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Get ready to learn everything you never knew about plants and then
some! Now in paperback, this illustrated compendium celebrates the
plants you didn't even know you used, from your toothpaste to your
car tires to the name of your great-great-aunt. This comprehensive
overview also contains great plant projects you and your friends
can try at home!
Growing plants inside your home is not only a wonderfully rewarding
hobby and an easy way to bring some of the great outdoors inside,
but houseplants can also provide health benefits and homegrown
food. This book will give young readers the confidence and
knowledge to be a successful houseplant expert for years to come.
It'll give them tips and tricks to help care for plants and even
teach children how to make more plants.
Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions
from some of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of
public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca
Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters. This volume represents an
indispensable companion to other volumes in the International
Library of Policy Analysis series, enabling scholars to compare
cross-nationally concepts and practices of public policy analysis
in the media, sub-national governments, and many more institutional
settings. The volume represents an invaluable contribution to
public policy analysis and can be used widely in teaching at both
graduate and undergraduate levels in schools of public affairs and
public policy as well as in comparative politics and policy.
The German occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blanchot's
career as a political journalist. In April 1941, he began to
publish a weekly column of literary criticism in the Journal des
Debats, which became the source for his first critical work, Faux
pas (1943). As well as providing a unique perspective on cultural
life during the occupation, these pieces offer crucial insights
into the mind and art of a writer who was to become one of the most
influential figures on the French literary scene in the second half
of the twentieth century. In addition to laying the basis for the
career of one France's most original writers and thinkers, these
articles offer a reminder that Blanchot's political awareness
remains undimmed, through clear if sometimes coded acts of
criticism or defiance of the prevailing order.
Discovering that your teen "cuts" is every parent's nightmare. Your
most urgent question is: "How can I make it stop?" Tens of
thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative
guide for information and practical guidance about the growing
problem of teen self-injury. Dr. Michael Hollander is a leading
expert on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), the most effective
treatment approach for cutting. Vivid stories illustrate how
out-of-control emotions lead some teens to hurt themselves, how DBT
can help, and what other approaches can be beneficial. You'll learn
practical strategies for talking to teens about self-injury without
making it worse, teaching them skills to cope with extreme emotions
in a healthier way, finding the right therapist, and helping reduce
stress for your whole family. Incorporating the latest research,
the second edition offers a deeper understanding of the causes of
self-injury and includes new DBT skills.
In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war.
Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this
gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting
destruction. In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a
position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now
that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As
he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he
privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective
that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as
the occasion for a radical revision of what "human" is capable of
signifying. Consigning all that the name "France" has hitherto
meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to
sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and
whose human field is literature.
The book offers both literary journalism from one of the twentieth
century's major writers, as well as a snapshot of the complex,
conflicting currents of literary and intellectual activity during
the last months of German occupation and Vichy government in
France. By 1944, the days of Germany's domination of Europe are
numbered, and defeat seems no more than a matter of time. In
occupied France, there is renewed activity on the political and the
cultural fronts, in anticipation of the liberation that now appears
inevitable. Already the author of two novels and a volume of
criticism, Maurice Blanchot is henceforth fully established as a
major figure in what will soon be post-war France. Blanchot's
position in this new order is problematical, however. Despite
having discreetly supported the Resistance, he makes clear that his
only true allegiance is to literature. Against the tide of his own
emerging reputation, he is increasingly drawn to silence as the
only valid response to what the world has become. For him, ruin
cannot be reconstructed with the aid of literature, because ruin is
the mode in which literature most authentically exists. Disaster
has long been the writer's lot, with which the world has only now
caught up. Politics and literature coexist in what he will call the
"abyss of the present," and neither offers any prospect for the
future. This grim and potentially nihilistic message seems to make
Blanchot into little more than an anachronism in the emerging
post-war world. Yet his attitude is the very opposite of aloofness.
Silence becomes for him an intense search for a language
commensurate with "circumstances that literature can still neither
express directly nor distort". Beyond this volume, which completes
the English publication of his wartime literary journalism, his
writing over the next fifty years will patiently establish a margin
in which new forms thought will offer themselves to a new age.
In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war.
Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this
gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting
destruction. In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a
position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now
that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As
he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he
privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective
that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as
the occasion for a radical revision of what "human" is capable of
signifying. Consigning all that the name "France" has hitherto
meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to
sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and
whose human field is literature.
Great leaders leverage opportunities to create deep self-awareness
of their personal leadership style and build cohesive teams through
trusted relationships. The Leadership Learning Moments contained in
this book will prompt leaders at all levels of maturity to think
about their leadership style, their relationships, and the impact
they could have within their organization. As you read through
these pages, take the time to reflect on your core management
behavior, and consider the tweaks you could make in your leadership
habits that would make you more effective.
These articles gradually outline a practical project that both
looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original
developments in the postwar era, among writers such as
Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Sarraute, and Duras, not to mention Blanchot
himself. In addition Blanchot is receptive in his weekly column to
the extraordinarily wide range of original writing and thinking
that was produced during the dark years of occupation, in areas
such as psychology, anthropology, ancient history, linguistics, and
philosophy. A highly original doctrine of writing can be seen to
develop in which, thanks to the desperate clarity with which
Blanchot's mind accepts and advances into what he sees as absolute
and irrevocable disaster, thought is carefully and systematically
deflected away from any sort of nihilism, thanks to a new
relationship between reason, with its unitary subject, and the
otherness to which imagination offers access.
Set against the backdrop of a startling discovery by a group of
German soldiers in the wastes of the Siberian Steppes during the
second world war, the story twists and turns its way back into the
mists of time before pre-recorded history only to fast forward into
our time with cataclysmic consequenses. Wade McAlister, an Oxford
professor finds his safe life as an academic thrust into a
helter-skelter sequence of events culminating into the most
shocking of conclusions.
