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open court
by Carol ClippingerHere I am not someone's little sister. Not someone's daughter. Not someone's friend. This game beckons me—chooses me. I am a warrior. An Amazon. I am beautiful. And I play to win. Holloway Braxton takes no prisoners on the tennis court. She's nationally ranked on the junior circuit, and she has outgrown the local competition. Her parents want to send her to a tennis academy where they regularly churn out professional players, but Hall isn't sure she's ready to devote her entire life to tennis, especially after her training partner has a breakdown at a tournament. Is it possible to be a tennis phenom and a regular teenager at the same time? From the Hardcover edition.
onefinestay
by Jill Avery Anat Keinan Liz KindMiranda Cresswell, marketing director, and Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of onefinestay, were grappling with branding and positioning dilemmas. onefinestay offered high-end home rentals to travelers who sought a more authentic and local experience than a typical upscale hotel might provide. onefinestay's brand had been "hacked" together quickly during the company's early years. After five years of rapid growth, Marsh brought Cresswell on board to do a comprehensive analysis of the company's brand and its positioning in the marketplace. Cresswell had spent several months gathering data and insights, and was starting to experiment with use case scenarios that took a crack at segmenting the company's customers. The preliminary results were interesting, but raised more questions than they answered, and Cresswell wondered if this was the best way to segment the market. While segmenting in this way was intriguing, it led to a branding challenge-as a start-up, it was difficult for onefinestay to have the resources to support multiple brand messages in the marketplace and different segments wanted different things from their travel experience. She pondered whether there were other ways to group customers that would allow for a more universal positioning for the brand or whether the company needed to focus on one or two segments to serve. Positioning the fledgling brand was a challenge. Who was the company competing against and how could it carve out a unique value proposition that would appeal to travelers and be differentiated from what was offered by other hospitality options? Was its current moniker "the unhotel" working for or against it?
one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care
by Chenxing HanFor readers of The Wild Edge of Sorrow and Crying in H-Mart--a profound and searching memoir of life, loss, grief, and renewal from one of American Buddhism&’s most vital new voices. How do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? one long listening offers enduring companionship to all who ask these searing, timeless questions.Immigrant daughter, novice chaplain, bereaved friend: author Chenxing Han (Be the Refuge) takes us on a pilgrimage through the wilds of grief and laughter, pain and impermanence, reconnecting us to both the heartache and inexplicable brightness of being human.Eddying around three autumns of Han&’s life, one long listening journeys from a mountaintop monastery in Taiwan to West Coast oncology wards, from oceanside Ireland to riverfront Phnom Penh. Through letters to a dying friend, bedside chaplaincy visits, and memories of a migratory childhood, Han's startling, searching memoir cuts a singular portrait of a spiritual caregiver in training.Just as we touch the depths, bracing for resolution, Han&’s swift, multilingual prose sweeps us back to unknowingness: 不知最親切. Not knowing is most intimate. Chinese mothers, hillside graves. A dreamed olive tree, a lost Siberian crane. The music of scripts and silence. These shards--bright, broken, giddy, aching--are mirrors to our own lives in joy and sorrow.A testament to enduring connection by a fresh and urgent new literary voice, one long listening asks fearlessly into the stories we inhabit, the hopes we relinquish, and what it means simply to be, to and for the ones we love.
onderwijs Literatuur
by Valerie Höckert PhDBent u op zoek naar een boek dat u een beter begrip van literatuur en hoe u het leert geven? Met dit lesboek en lesplan krijgt u uw studenten een beter begrip en waardering van literatuur door veel van de behandelde werken en verhalen. Dit boek behandelt het schrijven van antwoorden en bevat open vragen en projecten voor een student om aan te werken. Van het verkennen van literatuur tot het postmodernisme, je hebt genoeg materiaal om een cursus van 12 weken te behandelen. Wees niet bang, je lesplanner is compleet! Van het bespreken van de werken van Ann Bradstreet tot Thomas Jefferson tot Emily Dickenson tot Kate Chopin tot Toni Morrison met velen tussen, u vindt dit een uitstekende lesgids en lesplanner. Of je nu lesgeeft in een instelling of thuisschool, je zult dit boek waardevol vinden.
once upon a twin: poems
by Raymond LuczakWhen Raymond Luczak was growing up deaf in a hearing Catholic family of nine children, his mother shared conflicting stories about having had a miscarriage after—or possibly around—the time he was conceived. As an elegy to his lost twin, this book asks: If he had a twin, just how different would his life have been?
