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Book Deliberately Divided

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy L. Segal
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-11-08
  • ISBN : 1538132869
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Deliberately Divided written by Nancy L. Segal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Takes the first in-depth look at the New York City adoption agency that separated twins and triplets in the 1960s, and the controversial and disturbing study that tracked the children’s development while never telling their adoptive parents that they were raising a “singleton twin.” In the early 1960s, the head of a prominent New York City Child Development Center and a psychiatrist from Columbia University launched a study designed to track the development of twins and triplets given up for adoption and raised by different families. The controversial and disturbing catch? None of the adoptive parents had been told that they were raising a twin—the study’s investigators insisted that the separation be kept secret. Here, Nancy Segal reveals the inside stories of the agency that separated the twins, and the collaborating psychiatrists who, along with their cadre of colleagues, observed the twins until they turned twelve. This study, far outside the mainstream of scientific twin research, was not widely known to scholars or the general public until it caught the attention of documentary filmmakers whose recent films, Three Identical Strangers and The Twinning Reaction,left viewers shocked, angered, saddened and wanting to know more. Interviews with colleagues, friends and family members of the agency’s psychiatric consultant and the study’s principal investigator, as well as a former agency administrator, research assistants, journalists, ethicists, attorneys, and—most importantly--the twins and their families who were unwitting participants in this controversial study, are riveting. Through records, letters and other documents, Segal further discloses the investigators’ attempts to engage other agencies in separating twins, their efforts to avoid media exposure, their worries over informed consent issues in the 1970s and the steps taken toward avoiding lawsuits while hoping to enjoy the fruits of publication. Segal's spellbinding stories of the twins’ separation, loss and reunion offers readers the behind-the-scenes details that, until now, have been lost to the archives of history.

Book Annual Commencement

    Book Details:
  • Author : I Winchester High School (Winchester
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014324818
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Annual Commencement written by I Winchester High School (Winchester and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Way of the Shadow Wolves

Download or read book The Way of the Shadow Wolves written by Steven Seagal and published by 5th Palace Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action adventure about a tribal police officer in Arizona who stumbles onto a crime involving international covert operations.

Book Putting Crisis in Perspective

Download or read book Putting Crisis in Perspective written by Artur Skweres and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collected book analyzes the phenomenon of crisis manifested across various historical periods. It offers unique, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the issues of crises and finds numerous applications in the fields of literature, linguistics, advertising, photography, and foreign language teaching. The collection is divided into two parts. The chapters in its first part analyze literature and language: from medieval England to cultural changes in America occurring under the influence of the transformation caused by the propagation of print culture. The incisive commentaries consider the works of culture that span not only literature but also film. They reveal how much we can learn by considering how past generations perceived reality in times of crisis. The second part of the book contains chapters, which examine texts related to contemporary crises expressed in the visual media of advertising and photography, but also in foreign language teaching. As the authors show, both ads and non-commercial, socially engaged photographs can influence the viewer in a swift and impactful manner by conveying messages of great social importance. The authors convincingly that argue both photographs and ads can be used for social benefit by visualizing even the unpleasant or shocking sides of reality. Finally, the notion of crisis experienced by students of English as a foreign language is analyzed and supplemented by research which may prove useful for researchers and practitioners alike.

Book Ivy Style

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  • Author : Patricia Mears
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780300170559
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ivy Style written by Patricia Mears and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of "Ivy Style" in menswear, tracing the origins and diffusion of this enduring and classic fashion

Book How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman

Download or read book How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman written by Barbara Teller Ornelas and published by Thrums Books. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America. There are scores of books about Navajo weaving, but no other book like this one. For the first time, master Navajo weavers themselves share the deep, inside story of how these textiles are created, and how their creation resonates in Navajo culture. Want to weave a high-quality, Navajo-style rug? This book has detailed how-to instructions, meticulously illustrated by a Navajo artist, from warping the loom to important finishing touches. Want to understand the deeper meaning? You'll learn why the fixed parts of the loom are male, and the working parts are female. You'll learn how weaving relates to the earth, the sky, and the sacred directions. You'll learn how the Navajo people were given their weaving tradition (and it wasn't borrowed from the Pueblos!), and how important a weaver's attitude and spirit are to creating successful rugs. You'll learn what it means to live in hózhó, the Beauty Way. Family stories from seven generations of weavers lend charm and special insights. Characteristic Native American humor is not in short supply. Their contribution to cultural understanding and the preservation of their craft is priceless.

Book The Year of Living Biblically

Download or read book The Year of Living Biblically written by A. J. Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Know-It-All takes on history's most influential book.

