The Handbook of Palmistry carries the art of reading the hand to a new dimension. Every person's hand is a map containing an incredible amount of information concerning their life and character, their fate in the past, the present and the future, and all this fascinating information can be interpreted with ease once you know how. This book contains everything you could want to know about traditional palmistry with its focus on fortune telling, predicting matters of fate and fortune, love, health, finance and success. It also deals with every subtle aspect of human psychology as recorded on the hand, intellectual, emotional, intuitional and physical. Much of the information has never been published before. And most importantly, it delves more deeply into matters of the inner self, the human soul, the undercurrent of life, than any other book on the subject.
This book presents the subject of dream analysis from a previously unknown perspective: from the point of view of the inner feelings, also known as the higher emotional centre. It describes every known type of dream, and every piece of information that may be useful in understanding them. Familiar dream symbols too are analysed in depth, and the whole dreaming process is explained with clarity.
One of the most critical elements in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the effective teaching of reading comprehension in the early years. This timely resource provides evidence-based practices for teachers to use as they work to meet standards associated with comprehending complex literature and informational texts. The authors offer a practical model, with classroom applications drawing on the Construction-Integration (CI) model of text comprehension. Illustrating why comprehension is so important in the CCSS framework, the book distills six key principles for meeting CCSS and other high-challenge standards. Chapters show teachers how to build oral language and text comprehension skills with young readers, including selecting texts, organizing materials, scheduling time, and assessing the acquisition of knowledge. Book Features: A practitioner-friendly model for teaching comprehension of informational and narrative texts in the early grades.Guidance for how to create a classroom environment that supports oral language acquisition.Instructional strategies, including teaching children to understand text structures, key details, and main ideas of a story or information text.A standards-based series of formative comprehension assessments. “Read it with the gusto it provides and deserves, and go out into your classrooms and make texts come to life through the magic of understanding!” —From the Foreword by P. David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley “This is a must-read for teachers and educators as they strive to meet the new literacy standards and improve reading comprehension outcomes for their students.” —Linda B. Gambrell, Reading Research Quarterly “The authors start with the most respected theory, add an insightful analysis of relevant Common Core standards, and combine the two with solid, practical instructional ideas. Bravo!” —James W. Cunningham, professor emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The astronauts, physicists, chemists, biologists, agriculture specialists, and others who have dedicated their lives to improving humankind's knowledge and understanding of the universe through science, math, and invention are.
This book takes the reader through the entire gamut of dream analysis and interpretation, with the emphasis on family life. A family unit is a rather special entity, bound together by the invisible bonds of intuition. Everybody is linked to some degree at an intuitional level, but the family especially so. One way to discover these golden bonds of intuition is by recording, remembering and understanding your own, your partner's, your parents', and your children's dreams. The more you study dreams, the more significant they are apt to become, and the more important for our well-being.
Douglas was a typical American youth coming of age in the early 1970's. Being caught by the tail-end of the counterculture movement of the '60s, he very much began to question the values and ideas of the society in which he had been raised. Coming to terms at the age of eighteen that he would not likely fit into society, he drifts into drug use and begins planning to purchase a sailboat in order to leave the country and head to the South Pacific. As this dream begins to crumble and his despair grows stronger, he discovers Buddhist practice and begins a long, bumpy ascent up from the nightmare of addiction and incarceration. This is a gut-level, nothing-sacred account of how, both then and now.
A Must-Read Book for Black History Month or African American studies. "The Color of Freedom After the Turbulent '60s" fosters a healthy and positive image of the black cultural heritage from a culture evolutionary perspective. This approach empowers the readers by describing the psycho-social behavior and growth of Blacks that is required to overcome today's disparities; family/cultural values, economic, education, and health care.These disparities serve as invisible barriers to their entrance into the 21st century. It has now been nearly 50 years since the Civil Right Bill '64 toppled the color barrier that allowed Blacks formal entrance into different areas of society. However, today the color barrier has been replaced with invisible barriers. These deeply embedded social barriers existed in society before the color barrier and today pose greater resistance in society to the evolution of black cultural heritage for future generations. This is in spite of the reelection of this country's 1st Black President, Barack Obama. Thus, to survive and overcome these invisible barriers, Blacks are forced to reposition themselves in society. Their repositioning in society must be based on knowledge of the cultural heritage of African descendants Born out of American slavery (ADBOAS) and other African descendants in this society. The social revolution that occurred during the 60s supported the passing of the CRB'64 that helped to determine today s fate of African Americans. This Bill differs from other past Civil Rights Bills, as being the first in this country to empower Blacks and later other cultures and subcultures; gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transvestites (GLBT) to access mainstream society. This has caused some to question the value of this Bill in defining the rights and freedom of citizens of subcultures vs. defining the rights and freedom of Blacks after the long term social unjust in society. The importance of strong cultural ties in the Black family is emphasized to empower the youth with culture identity, and self-esteem needed to overcome these invisible barriers that today impacts the mental health and behavior of African Americans, esp.the youth
This best-selling book is a ready-reference for teachers of reading, a highly popular core text for reading diagnosis and assessment courses, and an ideal guide for ongoing professional development workshops. The unique format of the book, with its IF/THEN Strategy Guides that help readers quickly match student needs to research-proven strategies, make it a quick, effective, “point-of-teaching” resource of up to date information, strategies, and suggestions. InStrategies for Reading Assessment and InstructionReaders can quickly turn to current information on evidence-based assessment and instruction and find ways to assess, teach, and organize for effective and comprehensive reading instruction.
