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Sasha and Lou
What if you could live the happiest life you can imagine by making a few simple changes in the way you do things? Would you be interested? In this first book in a new series, author Arlene Thygesen takes us on a sometimes emotional journey with Sasha and her wise young friend Lou. Lou manages to appear in Sashas life exactly when Sasha needs her the most. Lou uses experiences from Sashas life on the family farm and conflict with her best friend Jade, to teach Sasha about the mysterious laws of the universe. These simple, yet important lessons not only help Sasha feel happier and make better decisions, but will also help you realize that everything you need to live a happy, confident, and fulfilling life is within you. These laws of the universe are available to everyone, and Lou can teach them to you too!
Jury Verdicts Weekly
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The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust
This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture or existential malady, the double crux of hunger and disgust is a powerful force which can define the experience of embodiment. Kafka’s fable of the "Hunger Artist" offers a matrix for the fast, while its surprising last-page revelation introduces disgust as a correlative of abstinence, conscious or otherwise. Grounded in Kristeva’s theory of abjection, the figure of the fraught body lurking at...
Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?
In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. The examples come from all parts of the world and try to avoid Eurocentrism. Oriented toward theory and practice, facts and evaluations, and reflection and action, the book prompts readers to find information about the world and their local contexts, to reflect and to act. A Web site with additional resource materials to this book can be found at http://www.ruc.dk/~tovesk/
Hawkeye Heritage
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In a Different Key
The stunning history of autism as it has been discovered and felt by parents, children and doctors Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of the world his diagnosis created - a riveting human drama that takes us across continents and through some of the great social movements of the twentieth century. The history of autism is, above all, the story of families fighting for a place in the world for their children. It is the story of women like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed "refrigerator mothers" for causing autism, of fathers wh...
