The Case For Make Believe

Author : Susan Linn
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781595586568

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The Case For Make Believe by Susan Linn Pdf

In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural—it threatens corporate profits. A book with immediate relevance for parents and educators alike, The Case for Make Believe helps readers understand how crucial child’s play is—and what parents and educators can do to protect it. At the heart of the book are stories of children at home, in school, and at a therapist’s office playing about real-life issues from entering kindergarten to a sibling’s death, expressing feelings they can’t express directly, and making meaning of an often confusing world. In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

Author : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775560814

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Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Pdf

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that adage is put to its test in Molly Make-Believe, a charming romance novel from Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. When up-and-coming businessman Carl Stanton falls ill and is prescribed weeks of bed rest, his fiancee Cornelia decides to go ahead with her plans to visit relatives in the South. A flurry of love letters follow -- but their true provenance leads the ailing Carl down an unexpected path.

Author : Susan Linn
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400079995

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Consuming Kids by Susan Linn Pdf

Looks at the way corporations and advertisers target children as a profitable demographic, as well as their methods for getting past parental safeguards to make products of all kinds appeal directly to even the youngest children.

Author : Leonard S. Marcus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0395674077

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Minders of Make-believe by Leonard S. Marcus Pdf

Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.

Author : Derrick Jensen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603581837

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The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen Pdf

Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789470811

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Unicorn Universe by Anonim Pdf

Author : K. Emily Hutta
Publisher : RH/Disney
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 073642220X

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Make-believe Bride by K. Emily Hutta Pdf

Ariel loves to play make-believe--especially when she pretends to marry the prince of her dreams! This original storybook features a press-out necklace.

Author : Julia Quinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062388186

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The Girl With The Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn Pdf

There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In this second of the Bridgerton Prequel series, following Because of Miss Bridgerton, we go back to where it all began. . . from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie... I told everyone I was your wife When Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out three months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is—even if he does not recall her face—and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he'd always assumed he'd marry his neighbor back in England. If only it were true... Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself—completely—to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs. Rokesby.

Author : Make Believe Ideas Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789477506

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Unicorn Fun by Make Believe Ideas Ltd Pdf

High quality cloth book with touch-and-feel tabs on each page.

Author : MAKE BELIEVE IDEAS.,Make Believe Ideas Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Children's songs
ISBN : 1788438272

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Baby Book Nursery Rhymes with CD by MAKE BELIEVE IDEAS.,Make Believe Ideas Ltd Pdf

Nursery rhymes book with a CD to sing along to

Author : Jane Alexander
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749024246

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A User's Guide to Make-Believe by Jane Alexander Pdf

WELCOME TO MAKE-BELIEVE. YOU CREATE THE FANTASY, THEY CONTROL YOUR MIND. Cassie worked at Imagen, the tech giant behind the cutting-edge virtual reality experience Make-BelieveT, and she got to know the product well. Too well. But Cassie has been barred from her escape from the real world, and legally gagged by the company. Her dream job now seems to be part of a larger nightmare, and Imagen is not done with her yet. With Imagen holding all the cards, and personal and public freedoms at stake, how far will Cassie go to end the deception? Immerse yourself in a near-future world akin to Black Mirror and Vox with an all-too plausible slant on reality and fantasy for our 'connected' times.

Author : Maggie Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Murder
ISBN : 1464212805

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Just Make Believe by Maggie Robinson Pdf

A week-long house party in the country--why not? Lady Adelaide has nothing else to do, now that her year of mourning for her unfaithful husband is up and her plans to rekindle her romantic life have backfired. But when her hostess is found dead on the conservatory floor, Addie knows just who to call--Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter of Scotland Yard. Dev may not want to kiss Addie again, but he's anxious to solve the crime. Who would want to kill Pamela, the beautiful wife of one of Britain's greatest Great War heroes? Certainly not her devoted and wheelchair-bound husband, Sir Hugh Fernald. The other guests seem equally innocent and improbable. But despite all appearances, something is very wrong at Fernald Hall--there's a body buried in the garden, and the governess has fallen down the stairs to her death. Who's next? Addie and Dev must work together to stop another murder, and they have some help thanks to Rupert, Addie's late and unlamented husband. Rupert needs to make amends for his louche life on earth, and what better way to earn his celestial wings than catch a killer?

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316550353

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Make Believe Town by David Mamet Pdf

Make-Believe Town brings together David Mamet's acute insights into everyday life, the arts, and politics. These pieces evidence Mamet's love of language, particularly the introductory essay, "Eight Kings", which celebrates the private languages of carpenters, carnival workers, and all crafts and trades, and "The Northern Novel", which propounds Mamet's affection for the line of American fiction exemplified by Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. Some of the essays are prose portraits from Mamet's life: "Deer Hunting" and "The Diner" delineate worlds far from the public eye. Make-Believe Town also contains beautifully written recollections of Mamet's early days as a writer ("Girl Copy"), his start in the theater ("Memories of Off Broadway"), his education as a gambler ("Gems From a Gambler's Bookshelf"), and bygone days on Broadway ("Delsomma's"). Mamet's incisive thoughts about public issues - support for the arts, nudity in films, the roles given Jewish characters, even the posthumous rehabilitation of Richard Nixon - round out a far-reaching collection.

Author : Marc McKee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1625577087

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Meta Meta Make-belief by Marc McKee Pdf

Poetry. "Hi. You probably don't know me, but this blurb is that moment when you're scanning the back of a book, looking for a hook that will lead you inside to something you really need. But then you realize the person who's written the blurb--me--isn't someone you've ever heard of, or they're not the literary flavor of the week, or maybe you genuinely don't like their work. Maybe you genuinely don't like them...Well, this is that moment, and we've both been here before. It's a little uncomfortable, but often that's the case with things that are true. What I'm saying is...I really need you to read this book, because it is in fact something you really need to read. Really. Please..."--Matt Hart "Imagine, if you will, a robot, a little language machine programmed to process hurt--your exact grief--by naming it, until it has no sting. Imagine an elegy for Phillip Seymour Hoffman delivered from the persona of Phil Parma, Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character in Magnolia, over Phillip Seymour Hoffman's body, like a treatise on hearing and healing another human. If you can imagine the antic mix of Ultra-Talk and artifice, a spiral notebook's wide-open ardor, and POV script filled to the brim with 'lust and shame / and real beauty and the feverish, / trembling trust you get from puppies / or babies, anybody truly new,' you need this book more than you think. Simultaneously searing and sensitively tuned, McKee's fourth collection, META META MAKE-BELIEF is both diagnosis and remedy for 'your despair which is always becoming / another version of itself / or bulging into an altogether / altogether else.'"--Marcus Wicker "We live in a world of illusions selling us further illusions. We grow dizzy and sick with it. This book is a tonic and an art and a hair of the dog, making itself true and truly felt."--Kate Nuernberger

Author : Make Believe Ideas Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789470080

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The Magic Purse by Make Believe Ideas Ltd Pdf

A magical board book, with touches to explore on every spread.