Author: Philip Scharper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683042112
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Santa Claus was once a kid too, and like many other children, he didn't always listen to his parents. One December, he discovers that it may have been wrong not to, as he winds up sick with the flu right before Christmas! The doctor tells Santa to stay in bed, but how will he make his Christmas deliveries? Reindeer Comet, Dibbles, and Nibbles come to the rescue to help Santa deliver all of his presents to the good little boys and girls as Santa learns his lesson about taking his parents' advice. Join Santa as he asks his friends for help delivering presents and learn about the importance of listening to your parents, all while learning a new language!
Santa Claus Was Once a Kid Too / Ong Gia Santa Claus Cung Da Tung la Mot Cau be
Author: Philip Scharper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683042112
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Santa Claus was once a kid too, and like many other children, he didn't always listen to his parents. One December, he discovers that it may have been wrong not to, as he winds up sick with the flu right before Christmas! The doctor tells Santa to stay in bed, but how will he make his Christmas deliveries? Reindeer Comet, Dibbles, and Nibbles come to the rescue to help Santa deliver all of his presents to the good little boys and girls as Santa learns his lesson about taking his parents' advice. Join Santa as he asks his friends for help delivering presents and learn about the importance of listening to your parents, all while learning a new language!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683042112
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Santa Claus was once a kid too, and like many other children, he didn't always listen to his parents. One December, he discovers that it may have been wrong not to, as he winds up sick with the flu right before Christmas! The doctor tells Santa to stay in bed, but how will he make his Christmas deliveries? Reindeer Comet, Dibbles, and Nibbles come to the rescue to help Santa deliver all of his presents to the good little boys and girls as Santa learns his lesson about taking his parents' advice. Join Santa as he asks his friends for help delivering presents and learn about the importance of listening to your parents, all while learning a new language!
Santa Claus Was Once a Kid Too
Author: Philip H Scharper Jr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683040651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This quirky, brightly illustrated, story puts a Dennis the Menace spin on the classic tale of The Night Before Christmas. Kids don't always do what they are told, and even Santa had flair of independence as a child. But what happens when Kid Santa gets sick for Christmas? This unique, eminently readable book will transport and enthrall every child as they relate to Santa Claus' dilemma and root for his friends to save the day. Before Santa Claus was the round, jolly, and bearded fellow that we all know and love, he was the young, adventurous and stubborn Kid Santa. Like most young children, Kid Santa doesn't always listen to his parents' advice. After being told to dress warmly, he spends an afternoon in the snow, wearing only shorts and his favorite summertime shirt. Unfortunately, Kid Santa gets very sick, and the doctor orders two weeks of bed rest. With Christmas just a few days away, Kid Santa is faced with a huge dilemma. Can Kid Santa save the day? Will he find a helping hand offered from his friends, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy? Or will Christmas have to be canceled? Babl Books is completely dedicated to bringing readers quality children's books in their own language.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781683040651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This quirky, brightly illustrated, story puts a Dennis the Menace spin on the classic tale of The Night Before Christmas. Kids don't always do what they are told, and even Santa had flair of independence as a child. But what happens when Kid Santa gets sick for Christmas? This unique, eminently readable book will transport and enthrall every child as they relate to Santa Claus' dilemma and root for his friends to save the day. Before Santa Claus was the round, jolly, and bearded fellow that we all know and love, he was the young, adventurous and stubborn Kid Santa. Like most young children, Kid Santa doesn't always listen to his parents' advice. After being told to dress warmly, he spends an afternoon in the snow, wearing only shorts and his favorite summertime shirt. Unfortunately, Kid Santa gets very sick, and the doctor orders two weeks of bed rest. With Christmas just a few days away, Kid Santa is faced with a huge dilemma. Can Kid Santa save the day? Will he find a helping hand offered from his friends, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy? Or will Christmas have to be canceled? Babl Books is completely dedicated to bringing readers quality children's books in their own language.
Prison Truth
Author: William J. Drummond
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520298365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520298365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English
Author: Marcus Callies
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027254311
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027254311
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.