In 1954, troubled director Nicholas Ray chatted at a dinner party about his controversial plan for a film about middle-class juvenile delinquents. He was told of a book, written by a prison psychologist and owned by Warner Bros., called Rebel Without a Cause. Though he was initially unimpressed, Ray adapted the book into his own screenplay and Warner Bros. hired him to direct what would become a classic. From the backgrounds of the many players to the pre-production, production, and post-production of the film, this complete history recounts every aspect of Rebel Without a Cause from its rudiments to the 1955 Academy Awards: the selection of cast and crew, legal fights, changing screenwriters and the many variations of the story, location scouting, auditions, script readings, difficulties with the censors, romances and fights, the editing, test screenings, and, of course, the death of its star. Dozens of intimate anecdotes, from wardrobe decisions to James Dean's pranks, add rich detail. An epilogue discusses the possible sequels, rights conflicts, documentaries, musicals, and spin-off attempts, and offers concluding words on the cast and crew.
Binxu Catherine Zhao, at only 14 years old and in a second language, has assembled an impressive debut collection of poems, White Moonlight and the North Star. As a teacher and writer, I am thrilled with CatherineOs dedication to her craft and to finding an audience. Her poems are filled with fascination and combine youthful wonder with an artistOsNa poetOsNdedication to exacting craft. As her title suggests, ZhaoOs musings and subjects are not limited to teenagerOs typical world of social media and the quotidian concerns of schoolwork. Her focus is the universal based in her experience of the particular. Keep your eyes on this young poet of promise.
In this decisive analysis of the JFK assassination, medical expert Dr. David W. Mantik and New York Times bestselling author Jerome R. Corsi definitively validate the observations of the physicians at Parkland Hospital, who recognized immediately that the wound in JFK’s throat and the massive, avulsed blow-out in the back of his head both involved frontal shots. What distinguishes this book from the myriad of books written on the JFK assassination is that Dr. Mantik’s optical density measurements of the JFK skull X-rays in the National Archives leave no doubt the X-rays were altered to disguise evidence of the two frontal shots. With over four decades of experience reading X-rays, Dr. Mantik has examined the JFK assassination materials more than anyone else. Mantik and Corsi present overwhelming testimonial and documentary evidence that proves the Bethesda surgeons performed pre-autopsy surgery on JFK’s head to remove evidence of the forehead bullet, as well as to gain access to his brain and thus “sanitize the crime scene” by removing bullet fragments and bullet tracks in the brain tissue. “The world is starving for objective science. This book contains objective forensic science for which the world will never be ready. If the X-rays were doctored, the CIA, the FBI, and the US Secret Service have some questions to answer. The public deserves the final analysis of these issues.” —James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge
This work is a complete history of this classic American film, from idea to script to film. In 1954, troubled director Nicholas Ray chatted at a dinner party about his controversial plan for a film about middle-class juvenile delinquents. He was told of a book, written by a prison psychologist and owned by Warner Bros., called Rebel Without a Cause. Unimpressed after reading it, Ray began writing his own story. Warner Bros. quickly bought it and hired Ray to direct the film. From the backgrounds of the many players to the pre-production, production, and post-production of the film, the work covers every aspect of Rebel Without a Cause from its rudiments to the 1955 Oscars: the selection of cast and crew, legal fights, preparatory research, changing screenwriters and the many variations of the story, location scouting, auditions, the writing of the score, script readings, difficulties with the censors, romances and fights, shot-by-shot analyses of the directing, editing, screenings, and, of course, its star's death. Dozens of intimate anecdotes fill the work with every detail from wardrobe decisions to James Dean's pranks to the Air Pollution Control Board's opposition to the final car crashes. An epilogue discusses the possible sequels, rights conflicts, documentaries, musicals, and spin-off attempts, and offers concluding words on the cast and crew. Sources include production records, publicity releases, scripts, newspapers, and discussions with Stewart Stern. An appendix offers two unpublished letters from Stewart Stern to Nicholas Ray and to Marcus and Ortense Winslow.
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