Stepping Stones

Author : Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300159066

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Stepping-Stones by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon Pdf

“The next best thing to actually seeing the prehistoric cave art of southern Franc[e] . . . A rapturous guide through five major Ice Age sites” (Archaeology). The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding us of the ties that bind us across the ages. Over more than twenty-five years of teaching and research, Christine Desdemaines-Hugon has become an unrivaled expert in the cave art and artists of the Dordogne region. In Stepping-Stones she combines her expertise in both art and archaeology to convey an intimate understanding of the “cave experience.” Her keen insights communicate not only the incomparable artistic value of these works but also the near-spiritual impact of viewing them for oneself. Focusing on five fascinating sites, including the famed Font de Gaume and others that still remain open to the public, this book reveals striking similarities between art forms of the Paleolithic and works of modern artists and gives us a unique pathway toward understanding the culture of the Dordogne Paleolithic peoples and how it still touches our lives today. “Her vivid descriptions help readers visualize the Cro-Magnon man or woman painting the beautiful bison, horses, mammoths, and other symbols. [A] fine reading experience.” —Library Journal

Author : Margriet Ruurs
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459816138

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Stepping Stones Read-Along by Margriet Ruurs Pdf

Rama and her family, are forced to flee their once-peaceful village to escape the ravages of the civil war raging ever closer to their home With only what they can carry on their backs, Rama and her mother, father, grandfather and brother, Sami, set out to walk to freedom in Europe. This unique picture book was inspired by the stone artwork of Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr, discovered by chance by Canadian children’s writer Margriet Ruurs. The author was immediately impressed by the strong narrative quality of Mr. Badr’s work, and, using many of Mr. Badr’s already-created pieces, she set out to create a story about the Syrian refugee crisis. Orca Book Publishers is pleased to offer this book as a dual-language (English and Arabic) edition.

Author : Jean Slaughter Doty
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307491473

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Summer Pony by Jean Slaughter Doty Pdf

Ginny has always dreamed of having her very own pony, so when her parents agree to rent her a pony for the summer, Ginny is thrilled! But when Mokey arrives, she is shaggy, dirty, and half-starved–not at all what Ginny had in mind. Can Ginny still have the summer of her dreams?

Author : Shazia Afzal
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459827622

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Journey of the Midnight Sun by Shazia Afzal Pdf

This is the true story of the journey of the Midnight Sun Mosque. In 2010 a Winnipeg-based charity raised funds to build and ship a mosque to Inuvik, one of the most northern towns in Canada’s Arctic. A small but growing Muslim community there had been using a cramped trailer for their services, but there just wasn't enough space. The mosque travelled over 4,000 kilometers on a journey fraught with poor weather, incomplete bridges, narrow roads, low traffic wires and a deadline to get on the last barge heading up the Mackenzie River before the first winter freeze. But it made it just in time and is now one of the most northern mosques in the world. This beautiful picture book reminds us that the collective dream of fostering a multicultural and tolerant Canada exists and that people of all backgrounds will come together to build bridges and overcome obstacles for the greater good of their neighbors.

Author : Sofia Adams
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525580031

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Stepping Stones by Sofia Adams Pdf

SOFIA ADAMS' Stepping Stones is the shocking conclusion of The Legs Trilogy. The ugly truths that have plagued Suzanne Thompson and Robert LeClure in Adams' previous books, Legs and She, Who Kissed His Feet, are finally exposed! The saga novel continues with Suzy awaiting the acquittal of the murder charge filed against her for killing her husband, Sam, and the miraculous birth of her deceased stepson’s baby! With a large inheritance left to the baby heir, appointed guardian, Chloe Sprangers, must take drastic measures to ensure the baby’s safety. But are her actions enough to detain a vengeful drug supplier from reclaiming the money he thought to be his own? These Traverse City families have turned their backs on each other with lies and deceit, starting with a suicide that rocked Robby’s world. Darkness has plagued their lives with mental illness, abuse, murder, and revenge... can their raw emotions ever result in forgiveness and survival? Stepping Stones unfolds the long awaited truths and reveals some of life’s greatest lessons along the way.

