Desirable

Author : Taslim Burkowicz
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773632421

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The Desirable Sister by Taslim Burkowicz Pdf

Gia and Serena Pirji are sisters, but as the first-generation born in Canada to immigrant parents, their lives play out in different ways because of their skin tone. Gia’s fair skin grants her membership to cliques of white kids as a teen, while Serena’s dark skin means she is labelled as Indian and treated as inferior. This superficial difference, imposed by a society obsessed with skin colour and hierarchy, sets the sisters into a dynamic that plays out throughout their lives. In a world where white skin is preferable, the sisters are pitted against each other through acts of revenge and competition as they experience adultery, ruined friendships, domestic abuse, infertility and motherhood. Taslim Burkowicz’s vivid, sensory-rich writing style brings readers to the party scene in Goa, suburban supermarkets in Vancouver and a safari in Africa, where Gia and Serena navigate through the highs and lows of a tumultuous, loving relationship. The Desirable Sister reveals the bitter games of treachery women are forced to play to achieve the ranks of beauty and success, and ultimately shows the strength of love between sisters.

Author : Carina Ascherl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783658391935

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Exploring Desirable Futures for L1 Education and Teachers’ Literacies in a Digital Age by Carina Ascherl Pdf

Rapidly evolving digital technologies are reciprocally linked to the way people think, learn, generate knowledge, create, communicate, and collaborate in the digital age. These media-communicative and related sociocultural changes must be acknowledged in the educational context. The aim of the present study is, from a transnational perspective, to investigate experts’ anticipated L1 education futures in 2030 and teachers’ literacies deemed necessary in this context. The research aims are addressed through an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design reflected in the application of a three-round modified Delphi study. The panel is drawn from individuals who are considered experts at the intersection of (L1) education and digitalisation and are selected on their theoretical or applied expertise and their interest in the issue under investigation. It becomes clear that the experts emphasised the need for transformations regarding traditional structures, practices, and processes of teaching and learning by 2030, specifically given contemporary practices and forms of learning, thinking, and working in the digital age.

Author : National Land-Use Planning Committee (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : WISC:89047222674

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The Problems of "submarginal" Areas, and Desirable Adjustments with Particular Reference to Public Acquisition of Land by National Land-Use Planning Committee (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Frank Cottrell Boyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1781120137

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Desirable by Frank Cottrell Boyce Pdf

George is a self-confessed social reject who spends more time with his Warhammer figures than actual people-but when he's given a bottle of aftershave called Desirable, women can't resist him! How will he cope with his new-found popularity? And what will happen when the magic wears off?

Author : Jackie Marsh,Elaine Hallet
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473903739

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Desirable Literacies by Jackie Marsh,Elaine Hallet Pdf

What are the ways in which young children learn to communicate? Collating their extensive experience of language and literacy in the early years, the contributors explore key aspects of this topic, linking practical ideas for early years settings and classrooms to relevant theory and research. This second edition is updated to take into account important developments in research, policy and practice, and now covers the 0-8 age range. It also addresses developments in new media and the impact this has upon literacy in young children, and offers chapters on new areas which have emerged in recent years, such as multimodality, media literacy, creative arts and literacy. Explored in the book are: - the relationship between play and literacy; - the role environmental print has in early literacy development; - the language and literacy development of young bilinguals; - ideas, suggestions and justifications for the use of poetry; - a two-year research project, funded by Creative Partnerships; and - key issues relating to family literacy.

Author : Arijita Debnath
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462825059

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Desirable by Arijita Debnath Pdf

Desirable shows an endless horizon of love, respect to elders and divinity of sooth afire. Desirable shows how a lover falls in love with someone so passionately and deeply, how a lover could cross every boundary to see a glimpse of smile from his desirable one.

