Marvelous Masks

Author : Nicole Billick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735691526

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Marvelous Masks by Nicole Billick Pdf

Do you know any little ones who are wary of wearing masks or do not want to keep them on? Do you have an upcoming event or travel and you are not sure your child will wear a mask when required? Have you been trying to find a way to help your child feel comfortable wearing a mask? Then Marvelous Masks is for you!A fun and beautifully hand-drawn story that explains how masks have been part of our world for a long time - not just because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this charming story, a group of animal friends looks at all different kinds of masks, and shows just how fun and normal wearing masks can be. Parents, grandparents and teachers can use this book to help explain to their children why we all need to wear masks sometimes - from cowboys, doctors, and baseball catchers to superheroes and more! There is no specific mention of germs or COVID-19, leaving room for adults to have that conversation with their children as they desire. Inspired by her own children, the author hopes that this story helps take children's stress out of needing to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Let's make masks less scary and more relatable for young children!

Author : Kathy Paterson
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Group work in education
ISBN : 9781551381824

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Differentiated Learning by Kathy Paterson Pdf

Recognising that students bring different backgrounds and cultures to the classroom, this text offers a process approach to teaching with multiple student options and varying levels of complexity. It shows teachers of various ages how to create dynamic opportunities for language, literacy and learning.

Author : Ellen Booth Church
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0439316642

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25 Literacy-Building Art Activities by Ellen Booth Church Pdf

Boost early literacy with these creative art activities in a variety of media--clay, collage, paint, sand, recyclables, and more! All projects promote essential skills such as phonemic awareness, self-expression, expressive language, retelling, and more. Includes easy how-to, display ideas and rhyming poems to kick off each lesson! For use with Grade PreK-K.

Author : Heidi Lang,Kati Bartkowski
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481477963

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A Hint of Hydra by Heidi Lang,Kati Bartkowski Pdf

“A zingy, buoyant adventure.” —BCCB “A wildly inventive fantasy.” —Booklist Thirteen-year-old chef Lailu Loganberry must stop a war between the elves and scientists in this follow-up to A Dash of Dragon, which Kirkus Reviews calls “a recipe for success.” It’s the Week of Masks, a festival held to chase away evil spirits. But Lailu doesn’t have time to worry about demons. She has bigger fish to fry—or rather, griffons, now that she’s been asked to prepare a mystical feast for the king’s executioner, Lord Elister. Unfortunately Lailu’s meal is overshadowed by the scientists’ latest invention: automatons, human-shaped machines that will respond to their masters’ every order. Most people are excited by the possibilities, but the mechanical men leave Lailu with a bad taste in her mouth. Even worse, the elves still blame the scientists for the attacks on them weeks ago, and Lailu worries that the elves might be cooking up revenge. So when she and her sorta-rival-turned-almost-friend Greg stumble across the body of a scientist, the elves are the prime suspects. With help from Greg, her best friend Hannah, and the sneaky, winking spy Ryon, Lailu has to discover the truth behind the murder, and soon—because hostilities between the elves and the scientists are about to boil over faster than hydra stew. And just ask any chef: war is bad for business.

Author : Ben Wasson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604739329

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Count No 'Count by Ben Wasson Pdf

Coming home to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1918 after a stint in the Royal Flying Corps, young William Faulkner was arty and dandified. He sometimes was seen in his airman's uniform, and he affected English manners. His pose amused some of his townsmen, and joking behind his back, they called him “The Count” and “Count No 'Count.” During this period Ben Wasson met Faulkner at the University of Mississippi, where both were students. Their interest in art and literature drew them together. Later Wasson became Faulkner's first literary agent, as well as an adviser and sounding board. In New York Wasson edited a Faulkner manuscript into a readable length. It was published as Sartoris. Also, Wasson helped Faulkner to place The Sound and the Fury with a New York publisher. Their friendship lasted for more than thirty years as their paths crossed and recrossed in New York, Hollywood, and Mississippi. In Count No 'Count Wasson muses over this long and close relationship in anecdotal accounts which he calls flashbacks. Wasson depicts a Faulkner who is humorous, occasionally naive, aggressive, and loving. At times he is the most courteous of gentlemen. At other times he is a tragic figure attempting to deal with griefs and disappointment by lapsing into alcoholic binges. The reader will discern a Faulkner whose artistic and creative nature produced sometimes bizarre behavior and destructive drives for achievement.

