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Author: Richard Tulloch
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780140553802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSummary: In three brief episodes, a family of children deal with a tree that traps toys and sometimes people, a boring rainy day, and a neighbor's freshly painted fence.
Author: Robert Jackall
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0674039017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they move between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth is examined through their personal stories, in a collection that captures the real-life exploits, investigations, sensibilities, and consciousness of detectives in an urban environment.
Author: Ken Wells
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1416583181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than sixty years, The Wall Street Journal has prided itself not just on its serious journalism, but also on the whimsical and arcane stories that amuse and delight its readers. In that regard, animal stories have proven to be the most beloved of all. Now, veteran Journal reporter and Page One editor Ken Wells gathers the finest, funniest, and most fascinating of these animal tales in one exceptional book. Here are lighthearted, witty stories of breakthroughs in goldfish surgery, the untiring efforts of British animal lovers who guide lovesick toads across dangerous motorways, and the quest to tame doggy anxieties by prescribing the human pacifier Prozac. Other pieces reflect on mankind's impact on the animal kingdom: a close-up look at the nascent fish-rights movement, the retirement of U.S. Air Force chimpanzees that once soared through space, and ongoing scientific efforts to defeat that most hardy enemy -- the cockroach. Each of these fifty-odd stories -- from the outlandish to the poignant -- exemplifies the superb feature writing that makes The Wall Street Journal one of America's best-written newspapers. This charming and utterly captivating collection will be a joy not only to animal lovers, but to all those who appreciate artful storytelling by writers who are obviously having a wonderful time spinning the tales.
Author: James J. O'Connell
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780692412343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. O'Connell's collection of stories and essays, written during thirty years of caring for homeless persons in Boston, gently illuminates the humanity and raw courage of those who struggle to survive and find meaning and hope while living on the streets.
Author: Bruno Schulz
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780140186253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.
Author: Cindy McCowan
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780977968800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetold by Brother Tommy Welchel of the Pisgah Christ Faith Mission, these are the stories of people who participated in the Pentecostal Azusa Street Revival of 1906-1910.
Author: Shane Safir
Publisher: Corwin
Published: 2021-02-12
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1071812661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book · Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately · Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what’s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what’s wrong · Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.
Author: Anne Mazer
Publisher:
Published: 1993-01
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ISBN-13: 9780605079083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gilda O'Neill
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 014194661X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStep into the everyday lives of East End Londoners during the Second World War 'I wanted to write about a time and a place when living in such a street - or rather a community - would have been part of so-called ordinary working people's everyday experience, but when the circumstances couldn't exactly be described as normal.' What was life like during WWII? Away from the battles? On the street where you live? Gilda O'Neill's Our Street takes a look at the world outside of the war. Told through the daily rituals of those living in London's East End, it shares the concerns, hopes, fears and sense of community that grew during tremendous hardship. The perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End, this is an important book and an affectionate record of an often fondly remembered, more communal, way of life that has all but disappeared. 'A rich tapestry . . . a finely detailed examination of our not so distant past. Her book is as much a piece of history as the accounts it contains' Time Out 'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' Daily Mail
Author: Donald Barthelme
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-25
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0142437816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that "he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction." In Forty Stories, the companion volume to Sixty Stories, we encounter a dazzling array of subjects: Paul Klee, Goethe, Captain Blood, modern courtship, marriage and divorce, armadillos, and other unique Barthelmean flights of fancy. These pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces tangle with the ludicrous, pose questions that remain unresolved, and challenge familiar bits of language heretofore unexamined. Forty Stories demonstrates Barthelme's unrivaled ability to surprise, to stimulate, and to explore. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
