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Author : Norbert Herschkowitz,Elinore Chapman Herschkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0972383050
The first sensible guide to interpret the latest information on brain development in straightforward and practical ways.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0215514084
The Government has set itself the challenging target of halving the number of children living in poverty by 2010-11 and eradicating child poverty by 2020. With 2010 fast approaching, Ministers are still committed to the targets, and the Committee wanted to ascertain whether DWP has the right measures in place to meet its objectives. Significant progress has been made, but the target remains challenging: there are still 2.8 million children living in poverty and the most recent data shows a slight increase in this number. The Committee is convinced of the damaging effect of poverty on a child's self-esteem and expectations, and also its effects in contributing to social exclusion. Children growing up in poverty are also more likely to have poorer health and poorer educational outcomes. There are groups of children who have a much higher risk of growing up in poverty, for example if they or a parent are disabled, and there are higher poverty rates amongst Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black children. Getting parents into sustainable work should be the focus of the strategy to lift them and their children out of poverty, but there are concerns that the Jobseekers' Allowance regime is not sufficiently flexible to reflect the complexity of lone parents' lives. To eradicate child poverty by 2020, the Government needs a long-term strategy on benefit income for those who are unable to work. If benefits are uprated in line with inflation, the gap between the incomes of those in work and those on benefits will only get wider, as benefits will not keep pace with earnings. As poverty is measured as a percentage of median earnings, the implications for the 2020 target, in particular, are serious.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368401429
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
CHAPTER I. THAT WHICH WAS LACKING TO PIERROTIN'S HAPPINESS Railroads, in a future not far distant, must force certain industries to disappear forever, and modify several others, more especially those relating to the different modes of transportation in use around Paris. Therefore the persons and things which are the elements of this Scene will soon give to it the character of an archaeological work. Our nephews ought to be enchanted to learn the social material of an epoch which they will call the "olden time." The picturesque "coucous" which stood on the Place de la Concorde, encumbering the Cours-la-Reine,—coucous which had flourished for a century, and were still numerous in 1830, scarcely exist in 1842, unless on the occasion of some attractive suburban solemnity, like that of the Grandes Eaux of Versailles. In 1820, the various celebrated places called the "Environs of Paris" did not all possess a regular stage-coach service. Nevertheless, the Touchards, father and son, had acquired a monopoly of travel and transportation to all the populous towns within a radius of forty-five miles; and their enterprise constituted a fine establishment in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis. In spite of their long-standing rights, in spite, too, of their efforts, their capital, and all the advantages of a powerful centralization, the Touchard coaches ("messageries") found terrible competition in the coucous for all points with a circumference of fifteen or twenty miles. The passion of the Parisian for the country is such that local enterprise could successfully compete with the Lesser Stage company,—Petites Messageries, the name given to the Touchard enterprise to distinguish it from that of the Grandes Messageries of the rue Montmartre. At the time of which we write, the Touchard success was stimulating speculators. For every small locality in the neighborhood of Paris there sprang up schemes of beautiful, rapid, and
Author : Оноре де Бальзак
Publisher : Litres
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040757411
Author : Charles Dowsett
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429004961
Author : C. F. Dowsett
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4064066228873
"A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California" by C. F. Dowsett takes readers to the land of sun, California. From the currency used at the time the book was written to the price of land and the types of fruits and vegetables that can be cultivated in this territory, this book is full of useful information for aspiring farmers. Though written decades ago, the book is still surprisingly relevant to this day.
