Tales From The Asylum School

Author : Ralph Bonner
Publisher : E-Booktime, LLC
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932701257

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Tales from the Asylum (School) by Ralph Bonner Pdf

Stories about people and the situations they get themselves into. The environment is the college-level schools I've taught in for the last forty years. Fellow teachers, students, and administrators all have stories to tell. Life is like an Opera with happiness, sadness, confrontations, treachery, intrigue, sex (usually implicitly), handicaps, and surprise, sometimes all at once! All that is needed is music to make an Opera! Being an Aquarius, I am fascinated by what makes people tick!

Author : Joe Pantoliano
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1602861994

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Asylum by Joe Pantoliano Pdf

Most people know Joe Pantoliano from his memorable roles in The Sopranos, The Goonies, The Matrix, The Fugitive, and Risky Business, but the Emmy-winning artist has another important role—as an outspoken advocate for smashing the stigma of mental illness, or mental “dis-ease” as he prefers to call it. As a kid in Hoboken, New Jersey, he was just “Joey Pants,” the son of a fiercely controlling, schizophrenic mother. As he grew up, Joey always knew he was different. “It was as if I was born with a huge hole inside of me,” he writes. Much later in life he would be diagnosed with clinical depression, and now he has a message for the millions of people who suffer from mental illness, and for the friends and family who care for them: you are not alone. Asylum is the story of Joe’s Hollywood success, his undiagnosed mental illness, and substance abuse, and how all three led to his awareness, diagnosis, recovery, and public activism. Picking up where his first memoir, Who’s Sorry Now, left off, this unflinching memoir will resonate with victims of mental illness and others who have witnessed its devastating effects and will give all his readers understanding and hope for the future.

Author : Madeleine Roux
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062220981

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Asylum by Madeleine Roux Pdf

Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place." For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm. The dorm was formerly a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on at Brookline . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary asylum, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried. Featuring found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Asylum is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity, perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Don't miss any of the books in the Asylum series, or Madeleine Roux's shivery fantasy series, House of Furies!

Author : Katherine Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0971586055

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Tales from the Asylum by Katherine Sanger Pdf

Author : Ele Fountain
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316423007

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Refugee 87 by Ele Fountain Pdf

A young refugee crosses continents in this timely, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel of survival. Shif has a happy life, unfamiliar with the horrors of his country's regime. He is one of the smartest boys in school, and feels safe and loved in the home he shares with his mother and little sister, right next door to his best friend. But the day that soldiers arrive at his door, Shif knows that he will never be safe again--his only choice is to run. Facing both unthinkable cruelty and boundless kindness, Shif bravely makes his way towards a future he can barely imagine. Based on real experiences and written in spare, powerful prose, this gripping debut illustrates the realities faced by countless young refugees across the world today. Refugee 87 is a story of friendship, kindness, hardship, survival, and -- above all -- hope.

Author : Cristina De Stefano
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635420852

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The Child Is the Teacher by Cristina De Stefano Pdf

A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and pliable. She studied until she became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. She never wanted to marry or have children—the accepted destiny for all women of her milieu in late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome—and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she gave up her son to continue pursuing her career. At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the condition of children in the slums of Rome’s San Lorenzo neighborhood, and realized what she wanted to do with her life: change the school, and therefore the world, through a new approach to the child’s mind. In spite of the resistance she faced from all sides—scientists accused her of being too mystical, and the clergy of being too scientific, traditionalists of giving children too much freedom, and anarchists of giving them too much structure—she would garner acclaim and establish the influential Montessori method, which is now practiced throughout the world. A thorough, nuanced portrait of this often controversial woman, The Child Is the Teacher is the first biographical work on Maria Montessori written by an author who is not a member of the Montessori movement, but who has been granted access to original letters, diaries, notes, and texts written by Montessori herself, including an array of previously unpublished material.

Author : Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781771132305

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Flight and Freedom by Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner Pdf

Author : Simon Doonan
Publisher : Blue Rider Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399173714

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The Asylum by Simon Doonan Pdf

"Humorous essays about the fashion industry"--

Author : Ralph Bonner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 059566833X

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Life Sketches of a College Teacher by Ralph Bonner Pdf

True short stories about the antics and situations of college students and teachers. Guess What Happened at School Today! examines the humor, sadness, success, failure, and sexuality in a University. Read the chapter on "Sexuality" while sitting down. You're going to be laughing so hard you might injure yourself otherwise! Perhaps you'll also discover what the feather means on the front cover! Tales from the Asylum (School) expands the story to other colleges Ralph Bonner has taught in North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. Since most students are in the "sexually active age group", there is considerable sexual tension around! The first two books evoke much of interest to the prospective teacher. Growing Up in a Small Town is Ralph Bonner as a student (with many misadventures!) through college and work in industry. This laid the foundation for future teaching success. As an Aquarius, Ralph Bonner is interested in what makes people "tick"! Older people like the last book because of its nostalgia: "That's the way we were!" The psychological exposition is better here since I knew these people well. Sexuality is a constant background thread here, because that's the way people are!

Author : Kate Milner
Publisher : Barrington Stoke Picture Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1911370065

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My Name is Not Refugee by Kate Milner Pdf

A touching, timely and tender exploration of refugees and migration for the youngest readers.

Author : Robert Wilder
Publisher : Delta
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780385339285

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Tales from the Teachers' Lounge by Robert Wilder Pdf

From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world’s noblest profession—whether he’s taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully. Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school—and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective—as a teacher, parent, and former student—to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd…and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experiment gone wrong–and dares to tell about it. He shares the surprising lessons he’s learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers…manage “helicopter” parents…and cope with bullies—whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donuts don’t help). In Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge, Robert Wilder charts life’s learning curve with a warmth and humor you don’t find in textbooks. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life, family, learning, and teaching from a true lover of education.

Author : Monica Ali,Lisa Appignanesi,David Constantine,Bernardine Evaristo,Patrick Gale,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Emma Parsons,Ian Sansom,Jonathan Skinner,Gillian Slovo,Lytton Smith,Roma Tearne,Jonathan Wittenberg
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697120

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Refugee Tales: Volume III by Monica Ali,Lisa Appignanesi,David Constantine,Bernardine Evaristo,Patrick Gale,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Emma Parsons,Ian Sansom,Jonathan Skinner,Gillian Slovo,Lytton Smith,Roma Tearne,Jonathan Wittenberg Pdf

With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released. In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives. ‘We hear so many of the wrong words about refugees – ugly, limiting, unimaginative words – that it feels like a gift to find here so many of the right words which allow us to better understand the lives around us, and our own lives too.’ – Kamila Shamsie All profits go to the Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group and Kent Help for Refugees.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : MINN:31951D00315741X

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Publishers' Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00088325

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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maud Casey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620403129

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The Man Who Walked Away by Maud Casey Pdf

In a trance-like state, Albert walks-from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia-all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images. Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the hospital of St. André in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Walked Away imagines Albert's wanderings and the anguish that caused him to seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain. In a time when mental health diagnosis is still as much art as science, Maud Casey takes us back to its tentative beginnings and offers us an intimate relationship between one doctor and his patient as, together, they attempt to reassemble a lost life. Through Albert she gives us a portrait of a man untethered from place and time who, in spite of himself, kept setting out, again and again, in search of wonder and astonishment.