![]() She has also written for literary sites including The Millions, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature. A frequent contributor to national publications, she has written for Self, Business Insider, Ms. She has been a finalist for the Colorado Book Award twice. ![]() Her novel If the Ice Had Held was named a top book by Buzzfeed, High Country News, and LitHub (audio). Fox is the author of four books of fiction. Looking hard at the families to which we are born and the families we make, What If We Were Somewhere Else asks its own questions about what it means to work, love, and age against the uncertain backdrop of modern America. And sometimes, the creature keeping us company is a stray cat that infiltrates our family and makes it hersno matter the collateral damage. ![]() Maizes reminds us that even in our most isolated moments, we are never truly alone. Following the employees of a nameless corporation and their loved ones, these stories examine the connections they forge and the choices they make as they try to make their lives mean something in the soulless, unforgiving hollowness of corporate life. In We Love Anderson Cooper, a quirky, humorous, and deeply human short story collection, author R.L. ![]() What If We Were Somewhere Else is the question everyone asks in these linked stories as they try to figure out how to move on from job losses, broken relationships, and fractured families. Description Creators Details Reviews In this quirky, humorous, and deeply human short story collection, Pushcart Prize-nominated author R.L. ![]()
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![]() We examine the complexities around defining tiger parenting by reviewing classical literature on parenting styles and scholarship on Asian American parenting, along with Amy Chua's own description of her parenting method, to develop, define, and categorize variability in parenting in a sample of Chinese American families. ![]() In fact, the best developmental outcomes were found among children of supportive parents. ![]() Tiger parenting also does not relate to superior academic performance in children. Our eight-year longitudinal study, published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology, demonstrates that tiger parenting is not a common parenting profile in a sample of 444 Chinese American families. ![]() ‘‘Tiger'' parenting, as described by Amy Chua, has instigated scholarly discourse on this phenomenon and its possible effects on families. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It would have been almost as if you could turn the book over and read it the opposite way or open it to any section and read the narrative in any order. I started off wanting to plot the story in the form of an anagram, so that you could fold it onto itself. Hoffman’s “The Sandman.” I knew I wanted to tell a fictional narrative that tackled questions of desire and the unconscious hidden in a creepily familiar superficial world. Stephanie LaCava: I started research for the book seven years ago with texts around Freud’s “Uncanny,” like E. What prompted you to write this story in this way? Had it taken on any other forms before the structure of a novel? What was important for you to be getting at in this book? The book is told through multiple characters perspectives and timelines are constantly shifting and overlapping. Gracie Hadland: The Superrationals is the story of a young woman, Mathilde de Saint-Evans, trying to identify herself, her desires, and her ambitions in and around the New York and European art worlds of the 2010s. ![]() ![]() Soon my darling, soon my darling.” Sweet Disposition, The Temper Trap “High climbs the summer sun, high stands the corn, ![]() That guy doesn’t exist enough (for me) in fiction. With Park - with all of my male heroes, really – I’m trying to portray someone who’s masculine, but still tender and full of big feelings. ![]() It’s from the point of view of a poor farmboy envisioning how he’ll provide for his beloved. This song – Love on a Farmboy’s Wages – is one of my favorite XTC songs, and it’s especially quiet and romantic. I had this picture of Park as an island of thoughtfulness in a sea of chaos everybody else is screaming and being crass, and he’s listening to intellectual New Wave. Or maybe he’d make a special bus tape with as much screaming and wailing on it as possible. Tomorrow he was going to bring Skinny Puppy or the Misfits. ![]() Park pressed his headphones into his ears. XTC was no good for drowning out the morons at the back of the bus. So this is the song that Park is listening to on his headphones the very first time we meet him. ![]() ![]() In this book, based on his sold-out master classes in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator-from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz -needs. ![]() Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication in passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn could push the medium in new directions. During his more than forty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy Awards and serving as the link between Disney's golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation exemplified by Toy Story. ![]() ![]() The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?Īnimation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today-and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. ![]() ![]() We try to ship all orders within 24 hours. We will email you the teacher's guide upon purchase of the book! This is an interesting and thought-provoking piece of work, though should not be taken as historical fact. Deedy's language is simple and rhythmic, relating what she calls in the notes "a story that should be told." Smrensen's period paintings serve almost as formal portraits of individual Danes living their lives in the face of the looming Nazi occupation. The most enduring is the legend of the yellow star, which symbolizes the loyalty and fearless spirit of the king and his people. The bravery of the Danes and their king during that dangerous time has inspired many legends. When Nazi soldiers occupied his country, King Christian X of Denmark committed himself to keeping all Danes safe from harm. But during World War II, Nazis used the star to segregate and terrorize the Jewish people. For centuries, the Star of David was a symbol of Jewish pride. The Yellow Star - The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy. English as a Second Language (ESL) Audio CDs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses.in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. Now Walton returns with a very different kind of fantasy the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.Įxcept that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. ![]() Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. Now in a new pocket-sized hardcover edition, the World Fantasy Award-winning tale of contention over love and money―among dragons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jew-ish is a brilliant collection of delicious recipes, but it’s much more than that. ![]() Imagine the components of an everything bagel wrapped into a flaky galette latkes dyed vibrant yellow with saffron for a Persian spin on the potato pancake, best-ever hybrid desserts like Macaroon Brownies and Pumpkin Spice Babka! Jew-ish features elevated, yet approachable classics along with innovative creations, such as: In Jew-ish, he reinvents the food of his Ashkenazi heritage and draws inspiration from his husband’s Persian-Iraqi traditions to offer recipes that are modern, fresh, and enticing for a whole new generation of readers. ![]() But as food writer and nice Jewish boy Jake Cohen demonstrates in this stunning debut cookbook, Jewish food can be so much more. When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to mind: chicken soup with matzo balls, challah, maybe a babka if you’re feeling adventurous. A New York Times bestseller! A brilliantly modern take on Jewish culinary traditions for a new generation of readers, from a bright new star in the culinary world. ![]() ![]() It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God. ![]() And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. ![]() Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. The smartest guys in the room : the amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron Bookreader Item Preview. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() I promise to give you as much privacy as possible, but sometimes I won’t be able to. I need you to tell me what you’re thinking I need you to trust me. “Yes, I could.” I sigh then say, “But I don’t want to. “Can’t you just pick it out of my brain?” She snaps back. Her head snaps up a nd those brown-green eyes lock on mine and she sighs, “Ok ay. Turning t o mirror her position I demand, “Darlin’, look at me.” She ’s avoiding eye contact with me by picking at her perfectly manicured toe nails. She’s wearing her favorite worn in jeans and a loose fitting white t-shirt. The gash that had been on her head, from being hit with the gun, is already healed. Her hair’ s wet and braided down her back and her perfect face i s clean of all make-up. She crosses the room and s i t s at the other end of the couch facing me with her legs pulled up against her. I sat down on the couch to sort through my thoughts and I didn’t even realize I’d closed them. ![]() “Pike, are you awake?” She asks softly c ausing me to open my eyes. ![]() |