Imagine We Were

Author : Adam Haslett
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316261364

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Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett Pdf

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. "Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization"-Wall Street Journal "Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone , Haslett has reached another level."-New York Times Book Review

Author : Roger Schaller
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780359675296

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Imagine you are... by Roger Schaller Pdf

Drawing on his many years of experience as psychodrama trainer and psychotherapist, in "Imagine you are..." author Roger Schaller introduces readers to therapeutic role play in the individual setting. Readers learn about the theoretical underpinnings of why psychodramatic role play works and, with the aid of lively case examples, also learn how they can apply role play activities to achieve a number of therapeutic goals.

Author : Ken Robinson,Kate Robinson (Consultant)
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 014199097X

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Manifesto by Ken Robinson,Kate Robinson (Consultant) Pdf

Imagination and creativity are at the root of every uniquely human achievement and those achievements have brought us to this present moment. We are now the largest population in human history- seven and half billion people, rising to nine billion by 2050. Our technologies are evolving exponentially, but spiritually and emotionally, we're not keeping pace. Our appetites are straining the earth's capacity to sustain us, and our attempts to force it to do so are fuelling a holocaust of other species. Communities across the globe are still locked in ancient cultural conflicts, and while the majority of people are materially more comfortable than ever before, there are global epidemics of depression and anxiety. To meet these existential challenges, we have to harness our creativity to a more compassionate and sustainable vision of the world we want to live in and the lives we hope to lead. To do that, we have to create new systems of education for the future and for our children that are based on organic principles of diversity, creativity, and collaboration.

Author : Ken Robinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780141990989

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Imagine If... by Ken Robinson Pdf

An urgent manifesto for re-defining human potential in our turbulent times, from the bestselling author of The Element 'As we face an increasingly febrile future, the answer is not to do better what we've done before. We have to do something else . . . We must urgently re-imagine education and schools' Imagination and creativity are at the root of every uniquely human achievement and those achievements have brought us to this present moment. As we reckon with the extractive practices that have depleted our natural resources and threaten our survival as a species, Sir Ken Robinson argues that we must also find a better way of cultivating human potential in order to navigate our uncertain future. This incisive book distills the thought and expertise that underpinned Sir Ken's influential work as educator, speaker and adviser; grounded in his unwavering belief in the indispensable value of human potential. Imagine If . . . reframes the ongoing debate in a compelling new way, bringing fresh inspiration and much-needed clarity, and sets out the blueprint for creating new systems of education that are based on diversity, creativity and collaboration.

Author : M. Safra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 160091425X

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Just Imagine! We're Leaving Egypt by M. Safra Pdf

Author : Meg Clibbon,Lucy Clibbon
Publisher : Zero to Ten
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1840892811

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Imagine You're a Mermaid! by Meg Clibbon,Lucy Clibbon Pdf

Originally published by Zero to Ten Limited, 2002.

Author : John Lennon,Yoko Ono
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1538747154

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Imagine John Yoko by John Lennon,Yoko Ono Pdf

Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story-told in revelatory detail-of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who were there. Features 80% exclusive, hitherto-unpublished archive photos and footage sequences of all the key players in situ, together with lyric sheets, Yoko's art installations, and exclusive new insights and personal testimonies from Yoko and over forty of the musicians, engineers, staff, celebrities, artists and photographers who were there-including Julian Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Alan White, Jim Keltner, David Bailey, Dick Cavett and Sir Michael Parkinson. "A lot has been written about the creation of the song, the album and the film of Imagine, mainly by people who weren't there, so I'm very pleased and grateful that now, for the first time, so many of the participants have kindly given their time to 'gimme some truth' in their own words and pictures" -Yoko Ono Lennon, 2018 In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant in New York. The lyrics of the title track were inspired by Yoko Ono's "event scores" in her 1964 book Grapefruit, and she was officially co-credited as writer in June 2017. Imagine John Yoko tells the story of John & Yoko's life, work and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports readers to home and working environments showcasing Yoko's closely guarded archive of photos and artifacts, using artfully compiled narrative film stills, and featuring digitally rendered maps, floorplans and panoramas that recreate the interiors in evocative detail. John & Yoko introduce each chapter and song; Yoko also provides invaluable additional commentary and a preface. All the minutiae is examined: the locations, the key players, the music and lyrics, the production techniques and the artworks-including the creative process behind the double exposure polaroids used on the album cover. With a message as universal and pertinent today as it was when the album was created, this landmark publication is a fitting tribute to John & Yoko and their place in cultural history.

