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Book A More Or Less Chronological Account of Recollections of My Early Years

Download or read book A More Or Less Chronological Account of Recollections of My Early Years written by Frances Pennoyer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opus 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances Pennoyer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Opus 1 written by Frances Pennoyer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typed transcript of a series of interviews conducted at her home in Locust Valley, New York by her son, Robert Pennoyer, recording memories of her childhood and early adulthood. These memories include accounts of her grandparents, J. Pierpont Morgan and Frances Tracy Morgan; her parents, J.P. Morgan and Jane Norton Grew Morgan; her aunts, Louisa Satterlee, Juliet Hamilton and Anne Morgan, as well as her siblings. The transcript records details regarding her education, her hobbies and recreational activities, the family's traditions, travel, residences and their response to World War I.

Book Happy Baby

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Elliott
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780312424497
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Happy Baby written by Stephen Elliott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Baby is the story of Theo, once an orphan in the Chicago foster care system and now a grown man living in California. Theo, saturated with memories of abuse and heartache, and filled with the simple wish to understand more about himself, returns to Chicago to reconnect with an old girlfriend from his troubled youth. Told in reverse order, this edgy and powerful novel slowly and subtly turns mysterious, as we attempt to recognize the root of Theo's plight and the source for his quietly wavering humanity.

Book Tales from the Milestone

Download or read book Tales from the Milestone written by Ben Wajikra and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wajikra's story details his life before the WWII and the last days. when he was with his parents, how he survived on his own and his treatment on the farm where he hid for a while. He details aspects of "underground" activities and lets others tell their stories. The last chapter is a rather horrifying story of a raid on a farm and the defensive actions he and others had to take.

Book In The Shadow Of The Banyan

Download or read book In The Shadow Of The Banyan written by Vaddey Ratner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday

Book Recollections of My Life

Download or read book Recollections of My Life written by Hermann Krüsi and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of a Country Mother

Download or read book Memories of a Country Mother written by Marie Reed and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems and short stories weaves together history, hope, and family. Each piece flows beautifully into the next, revealing the wisdom and perspective of a simpler time. The golden thread running throughout the entire book is the joy of a life lived prayerfully. It is the culmination of nearly one-hundred years of experience. Life, love, and faith in the face of loss are reflected beautifully through the eyes of a country mother.

Book EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma Informed Treatment

Download or read book EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma Informed Treatment written by Ricky Greenwald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to learning and using EMDR Trauma is a potential source of most types of emotional or behavioral problems. Extensive research has shown EMDR to be an effective and efficient trauma treatment. EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment offers mental health professionals an accessible plain-language guide to this popular and successful method. The book also introduces the “Fairy Tale Model” as a way to understand and remember the essential phases of treatment and the tasks in each phase. This manual teaches a clear rationale and a systematic approach to trauma-informed treatment, including often-neglected elements of treatment that are essential to preparing clients for EMDR. The reader is led step by step through the treatment process, with scripted hands-on exercises to learn each skill. In addition to presenting the fundamental EMDR procedures, EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment teaches a treatment system that can be applied to a variety of cases. Using research-supported and proven-effective methods, this book takes you through the treatment process with easily-understood dialogues and examples. Explicitly guided exercises produce hands-on skills and familiarize you with ways to explain trauma to clients and prepare them for EMDR. You will also learn to problem-solve challenging cases using the trauma framework. EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment also includes an Instructor’s Manual with: sample syllabus teaching tips PowerPoint slides test bank. Additional discussions address: why trauma matters posttraumatic symptoms the “trauma wall” the structure of trauma treatment the role of EMDR the eight phases of EMDR preparing clients for EMDR legal and medical issues in EMDR problem solving strategies in EMDR sessions treatment strategies for a variety of presenting problems using EMDR with children and adolescents use and application of the “fairy tale model” on-line and digital resources Designed to be a comprehensive primer, companion/supplemental textbook, and valuable reference resource, EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment is ideal for clinicians already trained in EMDR, those actively learning EMDR, and mental health professionals interested in EMDR. Note that to practice EMDR requires formal supervised training.

Book Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Fortey
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-03-23
  • ISBN : 0307761185
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book Life written by Richard Fortey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils. With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens. Ranging across multiple scientific disciplines, explicating in wonderfully clear and refreshing prose their findings and arguments--about the origins of life, the causes of species extinctions and the first appearance of man--Fortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won. Brimful of wit, fascinating personal experience and high scholarship, this book may well be our best introduction yet to the complex history of life on Earth. A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection With 32 pages of photographs

Book A Dr Johnson Chronology

Download or read book A Dr Johnson Chronology written by Norman Page and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-03-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.

