Author : Rosalie Whyel
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780965373319
The Heart of the Tree explores the incredible history of early wooden dolls as seen through the collections of the Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art. Take a visual and historical peek at what childhood would have been like from the 1680s to the 1850s, from a time when the United States was not even the United States, to a decade before the Civil War. Featured are rare and exceptional dolls and religious figures from Europe and the New World.
Author : Dola De Jong
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558611412
A lesbian love story set during the Nazi occupation in Holland.
Author : Michael A. Eisenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1637580711
One of Israel’s most successful venture capitalists uses the words and actions of the Hebrew patriarchs to lay the foundations for a modern growth economy based on timeless business principles and values. Entrepreneurs, businessmen, and investors are constantly looking for principles and rules that will pave the way for success. Usually, those at the forefront are successful entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley or legendary Wall Street investors. But the principles of economic growth, wealth creation and preservation were written long before the rise of the modern market economy and its heroes. Michael Eisenberg—one of the most successful venture capitalists in Israel, and one of the first investors in Lemonade, and Wix—reveals in The Tree of Life and Prosperity the eternal principles for successful business, economics, and negotiation hidden in the Torah—and shows their relevance to the modern world we live in.
Author : Shel Silverstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061965103
As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!
Author : Celestine Aleck
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781771741286
Author : Peter Wohlleben
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9354920659
This book marks a powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground, where the colour green calms us and the forest sharpens our senses. In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply connected to the natural world. In an era of cell-phone addiction, climate change and urban life, many of us fear that we've lost our connection to nature. But Wohlleben is convinced that the age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Drawing on science and cutting-edge research, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans can have with nature, exploring the language of the forest, the consciousness of plants and the eroding boundary between flora and fauna. A perfect book to take with you into the woods, The Heartbeat of Trees will help you see, feel, smell, hear and even taste the forest. Peter Wohlleben, renowned for his ability to write about trees in an engaging way, reveals a wondrous cosmos where humans are a part of nature, and where conservation and environmental activism is not just about saving trees-it's about saving ourselves, too.
Author : Annette S. Woudstra
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888646321
Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings explore topics as diverse as volcanic eruptions and wild trees, African art and ritual, life in Rwanda, and turtle eggs in warm sand. "Like Annie Dillard, Annette Woudstra is a poet of observation. She carefully works experience and reflection to create sentences and scenes of exceptional clarity and grace." -Greg Hollingshead
Author : Coralie Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780141989341
Bird loves the towering tree that grows in the jungle, but when the seasons change she must say goodbye until next year. Then one day Bird wonders- what happens to the tree when she flies away? Illustrated with care and told with love, Coralie Bickford-Smith's latest fable follows Bird as she discovers the stories of the other creatures who live in the tree, finding her way to sing a new song. The Song of the Tree is a celebration of community, belonging and the natural world. It is a timeless tale, one that will be enjoyed by readers of animal stories, of all ages, for years to come.
Author : Liz Cavanaugh
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781662901270
This book is about how we grow when we go through hard times in our life big or small. The hard times just make us stronger. This book is about how we grow when we go through hard times in our life big or small. The hard times just make us stronger.
Author : Marcie Chambers Cuff
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0399165851
At no time in human history have we been more disconnected with what lies outside our front doors. Within just a century, our relationship with our surroundings has transformed from one of exploration to one of disassociation. In This Book Was a Tree, science teacher Marcie Cuff issues a call for a new era of pioneers—not leathery, backwoods deerskin-wearing salt pork and hominy pioneers, but strong-minded, clever, crafty, mudpie-making, fort-building individuals committed to examining the natural world and deciphering nature’s perplexing puzzles. Within each chapter, readers will discover a principle for reconnecting with the natural world around them, from learning to be still to discovering the importance of giving back. With a mix of science and hands-on crafts and activities, readers will be encouraged to brainstorm, imagine, and understand the world as inventive scientists—to touch, collect, document, sketch, decode, analyze, experiment, unravel, interpret, compare, and reflect.
