![]() This rare and beautiful book is bound to appeal to both the innocent young and the most sophisticated seniors. With Johnson and Fancher's atmospheric, large-scale paintings bursting off the pages, Dr. Here is a wonderful way for parents to talk with children about their feelings. Using a spectrum of vibrant colors and a menagerie of animals, this unique book does for the range of human moods and emotions what Oh, the Places You'll Go! does for the human life cycle. Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the "first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color." The quest for an artist finally endedafter the manuscript languished for more than two decadesat the paint brushes of husband-and-wife team Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher whose stunning, expressive paintings reveal such striking images as a bright red horse kicking its heels, a cool and quiet green fish, a sad and lonely purple dinosaur, and an angrily howling black wolf. Seuss, with Paintings by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher Vintage 1997 Hardcover Childrens Emotions Book. ![]() Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me." The late Dr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Like the cover photo, Harvey’s surprising, intelligent, and mysterious poetry spurns the personal and turns often to the pun, to the non sequitur, and to mathematical double-meanings. It’s an image that simultaneously evokes duality, the numerical, and life’s fragility so much depends on the dominoes remaining upright. ![]() Yet perhaps all of that tense conflict between the mechanical and human, as well as the blurred distinction between them, is still present in the phrase “Modern Life.” The book’s cover art, created by Harvey herself, seems to support this reading it features digitally-altered photographs of dominoes lined up and ready to fall, their dots oddly made to look like blackberries or clusters of eggs-something life-like, at any rate, but also mathematical: division and fractions suggested by the heavy black line that separates the dominoes’ two halves. Both earlier titles delight through their use of antithesis, overt and covert both ask us to sympathize with objects, to consider their point of view both seek to disrupt the division between human and nonhuman, and between the humorous and the pathetic. Given the imaginative titles of Matthea Harvey’s two previous collections of poetry, Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form and Sad Little Breathing Machine, her new book’s title, Modern Life, seems to signal a dry urgency. ![]() ![]() ![]() She currently lives in Leucadia, California. ![]() ![]() When Marian Sang, a picture book about singer Marian Anderson, won numerous awards including the ALA Sibert Honor and NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award. Riding Freedom has also won many awards including the national Willa Cather Award and the California Young Reader Medal. Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses a beautiful home filled with servants in Aguascalientes, Mexico and the promise of one day rising to Mamas position and presiding over all of Rancho de las Rosas. The novel Esperanza Rising, winner of the Pura Belpre Medal, the Jane Addams Peace Award, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, and the Americas Award Honor Book, is based on her own … More grandmother's immigration from Mexico to California. Esperanza descubrirá que la verdadera riqueza está en la familia y la comunidad. She has written over twenty-five picture books, novels, and nonfiction books for young readers. At first, she wrote adult books about child development, but soon switched to writing children's books. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a bilingual Head Start teacher and as an early childhood program administrator. in education from San Diego State University. ![]() Author Pam Mu�oz Ryan was born in Bakersfield, California on December 25, 1951. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A drug or two was available that could stop parasitic diseases once they hit, tropical maladies like malaria and sleeping sickness. This is a fascinating scientific tale with all the excitement and intrigue of a great suspense novel.įor thousands of years, humans had sought medicines with which they could defeat contagion, and they had slowly, painstakingly, won a few battles: some vaccines to ward off disease, a handful of antitoxins. The very concept that chemicals created in a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatment of symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness.Ī strange and colorful story, The Demon Under the Microscope illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual idealism, careful planning, lucky breaks, cynicism, heroism, greed, hard work, and the central (though mistaken) idea that brought sulfa to the world. Sulfa changed the way new drugs were developed, approved, and sold transformed the way doctors treated patients and ushered in the era of modern medicine. Sulfa saved millions of lives-among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.-but its real effects are even more far reaching. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. ![]() ![]() ![]() The men in Samra's life wanted to police them, the women in their life had only shown them the example of pious obedience, and their body was a problem to be solved. ![]() Backed into a corner, their need for a safe space-in which to grow and nurture their creative, feminist spirit-became dire. When their family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage. From their parents, they internalized the lesson that revealing their identity could put them in grave danger. