Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Gesture and Speech

Gesture and Speech
Author: André Leroi-Gourhan
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780262121736

Combines in one volume "Technics and Language", in which anthropologist Leroi-Gourhan looks at prehistoric technology in relation to the development of cognitive and liguistic faculties, and "Memory and Rhythms", which addresses instinct and intelligence from a sociological viewpoint.

Stardust Dads

Stardust Dads
Author: Josephine C. George
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2008-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595618154

The e-mail Danny and Allison read on their new computer in 1996 looks no different from the millions of others received by Web users around the world, with one glaring exception--it was sent by their dads who died during the 1970s. While residing in the afterworld at an amenity-laden paradise called Midway Manor, guitar-strumming Mickey Parks and piano-playing Lloyd Wallace monitor and manipulate the lives of their adult children on earth from the mid-'70s through the 1990s. Tampering with the facility's sophisticated computer, the dads thrust Mickey's daughter Allison and Lloyd's son Danny into a passionate but sometimes stormy relationship-a relationship steeped in Danny's heavy drinking and entangled in the often-zany world of men's adventure magazine publishing. After carefully implementing a plan to send their son and daughter a gift of knowledge that could enrich their lives forever, the dads' brief contact is cut short. They are banished to another destination in the afterworld, but not before they impart indisputable proof of life after death--and unwittingly put Danny's and Allison's earthbound lives on the line.

Learning and Behavior

Learning and Behavior
Author: Paul Chance
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Conditioned response
ISBN: 9781111834968

LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR, Seventh Edition, is stimulating and filled with high-interest queries and examples. Based on the theme that learning is a biological mechanism that aids survival, this book embraces a scientific approach to behavior but is written in clear, engaging, and easy-to-understand language.

Adult Coloring Book Stress Relieving Animal Designs

Adult Coloring Book Stress Relieving Animal Designs
Author: Univers Mandalas
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre:
ISBN:

Our 50 Animals coloring book is a wonderful way to show your love of animals while your stress fades away. Each animal features simple patterns which allow you to effortlessly fill pages with any of your favorite colors. We have also included close-up animal portraits and full-body animal designs so you will have plenty of options of what to color next.You get to color a variety of fun animal designs from all across the animal kingdom. We have included loveable farm animals, wild jungle animals, mysterious animals of the sea, and many more! Imagine yourself coloring an untamed horse running on the plains, an adorable squirrel climbing a tree, and a tropical fish swimming in the ocean. You can color each animal with realistic colors or let your imagination run wild and use whichever colors you choose!Relaxing Coloring Pages. Every page you color will pull you into a relaxing world where your responsibilities will seem to fade away...Beautiful Illustrations. We've included 50 unique images for you to express your creativity and make masterpieces. Which colors will you choose for this book?Single-sided Pages. Every image is placed on its own black-backed page to reduce the bleed-through problem found in other coloring books.Great for All Skill Levels. You can color every page however you want and there is no wrong way to color (even if you are a beginner).Makes a Wonderful Gift. Know someone who loves to color? Make them smile by getting them a copy too. You could even color together!

Walden

Walden
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1980
Genre: American essays
ISBN:

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.

Introductory Grammar of Amharic

Introductory Grammar of Amharic
Author: Wolf Leslau
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447042710

This book closes the gap for beginners who want to study the Amharic language and had difficulties in finding the right grammar for this purpose: The first grammar of Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, was published by Hiob Ludolf in 1698. The Amharic grammar published by Praetorius in 1879 is based on Amharic religious texts and on scattered material, usually composed by missionaries. A milestone in the study of Amharic is Marcel Cohen's Traite de langue amharique (1936), but this grammar, too is not completely suited for beginners since the author's generalizations are at times aimed at linguists. The grammar that comes closest to the concept of a beginner's grammar is that of C.H. Dawkin (1960), yet this grammar is extremely short, does not give examples and does not introduce the student to the intricacies of the language.The new book gives all the grammatical forms and the sentences of the present grammar in Amharic script and in phonetic transcription. The illustrative examples have a free and a literal translation. This procedure should likewise prove to be useful for the Semitist as well as for the general linguist.

Phonics from A to Z

Phonics from A to Z
Author: Wiley Blevins
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590315104

Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 030783039X

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.