Let yourself be dazzled by creatures around the world in this brilliant nonfiction picture book about iridescence. Have you ever noticed the rainbow-like shimmer on certain bird feathers, insect bodies and animal scales? This effect, called iridescence, changes depending on the angle from which its viewed, and animals across the globe use the effect to both blend in and stand out. In playful rhyming couplets, Time to Shine takes a closer look at these creatures and their sparkly “clothes,” from the mallard duck’s shining green flying “cap,” which allows the birds to coordinate flight movements, to the reed frog’s heat reflecting “vest,” to the hummingbird’s sequinned “costume,” which helps to attract a mate. A secondary level of prose text on each spread gives further context for each animal’s particular environment and adaptation. Light seems to dance off of the book's vibrant pages, with illustrations that bring us up close and personal with animals both exotic and familiar to young readers. An author’s note provides additional information about the science of iridescence. Key Text Features author's note bibliography definitions explanation facts further information illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
Let yourself be dazzled by creatures around the world in this brilliant nonfiction picture book about iridescence. Have you ever noticed the rainbow-like shimmer on certain bird feathers, insect bodies and animal scales? This effect, called iridescence, changes depending on the angle from which its viewed, and animals across the globe use the effect to both blend in and stand out. In playful rhyming couplets, Time to Shine takes a closer look at these creatures and their sparkly "clothes," from the mallard duck's shining green flying "cap," which allows the birds coordinate flight movements, to the reed frog's heat reflecting "vest," to the hummingbird's sequinned "costume," which helps to attract a mate. A secondary level of prose text on each spread gives further context for each animal's particular environment and adaptation. Light seems to dance off of the book's vibrant pages, with illustrations that bring us up close and personal with animals both exotic and familiar to young readers. An author's note provides additional information about the science of iridescence. Key Text Features author's note bibliography definitions diagrams explanation facts further information illustrations
Wee readers will connect with wee endangered-animals in this mesmerizing bedtime book by Karen Jameson (Woodland Dreams, Farm Lullaby), promoting environmental awareness and encouraging the very sweetest of dreams! When stars are out and the moon's above, where do the wee ones go, my love? Where do the wee ones go? Where do endangered animals go to sleep? Immerse yourself in the lush beauty of this bedtime picture book and find out. From the Pacific Ocean to China's mountains, the Australian outback, and beyond, each baby animal has a warm, safe place to fall asleep. With a variety of baby endangered animals and their mamas gracing each gorgeous spread, readers will be transfixed by richly-illustrated scenes that span the globe and capture each creature's unique habitat. Snuggle close like a sweet panda, curl up like a cozy koala, and drift off like a drowsy elephant, letting the sweeping environments and soothing bedtime rituals of this gentle animal lullaby lull even the most restless little dreamers into a deep and peaceful sleep. SWEET BEDTIME STORY: The soothing and lyrical text is perfect for bedtime read-alouds, engaging the youngest of readers through beautiful illustrations and a cozy rhyming narrative before sending them off to sleep with a gentle and loving goodnight. FEATURES ENDEARING ENDANGERED ANIMALS: Featuring the bedtime rituals of wild animals and their loving parents from all around the world, this heartwarming book encourages appreciation of our world's most unique species and offers opportunities for parent/child bonding. Children who adore animals will relish snuggling up with these furry and feathered friends! JUST RIGHT FOR THE AGE GROUP: In addition to reinforcing concepts like emotional security and unconditional love, the repetitive read-aloud text structure introduces rhyming and language patterns—all ideal for boosting early cognitive development. GREAT GIFTING OPPORTUNITY: This beautifully illustrated bedtime book makes a gorgeous gift for any special occasion in a child's life, providing a read-aloud experience that infuses each sleepy moment with sweetness and love. LEARN ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD: Scenes of baby endangered animals in their stunning natural habitats serve to reinforce little readers' understanding (and appreciation) of nature and the natural world. Perfect for: • Parents, grandparents, and caregivers looking for a beautiful bedtime book • Environmentally conscious readers and appreciators of endangered animals • Gift-givers seeking a sweet year-round gift • Animal- and nature-loving gift-givers • Teachers and librarians
Combining scientific facts with the art of poetry, this is a humorous and educational picture book about animals that look alike. How do you tell a llama from an alpaca, an alligator from a crocodile, or a dolphin from a porpoise? The animal kingdom is full of creatures that look so similar to others that they are often confused for each other. A Llama Is Not an Alpaca pairs rhyming animal riddles with factual responses to both teach and engage young readers as they compare and contrast features of commonly misidentified animals. How many will you get right?!