Author : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher : Argo Books
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780912148373

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Universal History - 1957 by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Pdf

Author : Earl G. Ingersoll,John Cusatis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496828774

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Conversations with John Banville by Earl G. Ingersoll,John Cusatis Pdf

John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for it, his passion for painting continues to influence and inform his work. Banville conceives the novel as a work of art aimed not at the present, but for the ages. He aspires to create narratives that offer readers a sense of what it is to be conscious, human, and feeling, and aims to convey his conviction that “the familiar is always unfamiliar, the ordinary extraordinary.” Conversations with John Banville is the first interview collection with this esteemed writer and includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces. The collection also includes discussions about—and with, in the case of James Gleick’s 2014 interview—Banville’s alter ego, Benjamin Black, who writes crime novels. Highly engaging and insightful, Banville’s interviews offer a variety of writerly autobiography regarding what he has aimed to do in his work and how he continues to pursue perfection, which he has known from the beginning must be impossible.

Author : Robin Yong
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781482827767

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Beginning in Venice by Robin Yong Pdf

For photographer Robin Yong, the Venetian Carnival had always been a faraway dream. He often wondered about the costumed people and who they really were. And then, he jumped on the opportunity to travel to Venice, Italy, to photograph the Venetian Carnival, one of the most beautiful festivals in one of the most enchanting cities in the world. In Beginning in Venice, he shares a collection of photographs from that trip and narrates the stories behind the photographs. With an eye for composition and color and for capturing remarkable moments, these pictures document the wonderful events of outrageous costumes set in a medieval environment. It tells a story of history, culture, art, and sensuality. Each image is imbued with Robin Yong’s love for the masquerade and its actors: smiles or frowns on the masks, sparks in the eyes of his models, textures, colors, and minute details in a costume. Through the photographs presented in Beginning in Venice, the beauty and romance of Venice comes alive.

Author : Albert Murray
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598536539

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The Omni-Americans by Albert Murray Pdf

Rediscover the “most important book on black-white relationships” in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Walker Percy) “The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people . . . Any fool can see that the white people are not really white, and that black people are not black. They are all interrelated one way or another.” These words, written by Albert Murray at the height of the Black Power movement, cut against the grain of their moment, and announced the arrival of a major new force in American letters. In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Murray took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the “pathology” of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American art embodies the “blues-hero tradition”—a heritage of grace, wit, and inspired improvisation in the face of adversity. Reviewing The Omni-Americans in 1970, Walker Percy called it “the most important book on black-white relationships . . . indeed on American culture . . . published in this generation.” As Henry Louis Gates, Jr. makes clear in his introduction, Murray’s singular poetic voice, impassioned argumentation, and pluralistic vision have only become more urgently needed today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1973-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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New York Magazine by Anonim Pdf

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1788 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00109034

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Dr. Webster's Complete Dictionary of the English Language ... by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Elizabeth H. Ashe
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Intimate Letters from France During America's First Year of War (Expanded, Annotated) by Elizabeth H. Ashe Pdf

During the First World War, more than eighteen thousand Red Cross nurses served with the Army and Navy Nurse Corps. Elizabeth Ashe was one of them and was Chief Nurse of Children’s Bureau Department of Civil Affairs American Red Cross. She found her team overwhelmed with babies and orphan children who were injured, sick, and ill-cared-for. But they rose to the occasion. Ashe also spent time caring for wounded soldiers and saw first-hand the horrors of the Great War. She saw and heard the bombing and became inured to it. Since this book was published prior to the end of the war, Ashe may have hoped it would foster more support for the Red Cross efforts. The terse, vivid sentences of the letters create a picture of the scenes of suffering and the opportunities for service as they present themselves to the writer. Written under the stress of work and to those closest in her confidence, they bear the imprint of her character. For the first time, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

