Written by and for teens and young adults with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD), as well as for their parents, teachers, therapists, and others who care about them, and backed by the latest neuropsychological research, NLD from the Inside Out offers hundreds of useful tips on: - Organization and planning, including study skills- How to successfully navigate the transition from dependent child to independent adult - Creating more harmonious family and peer relationships- Changing disabling attitudes.
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important.
Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about.
Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing.
"e;Werner's prose is compelling, his natural history is thoroughly engaging, and his line of curious inquiry is an admirable attempt to better understand humanity and its changing relationship with the external world.
A collection of occasional essays, a series of meditations on the book industry as it transitions to its electronic future, and a reader on modern publishing, The Three Percent Problem stands alongside Andre Schiffrin's The Business of Books and Jason Epstein's Book Business as primers on the publishing industry.
This powerful new work by Bruce Weigl follows the celebrated poet and Vietnam War veteran as he explores combat, survival, and PTSD in brief prose vignettes.
In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink.
In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range.
This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Publicadas en la prensa cubana del siglo XIX (en La Habana Elegante, La Discusión y La Habana Literaria) las Prosas de Julián del Casal destacan por su espíritu reflexivo, agudeza intelectual y vocación de estilo.
Juan Bautista Alberdi escribió El crimen de la guerra en 1872, bajo la profunda impresión que le produjo la derrota paraguaya en la llamada Guerra del Paraguay y sus secuelas en la población de dicho país.
The Reliable Past is the eagerly awaited sequel to Russian Silhouettes, Genna Sosonko's marvellous collection of portraits from the golden age of Soviet chess.
Genna Sosonko paints portraits of players, both famous and forgotten, from the golden age of Soviet chess, as well as highly personal views on the psychology of the game and its players.
From the award-winning literary and arts magazine, an issue exploring the metropolis through fiction, essays, art, and interviews spanning generations, continents, and languages.
An accessible introduction to understanding the current media environment and the culture it contains, this book provides an indispensable guide to dynamic media literacy in the digital environment.
An accessible introduction to understanding the current media environment and the culture it contains, this book provides an indispensable guide to dynamic media literacy in the digital environment.
In this brilliant collection of diverse works-essays, short stories, poems, translations-which spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing.
Sieben Jahre nach dem Tode von Rudolf Augstein erhob Martin Walser erstmals im November 2009 Anspruch auf die Vaterschaft von dessen ältestem Sohn Jakob.
Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice?
Este libro contiene colaboraciones de académicos y especialistas en español como lengua extranjera que desean iluminar diferentes aspectos de su enseñanza y su aprendizaje: desde la construcción de diccionarios especializados que atienden a las necesidades de esos alumnos hasta las experiencias de didáctica o evaluación lingüística en sectores especializados.
ENCOUNTERS IN A NOISY WORLD - The finitude of eternityIf the view of things is different from the hitherto accustomed one, something is formed, which does that service to the well-worn life, the appearance of which does not become aware of its distinctness to everyone.
What is the meaning of "e;adventure"e; as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes?
Las contradicciones sobrevuelan China, una nación que persigue el liderazgo mundial, pero que al mismo tiempo se aleja cada vez más de ese mundo que pretende dirigir debido a su autoritarismo y violación de los derechos humanos.
What is the meaning of "e;adventure"e; as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes?
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You'One of our culture's greatest humorists is back' Glamour'Brilliant, hilarious and perspicacious' ELIZABETH DAY'SO funny.
En un viaje de seis meses junto a su familia, David Rodríguez nos pasea por sus historias, transitando por algunos de los lugares y personajes más cautivadores de América, Oceanía, Asia y África.
A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.
