Author: Instaread Summaries
Publisher: Instaread Summaries
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book. All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner - A 15-minute Instaread Summary Inside this Instaread Summary: • Overview of the entire book • Introduction to the important people in the book • Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book • Key Takeaways of the book • A Reader's Perspective Preview of this summary:Chapter 1 Allison’s five-year-old daughter, Ellie, is difficult to manage. Allison’s husband, Dave, is a writer whose career has stalled. Allison writes a popular blog and is the primary wage-earner in the family. There is friction and stress in their marriage. To deal with all of these problems, Allison turns to prescription painkiller pills. Chapter 2 Dave sleeps in the guest room. When Ellie gets in bed with Allison during the night, Dave sneaks back into the bedroom to join them in the morning before Ellie wakes up. He does not want Ellie to know they are struggling. Ellie accidentally wets the bed. Allison is late starting her day because she has to clean up the mess. She takes pills to deal with the stress. Several different doctors prescribe pills for her...
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner - A 15-minute Instaread Summary
Author: Instaread Summaries
Publisher: Instaread Summaries
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book. All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner - A 15-minute Instaread Summary Inside this Instaread Summary: • Overview of the entire book • Introduction to the important people in the book • Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book • Key Takeaways of the book • A Reader's Perspective Preview of this summary:Chapter 1 Allison’s five-year-old daughter, Ellie, is difficult to manage. Allison’s husband, Dave, is a writer whose career has stalled. Allison writes a popular blog and is the primary wage-earner in the family. There is friction and stress in their marriage. To deal with all of these problems, Allison turns to prescription painkiller pills. Chapter 2 Dave sleeps in the guest room. When Ellie gets in bed with Allison during the night, Dave sneaks back into the bedroom to join them in the morning before Ellie wakes up. He does not want Ellie to know they are struggling. Ellie accidentally wets the bed. Allison is late starting her day because she has to clean up the mess. She takes pills to deal with the stress. Several different doctors prescribe pills for her...
Publisher: Instaread Summaries
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book. All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner - A 15-minute Instaread Summary Inside this Instaread Summary: • Overview of the entire book • Introduction to the important people in the book • Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book • Key Takeaways of the book • A Reader's Perspective Preview of this summary:Chapter 1 Allison’s five-year-old daughter, Ellie, is difficult to manage. Allison’s husband, Dave, is a writer whose career has stalled. Allison writes a popular blog and is the primary wage-earner in the family. There is friction and stress in their marriage. To deal with all of these problems, Allison turns to prescription painkiller pills. Chapter 2 Dave sleeps in the guest room. When Ellie gets in bed with Allison during the night, Dave sneaks back into the bedroom to join them in the morning before Ellie wakes up. He does not want Ellie to know they are struggling. Ellie accidentally wets the bed. Allison is late starting her day because she has to clean up the mess. She takes pills to deal with the stress. Several different doctors prescribe pills for her...
Spilled Water
Author: Sally Grindley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408807319
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water'. With a brilliant first-person narrative and a powerful description of time and place, this novel is gripping, heart-wrenching and utterly mesmerising.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408807319
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water'. With a brilliant first-person narrative and a powerful description of time and place, this novel is gripping, heart-wrenching and utterly mesmerising.
Feathers in the Wind
Author: Sally Grindley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408819473
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Two children accompany their parents as they travel the world helping animals on the verge of extinction. As their parents work alongside international agencies, the children have their own thrilling adventures. Feathers in the Wind is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo's conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension When the Brook family travel to India for the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, Joe can't wait to buy his own kite at the night-time bazaar and get involved with the locals' celebrations. However, the festivities have a little-known darker side - the strings of fighter kites are glazed with shards of glass (so that they can cut down other kites) and these kite strings injure many birds as they become entangled in them. Joe's mother will be working day and night at a rescue centre as she aims to save every single injured bird, particularly the endangered vultures. Can Joe and Aesha pull off a daring rescue attempt of their own on the day of the festival? Sally Grindley is the author of bestselling and award-winning fiction for young readers. Here she brings to life a story of how humans and wildlife can live side by side, set in India.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408819473
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Two children accompany their parents as they travel the world helping animals on the verge of extinction. As their parents work alongside international agencies, the children have their own thrilling adventures. Feathers in the Wind is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo's conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension When the Brook family travel to India for the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, Joe can't wait to buy his own kite at the night-time bazaar and get involved with the locals' celebrations. However, the festivities have a little-known darker side - the strings of fighter kites are glazed with shards of glass (so that they can cut down other kites) and these kite strings injure many birds as they become entangled in them. Joe's mother will be working day and night at a rescue centre as she aims to save every single injured bird, particularly the endangered vultures. Can Joe and Aesha pull off a daring rescue attempt of their own on the day of the festival? Sally Grindley is the author of bestselling and award-winning fiction for young readers. Here she brings to life a story of how humans and wildlife can live side by side, set in India.
