Author: Aiden Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798775714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
What started out as an intellectual debate about whether or not there are sheep in New York City has developed into this young kid's travel guide. Aiden, who has seen his dad author books, wanted to write his own book. Multi-talented Aiden, age 4, set out to guide you through the Big Apple and demonstrate that there are indeed sheep in New York City. This fun book is sure to please all ages.
There Are No Sheep in New York City
Author: Aiden Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798775714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
What started out as an intellectual debate about whether or not there are sheep in New York City has developed into this young kid's travel guide. Aiden, who has seen his dad author books, wanted to write his own book. Multi-talented Aiden, age 4, set out to guide you through the Big Apple and demonstrate that there are indeed sheep in New York City. This fun book is sure to please all ages.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798775714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
What started out as an intellectual debate about whether or not there are sheep in New York City has developed into this young kid's travel guide. Aiden, who has seen his dad author books, wanted to write his own book. Multi-talented Aiden, age 4, set out to guide you through the Big Apple and demonstrate that there are indeed sheep in New York City. This fun book is sure to please all ages.
Excellent Sheep
Author: William Deresiewicz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147670273X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People). As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale’s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to “practical” subjects like economics, students are losing the ability to think independently. It is essential, says Deresiewicz, that college be a time for self-discovery when students can establish their own values and measures of success in order to forge their own paths. He features quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and offering clear solutions on how to fix it. “Excellent Sheep is likely to make…a lasting mark….He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America….Mr. Deresiewicz’s book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness” (The New York Times).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147670273X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People). As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale’s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to “practical” subjects like economics, students are losing the ability to think independently. It is essential, says Deresiewicz, that college be a time for self-discovery when students can establish their own values and measures of success in order to forge their own paths. He features quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and offering clear solutions on how to fix it. “Excellent Sheep is likely to make…a lasting mark….He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America….Mr. Deresiewicz’s book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness” (The New York Times).
Good Night New York City
Author: Adam Gamble
Publisher: Good Night Books
ISBN: 1602197563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of New York City through a full day of sightseeing.
Publisher: Good Night Books
ISBN: 1602197563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of New York City through a full day of sightseeing.
Vanishing Fleece
Author: Clara Parkes
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356829
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356829
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.
The Shepherd's Journal
Author: William James Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheep
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheep
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Rural New Yorker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description
American Agriculturist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Moore's Rural New-Yorker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
The National Humane Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description