Author: Harvey M. Rosen
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595000193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Manhood of Benjie Lasser is a coming of age novel full of the sights, sounds and smells of Brooklyn and the Bronx in the 1950’s. Benjie Lasser is a young boy preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, the religious rite symbolizing passage from boyhood into manhood. But, Benjie is also preparing for manhood in other, less tangible ways. Prompted by the desire to spend more time with his wife and son, Benjie’s father, Herman, moves his family from Brooklyn to the Bronx, a block from the fruit and vegetable store where he has been employed for twenty years. This is also a move away from family, however: from Bubbe, Benjie’s grandmother, the mainstay of the family, who is slowly dying of cancer, and from Uncle Max, a man with his own heartbreak, finding his way back to life after the death of his wife. In the course of a few years, Benjie and the family that surrounds him, make a tremendous journey. The reader will enjoy traveling with them in this evocative novel.
The Manhood of Benjie Lasser
Author: Harvey M. Rosen
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595000193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Manhood of Benjie Lasser is a coming of age novel full of the sights, sounds and smells of Brooklyn and the Bronx in the 1950’s. Benjie Lasser is a young boy preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, the religious rite symbolizing passage from boyhood into manhood. But, Benjie is also preparing for manhood in other, less tangible ways. Prompted by the desire to spend more time with his wife and son, Benjie’s father, Herman, moves his family from Brooklyn to the Bronx, a block from the fruit and vegetable store where he has been employed for twenty years. This is also a move away from family, however: from Bubbe, Benjie’s grandmother, the mainstay of the family, who is slowly dying of cancer, and from Uncle Max, a man with his own heartbreak, finding his way back to life after the death of his wife. In the course of a few years, Benjie and the family that surrounds him, make a tremendous journey. The reader will enjoy traveling with them in this evocative novel.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595000193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Manhood of Benjie Lasser is a coming of age novel full of the sights, sounds and smells of Brooklyn and the Bronx in the 1950’s. Benjie Lasser is a young boy preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, the religious rite symbolizing passage from boyhood into manhood. But, Benjie is also preparing for manhood in other, less tangible ways. Prompted by the desire to spend more time with his wife and son, Benjie’s father, Herman, moves his family from Brooklyn to the Bronx, a block from the fruit and vegetable store where he has been employed for twenty years. This is also a move away from family, however: from Bubbe, Benjie’s grandmother, the mainstay of the family, who is slowly dying of cancer, and from Uncle Max, a man with his own heartbreak, finding his way back to life after the death of his wife. In the course of a few years, Benjie and the family that surrounds him, make a tremendous journey. The reader will enjoy traveling with them in this evocative novel.
Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Author: DeDe Wohlfarth
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478653566
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The third edition of Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology provides engaging narratives of clients with complex family situations. The answers to important real-world questions are often nuanced, contextual, and tentative. Unlike the idealistic scenarios presented in most textbooks, these case studies contain ethical lapses, clinical mistakes, confusing diagnostic pictures, cultural misunderstandings, unevenly applied evidence-based approaches, and sometimes unhappy endings. The fictional but realistic portrayals of clients help students learn the skills needed to be successful in the mental health field. Critical thinking questions designed to develop objective analysis and evaluation abilities are embedded throughout the cases. These questions can become individual or group assignments for in-person, hybrid, and online formats. The problem-based learning approach challenges readers to create accurate case conceptualizations and evidence-based treatment plans. The cases utilize the International Classification of Diseases and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The current research applied in the cases deepens understanding of the etiology and treatment of these disorders and captures the tremendous progress in the field of psychology in establishing evidence-based treatment. Continuing the book’s tradition of diversity, the third edition includes a paraplegic father, a blind psychologist, Asian American, Black, biracial, Muslim, Latinx, and Native American participants with differing socioeconomic circumstances, immigration statuses, and sexual orientations.
