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It is often hard for children to think of their Daddy as a ‘little boy’. Sasha discovered that her Daddy was once upon a time a little boy when she fell ill and her Daddy told her a story about himself when he was her age. Sasha was fascinated by this discovery. So, whenever she would fall sick, she would ask her Daddy to tell her a story about himself ‘when he was a little boy’, and, each time her Daddy would tell her a new story of funny things that ever happened to actual little boys like him or to other little daddies that he knew. After all, all daddies were ‘little boys’ once. When Daddy was a little boy is a timeless collection of tales that happened to a Daddy when he was a ‘little boy’.
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. With an introduction by novelist David Vann. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determined to live a life of independence. Just four months later, Chris was found dead. An SOS note was taped to his makeshift home, an abandoned bus. In piecing together the final travels of this extraordinary young man's life, Jon Krakauer writes about the heart of the wilderness, its terrible beauty and its relentless harshness. Into the Wild is a modern classic of travel writing, and a riveting exploration of what drives some of us to risk more than we can afford to lose. From the author of Under the Banner of Heaven and Into Thin Air. A film adaptation of Into the Wild was directed by Sean Penn and starred Emile Hirsch and Kristen Stewart. 'It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order.' – Entertainment Weekly
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
A lively history of the Surrealists, both known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement—artist and bestselling author Desmond Morris. Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the World War I. In The Lives of the Surrealists, surrealist artist and celebrated writer Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people—as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws? Unlike the impressionists or the cubists, the surrealists did not obey a fixed visual code, but rather the rules of surrealis...
Potts also offers a detailed view of selected iconic works by sculptors ranging from Antonio Canova and Auguste Rodin to Constantin Brancusi, David Smith, Carl Andre, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois - key players in modern thinking about the sculptural. The impact of minimalism features prominently in this discussion, for it disrupted accepted understanding of how a viewer interacts with a work of art, thereby placing the phenomenology of viewing three-dimensional objects for the first time at the center of debate about modern visual art."--Jacket.
Remember the long debates about what matters in life? Wish you could find a book which offers practical tips for living well? You are holding that book now – so, come aboard. From learning about your personality to making wise career choices and changes, from nurturing a healthy body and mind to understanding the place of money, politics, poetry, science, art, books, friendship, time, dreams, beauty, Karma, laughter and God in your life – this book covers all that and more. To My Daughter is for all ambitious and inquisitive young people, as well as parents, teachers and thinking citizens who are facing the challenges of living life in today’s world. Unlike most contemporary self-help books, this one does not make life sound all easy and exciting, but says it like it is: a great struggle, but also a great adventure.
In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Heather Toth, Robert Kliegman, and Brett Bordini brings their considerable expertise to the topic of Adolescent Undiagnosed and Rare Diseases. Top experts address diagnostic dilemmas, disease mimics, unusual manifestations of common diseases, and rare disorders presenting as more common diseases in adolescents. - Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including syndromes with severe acne; common variable immunodeficiency (CVID); overlapping pain syndrome; late onset congenital hypoventilation syndrome (LOCH); adolescent onset of muscle weakness; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on adolescent undiagnosed and rare diseases, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
To escape anti-Semitism in revolutionary Russia, Jews fled to any safe haven they could find, including the remote Chinese cities of Harbin, Shanghai and Tientsin. Like Israel's early pioneers, China s Jews created their own schools, hospitals and culture.
This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world. The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around four topic headings. "Networks and Institutions" looks at the various ways Western-style theatre became institutionalized in the decolonial world, especially Africa. "Cultural Diplomacy" focuses on the activities of the Soviet Union in India in the late 1950s and 1960s in the very different arenas of book pub...
At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India and Cuba. During the Cold War, an important means to perpetuate Soviet ideals of modernisation and anti-imperialist solidarity across the world was the circulation of ‘banal’ objects, produced in the Soviet Union and purchased, awarded, and gifted for use in homes across the world. Based on oral accounts of Indian and Cuban interlocutors, this book examines the itineraries of Soviet objects such as cars, washing machines, cameras, books, ne...