Celebrate the promise and potential of spring in this effervescent follow-up to Woodland Dreams. Oh, the promise of spring and a new day! A honeybee, bear cub, bunny, squirrel, fawns, and more wake up as the landscape brims and bursts with spring firsts. In this beautifully illustrated picture book follow-up to their beloved bedtime book, Karen Jameson and Marc Boutavant offer a lyrical and reassuring ode to the morning and a celebration of a new season, affirming the power of greeting the day with energy, positivity, and hope. Readers will adore the heartwarming illustrations and tender moments between animal parents and children. Perfect read-aloud to share over breakfast, with a preschool class for morning storytime, or on the first day of spring. STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS: Marc Boutavant's detail-rich and incredibly sweet illustrations will rivet young readers as they move through spring-infused scenes filled with woodland animals and flowers. SOOTHING NARRATIVE: In addition to reinforcing concepts like emotional security and unconditional love, the lyrical, rhyming text creates a warm and connected reading experience. EDUCATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK: Animals featured in their natural habitats offer a great way to learn about and increase our appreciation of nature. Perfect selection as an Earth Day book for kids! CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR WOODLAND DREAMS: "Jameson displays a rare gift for harmonious language and rhyme. . . . Sweet fare for bed- or naptimes, with a light frosting of natural history." –Kirkus Reviews, starred review; "[A] classic-feeling narrative that features graceful verse and detailed artwork." –Publishers Weekly Perfect for: Parents, grandparents, and caregivers looking for a sweet springtime book for children Fans of Woodland Dreams and author Karen Jameson's children's books Fans of Marc Boutavant's picture books Parents looking for a book with meaningful parent-child connections Gift givers seeking a sweet and engaging present or Easter basket addition
This special Black and White edition of "Beyond Yet Still With You" is ideal for use with groups of readers, counselors, teachers, students, adults and children.This 5-Pack is intended for use as a SUPPLEMENT for the Teacher's Kit, and is an option to ordering individual copies of the Student Workbook.NOTE: These sheets are PERFECT BOUND and must be cut free from the binding to be passed out to students. Use care and ONLY cut papers with adult supervision. While a razor blade will work, we recommend you take the book to an office supply or printer store for help."Beyond: 5-Pack of Student Handouts in Black and White" is intended for groups. It contains FIVE (5) copies of each of the TWO-page (2-page) handouts for the TEN (10) core lessons and the OPENING LESSON.Useful for teaching the character of God using the "Beyond Yet Still With You" poem, this 5-Pack will help you* lead adult discussions,* teach introductory theology,* present material in Sunday Schools, and* equip groups of students in Home and Private School settings.A delightful reminder of the constant presence and protecting grace of God, studying "Beyond Yet Still With You" will be a blessing for anyone who has ever felt distant from God. This volume is SPECIFICALLY INTENDED for groups, whether yours is studying basic theology, reading, or prepositions of place, or bringing comfort to people in a group of hurting people. “Beyond” can bring a word of peace and joy to readers and listeners.Sometimes we need to hear a calm voice. Nighttime noises and daytime surprises can cause anytime tears and fears. We need a word of comfort. "Beyond Yet Still With You" is ideal in those moments.“Beyond Yet Still With You” brings the reader and groups words and pictures of joy, peace and comfort.Handling difficult concepts (like figuring out where God is, or wondering if God cares when I am hurt) is challenging. “Beyond” breaks it down into simple terms: God is Beyond, but He is still with us. He is beneath, over, through, in, and above us. We are under His care. Because He is everywhere, He is here and we can have peace.This 5-Pack gives you handouts for your students.