates how to develop a healthy brain through diet, natural supplements, vitamins, exercise, positive thinking habits, and, if necessary, medication. He also pinpoints specific ways to tailor your behaviour, nutrition and lifestyle to deal with common mental challenges such as memory problems, anxiety and depression, attention deficit disorder, and insomnia.
Download or read book I ll Let You Go written by Bruce Wagner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Wagner] slices open the self-satisfied bosom of Los Angeles yet again in his third novel, a sprawling family saga that trades the usual mush-mouthed sentimentalities for cascading shards of knife-edged vignettes. A masterful, modern-day fantasy of millionaires and madmen, fathers and sons, reality and dreams." --Kirkus Reviews Bruce Wagner’s I’m Losing You was hailed as "outrageous -- dead-on in every way" by Janet Maslin in The New York Times. New York magazine’s Walter Kirn called it "the year’s best book." And John Updike, in The New Yorker, wrote that Bruce Wagner "writes like a wizard." In I’ll Let You Go, Wagner offers a stunning novel that surpasses anything he’s done before. Twelve-year-old Toulouse "Tull" Trotter lives on his grandfather’s vast Bel-Air parkland estate with his mother, the beautiful, drug-addicted Katrina, a landscape artist who specializes in topiary laby-rinths. He spends most of his time with his young cousins Lucy, the girl detective, and Edward, a prodigy undaunted by the disfiguring effects of Apert Syndrome. One day, an impulsive revelation from Lucy sets in motion a chain of events that changes Tull -- and the Trotter family -- forever. Though the story unfolds in contemporary Los Angeles, the reader hears echoes of Proust and 1,001 Nights as Toulouse seeks his lost father, a woman finds her lost love, and a family of unimaginable wealth learns that its fate is tied to those of the orphan Amaryllis (who officially aspires to be a saint) and her protector, a courtly giant of a homeless schizophrenic -- both of them on the run from the law. Along a path shaded by murder and mysticism, we meet such unforgettable characters as Fitzsimmons, a deranged former social worker; the enterprising Monasterio family of servants (Candelaria, Epitacio, and Eulogio); "Someone-Help-Me", a streetwise devil; and Pullman, a seemingly ageless Great Dane. Complexly wrought, deeply moving, and scathingly ironic, I'll Let You Go dazzles the reader with the unique blend of gorgeous prose, acerbic wit, and deep emotion that are the specific province of Bruce Wagner. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Children s Thinking written by David F. Bjorklund and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth Edition of David F. Bjorklund and Kayla B. Causey’s topically organized Children’s Thinking presents a current, comprehensive, and dynamic examination of cognitive development. The book covers individual children and their developmental journeys while also following the general paths of overall cognitive development in children. This unique and effective approach gives readers a holistic view of children’s cognitive development, acknowledging that while no two children are exactly alike, they tend to follow similar developmental patterns. Supported by the latest research studies and data, the Sixth Edition provides valuable insights for readers to better understand and work with children.
Download or read book The Honest Courtesan written by Margaret F. Rosenthal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position. Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women—and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries—that makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today. Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism, this sophisticated interdisciplinary work presents an eloquent and often moving account of one woman's life as an act of self-creation and as a complex response to social forces and cultural conditions. "A book . . . pleasurably redolent of Venice in the 16th-century. Rosenthal gives a vivid sense of a world of salons and coteries, of intricate networks of family and patronage, and of literary exchanges both intellectual and erotic."—Helen Hackett, Times Higher Education Supplement The Honest Courtesan is the basis for the film Dangerous Beauty (1998) directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (The film was re-titled The Honest Courtesan for release in the UK and Europe in 1999.)
Download or read book What S in It for Me Says the Lord written by Will Harrison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionately seeking the Lord and hearing His voice through His word stirs up the Ancient of Days. For true believers in Jesus Christ who are desiring to find fresh revelation, can find it in this book. God is always willing to reason (talk) with us as Isaiah found out in Isaiah 1:18 - "Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord". When we learn to open all lines of communication with God's Spirit, we find he has much to say with a lot on His Mind - The Mind of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit asked me the question printed on the cover - What's in it for Me? Says the Lord. As time permitted, He revealed the answer in unique and unusual ways - in ways that I was least expecting! You will be surprised at the exploding passion and love God has for His people, the church. To uncover the answer to the question posed to me by the Holy Spirit, you will have to read the revelation for yourself!
