Download or read book French Lessons written by Alice Kaplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] cultural odyssey, a brave attempt to articulate the compulsions that drove [Kaplan] to embrace foreignness in order to become truly herself.” —The Washington Post Book World Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior year abroad in Bordeaux, she passionately sought the French “r,” attentively honed her accent, and learned the idioms of her French lover. When, as a graduate student, her passion for French culture turned to the elegance and sophistication of its intellectual life, she found herself drawn to the language and style of the novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine. At the same time, she was repulsed by his anti-Semitism. At Yale in the late 70s, during the heyday of deconstruction she chose to transgress its apolitical purity and work on a subject “that made history impossible to ignore”: French fascist intellectuals. Kaplan’s discussion of the “de Man affair” —the discovery that her brilliant and charismatic Yale professor had written compromising articles for the pro-Nazi Belgian press—and her personal account of the paradoxes of deconstruction are among the most compelling available on this subject. French Lessons belongs in the company of Sartre’s Words and the memoirs of Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Ernaux, and Eva Hoffman. No book so engrossingly conveys both the excitement of learning and the moral dilemmas of the intellectual life.

Download or read book Downhill from Vimy written by Christopher Levan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, April 1917. In a brutal spring campaign, the Canadian Corps ascended and captured Vimy Ridge from the German Army. That victory turned Colonials into Canadians and might be considered the high watermark of nationhood. For many of the soldiers who fought to gain the heights at Vimy, life went downhill from that point forward. Bloodied and bruised from that April combat, in the fall of 1917 they slid down into the wholesale slaughter that became known as Passchendaele. Incredibly, the worst was yet to come. On December 6th of that year the largest human-made explosion over a living city took place in Halifax—the result of a munitions transport ship collision. Downhill from Vimy relives these historic events through the life of a wounded veteran, Gordon Davis—a survivor of all three 1917 disasters—and transports us into his nightmares as he struggles to retain sanity, recapture love, and regain his former place in Canadian society. Watch as Gordon loses his personal battle but, stubbornly, does not die. Instead he is filed away in a Veteran’s hospital and forgotten. Gordon remains hidden for seventy-five years, locked in his own personal insanity until a jaded pastor slowly unravels his descent...Downhill from Vimy. Readers will be transfixed by this richly researched and wonderfully imagined story of love and loss.

Download or read book Brain Rules for Baby written by John Medina and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whats the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a childs brain? Whats the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know. In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work - and why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain Rules for Baby, he shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children from zero to 5. This book is destined to revolutionize parenting. Just one of the surprises; The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control. Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a childs brain develops and what you can do to optimize it.

Download or read book Newlywed Widow written by Beverly Short and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Newlywed Widow" is the autobiographical account of how a premonition changed the fate and exposure of a young girl. Understanding how one single premonition could give a six-year old girl the tools to manage sexual abuse, deafness, near death experience and bullying, is what "Newlywed Widow" brings to light. This is one life's story worth reading.

Download or read book Laugh Til You Die written by P. Daletas and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by people who shared the beauty of laughter with her up until the day they died, Patricia Daletas recently found a way to put down on paper an accumulation of life events that led to one conclusion: Laughter comes with healing. Laughter brings joy. Laughter can be found in even the most difficult of situations. Laughter is a gift from God and can help sustain the heart for a lifetime. In her book Laugh 'til You Die, Patricia endeavors to take her readers on a journey through everyday life, with all its ups and downs, and help them to see that no matter the circumstances life might throw them into, laughter really is the best medicine. Through the sharing of personal experience and scripture, Laugh 'til You Die shows how laughter coupled with faith can bring joy to the soul, to the end of this life, and into the better life that awaits the child of God. Laugh 'til You Die is intended to be read as much or as little at a time as desired to refresh the heart. To provide hope for a weary soul and give confirmation to the life full of joy and laughter that it really is okay to be lighthearted in any circumstance.

Download or read book Walking in the Mud written by Phil Volker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After facing a life-changing cancer diagnosis, Phil Volker started walking a circuitous route around his ten-acre backyard. It was a chance to exercise, which his doctors had encouraged, but also created a sacred space to think and pray. Realizing that he was covering quite a distance, he found a map of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route and began to map his progress, calculating that 909 laps would get him from St. Jean Pied-de-Port to the Cathedral of St. James. Volker completed five caminos, five hundred miles each, without leaving his backyard, and many visitors have found healing, solace, and consolation in walking with him. Phil's life was transformed by what he calls his three Cs--Camino, Catholicism, and Cancer. Part spiritual autobiography, part pilgrimage journal, and part Old Farmer's Almanac, this book is the story of his journey.

Download or read book Stolen Halo written by Trish Dinsmoor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STOLEN HALO is a moving and engrossing memoirabout childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse; about rejection and abandonmentthat provides a perspective that only a person who was that child can know. STOLEN HALO is a true testament to the importance and the process of facing ones past head-on, resurrecting that past, owning and respecting it, putting it into written wordsand then sharing ones own story with the universe in the hope that those words will somehow help others make sense of their own lives just as writing them made sense to the author. For Trish Dinsmoor, in STOLEN HALO, it isnt just a matter of honestyit is a matter of responsibilityto get her message of hope out to all the victims of abuse. STOLEN HALOand its poignant message of hope and survivalis Trish Dinsmoors attempt to set herself and other victims free.

