EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Din in the Head

Download or read book The Din in the Head written by Cynthia Ozick and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the joys of great literature from the New York Times–bestselling author and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. One of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. Her new collection of spirited essays focuses on the essential joys of great literature, with particular emphasis on the novel. With razor-sharp wit and an inspiring joie de vivre, she investigates unexpected byways in the works of Leo Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Helen Keller, Isaac Babel, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, and others. In a posthumous and hilariously harassing “(Unfortunate) Interview with Henry James,” Ozick’s hero is shocked by a lady reporter. In “Highbrow Blues,” and in reflections on her own early fiction, she writes intimately of “the din in our heads, that relentless inner hum,” and the curative power of literary imagination. The Din in the Head is sure to please fans of Ozick, win her new readers, and excite critical controversy and acclaim. “Open the collection anywhere—I guarantee it—and you will feel the bite of her distinctive voice.” —Sven Birkerts, Los Angeles Times “The passion that fills these essays is invigorating. In our age of irony and commercial pandering, we need writers like Ozick.” —Danielle Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Book A Voice Above The Din

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Holbrook Hill
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2007-03
  • ISBN : 1411652428
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book A Voice Above The Din written by Steven Holbrook Hill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer Cuyler, a twenty-something loner with a dark secret, and John Shaw, an enigmatic surfer from southern California, are on the lam from the law. Journey with them as they embark on a road trip of a lifetime from Denver to L.A., and discover that sometimes... the road less traveled is the one that leads right back to you. If you liked ON THE ROAD, CATCHER IN THE RYE and BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, you'll love the coming of age road trip, buddy adventure, and heartfelt love story all rolled into one, that is A VOICE ABOVE THE DIN.

Book Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language

Download or read book Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language written by Andrew D. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strategies, Andrew D. Cohen disentangles a morass of terminology to help the reader see what language strategies are and how they can enhance performance. Particular areas of research examined in the book include: - links between the use of task-specific strategies and language performance - how multilinguals verbalise their thoughts during language learning and use strategies that learners use in test-taking contexts In this fully revised and substantially rewritten second edition, every chapter has been reworked, with material either updated or replaced. Entirely new material has also been developed based on examples of specific strategies supplied by actual learners, mostly drawn from a website featuring these strategies in the learning of Spanish grammar.Strategies in Learning and Using a Second language will be an invaluable resource for language teachers and researchers, as well as for administrators of second language programmes and for students of applied linguistics.

Book Above the Din of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter H. Eichstaedt
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 161374515X
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Above the Din of War written by Peter H. Eichstaedt and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist shares this cross-country conversations with the Afghan populace including emotional and critical commentary from a former warlord, a Taliban judge, poppy growers, women parliamentarians, would-be suicide bombers, a besieged video store owner and more in a book that also looks at what the future may hold for the embattled country.

Book Dream Traveler

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. A. Ferguson
  • Publisher : ImaJinn Books
  • Release : 2003-12-03
  • ISBN : 1611946085
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Dream Traveler written by J. A. Ferguson and published by ImaJinn Books. This book was released on 2003-12-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . a fantastic fantasy written by a very talented writer."--The Best Reviews on Dream Traveler Hidden Treasures . . . The mantle of First Daughter of Gayome weighs heavily on Dariana's shoulders. Compassionate and sensitive, she worries about being a disappointment to her parents. She cannot dreamsing like her father, Durgan Ketassian. And she despairs of being adequate to rule as Tiria, as her mother Nerienne has done with intelligence and grace. Conscious only of her shortcomings, Dariana is unaware of the strength--or the existence--of her inherent gifts . . . until she meets a man who helps her claim them . . . and who stirs her senses as no man ever has. Hidden Perils . . . Relezar Vare has a mission. He's determined to prove that, despite his family's refusal to defend Gayome against its enemies, he's no coward. Yet he must go carefully, for he possesses a gift that can be exploited for evil purposes. He longs for Dariana. But she is First Daughter--forbidden fruit. He should be satisfied with the opportunity their quest offers to prove his worth. Yet as his astonishing gift empowers Dariana to discover her own remarkable abilities, he embarks on a more personal quest: to win Dariana's heart and the right to claim her as his own. Hidden Melody . . . Sent to the past to repair the splintered timeline, Dariana and Relezar know the moment is fast approaching when all will be lost. But will they learn to trust each other in time to save their world? Or will their nightmares overwhelm them, destroying everything they've ever known? Award-winning author J. A. Ferguson lives in Nevada with her husband, children, and a fat cat. She is not sure which is most spoiled.