Author : Jonah Lehrer
Publisher : HMH
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780547394282

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Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling author provides an “entertaining” look at how artists enlighten us about the workings of the brain (New York magazine). In this book, the author of How We Decide and Imagine: How Creativity Works “writes skillfully and coherently about both art and science”—and about the connections between the two (Entertainment Weekly). In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, it’s cured countless diseases and sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer explains, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of artists—a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists—Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain’s malleability; how the French chef Escoffier discovered umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language—a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists. More broadly, Lehrer shows that there’s a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and art knows this better than science does. An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both to brilliant effect. “His book marks the arrival of an important new thinker . . . Wise and fresh.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Lamont Samuel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781449010799

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Imagine You... in My Shoes by Lamont Samuel Pdf

Imagine... If it were you, instead of him or her. would you still feel the same as you do when you are looking at it from the other side? What if the shoe was on the other foot? What if you traded places with someone and were to feel, what they felt during their experience? I found that myself and others, were missing the understanding of what people go through...how things are perceived by the victim. Also how closely related we are to the same issues, just at a different time and or event... or maybe a different scenario, but same effects. The same things that make us sad, cry, happy or laugh, are also what may cause us to think and feel differently, when compared to how others see us from the outside looking in. Just Imagine yourself traveling through the experience and the thoughts of someone else. seeing another side of a story.In the stories, the roles are changed! You are now viewing from a closer seat in the event, either as a character or mentally there with the character. As if the story included you! And now you are seeing the event through someone else's shoes...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:HL06IL

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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Dwork
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300050547

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Children with a Star by Deborah Dwork Pdf

Based on many oral histories taken from child survivors of the Holocaust, the author focuses on the experiences of young Jewish children from their earliest encounters with anti-Semitism to their enslavement in labor camps.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Radio
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049170616

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The Wireless Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael F. Duffy
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480934092

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Trapped in a Happy Life by Michael F. Duffy Pdf

Trapped in a Happy Life by Michael F. Duffy In his memoirs, Trapped in a Happy Life, Michael F. Duffy reflects fondly and funnily upon his formative years in Philadelphia. Between the dangerous games played in the streets of his neighborhood to the terror he endured at the hands of nuns in school – it’s a wonder that he survived to tell any of these tales, but we’re glad he did. As he moves into adulthood, Duffy tells heartwarming tales of “My Beloved Wife” (abbreviated MBW for time’s sake), and skewers everyone from Donald Trump to overenthusiastic clappers at concerts. But even his most barbed remarks are tinged with an endearing humor that keeps the reader hooked.

Author : Kelly K. Owens
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781434377098

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Can You Imagine by Kelly K. Owens Pdf

Can You Imagine is a real and double sided look at life through Kelly's heart. He tells his thoughtful poems and letters as if they were ebbing and flowing from his own emotional experience directly to you. Each reader is persuaded to take a different meaning from the pages, as aptly needed to the life that holds it. Can You Imagine Picking up a book that speaks to you as if it were your friend? Have you ever wanted to say I love you to someone but lacked adequate words to express the depth of your feelings? Are you looking for hope not only for yourself but also for others whose lives you touch? Are you finding yourself lying awake wondering if you will ever be understood? Are you at the crossroads of life looking for a change of direction, a deeper understanding? Inside these pages you are reminded that life truly does have meaning! Just open the book, read; it will be the perfect passage at the perfect moment or read it cover to cover and drift along the way to deeper realization of life's meaning. "Can You Imagine" is written so you can close your eyes, open to any page and find a message that reminds you of yourself or someone you know. When you find yourself lost for words, trying to explain how you feel, flip through and find the page that represents you. Give it as a gift and say, "This is how I feel." Kelly's book will move you, inspire you, bring tears to your eyes and a change of understanding to your heart. It's a gentle reminder that when we dig deep into "life" we are guaranteed a richer life to live. . . even in our trials. Join the journey of "Can You Imagine" and realize more of your true self that lies within. www.canyouimaginebook.com [email protected]

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : D. A. Talboys
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015064001541

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The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe Pdf