Great leaders leverage opportunities to create deep self-awareness
of their personal leadership style and build cohesive teams through
trusted relationships. The Leadership Learning Moments contained in
this book will prompt leaders at all levels of maturity to think
about their leadership style, their relationships, and the impact
they could have within their organization. As you read through
these pages, take the time to reflect on your core management
behavior, and consider the tweaks you could make in your leadership
habits that would make you more effective. Michael Holland unravels
the mysteries of leadership. Michael is a professional executive
coach and trusted advisor to executives who seek to become better
leaders and build cohesive teams. Michael's wisdom and insight are
the product of 25 plus years of leadership experience and an
uncanny, natural ability to perceive the questions that need to be
asked. Michael is the author of Leadership Learning Moments, a
weekly inspiration - or reminder - regarding the critical role
leaders play in the lives of employees. In 2012 he published the
book Leadership Learning Moments for the New & Maturing Leader
providing insights to those in their first season of leadership.
"Dear Roz" is documentation of the author's journey to find his
father, and at the same time, to find pieces of himself which lay
hidden in his collective shadows, most notably anger and fear. It
records his search for the truth by reading his father's letters
and speaking to him through letters of his own; letting his sorrow,
fear, joy, anger and a host of other emotions flow freely from him
onto paper. Since this is his search for the truth to foster his
growth and healing, this was not the place to put on the proverbial
rose-colored glasses and present his father, or himself, as more or
less than they were.
The emotions and thoughts presented in this book, especially
about his father, are his and he owns them. He has not attempted to
represent how his brother Mark, or his sisters, Susan and Sally,
feel or reacted to any situation that he discusses. That would be a
subject for their own personal explorations. Come along on a
journey that evokes the deepest feelings and thoughts a child can
fathom, the discovery of a parent through his own words.
"Dear Roz" is documentation of the author's journey to find his
father, and at the same time, to find pieces of himself which lay
hidden in his collective shadows, most notably anger and fear. It
records his search for the truth by reading his father's letters
and speaking to him through letters of his own; letting his sorrow,
fear, joy, anger and a host of other emotions flow freely from him
onto paper. Since this is his search for the truth to foster his
growth and healing, this was not the place to put on the proverbial
rose-colored glasses and present his father, or himself, as more or
less than they were.
The emotions and thoughts presented in this book, especially
about his father, are his and he owns them. He has not attempted to
represent how his brother Mark, or his sisters, Susan and Sally,
feel or reacted to any situation that he discusses. That would be a
subject for their own personal explorations. Come along on a
journey that evokes the deepest feelings and thoughts a child can
fathom, the discovery of a parent through his own words.
"Cuando quieres mirar a las nubes" reune una seleccion de los
cuentos participantes en el Premio de Cuentos para Nin@s La Pereza
2013, incluidos sus tres ganadores. Autores de toda Iberoamerica
apostaron por este empeno, esta ilusion, que ahora se vuelve tinta
sobre el papel. Si algo tienen en comun las historias que aqui se
narran, es el don de la imaginacion mas libertaria y el afan de
iluminar ese espacio sagrado que es la infancia. Solo le queda
pendiente un reto a este libro: llegar a las manos, y al corazon,
de las ninas y los ninos.
A distinguished list of contributors explores a variety of
perspectives on the artistic culture of France and surrounding
countries during the period 1870 to 1914. Aspects of dance, cinema,
theater, poetry, prose, painting, social and political science,
history, and medicine are covered in interdisciplinary essays that
are both useful to researchers and accessible to students.
The first part of the book, which concentrates on France,
assembles essays on the prose, poetry, and painting of Symbolism
and Decadence, in particular Mallarme and Moreau; on avant-garde
dance and performance; on women's writing; and on early cinema from
Lumiere, Villiers, and Verne.
The second part explores the relations between France and
several cultures. These cross-cultural investigations range from
studies of the Anglo-Celtic "Rhymers' Club" to the Italian
Crepusculari and include discussions of Belgian Symbolism and the
Franco-Anglo-American Axis. The essays consistently point beyond
the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth as they explore
the multiple beginnings -- as well as the false starts -- that
characterize the period.
Discovering that your teen "cuts" is every parent's nightmare. Your
most urgent question is: "How can I make it stop?" Tens of
thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative
guide for information and practical guidance about the growing
problem of teen self-injury. Dr. Michael Hollander is a leading
expert on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), the most effective
treatment approach for cutting. Vivid stories illustrate how
out-of-control emotions lead some teens to hurt themselves, how DBT
can help, and what other approaches can be beneficial. You'll learn
practical strategies for talking to teens about self-injury without
making it worse, teaching them skills to cope with extreme emotions
in a healthier way, finding the right therapist, and helping reduce
stress for your whole family. Incorporating the latest research,
the second edition offers a deeper understanding of the causes of
self-injury and includes new DBT skills.
For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor
University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of
the World War II generation in the state of Texas. Tattooed on My
Soul brings together seventeen of the most compelling narratives
from Baylor's extensive collection of more than five thousand
interviews. Taken together, these selections provide an authentic
and powerful mosaic of those critical years and offer intimate
glimpses into the reality and meaning of the war for those who
fought it. For them, World War II is more than history. And when
they tell their stories, it becomes more than facts and dates,
victories and defeats for those who listen. Representing a
cross-section of Texas' population and a wide range of wartime
assignments, these recollections reveal the personal perspectives
on many events and figures of World War II. On land, in air, and by
sea, in the Pacific and in Europe, they fought for America's
future. With the clear ring of authenticity and a surprising
immediacy, even after all these years, their stories make a global
war personal.
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