Download or read book Proust and the Squid written by Maryanne Wolf and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsychologist and child development expert Maryann Wolf answers these questions in this ambitious and provocative book that chronicles the remarkable journey of written language not only throughout our evolution but also over the course of a single child’s life, showing why a growing percentage have difficulty mastering these abilities. With fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, Wolf asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians is a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today’s technology-driven literacy, in which visual images on the screen are paving the way for a reduced need for written language—with potentially profound consequences for our future.

Download or read book Edibles for Beginners written by Laurie Wolf and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go from budding baker to edible expert with this cannabis cookbook Mastering homemade cannabis creations is a true art and science—but every edible enthusiast knows there's a fine line between a relaxing munchie and a bite of reefer madness. This cannabis cookbook shows you how to confidently bake uniquely yummy sweet and savory goods in the comfort of your own canna-kitchen. Dive in with an overview of the medicinal benefits of cannabis—and get started by learning how to decarboxylate and make butter and oil infusions to stock your cannabis pantry. With this cannabis cookbook you'll soon have the skills (and ingredients) to whip up low-dose edibles that will be in high demand. This cannabis cookbook includes: Flower power—This cannabis cookbook gives you the lowdown on 20 popular strains with user-friendly flavor profiles that also detail the THC/CBD content, health benefits, and what effects to expect of each. Kitchen magic—Get the basics on cooking with cannabis and make any of your favorite foods special with easy instructions for decarboxylating, infusing butter and oil, and calculating dosing. Reefer recipes—Wow your loved ones with the 50 tasty low-dose recipes of this cannabis cookbook, including appetizers, brownies, cakes, cookies, and more—each labeled with its THC content. Become a baking cannaisseur with the guidance of this cannabis cookbook.

Download or read book Reader Come Home written by Maryanne Wolf and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium. Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us—her beloved readers—to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums. Wolf raises difficult questions, including: Will children learn to incorporate the full range of "deep reading" processes that are at the core of the expert reading brain? Will the mix of a seemingly infinite set of distractions for children’s attention and their quick access to immediate, voluminous information alter their ability to think for themselves? With information at their fingertips, will the next generation learn to build their own storehouse of knowledge, which could impede the ability to make analogies and draw inferences from what they know? Will all these influences change the formation in children and the use in adults of "slower" cognitive processes like critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy that comprise deep reading and that influence both how we think and how we live our lives? How can we preserve deep reading processes in future iterations of the reading brain? Concerns about attention span, critical reasoning, and over-reliance on technology are never just about children—Wolf herself has found that, though she is a reading expert, her ability to read deeply has been impacted as she has become increasingly dependent on screens. Wolf draws on neuroscience, literature, education, and philosophy and blends historical, literary, and scientific facts with down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate complex ideas that culminate in a proposal for a biliterate reading brain. Provocative and intriguing, Reader, Come Home is a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective on the impact of technology on our brains and our most essential intellectual capacities—and what this could mean for our future.

Download or read book A Walk in Wolf Wood written by Mary Stewart and published by Hachette Children's Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family picnic in the Black Forest is the beginning of a magical adventure for John and Margaret.

Download or read book The Cannabis Apothecary written by Laurie Wolf and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to buy, prepare, and safely use THC and CBD for maximum benefits to your body, mind, home, and spirit with this essential guide from the "Martha Stewart of marijuana edibles"(New Yorker). Featuring recipes for brownies and body balms, mushroom tarts and massage oils, The Cannabis Apothecary offers readers a guide to improving health and wellness by harnessing the natural powers of marijuana. From celebrated cookbook author Laurie Wolf, creator of "the absolute best cannabis brownie recipe of all time" (Leafly), The Cannabis Apothecary charts a path through the history of this amazing plant, from early cultivation to the latest in cutting edge research, showing readers how to maximize the benefits of living an immersive marijuana lifestyle. With stops at a growing farm in Oregon and an "elevated" yoga class in Massachusetts, The Cannabis Apothecary will teach readers: How cannabis works with the body's endocannabinoid system, and how to prepare and control dosage How to safely acquire, consume, and store cannabis in order to treat a host of medical issues, ranging from epilepsy and insomnia to nausea and anxiety The distinct flavor profiles of cannabis strains, and how to pair them with ingredients when cooking and entertaining How to mix compound THC butters and oils for use in the kitchen or the bedroom How to extract CBD and THC to make topical lotions that relieve arthritis pain, sore muscles, sprains and strains How to use homemade CBD bath balms to increase relaxation and promote deeper sleep With information on how to grow your own cannabis and recipes for sweet and savory foods as well as home-made beauty products, The Cannabis Apothecary is an essential guide to everything marijuana has to offer.

