Preschool Math at Home will guide you step-by-step as you introduce your preschooler to the world of numbers. Your child will develop a thorough understanding of the numbers up to ten, including: countingcomparing and orderin
Common sense suggests that reality can be discovered. In contrast, constructivism postulates that what we call reality is a personal interpretation, a particular way of looking at the world acquired through communication. Reality is, therefore, not discovered, but literally invented.
Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence. Qin Xue Herzberg, a graduate of Beijing Normal University, has taught Chinese for decades and has been an upper-level Chinese professor at Calvin College for ten years. Larry Herzberg did his PhD work in Chinese and founded the Chinese language programs at Albion College and Calvin College. Qin and Larry live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are co-authors of the popular China Survival Guide as well as the recently released Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings.
One of the principal aims of this vast panorama of musical composition in the twentieth century is to arouse in the reader a thirst for contemporary music and to share with him the author's knowledge of and enthusiasm for the many masterworks in different
Anthony Mario Ludovici (1882-1971) was one of Britain's most celebrated intellectuals in the first decades of the twentieth century.One of the earliest and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exp
This workbook, accompanying the Level 4 Instructor Guide (available separately) in the First Language Lessons complete elementary grammar series, uses classical techniques of memorization, dictation, and narration to develop your child's language ability in the important, foundational years of language study.This Level 4 Student Workbook provides complete worksheets for the student, making it possible for busy parents and teachers to spend more time teaching and less time preparing. Grade Recommendation: Grades 4-5. A simple-to-use, scripted workbook to grammar and composition that accompanies the First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind, Level 4 textbook and makes successful teaching easyfor both parents and students. Autorid: Jessie Wise, Sara Buffington
A complete beginning grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picturestudy, and other classical techniques to develop the young student’s language ability. Scripted lessons give the teacher direction and confidence, while exquisite pencil reproductions of great paintings are used to encourage children in oral composition. Originally published as a single two-year volume, Level Two (this book) and Level One (available separately) have been redesigned as two separate simple-to-use one-year programs. Autorid: Jessie Wise
An evaluation of the complicated relationship between the classic author and her idealistic father considers how Louisa's exuberant personality often challenged Bronson's intricate child-rearing philosophies, describes his failed Fruitlands utopia, and considers how Louisa eventually came to support her family through writing. Reprint. Evaluates the relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her idealistic father, discussing how Louisa's exuberant personality often challenged Bronson's child-rearing philosophies and how Louisa eventually came to support her family through writing. "An amazing story (told] with clarity and intelligence ... colorful and insightful."--Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted--her father's understanding--seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters. Autorid: John Matteson
Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, best-selling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests"-Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically, the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose names they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the house itself.Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinskis' young son risked his life carrying food to the Guests, while also tending an eccentric array of creatures in the house. With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human names, it's small wonder the zoo's codename became "The House Under a Crazy Star."Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet.
In The Cost of Light, Clauthia "Thia" Rai Fields shares an unflinching memoir that traces her journey through heartbreak, silence, and renewal. Written with raw honesty and lyrical depth, this first installment of a three-part memoir begins in the shadows - the tender places where love, loss, and legacy collide.From the devastation of grief to the quiet courage of survival, Fields reveals the personal battles that shaped her voice and her vision for a life rebuilt on her own terms. She writes about family bonds, the ache of absence, the burden of expectations, and the fire of resilience with a clarity that resonates far beyond her own story.Part One captures the earliest movement of a larger symphony - one woman's cost of becoming, of holding both sorrow and beauty in the same breath. The pages are intimate yet universal, reaching anyone who has struggled to find hope in the darkness, who has questioned their worth, or who has longed for the courage to begin again.More than a memoir, The Cost of Light is an invitation: to heal, to rise, and to embrace the truth that light is never free, but it is always worth the cost.This book will resonate with readers of memoirs about resilience, spirituality, grief, and self-discovery - echoing the voices of authors like Glennon Doyle, bell hooks, and Joan Didion. Whether read on its own or as the opening of the complete trilogy, Part One offers a profound reflection on the cost and gift of living fully awake.
Born into the vibrant, chaotic heart of South Central LA, Clauthia Rai Fields learned the brutal rules of survival early: be small, be quiet, and never let them see you bleed. Her childhood was defined by a constant, frantic run from chaos-from her father's rage in Memphis to the systemic instability of Inglewood. Her driving mission became the construction of a life of absolute perfection, a psychological fortress of order built to defy the structural and emotional failures of her past. She vowed to be everything her mother's life of fragile, desperate perfectionism failed to be. She would be organized, educated, and most importantly, safe-covered and secure.But this fierce pursuit of safety came at a devastating, generational cost. Her older sister, Lisa, shattered by an unspeakable trauma-the shadow of the familial 'Vampire'-became the living monument to the family's pain, retreating into uncontrollable rage and addiction. The house became a perpetual war zone of silent screams and loud violence, culminating in the terror of an abusive presence, Tim, who enforced his cruelty through subtle violation and dominance. Clauthia's refuge was the unseen: the high school weight room, the chaos of the public school stage, and a small, dark closet where she sought divine solace. It was in that confinement, illuminated by a single flashlight beam, that she forged her true weapon: a voice dedicated to truth.Her ascent into adulthood, a determined, thousand-mile escape to college, was merely the next, highest phase of the lifelong run. She swiftly became the "Architect of Safety," building a brilliant teaching career and a meticulously managed marriage. She was the one who got things done, perpetually sprinting under the badge of "100 Miles and Running." But as her professional mask became flawless, achieving structural perfection, the silence and the shame inside her heart deepened. She was running so relentlessly toward the light, terrified of slowing down, that she failed to realize she was still carrying the heavy umbrella of her own darkness-the deep-seated fear of vulnerability that demanded she never pause for reflection. The perfect life was a beautiful, unsustainable lie.It would take thirty exhausting years-a final, devastating betrayal rooted in a childhood lie, the heartbreaking recognition of her mother's artistic sacrifice, and the profound loss of her sister-for the foundation of her perfect life to finally shatter. The Cost of Light: A Memoir of Shadows and Fire is the searing, unforgettable story of breaking the generational silence. It is a testament to the fact that genuine survival is not found in invisibility, but in the fierce, absolute choice to stand fully in your hard-won light and claim the provision of dignity.
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block...for the fourth time.California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name?Cindy.It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages. Even puka shell necklaces, pool parties, and flying fish can't distract Cindy from the anti-Iran sentiments that creep way too close to home.A poignant yet lighthearted middle grade debut from the author of the bestselling Funny in Farsi. California Library Association's John and Patricia Beatty Award Winner Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Grades 6?8) New York Historical Society's New Americans Book Prize Winner Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature, Honorable Mention Booklist 50 Best Middle Grade Novels of the 21st Century