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist? ![]() ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION ![]() ![]() ![]() The ego is constantly changing as it feeds off the mind, but it can be perceived as something that is constant. ![]() Ahamkara is ones identity or I-shape, with the stem a ham meaning “I” and akara meaning shape. Rather than reacting, intelligence interrogates memory and sensory input, drawing creative comparisons.Īhamkara is ego or self. This layer is both cognitive (logical, decision making) and conative (action-taking and intentional). reflexive, meaning it has vision or darshan and 2. It is the first inner layer and mediates between manas and ahamkara. These states aid in self-observation and self-knowledge.īuddhi is intelligence. They are the dull state, distracted mind, oscillating mind, pointed attentive mind, and samadhi (restrained consciousness that is experienced in a timeless state of absorption). There are five qualities of the mind, known as bhumis. It is often characterized by indecisive and reactive to both memory and senses - an often harmful behavior. ![]() In other words, it is the gatherer and storer of information and explorer and experiencer of the outside world. It is the outermost layer composed of our memory and senses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Time travelers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master’s less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called “one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written.” ![]() Quick Review: Creepy, suspenseful, and showcasing a vast range, Bradbury’s crime stories should be read, whether you are a Bradbury fan or love crime novels with a horror edge. Read this book for: horror, supernatural mystery, mixed genre, short stories, mob stories, creepy stories ![]() ![]() The last line of the epilogue was just great. The ending was nice and wasn't rushed like some historical romances I've read. The following scene with the dinner rolls was fun too. One of my favorite scenes is where Charlotte tells Rothington that she told her mother he was just like Uncle Herbert (you'll have to read to find out why) and that's why her mother changed her attitude towards him. The heroine was smart with the perfect amount of sarcasm, cheekiness, and a hint of ditziness blended together. I liked how Parker had the hero be both a take charge seducer and a lovesick gentleman. ![]() It was full of humor, heated stares, a couple of instances of failing to tell the whole truth, and of course a bunch of wicked thoughts. I actually forgot he was an earl as the story wasn't so much about his (or her) status. The story started out bit slow and the hero's attitude in the first chapter was a bit confusing, but once Charlotte and the Earl of Rothbury's, or Rothbury as he is called throughout the book, "friendship" got going it was a delightful read. ![]() (Read the product description to find out more) It was worth the $6.99 plus tax I paid for it. ![]() The title caught my eye and when I read the description it sounded really good so I bought it. It's the first eBook as well as the first Olivia Parker novel I've read. ![]() ![]() He hasn't gotten much sleep.Īlready I know I'm not going to like today. ![]() The voice in my head is always different. But not so addicted that he needs one as soon as he wakes up. I'm never the same person twice, but I've certainly been this type before. I look around and know that this is his room. Somehow I know this-my name is Justin-and at the same time I know that I'm not really Justin, I'm only borrowing his life for a day. The biography kicks in, a welcome gift from the not?me part of the mind. I wake up, open my eyes, understand that it is a new morning, a new place. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.Įvery day I am someone else. The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you're used to waking up in a new one each morning. ![]() It's not just the body-opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I'm fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth. ![]() Immediately I have to figure out who I am. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also enjoyed watching Dark Shadows and Lost in Space in preschool. Her first story was about a vampire, which she wrote at age five. In 2018, Martin started publishing romance under the pen name Morgan Brice. In addition to her fiction writing, Martin writes feature articles for regional and national magazines and teaches public relations writing and public speaking for the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. ![]() Her first novel, The Summoner, was published in 2007, and she has been a prolific author ever since. She worked for seventeen years as a VP of Corporate Communications and other marketing roles before founding DreamSpinner Communications in 2003. in Marketing and Management Information Systems from Pennsylvania State University in 1986. Martin was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and she received her BA in history from Grove City College in 1984, and an M.B.A. Gail Zehner Martin (born December 1, 1962) is an American writer of epic fantasy and urban fantasy and is most well known for her The Chronicles of The Necromancer fantasy adventure series for Solaris Books and Double Dragon Publishing. ![]() |