Book Description
Carol Lavin Bernick's book about lessons learned in her life.
Author : Carol Lavin Bernick
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2018-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780692974926
Carol Lavin Bernick's book about lessons learned in her life.
Author : Priya Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1594634939
"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.
Author : Jennie Melamed
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316463671
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Author : Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807565393
Fall is here, with all its wonderful visual delights—not just colors, but shapes! This clever concept book follows a family on a trip to a pumpkin patch and invites children to pick out shapes from the seasonal scenery—apple bushel circles, square hay bales, diamond kites in the autumn sky! Felicia Sanzari Chernesky’s sweet verses are perfectly complemented by Susan Swan’s gorgeous collage-inspired art.
Author : Stella Blackstone
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1782859497
Meet the rest of Bear's family and learn about all of their busy activities. Smell, touch, taste and sound are all familiarized in this rhyming text, and there is a full spread family tree at the end.
Author : Wendy Pfeffer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399538674
The fall equinox signals the time of year when we gather our harvests and give thanks for their bounty. With accessible, lyrical prose and vibrant illustrations, this nonfiction picture book explains the science behind autumn and the social history of harvest-time celebrations. We Gather Together presents a remarkable range of cultural traditions throughout the ages and the world, many of which have influenced our contemporary Thanksgiving holiday. Simple science activities, ideas for celebrating in school and at home, and a further reading list are included in the back of the book.
Author : Barbara Smucker
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 9780143168591
Grade level: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s.
Author : Karuna Ezara Parikh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9354890954
Where Stories Gather, Karuna Ezara Parikh's first volume of poetry, presents a curation of her most popular work alongside new material where she delves into a deeply personal realm, asking and answering questions of identity, memory, womanhood, and the heart. Her poem Pray for the World, published on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in 2015, echoed around a bruised, grieving world, speaking directly to those bewildered and outraged by the moral contradictions of international politics. Again and again since then, Karuna's subtle commentary has garnered wide readership. The collection marks her as a poet of the fragile human condition, with poetry that is urgent and lyrical, intimate and fiery, empathetic and hopeful.
Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780349017105
Author : Roger Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1477119590
Modern technology bids us go forward, as it rightly should. The call of God, conversely, is and ever will be a call to return. In spirituals, the true is the tried and proven. God calls us to the old paths; he calls us back to himself. Modern man will find healing, for his many ills, in no other way. In this critical hour of history the call has never been more urgent. The downward spiral will not reverse if we continue to ignore God's clarion call. "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Isa 1:18-20 Roger Kirkpatrick