Book Everybody s

Download or read book Everybody s written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York

Download or read book Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ghetto Tragedies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Israel Zangwill
  • Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
  • Release : 2021-10-12
  • ISBN : 1513214446
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Ghetto Tragedies written by Israel Zangwill and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghetto Tragedies (1899) is a collection of stories by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city’s Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels and stories of the Victorian era. “People who have been living in a Ghetto for a couple of centuries, are not able to step outside merely because the gates are thrown down, nor to efface the brands on their souls by putting off the yellow badges. The isolation imposed from without will have come to seem the law of their being.” As a Jewish immigrant who grew up in poverty in London, Israel Zangwill knows that the condition of life in the ghetto changes not just lives, but mentalities. In the fourth installment of his Ghetto series, Zangwill imagines the lives of everyday Jewish people. Zillah and Jossel, successful boot makers; Daniel Peyser, a father of seven daughters; Isaac Levinsky, the son of a pious Rabbi. These are the lives so lovingly shaped in the author’s skillful hands, people whose experiences with love, loss, doubt, and faith are not so different from our own. The tales of Jewish life in Ghetto Tragedies earned Zangwill comparisons to Dickens upon publication and helped to establish him as an author with a gift for intensive character study and a passion for political themes. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Israel Zangwill’s Ghetto Tragedies is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

Book Positive Psychosomatics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nossrat Peseschkian M.D.
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2016-08-20
  • ISBN : 1524636622
  • Pages : 634 pages

Download or read book Positive Psychosomatics written by Nossrat Peseschkian M.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Nossrat Peseschkian, M.D. (1933-2010), a German Board-certified specialist in psychiatry, neurology, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, was born in Iran and lived in Germany since 1954. After graduating from Frankfurt University, he received his postgraduate psychotherapeutic training in Germany, Switzerland and in the United States. Besides his daily work in his psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic private clinic in Wiesbaden, Germany (1969-2000), he was an associate professor for psychotherapy at the Academy of Continuing Medical Education of the State Medical Association in Hesse since 1974. He is the founder of Positive Psychotherapy, a humanistic psychodynamic method based on a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach. Positive Psychotherapy has been introduced by Professor Peseschkian in seminars and lectures at universities and medical centers in more than 70 countries world-wide. Professor Peseschkian was the founding director of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy, a licensed postgraduate institute for medical doctors and psychologists, the founding president of the World Association for Positive Psychotherapy (WAPP) and the German Association for Positive Psychotherapy (DGPP). This book, Positive Psychosomatics, is - out of 31 other monographs Peseschkians main clinical book on the application of Positive Psychotherapy in the understanding and treatment of different disorders and illnesses. The authors model to focus on the resources and positive aspects of conflicts - together with a transcultural perspective in the form of proverbs, myths and fables and the use of special techniques and practical tools, have made not only the book, but this approach very successful in the treatment of patients with somatic, somatoform and neurotic disorders. Forty different disorders are explained in detail and also their therapeutic approach. A questionnaire at the end of each chapter gives the therapist and his patients a clear guideline in their hands. Revised edition: International Academy for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy Peseschkian Foundation, Wiesbaden, Germany

Book Mission Gamma  Book One

    Book Details:
  • Author : David R. George III
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2002-10-02
  • ISBN : 0743445619
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Mission Gamma Book One written by David R. George III and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-10-02 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TIME HAS COME...for a new era of exploration. With the Dominion War behind them, the crew of the U.S.S. Defiant journeys through the wormhole as Commander Elias Vaughn leads a "corps of discovery" to blaze new trails into the unexplored reaches of the Gamma Quadrant. THE TIME HAS COME ...for a civilization to reach a crossroads. As political forces throughout the Alpha Quadrant intersect at Deep Space 9™ to determine the future of Bajor, the planet's theological unity threatens to shatter. And for Colonel Kira Nerys, the path of the Prophets may become a road to ruin. THE TIME HAS COME...for a father and daughter to confront their past while a mother and son fight for the future, for lovers to be tested and for friendships to transform, and for worlds on opposite ends of the galaxy to face the dusk...or the dawn. TWILIGHT

