Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Julius, the Baby of the World
Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688143881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The riotously funny Lilly, last seen in Chester's Way (Greenwillow), thinks her new baby brother, Julius, is disgusting -- if he was a number, he would be zero. But when Cousin Garland dares to criticize Julius, Lilly bullies her into loudly admiring Julius as the baby of the world.Lilly knows her baby brother is nothing but dreadful -- until she claims him for her own. "Henkes displays a deep understanding of sibling rivalry and a child's fragile self-esteem....Lilly is a superb and timely heroine." -- Publishers Weekly. "
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688143881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The riotously funny Lilly, last seen in Chester's Way (Greenwillow), thinks her new baby brother, Julius, is disgusting -- if he was a number, he would be zero. But when Cousin Garland dares to criticize Julius, Lilly bullies her into loudly admiring Julius as the baby of the world.Lilly knows her baby brother is nothing but dreadful -- until she claims him for her own. "Henkes displays a deep understanding of sibling rivalry and a child's fragile self-esteem....Lilly is a superb and timely heroine." -- Publishers Weekly. "
Baby's World
Author:
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 0525446176
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Labeled photographs present vocabulary words grouped in such categories as clothes, eating and drinking, toys, colors, and pets.
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 0525446176
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Labeled photographs present vocabulary words grouped in such categories as clothes, eating and drinking, toys, colors, and pets.
Records & Briefs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Heart Songs
Author: Jean Blewett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Adventures of A Stay-At-Home Dad
Author: Adam Bradley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300351144
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
For stay-at-home parents, exchanging adventures in the business world for those at home can be full of surprises. Bradley tells of his own transition to a stay-at-home dad to discover the art of listening to his child and learning how to become the man his daughter needs. The Adventures of a Stay-At-Home-Dad is a collection of seven short stories recounting the shift in perspective Bradley discovered on God, himself, and the world around him. Each story concludes with an opportunity for the reader to self-reflect on his or her own journey. This book is perfect for individuals or small groups to journey through together.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300351144
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
For stay-at-home parents, exchanging adventures in the business world for those at home can be full of surprises. Bradley tells of his own transition to a stay-at-home dad to discover the art of listening to his child and learning how to become the man his daughter needs. The Adventures of a Stay-At-Home-Dad is a collection of seven short stories recounting the shift in perspective Bradley discovered on God, himself, and the world around him. Each story concludes with an opportunity for the reader to self-reflect on his or her own journey. This book is perfect for individuals or small groups to journey through together.
The Conscious Parent's Guide to Raising Girls
Author: Erika V Shearin Karres
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440599912
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Contains material adapted from The Everything Parent's Guide Raising Girls, 2nd Edition by Erika V. Shearin Karres"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440599912
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Contains material adapted from The Everything Parent's Guide Raising Girls, 2nd Edition by Erika V. Shearin Karres"--Title page verso.
The New American Reality
Author: Reynolds Farley
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 161044194X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
"A fascinating and authoritative account of American social history since 1960 as viewed through the prism of government statistics....[Farley] uses publicly available data, straight forward methods, and modest...language, to provide more information and insight about recent social trends than any other volume in print." —American Journal of Sociology "A brilliant piece of work. Farley is absolutely masterful at taking tens of thousands of national survey statistics and weaving from them a fascinating and beautifully illustrated tapestry of who we are." —Barry Bluestone, Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy, University of Massachusetts, Boston The New American Reality presents a compelling portrait of an America strikingly different from what it was just forty years ago.Gone is the idealized vision of a two-parent, father-supported Ozzie and Harriet society. In its place is an America of varied races andethnic backgrounds, where families take on many forms and mothers frequently work outside the home. Drawing on a definitive analysis of the past four U.S. censuses, author Reynolds Farley reveals a country that offers new opportunities for a broader spectrum of people, while at the same time generating frustration and apprehension for many who once thought their futures secure. The trends that have so transformed the nation were kindled in the 1960s, a watershed period during which many Americans redefined their attitudes toward the rights of women and blacks. The New American Reality describes the activism, federal policymaking, and legal victories that eliminated overtracial and sexual discrimination. But along with open doors came new challenges. Divorce and out-of-wedlock births grew commonplace, forcing more women to raise children alone and—despite improved wages—increasing their chances of falling into poverty. Residential segregation, inadequate schooling, and a particularly high ratio of female-headed families severely impaired the economic