onRamp to Algebra: Foundations of Algebra
by Prentice HallonRamp to Algebra is an intervention program designed exclusively to ensure that at-risk students are adequately prepared for Algebra 1. The program is ideally implemented the year prior, to build and solidify foundational skills and conceptual understanding necessary to be successful in Algebra 1. onRamp to Algebra is a complete instructional system that utilizes technology to deliver online homework support and in-class presentation screens for whole class participation. Although the program can be implemented solely with the printed Student and Teacher editions, it is optimized when coupled with in-class technology such as whiteboards/projectors; as well as when students access its online learning aids, which provide scaffolded, point-of-use homework support. As such, the program is designed to grow with your schools' Technology Plan. onRamp to Algebra is designed to be delivered in a single block class period. Each of the 112 lessons utilizes a classroom Workshop Model, designed to ensure that your formerly struggling students are constantly active, and engaged, participants throughout the entire 45-minute class. Built-in "Coach" supports (throughout the Teachers Edition), along with a Program Overview & Implementation Guide, and onsite and/or online Professional Development, ensure that all teachers are successful in the implementation of this program.
on writing romance
by Leigh MichaelsSweep Readers Off Their Feet With a Romance They'll Never Forget InOn Writing Romance, award-winning romance novelist Leigh Michaels talks you through each stage of the writing and publishing process. From the origins and evolution of the romance novel to establishing a vital story framework to writing that last line to seeking out appropriate publishers, everything you ever wanted to know about writing a romance novel is here. In addition to a comprehensive breakdown of more than thirty romance subgenres, including such categories as historical, inspirational, Regency, and sweet traditional, you'll discover how to: Steer clear of cliches and stereotypes by studying the genre Craft engaging and realistic heroes and heroines readers will adore Convincingly develop the central couple's blossoming relationship Add conflict by utilizing essential secondary characters like the "other woman" Use tension and timing to make your love scenes sizzle with sensuality Get your characters to happily-ever-after with an ending readers will always remember Plus, read a sample query letter, cover letter, and synopsis, and learn how to properly prepare you romance novel for submission to agents and editors. On Writing Romancehas everything you need to leave readers swooning!
on Human Memory: Evolution, Progress, and Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Atkinson-shiffrin Model
by Chizuko IzawaThe model of human memory proposed in 1968 by Atkinson and Shiffrin has the distinction of having revolutionized information-processing theory. It catapulated a whole generation of cognitive psychologists into sustained research programs that continue to be productive year after year. The book's notable authors analyze and deliberate on the model's monumental scientific contributions to human learning and memory. They also challenge it and delve into its likely future evolution and impact on learning and memory. The volume was published in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model and sets forth a provocative future for memory workers and learning theorists.
on Becoming A Language Educator: Personal Essays on Professional Development
by Christine Pearson Casanave Sandra R. SchecterThese personal essays by first and second language researchers and practitioners reflect on issues, events, and people in their lives that helped them carve out their career paths or clarify an important dimension of their missions as educators. Their narratives depict the ways in which professionals from diverse backgrounds and work settings have grappled with issues in language education that concern all of us: the sources and development of beliefs about language and education, the constructing of a professional identity in the face of ethical and ideological dilemmas, and the constraints and inspirations of teaching and learning environments. They have come together as a collective to engage in a courageous new form of academic discourse, one with the potential to change the field. Many of the authors write their stories of having begun their work with voices positioned at the margins. Now, as established professionals, they feel strong enough collectively to risk the telling and, through their telling, to encourage other voices. This volume is intended to provide graduate students, teachers, and researchers in language education with insights into the struggles that characterize the professional development of language educators. Both readers and contributors should use the stories to view their own professional lives from fresh perspectives -- and be inspired to reflect in new ways on the ideological, ethical, and philosophical underpinnings of their professional personae.
