Green Mountain, White Cloud

Green Mountain, White Cloud

Author: Francois Cheng

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-04

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780312315740

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"It opens to a spring day, when a middle-aged doctor named Dao-sheng leaves the mountaintop Taoist monastery where he has been living and sets out for the Region of the South, to the city he had once visited thirty years earlier and where his life had been irrevocably changed. He had then been a strapping but poor young musician traveling with a theater troupe. One evening, during a performance, he caught the eye of a well-born young woman named Lan-ying. Their contact lasted but a minute, but to them it felt like an eternity. For this act of audacity he was banished to hard labor by the girl's jealous fiance, the dissipated scion of a powerful family, who had witnessed their exchange and grasped its significance. Across the decades of a life spent either on the run or hiding out in monasteries, where he mastered medicine and divination, Dao-sheng never forgot Lan-ying. One exchange of glances had sealed something forever, something whose enduring power would decide their fates."--BOOK JACKET.


500 Days

500 Days

Author: Simon Tugwell

Publisher: St Martins Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780312073961

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Translated from Russian. Includes index.


On the Farm

On the Farm

Author: Philip Ardagh

Publisher:

Published: 2003-04

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781931983051

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See farm machinery like tractors, trucks, and trailers as they harvest the field and sow the next crop, and the tanker as it collects the cows' milk.


101 Life Skills Games for Children

101 Life Skills Games for Children

Author: Bernie Badegruber

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 089793590X

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How 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.