Begun as an exercise in which Messerli embedded the first word or two from lines of poetry by other poets, First Words gradually transformed into a personal document of despair and hope in the years 1
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Poetry is my way of helping the world. I use it not only to help learn more about myself as a person, it's to help other people think more about how they look at things. I write to have meaning, but t
ELMO AND HIS friends have lots of fun saying oodles of words with interesting sounds—and which sometimes feel a little funny in the mouth—such as pop, zip, hopscotch, growl, snip, gurgle, squiggly, ti
If asked to identify which children rank lowest in relation to national educational norms, have higher school dropout and absence rates, and more commonly experience learning problems, few of us woul
In the spirit of Nora Ephron meets Chelsea Handler meets David Sedaris, Margot Potter offers her humorously edgy perspective on navigating life after 50. If youre a woman ove
Take a look around you – can you see a ball? Or any other toys? With a new first word to discover on the turn of every page, preschoolers will love to sneak-a-peek through the big holes in the pages o
This Fourth Edition contains more than 5,000 new terms, including accurate and current terminology related to tests, disorders, treatments, and drugs; slang terms; and other key terminology in psychi
Connects Holocaust literature and film to other works of "historical horror" in order to examine the limits that trauma imposes upon literary and artistic expression.
The editors of this volume have gathered a team of scholars to write a series of studies dealing with problems of meaning and interpretation of Old Testament words and ideas. The volume in is honour of Professor D. Winton Thomas, formerly Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University; its theme is one with which he has been much concerned and the contributors - colleagues, pupils and friends - mainly from Great Britain but also from other countries, offer a variety of meaning, of interpretation and of use, in the biblical text itself and in ancient translations and other writings. The studies thus take further the discussion of meaning and interpretation which is much in evidence today, while holding firmly to the understanding of words in the text itself. The Archbishop writes a forward, emphasising Professor Winton Thomas's contribution to the achievement of accuracy of understanding and to fostering a better appreciation of the need for a sound base to theological statements co
Starting over is never easy. Addie and Graham “Gray” Grayson should know: they are a couple on the brink. But they weren’t always. Childhood friends who fell in love, they complemented each other perf
A Sydney Taylor Young Adult Honor BookAll the Bright Places meets If I Stay in this heart-wrenching, romantic novel about a tight-knit group of teen girls coping with a devastating loss and what happens when your best friend is also your first love…and your first heartbreak.Nine months ago, Danny disappeared. His closest friends, Ellie, Rae, and Deenie, are all dealing with the loss differently. Rae’s pouring herself into rage-baking. Deenie’s deepening her commitment to Orthodox Judaism. And Ellie―who was Danny’s girlfriend and closest friend―is the only one who doesn’t believe he’s dead.Because she still sees him.In chapters that alternate between past and present, the story of Ellie and Danny unspools―from their serendipitous meeting to Danny’s effortless absorption into the girls’ friend group to Danny and Ellie falling for each other. In the past, they were the perfect couple…until it all went wrong. In the present, Ellie’s looking for answers.She, Rae, and Deenie all have secrets
Baby/bebe, bib/babero, apple/manzana: these are some of a child's very first words! So why not learn them in English AND Spanish at the same time? Bright photos show toys, food, clothes, and other fam
A pack of illustrated cards with fifty simple words in Italian.Each card shows an everyday object with accompanying word on one side and just the word on its own on the other to aid revision.Illustrat
A pack of illustrated cards with fifty simple words in Polish.Each card shows an everyday object with accompanying word on one side and just the word on its own on the other to aid revision.Illustrate
