Walking The Tightrope 101 Ways To Manage Motherhood And Your Sanity

Author : Dr. Monica A. Dixon
Publisher : Author House
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781468543162

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Walking the Tightrope: 101 Ways to Manage Motherhood and Your Sanity by Dr. Monica A. Dixon Pdf

This is the Doctor Spock of your generation. I wish I would have had this book when raising six kids! Authors Mom You buy a new microwave and you get an extensive instruction manual, yet deliver your first born and all they send you home with is a large hospital bill and some sample diapers. Youre stuck with this micro-being for the next 18+ years, yet have little more to operate from than the seat of your pants. Dr. Monica shares her tried and true lessons for how to: Build your own energy reserves for this most difficult yet rewarding of lifes jobs Build your own energy reserves for this most difficult yet rewarding of lifes jobs Practice simple, effective discipline moves that workNOW! Put creative tips into action that will get your kids to eat healthy, do their chores, listen and actually talk to you, and learn their limits, all while balancing a career, friends, a household and your own sanity Easily and effectively place limits on your time and obligations to others, while putting your time and energy into those things you most value

Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374715830

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Mothers by Jacqueline Rose Pdf

A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world’s iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable, of course) to repair. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl’s Matilda to insights on motherhood in the ancient world and the contemporary stigmatization of single mothers, Jacqueline Rose delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice. Mothers is an incisive, rousing call to action from one of our most important contemporary thinkers.

Author : Lisa Robinson
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525579991

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Madame Saqui by Lisa Robinson Pdf

A stunning picture book biography about the tightrope walker who dazzled Paris as she danced across the sky with impeccable balance and unparalleled skill during the French Revolution. In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a tightrope, just like her acrobatic parents. Sneaking off to the fairgrounds for secret tightrope walking lessons, Marguerite finessed her performance skills, ultimately performing for crowds as a young rope dancer. And eventually, Marguerite would perform as Madame Saqui, waltzing and pirouetting across- and never falling off- countless ropes above adoring crowds. A nouvelle chérie de Paris, Madame Saqui cemented her place in circus history, winning the adoration of the French people and royalty alike, including Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. This remarkable biography unveils the inspiring story of a trailblazing woman who revolutionized the circus world-- without ever missing a step.

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984813138

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Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully Pdf

One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.

Author : Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525564171

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Tightrope by Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.

Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664171634

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Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey Pdf

Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her. Withersteen gets help from a number of friends, including Bern Venters and Lassiter, a notorious gunman and killer of Mormons. She struggles with her "blindness" to the evil nature of her church and its leaders, and tries to keep Venters and Lassiter from killing the adversaries who are slowly ruining her.

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780670881468

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The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Pdf

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Author : Laura Martin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062803825

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Hoax for Hire by Laura Martin Pdf

Goonies meets the humor and heart of Gordon Korman in this new adventure full of nonstop action and spot-on humor from the critically acclaimed author of Float. The McNeil family has always been professional hoaxers—tricking bystanders into believing they’re seeing legendary creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Unlike the rest of his family, twelve-year-old Grayson hates hoaxing and wants nothing to do with the business—even when the McNeils land a huge job and must pull off four sea monster hoaxes in a week. But when things go disastrously wrong and Dad and Gramps go missing, Grayson and his brother, Curtis, are the only people who can finish the job and save their family.

Author : Rachel Yoder
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281561

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Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY AV CLUB, VULTURE, ESQUIRE AND LITERARY HUB One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. As the mother's symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give into her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, "A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography," and meets a group of mommies involved in a multi-level-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem. An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.

Author : Sheri McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 0997352205

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Done With The Crying by Sheri McGregor Pdf

In this encouraging book, Sheri McGregor helps parents of estranged adult children break free from emotional pain and move forward in their lives. With the latest research, her own experience, and insight from more than 9,000 parents, McGregor covers the growing trend of estranged adults from loving families. Devastated parents can be happy again.

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780061975028

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Monster by Walter Dean Myers Pdf

This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives. Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story that was the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award recipient, an ALA Best Book, a Coretta Scott King Honor selection, and a National Book Award finalist. Monster is now a major motion picture called All Rise and starring Jennifer Hudson, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Nas, and A$AP Rocky. The late Walter Dean Myers was a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, who was known for his commitment to realistically depicting kids from his hometown of Harlem.

Author : Pat Heim,Tammy Hughes,Susan K. Golant
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780698183292

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Hardball for Women by Pat Heim,Tammy Hughes,Susan K. Golant Pdf

The bestselling guide fully updated for the post-Lean In era For nearly two decades, Hardball for Women has shown women how to get ahead in the business world. Whether the arena is a law firm, a medical group, a tech company, or any other work environment, Hardball for Women decodes male business culture and shows women how to break patterns of behavior that put them at a disadvantage. It explains how to get results when you “lean in” without being thrown off balance. Illustrated with real-life examples Hardball for Women teaches women how to: Successfully navigate middle management to become a leader in your field Be assertive without being obnoxious Display confidence Engage in smart self-promotion Lead both men and women—and recognize the differences between them Use “power talk” language to your advantage

Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0226039056

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson Pdf

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.

Author : Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous
Publisher : NA World Services Inc
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Living Clean: The Journey Continues by Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous Pdf

Author : Daniel Pinchbeck
Publisher : Crown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780767907439

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Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck Pdf

A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, these plants are sacred because they awaken the mind to other levels of awareness--to a holographic vision of the universe. Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including such thinkers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, and a new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemists, psychonauts, and philosophers. It is also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging investigation with these outlaw compounds, including a thirty-hour tribal initiation in West Africa; an all-night encounter with the master shamans of the South American rain forest; and a report from a psychedelic utopia in the Black Rock Desert that is the Burning Man Festival. Breaking Open the Head is brave participatory journalism at its best, a vivid account of psychic and intellectual experiences that opened doors in the wall of Western rationalism and completed Daniel Pinchbeck's personal transformation from a jaded Manhattan journalist to shamanic initiate and grateful citizen of the cosmos.