Download or read book Everyday Journeys of Ordinary Things written by Stella Gurney and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visually arresting, informative and accessible, this is the book for every child who ever wondered, 'How?'

Download or read book The Everyday Workings of Machines written by Steve Martin and published by Ivy Kids. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of fascinating information and colorful graphics the pages reveal the science behind how many of today's machines work.

Download or read book Making a Book written by Wendy Hinote Lanier and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title gives readers a close-up look at how books are made. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, infographics, and a “That’s Amazing!” special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of the publishing and printing process.

Download or read book Everyday Life written by Joseph A. Amato and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the stories we tell are about great feats, dangerous journeys, or daring confrontations—exceptional moments in our existence. But what about how we live every single day? In Everyday Life, Joseph A. Amato offers an account of daily existence that reminds us how important the quotidian is. Ranging across social, economic, and cultural history—as well as anthropology, folklore, and technology—he explores how and why the pattern of our lives has changed and developed over time. Amato examines the common facts and occurrences in lives from all spheres, whether of a pauper or a noble, a criminal or state official, or a lunatic or a philosopher. Such facts include basic aspects of human existence, such as play, work, conflict, and healing, as well the logistics of survival, such as housing, clothing, cleaning, cooking, animals, plants, and machines. Tracing core historical developments like efficiency of production and greater mobility, Amato shows how we became modern in everyday ways. He explores how, paradoxically, commerce, technology, design, industrialization, nationalism, and democratization—which have so undercut traditional culture and have homogenized, centralized, and secularized masses of people—have also profoundly transformed daily life, affording citizens with materially improved lives, individual rights, and productive and rewarding expectations. A wide-ranging account of lives throughout history, this book gives us new insights into our own condition, showing us how extraordinary the ordinary can be.

Download or read book Gut Garden written by Katie Brosnan and published by Cicada Books. This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual exploration of the universe that exists within our own bodies. Within our bodies hides an entire world of organisms called microbes. They boost our immune systems, digest our food, regulate our metabolism and even impact on our mental health. Through Katie Brosnan’s personable illustrations, we follow the digestive process from the moment the food enters our mouths to the moment waste leaves our bodies. Along the way we learn about this fascinating scientific frontier and gain an insight into the vast ecosystem that exists inside us.

Download or read book Journeys Through Hell written by Dennis J. Stouffer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on detailed interviews with twenty adult burn survivors, Journeys Through Hell examines self, identity and social reality. Stouffer integrates theoretical perspectives with the survivors' own words to show how trauma affects the survivor's worldview, how support and acceptance are achieved, and how such an achievement is embedded within a social process involving not only the survivor but also doctors, nurses, therapists, friends and family members.

Download or read book Cats React to Science Facts written by Izzi Howell and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let ́s face it: Like every topic, science becomes more interesting when cats are involved! Every spread of this book introduces a STEM topic related to physical science, biology, astronomy or the human body, and a furry cat uses a scale to determine if the fact is Wow! or No Way! or OMG! Or Gross! Or Mind-Blowing! Packed with key science topics, hilarious jokes, puns and cats, and building on the popularity of online cat videos ... kids will find this book is just purr-fect!

Download or read book Glass Paper Beans written by Leah Hager Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As technology makes certain kinds of information more accessible, other connections are irrevocably lost. Here Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic & semantic journey from her table to their various points of origin. She provides intimate portraits of three workers -- Ruth Lamp, a nightshift supervisor at the Anchor Hocking glass factory in Ohio; Brent Boyd, a 3rd-generation lumberjack from Canada; & Basilion Salinas, a man who tends the coffee trees at Pluma Hidalgo, Mexico. Cohen braids the lives of these three unforgettable workers as she traces the origins, myths, & manufacture of glass, paper, & the beloved coffee bean.

Download or read book Experiencing God in Everyday Ordinary Things written by and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ordinary Lives written by Ben Highmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of inorganic ‘stuff’ in our daily lives. Distracted television watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, William James and David Hume and combines them with autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life. Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask ‘what does everyday life mean?’ this book asks ‘what does everyday life feel like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences interconnect and intersect?’ Ordinary Lives is an accessible, animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students and researchers working in cultural studies, media and communication and sociology.