Download or read book A Second Year of Sunday School Lessons for Young Children written by Florence Ursula Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mindshaping written by Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidzki and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret. In this novel account of distinctively human social cognition, Tadeusz Zawidzki argues that the key distinction between human and nonhuman social cognition consists in our complex, diverse, and flexible capacities to shape each other's minds in ways that make them easier to interpret. Zawidzki proposes that such "mindshaping"—which takes the form of capacities and practices such as sophisticated imitation, pedagogy, conformity to norms, and narrative self-constitution—is the most important component of human social cognition. Without it, he argues, none of the other components of what he terms the "human sociocognitive syndrome," including sophisticated language, cooperation, and sophisticated "mindreading," would be possible. Challenging the dominant view that sophisticated mindreading—especially propositional attitude attribution—is the key evolutionary innovation behind distinctively human social cognition, Zawidzki contends that the capacity to attribute such mental states depends on the evolution of mindshaping practices. Propositional attitude attribution, he argues, is likely to be unreliable unless most of us are shaped to have similar kinds of propositional attitudes in similar circumstances. Motivations to mindshape, selected to make sophisticated cooperation possible, combine with low-level mindreading abilities that we share with nonhuman species to make it easier for humans to interpret and anticipate each other's behavior. Eventually, this led, in human prehistory, to the capacity to attribute full-blown propositional attitudes accurately—a capacity that is parasitic, in phylogeny and today, on prior capacities to shape minds. Bringing together findings from developmental psychology, comparative psychology, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy of psychology, Zawidzki offers a strikingly original framework for understanding human social cognition.
Download or read book PHILOKALIA as selected for laity written by St. Nycodemus the Hagiorite and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html “But those who are of Christ crucified the flesh with passions and lusts.” ( Gal. 5, 24 ) ... There are two acceptance of life. One thing - and this is for the majority - is to take from the current day everything that can be taken for a pleasant, enjoyable body. The cult of the body, the indulgence of the finger, expressed in the perverse philosophy of Epicurus: "We will eat and drink, since we will die tomorrow." - This is the acceptance of life from the day of the fall of Adam. With the fall of Adam God-enlightened mind, “smart” mind has lost humanity, and more and more often it takes a lie for truth; lost the perception of true beauty, for it has perverted its feelings and takes ugliness for beauty; and the will is often directed toward evil, taking evil for good or doing evil under the guise of good. But not lost in all of humanity and finally longing for other worlds, the memory of Eden, of communion with God; and a vain, fingery man longs for the knowledge of complete truth, seeks true beauty, longs to serve genuine good. At the moment of enlightenment, the finger life is clearly presented as a change of deceiving dreams. “All Sonia is most beautiful” - such a life becomes a burden; longing for the lost "image of indescribable glory" (Orthodox requiem) is growing. Entering the world of the Philokalia , lost people became vain. As if he had escaped from a stuffy, fetid room into clean air, his head was spinning, his heart was beating. But experienced soul doctors - the authors of the Good Loving - will encourage him with their example; they will lead him to the heights of the spiritual along the path they have lived through, the right, God-drawn. The great spiritual doctor, John Climacus , in his creation, called the " Climacus ", will step by step guide a soul seeking God and salvation in God. And near this saving ladder there will be how many wondrous guards, mentors, true friends: Anthony and Pachomius the Great, Nile of Sinai, Simeon the New Theologian, Ephraim and Isaac the Syrians - a host of luminiferous, the most beautiful of the sons of men, a reflection of paradise on earth. The dogmas of faith, great and incomprehensible for a limited, flat human mind: about the Holy Trinity, redemption of the world by Jesus Christ, resurrection - by the God-enlightened minds of the fathers of the Goodness of Love will open up to the weak mind of the seeker of truth, and he will be amazed, as the Church Fathers and hermits of Sinai simply expressed the depths of the Christian faith. The reader of the Kindness of Love will immediately feel how, with this simplicity of expression, the minds and hearts of his teachers were immersed in the sight of God's secrets. The dogma will be accepted as life, not abstraction. And the great fathers who had “a kindled heart for all creation” ( Isaac the Syrian ) will descend to the worldly vanity . They will indicate that “slander is death souls ”(Abba Or); that “addiction is short-sighted, but hatred does not see anything at all” (Isidore Pelusiot); that “to say a lot, even if it’s good, is to become like a door in a bathhouse, often opening and letting off steam”; that “nourishing a habit is the same as a person giving food to the fire” (Isaac the Syrian). The real work - samples from all five volumes of the Good - natured Love - arose by the grace of God through the efforts of the rector of the Kazan-Theotokos Monastery in Harbin, Fr. Archimandrite Juvenaly. Father Yuvenaly accomplished a wonderful and soul-saving