Author : Edith Tarbescu
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395643662
The Sabbath candlesticks given to them by their grandmother when they leave Russia help two sisters make it safely to join their father in New York.
Author : To'Po
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1503557022
The name ToPo comes from the words to polite. You can never be too polite. To be nice is enjoyable, pleasant, appealing, and attractive. We should always be courteous and polite. This will offer you skillful advantages in life. ToPos philosophy and teachingthe desire to address the core of human issues from aptitude, and many are in today. We seldom take the time to smell the flowers, let alone to understand how they grow. In the following chapters, I have offered thoughts, coupled with brief explanations where necessary for those whose time is limited. I have endeavored to use laymens terms in order to offer simplified illustrations. To the readers, learn to utilize that in which you find meaning and discard the rest as all arent for everyone, but everyone will find one.
Author : Johan Splinter Stavorinus
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1708
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
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Author : David W. Swift
Publisher : AIAA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781563472527
Foreword by Norman R. Augustine In 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 journeyed to the outer planets, gathering information about Jupiter and Saturn, sending scientists on Earth their first close-up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, and collecting a series of images of the sun and its planets. Twenty years later, Voyager Tales presents a collection of interviews from a cross section of the professionals involved in all aspects of the mission. Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour provides insights into the development of a major research project from the personal perspectives of the people who helped design, build, and fly the two spacecraft. Readers will use this book as a case study of a project that not only was highly successful, operating on time and on budget, but far surpassed its initial goals.
Author : Julia Kuehn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134663137
Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction? This volume links fictional, non-fictional and pictorial representations of a colonial otherness with the late nineteenth-century artistic concerns about representational conventions and possibilities. The author explores these texts and images through the postcolonial framework of ‘exoticism’, arguing that the epistemological dilemma of a ‘self’ encountering an ‘other’ results in the interrelated predicament to find poetic modalities – mimetic, realistic and documentary on the one hand; romantic, fantastic and picturesque on the other – that befit an ‘exotic’ representation. Thus women writers did not only participate in the making of colonial fictions but also in the late nineteenth-century artistic debate about the nature of fiction. This book maps the epistemological concerns of exoticism and of difference – self and other, home and away, familiarity and strangeness – onto the representational modes of realism and romance. The author focuses exclusively on female novelists, travel writers and painters of the turn-of-the-century exotic, and especially on neglected authors of academically under-researched genres such as the bestselling novel and the travelogue.
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Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1783
Category : English literature
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Luise Margolies
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781592132386
Some 400,000 hip fractures occur every year, the vast majority among the elderly; all too often these fractures are associated with death or severe disability. After her mother's double hip fracture, Luisa Margolies immersed herself in identifying and coordinating the services and professionals needed to provide critical care for an elderly person. She soon realized that the American medical system is ill prepared to deal with the long-term care needs of our graying society. The heart of My Mother's Hip is taken up with the author's day-to-day observations as her mother's condition worsened, then improved only to worsen again, while her father became increasingly anxious and disoriented. As both a devoted daughter and a skilled anthropologist, Margolies vividly renders her interactions with physicians, nurses, hospital workers, nursing home administrators, the Medicare bureaucracy, home care providers, and her parents. In the Lessons chapter that follows each episode, she discusses in a broader context the weighty decisions that adult children must make on their parents' behalf and the emotional toll their responsibility takes. Here she addresses the complex practical issues that commonly arise in such situations: understanding the consequences of hip fracture and its treatment, preparing health care proxies and advanced directives, enabling elders to remain at home, and the heartbreaking dilemma of prolonging life. Like many adult children, Margolies learned her lessons about eldercare in the midst of crises. This book is intended to ease the information-gathering and decision-making processes for others involved in eldercare.
Author : Marina Endicott
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780735276680
A major new novel by the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows, about two sisters who live aboard a merchant ship on a fateful voyage through the South Pacific. "Up from underneath comes a blue-black swell, a whale rising in a long arc. Kay waits, hovering in the difference between herself and the creature." What is the difference between ourselves and other humans? Between human and animal? Where does that difference persist in our minds? These are the questions Marina Endicott, one of our most beloved storytellers, explores in this sweeping, intoxicating novel set on the Morning Light, a ship from Nova Scotia sailing the South Pacific in 1912. Thea and Kay are half-sisters, separated in age by more than a decade. After the death of their stern father, head of a residential school in western Canada, the elder sister, Thea, returns east for her long-awaited marriage to the captain of the ship. She cannot abandon her younger sister, so Kay joins her, and together they embark on a life-changing voyage around the world. At the heart of The Difference is one crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea forms a bond with a young boy from one of the islands, and takes him as her own. The repercussions of this act reverberate through the novel--forcing Kay to examine her own assumptions about what is forgivable, and what is right. Taking inspiration from the true story of a small boy who was brought on board a Canadian sailing ship in the South Seas, Marina Endicott shows us a vanished world in all its wildness and wonder, and its darkness, prejudice, and difficulty too. She also brilliantly illuminates our own times through Kay's preoccupation with the idea of "difference"--between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs, and species. A breathtaking tour-de-force by one of our most celebrated authors, a writer with the astonishing ability to bring a past world to vivid life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.
Author : Thomas A. Markus
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architectural writing
ISBN : 0415143462
Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate and response.