progress of African Americans, many of whom were left behind in declining central cities as businesses migrated to suburbs. A new generation of immigrants from many nations joined the ranks of those working to support families and improve their prospects, and rapidly transformed the nation's ethnic composition. In the 1970s, unprecedented economic restructuring on a global scale created unexpected setbacks for the middle class. The long era of postwar prosperity ended as the nation's dominant industry shifted from manufacturing to services, competition from foreign producers increased, interest rates rose, and a new emphasis on technology and cost-cutting created a demand for more sophisticated skills in the workplace. The economic recovery of the 1980s generated greater prosperity for the well-educated and highly skilled, and created many low paying jobs, but offered little to remedy the stagnant and declining wages of the middle class. Income inequalitybecame a defining feature in the economic life of America: overall, the rich got richer while the poor and middle class found it increasingly difficult to meet their financial demands. The New American Reality reports some good news about America. Our lives are longer and healthier, the elderly are much better off than ever before, consumer spending power has increased, and minorities and women have many more opportunities. But this book does not shy away from the significant problems facing large portions of the population, and provides a valuable perspective on efforts to remedy them. The New American Reality offers the information necessary to understandthe critical trends affecting America today, from how we earn a living to how and when we form families, where we live, and whether or not we will continue to prosper. A Volume in the Russell Sage Founadtion Census Series
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 161044194X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
"A fascinating and authoritative account of American social history since 1960 as viewed through the prism of government statistics....[Farley] uses publicly available data, straight forward methods, and modest...language, to provide more information and insight about recent social trends than any other volume in print." —American Journal of Sociology "A brilliant piece of work. Farley is absolutely masterful at taking tens of thousands of national survey statistics and weaving from them a fascinating and beautifully illustrated tapestry of who we are." —Barry Bluestone, Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy, University of Massachusetts, Boston The New American Reality presents a compelling portrait of an America strikingly different from what it was just forty years ago.Gone is the idealized vision of a two-parent, father-supported Ozzie and Harriet society. In its place is an America of varied races andethnic backgrounds, where families take on many forms and mothers frequently work outside the home. Drawing on a definitive analysis of the past four U.S. censuses, author Reynolds Farley reveals a country that offers new opportunities for a broader spectrum of people, while at the same time generating frustration and apprehension for many who once thought their futures secure. The trends that have so transformed the nation were kindled in the 1960s, a watershed period during which many Americans redefined their attitudes toward the rights of women and blacks. The New American Reality describes the activism, federal policymaking, and legal victories that eliminated overtracial and sexual discrimination. But along with open doors came new challenges. Divorce and out-of-wedlock births grew commonplace, forcing more women to raise children alone and—despite improved wages—increasing their chances of falling into poverty. Residential segregation, inadequate schooling, and a particularly high ratio of female-headed families severely impaired the economic progress of African Americans, many of whom were left behind in declining central cities as businesses migrated to suburbs. A new generation of immigrants from many nations joined the ranks of those working to support families and improve their prospects, and rapidly transformed the nation's ethnic composition. In the 1970s, unprecedented economic restructuring on a global scale created unexpected setbacks for the middle class. The long era of postwar prosperity ended as the nation's dominant industry shifted from manufacturing to services, competition from foreign producers increased, interest rates rose, and a new emphasis on technology and cost-cutting created a demand for more sophisticated skills in the workplace. The economic recovery of the 1980s generated greater prosperity for the well-educated and highly skilled, and created many low paying jobs, but offered little to remedy the stagnant and declining wages of the middle class. Income inequalitybecame a defining feature in the economic life of America: overall, the rich got richer while the poor and middle class found it increasingly difficult to meet their financial demands. The New American Reality reports some good news about America. Our lives are longer and healthier, the elderly are much better off than ever before, consumer spending power has increased, and minorities and women have many more opportunities. But this book does not shy away from the significant problems facing large portions of the population, and provides a valuable perspective on efforts to remedy them. The New American Reality offers the information necessary to understandthe critical trends affecting America today, from how we earn a living to how and when we form families, where we live, and whether or not we will continue to prosper. A Volume in the Russell Sage Founadtion Census Series
Living in the Labyrinth of Technology
Author: Willem H. Vanderburg
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442659483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