“Beyond Yet Still With You” teaches us that God does sometimes seem distant from us. He is so far from us, so "beyond", as to seem inaccessible. God transcends creation. He is Lord of Heaven. But He is also Lord of the earth. Though He is distant, at the same time He is close at hand. He is a nearby powerful friend, an ever-present help in times of trouble. He is immanent.This 5-Pack allows you to give your students a one-page handout for each of eleven lessons.The book and these handouts combine peaceful poetry, original Scripture translations and vibrant illustrations into a single work that explores this “near but far paradox” of God's character. Readers and listeners, students and teachers, counselors and their clients, old and young - all will be reminded that God delights in His people. He protects us with His power. He comforts us with His presence. He watches out for us when we are out on a limb, walking through puddles and going to bed.We can be encouraged by the teachings of this book to understand we are safe because God is transcendent yet involved, distant yet immanent. He is over all, yet He is personally involved. He is "Beyond, Yet Still With You".The book is available in several languages (English, Haitian Creole and Japanese, with versions in French, Spanish, and other languages in the works) and multiple formats (illustrated poem book, coloring book, 13-lesson extended version "Teacher's Kit", and student handouts). The project also includes audio CD and a video DVD as well as a "coloring book" app for your mobile device. It is perfect for counseling settings, VBS, Home School and Sunday School.This Black and White version contains five sets of hand outs for each of the eleven lessons.
A special BLACK AND WHITE edition of "Beyond Yet Still With You", this book is ideal for use by readers, counselors, teachers, students, adults and children and is suitable for* learning about the nature and character of God,* finding comfort and peace, and* counseling through crisis.Highly interactive, this workbook includes the poem "Beyond, Yet Still With You", the art (presented here in black and white) from the Reader's Edition, key terms, Scripture text and space to journal. This edition is a companion edition which works with "The Teacher's Kit", the full-color illustrated Reader's Edition and the Coloring Book."Beyond: The Workbook In Black and White" is useful not only for personal reading and reflection, but also for * adult discussions,* teaching introductory theology,* Sunday Schools,* Home Schools,* Private Schools."Beyond: The Workbook In Black and White" will work well for supervised or group study and discussion, and for individual reading.A delightful reminder of the constant presence and protecting grace of God, Beyond Yet Still With You will be a blessing for anyone who has ever felt distant from God. Whether you are shopping for a gift for a child or a book to bring comfort to someone who is hurting, “Beyond” can bring a word of peace and joy to readers and listeners.Sometimes we need to hear a calm voice. Nighttime noises and daytime surprises can cause anytime tears and fears. We need a word of comfort. This book is ideal in those moments.Perfect for bedtime reading, gifting to a hurting friend, helping with counselling or just reading for pleasure, “Beyond Yet Still With You” brings the reader words and pictures of joy, peace and comfort.Handling difficult concepts (like figuring out where God is, or wondering if God cares when I am hurt) is challenging. “Beyond” breaks it down into simple terms: God is Beyond, but He is still with us. He is beneath, over, through, in, and above us. We are under His care. Because He is everywhere, He is here and we can have peace.“Beyond Yet Still With You” teaches us that God does sometimes seem distant from us. He is so far from us, so "beyond", as to seem inaccessible. God transcends creation. He is Lord of Heaven. But He is also Lord of the earth. Though He is distant, at the same time He is close at hand. He is a nearby powerful friend, an ever-present help in times of trouble. He is immanent.This book by father/daughter team Steve Jameson, the author, and Erin Brown, the artist, combines peaceful poetry, original Scripture translations and vibrant illustrations into a single work that explores this “near but far paradox” of God's character. Readers and listeners old and young will be reminded that God delights in His people. He protects us with His power. He comforts us with His presence. He watches out for us when we are out on a limb, walking through puddles and going to bed.We can be encouraged by the teachings of this book to understand we are safe because God is transcendent yet involved, distant yet immanent. He is over all, yet He is personally involved. He is "Beyond, Yet Still With You".The book is available in several languages (English, Haitian Creole and Japanese, with versions in French, Spanish, and other languages in the works) and multiple formats (illustrated poem book, coloring book, 13-lesson extended version "Teacher's Kit", and student handouts). The project also includes audio CD and a video DVD as well as a "coloring book" app for your mobile device. It is perfect for counseling settings, VBS, Home School and Sunday School.Gift yourself, your child or a friend with this gift bringing personal peace.
