Download or read book From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot--they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to him--is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?

Download or read book Wartime Notebooks written by Andrzej Bobkowski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation--in a daringly untragic mode--of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement--miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike--and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.

Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Download or read book Great FE Teaching written by Samantha Jones and published by Sage Publications UK. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional learning and development by FE teachers, for FE teachers. Celebrating great teaching and learning across the UK′s most diverse education sector. This new title invites you into the minds and classrooms of FE teachers and encourages you to ′think side by side′ with them. *Brings together experienced teachers to profile their practice and share learning *Offers a unique view into classrooms and into the practice of experienced teachers *Enables readers to observe and reflect on the work of fellow professionals *Opens up the discussion of what makes great FE teaching *Profiles and highlights the great work and great teachers in FE

Download or read book The Secret of Our Success written by Joseph Henrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

Download or read book Notebooks on Transmutation of Species written by Charles Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Writing Across Culture written by Kenneth Wagner and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about culture shock and the writing process. For a student, the relationship between writing and the challenge of living in a foreign culture may not be obvious. The purpose of Writing Across Culture is to aid the student in documenting and analyzing the connection. If culture can be broadly defined as the unwritten rules of every-day life, one effective method for learning these rules is to write about them as they are discovered. In this way, it is possible to see writing as a tool for cultural inquiry and comprehension, and, hence, an antidote for culture shock. Writing Across Culture encourages its readers to become writers engaged in a dialogue - between the individual and the new society - about everyday cultural differences.

Download or read book The Memory of You written by Samantha Tonge and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gorgeous, gorgeous book, full of love, written from the heart. I adored every page!' Bestselling author, Judy Leigh Alex would like to believe she’s a woman who has it all. Or that’s what she tells everyone, including herself. But this is far from true. Actually she’s on the cusp of losing her home, her dream career as a writer is in tatters, her ex won’t speak to her, and her mother’s gone forever. But then a chance meeting with a stranger named Hope gives her the opportunity of a lifetime, when Hope jokes that perhaps Alex should take over her job in a café while she goes travelling. Just at that moment, it sounds like the answer to all her problems. So Alex persuades Hope to let her step into her shoes for a month. She brushes away Hope’s attempts to explain about the café, instead demanding to know more about the owner Tom. But she should have asked for more details. Because the ‘Wrong Order Café’ isn’t like anywhere she’s ever been before. And Alex’s life is about to change forever... A gorgeously uplifting story about memories, storytelling, love and friendship, about the journeys we take and the people we meet, what we remember and how there are some things we can never forget. Readers love The Memory of You: ‘Perfection – heart-breaking, heart-warming, witty and comforting... A glorious recipe that makes the reader want to move into this cafe and never leave. I absolutely adored it.’ Celia Anderson, bestselling author of 59 Memory Lane ‘Samantha Tonge has done it again! An emotional and enlightening story packed with empathy and heart.’ Zoe Folbigg, bestselling author of The Note ‘Oh, this book! A beautiful and truly unforgettable read.’ Helen Prior, bestselling author of Away With the Penguins ‘I loved this heartwarming book... Great characters... Moments to make you smile, raise a lump in your throat and touches of humour... Wonderful.’ Caroline Roberts, bestselling author of The Cosy Teashop series ‘Wonderful... the author’s emotional touch is quite perfect... A book entirely filled with kindness and love that can’t fail to touch the heart... I adored every moment. One of my books of the year.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I’m not sure any words I choose will be eloquent enough to sum up this very special book.... It’s honest, raw, poignant and heart-breaking. It is also warm-hearted, positive, uplifting, funny and full of love and hope... Clearly written straight from the heart.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A hug in a book... A truly stunning read and deserved every one of the 5 stars in spades. Loved it doesn’t cover it.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This story is beautiful, uplifting, emotional, thought-provoking and thoroughly disarming... brave, funny, beautiful... life affirming.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Had me in tears of laughter and tears of heartbreak... Beautiful.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Download or read book Rachel Barrowovski written by Angela Anwyl and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new girl joins class 3 of Hilltop School in the fells of Cumbria. She seems to be too good to be true, but is she all she seems? The story takes us on a class journey of getting to know the new girl and gradually valuing her differences. Friendships develop, and the new girl reveals secrets. As her life takes a dramatic turn, the girl finally finds security and happiness.

Download or read book A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers written by S. P. Areham and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thirty-six years as book-editor in New York, Robin retires and moves back to her girlhood home in Oberlin, Ohio. She takes with her copies of items she had kept in a special file. The items had come not from literary agents but directly from writers, reflecting their quirky, original, creative, passionate, ironic, even bizarre voices. All the items enlighten and entertain. A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers is Robin’s story as she reproduces the comic items and nominates them for induction into America’s first (and only) hall of fame for unknown writers, where the motto reads: “We’re in Kansas forevermore.” “For thirty-six years, I was an editor at a family-owned (now part of a bulky conglomerate) book-publishing house in New York. In retirement, I thought it might be enjoyable to write not the Great American Novel (my authors are trying to do that) but the Fun American Novel. Over the years, I had accumulated all sorts of material that I could weave into the novel: material that came to me directly from the country’s most unforgettable unknown writers and professors.” –Robin

Download or read book South and West written by Joan Didion and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. “Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. “California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.

Download or read book The Complete Rebus Collection written by Ian Rankin and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 5288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Scotland's greatest modern detective. '[Rebus is] the most compelling mind in modern crime fiction' Independent Contains: KNOTS AND CROSSES, HIDE AND SEEK, TOOTH AND NAIL, A GOOD HANGING, STRIP JACK, THE BLACK BOOK, MORTAL CAUSES, LET IT BLEED, BLACK AND BLUE, THE HANGING GARDEN, DEAD SOULS, SET IN DARKNESS, THE FALLS, RESURRECTION MEN, A QUESTION OF BLOOD, FLESHMARKET CLOSE, THE NAMING OF THE DEAD, EXIT MUSIC.

Download or read book Charles Darwin written by E. Janet Browne and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of Charles Darwin from his birth in 1809 through his mid-life, discussing his childhood in England, early schooling, first discoveries, personal challenges, voyage on the Beagle, and the early foundations of his "Origin of Species."

Download or read book From Calabrian Roots To Silicon Fruits written by Matteo Fanelli and published by Matteo Fanelli. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Calabrian Roots to Silicon Fruits" is an inspiring memoir that beautifully encapsulates the journey from the traditional heartlands of Calabria to the innovative forefront of Silicon Valley. The book vividly details Calabrian culture and traditions, painting a rich puzzle of life in Southern Italy that profoundly shapes the author. This narrative delves deep into the significance of family, community, and the rustic charms of Calabrian life, showcasing how these elements forge the author's character and worldview. As readers traverse through the pages, they experience the intricate blend of heritage and ambition, witnessing the author's transformation from a life deeply rooted in Calabrian customs to embracing the dynamic world of technology. This story connects two contrasting worlds, highlighting the power of one's origins in shaping their future. "From Calabrian Roots to Silicon Fruits" invites readers to explore the depths of cultural identity and the impact it has on charting one's course in life.

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book When Death Comes As A Friend written by Monsignor Ed Litot and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Death Comes As A Friend is about a case involving salvific suffering with overtones of the paranormal. Or was it the mystical? Included are 40 pages of notes by Jean as she records her last months before dying with the pain of metastatic cancer.