Book Hafez in Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Iraj Pezeshkzad
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-31
  • ISBN : 0815655126
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Hafez in Love written by Iraj Pezeshkzad and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez is in love. He is in love with a girl, with a city, and with Persian poetry. Despite his enmity with the new and dangerous city leader, the jealousy of his fellow court poets, and the competition for his beloved, Iran’s favorite poet remains unbothered. When his wit and charm are not enough to keep him safe in Shiraz, his friends conspire to keep him out of trouble. But their schemes are unsuccessful. Nothing will chase Hafez from this city of wine and roses. In Pezeshkzad’s fictional account, Hafez’s life in fourteenth-century Shiraz is a mix of peril and humor. Set in a city that is at once beautiful and cutthroat, the novel includes a cast of historical figures to illuminate this elusive poet of the Persian literary tradition. Shabani-Jadidi and Higgins’s translation brings the beloved poetry of Hafez alive for an English audience and reacquaints readers with the comic wit and original storytelling of Pezeshkzad.

Book The Guaranty News

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 880 pages

Download or read book The Guaranty News written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish encyclopedia  a descriptive record of the history  religion  literature  and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day

Download or read book The Jewish encyclopedia a descriptive record of the history religion literature and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day written by Cyrus Adler and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kompakt W  rterbuch KFZ Technik

Download or read book Kompakt W rterbuch KFZ Technik written by Ingo Stüben and published by expert verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieses Wörterbuch dient zur Erleichterung der Arbeit für den Personenkreis, der mit englischen bzw. deutschen Fachausdrücken aus dem Bereich der KFZ-Technik konfrontiert wird. Falls nötig, werden zu den einzelnen Begriffen Hintergrundinformationen, Beispiele sowie umgangssprachliche Hinweise geliefert. Als zusätzliche Informationsebene sind nach Gruppen aufgeteilte schematische Darstellungen integriert, womit die Terminologie typischer Systeme erfasst und visualisiert ist. Bei dem vorliegenden Nachschlagewerk mit seinen circa 40.000 Stichworteintragungen handelt es sich nicht um ein Wörterbuch im üblichen Sinne, sondern um ein weit darüberhinausgehendes lexikonähnliches Fachwörterbuch. The purpose of this dictionary is to facilitate the work of persons who are confronted with English or German technical terms from the field of automotive engineering. In cases where it is necessary, background information, examples and colloquial references are provided for the individual terms. Additionally, this book includes information on schematic representations and divides them into groups, which means that it covers and visualizes terminology of typical systems. This reference work, with its approximately 40,000 keyword entries, is not a dictionary in the usual sense, but rather a technical dictionary that goes far beyond the scope of a lexicon.

Book The Harvard Classics  Arabian nights  Stories from the Thousand and one nights

Download or read book The Harvard Classics Arabian nights Stories from the Thousand and one nights written by Charles William Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Descent of the Drowned

Download or read book The Descent of the Drowned written by Ana Lal Din and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is bound to serve. He is meant to kill. Survival is their prison. Choice is their weapon. As the sacred slave of a goddess, Roma is of a lower caste that serves patrons to sustain the balance between gods and men. What she wants is her freedom, but deserters are hunted and hanged, and Roma only knows how to survive in her village where women are vessels without a voice. When her younger brother is condemned to the same wretched fate as hers, Roma must choose between silence and rebellion. Leviathan is the bastard son of an immortal tyrant. Raised in a military city where everyone knows of his blood relation to the persecuted clans, Leviathan is considered casteless. Lowest of the low. Graduating as one of the deadliest soldiers, he executes in his father's name, displaying his worth. When he faces judgement from his mother's people-the clans-Leviathan must confront his demons and forge his own path, if he ever hopes to reclaim his soul. But in the struggle to protect the people they love and rebuild their identities, Roma's and Leviathan's destinies interlock as the tyrant hunts an ancient treasure that will doom humankind should it come into his possession-a living treasure to which Roma and Leviathan are the ultimate key. Set in a colonised Indo-Persian world and inspired by Pre-Islamic Arabian mythology, The Descent of the Drowned is a tale about power, identity, and redemption, and what it takes to hold on to one's humanity in the face of devastation. TW: Physical and emotional abuse, mention of rape and sodomisation, sexual assault, suicide, bigotry, drug abuse, and human trafficking.

Book Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

Download or read book Stories from the Thousand and One Nights written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: