A Closed Eye

Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307826275

Get Book

A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner Pdf

In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.

Author : Teresa Hill
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610481069

Get Book

Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep by Teresa Hill Pdf

Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap examines the origins and perpetuation of the achievement gap from the perspective of the African American community. Instead of accepting the achievement gap as an inevitable matter of fact, Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep questions the fundamental beliefs that perpetuate the gap. Drawing on dialogue with African American community members, Teresa Hill advances a framework for understanding a predominant African American view of the educational process. She then juxtaposes this framework with the norms perpetrated by the educational establishment to demonstrate how disagreements about the roles and responsibilities of parents, teachers and students affect community members' experiences in schools. Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep opens a dialogue about the achievement gap on different terms, analyzes the gap as an issue of social justice, and provides educational leaders and policymakers with ways to engage in the productive dialogue necessary to improve education for African American children.

Author : MaRita Teague
Publisher : Urban Christian
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622864379

Get Book

Every Closed Eye Ain't 'Sleep by MaRita Teague Pdf

Having lost her one true love, the mature but stunning Isabella marries the starchy but well-respected pediatrician Langley Morrison, hoping he will care for her and her young daughter, Desiree. For years, things look perfect from the outside for the Morrison women, but cracks in the surface appear when Desiree, now a thirty-something, single but sassy professional, holds secrets that affect her relationships with her parents and with men. Armed with the dismal marriage prospect statistics for African American women, Desiree decides that she needs to help God out by embarking upon a dangerous online dating escapade. Isabella wonders if her faith can withstand her own broken marriage, revelations from her daughter, and a devastating diagnosis. Desiree questions if God really will give her the desires of her heart. Through it all, the mother and daughter journey to find the strength to push beyond the pain of the past, into an uncertain future with an all-knowing God.

Author : Tamika Marie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798722508003

Get Book

A CLOSED Eye by Tamika Marie Pdf

Many of us have gone through trials in our life where we have allowed others to take our self-worth. We gave others power over how we think, live, and operate on a daily basis. We became blind to our own self worth. Forgetting that we are worth everything life has to offer us. God is our father and he wants the best for us. -Love, Relationships, Faith, Abuse

Author : Michele Weldon
Publisher : Fastpencil Incorporated
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 160746599X

Get Book

I Closed My Eyes by Michele Weldon Pdf

Award-winning journalist and author Michele Weldon offers a distinctly honest and articulate portrayal of the domestic violence she experienced in a nine-year marriage to a man many considered to be the perfect husband. As an assistant professor of journalism at the Medill School, Northwestern University since 1996, public speaker, journalist for magazines and newspapers and seminar leader for The OpEd Project, Weldon defies the mythology about abuse victims. She conveys a poignant portrayal of a woman caught in abuse and her victorious escape to raise her three children alone. Working to understand and explain why and how this would happen, she offers hope to all women with similar stories, modeling the courage to break free, move forward and live a joyful life full of love.

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307594556

Get Book

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks Pdf

In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.

Author : Tamika Marie
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798360840688

Get Book

A Closed Eye by Tamika Marie Pdf

Love will take you to places of no return. It will cause you to make decisions while not in a state of clarity. Pheobe saw her love change right before her eyes. She never thought of the " what if's". She just lived with no regret. Those 'what if's" are essential when it comes to spending the rest of your life with someone or in a particular situation. Relationships are to be built on mutual respect regardless of differences. Even when no one understands you. Even when you are all alone, God is with you!

Author : Paul E. Illman
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780071638760

Get Book

The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook by Paul E. Illman Pdf

Featuring the newest VFR -- as well as IFR -- regulations and procedures, this new edition includes the most current information needed to become proficient in the area of radio communications.

Author : Shane Peacock
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780887769191

Get Book

Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock Pdf

Sherlock Holmes, just thirteen, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family, his father a poor Jew. Their marriage flouts tradition and makes them social pariahs in the London of the 1860s; and their son, Sherlock, bears the burden of their rebellion. Friendless, bullied at school, he belongs nowhere and has only his wits to help him make his way. But what wits they are! His keen powers of observation are already apparent, though he is still a boy. He loves to amuse himself by constructing histories from the smallest detail for everyone he meets. Partly for fun, he focuses his attention on a sensational murder to see if he can solve it. But his game turns deadly serious when he finds himself the accused — and in London, they hang boys of thirteen. Shane Peacock has created a boy who bears all the seeds of the character who has mesmerized millions: the relentless eye, the sense of justice, and the complex ego. The boy Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating character who is sure to become a fast favorite with young readers everywhere.

Author : Paula Mckethan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539985407

Get Book

Open Eye Closed Eye by Paula Mckethan Pdf

This book was written to open the eyes of many who have closed their eyes to the truth and based on the many observations that have caught my eye. Blinding ignorance misleads us. "O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" --Leonardo da Vinci "President Obama and I share your optimism" -Michelle Obama

Author : Nithyananda Paramahamsa
Publisher : eNPublishers
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606071298

Get Book

Inner Awakening by Nithyananda Paramahamsa Pdf

Author : Dushko Petrovich,Roger White,Paper Monument (Organization)
Publisher : Zebra Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0979757541

Get Book

Draw it with Your Eyes Closed by Dushko Petrovich,Roger White,Paper Monument (Organization) Pdf

"Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors including: John Baldessari, William Pope. L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Practical and quixotic in equal parts, the art assignment can resemble a riddle as much as a recipe, and often sounds more like a haiku, or even a joke, than a clear directive. From introductory exercises in perspective drawing to graduate-level experiments in societal transformation, the assignment coalesces ideas about what art is, how it should be taught, and what larger purpose it might, or might not, serve. The book is a written record of an evolving oral tradition. Bringing together hundreds of assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, Draw It with Your Eyes Closed serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute."--Amazon.

Author : William M. Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UCSD:31822038127528

Get Book

The Unseen Eye by William M. Hunt Pdf

"... collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: in each image, the gaze of the subject is averted, the face obscured or the eyes firmly closed. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals. Amassed over the course of thirty years by New York collector W. M. Hunt, the collection includes works by masters such as Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Imogen Cunningham, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Robert Frank as well as lesser-known artists and vernacular images." --book jacket.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797964

Get Book

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Pdf

A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman—but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.

Author : Isobel English
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574231995

Get Book

Every Eye by Isobel English Pdf

A brief, elegant, rediscovered novel of the Fifties, much in the vein of the author's mentor Muriel Spark, about an Englishwoman who misunderstands her and her family's past."