My Name Is Rose
Author: Sally Grindley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140881403X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Rose is a young Romani gypsy girl who travels around Romania and Europe in a caravan with her family. Playing music - on their own or with extended family and friends - her life is happy, until Rose suddenly finds herself an orphan after a dreadful car accident. This is the beginning of many changes for Rose as she is forced to adapt to another country and a new family, and she realises that she's not sure of her identity.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140881403X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Rose is a young Romani gypsy girl who travels around Romania and Europe in a caravan with her family. Playing music - on their own or with extended family and friends - her life is happy, until Rose suddenly finds herself an orphan after a dreadful car accident. This is the beginning of many changes for Rose as she is forced to adapt to another country and a new family, and she realises that she's not sure of her identity.
Hurricane Wills
Author: Sally Grindley
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616087323
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Chris struggles to cope with his older brother Wills's ADHD, especially after Wills begins hanging around with a bad crowd and Chris, aware of his illegal activities, feels he must hide the misdeeds from their recently-separated parents.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616087323
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Chris struggles to cope with his older brother Wills's ADHD, especially after Wills begins hanging around with a bad crowd and Chris, aware of his illegal activities, feels he must hide the misdeeds from their recently-separated parents.
The Wiles of Satan
Author: William Spurstowe
Publisher: Digital Puritan Press
ISBN: 1365129721
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Like it or not, every Christian is engaged in a fierce and high-stakes battle with Satan. In this enlightening book, Puritan pastor William Spurstowe succinctly illustrates from 2 Corinthians 2:11 (“…lest Satan should get an advantage of us—for we are not ignorant of his devices”) his premise: that “Satan is full of devices, and studies arts of circumvention, by which he unweariedly seeks the irrecoverable ruin of the souls of men.” Spurstowe explains how Satan’s long experience and single-minded determination make him such a formidable adversary. He then proceeds to methodically expose, explain, and disarm nearly two dozen common traps that Satan has used to ensnare every generation of the unwary. Finally, he prescribes ten helpful remedies or antidotes that can be used to counter even the most tempestuous temptation. William Spurstowe (1605–1666) was a Presbyterian pastor and member of the Westminster Assembly; he served the Parliament of Richard Cromwell. Originally published in 1666, this classic treatise has been carefully prepared to benefit a new generation of Christian readers. Archaic language has been gently modernized, and dozens of helpful footnotes have been added to aid the reader. This edition includes a biographical preface, Scripture index (paperback only), and review questions designed to guide group discussion or personal reflection.
Publisher: Digital Puritan Press
ISBN: 1365129721
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Like it or not, every Christian is engaged in a fierce and high-stakes battle with Satan. In this enlightening book, Puritan pastor William Spurstowe succinctly illustrates from 2 Corinthians 2:11 (“…lest Satan should get an advantage of us—for we are not ignorant of his devices”) his premise: that “Satan is full of devices, and studies arts of circumvention, by which he unweariedly seeks the irrecoverable ruin of the souls of men.” Spurstowe explains how Satan’s long experience and single-minded determination make him such a formidable adversary. He then proceeds to methodically expose, explain, and disarm nearly two dozen common traps that Satan has used to ensnare every generation of the unwary. Finally, he prescribes ten helpful remedies or antidotes that can be used to counter even the most tempestuous temptation. William Spurstowe (1605–1666) was a Presbyterian pastor and member of the Westminster Assembly; he served the Parliament of Richard Cromwell. Originally published in 1666, this classic treatise has been carefully prepared to benefit a new generation of Christian readers. Archaic language has been gently modernized, and dozens of helpful footnotes have been added to aid the reader. This edition includes a biographical preface, Scripture index (paperback only), and review questions designed to guide group discussion or personal reflection.
