Happy's House: The Diary of Benjamin Smith

Happy's House: The Diary of Benjamin Smith

Author: Michael T. Martinez

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-02-27

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1329933060

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A sixth grader whose life is plagued by poverty and bullies meets a girl who is actually (to his surprise) kind to him. The two sixth graders go on adventures in the woods, soon finding a house that will change their lives more than they could have ever guessed....


The Path of Life

The Path of Life

Author: Michael T. Martinez

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-03-11

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1329966120

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This is the second edition of Martinez's first book. It contains most of the poems and short stories from the first edition, which received excellent feedback from a variety of readers, plus over twenty pages of material that was not in the first edition.


Darling Energy

Darling Energy

Author: Ben Smith

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781651453230

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17-year-old Dylan Geringer isn't a superhero, but there's still hope for her anagram-inspired alter ego, DARLING ENERGY. When the all-call system at Dylan's high school sends out a series of mysterious, automated phone messages in the middle of the night, Dylan and her partner-in-crime, Steven, won't rest until they find out who's sending them and why they've prompted the town to gather at Valley Forge Park on the Ides of March. Within days of the first message, Dylan and Steven's investigation yields bigger and more private mysteries among the lives of their classmates and especially about their favorite English teacher, Mr. Drake. The fact that March 15th is both Dylan's birthday and the ten-year anniversary of the death of Mr. Drake's son, Benjamin, complicates the countdown. Dylan will need to summon all of her Darling Energy powers to wrangle the town together and keep it from falling apart, and she'll need Steven's help to save Mr. Drake from the gathering crowd of marching bands, barbershop quartets, and robed cultists.


Forgotten Children

Forgotten Children

Author: Linda A. Pollock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1983-11-24

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780521271332

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'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thought it vital, if progress were to be made, to supply a clear review of the information on childhood contained in such sources as diaries and autobiographies.' Dr Pollock's statement in her Preface will startle readers who have not questioned the validity of recent theories on the evolution of childhood and the treatment of children, theories which see a movement from a situation where the concept of childhood was almost absent, and children were cruelly treated, to our present western recognition that children are different and should be treated with love and affection. Linda examines this thesis particularly through the close and careful analysis of some hundreds of English and American primary sources. Through these sources, she has been able to reconstruct, probably for the first time, a genuine picture of childhood in the past, and it is a much more humane and optimistic picture than the current stereotype. Her book contains a mass of novel and original material on child-rearing practices and the relations of parents and children, and sets this in the wider framework of developmental psychology, socio-biology and social anthropology. Forgotten Children admirably fulfils the aim of its author. In the face of this scholarly and elegant account of the continuity of parental care, few will now be able to argue for dramatic transformations in the twentieth century.


Manufacturing Happy Citizens

Manufacturing Happy Citizens

Author: Edgar Cabanas

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781509537884

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The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive psychologists, happiness economists and self-development gurus at the forefront. With the support of influential institutions and multinational corporations, these self-proclaimed experts now tell us what governmental policies to apply, what educational interventions to make and what changes we must undertake in order to lead more successful, more meaningful and healthier lives. With a healthy scepticism, this book documents the powerful social impact of the science and industry of happiness, arguing that the neoliberal alliance between psychologists, economists and self-development gurus has given rise to a new and oppressive form of government and control in which happiness has been woven into the very fabric of power.