Author : Stephen A. Drury
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Earth
ISBN : UCSD:31822027875442

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Stepping Stones by Stephen A. Drury Pdf

Many people know more about the planets Venus and Mars than they do about our home planet, Earth. Unique in our solar system, and so far as we know in the Universe itself, the Earth has been evolving for the past five billion years, and is the result of the dynamic interplay of astronomical,physical, and chemical forces ranging from the vast to the barely perceptible. The evolution of the Earth has never been predictable. Life has come very close to being extinguished many times. After each such crisis, the survivors and their genes have diversified and grown in number to exploit allopportunities. Without such traumas it is hardly likely that evolution's pace could have reached its present advanced level; that of conscious life capable of changing the world, contemplating it, and in doing so changing itself at geologically stupendous rates. In Stepping Stones, Stephen Druryexplores how such a seemingly fragile world could have been formed and developed. Looking at the astonishing leaps, and near catastrophes that have occurred along the way, intermingled with inexorable but slow change, the book interweaves the evidence from geology, physics, biology, and chemistry,to tell an extraordinary story of the Earth's evolution spanning nearly five billion years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8178624605

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Stepping Stones by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307556233

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Fossil Fever by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld Pdf

Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum. That means he’s always zooming off to strange places to find ruins and treasure. But Jeff has never gone along—until now. They’re headed to the Sahara desert to search for dinosaur fossils. And Jeff knows he’ll find the bones of the biggest meat-eater ever! “The subject’s popularity, and Bogan’s colorful cartoon-style illustrations will attract beginning readers.”—Booklist

Author : Marilea C. Rabasa
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631528996

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Stepping Stones by Marilea C. Rabasa Pdf

Addiction is a stealth predator. Unrecognized, it will grow and flourish. Unchecked, it destroys. Marilea Rabasa grew up in post-WWII Massachusetts in a family that lived comfortably and offered her every advantage. But they were also haunted by closely guarded family secrets. Alcoholism reached back through several generations, and it was not openly discussed. Shame and stigma perpetuated the silence. And Marilea became part of this ongoing tragedy. From an unhappy childhood to a life overseas in the diplomatic service to now, living on an island in Puget Sound, Stepping Stones chronicles Marilea’s experiences, weaving a compelling tale of travel, motherhood, addiction, and heartbreaking loss. The constant thread throughout this story is the many faces and forms of addiction, phantoms that stalk her like an obsessed lover. What, if anything, will free her of the masks she has worn all her life? An inspiring, poignant recovery story, Stepping Stones tells how Marilea took on the demons that plagued her all her life—and defeated them.

Author : Sophie Littlefield
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780778313526

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Garden of Stones by Sophie Littlefield Pdf

After bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor, 14-year-old Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up--along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans--and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.

Author : Dennis O'Driscoll
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571258864

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Stepping Stones by Dennis O'Driscoll Pdf

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollections.

Author : Maureen Lee
Publisher : Orion
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409138846

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Stepping Stones by Maureen Lee Pdf

From 1930s Liverpool to London, then California and finally back to Liverpool, the powerful and compelling saga of one woman's turbulent life. Kitty O'Brien's husband is a drunken thug, and in order to feed her starving children, she sells her body on the Liverpool docks. Her daughter Lizzie is pregnant by her father and, still weak after her abortion, she kills him. Her mother takes the blame, but Lizzie cannot blot out the painful memories of her childhood. Eventually, with a failed marriage behind her, she finds fame, fortune and friendship in Hollywood - but happiness still escapes her. And so she returns to her roots, and it is her final marriage and its disastrous consequences that, at last, force her to face her past and find the happiness and peace of mind that have always eluded her.

Author : Margriet Ruurs
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771388078

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Families Around the World by Margriet Ruurs Pdf

This colorful cross section of families introduces readers to fourteen real children from around the world and the people they love the most, from Sanne in the Netherlands, who has two moms; to Gilad, whose parents and siblings live on a kibbutz with other families in Israel; to Ji Eun in South Korea, whose parents both work outside the home. An engaging book about different cultures and what they share: the importance of family, and the familiar ways people care for one another.

Author : Camilla Arvidsson,Malin Nilsson
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781604692822

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Concrete Garden Projects by Camilla Arvidsson,Malin Nilsson Pdf

For gardeners and backyard do-it-yourselfers, concrete is a revelation. It's durable, weatherproof, impossible to steal, and it provides much-needed insulation for outdoor plants. Concrete weathers beautifully, softening around the edges, developing moss, and becoming more picturesque with age. Concrete Garden Projects takes advantage of concrete's numerous assets, showcasing an inspiring array of creative options. The step-by-step instructions for dozens of easy, do-it-yourself décor ideas include containers of all shapes and sizes, elegant benches and stools, miniature ponds and birdbaths, stepping stones, a barbecue, and a fire pit. The authors use a variety of molds easily found or made, household items like bowls and baking pans, and simple wooden frames and boxes. At pennies per pound, and so simple to use—just mix with water and pour—concrete is the key to hand-crafted backyard décor.

Author : Helen Steiner Rice
Publisher : Fleming H. Revell Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0800716167

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Daily Steppingstones by Helen Steiner Rice Pdf

Those who enjoy the poetry of Helen Steiner Rice will love these collections of cheerful day-starters. Devotions consist of a Bible passage, and inspirational poem, and a prayer. Beautiful watercolor prints and designs throughout. (Revell)