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478653566
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The third edition of Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology provides engaging narratives of clients with complex family situations. The answers to important real-world questions are often nuanced, contextual, and tentative. Unlike the idealistic scenarios presented in most textbooks, these case studies contain ethical lapses, clinical mistakes, confusing diagnostic pictures, cultural misunderstandings, unevenly applied evidence-based approaches, and sometimes unhappy endings. The fictional but realistic portrayals of clients help students learn the skills needed to be successful in the mental health field. Critical thinking questions designed to develop objective analysis and evaluation abilities are embedded throughout the cases. These questions can become individual or group assignments for in-person, hybrid, and online formats. The problem-based learning approach challenges readers to create accurate case conceptualizations and evidence-based treatment plans. The cases utilize the International Classification of Diseases and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The current research applied in the cases deepens understanding of the etiology and treatment of these disorders and captures the tremendous progress in the field of psychology in establishing evidence-based treatment. Continuing the book’s tradition of diversity, the third edition includes a paraplegic father, a blind psychologist, Asian American, Black, biracial, Muslim, Latinx, and Native American participants with differing socioeconomic circumstances, immigration statuses, and sexual orientations.
Cognition, Metacognition, and Reading
Author: Donna-Lynn Forrest-Pressley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461252520
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
We had our first conversation about cognition, metacognition, and reading in September of 1976. Our particular concern was with reading and learning to read, and what, if anything, meta cognition might have to do with it all. We didn't really know much about metacognition then, of course, but then most other people were in the same predicament. Some people had been working with interesting approaches and results on metalanguage and reading, among them J. Downing, L. Ehri, L. Gleitman, 1. Mattingly, and E. Ryan, and it also was about that time that people were becoming aware of E. Markman's first studies of comprehension monitoring. Other than that perhaps the most influential item around was the perhaps already "classic" monograph by Kruetzer, Leonard, and Flavell on what children know about their own memory. Also in the air at that time were things like A. Brown's notions about "knowing, knowing about know ing, and knowing how to know," D. Meichenbaum's ideas about cognitive behavior modification, and the work by A. Brown and S. Smiley on the awareness of important units in text. Even though these developments were cited as new and innovative, it was not the case that psychologists had never before been of questions. They certainly interested in, or concerned with metacognitive sorts had, as clearly evidenced by the notion of "metaplans", in Miller, Galanter, and Pribram's Plans and the Structure of Behavior.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461252520
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
We had our first conversation about cognition, metacognition, and reading in September of 1976. Our particular concern was with reading and learning to read, and what, if anything, meta cognition might have to do with it all. We didn't really know much about metacognition then, of course, but then most other people were in the same predicament. Some people had been working with interesting approaches and results on metalanguage and reading, among them J. Downing, L. Ehri, L. Gleitman, 1. Mattingly, and E. Ryan, and it also was about that time that people were becoming aware of E. Markman's first studies of comprehension monitoring. Other than that perhaps the most influential item around was the perhaps already "classic" monograph by Kruetzer, Leonard, and Flavell on what children know about their own memory. Also in the air at that time were things like A. Brown's notions about "knowing, knowing about know ing, and knowing how to know," D. Meichenbaum's ideas about cognitive behavior modification, and the work by A. Brown and S. Smiley on the awareness of important units in text. Even though these developments were cited as new and innovative, it was not the case that psychologists had never before been of questions. They certainly interested in, or concerned with metacognitive sorts had, as clearly evidenced by the notion of "metaplans", in Miller, Galanter, and Pribram's Plans and the Structure of Behavior.
Caribbean Panorama
Author: Kathleen Kelley Ferracane
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780847703210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780847703210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Some Particular Evil
Author: Vera Morris
Publisher: Headline Accent
ISBN: 1786151057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
You can run but you can't hide . . . Laurel Bowman has started a new life as a teacher on the isolated Suffolk coast while she tries to get over the murder of her sister. But it seems she cannot escape from death. When the headmaster's wife is murdered, the detective in charge, idiosyncratic DI Frank Diamond, soon has a list of suspects. He is no stranger to Laurel, but despite their troubled past, together they start to unravel the truth. Then the murderer strikes again and Laurel must fight, not just for justice, but for her life. Readers LOVE Vera Morris's Anglian Detective Agency series: 'I sat up to past midnight reading this book' ***** 'Full of twists and turns' ***** 'A book you just know you are going to like from the 1st page' ***** 'A perfect detective novel' ***** 'I started it early one morning and had finished it by bed-time that same day!' ***** 'A super read' ***** 'This book stands head and shoulders above the rest in this overcrowded genre' ***** 'Absolute must read' *****
Publisher: Headline Accent
ISBN: 1786151057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
You can run but you can't hide . . . Laurel Bowman has started a new life as a teacher on the isolated Suffolk coast while she tries to get over the murder of her sister. But it seems she cannot escape from death. When the headmaster's wife is murdered, the detective in charge, idiosyncratic DI Frank Diamond, soon has a list of suspects. He is no stranger to Laurel, but despite their troubled past, together they start to unravel the truth. Then the murderer strikes again and Laurel must fight, not just for justice, but for her life. Readers LOVE Vera Morris's Anglian Detective Agency series: 'I sat up to past midnight reading this book' ***** 'Full of twists and turns' ***** 'A book you just know you are going to like from the 1st page' ***** 'A perfect detective novel' ***** 'I started it early one morning and had finished it by bed-time that same day!' ***** 'A super read' ***** 'This book stands head and shoulders above the rest in this overcrowded genre' ***** 'Absolute must read' *****
Whatever Lola Wants
Author: George H. Szanto
Publisher: Brindle and Glass
ISBN: 1927366356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Ted tells stories. Perched high on a cloud, he peers down at the Earth and the mortals who inhabit it, listening to their memories. Lola, once a famous Hollywood bombshell, now a god, listens to his stories. Ted's words capture her heart, just as she captured the hearts of her fans. Down below, three families experience joy, tragedy, hope, and loss. Milton and Theresa are activists, conservationists, parents, lovers, fighters. Cochan is a self-styled ecological leader, haunted by sadness and fear. And Carney is a disaster-recovery specialist who can quench an oil-platform fire but finds love hard to hold on to. Through their attractions and battles their futures become bound, as Cochan's vision for a new utopia, a massive construction project, threaten to rupture everything. This is a story about stories--those we tell others, and those that fill us up. It is also about the stories we tell ourselves and the ways they make us who we are--admired artists, depised monsters, adored immortals.-- From cover.
Publisher: Brindle and Glass
ISBN: 1927366356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Ted tells stories. Perched high on a cloud, he peers down at the Earth and the mortals who inhabit it, listening to their memories. Lola, once a famous Hollywood bombshell, now a god, listens to his stories. Ted's words capture her heart, just as she captured the hearts of her fans. Down below, three families experience joy, tragedy, hope, and loss. Milton and Theresa are activists, conservationists, parents, lovers, fighters. Cochan is a self-styled ecological leader, haunted by sadness and fear. And Carney is a disaster-recovery specialist who can quench an oil-platform fire but finds love hard to hold on to. Through their attractions and battles their futures become bound, as Cochan's vision for a new utopia, a massive construction project, threaten to rupture everything. This is a story about stories--those we tell others, and those that fill us up. It is also about the stories we tell ourselves and the ways they make us who we are--admired artists, depised monsters, adored immortals.-- From cover.
Vanessa
Author: Hugh Walpole
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528797841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The final instalment in Hugh Walpole’s tumultuous The Herries Chronicle, the family saga has entered the early twentieth century. Judith Paris’ granddaughter, Vanessa, regales the passionate woman’s story, beginning with her hundredth birthday in the 1870s. The dramatic Lake District setting welcomes you back to the grand life of the Herries family. First published in 1933, Vanessa introduces new characters and tragic backstory to the period drama. Proudly republished by Read & Co. Books, Vanessa is a must-read family saga for fans of historical novels.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528797841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The final instalment in Hugh Walpole’s tumultuous The Herries Chronicle, the family saga has entered the early twentieth century. Judith Paris’ granddaughter, Vanessa, regales the passionate woman’s story, beginning with her hundredth birthday in the 1870s. The dramatic Lake District setting welcomes you back to the grand life of the Herries family. First published in 1933, Vanessa introduces new characters and tragic backstory to the period drama. Proudly republished by Read & Co. Books, Vanessa is a must-read family saga for fans of historical novels.