Book Selected works of Charles Dickens  A Tale Of Two Cities  A Christmas Carol   Oliver Twist

Download or read book Selected works of Charles Dickens A Tale Of Two Cities A Christmas Carol Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 2369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected works of Charles Dickens from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume of the Best of the Best series includes famous works • Great Expectations • David Copperfield • Oliver Twist • Bleak House • A Tale Of Two Cities • A Christmas Carol • Our Mutual Friend • Little Dorrit • The Pickwick Papers

Book Collected Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. G. Wells
  • Publisher : AtheneMedia-Verlag
  • Release : 2021-01-26
  • ISBN : 3869924063
  • Pages : 9825 pages

Download or read book Collected Works written by H. G. Wells and published by AtheneMedia-Verlag. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 9825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection - without images and optimized in file size for quick access - contains: A Modern Utopia A Short History of the World An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Anticipations / Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought Bealby; A Holiday Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump / Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times Certain Personal Matters First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" God, the Invisible King In the Days of the Comet In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace Joan and Peter: The story of an education Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul Little Wars (a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books) Love and Mr. Lewisham Mankind in the Making Marriage Mr. Britling Sees It Through Russia in the Shadows Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences Socialism and the family Tales of Space and Time Text Book of Biology, Vertebrata The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The Discovery of the Future The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The Future in America: A Search After Realities The History of Mr. Polly The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance The Island of Doctor Moreau The New Machiavelli The New Teaching of History / With a reply to some recent criticisms of The Outline of History The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind The Plattner Story, and Others The Red Room The Research Magnificent The Salvaging Of Civilization The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Sleeper Awakes / A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes The Soul of a Bishop The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The Time Machine The Undying Fire: A contemporary novel The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The War That Will End War The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Wonderful Visit The World Set Free This Misery of Boots Tono-Bungay Twelve Stories and a Dream War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War Washington and the Riddle of Peace What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War When the Sleeper Wakes Herbert George Wells wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback - utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering...

Book How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

Download or read book How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth written by Gordon D. Fee and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Guide to Understanding the Bible Understanding the Bible isn’t for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It’s meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your 21st-century life. More than half a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth to inform their reading of the Bible. This third edition features substantial revisions that keep pace with current scholarship, resources, and culture. Changes include: •Updated language •A new authors’ preface •Several chapters rewritten for better readability •Updated list of recommended commentaries and resources Covering everything from translational concerns to different genres of biblical writing, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth is used all around the world. In clear, simple language, it helps you accurately understand the different parts of the Bible—their meaning for ancient audiences and their implications for you today—so you can uncover the inexhaustible worth that is in God’s Word.

Book Paul s Case

    Book Details:
  • Author : Willa Cather
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-06-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 33 pages

Download or read book Paul s Case written by Willa Cather and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul is a schoolboy, described as tall and thin with strange eyes. He is facing the headmaster and several of his teachers, with whom he does not have a good relationship. All of them, in one way or another, find him difficult and disturbing to teach.

Book Thirty Strange Stories

Download or read book Thirty Strange Stories written by H.G. Wells and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty Strange Stories H. G. Wells - Thirty Strange Stories: by H. G. Wells Annotated by Ablaze BlissOutstanding series collection Publishing in 1897 here are 30 stories from a variety of fantastic genres:, Strange Romance ,Occult Ghost, Fantasy, Monsters, and Science Fiction.

Book In Jeopardy

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  • Author : Van Tassel Sutphen
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2021-04-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book In Jeopardy written by Van Tassel Sutphen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a letter written in old-fashioned longhand on the business stationery of the law firm of Eldon & Crawford, their given address being Calverton, Maryland. For the third time, I read over the missive, although certainly, it was short and to the point, its meaning was unmistakable. But judge for yourself.

Book Jungalow  Decorate Wild

Download or read book Jungalow Decorate Wild written by Justina Blakeney and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Justina Blakeney, the ultimate guide to designing wildly creative interiors that are free-spirited, layered, and deeply personal Justina Blakeney’s new book is her biggest, boldest, and most beautiful volume yet, filled with irresistible style, original patterns, and artwork—lushly photographed by Dabito. In each chapter, Justina shares her distinctive point of view on everything design fans want to know—how to make bold choices with color and pattern, how to take cues from nature, how to authentically glean inspiration from their heritage and travels, how to break rules, and all the other paths to truly begin to decorate wild. Along the way, Justina also shares personal narratives, practical advice, and nuanced insight into how she lives in her own space—how she reconnects with nature, how she plays and stays inspired, how she gives herself permission to feel free and wild, and how readers can do the same. Jungalow is the term coined by Justina for the brand that embodies her wild, but cozy and homey, style. Copycats abound, but there is no other book like this one—offering Justina’s authentic, encouraging voice and approachable, signature style.

Book Theory of Prose

Download or read book Theory of Prose written by Виктор Шкловский and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by the Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailability of an English translation. Now translated in its entirety for the first time, Theory of Prose not only anticipates structuralism and post-structuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Arguing that writers structure their material according to artistic principles rather than from attempts to imitate "reality," Shklovsky uses Cervantes, Tolstoi, Sterne, Dickens, Bely, and Rozanov to give us a new way of thinking about fiction and, in his most impassioned moments, about the world. Benjamin Sher's lucid translation will allow Shklovsky's Theory of Prose to fulfill its destiny as a major theoretical work of the twentieth century." from back cover.

Book Madame Bovary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gustave Flaubert
  • Publisher : Bantam Classics
  • Release : 1982-06-01
  • ISBN : 0553213415
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement." - Henry James Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary.

Book The Country of the Blind  and Other Stories

Download or read book The Country of the Blind and Other Stories written by Герберт Уэллс and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: