Author: Günter Grass
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Gunter Grass and his wife, Ute, spent six months in Calcutta, 1987-1988. Throughout, Grass kept a diary in words and drawings that record everyday sights: the poverty, the heat, the resigned anxiety of those who no longer have anything to wait for. Showing one's tongue in Bengali is an experession of shame. And shame is what Grass, as a man and as a citizen of one of the most prosperous countries in the world, feels about the human condition in India. -- taken from p. 4 of cover.
Show Your Tongue
Author: Günter Grass
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Gunter Grass and his wife, Ute, spent six months in Calcutta, 1987-1988. Throughout, Grass kept a diary in words and drawings that record everyday sights: the poverty, the heat, the resigned anxiety of those who no longer have anything to wait for. Showing one's tongue in Bengali is an experession of shame. And shame is what Grass, as a man and as a citizen of one of the most prosperous countries in the world, feels about the human condition in India. -- taken from p. 4 of cover.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Gunter Grass and his wife, Ute, spent six months in Calcutta, 1987-1988. Throughout, Grass kept a diary in words and drawings that record everyday sights: the poverty, the heat, the resigned anxiety of those who no longer have anything to wait for. Showing one's tongue in Bengali is an experession of shame. And shame is what Grass, as a man and as a citizen of one of the most prosperous countries in the world, feels about the human condition in India. -- taken from p. 4 of cover.
Watch Your Tongue, Cecily Beasley
Author: Lane Fredrickson
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781402770890
Category : Behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rude little Cecily Beasley suffers the consequences of making one too many faces when a bird builds its nest on her tongue and she must wait with her tongue stuck out for the babies to hatch.
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781402770890
Category : Behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rude little Cecily Beasley suffers the consequences of making one too many faces when a bird builds its nest on her tongue and she must wait with her tongue stuck out for the babies to hatch.
Don't Bite Your Tongue
Author: Ruth Nemzoff
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0230614108
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
An empowering guide to creating rewarding relationships between parents and their adult children. Parents work hard to raise their children into adulthood, but popular wisdom tells them to bite their tongues and loosen the purse strings once their child is grown! But increasing life spans mean that parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: actively parenting adult children is a reality for many families. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, an expert in family dynamics, empowers parents to forge a close relationship with their children while respecting their independence. Nemzoff shows parents how to: Create an active relationship over long distances Discuss financial issues without using money as a form of control Voice opinions about an adult-child’s child-rearing practices Respond to major changes in an adult child’s life, such as choice of partner, religion, career, and more Don’t Bite Your Tongue is a groundbreaking look at a relationship that’s been invisible for far too long.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0230614108
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
An empowering guide to creating rewarding relationships between parents and their adult children. Parents work hard to raise their children into adulthood, but popular wisdom tells them to bite their tongues and loosen the purse strings once their child is grown! But increasing life spans mean that parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: actively parenting adult children is a reality for many families. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, an expert in family dynamics, empowers parents to forge a close relationship with their children while respecting their independence. Nemzoff shows parents how to: Create an active relationship over long distances Discuss financial issues without using money as a form of control Voice opinions about an adult-child’s child-rearing practices Respond to major changes in an adult child’s life, such as choice of partner, religion, career, and more Don’t Bite Your Tongue is a groundbreaking look at a relationship that’s been invisible for far too long.
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue
Author: Julia Cook
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
ISBN: 1937870812
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
A Book that Helps Kids Learn the Difference Between Tattling and Telling No one likes "Josh the Tattler" because he tattles way too much. He tattles on his classmates, his brother, and even his dog! But one night Josh wakes up to find that his tongue is very long, yellow, covered in bright purple spots, and Itchy, Itchy, Scratchy, Scratchy... Will a bad case of Tattle Tongue teach him a lesson? A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue gives teachers and counselors a humorous, cleverly creative way to address the time-consuming tattling-related issues that often sap classroom energy and thwart teaching opportunities. Parents who "battle the tattle" at home, on the playground, in the grocery store, or anywhere else can use this book to both entertain and enlighten their children about "The Tattle Rules." Every adult who desires to help children understand the differences between tattling and the need to warn others about important matters needs this book!
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
ISBN: 1937870812
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
A Book that Helps Kids Learn the Difference Between Tattling and Telling No one likes "Josh the Tattler" because he tattles way too much. He tattles on his classmates, his brother, and even his dog! But one night Josh wakes up to find that his tongue is very long, yellow, covered in bright purple spots, and Itchy, Itchy, Scratchy, Scratchy... Will a bad case of Tattle Tongue teach him a lesson? A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue gives teachers and counselors a humorous, cleverly creative way to address the time-consuming tattling-related issues that often sap classroom energy and thwart teaching opportunities. Parents who "battle the tattle" at home, on the playground, in the grocery store, or anywhere else can use this book to both entertain and enlighten their children about "The Tattle Rules." Every adult who desires to help children understand the differences between tattling and the need to warn others about important matters needs this book!
Stick Out Your Tongue
Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429931256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse. In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover on the wall of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between dream and reality becomes confused. When this book was published in Chinese in 1997, the government accused Ma Jian of "harming the fraternal solidarity of the national minorities," and a blanket ban was placed on his future work. With its publication in English, including a new afterword by the author that sets the book in its personal and political context, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes—and a window on the imagination of one of China's foremost writers.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429931256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse. In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover on the wall of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between dream and reality becomes confused. When this book was published in Chinese in 1997, the government accused Ma Jian of "harming the fraternal solidarity of the national minorities," and a blanket ban was placed on his future work. With its publication in English, including a new afterword by the author that sets the book in its personal and political context, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes—and a window on the imagination of one of China's foremost writers.
30 Days to Taming Your Tongue
Author: Deborah Smith Pegues
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736990003
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Control Your Tongue, Transform Your Relationships Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Smith Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and business relationships. In 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue, you will learn how to transform those destructive slips into intentional, constructive, and uplifting speech that is honoring to God and others. With humor and a bit of refreshing sass, Deborah devotes chapters to learning how to overcome the Retaliating Tongue Complaining Tongue Belittling Tongue Hasty Tongue Gossiping Tongue and 25 More! Short stories, soul-searching questions, and scripturally-based affirmations combine to make each chapter engaging to read and easy to apply at work, at home, and beyond. With professional insights and biblical wisdom, Deborah helps you take control of the power of your tongue—and transform your life and relationships!
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736990003
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Control Your Tongue, Transform Your Relationships Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Smith Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and business relationships. In 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue, you will learn how to transform those destructive slips into intentional, constructive, and uplifting speech that is honoring to God and others. With humor and a bit of refreshing sass, Deborah devotes chapters to learning how to overcome the Retaliating Tongue Complaining Tongue Belittling Tongue Hasty Tongue Gossiping Tongue and 25 More! Short stories, soul-searching questions, and scripturally-based affirmations combine to make each chapter engaging to read and easy to apply at work, at home, and beyond. With professional insights and biblical wisdom, Deborah helps you take control of the power of your tongue—and transform your life and relationships!
Salt On Your Tongue
Author: Charlotte Runcie
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786891204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It’s an ode to our oceans – to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beachcombers, swimmers, seabirds and mermaids. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786891204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It’s an ode to our oceans – to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beachcombers, swimmers, seabirds and mermaids. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.
Watch Your Tongue
Author: Mark Abley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501172298
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Phrases, idioms, and clichés—why do we say the things we say? Watch Your Tongue explores weird and wonderful everyday sayings and what they reveal about us. Do you ever wonder why you shouldn’t have a cow but you should seize a bull by its horns? Who has the better reputation in language—cats or dogs? Do you sometimes feel that our speech is all smoke and mirrors or that our expressions simply make no sense? In Watch Your Tongue, award-winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say. Pulling examples from Shakespeare’s plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language. Why do so many companies use fruit for their brand names? What do politicians mean when they say they’re going to “drain the swamp”? Why does English use chickens to signify cowardice? Abley dives into the history and psychology behind these examples and countless others, unpacking their significance (and sheer absurdity) to show how our language developed, where it is headed, and what we can learn about ourselves from it. Whimsically illustrated, easily browsable, and full of catchy sidebars, Watch Your Tongue celebrates how we amuse ourselves with words and what our sayings reveal about the way we see the world.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501172298
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Phrases, idioms, and clichés—why do we say the things we say? Watch Your Tongue explores weird and wonderful everyday sayings and what they reveal about us. Do you ever wonder why you shouldn’t have a cow but you should seize a bull by its horns? Who has the better reputation in language—cats or dogs? Do you sometimes feel that our speech is all smoke and mirrors or that our expressions simply make no sense? In Watch Your Tongue, award-winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say. Pulling examples from Shakespeare’s plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language. Why do so many companies use fruit for their brand names? What do politicians mean when they say they’re going to “drain the swamp”? Why does English use chickens to signify cowardice? Abley dives into the history and psychology behind these examples and countless others, unpacking their significance (and sheer absurdity) to show how our language developed, where it is headed, and what we can learn about ourselves from it. Whimsically illustrated, easily browsable, and full of catchy sidebars, Watch Your Tongue celebrates how we amuse ourselves with words and what our sayings reveal about the way we see the world.
Unusual Traits
Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
ISBN: 1512474797
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Can you roll your tongue into a U-shape? Some people can. But other people's tongues stay flat. What determines whether you can roll your tongue?
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
ISBN: 1512474797
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Can you roll your tongue into a U-shape? Some people can. But other people's tongues stay flat. What determines whether you can roll your tongue?
Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
Author: Cynthia Heimel
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780449909065
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
She is equal parts urban mystic, best friend, and hip observer of the madness around her. As wit, raconteur, and Problem Lady columnist, Cynthia Heimel speaks to the heart of our post-modern angst, and says what needs to be said about the spoken and silent battles between men and women, the problem with mothers, the desperate search for a dress that's not designed for an anorectic teenager, the joy of pet ownership, and more. From the personal to the political and back again, Cynthia Heimel skewers, satirizes, challenges, and champions our ever-strange society -- with the wisdom of a scholar and the passion of one possessed. "Like Dorothy Parker, Ms. Heimel is an urban romantic with a scathing X-ray vision that penetrates her most deeply cherished fantasies." The New York Times
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780449909065
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
She is equal parts urban mystic, best friend, and hip observer of the madness around her. As wit, raconteur, and Problem Lady columnist, Cynthia Heimel speaks to the heart of our post-modern angst, and says what needs to be said about the spoken and silent battles between men and women, the problem with mothers, the desperate search for a dress that's not designed for an anorectic teenager, the joy of pet ownership, and more. From the personal to the political and back again, Cynthia Heimel skewers, satirizes, challenges, and champions our ever-strange society -- with the wisdom of a scholar and the passion of one possessed. "Like Dorothy Parker, Ms. Heimel is an urban romantic with a scathing X-ray vision that penetrates her most deeply cherished fantasies." The New York Times