Summer of '42
Author: David Kirshenbaum
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218784
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
THE STORY: It's the summer of 1942...America is at war; men line up by the thousands to join the army; and on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, three fifteen-year-old boys begin a summer they will never forget. Hermie, Oscy and Benjie are accusto
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218784
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
THE STORY: It's the summer of 1942...America is at war; men line up by the thousands to join the army; and on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, three fifteen-year-old boys begin a summer they will never forget. Hermie, Oscy and Benjie are accusto
Harlequin American Romance July 2015 Box Set
Author: Tina Leonard
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460392426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Harlequin® American Romance brings you four new all-American romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin® American Romance box set includes: THE COWBOY SEAL'S TRIPLETS (Bridesmaids Creek) by Tina Leonard John Lopez "Squint" Mathison learned a lot in the Navy, but taming wild child Daisy Donovan requires a different set of skills. Skills he's going to need as an expectant father! THE BULL RIDER'S SON (Reckless, Arizona) by Cathy McDavid When newly hired bull manager and old friend Shane Westcott shows up at the Easy Money Rodeo Arena, Cassidy Beckett is forced to reveal the secret she's been keeping for six years: the identity of her son's father. THE HEART OF A COWBOY (Blue Falls, Texas) by Trish Milburn Natalie Todd has returned to Blue Falls with a terrible secret. She knows she must reveal the truth, but doing so will kill any feelings rancher Garrett Brody has for her… A RANCHER OF HER OWN (The Hitching Post Hotel) by Barbara White Daille Ranch manager and single father Pete Brannigan needs to find the right woman to make his family complete. And Jane Garland is completely unsuitable. So why can't he stop thinking about her? If you love small towns and cowboys, watch out for 4 new Harlequin® American Romance titles every month! Romance the all-American way!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460392426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Harlequin® American Romance brings you four new all-American romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin® American Romance box set includes: THE COWBOY SEAL'S TRIPLETS (Bridesmaids Creek) by Tina Leonard John Lopez "Squint" Mathison learned a lot in the Navy, but taming wild child Daisy Donovan requires a different set of skills. Skills he's going to need as an expectant father! THE BULL RIDER'S SON (Reckless, Arizona) by Cathy McDavid When newly hired bull manager and old friend Shane Westcott shows up at the Easy Money Rodeo Arena, Cassidy Beckett is forced to reveal the secret she's been keeping for six years: the identity of her son's father. THE HEART OF A COWBOY (Blue Falls, Texas) by Trish Milburn Natalie Todd has returned to Blue Falls with a terrible secret. She knows she must reveal the truth, but doing so will kill any feelings rancher Garrett Brody has for her… A RANCHER OF HER OWN (The Hitching Post Hotel) by Barbara White Daille Ranch manager and single father Pete Brannigan needs to find the right woman to make his family complete. And Jane Garland is completely unsuitable. So why can't he stop thinking about her? If you love small towns and cowboys, watch out for 4 new Harlequin® American Romance titles every month! Romance the all-American way!
A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101075759
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for someone to believe in him, for someone to believe that he's more than a thirteen-year-old junkie. Told from the perspectives of the people in his life-including his mother, stepfather, teachers, drug dealer, and best friend-this powerful story will draw you into Benjie's troubled world and force you to confront the uncertainty of his future.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101075759
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for someone to believe in him, for someone to believe that he's more than a thirteen-year-old junkie. Told from the perspectives of the people in his life-including his mother, stepfather, teachers, drug dealer, and best friend-this powerful story will draw you into Benjie's troubled world and force you to confront the uncertainty of his future.