Highly respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Though she is known today primarily as a writer of evangelical fiction for young people, including Jessica's First Prayer, this characterization fails to acknowledge the extensive range of her writings and social activism. Elaine Lomax re-examines Stretton's writing for children and adults, situating her body of work within the broad social and cultural context of its production to expose the depth and complexity of Stretton's engagement with contemporary ideas, debates, and discourses. Mining nineteenth-century periodicals, archival materials, and the minutes of the Religious Tract Society, as well as Stretton's own revealing log books, Lomax demonstrates Stretton's preoccupation with those at the bottom or on the margins of society. At the same time, she advances our understanding of the intersection of cultural and literary representations of the child and childhood with wider images of the colonized or excluded, and our knowledge of the history and development of juvenile literature and women's writing.
Fourteen years ago, Elaine Howard stumbled into a rock shop and bought a fateful souvenir- a little dinosaur tooth- that would change her life forever. Elaine’s interest in that fossil not only awakened her passion for paleontology but transformed her life from one of negativity and hopelessness to one of excitement and adventure. On the surface, it appeared dinosaurs brought Elaine back to life. In reality, it was her change in mental focus that radically transformed her life for the better. Don’t wait to find your life-changing passion by chance. You have the power to take control and initiate your own positive transformation. In Passion in the Bones, Elaine provides a step-by-step guide to finding and sustaining a passion that will get the positives flowing—and keep them flowing—in your life.
This story is about the closeness of a baby/toddler grandson to his grandma, and what he does to get her attention. It takes you on a journey of learning what he likes to do. During this journey he is learning different concepts without knowing it, because he is still very young. He likes doing many things and this book enlightens you on Mali’s daily activities while visiting grandma. Small children will encounter educational concepts while listening to the story.
Fourteen years ago, Elaine Howard stumbled into a rock shop and bought a fateful souvenir- a little dinosaur tooth- that would change her life forever. Elaine’s interest in that fossil not only awakened her passion for paleontology but transformed her life from one of negativity and hopelessness to one of excitement and adventure. On the surface, it appeared dinosaurs brought Elaine back to life. In reality, it was her change in mental focus that radically transformed her life for the better. Don’t wait to find your life-changing passion by chance. You have the power to take control and initiate your own positive transformation. In Passion in the Bones, Elaine provides a step-by-step guide to finding and sustaining a passion that will get the positives flowing—and keep them flowing—in your life.
This book is about a 12-year old girl who decides to have a sleep over for her birthday, which is on Halloween. But she, her sister, and friends encounter a haunting adventure after reading the book. She later figures out how to save herself and her friends and learns an important lesson.
This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Gertrude Stein, Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewett, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Christina Reid. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.
Examines the places, people, and events that shaped the history of the state of Texas including the Alamo, cowboys, Buffalo Soldiers, cattle drives, the Civil War, and other interesting features, and contains background information on each site, travel routes, lodging and restaurants, and more.
Urban Los Angeles is the setting in which Elaine Miller has collected her narratives from Mexican-Americans. The Mexican folk tradition, varied and richly expressive of the inner life not only of a people but also of the individual as each lives it and personalizes it, is abundantly present in the United States. Since it is in the urban centers that most Mexican-Americans have lived, this collection represents an important contribution to the study of that tradition and to the study of the changes urban life effects on traditional folklore. The collection includes sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales. The legendary narratives deal with the virgins and saints as well as with such familiar characters as the vanishing hitchhiker, the headless horseman, and the llorona. Familiar characters appear in the traditional tales—Juan del Oso, Blancaflor, Pedro de Ordimalas, and others. Elaine Miller concludes that the traditional tales are dying out in the city because tale telling itself is not suited to the fast pace of modern urban life, and the situations and characters in the tales are not perceived by the people to be meaningfully related to the everyday challenges and concerns of that life. The legendary tales survive longer in an urban setting because, although containing fantastic elements, they are related to the beliefs and hopes of the narrator—even in the city one may be led to buried treasure on some dark night by a mysterious woman. The penchant of the informants for the fantastic in many of their tales often reflects their hopes and fears, such as their dreams of suddenly acquiring wealth or their fears of being haunted by the dead. Miller closely observes the teller's relation to the stories—to the duendes, the ánimas, Death, God, the devil—and she notes the tension on the part of the informant in his relation to their religion. The material is documented according to several standard tale and motif indices and is placed within the context of the larger body of Hispanic folk tradition by the citation of parallel versions throughout the Hispanic world. The tales, transcribed from taped interviews, are presented in colloquial Spanish accompanied by summaries in English.
The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for music learning and language arts literacy in the pre-K, elementary, and secondary levels. This edition includes two new chapters: one dedicated to secondary music education and teacher evaluation, and another that offers a literature review of latest literacy research in education, neuroscience, and neuropsychology. Readers will find extensive instructional examples for music and reading teachers so that they may enrich and support each other in alignment with current initiatives for twenty-first-century curricula. Instructional examples are aligned with The National Core Music Standards and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Media Arts. Readers will find an in-depth review of the benefits of music learning in the listening, viewing, speaking and writing literacy as well as comprehensive information for children with special needs. The Music and Literacy Connection is a valuable resource for professional development, college literacy courses, and curriculum administrators.
