Object Lessons

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet consi

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.It is an object that has been responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevit

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The phone booth exists as a memory to those over thirty, and as a strange, curious, and dysfun

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look, and you will see that you are surrounded by glass: light reflects off and refr

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer

Ellie and Tara return to Garland House, where the Barton family now runs a B&B, including riding lessons. Rumors of a ghost and a valuable object hidden in Garland House cause intrigue. An old por

Can you see the humor in Sunday School object lessons and green Jell-O? Then you'll love When High Priests Take Over the Nursery Beloved LDS cartoonist Jon Clark has been published in the New Era, Sun

Children's Sermons: Just in Time! offers preachers and worship leaders a ready resource for children's sermons with stories and object lessons. These children's sermons are geared to spark interest an

This is a comprehensive study of a major figure of the modern movement, in whose work philosophy, architecture and painting are inextricably entwined. From the founding of the periodical De Stijl in 1917, van Doesburg occupied a central position in the development of a Modernist aesthetic. His early career was concentrated on poetry and painting, but from the inception of De Stijl and his association with painters and architects such as Piet Mondrian and J. J. P. Oud, he turned increasingly to architecture as the locus for the accomplishment of the 'total work of art'. Van Doesburg became an architectural theorist of international renown, but encountered disappointment at every turn in his architectural practice. Projects and buildings became object-lessons in the fundamental principles of architecture; theory was shown to be a necessary concomitant to practice. Van Doesburg's extreme polemic guaranteed controversy and conflict so intense that it is still fresh in the minds of his surv

Lighter (U. of Tennessee-Knoxville) contends that the current financial recession provides a good opportunity to improve health care in the US, and also provides object lessons in what happens to huge

A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and Sherlock Holmes, of practical tips on health and hygiene and object lessons in woodcraft, Scouting for Boys (1908) is the original blueprint and inspiration fo

Blessings, the bestselling novel by the author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, begins when, late at night, a teenage couple drives up to the estat

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do they

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. “You are what you eat.” Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators,

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.You might think that its name says it all. A bookshelf is just that - a shelf for books. It's

透過視覺教材傳達信息，學習果效更加倍!電燈、蠟燭、豌豆、香蕉、菜刀、鬧鐘.....這些毫不起眼的小東西，如何能將聖經的真理啟示出來?實物教學向來是主日學教育很重要的一環，未來更是如此!本書原著暢銷多年，歷久不衰。它提供俯拾皆時的材料，並以最簡單、最有趣的方法，將聖經真理巧妙地嵌用於日常生活，使生活與生命相互成為息息相關，並引導兒童在其一生中，作出最合神心意之抉擇。您盼望主日學充滿歡笑、豐盈與期待嗎

美國暢銷作家，安娜‧昆德蘭，繼Black and Blue，One TrueThing，Object Lessons，和A Short Guide to Happy Life獲得廣大讀者及書評家的一致肯定後，再度筆力萬鈞地完成她的最新力作：Blessing。故事由一對年輕情侶揭開序幕，他們在夜半時分開入一個小鎮，亮晃晃的車頭燈引領他們進入一個人間幽境─布萊辛莊園。莊園的主人是一個銀髮蒼蒼、深居簡出

全美暢銷50萬冊！普利茲獎得主安娜‧昆德蘭繼奧斯卡金像獎提名《親情無價》又一傑作！書中，她講述自己年少喪母的心路歷程，進而以優美文句娓娓道來珍惜短暫生命的重要。每個為生活奔波忙碌的現代人，都應該停下腳步讀一讀的好書。作者簡介：安娜‧昆德蘭1953年生，著有三本暢銷小說：《主題課程》（Object Lessons）《親情無價》（One True Thing）（曾改編為電影）以及《黑與藍》（Black