Educating Alice

Author : Alice Steinbach
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307484178

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Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach Pdf

Eight years ago, Alice Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun, decided to take a break from her life. She took a leave from job, friends, and family for a European journey of self-discovery, and her first book, Without Reservations, was the exquisite result. But once Steinbach had opened the door to a new way of living, she found herself unwilling to return to the old routine. She quit her job and left home again, only this time her objective was to ?nd a way that would allow her, personally and professionally, to combine three of her greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. This funny and tender book is the result of her decision to roam around the world as an informal student, taking lessons and courses in such things as French cooking in Paris, Border collie training in Scotland, traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto, architecture and art in Havana. With warmth and wit, Steinbach guides us through the pleasures and perils of discovering how to be a student again. Along the way, she also learns the true value of this second chance at educating herself: the opportunity to connect with and learn from the people she meets on her journey.

Author : Alice Greenup
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743098400

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Educating Alice by Alice Greenup Pdf

A real-life 'The Farmer Wants a Wife'; the true story of how a city girl found love and a whole new life in the outback. What really happens when a city girl becomes a farmer's wife? If you're a fan of Rachael treasure, you'll love this memoir: a real-life outback love story that proves truth is even better than fiction ... A footloose city slicker who couldn't tell a bull from a cow was hardly the ideal candidate to answer an ad for a governess on a Mackay cattle station. But Alice Greenup was game for anything, until she was bowled over by a handsome young jackeroo with a devastating smile. It was the start of a whole new way of life as Alice gave up her city life to embrace the bush and all that came with it: horses, cattle, the obsession with rain - and the correct way to wear a hat. After overcoming more than a few obstacles, the unlikely couple eventually married, moving to Rick's family farm near Kingaroy. Determined to make their own future, they gambled their dreams on a vast property called 'Jumma'. It was a huge risk but with a lot of love, blood, sweat and tears, they were on their way. But one morning they almost lost it all. When Alice's horse bucked her out of the saddle in remote bushland, she was gravely injured. Rick was forced to leave her lying alone, drifting in and out of consciousness, to gallop home for help. What followed would test their love to the limit ...

Author : Arabella Maghri
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798721686825

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Educating Alice by Arabella Maghri Pdf

A shocking revelation is not the best way to start a week's holiday. When Mandy and Greg take nephew Peter and his girlfriend Alice to Florida, a past liaison threatens to upset the peace. But Alice has secrets of her own. She confides in the older woman and receives love, compassion and a daring release at a top Orlando restaurant. Their week of fun in the sun turns hotter than any of them expected.Meanwhile, local lass Nena, who became intimate with the couple on the flight over, visits for a day of delights - including the hotel waiter - before the Brits head home.This highly erotic story contains explicit sexual situations, adult language and very mature topics. Recommended for age 18 years and over.

Author : Julia Cook
Publisher : National Center for Youth Issues
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781937870973

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I'm Not Scared...I'm Prepared! by Julia Cook Pdf

When faced with danger you must DO something. The teacher at the Ant Hill School wants her students to be prepared - for everything! One day, she teaches her students what to do if a "dangerous someone" is in their school. "I'll be your shepherd, and you're all my sheep, so you must do what I say. Pretend there's a wolf in our building, and we MUST stay out of his way!" "We need a great plan of action in case we start to get scared. The ALICE Plan will work the best, to help us be prepared." Unfortunately, in the world we now live in, we must ask the essential question: What are the options for survival if we find ourselves in a violent intruder event? I'm Not Scared...I'm Prepared! will enhance the ALICE concepts and make them applicable to children of all ages in a non-fearful way. By using this book, children can develop a better understanding of what needs to be done if they ever encounter a "dangerous someone."

Author : Alice Steinbach
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN : 1863254307

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Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach Pdf

When Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Alice Steinbach decided to take a year off to explore Europe and rediscover what it was like to be an independent woman, she left her job, family, friends and routine behind. The result, WITHOUT RESERVATIONS, became a bestseller and inspired women everywhere to take that leap, if not in reality, at least in their imaginations.But having opened the door to a new way of living, Steinbach found herself unwilling to return to the old routine. She quit her job and left home again, only this time her objective was to find a way to combine three of her greatest passions: travelling, writing and learning. EDUCATING ALICE is the intimate, funny and richly entertaining story of her adventures roaming the world to conquer new challenges, large and small. She learns how to cook at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, tackles the intricacies of traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto, makes a pilgrimage to Jane Austen's birthplace, revisits the past in Prague, surrenders to the spontaneous joy of music and memories in Havana, uncovers the secrets of border collie training in Scotland, and much, much more. Along the way, Steinbach learns more from the people she connects with on her travels and unplanned encounters than any of her lessons.