Author : Madeleine Wickham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446423905

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A Desirable Residence by Madeleine Wickham Pdf

Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house.Here they are, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then it seems Marcus Witherstone will solve all their problems. He knows the perfect tenants from London who will rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything is going to be OK. Or is it? As Marcus starts to become involved with Liz, while her teenage daughter develops a passion for the lodgers, it seems that some deceptions are too close to home... Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella: "I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail "Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan "Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes "A superb tale. Five stars!" Heat

Author : Hubert Haddad
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300240450

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Desirable Body by Hubert Haddad Pdf

A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves deeply into the nature of consciousness while raising many of the ethical and existential issues facing scientists today A contemporary Frankenstein that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivating prose about a journalist, Cédric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant, Cédric survives the surgery but has both physical and existential trouble with his recovery and adaptation: encountering his lover with a new body, discovering the life history of his donor, and attempting to understand the mind-body relationship as he lives it. Haddad explores the confusion and insignificance of a single consciousness before experience and identity: What is a head without a body? What or who is a lover with another’s body? The gruesome transplant (detailed in a manner that highlights the author’s own diligent research and comprehension) parallels other ways humanity mutates nature globally; the novel is a provocative and timely allegory—a work of dystopian fantasy.

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015019407306

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Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable by Ronald Searle Pdf

The catalogues of antiquarian booksellers are written in a parallel language which can fool anyone not initiated into the mysteries of its complexities. After a lifetime of scanning these codes Ronald Searle has become an expert in decoding those poetic, exotic and usually approximate descriptions. InSlightly Foxed he offers his own guide to foiling the devious schemes of wicked booksellers forever.

Author : Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520970533

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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl by Shenila Khoja-Moolji Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.

Author : Morgan Rice
Publisher : Morgan Rice
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780982953761

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Desired (Book #5 in the Vampire Journals) by Morgan Rice Pdf

Caitlin Paine wakes to discover that she has once again traveled back in time and has landed in 18th-century Paris, an age of great opulence, of kings and queens--but also of revolution.Reunited with her true love, Caleb, Caitlin is happier than she ever dreamed. But their idyllic time together is not destined to last forever, and events intercede that force the two of them apart.

Author : Diane Cummings Persellin,Mary Blythe Daniels
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000976885

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A Concise Guide to Teaching With Desirable Difficulties by Diane Cummings Persellin,Mary Blythe Daniels Pdf

This concise guidebook on desirable difficulties is designed to be a resource for academics who are interested in engaging students according to the findings of peer-reviewed literature and best practices but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning.Intentionally brief, the book is intended to: summarize recent research on five aspects of desirable difficulties; provide applications to the college classroom based on this research; include special sections about teaching strategies that are based on best practices; and offer annotated bibliographies and important citations for faculty who want to pursue additional study. The book will provide a foundation for instructors to teach using evidence-based strategies that will strengthen learning and retention in their classrooms.In addition to chapters on the desirable difficulties, the book also includes chapters on teaching first-year and at-risk students to embrace this approach, on negotiating student resistance, and on using this approach in teaching online.

Author : Aaron Schmidt,Amanda Etches
Publisher : ALA Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838912265

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Useful, Usable, Desirable by Aaron Schmidt,Amanda Etches Pdf

Useful, useable, desirable: like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these it's bound to wobble.

Author : Katy Borner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262045957

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Atlas of Forecasts by Katy Borner Pdf

Forecasting the future with advanced data models and visualizations. To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and intelligently manage complex, interlinked systems in science and technology, education, and policymaking. Atlas of Forecasts, from the creator of Atlas of Science and Atlas of Knowledge, shows how we can use data to predict, communicate, and ultimately attain desirable futures. Using advanced data visualizations to introduce different types of computational models, Atlas of Forecasts demonstrates how models can inform effective decision-making in education, science, technology, and policymaking. The models and maps presented aim to help anyone understand key processes and outcomes of complex systems dynamics, including which human skills are needed in an artificial intelligence-empowered economy; what progress in science and technology is likely to be made; and how policymakers can future-proof regions or nations. This Atlas offers a driver's seat-perspective for a test-drive of the future.

Author : Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393033112

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Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts by Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee Pdf

Surveys trends in yacht design, discusses safety, modern construction techniques, spars, rigging, sails, and auxiliary equipment, and describes five good boats.