Download or read book The Electricity of Every Living Thing written by Katherine May and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Wintering writes a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace with our own unquiet minds . . . In anticipation of her 38th birthday, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted time alone, in nature, to understand why she had stopped coping with everyday life; why motherhood had been so overwhelming and isolating; and why the world felt full of expectations she couldn't meet. She was also reeling from a chance encounter with a voice on the radio that sparked her realisation that she might be autistic. And so begins a trek along the ruggedly beautiful but difficult path by the sea that takes readers through the alternatingly frustrating, funny, and enlightening experience of re-awakening to the world around us… The Electricity of Every Living Thing sees Katherine come to terms with that diagnosis leading her to re-evaluate her life so far — with a much kinder, more forgiving eye. We bear witness to a new understanding that finally allows her to be different rather than simply awkward, arrogant or unfeeling. The physical and psychological journeys of this joyous and inspiring book become inextricably entwined, and as Katherine finds her way across the untameable coast, we learn alongside her how to find our way back to our own true selves.

Download or read book Emmy in the Key of Code written by Aimee Lucido and published by Versify. This book was released on 2019 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.

Download or read book Endless Horizons written by Brent Asay and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endless Horizons: Journeys within a Journey by author Brent Asay is a poetry universe of various themes, dimensions, and flows. Unique, imaginative, and thought-provoking, it much reflects his pilgrimage through life and that of others, drawing on his observations of life, people and places and on his own life experiences. Asay's poetry gives rich meaning to the common, everyday experience, drawing out the extraordinary from the ordinary. It is compelling, refreshing, and personal yet at same time, universal. The hardships, sorrows, and struggles of life contrast with light, triumph, beauty, joy, love, and celebrations of life. Endless Horizons offers a worthwhile, meaningful, and enjoyable read.

Download or read book Creative Writer s Handbook written by Philip K. Jason and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the perfect reference for beginning creative writers. It offers abundant illustrations, exercises, and useful techniques in all genres. While emphasizing problem-solving and the mastery of literary conventions, this handbook also takes the apprentice writer on a journey from inspiration to revision.Explores the work of ¿classic¿ modern as well as active contemporary writers through examples of effective stories, essays, poems and plays. An extensive look at fundamental creative writing issues includes attitudes, habits, journal-keeping, point of view, language, invention and research, and more.Appropriate for apprentice creative writers.

Download or read book The Enchanted Life written by Sharon Blackie and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of natural wonders, practical guidance and life-changing empowerment, by the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller If Women Rose Rooted. 'To live an enchanted life is to pick up the pieces of our bruised and battered psyches, and to offer them the nourishment they long for. It is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary. Above all, to live an enchanted life is to fall in love with the world all over again.' The enchanted life has nothing to do with escapism or magical thinking: it is founded on a vivid sense of belonging to a rich and many-layered world. It is creative, intuitive, imaginative. It thrives on work that has heart and meaning. It loves wild things, but returns to an enchanted home and garden. It respects the instinctive knowledge, ethical living and playfulness, and relishes story and art. Taking the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales and folk culture, this book offers a set of practical and grounded tools for reclaiming enchantment in our lives, giving us a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world.

Download or read book Further Journeys with a Shaman Warrior written by Gini Graham Scott Ph. D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FURTHER JOURNEYS WITH A SHAMAN WARRIOR is a continuation of my experiences in studying with a shaman, first described in SHAMAN WARRIOR and SECRETS OF THE SHAMAN. After the last book ended with my traveling through a gateway into another reality, this book describes how I worked on moving to the next level by learning how to work more with the energies of this other world. It describes an intense program of work, which some people took months to learn, since I experienced this training in an extreme immersion - in a little over a week. The chapters in the book include these: BODY / MIND / SPIRIT U.S. $18.95 - Moving on - Learning about the psychic circuit - Learning about the ghosts of the city - A field trip to work with energy techniques - Exploring the energy at a shopping mall - Learning about familiars - Meeting my own familiar - Learning to work with familiars - Learning to work with mirrors and familiars - Traveling with the familiar - Thinking about the future - Learning about the elemental kings and queens - Learning about the vision quest

Download or read book Lent in Plain Sight written by Jill J. Duffield and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is often at work through the ordinary: ordinary people, ordinary objects, ordinary grace. Through the ordinary, God communicates epiphanies, salvation, revelation, and reconciliation. It is through the mundane that we hear Gods quiet voice. In this devotion for the season of Lent, Jill J. Duffield draws readers attention to ten ordinary objects that Jesus would have encountered on his way to Jerusalem: dust, bread, the cross, coins, shoes, oil, coats, towels, thorns, and stones. In each object, readers will find meaning in the biblical account of Jesus final days. Each week, readers encounter a new object to consider through Scripture, prayer, and reflection. From Ash Wednesday to Easter, Lent in Plain Sight reminds Christians to open ourselves to the kingdom of God.