Solito, Solita
Author: Steven Mayers
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608466205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone), shortlisted for the 2019 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells—in their own words—the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed the borders, and for some, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States. In an era of fear, xenophobia, and outright lies, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment, bravery and resilience, hypocrisy and hope? They bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents, Solito, Solita’s narrators bring to light the experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border. This collection includes the story of Adrián, from Guatemala City, whose mother was shot to death before his eyes. He refused to join a gang, rode across Mexico atop cargo trains, crossed the US border as a minor, and was handcuffed and thrown into ICE detention on his eighteenth birthday. We hear the story of Rosa, a Salvadoran mother fighting to save her life as well as her daughter’s after death squads threatened her family. Together they trekked through the jungles on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, where masked men assaulted them. We also meet Gabriel, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States, and through study, legal support and work, is now attending UC Berkeley.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608466205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone), shortlisted for the 2019 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells—in their own words—the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed the borders, and for some, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States. In an era of fear, xenophobia, and outright lies, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment, bravery and resilience, hypocrisy and hope? They bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents, Solito, Solita’s narrators bring to light the experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border. This collection includes the story of Adrián, from Guatemala City, whose mother was shot to death before his eyes. He refused to join a gang, rode across Mexico atop cargo trains, crossed the US border as a minor, and was handcuffed and thrown into ICE detention on his eighteenth birthday. We hear the story of Rosa, a Salvadoran mother fighting to save her life as well as her daughter’s after death squads threatened her family. Together they trekked through the jungles on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, where masked men assaulted them. We also meet Gabriel, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States, and through study, legal support and work, is now attending UC Berkeley.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
Author: Nigel Duffield
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book offers the reader a closely edited collection of papers, representing a wide spectrum of frameworks, approaches and methods, from traditional fieldwork studies of non-standard dialects, to corpus-based discussions of language and gender, to formal syntactic and semantic analyses of key functional morphemes, to laboratory experiments, and work in first language acquisition. Many of the papers present detailed analyses of original data, as well as novel treatments of established facts; considered together – as well as in contrast to one another – they make a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of how Vietnamese is structured, acquired and put to use. The papers should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary approaches to Vietnamese linguistics, and Southeast Asian languages more generally.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book offers the reader a closely edited collection of papers, representing a wide spectrum of frameworks, approaches and methods, from traditional fieldwork studies of non-standard dialects, to corpus-based discussions of language and gender, to formal syntactic and semantic analyses of key functional morphemes, to laboratory experiments, and work in first language acquisition. Many of the papers present detailed analyses of original data, as well as novel treatments of established facts; considered together – as well as in contrast to one another – they make a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of how Vietnamese is structured, acquired and put to use. The papers should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary approaches to Vietnamese linguistics, and Southeast Asian languages more generally.
Mr. Nachron's List
Author: Mike Corbett
Publisher: Centrifugal Publishing
ISBN: 9780983067986
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
If the events in this book did not actually happen, we are treated to the hope that they may occur in the future, or perhaps even at the moment of this reading. The paradoxes of time affect Ron Maddock so profoundly that the reader is able to share his exploits without overly straining the imagination. Some of the characters he encounters as he spelunks through the past will beguile; others will repel, but all are memorable and destined to visit the dreams of the impressionable among us.Historical fiction that does not entertain is a bad textbook, and if it does not simultaneously enlighten, it will be insignificant. "Mr. Nachron's List" satisfies both requirements.
Publisher: Centrifugal Publishing
ISBN: 9780983067986
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
If the events in this book did not actually happen, we are treated to the hope that they may occur in the future, or perhaps even at the moment of this reading. The paradoxes of time affect Ron Maddock so profoundly that the reader is able to share his exploits without overly straining the imagination. Some of the characters he encounters as he spelunks through the past will beguile; others will repel, but all are memorable and destined to visit the dreams of the impressionable among us.Historical fiction that does not entertain is a bad textbook, and if it does not simultaneously enlighten, it will be insignificant. "Mr. Nachron's List" satisfies both requirements.
Supernormal
Author: Meg Jay
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455559148
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only "How do they do it?" but also "How does it feel?" These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company. Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether -- and how -- the good wins out in the end.
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455559148
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them. Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only "How do they do it?" but also "How does it feel?" These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company. Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether -- and how -- the good wins out in the end.
Would I? Would You?
Author: Henry Einspruch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Beyond Rejection
Author: Justin Leiber
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 9780345290540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Ismael Forth wakes up to find that his mind is now implanted in the body of a beautiful woman, his own body has been stolen, and he is reported to have died on a distant planet he has never visited
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 9780345290540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Ismael Forth wakes up to find that his mind is now implanted in the body of a beautiful woman, his own body has been stolen, and he is reported to have died on a distant planet he has never visited