The Carolina Reader for English 101 USC Columbia
Author: Hayden-McNeil Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780738078816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780738078816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An Affair with Africa
Author: Alzada Carlisle Kistner
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597268321
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to find their way out of numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emergency airlift by the United States Air Force brought them to safety in Kenya where they continued their field work. Thus began three decades of adventures in science. In An Affair with Africa, Alzada Kistner describes her family's African experience -- the five expeditions they took beginning with the trip to the Belgian Congo in 1960 and ending in 1972-73 with a nine-month excursion across southern Africa. From hunching over columns of ants for hours on end while seven months pregnant to eating dinner next to Idi Amin, Kistner provides a lively and humor-filled account of the human side of scientific discovery. Her wonderfully detailed stories clearly show why, despite hardship and danger -- and contrary to all of society's expectations -- she could not forsake accompanying her husband on his expeditions, and, to this day, continues to find the world "endlessly beckoning, a lively bubbling cauldron of questions and intrigue." In the spirit of Beryl Markham's West with the Night and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, An Affair with Africa shares with readers the thoughts and experiences of a remarkable woman, one whose unquenchable thirst for adventure led her into a series of almost unimaginable situations. Readers -- from armchair travelers fascinated by stories of Africa to scientists familiar with the Kistners's work but unaware of the lengths to which they went to gather their data -- will find An Affair with Africa a rare treasure.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597268321
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to find their way out of numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emergency airlift by the United States Air Force brought them to safety in Kenya where they continued their field work. Thus began three decades of adventures in science. In An Affair with Africa, Alzada Kistner describes her family's African experience -- the five expeditions they took beginning with the trip to the Belgian Congo in 1960 and ending in 1972-73 with a nine-month excursion across southern Africa. From hunching over columns of ants for hours on end while seven months pregnant to eating dinner next to Idi Amin, Kistner provides a lively and humor-filled account of the human side of scientific discovery. Her wonderfully detailed stories clearly show why, despite hardship and danger -- and contrary to all of society's expectations -- she could not forsake accompanying her husband on his expeditions, and, to this day, continues to find the world "endlessly beckoning, a lively bubbling cauldron of questions and intrigue." In the spirit of Beryl Markham's West with the Night and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, An Affair with Africa shares with readers the thoughts and experiences of a remarkable woman, one whose unquenchable thirst for adventure led her into a series of almost unimaginable situations. Readers -- from armchair travelers fascinated by stories of Africa to scientists familiar with the Kistners's work but unaware of the lengths to which they went to gather their data -- will find An Affair with Africa a rare treasure.
A History of Science in Society
Author: Lesley Cormack
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442604484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. In this edition, the authors examine the robust intellectual exchange between East and West and provide new discussions of two women in science: Maria Merian and Maria Winkelmann. A chapter on the relationship between science and war has been added as well as a section on climate change. The further readings section has been updated to reflect recent contributions to the field. Other new features include timelines at the end of each chapter, 70 upgraded illustrations, and new maps of Renaissance Europe, Captain James Cook's voyages, the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, and the main war front during World War I.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442604484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. In this edition, the authors examine the robust intellectual exchange between East and West and provide new discussions of two women in science: Maria Merian and Maria Winkelmann. A chapter on the relationship between science and war has been added as well as a section on climate change. The further readings section has been updated to reflect recent contributions to the field. Other new features include timelines at the end of each chapter, 70 upgraded illustrations, and new maps of Renaissance Europe, Captain James Cook's voyages, the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, and the main war front during World War I.
The Black Experience in America
Author: Edward Ramsamy
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780757526862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780757526862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description