Life Times

Author : Bryan Mellonie
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307569684

Get Book

Lifetimes by Bryan Mellonie Pdf

When the death of a relative, a friend, or a pet happens or is about to happen . . . how can we help a child to understand? Lifetimes is a moving book for children of all ages, even parents too. It lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. Lifetimes tells us about beginnings. And about endings. And about living in between. With large, wonderful illustrations, it tells about plants. About animals. About people. It tells that dying is as much a part of living as being born. It helps us to remember. It helps us to understand. Lifetimes . . . a very special, very important book for you and your child. The book that explains—beautifully—that all living things have their own special Lifetimes.

Author : Bryan Mellonie,Robert Ingpen
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Death
ISBN : 1442004932

Get Book

Lifetimes by Bryan Mellonie,Robert Ingpen Pdf

Explains that different plants and animals have different lifespans and grow up at different rates

Author : Oliver Burkeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780735232471

Get Book

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is the most important book ever written about time management.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts? Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618507515

Get Book

The Life and Times of Corn by Anonim Pdf

Facts and illustrations tell the story of corn, the giant of grains.

Author : Charles Foran
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780676979657

Get Book

Mordecai by Charles Foran Pdf

Foran's book is the first major biography with access to family letters and archives: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. In Mordecai, award-winning novelist and journalist Charles Foran brings to the page the richness of Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend and deeply romantic lover. He explores Mordecai's distraught childhood, and gives us the "portrait of a marriage"—the lifelong love affair with Florence, with Mordecai as beloved father of five. The portrait is alive and intimate—warts and all.

Author : Robert Philip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020269552

Get Book

The Life, Times, and Characteristics of John Bunyan, Etc by Robert Philip Pdf

Author : Ronald W. Clark
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780380011599

Get Book

Einstein: by Ronald W. Clark Pdf

A description of the scientist's personal life and career.

Author : Gholam Reza Afkhami
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520942165

Get Book

The Life and Times of the Shah by Gholam Reza Afkhami Pdf

This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition—to depict the unfolding of the shah's life against the forces and events that shaped the development of modern Iran. The first major biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly detailed account provides a radically new perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, U.S.-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program. It also sheds new light on what now drives political and cultural currents in a country at the heart of today's most perplexing geopolitical dilemmas.

Author : Keith Richards
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316178723

Get Book

Life by Keith Richards Pdf

The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.

Author : Turner Catledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120214155

Get Book

My Life and The Times by Turner Catledge Pdf

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907554902

Get Book

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser Pdf

One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unprecedented speed and grace to the sport, and his charm and wit changed forever what the world expects of a champion athlete. In the words of over two hundred of Ali's family members, associates, opponents, friends and enemies, this comprehensive and honest portrait relates his legendary sporting accomplishments, as well as the high drama of life outside the boxing ring. From Olympic gold in Rome, to stunning victory over George Foreman in Zaire, every historic victory and defeat of Ali's career is covered. His controversial embrace of the Nation of Islam - with the renunciation of his 'slave name', Cassius Clay - and the historic refusal to be inducted into the US Army makes for compelling reading. Ali became America's first national conscientious objector, and with a willingness to stage his fights in Third World locales, he continued his advocacy for people in need which was honoured in 2000 when he became a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Charismatic, dedicated and a skilful self-publicist, Ali is the living embodiment of the American Dream. This is the biography to match his achievements.

Author : Anthony Bozza
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307549204

Get Book

Whatever You Say I Am by Anthony Bozza Pdf

does eminem matter? On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into heavy rotation on MTV. Who could have predicted that in a mere two years, Eminem would become the most reviled and controversial hip-hop figure ever? Or that twelve months after that, Eminem would sit firmly at the pinnacle of American celebrity, a Grammy winner many times over and the recipient of an Oscar. did eminem change or did america finally figure him out? Whatever You Say I Am attempts to answer this question and many more. Since their first meeting, Bozza has been given a level of access to Eminem that no other journalist has enjoyed. In Whatever You Say I Am, original, never-before-published text from Bozza’s interviews with Eminem are combined with the insight of numerous hip-hop figures, music critics, journalists, and members of the Eminem camp to look behind the mask of this enigmatic celebrity. With an eye toward Eminem’s place in American popular culture, Bozza creates a thoughtful portrait of one of the most successful artists of our time. This is so much more than a biography of a thoroughly well-documented life. It is a close-up look at a conflicted figure who has somehow spoken to the heart of America.

Author : Sharon Traweek
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674044449

Get Book

Beamtimes and Lifetimes by Sharon Traweek Pdf

Looks at the life of particle physicists, showing who these people are and what their world is really like. Traweek shows their similarities and differences, how their careers are shaped, how they interact with their colleagues and how their ideas about time and space shape their social structure.

Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783740123

Get Book

Beyond Holy Russia by Michael Hughes Pdf

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G.Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham’s career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Tracy K. Smith
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555976590

Get Book

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith Pdf

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.