How Deep Is Your Hate? is a murder mystery. It tells the story of Janelle Jameson, a young woman who is heir to The Jameson Group fortune. When tragedy strikes, Janelle sets out to exact revenge on the person she holds personally responsible for the tragic events that unfold in her life. Risking everything, Janelle pulls out all stops to ensure that the person she holds responsible pays dearly for the misery they have caused her.
A special edition of "Beyond Yet Still With You", this book is ideal for use by readers, counselors, teachers, students, adults and children and is suitable for* learning about the nature and character of God,* finding comfort and peace, and* counseling through crisis.Highly interactive, this workbook includes the poem "Beyond, Yet Still With You", all the color art from the Reader's Edition, key terms, Scripture text and space to journal. This edition is a companion edition which works with "The Teacher's Kit", the Reader's Edition and the Coloring Book."Beyond: The Workbook" is useful not only for personal reading and reflection, but also for * adult discussions,* teaching introductory theology,* Sunday Schools,* Home Schools,* Private Schools."Beyond: The Workbook" will work well for supervised or group study and discussion, and for individual reading.A delightful reminder of the constant presence and protecting grace of God, Beyond Yet Still With You will be a blessing for anyone who has ever felt distant from God. Whether you are shopping for a gift for a child or a book to bring comfort to someone who is hurting, “Beyond” can bring a word of peace and joy to readers and listeners.Sometimes we need to hear a calm voice. Nighttime noises and daytime surprises can cause anytime tears and fears. We need a word of comfort. This book is ideal in those moments.Perfect for bedtime reading, gifting to a hurting friend, helping with counselling or just reading for pleasure, “Beyond Yet Still With You” brings the reader words and pictures of joy, peace and comfort.Handling difficult concepts (like figuring out where God is, or wondering if God cares when I am hurt) is challenging. “Beyond” breaks it down into simple terms: God is Beyond, but He is still with us. He is beneath, over, through, in, and above us. We are under His care. Because He is everywhere, He is here and we can have peace.“Beyond Yet Still With You” teaches us that God does sometimes seem distant from us. He is so far from us, so "beyond", as to seem inaccessible. God transcends creation. He is Lord of Heaven. But He is also Lord of the earth. Though He is distant, at the same time He is close at hand. He is a nearby powerful friend, an ever-present help in times of trouble. He is immanent.This book by Steve Jameson, the author, Karen Jameson, the educator, and Erin Jameson Brown, the artist, combines peaceful poetry, original Scripture translations and vibrant illustrations into a single work that explores this “near but far paradox” of God's character. Readers and listeners old and young will be reminded that God delights in His people. He protects us with His power. He comforts us with His presence. He watches out for us when we are out on a limb, walking through puddles and going to bed.We can be encouraged by the teachings of this book to understand we are safe because God is transcendent yet involved, distant yet immanent. He is over all, yet He is personally involved. He is "Beyond, Yet Still With You".The book is available in several languages (English, Haitian Creole and Japanese, with versions in French, Spanish, and other languages in the works) and multiple formats (illustrated poem book, coloring book, 13-lesson extended version "Teacher's Kit", and student handouts). The project also includes audio CD and a video DVD as well as a "coloring book" app for your mobile device. It is perfect for counseling settings, VBS, Home School and Sunday School.Gift yourself, your child or a friend with this gift bringing personal peace.
