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Incredibly Alice

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781442462489

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Incredibly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

With graduation, a wedding, a pregnancy, and a college decision in store, the end of high school is harder—and more emotional—than Alice ever imagined. Get ready to start your own incredible, amazing life…right? Alice McKinley is standing on the edge of something new—and half afraid she might fall off. Graduation is a big deal—that gauntlet of growing up that requires everyone she’s known since forever to make huge decisions that will fling them here and there and far from home. But what if Alice wants to be that little dandelion seed that doesn’t scatter? What if she doesn’t have the heart to fly off into the horizon on the next big breeze? And what if that starts to make her feel like staying close to home means she’s a little less incredible than her friends—and her boyfriend Patrick? Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is be honest with yourself—and sometimes the most incredible thing you can do is sneak a little fun into all this soul-searching.

Intensely Alice

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781416994916

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Intensely Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

Wouldn’t it be great to go back to the time before Pam got pregnant, before Patrick left for the University of Chicago, before anyone was making any big decisions about sex or college or life in general? Wouldn’t it be great to get the whole gang together again, just once? What it takes for this to happen will change Alice (and the whole gang) forever. A funeral is not a happy reunion. Full of life—the good, the bad, and the heartbreaking—this Alice book is a reminder of just how much can change in an instant.

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

Author : Alice Roberts
Publisher : Heron Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781623658083

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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us by Alice Roberts Pdf

"From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself" --Richard Dawkins Alice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey, revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living, breathing, thinking person. It's a story that connects us with our distant ancestors and an extraordinary, unlikely chain of events that shaped human development and left a mark on all of us. Alice Roberts uses the latest research to uncover the evolutionary history hidden in all of us, from the secrets found only in our embryos and genes - including why as embroyos we have what look like gills - to those visible in your anatomy. This is a tale of discovery, exploring why and how we have developed as we have. This is your story, told as never before.

Alice on Board

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442445888

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Alice on Board by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

Seeking one last adventure before going off to college, Alice and her friends find summer employment on a Chesapeake Bay cruise ship.

Now I'll Tell You Everything

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442445918

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Now I'll Tell You Everything by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

As Alice McKinley begins a new phase as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, she experiences many changes, both expected and surprising, that lead her into a future her seventh-grade self could only have imagined.

Alice Dent and the Incredible Germs

Author : Gwen Lowe
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781911490159

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Alice Dent and the Incredible Germs by Gwen Lowe Pdf

When Alice Dent gets a cold, she has no idea how much trouble it's about to cause. Because this is no ordinary cold: it comes with some seriously extraordinary side-effects. But when the scary Best Minister for Everything Nicely Perfect tries to take her away, she realizes her troubles are only just beginning ...

Incredibly Alice

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416975564

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Incredibly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

Maryland teenager Alice McKinley spends her last semester of high school performing in the school play, working on the student paper, worrying about being away from her boyfriend, who will be studying in Spain, and anticipating her future in college.

You and Me and the Space In Between

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442486645

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You and Me and the Space In Between by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

It's Alice's senior year in high school, and this three-book compilation chronicles every minute. Includes "Alice in Charge, Incredibly Alice, " and "Alice on Board."

The Whole Picture

Author : Alice Procter
Publisher : Cassell
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788402217

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The Whole Picture by Alice Procter Pdf

"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times 'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind them.' - Sumaya Kassim Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. The book is divided into four chronological sections, named after four different kinds of art space: The Palace, The Classroom, The Memorial and The Playground. Each section tackles the fascinating, enlightening and often shocking stories of a selection of art pieces, including the propaganda painting the East India Company used to justify its rule in India; the tattooed Maori skulls collected as 'art objects' by Europeans; and works by contemporary artists who are taking on colonial history in their work and activism today. The Whole Picture is a much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art, and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.

Alice the Brave

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442465824

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Alice the Brave by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she's been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders . . . but her fear is worse. It's going to bring absolute disaster to the rest of her summer, maybe to the rest of her life. The truth is she's afraid of deep water! It's a hot August, and everyone in Alice's gang goes to Mark Stedmeister's swimming pool almost every day. Alice sits at the shallow end. She plays badminton. She makes excuses, and keeps her problem secret. Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Pamela, Alice's two best friends, tackle problems of their own, and are more or less successful. Life is changing for everyone but Alice. Bravery begins in little ways, with small steps. That's what Alice finally discovers. And after she faces this particular fear, she knows she can summon the courage to face other fears as well. As in her previous adventures, Alice tackles some of the big problems of growing up with humor and enterprise and learns once again that a brother, a father, and friends can offer amazing amounts of help.

The Incredible Human Journey

Author : Alice Roberts
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781408810910

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The Incredible Human Journey by Alice Roberts Pdf

Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans. When our ancestors set out from Africa there were already two other species of human on the planet: Neanderthal in Europe and Homo erectus in Asia. Both (contrary to popular perception) were intelligent, adept at making tools and weapons and were long adapted to their environments. So, Alice asks, why did only Homo sapiens survive? Part detective story, part travelogue, and drawing on the latest genetic and archaeological discoveries, Alice examines how our ancestors evolved physically in response to these challenges, finding out how our colour, shape, size, diet, disease resistance and even athletic ability have been shaped by the range of environments that our ancestors had to survive. She also relates how astonishingly closely related we all are. As a lecturer in Anatomy at Bristol University, Alice Roberts is eminently qualified to write this book. As a talented artist, she is perfectly qualified to illustrate it, and dotted throughout this lively book are many of the sketches and photographs from her travels.

Outrageously Alice

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442465848

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Outrageously Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

Now that she is settling into eighth grade, the class she used to envy, Alice Mckinley is discovering that it isn't all that exciting. But, maybe it’s up to her to make this year as thrilling as she thought it would be? Out with the old, plain-Jane Alice in with the new, stylish, creative Alice. She’s sick of being boring. It’s time to be outrageous! But, what if outrageous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be either? What if instead Alice finds herself in situations that are more embarrassing than they are wild and fun? Is Alice destined to be the same boring girl forever?

Alice Alone

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439132296

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Alice Alone by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

Alice is starting high school, and everything is new. But it’s the new girl, Penny, who’s making ninth grade a real challenge for Alice. Penny is tiny and perky and a real flirt, and she seems to be focusing her attention on Patrick. Even worse, Patrick seems to be enjoying it. Alice and Patrick have been a couple so long, Alice can’t imagine life without him. Suddenly she feels lost and unattractive and scared—not quite whole. How can Alice get back her confidence in herself, when she’s not even sure who she is?

Still Alice

Author : Lisa Genova
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 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

Please Don't Be True

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1442417218

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Please Don't Be True by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after. Alice had a plan for her junior year. She’d laugh a lot, reinvent herself a little, and always have her friends right there with her. But, lately hanging out hasn’t be as easy as it used to be. Maybe it’s because everyone is a little over their heads with relationships and school and too much to do…or maybe something has changed between Alice and Liz and Pam and Gwen. Before Alice can even get her head around what that might mean, something does change. Something big. And, now nothing can ever be the same again.