Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

Author: Sonia Manzano

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0545621860

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Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.

The Oldest Living Things in the World
The Oldest Living Things in the World

Author: Rachel Sussman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 022605764X

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The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.

My Souls Within
My Souls Within

Author: Judith E.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-06-23

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1450081819

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Book Title- “My Souls Within” Dedicated to all my sisters who have fallen in love at every age. Lost love at every age. This novel is aimed towards women who are looking for Quality in a good read. Have you ever searched for your Soul-Mate? Have you ever had your heart broken? Have you ever found the right one but did not realize she was the right one? Have you ever smiled so hard and cried so hard? Have you ever had wonderful dreams and think they were real? have you ever got to the end of the novel to realize "AH-H-H, that ́s why!!! READ MY BOOK

Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage
Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage

Author: Maria Rivans

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781786274946

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If you want to discover the fun of collage then this fabulous book is the perfect kit. Collage artist Maria Rivans has gathered hundreds of beautiful, quirky, and downright daft images, and they're all here for you to cut out and stick. Flowers, birds, cats, and butterflies can be combined with buildings, eyes, moustaches, and catalog models in dubious pants to create extraordinary original artworks and talking pieces! Maria provides an introduction to collage styles and tips on technique. An ideal activity for young and old, this book is a perfect gift or self-purchase for anyone seeking arty fun and a great deal of sticky silliness!

Firestorm
Firestorm

Author: Nancy Holzner

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1101595175

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They call it Deadtown: Boston's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders--but Victory Vaughn, the city's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human... When Vicky allowed an ancient goddess Ceridewen to possess her, she had no regrets--it was the only way to protect the people she loved. But now she's got two supernatural beings posessing her body to use her for their own means, leaving her with little free will of her own and more demonic trouble than she cares to deal with. Despite the forces pulling her apart, Vicky needs all her wits about her. The demons of Hell are growing bold and she can barely keep up with the attacks plaguing the city: sirens in the Mystic River, goblins snarling traffic on Storrow Drive, imps tearing the gold from the State House dome. As the signs of war multiply and Hell threatens to overrun its boundaries, Vicky finds herself torn between her duty to save the world and her desire to save something of herself... Praise for the Deadtown series "Nancy Holzner is a master of characterization."--Ilona Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of Magic Bites "Fresh and funny, with a great take on zombies."--Karen Chance, New York Times bestselling author of Reap the Wind "All urban fantasy lovers should be reading this superb series."--Bitten by Books

Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Author: Anthony P. S. Guerrero

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 3319894889

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This ambitious resource presents an inventive approach to integrating pediatric and mental health care based in comprehensive, family-centered service delivery. Its framework adds a problem-solving focus to the core principles of pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, emphasizing young patients’ developmental, family, and social context. An international panel of expert clinicians explores the value of the mental health component in treating complex and chronic cases across varied settings, as well as practical considerations in implementing collaborative pediatric care systemwide, including at the global level. Detailed case histories illustrate skills and traits essential to making this problem-based approach work, such as multidimensional thinking, a prevention mentality, a dedication to lifelong learning, and empathy and respect for young clients and their families. Included in the coverage: · Pediatric medicine for the child psychiatrist. · Safety issues in a general medical facility setting. · “Other medical” presentations and considerations in pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry. · Principles of biopsychosocial formulation and interventions in the pediatric medical setting. · Preventive models for reducing major causes of morbidity and mortality in childhood. Child and adolescent psychiatrists, child and school psychologists, and physicians in pediatrics, general practice, and family medicine will welcome Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as both a robust training text and a blueprint for the future of children’s medicine.

Face, Fire & Morality?
Face, Fire & Morality?

Author: Brian George

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1728389054

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The Team have settled back into their business after the travails of the second book. Stella has recovered from her kidnap and forced marriage attempt and is back running their African businesses. In Shanghai, Annie and Barry are preparing for Lin Fu’s leaving to get married in London. They decide that Barry must travel to Saudi Arabia and recruit Racel, the Philippine assistant to Barry’s bootlegging partners, Danny and Maria Winstone, over to China as the replacement for Lin Fu. When in Saudi Barry has to find a way to avoid the clutches of Maria Winstone who is insisting on a night with Barry as payment for releasing Racel from the Kingdom. In his own inimitable style Barry creates a hypnotic tantric illusion to facilitate their escape from Danny and Maria and gets Racel to China. The whole crew, including Stella and Mickey from Nigeria, travel to London for Lin Fu’s wedding to Morgan Transett the merchant banker. The wedding is carried out in style and while in London they meet up with Freddie Painter the hitman from the first book and the Team has to repay him by getting him out of the clutches of the law. Once back to their normal business Racel takes them to meet her cousin in the Philippines. To increase business Barry, Annie travel with her cousin to her home in the mountains and get embroiled in an Igorot village whose kids have been enslaved by a crazy priest. Repatriation of the kids to their families and becoming ever more spiritual and mystical while there. Racel meanwhile stays in Manila and has to take control of a situation and to assist in the rescue from kidnap and extermination of a whistleblower on a corrupt government broadband scandal. Unfortunately, the Chinese government are the ones doing the corrupting and they then have to leave quickly from the enquiries of the Chinese MSS state security service before being able to return to their new Head Office in Hong Kong. Annie and Barry have to use all her wit, magic, and more esoteric skills to save their livelihood again before returning to head office in Hong Kong. As usual when the Dream Team get travelling, there is sex, creative destruction, and bad people get killed, but all in the name of fairness and their own brand of justice. Throughout their adventures they never miss a chance to party and fight convention, or pomposity and turn morality on its head!

Arcnam
Arcnam

Author: Aloysious

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0759620423

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This book tells the tale of M'nodanok, an orphaned Native American boy of the Abenaki tribe who was raised by wild animals in the forest surrounding Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Then, as he grows older, he meets and falls in love with Wenunchus whom he eventually marries as they travel westward to meet with King Phillip and from there northward to the village of Odanok, Quebec, where he dies at the age of one hundred and t wenty-nine aftter a fierce battle in which their entire village was massacred by Robert Rogers and his rangers in the pre-dawn hours of 6 October, 1759.

Healing Mind, Healthy Woman
Healing Mind, Healthy Woman

Author: Alice D. Domar, Ph.D.

Publisher: Delta

Published: 1997-08-11

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0385318944

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An esteemed Harvard Medical School doctor who has developed relaxation methods designed to reduce stress and heal the body now applies those techniques to the seven health issues that most commonly affect women: PMS, infertility, difficult pregnancies, menopause, eating disorders, breast and gynecological cancers, and endometriosis/pelvic pain. Dr. Domar has created an integrated program of mainstream therapies combined with mind-body relaxation techniques that works far better than either approach alone. Whether used to help women conceive, reduce both the physical and psychological symptoms of PMS, cut down on menopausal hot flashes, or improve self-esteem, Dr. Domar's methods are proven effective, and are now available to all women who want to use their minds to heal their bodies.

Psychotherapy of the Submerged Personality
Psychotherapy of the Submerged Personality

Author: Alexander Wolf

Publisher: Jason Aronson

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780876686447

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The submerged personality is one in which the ego is replaced by an introjected parental self. Needing their parents for security, these patients give up their own perceptions of reality and accept the reality imposed by their parents. The psychotherapy necessary to effect introject dispersion is described in this book.