om love
by George MinotFrom George Minot, author of The Blue Bowl ("Inexpressibly moving. It's thrilling to find a writer this good."--Amy Hempel), a new novel, moving, sensual, athletic (and aesthetic), set in the downtown New York yoga world at the turn of the millennium, a love story about a once-trendy artist who's lost his bearings and finds his life reinvigorated by his new yoga practice--and a certain barefooted yoga teacher. To Billy, who used to show in the hot new galleries in the East Village of the '80s and early '90s, his downhill progression is what he calls "the vague decline." But life feels exquisitely transformed by his new daily yoga practice ("a little hothouse sanctuary in the big city") clearing the way; creating insight, flexibility, clarity; breathing; sweating; variations of vulnerability, arched open emotion. Billy is also enraptured by his new yoga crush. Soon he and Amanda, a yoga teacher (her "poses are pure," "flexible and solid," "gliding easily in her element"), are in love and are caught up in the newness and wonder of their happiness. They are inseparable--their practice is transformative; they can't tell where one ends and the other begins, and they are transported into a dream world of their own . . . Until a devastating diagnosis blindsides Amanda, and she begins to recede from Billy's life. As he feels the thousand threads between them splitting apart and is helpless to stop it, he is forced to turn inward to his art and to his yoga practice to reconcile, with grace and love, his loss, his heart, and mend the abiding wound that he comes to realize was there long before Amanda seemingly completed his soul. Moving, inspiring, transporting, a romantic novel of yoga, inner mystery, and surrender.From the Hardcover edition.
ofrenda para Perro (un libro ilustrado del Día de Muertos para niños) (An Ofrenda for Perro) (Spanish Edition)
by Judith Valdés B.Narrada con sinceridad y esperanza, esta conmovedora historia es perfecta para cualquier niño que esté enfrentando una pérdida y para quienes celebran el Día de Muertos o desean aprender más sobre esa tradición.Benito ama a Perro, pero cuando Perro muere, el niño queda desconsolado. Durante la celebración del Día de Muertos, intenta comprender el significado de las flores de cempasúchil, de las veladoras, del pan de muerto, de las fotografías y de la costumbre de contar recuerdos de los seres queridos que ya no están. Al crear su propio altar especial para Perro, Benito se da cuenta de que el amor por su querido compañero y la felicidad que este le brindó siempre perdurarán.
of this earth: A Mennonite Boyhood In The Boreal Forest
by Rudy WiebeRudy Wiebe has written award-winning fiction for decades. He is recognized as one of Canada's finest literary treasures. Twice he has received Canada's most prestigious prize for fiction writing: The Governor-General's Award (equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize for fiction). Now comes new recognition for Wiebe's nonfiction writing. His recently released childhood memoir, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, has won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction (considered to be the country's most prestigious literary nonfiction prize). The book holds Rudy's memoirs of growing up through age 12. His immigrant family cut a farm out of stony bushland in remote Saskatchewan. They hand-dug their well, climbed a ladder to their beds under the rafters, farmed with horses, and traveled by sleigh on the frontier. Stories and singing and food from their native Ukraine and Poland held them and filled their bodies and souls. Of This Earth is written with "spare and eloquent prose," say the jurors who chose the book for the Charles Taylor Prize. Wiebe "conveys the riches of a hardscrabble inheritance; a love of words, reading and music, a sustaining yet unsentimental faith, and a bond with the natural world, all of which have provided a compass for his writing life." One of the Taylor-Prize jurors reflected, "Rudy's book haunts you; it stays with you."
oba Sitinne Sathutinda Sathutin Siteemata nam - ඔබ සිටින්නේ සතුටින්ද? සතුටින් සිටීමට නම්
by Mahindapala Withana Arachchi - මහින්දපාල විතානආරච්චිකිසිදු ආගම් භේදයකින් තොරව කියවීමට සුදුසු, කියවිය හැකි, ජීවිතයට ප්රායෝගිකව සම්බන්ධ කරගත හැකි දහම් පණිවුඩයක් අන්තර්ගත කෘතියකි.
number9dream: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
by David Mitchell**Pre-order UTOPIA AVENUE, the spectacular new novel from David Mitchell.**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of GHOSTWRITTEN and CLOUD ATLAS.As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.(P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
number9dream: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
by David MitchellShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of GHOSTWRITTEN and CLOUD ATLAS.As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.
number9dream: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
by David MitchellShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of GHOSTWRITTEN and CLOUD ATLAS.As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.
nonlinear analysis and applications (Nato Science Series C: Ser. #173)
by SinghThis book contains lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics from the proceedings of an International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, held at Memorial University of Newfoundland in June 1981. It includes information on fractional calculus and the Stieltjes transform.
nonlinear analysis and applications
by LakshmikanthamThis book attempts to put together the works of a wide range of mathematical scientists. It consists of the proceedings of the Seventh Conference on "Nonlinear Analysis and Applications" including papers that were delivered as invited talks and research reports.