Author : Lisa Genova
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849833714

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Still Alice by Lisa Genova Pdf

A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever. Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice. 'Remarkable … illuminating … highly relevant today' Daily Mail 'The most accurate account of what it feels like to be inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient I've ever read. Beautifully written and very illuminating' Rosie Boycot 'Utterly brilliant' Chrissy Iley

Author : Matthew C. Ringenberg,William C. Ringenberg,Joseph D. Brain
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253044013

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The Education of Alice Hamilton by Matthew C. Ringenberg,William C. Ringenberg,Joseph D. Brain Pdf

A biography of Harvard’s first female faculty member—a pioneer in public health and worker safety. Born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Alice Hamilton graduated from medical school in 1893, and after completing internships at hospitals in Minneapolis and Boston, she rejected private practice and began dedicating herself to public health. Focusing on the investigation of the health and safety measures—or rather lack thereof—in the nation’s factories and mines during the second decade of the twentieth century, her discoveries led to factory and mine level-initiated reforms, and to city, state, and federal reform legislation. It also led to a greater recognition in the nation’s universities for formal academic programs in industrial and public health. In 1919, Harvard officials considered Hamilton the best-qualified person in the country to lead their effort in this area. The Education of Alice Hamilton is an inspiring story of a woman who lived a remarkable life at a time when women were not always welcome in medical circles—serving as personal physician to Jane Addams, founder of Hull House; traveling to the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany; researching the effects of mercury, carbon monoxide, benzene, and other substances on workers. She was sometimes ignored—such as when she warned of the dangers of lead in gasoline decades before it was eventually banned—but she persisted, and thanks in part to her groundbreaking work, Americans now enjoy the protection of OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Author : Gale Eaton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442236486

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The Education of Alice M. Jordan by Gale Eaton Pdf

A long overdue biography of Alice M. Jordan (1870-1960), head of youth services at the Boston Public Library from 1902 to 1940 and one of the pioneers of children’s librarianship. Between the Age of Sail and the Space Age, a sea captain’s daughter gained fame as a book critic while practicing institutional politics behind the scenes.

Author : Alice Dreger
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143108115

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Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger Pdf

"Galileo's Middle Finger is historian Alice Dreger's eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. Dreger's chronicle begins with her own research into the treatment of people born intersex (once called hermaphrodites). Realization of the shocking surgical and ethical abuses conducted in the name of "normalizing" intersex children's gender identities moved Dreger to become an internationally recognized patient rights activist. But even as the intersex rights movement succeeded, Dreger began to realize how some fellow activists were using lies and personal attacks to silence scientisis whose data revealed uncomfortable truths about humans. In researching one case, Dreger suddenly became a target of just these kinds of attacks. Troubled, she decided to try to understand more -- to travel the country and seek a global view of the nature and costs of these damaging battles. Galileo's Middle Finger describes Dreger's long and harrowing journeys between the two camps for which she felt equal empathy: social justice activists determined to win and researchers determined to put hard truths before comfort. What emerges is a lesson about the intertwining of justice and truth-- and about the importance of responsible scholars and journalists to our fragile democracy." --

Author : Alice Steinbach
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307769824

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Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach Pdf

Paris Dear Alice, Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the bell marks the opening of the hotel door. From my room, which is just off the winding staircase, I can hear it clearly. It reminds me of the bell that calls to worship the novice embarking on a new life. In a way I too am a novice, leaving, temporarily, one life for another. Love, Alice In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman on her own. "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Alice Steinbach, a single working mother, in this captivating book. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow, and had relationships that allowed for a lot of freedom on both sides." Slowly, however, she saw that she had become quite dependent in another way: "I had fallen into the habit . . . of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me." Who am I, she wanted to know, away from the things that define me--my family, children, job, friends? Steinbach searches for the answer to this provocative question in some of the most exciting places in the world: Paris, where she finds a soul mate in a Japanese man; Oxford, where she takes a course on the English village; Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards Steinbach wrote home to herself to preserve her spontaneous impressions, this revealing and witty book will transport readers instantly into a fascinating inner and outer journey, an unforgettable voyage of discovery.

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993058

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Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Pdf

This stunning collection of stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C., dealing with ordinary women’s lives, others have a new, sharper edge. They involve child murders, strange sex, and a terrifying home invasion. By way of astonishing variety, the title story, set in Victorian Europe, follows the last journey from France to Sweden of a famous Russian mathematician. This daring, superb collection proves that Alice Munro will always surprise you.

Author : ALICE PIERSON.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023338015

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Alice Pierson; or, The happy effects of a religious education ... By the author of Mary Westly, and The marriage present by ALICE PIERSON. Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWEEDA

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Laneton Parsonage by Elizabeth Missing Sewell Pdf

Author : Susan Juby
Publisher : Saskatoon : Thistledown Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Book club kits
ISBN : 1894345126

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Alice, I Think by Susan Juby Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."

Author : John S. Wodarski,Marvin D. Feit
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780398085704

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Evidence-based Interventions in Social Work by John S. Wodarski,Marvin D. Feit Pdf

Evidence-based Interventions in Social Work: A Practitioner's Manual centers on the factorial complexity of planning interventions with major client groups. Monumental economic and political forces are reshaping the way medical, mental health, and social services are delivered in the United States. By focusing on the role of the social worker in the evolving systems of care, the book addresses the following critical questions that have been generated by the empirical practice research: Who should deliver the intervention to whom? What intervention is the most effective with which clients? Wher.