Author: Friend to youth
Publisher:
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Category : Children's literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lectures at My School, Or Play Ground Conversations
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 9780316335614
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."---Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 9780316335614
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."---Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
The Essential Conversation
Author: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345475801
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A renowned Harvard University professor offers valuable insights, incisive lessons, and deft guidance on how to communicate more effectively to help parents and teachers make the most of parent-teacher conferences, the essential conversation between the most vital people in a child’s life. “An enormously important volume . . . that will help us all understand what happens when children leave home in order to learn at school.”—Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis and Lives of Moral Leadership “The essential conversation” is the crucial exchange that occurs between parents and teachers—a dialogue that takes place more than one hundred million times a year across our country and is both mirror of and metaphor for the larger cultural forces that define family-school relationships and shape the development of our children. Participating in this twice-yearly ritual, so friendly and benign in its apparent goals, parents and teachers are often wracked with anxiety. In a meeting marked by decorum and politeness, they frequently exhibit wariness and assume defensive postures. Even though the conversation appears to be focused on the student, adults may find themselves playing out their own childhood histories, insecurities, and fears. Through vivid portraits and parables, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot captures the dynamics of this complex, intense relationship from the perspective of both parents and teachers. She also identifies new principles and practices for improving family-school relationships. In a voice that combines the passion of a mother, the skepticism of a social scientist, and the keen understanding of one of our nation’s most admired educators, Lawrence-Lightfoot offers penetrating analysis and an urgent call to arms for all those who want to act in the best interests of their children.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345475801
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A renowned Harvard University professor offers valuable insights, incisive lessons, and deft guidance on how to communicate more effectively to help parents and teachers make the most of parent-teacher conferences, the essential conversation between the most vital people in a child’s life. “An enormously important volume . . . that will help us all understand what happens when children leave home in order to learn at school.”—Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis and Lives of Moral Leadership “The essential conversation” is the crucial exchange that occurs between parents and teachers—a dialogue that takes place more than one hundred million times a year across our country and is both mirror of and metaphor for the larger cultural forces that define family-school relationships and shape the development of our children. Participating in this twice-yearly ritual, so friendly and benign in its apparent goals, parents and teachers are often wracked with anxiety. In a meeting marked by decorum and politeness, they frequently exhibit wariness and assume defensive postures. Even though the conversation appears to be focused on the student, adults may find themselves playing out their own childhood histories, insecurities, and fears. Through vivid portraits and parables, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot captures the dynamics of this complex, intense relationship from the perspective of both parents and teachers. She also identifies new principles and practices for improving family-school relationships. In a voice that combines the passion of a mother, the skepticism of a social scientist, and the keen understanding of one of our nation’s most admired educators, Lawrence-Lightfoot offers penetrating analysis and an urgent call to arms for all those who want to act in the best interests of their children.
Portraits of Curious Characters in London, &c. &c
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
"Portraits of Curious Characters in London" is a collection of sketches of anonymous authorship. The sketches are descriptive and anecdotal in nature, and themed on various quirky characters in the city of London in the nineteenth century. They include the eccentric Nathaniel Bentley, who has neglected his appearance of late, the odd dentist Martin Van Butchell who often paints his pony with purple spots, and the remarkable young man John Statham, who though blind, does not walk in darkness, like too many professing Christians, "who have eyes, but see not." Among other more eccentric characters in the city.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
"Portraits of Curious Characters in London" is a collection of sketches of anonymous authorship. The sketches are descriptive and anecdotal in nature, and themed on various quirky characters in the city of London in the nineteenth century. They include the eccentric Nathaniel Bentley, who has neglected his appearance of late, the odd dentist Martin Van Butchell who often paints his pony with purple spots, and the remarkable young man John Statham, who though blind, does not walk in darkness, like too many professing Christians, "who have eyes, but see not." Among other more eccentric characters in the city.
The Alchemist
Author: Mrs. Hughs (Mary)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemists
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Alchemists
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Juvenile Spectator, Etc
Author: Arabella ARGUS (pseud.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Alchemist. [A Tale for Children.] By the Author of “Ornaments Discovered” [i.e. Mary Robson, Afterwards Hughes], Etc
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The metamorphoses; or, Effects of education, by the author of Aunt Mary's tales
Author: Mrs. Hughs (Mary)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Journey to Bath
Author: Mary Elliott
Publisher:
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description