work, collecting for everyone an accessible publication of the pearl of Goodwill. The Christian Orthodox community remains apostolic to extend the work of Fr. Juvenaly - to make this volume of Love of Love a constant companion of life for every Christian soul. Contents Foreword Faith in God Fear of God About death, judgment, eternal torment and paradise villages Narrow and long path Love for God and neighbor -Natural love for God and gracious -Love for neighbors -Merciful heart Repentance Humility Pride and vanity Patience. sorrows, temptations and illnesses -Patience -Sorrows and temptations -Disease Prayer -When prayer comes from the saints -The effect of prayer on the souls of those in hell -Prohibition of prayer for suicides -Jesus Prayer -It must be continually prayed to all: monks and laymen Fast About Holy Communion Holy Bible Grace The will and commandments of God Divine Providence Virtues Good And Evil About conscience Passion Non-judgment Pride Anger and irritability -Anger -About the benefits of anger About love of money and non-possessiveness Uncleanness (fornication) Laughter -Laughter and audacity (liberty) Sleep Temptations Envy Sadness Mental sins Our feelings Vanity Friends Virginity and Chastity Tears Obedience True monk Hermitage Asceticism Conversation with worldly [people] Internal enemy About salvation in the world Running of the world Reasoning Silence and verbosity God and you Beauty Observing the mind and sin Spiritual Wisdom and Mind Imitation of God Imitation of the saints Piety Righteousness, Joy, Holiness, Purity Active and contemplative life Perfection of Spiritual Life Thanksgiving of God On the acquisition of the Holy Spirit Power of God Divine Consolation Theology (state of contemplation) -On the need for peace with all who wish to theologize Priesthood Tales from the Life of Egyptian Elders
Download or read book Rainbow Town written by M. l. York and published by St. Paul Press. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella and her friends travel to the mysterious Rainbow Town a small, dusty place outside New York City with exactly ninety-nine residents, none of whom have seen the Light for seventeen years. Can Ella, her brother, Dimitri, and her friends, Josh and Jesse, transform this place into what it was meant to be? With the help of a strange, blind man, they just might."
Download or read book Faith Prints written by Steve Swanson and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith Prints contains a full year of Bible-based devotions written by youth and for youth. The writers know the joys and struggles young people face, because they are living them. The devotions are ideal for personal daily use or for reading and discussing with others.
Download or read book Foundations of Philosophy written by Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 1197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to provide basic philosophy and information regarding the vast number of subject matters covered. This was assembled in the understanding that the publisher and the author are not engaged in rendering legal, consultative, or other professional services. If such expert assistance is required, the services of competent and appropriate professionals should be sought. The author and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage that may be indirectly or directly caused, or alleged to be caused, by the content of this book. It is also not the purpose of this book to reprint information that is otherwise available to the author, publisher, or reader. Rather, it seeks to complement, amplify, and/or supplement other texts available. The reader is urged to review all relevant material and learn as much as possible about life, tailoring that information to their individual situation. Further, efforts have been made to make this book as accurate as possible. However, there are undoubtedly editorial, typographical, and contextual errors contained herein. Therefore, the text should be viewed and utilized as a general guide, not as an ultimate source of information related to the various topics. This book also contains information that may no longer be relevant or accurate despite our desire to think our words and thoughts about life are timeless and perfect. Finally, the primary objective of this volume has something to do with the four Es—to enlighten, edify, educate, and entertain, perhaps even in that order. Personal philosophy and worldview are something we develop and maintain as individuals who evolve throughout life. It is the ambition of the writer to amplify these Es, hoping that in doing so, it will allow the reader to experience a more meaningful, balanced, complete, and productive encounter with life.
Download or read book Last Days Survival Guide written by Rick Renner and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Wants You Prepared for These Perilous Times! The Holy Spirit warned that perilous times would come in the very last of the last days. Were in that time frame right now, and it is imperative that we know how to survive victoriously. Scripture prophesies that spiritual tempests will spread across the world with far-reaching consequences. But we do not have to be a casualty of these storms! In this eye-opening survival guide, Rick Renner covers prophetic scriptures about the end times and how to prepare for them. He teaches: What the word perilous really means and why God is alerting you. What exact characteristics will mark society in the very last days. What actions to take to protect yourself and those you love. Strategies to stop the devil from attacking you and your loved ones. If youre concerned about what you are witnessing in society and even in the Church the answers you need to maintain your victory are in this book! Its a survival guide for thriving in these perilous last days.
