Author : Marilyn Kaye
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0753462834
Queen at middle school, looks in mirror and sees different face staring back, life in someone else shoes.
Author : Paula Prober
Publisher : Editeurs divers USA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780692713105
Do you long to drive a Ferrari at top speed on the open road, but find yourself always stuck on the freeway during rush hour? Do you wonder how you can feel like "not enough" and "too much" at the same time? Like the rain forest, are you sometimes intense, multilayered, colorful, creative, overwhelming, highly sensitive, complex, and/or idealistic? And, like the rain forest, have you met too many chainsaws?Enter Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed., who understands the diversity and complexity of minds like yours. In "Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Youths and Adults," Paula explores the challenges faced by gifted adults of all ages. Through case studies and extensive research, Paula will help you tap into your inner creativity, find peace, and discover the limitless potential that comes with your Rainforest Mind.
Author : Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583220764
More than 75 essays—many freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen, the only implement he is allowed in his death-row cell—embody the calm and powerful words of humanity spoken by a man on Death Row. Abu-Jamal writes on many different topics, including the ironies that abound within the U.S. prison system and the consequences of those ironies, and his own case. Mumia's composure, humor, and connection to the living world around him represents an irrefutable victory over the "corrections" system that has for two decades sought to isolate and silence him. The title, All Things Censored, refers to Mumia's hiring as an on-air columnist by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and subsequent banning from that venue under pressure from law and order groups.
Author : Nancy Garden
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2007
Category : YOUNG ADULT FICTION
ISBN : 9781439585818
Liza begins to doubt her feelings for Annie after someone finds out about their relationship, and realizes, after starting college, that her denial of love for Annie was a mistake. Reprint.
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307402193
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication--even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms. At a higher level, hallucinations associated with the altered states of consciousness that may come with sensory deprivation or certain brain disorders can lead to religious epiphanies or conversions. Drawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
Author : Kenneth Ring
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2008-03-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780595878246
This book investigates the astonishing claim that blind persons, including those blind from birth, can actually "see" during near-death or out-of-body episodes. The authors present their findings in scrupulous detail, investigating case histories of blind persons who have actually reported visual experiences under these conditions. There is fascinating evidence that the blind do "see" in these moments, but it is not sight as we think of it. Ring and Cooper suggest a kind of "transcendental awareness" they refer to as Mindsight. It involves seeing in detail, sometimes from all angles at once, with everything in focus, and a sense of "knowing" the subject, not just visually, but with multisensory knowledge. Human beings may be more talented than we think, gifted with amazing abilities of perception. This book is an opportunity to assess the evidence for yourself.
Author : Marilyn Kaye
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0753463008
Nine teenagers. nine secrets. an ordinary middle school with a few extraordinary exceptions.
Author : Marilyn Kaye
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 075341953X
Convinced that the medium hosting a seance is authentic, Ken wants nothing more than to reveal his secret to her, but his gifted classmates of Meadowbrook must stop him before Ken ends up in terrible danger.
Author : Sanna Lehtonen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476601933
This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length. Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.
Author : Sallie Rochester Ford
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 1884
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