Download or read book Lawson Chapman Square Chapter II PVG written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawson: Chapman Square/Chapter II (PVG) features 18 songs from Lawson's deluxe album, beautifully arranged for Piano and Voice, with Guitar chord boxes and full lyrics. ’Chapman Square/Chapter II’ is the re-release of Lawson's début album, Chapman Square, featuring the lead single Brokenhearted, featuring B.o.B. This book also includes a signed note from the band.

Download or read book More Moxie Than Money written by Bernice Davidson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Moxie than Money. Three women sequentially ran a business for fifty years and kept it strong, relevant and vibrant. Each began without financial resources. See how they did it.

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Just Us Girls written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman’s friends are the family she picks herself. This collection of 101 touching and amusing stories celebrates all that is special about the bonds that women share with their friends - the unique spirit of female friendship. Whether it’s about something funny or serious, our friends are the first ones we think to call. They are a constant source of support and encouragement. This book is filled with great friendship stories that you’ll love reading and sharing with your friends.

Download or read book Floaters written by PJS Martin and published by Roheryn Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their friends warned them. Colleagues offered alternatives. Her mother tried to talk her out of it. For twenty years, the couple had thrived floating between campuses, ships, and ports, rarely together. Geography was about to become their destiny. The happily married, middle-aged couple had only lived together for eight years yet married for twenty. Joe and Paula Martin's marriage had succeeded even though Joe was away at sea for months while she taught at her small college in Pennsylvania. After decades as captain of sea-going ships, Joe was about to take a shore-side job, 5,000 miles away from Paula. She had a sabbatical and would join him for a year. It would be the first time they'd live together for more than three months at a stretch. And they'd do so in Alaska, on a 33½ foot boat. Floaters travels from central Pennsylvania, along the Alaska Highway, to Juneau, Southeast Alaska, the Inside Passage, and beyond. Joe worked as a Port Captain while searching for a ship's pilot position. Paula worked on her book in between field classes. Alaska travels, wildlife, boat maintenance, conflict avoidance, and dreams of a dog arose during their year together. Would their romance survive the experience? Would their marriage? And would the boat?

Download or read book Transforming the Quality of Life for People with Dementia Through Contact with the Natural World written by Jane Gilliard and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. The contributors explore many different ways in which people with dementia can experience and interact with nature.

Download or read book If I Had a Son Vol 2 written by Bernard Snyder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I feel privileged and blessed to have been given the opportunity to reach out and touch so many fans through my book. Being able to express my experiences and insights through Poetry is a dream come true. Ive never used being raised without a mother or father as an excuse, but more of a motivation to work even harder. I was never certain what my purpose in life was, however, I knew if I could inspire others raised in similar, adverse situations it would give them a sense of hope. The gratitude in knowing that I could possibly make a difference in someone elses life is too overwhelming to put into words. Coincidentally, it might shed some light on what my purpose in life has always been!!

Download or read book Sylvia Day Crossfire Novels 1 4 written by Sylvia Day and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one deluxe collection, the first four novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crossfire series. Bared to You He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily... Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private wounds... and desires. The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart... Reflected in You Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn’t stay away. I didn’t want to. He was my addiction… my every desire...mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We’d never work. It was too hard, too painful… except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession... Entwined with You From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside—so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat. No one knows how much he risked for me. How much I'd been threatened, or just how dark and desperate the shadow of our pasts would become. Entwined by our secrets, we tried to defy the odds. We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession... Captivated by You Gideon calls me his angel, but he’s the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face his own. The vows we’d exchanged should have bound us tighter than blood and flesh. Instead they opened old wounds, exposed pain and insecurities, and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows. I felt him slipping from my grasp, my greatest fears becoming my reality, my love tested in ways I wasn’t sure I was strong enough to bear. At the brightest time in our lives, the darkness of his past encroached and threatened everything we’d worked so hard for. We faced a terrible choice: the familiar safety of the lives we’d had before each other or the fight for a future that suddenly seemed an impossible and hopeless dream...

Download or read book The Crossfire Series Books 1 3 by Sylvia Day written by Sylvia Day and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the passion of Eva and Gideon—in the first three intensely sensual Crossfire novels by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day—Bared to You, Reflected in You, and Entwined with You. Praise for the Crossfire Series “A steamy read that will have you furiously flipping pages.”—Glamour “A highly charged story that flows and hits the mark.”—Kirkus Reviews “Erotic romance that should not be missed.”—Romance Novel News “The steamy sex scenes and intriguing plot twists will have readers clamoring for more.”—Library Journal

Download or read book Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture written by Robin Macdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Download or read book Then the Angels Laughed written by Heather Vaughn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one woman's incredible journey of healing, miracles, and self-discovery. It is a journey of learning to except one's self and to live passionately and authentically. It has an important lesson for all people, no matter what has happened in your life and no matter what beliefs you may have about the spirit world, healing, or life in general. It shows that you can overcome anything that life hands you. It also shows that you can be yourself and never have to pretend, hide, or adhere to someone else's standards or rules. Just be yourself! Follow your heart and follow your dreams.