Author : Bird Thomas Baldwin,Carl Gustav Rathmann,Fletcher Bascom Dresslar,Frank Addison Manny,Lloyd L Friend,Meyer Bloomfield,Royal Bailey Farnum,Rufus Whitaker Stimson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : UIUC:30112046962905
Author : Michael Spitzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226769721
"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats the topic of metaphor in a new and extremely convincing manner."-Lydia Goehr, Columbia University The experience of music is an abstract and elusive one, enough so that we're often forced to describe it using analogies to other forms and sensations: we say that music moves or rises like a physical form; that it contains the imagery of paintings or the grammar of language. In these and countless other ways, our discussions of music take the form of metaphor, attempting to describe music's abstractions by referencing more concrete and familiar experiences. Michael Spitzer's Metaphor and Musical Thought uses this process to create a unique and insightful history of our relationship with music—the first ever book-length study of musical metaphor in any language. Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, Spitzer offers an evaluation, a comprehensive history, and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music. And as he brings these discussions to bear on specific works of music and follows them through current debates on how music's meaning might be considered, what emerges is a clear and engaging guide to both the philosophy of musical thought and the history of musical analysis, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Spitzer writes engagingly for students of philosophy and aesthetics, as well as for music theorists and historians.
Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198033165
This clear and lucid primer fills an important need by providing a comprehensive account of the many new developments in the study of metaphor over the last twenty years and their impact on our understanding of language, culture, and the mind. Beginning with Lakoff and Johnson's seminal work in Metaphors We Live By, Kövecses outlines the development of "the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor" by explaining key ideas on metaphor. He also explores primary metaphor, metaphor systems, the "invariance principle," mental-imagery experiments, the many-space blending theory, and the role of image schemas in metaphorical thought. He examines the applicability of these ideas to numerous related fields.
Author : Fran Cooper
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473641556
Step into Paris as you have never seen it before. . . SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAYES & JARVIS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 'An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris' Woman and Home 'A sensitive, necessary, brave book.' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us What building doesn't have secrets? How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbour's doors? On a hot June day, grief-stricken Edward arrives in Paris hoping that a stay in a friend's empty apartment will help him mend. But this is not the Paris he knows: there are no landmarks or grand boulevards, and the apartment he was promised is little more than an attic room. In the apartments below him, his new neighbours fill their flats with secrets. A young mother is on the brink, a bookshop owner buries her past, and a banker takes up a dark and malicious new calling. Before he knows it, Edward will find himself entangled in their web, and as the summer heat intensifies so do tensions within and without the building, leading to a city-wide wave of violence, and a reckoning within the walls of number 37. With a sultry heat to rival A Year in Provence and all the sharp perception of Leila Slimani's Lullaby, These Dividing Walls is a beautifully written and eye-opening novel about the Paris we don't see. 'It'll open your heart and mind. It certainly did mine' The Pool 'An unforgettable and unexpected portrait of Paris' Hannah Rothschild *********** What readers have said about These Dividing Walls: 'Totally engrossing - it was a magical pleasure to lose myself in these people's world each night' 'The quality of the writing in These Dividing Walls is never short of exquisite' 'This is an outstanding debut novel from an author to watch' 'A delightful glimpse into the lives of a group of people one hot and fearful summer'
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081644605
Author : Leland E. Glover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Child rearing
ISBN : LCCN:61018560
Author : Gene Brady
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595411269
This is an inspirational, profound self-improvement, life-planning book designed primarily to help our youth. In fact, it may be the most helpful self-improvement, life-planning book ever written; the health regimen could make medical history and be extremely beneficial in increasing longevity even if started late in life. Much of the book is autobiographical. The wisdom that has taken the author a lifetime to learn is available to the reader just for the taking. The strategies discussed in the book work because I have either tested them successfully in my life or had observed their use in the lives of others. Ten strategies discussed in the book, in particular, can be helpful in ensuring a successful life for you. This is an important book. Its advice on preventive medicine, particularly in the area of diet, exercise, stress management, medical examinations and on developing beneficial attitudes and habits, if followed, could greatly improve the health and quality of life of the nation's citizens. It does seem that if the advice in Mr. Brady's book is followed by everyone, young and old alike, that individuals would be happier and more productive and society as a whole would be much better off. Every parent should read this book and have their son or daughter read it too.
Author : John N. Kotre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Adulthood
ISBN : 9780684835136
A noted psychologist offers his best advice on how to make life more meaningful, including how to cultivate a desire to influence future generations and lead a more generative life.