ninitohtênân / We Listen (Nohkom series #3)
by Caitlin Dale NicholsonThe third book in the Nôhkom series, in Cree and English, tells a story about gathering leaves for Labrador tea, while listening in different ways. A child, her family and her friend have arrived at their favorite picnic spot by the lake, but before they eat lunch Nôhkom suggests they pick leaves for Labrador tea. Once among the trees, Nôhkom pauses for a moment to listen, and the others do too. Nôhkom prays, the girls take their turn, then Nôhkom shows them where to find the leaves. Nôhkom and Mom rest after harvesting, but the girls opt for a swim in the lake ... though they’re quite happy to warm up afterwards with freshly brewed Labrador tea. And when it’s time for the picnic, the girls take another turn at listening. Beautifully rendered paintings in acrylic on canvas show the family outing. Includes a recipe for Labrador tea as well as a salve made from Labrador Tea leaves. Key Text Features illustrations recipe informational note Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
nikmaYama - නික්ම යාම
by Somarathna Harasgama - සෝමරත්න හරස්ගම"කිං සච්ච ගවේසී” සත්යය කුමක්ද? එය කොහි ඇද්ද? යන විමසුමෙන් ජය ගත් ජීවිත අනුන් උදෙසාම කැප කළ සැබෑ මිනිසෙකු වටා ගෙතුණු මෙම වෘත්තාන්තය "නික්ම යාම” නම් වේ.
night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
by Sarah ArvioIn this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams. As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. The result is a riveting sequence of dream poems, followed by "Notes." The poems, in the form of irregular sonnets, describe her dreamworld: a realm of beauty and terror emblazoned with recurring colors and images--gold, blood red, robin's-egg blue, snakes, swarms of razors, suitcases, playing cards, a catwalk. The Notes, also exquisitely readable, unfold the meaning of the dreams--as told to her analyst--and recount the enlightening and sometimes harrowing process of unlocking memories, starting with the diaries she burned to make herself forget. Arvio's explorations lead her back to her younger self--and to a life-changing understanding that will fascinate readers. An utterly original work of art and a groundbreaking portrayal of the power of dream interpretation to resolve psychic distress, this stunning book illumines the poetic logic of the dreaming mind; it also shows us, with surpassing poignancy, how tender and fragile is the mind of an adolescent girl.
nidahasa soya giya gamanak1 - නිදහස සොයා ගිය ගමනක් 1
by Mahindha Haththaka - මහින්ද හත්තකචරිත කතාවත්, නවකතාවත් අතර වැඩි වෙනසක් නැතැයි මට සිතුණේ නෙල්සන් මැන්ඩෙලාගේ චරිත අපදානය කියවීමෙනි. නව කතාවක රසය උද්දීපනය කිරීම සඳහා ඇතැම්විට මනඃකල්පිත චරිත හා සිද්ධීන් ඇතුළත් කෙරේ. මැන්ඩෙලාගේ චරිත කතාවටත් එවැනි සිද්ධීන් අපමණ ඇතුළත් වන නිසා එය එක් අතකින් නවකතාවක් සේ සැලකිය හැක; රසවිඳිය හැක. මැන්ඩෙලාගේ චරිත අපදානය නවකතාවක් ලෙස සලකන්නේ නම් එය ශූර නවකතාකරුවෙකුගේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨ නිර්මාණයක් බවට කිසිදු සැකයක් නොමැත. මෙහි චරිත නිර්මාණය හා කතා පුවත ගොඩ නැගීම ඕනෑම නවකතාවකට වඩා උසස් වන්නේ එය සැබැවින්ම අප අතර ජීවත් වන හා ජීවත් වූ උදාර පුද්ගලයින්ගේ ජීවිතය විස්තර කරන හෙයිනි.
nichijou 11 (nichijou #11)
by Keiichi Arawiongoing ordinarinessmio vs. a caterpillar. the vice principal vs. all the clubs. the professor vs. sleepiness. yuuko vs. a perfect score. misato vs. a jaguar. nano and sakamoto vs. a strange box. annaka vs. a beetle. mr. takasaki vs. a ham. fecchan vs. a deserted island. mai vs. a daifuku. and so the ordinary days continue…
new poems
by Bill Johnston Tadeusz RozewiczWritten in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rózewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. Rózewicz's unique voice, formed during his experiences as a member of the Polish resistance in World War II, and honed by decades living under communist rule, holds a merciless mirror up to the crimes and excesses of the poet's lifetime. In his eighties now, Rózewicz continues to be a prolific writer and an acerbic commentator on his life and times. This collection combines his latest three volumes: professor's knife, gray zone, and exit. These are extraordinary poems from an acknowledged European master.