Author: Miguel Tanco
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 0735265755
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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A young girl sees the world differently in this beautiful picture book celebration of math. Everyone has a passion. For some, it's music. For others, it's art. For our heroine, it's math. When she looks around the world, she sees math in all the beautiful things: the concentric circles a stone makes in a lake, the curve of a slide, the geometric shapes in the playground. Others don't understand her passion, but she doesn't mind. There are infinite ways to see the world. And through math is one of them. This book is a gorgeous ode to something vital but rarely celebrated. In the eyes of this little girl, math takes its place alongside painting, drawing and song as a way to ponder the beauty of the world.
Author: Noel Coward
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Author: Jimmy Fallon
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250761921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's The Tonight Show and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA and Everything Is Mama, returns with a book that teaches new babies the words for the various parts of their body--This is Baby. Let’s meet... Baby! From Baby’s HEAD to Baby’s TOES, there are so many parts of Baby you should know. But what’s the most important part of Baby? Jimmy Fallon, one of the most popular entertainers in the world gives you the facts.
Author: Bruce Kading
Publisher: ChicagoReviewPress + ORM
ISBN: 1613736274
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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In late 1980s Chicago, Nick Hayden, a rookie INS field agent, is eager to make his mark in the unit responsible for picking up illegal immigrants around the city. Hayden excels, whether he's raiding factories or busting Colombian drug dealers. Seen as a rising star by supervisors, over time the green, idealistic Hayden evolves into what one veteran agent terms a "gladiator," an agent willing to do whatever is necessary to get the job done. But Hayden's real reason for joining INS—the mysterious death of an agent thirteen years earlier—remains a closely guarded secret, even as he reluctantly begins a discreet inquiry to uncover the truth.Hayden's world changes dramatically when he recruits Miguel Chavez, a humble Mexican illegal immigrant, to be an informant to help take down Salvador Rico, the ruthless kingpin of Chicago's counterfeit document trade. Nick faces challenges during the investigation that profoundly alter his career and personal priorities as the story builds to a deadly confrontation.
Author: Juan Antonio Díaz-Garrido
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031270037
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 807
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This book shows how psychological and social interventions can help people with psychosis. It brings together both theoretical chapters that contribute to the reconceptualization of psychosis and clinical cases illustrating how contemporary psychotherapeutic intervention models can be applied in the treatment of this mental health condition, with reflections, strategies and practical guidelines demonstrating how these models can inform professional practice in mental healthcare. Chapters brought together in this volume aim to reflect a paradigm shift in psychosis care. They present person-centered models that lead to a way of seeing, understanding and treating psychosis that is very different from the traditional biomedical model. Current authors and approaches are revolutionizing an outdated model trapped in purely pharmacological actions and tautological explanations of a biological nature, where symptom control is the basic and fundamental form of approach, and in which psychotherapeutic actions take second place as subsidiary to the former. Approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Acceptance and Recovery Therapy by Levels, Open Dialogue, Compassion-Centered Therapy or the Hearing Voices movement, to name but a few of those presented in this book, represent a journey of self-knowledge and learning for those recovering from psychosis, and have an intense transformative potential for the therapeutic team. The fundamental principle that guides this book is to share models belonging to psychology that aim at personal development while respecting the needs, values and goals of each person, and that can be adopted by any professional or student of clinical psychology, psychiatry, nursing, social work or any other discipline searching for more humanistic approaches to treat psychosis.
Author: Mary Widdifield
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 1634132041
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Mental illness profoundly impacts family and loved ones. These seven true stories told by nine parents were selected from interviews conducted by sisters, Mary and Elin Widdifield, and interwoven with one sisters own experiences. Told with remarkable candor, these stories offer more insight than any single story or academic analysis. Behind the Wall provides a shared voice for millions of people who advocate for a child or loved one who lives with mental illness, fosters a better understanding for society at-large, and delivers a compelling and ultimately hopeful read for anyone fascinated by the human condition. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly twenty million Americans ages eighteen and older suffer from a serious mental illness. Sixty million - about one in four adults - suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. Factor in the family members profoundly affected by a loved one's disorder and mental illness touches virtually all of us. Yet it remains a subject that is often misunderstood, rarely talked about, and frequently stigmatizing. When mental illness enters the national discussion, it typically comes in the wake of a violent tragedy, attracting temporary attention and further misunderstanding. Behind the Wall posits that while mental health professionals and policy makers provide invaluable perspectives, the true story of mental Illness can be told most accurately by the people in the trenches: the parents who watched it all unfold with their child in harrowing and heartfelt detail. Book jacket.