Author : Vetri Nathan
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781612494890

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Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan Pdf

Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkable moment of cultural role reversal through a plurality of styles. In it, Nathan argues that Italy sees itself as the quintessential internal Other of Western Europe, and that this subalternity directly influences its cinematic response to immigrants, Europe's external Others. In framing his case to understand Italy's cinematic response to immigrants, Nathan first explores some basic questions: Who exactly is the Other in Italy? Does Italy's own past partial alterity affect its present response to its newest subalterns? Drawing on Homi Bhabha's writings and Italian cinematic history, Nathan then posits the existence of marvelous bodies that are momentarily neither completely Italian nor completely immigrant. This ambivalence of forms extends to the films themselves, which tend to be generic hybrids. The persistent curious presence of marvelous bodies and a pervasive generic hybridity enact Italy's own chronic ambivalence that results from its presence at the cultural crossroads of the Mediterranean.

Author : Richard C. Francis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393246513

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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World by Richard C. Francis Pdf

“An essential read for anyone interested in the stories of the animals in our home or on our plate.”—BBC Focus Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization—the Middle East—is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate association with humans. Before the agricultural revolution, there were perhaps 10 million humans on earth. Now there are more than 7 billion of us. Our domesticated species have also thrived, in stark contrast to their wild ancestors. In a human-constructed environment—or man-made world—it pays to be domesticated. Domestication is an evolutionary process first and foremost. What most distinguishes domesticated animals from their wild ancestors are genetic alterations resulting in tameness, the capacity to tolerate close human proximity. But selection for tameness often results in a host of seemingly unrelated by-products, including floppy ears, skeletal alterations, reduced aggression, increased sociality, and reduced brain size. It's a package deal known as the domestication syndrome. Elements of the domestication syndrome can be found in every domesticated species—not only cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, cattle, and horses but also more recent human creations, such as domesticated camels, reindeer, and laboratory rats. That domestication results in this suite of changes in such a wide variety of mammals is a fascinating evolutionary story, one that sheds much light on the evolutionary process in general. We humans, too, show signs of the domestication syndrome, which some believe was key to our evolutionary success. By this view, human evolution parallels the evolution of dogs from wolves, in particular. A natural storyteller, Richard C. Francis weaves history, archaeology, and anthropology to create a fascinating narrative while seamlessly integrating the most cutting-edge ideas in twenty-first-century biology, from genomics to evo-devo.

Author : Hugh Sheehy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820343303

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The Invisibles by Hugh Sheehy Pdf

Though Hugh Sheehy’s often tragic, sometimes gruesome stories feature bloodied knives and mysterious disappearances, at the heart of these thoughtful thrillers are finely crafted character studies of people who wrestle with the darker aspects of human nature—grief, violence, loneliness, and the thoughts of crazed minds. Sheehy’s stories shine a spotlight on the bleak fringes of America, giving voice to the invisibles who need it most. A dismal assistant teacher spiking her coffee after school is suddenly locked in a basement with a student who has just witnessed his father’s murder. A seventeen-year-old girl at a skate rink whose name no one can remember is motherless, friendless, and sure she will be the next to go. The heartbroken victim of a miscarriage dreams of her fetus’s voyage through the earth’s plumbing. The estranged addict son, certain of his innate goodness, loses himself in a blizzard and fails his family again. Sheehy’s characters learn that however invisible they may feel and whatever their intentions, their actions incur a cost both to themselves and those around them. They struggle to tame or come to terms with the forces they meet—the tragedies—that are far larger than their small existences. In this debut, Sheehy illuminates the all-but-silent note of adult loneliness and how we cope with it or, perhaps, just move past it.