This Special Resource Kit is part of the series of books using the poem "Beyond, Yet Still With You" to teach adults and children about God. The poem can be used - as a counseling asset (Where is God when I hurt so bad?)- as a grammar primer (What are prepositions of place, and how do we use them?),- as an introduction to theology (Where is God? Is He both “here” and “there”?)and in ways you might imagine.These notes will help you teach about the “immanence” and the “transcendence” of God. He is both "here" and "there" concurrently - “Beyond, Yet Still With You”.The poem and this Kit will help in a bigger purpose: by knowing more about God and His character, we will experience more peace.ORGANIZATIONThe poem uses 7 prepositions of place (Beyond, Beneath, Above, Over, Through, In and Under), 2 locator words (Everywhere and Here) and 1 delightful term (Peace) to discuss, in simple terms, two challenging concepts: the location of God, and His ability to help us during times of trial. The first 5 prepositions address the question “Where Is God?”: Beyond, Beneath, Above, Over, and Through. With the word “In”, we begin our transition from “God as subject” to “me as subject”. The word “Under” addresses the question “Where Am I?”. Then comes a word of assurance about God: He is "Everywhere". Lesson 9 teaches that He is Here. Then we wrap up with Lesson 10, a word of Peace: The presence of God brings personal Peace.We also have included a bit of “special” or “bonus” material: (1) an invitation you can use to invite people to class, in both black and white and color; (2) suggestions for an opening lesson using the Psalm 77 adaptation from the book; (3) a review lesson; and (4) ideas for a Special Presentation by the class to an audience. These bonus items are presented in a way that can be easily adapted to local circumstances.Thus the kit has 13 lessons - enough material for a full calendar quarter.Throughout the poem and the lessons, we want to emphasize that the reader or learner is loved by God and protected by God. “Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,” Isaiah wrote in Chapter 32, “how blessed you will be”. Even if it looks like Hell has broken out of its restraints and has come at you full strength, the assurance of God is that He will work all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.God will take care of us. He loves us. He is with us, even on the darkest of days.Each preposition of place used in the poem has a four-page treatment in this packet.Page A presents the poem portion, key concept, suggested memory verses, and art.Page B contains a series of verses pulled from the text of Scripture and related to the lesson.Page C has an in-depth treatment of the preposition intended as teacher's background.Page D presents a Classroom Presentation Outline (CPO).GUIDELINESUnder ideal circumstances, the teacher will have the complete four-page handout for the preposition AND additional copies of the first two pages, one per student. Then each student can be sent home with a single sheet of paper which are printed on both sides; side A with the poem portion, art, key concept, and memory verses, and side B with pertinent Scripture verses. The pages in this book are NOT duplication masters. Five-Packs of Student Handouts (pages A and B) can be obtained from HushHarborBooks.com. Also, you can obtain the separate Student Workbook, which includes all pages A and B, plus two additional work pages for each lesson.Teachers should adapt the Classroom Presentation Outline to their class's age and maturity in faith as well as to the class size and time remaining and to the teacher's own style and personality. The CPOs have been carefully structured, but every class setting is unique. Therefore, we encourage you to use our structure as your own class outline, but adapt the activities to your class.