Author: Laura Pritchett
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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A young woman who offers to raise her teenage sister’s baby gets more than she bargained for in “a moving story about love, duty, and family” (Publishers Weekly). A supermarket clerk in a small dusty Colorado town, twenty-two-year-old Libby is full of dreams but lacks the means to pursue them. When her younger sister Tess becomes pregnant, Libby convinces her not to have an abortion by promising to raise the child herself. But then Tess takes off after the baby is born and Libby finds that her new role puts her dreams that much further away. Her already haphazard life becomes ever more chaotic. The baby’s father, a Christian rodeo rider, suddenly demands custody. Libby loses her job, her boyfriend abandons her, and her own mother harps on how stupid she was to make that promise to Tess. Worse, her sister’s reckless new life could put Libby herself in danger. Not just a story of a single mother overcoming obstacles, Sky Bridge is a complex novel from a PEN Award winner that leaves readers with a fresh understanding of what it means to inhabit a world in which dreams die, and are sometimes reborn. “In this spare yet haunting portrait of the American West, Pritchett’s powerful, poetic voice speaks with clarity, wisdom, and passion about country, family, and one young woman’s majestic spirit.” —Booklist “A superb writer.” —Library Journal
Author: Michelle Dubois
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468538616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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Three doctors go on vacation inside the Amazon Rainforest. Through a tragic accident they discover a man by the name of Natowa (Naht ow ah) living in the rainforest who has cures and antidotes for cancer and other deadly diseases. As the doctors find out much more about him, they discover Natowa was born Miguel Henry Andre, and was taken from his family through a high profile kidnapping where his death was staged and was secretly raised by a native woman and a missionary doctor. His twin sister Marilyn Andre was raised by their biological parents in the family palace, and believed her brother was killed when he was kidnapped at the age of six. She was engaged to Emmanuel Sicard when she discovered Miguel was still alive. When the doctors reunite Marilyn and Miguel, truths, lies, deceit and betrayal come out. But not until their lives are almost destroyed by someone that they would have never expected! Not only does this story take you on an erotic and beautiful passage to the Amazon Rainforest and a Garden of Eden, but it will touch your emotions and open your mind leaving you hoping that a cure will be found again someday inside The Pond.
Author: Elizabeth Ann Guevara
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504985656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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When two separate lives intersect over the random theft of a briefcase, what lay inside was powerful enough to save a life and change both of their worlds forever. What youre about to read is incredible, but true: my life is inextricably entwined with a man I choose to call Miguel, yet weve never met. We know of each others existence, but have yet to say or write one word to each other. This book is my way of reaching out to him. Letting him know that from day one Ive know of his terrible pain, suffering & ultimate redemption. -Elizabeth ann guevara El Camino is a feature length motion picture inspired by the novel SEPARATED BY DREAMS. In collaboration with the author, this independently produced drama, written for the screen & directed by Sean Daniel Bauer, has received numerous awards for its retro flair & distinct composition.
Author: Barbara Madrid
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1441578463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
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Yolanda’s journey begins when she awakens in unknown territory; driven to the end of another country, the very edge of Mexico near the Caribbean waters of Espiritu Santo Bay. What happens there will change her life forever. Tormented by the Olmos family conflicts and her own Native American beliefs Yolanda must be careful not to reveal anything about herself lest they think her to be a witch. The most dangerous realization of all Yolanda finds herself falling in love with the man she hates the most, the man that holds her captive.