Download or read book Incarnadine written by Mary Szybist and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own longing. The spectacular was never behind them.-from "The Troubadours etc." In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist.

Download or read book Mister Wolf and Me written by Mary Francis Shura and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Miles desperately tries to prove his German shepherd has not been killing a farmer's sheep.

Download or read book Wolf Tales written by Mary Powell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of legends from the Cherokee, Dakota Sioux, and other Indian tribes, centering around the spiritual power of the wolf and its interaction with man and other animals.

Download or read book The Wolf at Twighlight written by Kent Nerburn and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated N...

Download or read book The Mystery at Wolf River written by Mary Francis Shura and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1989 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate and her best friend Bugs solve a mystery involving a drowning dog and a mansion. In the process Kate decides her little brother is not so pesky after all, and becomes his friend.

Download or read book Wolf Shadows written by Mary Casanova and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his best friend illegally shoots a wolf while hunting in northern Minnesota, twelve-year-old Seth struggles to determine whether their friendship can survive their different ideas.

Download or read book The Boy Who Cried Wolf written by Mary O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wolf House written by Mary Borsellino and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bette, Jay, and their friends--other smart, talented, angry, punk musicians, artists, and high-school misfits--tangle with the Wolf House as they join with and sometimes fight against the toughest vampire hunters in town.

Download or read book American Children s Folklore written by Simon J. Bronner and published by august house. This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front cover: A book of rhymes, games, jokes, stories, secret languages, beliefs and camp legends, for parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors and all adults who were once children.

Download or read book Pioneer Families of the Midwest written by Blanche Lea Walden and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important, albeit scarce, three-volume collection of family histories pertaining to persons who migrated to the Midwest during the last quarter of the eighteenth or first quarter of the nineteenth century is now available in a consolidated edition. Mrs. Walden, who privately published these genealogies between 1939 and 1941, has here bridged the earliest known records pertaining to each family so that future researchers might be able to trace their lines with less difficulty. Although the Clearfield edition lacks an index to the work as a whole, a complete name index to Volumes 1 and 2 can be found at the end of the second volume. In all, the reader will find about 150 allied families and some 7,500 Midwestern pioneers treated within these pages. Listed below are the main families covered by Mrs. Walden together with the states in which they settled: Harper of OH, PA, MO, and MI; Rainey of OH, IN, IL, MI, MO, KS; Boal of OH, IA, MI, MN, IN, IL, and WI; Hope of VA, OH, MO, WI, OR, WV, and IN; Dewees of DE, PA, OH, IN, IL, and IA; Francis of OH, NY, IA, and OK; Smith of NJ, OH, IN, IL, IA, and CA; Dorr of CT, OH, IN, IL, KS, NE, and CA; Coe of CT, OH, IN, and IA; Fuller of CT, OH, IN, and MO; Allen of CT, OH, KS, and IL; Pratt of CT and OH; Davis of NH, ME, OH, IN, and IA; True of NH, OH, IA, and MO; Argo of DE, OH, IL, and IA; and Plumly of PA, OH, and IA.

Download or read book Riding the Wolf written by Jessica Quinn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Taylor thought she had it all: her wonderful lover Daniel and the career she'd always wanted. For years, she'd trained her grandmother's horse, in hopes of becoming the first woman to win the Kentucky Derby. Then an envelope arrived, full of graphic pictures of murdered women--and a note telling her she was next. Detective Jack Kennedy was assigned by the police to protect her. But Jack has his own secret: an attack three years ago infected him with lycanthropy, and every full moon he struggles to control his inner beast. His hunger for Red makes it harder to control the creature inside him, but giving in to those desires will inevitably infect her, too--and in turning her into a predator, prevent her from ever riding again. Daniel has been Red's lover for years, but before Red, he dated men as well as women. He resents Jack for wanting Red, but at the same time, he's fighting his own lust for Jack. The three will have to figure out more than their relationships to keep Red safe from the Axeman. Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, dubious consent, male/male sexual practices, menage (m/m/f), violence.

Download or read book Red Signature written by Mary Leader and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of five winners of the 1996 National Poetry Series (chosen by Deborah Digges) Mary Leader's poetry sets out to collect signatures left by the nooks and crannies of history: recipe cards, a self-starved man's last will, a schoolteacher's ditty. "An astonishing gift". -- Allen Grossman