This story is about the closeness of a baby/toddler grandson to his grandma, and what he does to get her attention. It takes you on a journey of learning what he likes to do. During this journey he is learning different concepts without knowing it, because he is still very young. He likes doing many things and this book enlightens you on Mali’s daily activities while visiting grandma. Small children will encounter educational concepts while listening to the story.
Kwakwaka'wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnel's 1808 opera Lucas et Cécile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, French, and English music), the Tin Pan Alley hits of Shelton Brooks, and the contemporary work of Claude Vivier and Blue Rodeo all dance together in Canada's rich musical heritage. Elaine Keillor offers an unprecedented history of Canadian musical expressions and their relationship to Canada's great cultural and geographic diversity. A survey of "musics" in Canada - the country's multiplicity of musical genres and rich heritage - is complemented by forty-three vignettes highlighting topics such as Inuit throat games, the music of k.d. lang, and orchestras in Victoria. Music in Canada illuminates the past but also looks to the future to examine the context within which Canadian music began and continues to develop. A CD by the author of previously unrecorded Canadian music is included.
This study takes the case of the Trencavel Viscounts of Beziers and Carcassonne, who were the only members of the higher nobility to lose their lands to the crusade, and argues that an understanding of how the Occitan nobility fared in the crusade years must be based in the context of the politics of the noble society of Languedoc, not only in the thirteenth century but also in the twelfth."--BOOK JACKET.
Wyllie's Treatment of Epilepsy: Principles and Practice, 6th edition provides a broad, detailed, and cohesive overview of seizure disorders and contemporary treatment options. Written by the most influential experts in the field and thoroughly updated to provide the most current content, Wyllie’s Treatment of Epilepsy assists neurologists and epilepsy specialists, neurology residents and fellows, and neuropsychologists in assessing and treating their epileptic patients with the latest treatment options. Dr. Wyllie is once again joined by associate editors Drs. Gidal and Goodkin, as well as newcomers Dr. Joseph Sirven of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. Tobias Loddenkemper, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, who specializes in epilepsy research and treatment, particularly for the pediatric population. In-depth review of the subspecialties of epileptology, i.e., neuroimaging, epilepsy surgery, antiepileptic medications A comprehensive single-volume text on epileptology Clinically oriented, evidence-based reference Online bank of over 500 board review-style questions highlight key concepts for board examinations and clinical practice
This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), sensed the opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in America. The 'prize' they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality but also the education, health care, housing, and employment needs that haunted the black community. But the onset of the Cold War and rising anti-communism allowed powerful Southerners to cast those rights as Soviet-inspired. Thus the Civil Rights Movement was launched with neither the language nor the mission it needed to truly achieve black equality.
This ground-breaking book helps us discover all the ways we are smart. Based on three decades of teaching and research, it shows that we have at least ten kinds of aptitude---emotional and behavioral as well as mental. Personal stories and simple exercises teach us to access all ten, including: Spatial intelligence to pre-visualize important new projects; Motivational intelligence to light your creative fire; Mood intelligence to grow despite adversity; Pattern intelligence to combat addictions and negative habits; Intuitive intelligence to gain in spiritual wisdom; Parameter intelligence to sustain what you love and live in harmony with the universe.
I qualified to write this book because it is my personal life story, I lived through each physical sickness and emotion that an individual can possibly endure, a death sentence on my life being diagnosis with a life threaten disease of Lupus and my father's death of colon cancer plus also the death of a brother in a car accident and the passing of my mother. Yes this qualified me to write the struggles that I had just trying to surivive. Also my dear mother suffering from complications of diabetes and blinding glaucoma with living 3000 miles away from home it was always on my mind if she was in the hospital or perhaps dying and me not being able to get to her to help.
Who on the planet doesn't know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesn't know that he was the King of Rock 'n' Roll? But who knows that the King himself lived in the thrall of one dominant person? This was Gladys Smith Presley, his protective, indulgent, beloved mother. Elvis and Gladys, one of the best researched and most acclaimed books on Elvis's early life, reconstructs the extraordinary role Gladys played in her son's formative years. Uncovering facts not seen by other biographers, Elvis and Gladys reconstructs for the first time the history of the mother and son's devoted relationship and reveals new information about Elvis—his Cherokee ancestry, his boyhood obsession with comic books, and his early compulsion to rescue his family from poverty. Coming to life in the compelling narrative is the poignant story of a unique boy and the maternal tie that bound him. It is at once an intimate psychological portrait of a tragic relationship and a mesmerizing tale of the early years of an international idol. “For once, a legend is presented to us by the mind and heart of a literate, careful biographer who cares,” wrote Liz Smith in the New York Daily News when Elvis and Gladys was originally published in 1985. This is the book, Smith says, “for any Elvis lover who wants to know more about what made Presley the man he was and the mama's boy he became.” The Boston Globe called this thoughtful, informative biography of one of popular music's most enduring stars “nothing less than the best Elvis book yet.”
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