Yoda Gets a Buddy
Author: Beth Stern
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-12
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 148146969X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoda the Persian cat oversees the foster cats but learns a lot when Buddy, a new kitten, joins the group.
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Fascist Pigs
Author: Tiago Saraiva
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-10-07
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0262335719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion. In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs, fascists were obsessed with projects to feed the national body from the national soil. Saraiva shows how such technoscientific organisms as specially bred wheat and pigs became important elements in the institutionalization and expansion of fascist regimes. The pigs, the potatoes, and the wheat embodied fascism. In Nazi Germany, only plants and animals conforming to the new national standards would be allowed to reproduce. Pigs that didn't efficiently convert German-grown potatoes into pork and lard were eliminated. Saraiva describes national campaigns that intertwined the work of geneticists with new state bureaucracies; discusses fascist empires, considering forced labor on coffee, rubber, and cotton in Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Eastern Europe; and explores fascist genocides, following Karakul sheep from a laboratory in Germany to Eastern Europe, Libya, Ethiopia, and Angola. Saraiva's highly original account—the first systematic study of the relation between science and fascism—argues that the “back to the land” aspect of fascism should be understood as a modernist experiment involving geneticists and their organisms, mass propaganda, overgrown bureaucracy, and violent colonialism.
Scientists Making a Difference
Author: Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-15
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1107127130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the most important contributions to modern psychological science and explains how the contributions came to be.
Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-09-10
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0300187580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Krishnamurti
Author: Sidney Field
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781557781802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn American writer shares his relationship with the Hindu spiritual leader Krishnamurti, a friendship that began in Hollywood when they were both teens and continued throughout their lives
Rivers in History
Author: Christof Mauch
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2008-07-27
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0822973413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, industry, and commerce. They have been loved as nurturing providers, nationalist symbols, and the source of romantic lore but also loathed as sites of conflict and natural disaster.Rivers in History presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers. They view this dynamic relationship through political, cultural, industrial, social, and ecological perspectives in national and transnational settings. As integral sources of food and water, local and international transportation, recreation, and aesthetic beauty, rivers have dictated where cities have risen, and in times of flooding, drought, and war, where they've fallen. Modern Western civilizations have sought to control rivers by channeling them for irrigation, raising and lowering them in canal systems, and damming them for power generation. Contributors analyze the regional, national, and international politicization of rivers, the use and treatment of waterways in urban versus rural environments, and the increasing role of international commissions in ecological and commercial legislation for the protection of river resources. Case studies include the Seine in Paris, the Mississippi, the Volga, the Rhine, and the rivers of Pittsburgh. Rivers in History is a broad environmental history of waterways that makes a major contribution to the study, preservation, and continued sustainability of rivers as vital lifelines of Western culture.
101 Life Skills Games for Children
Author: Bernie Badegruber
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 089793590X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do you teach tolerance, self-awareness, and responsibility? How can you help children deal with fear, mistrust, or aggression? Play a game with them! Games are an ideal way to help children develop social and emotional skills; they are exciting, relaxing, and fun. 101 LIFE SKILLS GAMES FOR CHILDREN: LEARNING, GROWING, GETTING ALONG (Ages 6-12) is a resource that can help children understand and deal with problems that arise in daily interactions with other children and adults. These games help children develop social and emotional skills and enhance self-awareness. The games address the following issues: dependence, aggression, fear, resentment, disability, accusations, boasting, honesty, flexibility, patience, secrets, conscience, inhibitions, stereotypes, noise, lying, performance, closeness, weaknesses, self confidence, fun, reassurance, love, respect, integrating a new classmate, group conflict. Organized in three main chapters: (I-Games, You-Games and We-Games), the book is well structured and easily accessible. It specifies an objective for every game, gives step-by-step instructions, and offers questions for reflection. It provides possible variations for each game, examples, tips, and ideas for role plays. Each game contains references to appropriate follow-up games and is illustrated with charming drawings.
Feeling Medicine
Author: Kelly Underman
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1479893048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHonorable Mention, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the Body and Embodiment Section of the American Sociological Association The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctors The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required to touch a real human being in a professional manner. In Feeling Medicine, Kelly Underman gives us a look inside these gynecological teaching programs, showing how they embody the tension between scientific thought and human emotion in medical education. Drawing on interviews with medical students, faculty, and the people who use their own bodies to teach this exam, Underman offers the first in-depth examination of this essential, but seldom discussed, aspect of medical education. Through studying, teaching, and learning about the pelvic exam, she contrasts the technical and emotional dimensions of learning to be a physician. Ultimately, Feeling Medicine explores what it means to be a good doctor in the twenty-first century, particularly in an era of corporatized healthcare.
A Legacy to Share
Author: Angela Dowd-Burton
Publisher:
Published: 2022-01-22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThinking Parent, Thinking Child
Author: Myrna B. Shure
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2005-09-09
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780071431965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling author of Raising a Thinking Child shows parents how to help their children solve more than 100 common problems Best-selling author Dr. Myrna Shure has helped thousands of parents and children with her awardwinning “I Can Problem Solve” (ICPS) program, based on her own original research in developmental psychology. Thinking Parent,Thinking Child will help you guide your children in the use of ICPS to come up with their own solutions to more than 100 of the most common problems, including being a sore loser, acting aggressively, having trouble with friendships or teachers, or experiencing a major loss. “If you’re looking for a parenting book that doesn’t rehash the obvious, this is it.” —New York Post