Book Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self Performance

Download or read book Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self Performance written by Robert Cross and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Berkoff is a playwright, director and actor largely disregarded by theater scholars. Since the 1960s, however, this notorious Cockney enfant terrible and "scourge of the Shakespeare industry" has left an imprint on modern British theatre that has been as impossible to ignore as his in-your-face stage presence. Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, the first thorough and in-depth study of this contentious artist, examines the wide-ranging strategies adopted by Berkoff in the construction and projection of his larger-than-life public persona.

Book The Home on Gorham Street and the Voices of Its Children

Download or read book The Home on Gorham Street and the Voices of Its Children written by Howard Goldstein and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996-01-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of elders once wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940s tell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an orphanage. Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and orphaned children. Goldstein's ethnography demonstrates amply that children who spend years in an institution can go on to lead productive lives under certain conditions. Such conditions may never have been met in any other children's institution. That they did exist one time, however, is cause not only to rejoice but also to understand that recreating these conditions is difficult and possibly impossible.

Book Gordon Bunshaft and SOM

Download or read book Gordon Bunshaft and SOM written by Nicholas Adams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nuanced portrait of Gordon Bunshaft and his work for the architecture firm SOM explores his role in defining the built aesthetic of corporate America.

Book Recalling Childhood

Download or read book Recalling Childhood written by Nicholas Tarling and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book. Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, playmates, teachers, classmates, pets; their manners, training, rewards and punishments; food; play, toys; likes, dislikes; schools, kindergarten, elementary; outings, holidays, travel; notable experiences; dreams, nightmares, pleasures, fears. They were also invited to give an account of their physical surroundings, their home, and the context of everyday life, what they took for granted; and to draw attention to a past in which so much of what is now common was then absent: TV, cell-phones, ubiquitous motor cars, air travel. The question was directed to and accepted by people from a number of countries and with a range of experiences. Several are or were academics, and the introduction contains some comments on memory and points to commonalities among the remembered experiences, as well as differences. But the book is mainly for the general reader, who may want to ask: what can I remember of my childhood? - Let me try!

Book Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes

Download or read book Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes written by Tonya Huber and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry—Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction (JCI~>CI). Founding Editor Tonya Huber initiated the JCI~>CI in 1997, as a refereed journal committed to publishing educational scholarship and research of professionals in graduate study. The journal was distinguished by its requirement that the scholarship be the result of the first author’s graduate research—according to Cabell’s Directory, the first journal to do so. Equally important, the third issue of each volume targeted wide representation of cultures and world regions. “Current thinking on ...” written by members of the JCI~>CI Editorial Advisory Board explores state-of-the-art topics related to curriculum inquiry. Illustrations, photography (e.g., Sebastião Salgado’s Workers in vol. 2), collage, student-generated art/artifacts, and full-color art enhance cutting-edge methodologies extending educational research through Aboriginal and Native oral traditions, arts-based analysis, found poetry, data poetry, narrative, and case study foci on liberatory pedagogy and social justice action research.

Book Genocide  the Holocaust and Israel Palestine

Download or read book Genocide the Holocaust and Israel Palestine written by Omer Bartov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other, whilst convincingly arguing for the importance of local history and individual testimony in grasping the nature of mass murder. He goes on to critically examine how legal discourse has served to both uncover and deny individual and national complicity. Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine outlines how first-person histories provide a better understanding of events otherwise perceived as inexplicable and, lastly, draws on the author's own personal trajectory to consider links between the fate of Jews in World War II and the plight of Palestinians during and in the aftermath of the establishment of the state of Israel. Bartov demonstrates that these five perspectives, rarely if ever previously discussed in a single book, are inextricably linked, and shed much light on each other. Thus the Holocaust and other genocides must be seen as related catastrophes in the modern era; understanding such vast human tragedies necessitates scrutinizing them on the local and personal scale; this in turn calls for historical empathy, accomplished via personal-biographical introspection; and true, open-minded, and rigorous introspection, without which historical understanding tends toward obfuscation, brings to light uncomfortable yet clarifying connections, such as that between the Holocaust and the Nakba, the mass flight and expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948.

Book A Childhood of Abuse While Growing up in the Hood Revised Edition

Download or read book A Childhood of Abuse While Growing up in the Hood Revised Edition written by Liam Hope and published by Liam Hope. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Childhood of Abuse While Growing up in the Hood tells a story of a little girl and her journey into a woman. She grew up in an abusive home surrounded by a dangerous city. This book details her experiences, tribulations, and her faults. It’s a mixed collection of memories from a little girl’s early childhood to the state of her life as a young adult. Having three unhealthy parents – a father, a mother, and a stepfather – caused harm to the little girl’s life. As an imperfect person, Liam hung in there to continue her life's journey.