From the very beginnings of their existence, human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for granted. Everything was symbolized according to its meaning and value: a fallen branch from a tree became a lever; a tree trunk floating in the river became a canoe. Homo logos created communities based on cultures: humanity's first megaproject. Further symbolization of the human community and its relation to nature led to the possibility of creating societies and civilizations. Everything changed as these interposed themselves between the group and nature. Homo societas created ways of life able to give meaning, direction, and purpose to many groups by means of very different cultures: humanity's second megaproject. What Das Kapital did for the nineteenth century and La technique did for the twentieth, Willem H. Vanderburg's Living in the Labyrinth of Technology seeks to create for the twenty-first century: an attempt at understanding the world in a manner not shackled to overspecialized scientific knowing and technical doing. Western civilization may well be creating humanity's third megaproject, based not on symbolization for making sense of and living in the world, but on highly specialized desymbolized knowing stripped of all peripheral understanding. Vanderburg focuses on two interdependent forces in his narrative, namely, people changing technology and technology changing people. The latter aspect, although rarely considered, turns out to be the more critical one for understanding the spectacular successes and failures of contemporary ways of life. As technology continues to change the social and physical world, the experiences of this world 'grow' people's minds and society's cultures, thereby re-creating human life in the image of technology. Living in the Labyrinth of Technology argues that the twenty-first century will be dominated by this pattern unless society intervenes on human (as opposed to technical) terms.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442659483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
From the very beginnings of their existence, human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for granted. Everything was symbolized according to its meaning and value: a fallen branch from a tree became a lever; a tree trunk floating in the river became a canoe. Homo logos created communities based on cultures: humanity's first megaproject. Further symbolization of the human community and its relation to nature led to the possibility of creating societies and civilizations. Everything changed as these interposed themselves between the group and nature. Homo societas created ways of life able to give meaning, direction, and purpose to many groups by means of very different cultures: humanity's second megaproject. What Das Kapital did for the nineteenth century and La technique did for the twentieth, Willem H. Vanderburg's Living in the Labyrinth of Technology seeks to create for the twenty-first century: an attempt at understanding the world in a manner not shackled to overspecialized scientific knowing and technical doing. Western civilization may well be creating humanity's third megaproject, based not on symbolization for making sense of and living in the world, but on highly specialized desymbolized knowing stripped of all peripheral understanding. Vanderburg focuses on two interdependent forces in his narrative, namely, people changing technology and technology changing people. The latter aspect, although rarely considered, turns out to be the more critical one for understanding the spectacular successes and failures of contemporary ways of life. As technology continues to change the social and physical world, the experiences of this world 'grow' people's minds and society's cultures, thereby re-creating human life in the image of technology. Living in the Labyrinth of Technology argues that the twenty-first century will be dominated by this pattern unless society intervenes on human (as opposed to technical) terms.
#Me Too
Author: Jyoti Thatte
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1684662532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
A doe with shiny eyes, Silently from the herd shies, As the little fawn she licks, Foolishly stumbles and effortlessly kicks, Unknown, lost, safe in the herd, Silent, silent not a word, A predator set on a prowl, How it smells, how it growls, Sit silently o stupid little fawn, Do not dance do not yawn, It is a matter of life and death, Jungle is red in length and breadth, Be it tigress be it doe, For all there is some foe, So sit silently in the safety of the herd, Unknown to the grass, unknown to the herd, Till you grow and faster you run, There is a predator at every turn. In a jungle when a doe delivers a little fawn she knows there is danger everywhere, there is safety in the vastness of the herd, but some fawns want to experience the world and are unwittingly exposed to the predators. Till they learn to smell danger ignorant innocent women are as vulnerable as a fawn in a ruthless jungle. A woman’s education is incomplete if she doesn’t know how to protect herself from sexual predators. Women have an instinctive capacity to smell sexual predators the problem is, they don’t follow their instincts.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1684662532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
A doe with shiny eyes, Silently from the herd shies, As the little fawn she licks, Foolishly stumbles and effortlessly kicks, Unknown, lost, safe in the herd, Silent, silent not a word, A predator set on a prowl, How it smells, how it growls, Sit silently o stupid little fawn, Do not dance do not yawn, It is a matter of life and death, Jungle is red in length and breadth, Be it tigress be it doe, For all there is some foe, So sit silently in the safety of the herd, Unknown to the grass, unknown to the herd, Till you grow and faster you run, There is a predator at every turn. In a jungle when a doe delivers a little fawn she knows there is danger everywhere, there is safety in the vastness of the herd, but some fawns want to experience the world and are unwittingly exposed to the predators. Till they learn to smell danger ignorant innocent women are as vulnerable as a fawn in a ruthless jungle. A woman’s education is incomplete if she doesn’t know how to protect herself from sexual predators. Women have an instinctive capacity to smell sexual predators the problem is, they don’t follow their instincts.
ENC Focus
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description