This Special Black and Whiote Edition of the Teacher's Resource Kit is part of the series of books using the poem "Beyond, Yet Still With You" to teach adults and children about God. The poem can be used - as a counseling asset (Where is God when I hurt?)- as a grammar primer (What are prepositions of place, and how do we use them?),- as an introduction to theology (Where is God? Is He both “here” and “there”?)and in ways you might imagine.These notes will help you teach about the “immanence” and the “transcendence” of God. He is both "here" and "there" concurrently - “Beyond, Yet Still With You”.The poem and this Kit will help in a bigger purpose: by knowing more about God and His character, we will experience more peace.ORGANIZATIONThe poem uses 7 prepositions of place (Beyond, Beneath, Above, Over, Through, In and Under), 2 locator words (Everywhere and Here) and 1 delightful term (Peace) to discuss, in simple terms, two challenging concepts: the location of God, and His ability to help us during times of trial. The first 5 prepositions address the question “Where Is God?”: Beyond, Beneath, Above, Over, and Through. With the word “In”, we begin our transition from “God as subject” to “me as subject”. The word “Under” addresses the question “Where Am I?”. Then comes a word of assurance about God: He is "Everywhere". Lesson 9 teaches that He is Here. Then we wrap up with Lesson 10, a word of Peace: The presence of God brings personal Peace.We also have included a bit of “special” or “bonus” material: (1) an invitation you can use to invite people to class, in both black and white and color; (2) suggestions for an opening lesson using the Psalm 77 adaptation from the book; (3) a review lesson; and (4) ideas for a Special Presentation by the class to an audience. These bonus items are presented in a way that can be easily adapted to local circumstances.Thus the kit has 13 lessons - enough material for a full calendar quarter.Throughout the poem and the lessons, we want to emphasize that the reader or learner is loved by God and protected by God. “Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,” Isaiah wrote in Chapter 32, “how blessed you will be”. Even if it looks like Hell has broken out of its restraints and has come at you full strength, the assurance of God is that He will work all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.God will take care of us. He loves us. He is with us, even on the darkest of days.Each preposition of place used in the poem has a four-page treatment in this packet.Page A presents the poem portion, key concept, suggested memory verses, and art.Page B contains a series of verses pulled from the text of Scripture and related to the lesson.Page C has an in-depth treatment of the preposition intended as teacher's background.Page D presents a Classroom Presentation Outline (CPO).GUIDELINESUnder ideal circumstances, the teacher will have the complete four-page handout for the preposition AND additional copies of the first two pages, one per student. Then each student can be sent home with a single sheet of paper which are printed on both sides; side A with the poem portion, art, key concept, and memory verses, and side B with pertinent Scripture verses. The pages in this book are NOT duplication masters. Five-Packs of Student Handouts (pages A and B) can be obtained from HushHarborBooks.com. Also, you can obtain the separate Student Workbook, which includes all pages A and B, plus two additional work pages for each lesson.Teachers should adapt the Classroom Presentation Outline to their class's age and maturity in faith as well as to the class size and time remaining and to the teacher's own style and personality. The CPOs have been carefully structured, but every class setting is unique. Therefore, we encourage you to use our structure as your own class outline, but adapt the activities to your class.
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING: GET THIS PAPERBACK FOR THE LOWEST PRICE ALLOWED BY AMAZON! The price will go to full retail on November 18, 2019. Why is she being followed? Since "Curls" and her dad arrived on Grand Cayman, they have been followed - in their hotel, at a formal dinner, while they are snorkeling, virtually everywhere. The first sighting was at the airport, where Curls spotted The Pirate With A Patch. But her Dad disagrees; this is all coincidence, he says. But when they go to a meeting off-island, some evil people chase them into the jungle. And when they get back to Grand Cayman and enter the mysterious tunnel at the lookout tower, things get more complicated. You see, to Dad's surprise, there really IS a Pirate With A Patch chasing them!
After a tragic chain of event nearly destroyed his life, Jameson O' Connell returned to the one place that he'd ever considered home. But when he discovered that he had a son, he realized that the pint-sized miracle will finally bring him back from the brink.
Sara Rand had moved to rural Hart Valley, California, for a quiet life, helping troubled kids and healing horses. And she thought she'd found everything she desired—until Keith Delacroix arrived to help fix up her ranch. Keith was everything Sara had sworn off—handsome, strong and reluctant to discuss his past. But the more time they spent together, the more drawn to him she was. Keith was surprisingly kind and gentle, and he was the only one Grace, one of Sara's troubled students, seemed to trust. Soon Sara began to wonder what was behind Keith's hardened exterior. Despite his occasional temper and stiff demeanor, could he be the miracle she'd been looking for all along?
Carter, abandoned by her parents when she was a child and implicated in a crime by her friends, has been given one last chance by a judge to stay out of jail. Believing she has no choices left in her life, she agrees to stay with a family away from the city she has lived in all her life. In just a few weeks,conflicts with her classmates and her teachers increase when her guitar is taken away, and Carter’s life spins out of control because of a secret she refuses to share with her foster family and her teachers.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.
The Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with photography and film as well as the methods of observation used by the social sciences, Karen Jacobs identifies distinctly modernist kinds of observers and visual relationships. This important reconception of modernism draws upon American, British, and French literary and extra-literary materials from the period 1900-1955. These texts share a sense of crisis about vision's capacity for violence and its inability to deliver reliable knowledge. Jacobs looks closely at the ways in which historical understandings of race and gender inflected visual relations in the modernist novel. She shows how modernist writers, increasingly aware of the body behind the neutral lens of the observer, used diverse strategies to displace embodiment onto those "others" historically perceived as cultural bodies in order to reimagine for themselves or their characters a "purified" gaze. The Eye's Mind addresses works by such high modernists as Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and (more distantly) Ralph Ellison and Maurice Blanchot, as well as those by Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nathanael West which have been tentatively placed in the modernist canon although they forgo the full-blown experimental techniques often seen as synonymous with literary modernism. Jacobs reframes fundamental debates about modernist aesthetic practices by demonstrating how much those practices are indebted to the changing visual cultures of the twentieth century.
Long-time Head of Network Operations, Angelo Pluzetti, has faced danger in every form, to the most extreme degree. He gives his loyalty without question to the primary mission of the Network and to his family of operatives. He's kept his own heart, emotions and personal needs buried. After countless years, Angelo has never failed and never been captured by an enemy...until he's targeted by R.E.D. and kidnapped. The last thing he expects is the deceptively-frail, Network doctor and the mother of his unborn child, Celine Savage, to be the one to save his life and unbury his heart.
A chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Cassandra Khaw, Karen Heuler, Benjamin Percy, John Langan, Laird Barron, Jeffrey Ford, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, and Genevieve Valentine.
Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet firearms have always been invested with a whole array of additional social and symbolical meanings. By placing these meanings at the centre of analysis, the essays presented in this volume extend the study of the gun beyond the confines of military history and the examination of its impact on specific colonial encounters. By bringing cultural perspectives to bear on this most pervasive of technological artefacts, the contributors explore the densely interwoven relationships between firearms and broad processes of social change. In so doing, they contribute to a fuller understanding of some of the most significant consequences of British and American imperial expansions. Not the least original feature of the book is its global frame of reference. Bringing together historians of different periods and regions, A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire overcomes traditional compartmentalisations of historical knowledge and encourages the drawing of novel and illuminating comparisons across time and space.
Network operatives and lovers Lucy Carlton and Vic Leventhal have spent years living in shadows, the property of the covert organization they gave their loyalty to in the lofty pursuit of justice for all. Disillusioned, they're now determined to live their lives on their own terms. When the Network's arch enemies, a terrorist organization called R.E.D., secretly approach the two about defecting-freedom for information that will disable the Network-the couple must choose between love and loyalty. In the process, they jeopardize the Network's anonymity...and its very existence.
Sara Rand had moved to rural Hart Valley, California, for a quiet life, helping troubled kids and healing horses. And she thought she'd found everything she desired—until Keith Delacroix arrived to help fix up her ranch. Keith was everything Sara had sworn off—handsome, strong and reluctant to discuss his past. But the more time they spent together, the more drawn to him she was. Keith was surprisingly kind and gentle, and he was the only one Grace, one of Sara's troubled students, seemed to trust. Soon Sara began to wonder what was behind Keith's hardened exterior. Despite his occasional temper and stiff demeanor, could he be the miracle she'd been looking for all along?
The Literacy Workshop: Where Reading and Writing Converge is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers a practical process for creating an integrated literacy workshop using demonstration lessons that align with current curriculum standards. In this forward-thinking book, authors Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker share what they've learned over countless reading and writing workshops and combine into one literacy workshop. The authors demonstrate how you can save valuable classroom time while still empowering students to uncover exciting connections in their learning – leading to stronger, more motivational readers and writers. By weaving the common threads of literacy learning together, you can increase the time your students spend engaged in authentic reading and writing. Inside you'll find the following: A clear, succinct explanation of the literacy workshop structure, how to get started, and how to determine the best time to begin the merge 50+ demonstration lesson plans, appropriate for both primary and intermediate grade levels, that use strategies incorporating elements from recommended fiction and nonfiction anchor texts Substantial, printable resources and online tools to help make this instructional shift as smooth as possible. From the big picture to small, helpful details, The Literacy Workshop will be your guide as you blur the lines between your reading and writing workshops - creating space for students to apply their learning and practice the habits, behaviors, and actions of literate and engaged citizens.
Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic, political, and social changes wrought by the industrial revolution. In Cultural Capitals, Karen Newman demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in early modern London and Paris. Newman challenges the notion of a rupture between premodern and modern societies and shows how London and Paris became cultural capitals. Drawing upon poetry, plays, and prose by writers such as Shakespeare, Scudéry, Boileau, and Donne, as well as popular materials including pamphlets, ballads, and broadsides, she examines the impact of rapid urbanization on cultural production. Newman shows how changing demographics and technological development altered these two emerging urban centers in which new forms of cultural capital were produced and new modes of sociability and representation were articulated. Cultural Capitals is a fascinating work of literary and cultural history that redefines our conception of when the modern city came to be and brings early modern London and Paris alive in all their splendor, squalor, and richness.
While the contemporary era has witnessed a series of spectacular failures with severe and widespread global consequences, failure is still broadly understood on an individual level, while its broader causes and consequences receive little attention. This book reconceptualises failure as a method for characterising and critiquing systems and institutions on both a global and a local level. It defines global failure as comprising global inequality, economic crisis, and ecological disaster, and as a condition which informs and is informed by localised failure. It examines the negotiation between global and local failure in narratives of failed quests by four contemporary authors: Cormac McCarthy, Julia Kristeva, Michael Ondaatje, and Basma Abdel Aziz. As a genre, the quest narrative is associated with the idea of hard-won success. The failed quest narrative, or the narrative of the failed quest, is therefore the ideal vehicle through which to examine the socio-political and institutional conditions of failure. Primarily a contribution to the field of world literature, this book is also relevant to those with an interest in the contemporary novel, failure studies, and the quest narrative.
Dematerialization examines the intertwined experimental practices and critical discourses of art and industrial design in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile in the 1960s and 1970s. Provocative in nature, this book investigates the way that artists, critics, and designers considered the relationship between the crisis of the modernist concept of artistic medium and the radical social transformation brought about by the accelerated capitalist development of the preceding decades. Beginning with Oscar Masotta’s sui generis definition of the term, Karen Benezra proposes dematerialization as a concept that allows us to see how disputes over the materiality of the art and design object functioned in order to address questions concerning the role of appearance, myth, and ideology in the dynamic logic structuring social relations in contemporary discussions of aesthetics, artistic collectivism, and industrial design. Dematerialization brings new insights to the fields of contemporary art history, critical theory, and Latin American cultural studies.
Isabel Allende garnered immediate attention and international acclaim with the 1982 publication of House of Spirits. Allende drew favorable comparisons to male Latin American writers who were dominating a boom movement that mixed political and magical themes. Yet her engaging epic became a bestseller based on its artistic merit, regardless of gender issues, and her ensuing output of fiction and nonfiction continued to establish her esteemed place in the literary ranks. This Critical Companion introduces readers to Allende's writings with accessible literary analysis of her six novels, featuring discussions of plot, character development, thematic concerns and style, historical contexts, and alternative critical perspectives. A fascinating biographical chapter traces Allende's journey from wife, mother, and journalist in Chile to internationally acclaimed author. Her life story—as stimulating as her novels—offer students and readers a better understanding of the historical and political forces that informed her work. The Literary Heritage chapter provides will deepen readers' appreciation for Allende's contributions to, and place in, the Latin American literary tradition. A select bibliography includes reviews and resources that will be especially useful for student research projects.
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