Bears
Title | Bears PDF eBook |
Author | Erwin A. Bauer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Outlining the differences and similarities among the various species of North American bears, this book makes a plea for the preservation of bear habitat that is quickly disappearing. It discusses in detail the natural history (including range, diet, personality traits, breeding and social structure), the present and historical interaction with mankind, and the threats to black, brown and grizzly bears.
Bialosky's Best Behavior
Title | Bialosky's Best Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie McGuire |
Publisher | Golden Books |
Total Pages | 30 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780307119292 |
A teddy bear demonstrates how to use good manners in a variety of sticky situations.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Title | The Publishers' Trade List Annual PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1138 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Bialosky's Christmas
Title | Bialosky's Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie McGuire |
Publisher | Golden Books |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780307118912 |
Bialosky plans a wonderful Christmas party and spends all day preparing for it, but he forgets to do one important thing.
History of a Suicide
Title | History of a Suicide PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Bialosky |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2011-02-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 143913474X |
“It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.” —Kim’s journal entry, May 3, 1988 On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky’s twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued with her boyfriend on the phone. Then she took her mother’s car keys, went into the garage, closed the garage door. She climbed into the car, turned on the ignition, and fell asleep. Her body was found the next morning by the neighborhood boy her mother hired to cut the grass. Those are the simple facts, but the act of suicide is anything but simple. For twenty years, Bialosky has lived with the grief, guilt, questions, and confusion unleashed by Kim’s suicide. Now, in a remarkable work of literary nonfiction, she re-creates with unsparing honesty her sister’s inner life, the events and emotions that led her to take her life on this particular night. In doing so, she opens a window on the nature of suicide itself, our own reactions and responses to it—especially the impact a suicide has on those who remain behind. Combining Kim’s diaries with family history and memoir, drawing on the works of doctors and psychologists as well as writers from Melville and Dickinson to Sylvia Plath and Wallace Stevens, Bialosky gives us a stunning exploration of human fragility and strength. She juxtaposes the story of Kim’s death with the challenges of becoming a mother and her own exuberant experience of raising a son. This is a book that explores all aspects of our familial relationships—between mothers and sons, fathers and daughters—but particularly the tender and enduring bonds between sisters. History of a Suicide brings a crucial and all too rarely discussed subject out of the shadows, and in doing so gives readers the courage to face their own losses, no matter what those may be. This searing and compassionate work reminds us of the preciousness of life and of the ways in which those we love are inextricably bound to us.
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Title | The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Williams |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2017-02-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0393242722 |
"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining." —Elle From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas—and the answers they yield—are more urgent than ever.
The Meaning of Wife
Title | The Meaning of Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Kingston |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 447 |
Release | 2006-03-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1466804491 |
"One part The Beauty Myth . . . and one part Backlash"*--a provocative exploration of who and what a wife really is. There is a wife crisis in North America, a brewing storm of conflicting forces swirling around what it means to be a wife at the beginning of the 21st Century. The word is so fraught with ambiguity that it has become a litmus test, eliciting from women emotions ranging from longing to antipathy, anxiety to derision. This crisis is at the heart of Anne Kingston's The Meaning of Wife. Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, Kingston takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the wedding industrial complex, which elevates the bride to a potent consumer icon; through the recent romanticization of domesticity; and across the conflicted terrain of wifely sexuality. She looks at "wife backlash," and the new wave of neo-traditionalism that urges women to marry before their "best-before" dates expire; explores the apotheosis of abused wives and the strange celebration of wives who kill; and muses on the fact that Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, two of the world's wealthiest and most influential women, are both non-wives whose success has hinged on thier understanding of wives. The result is an entertaining mix of social, sexual, historical, and economic commentary that is bound to stir debate even as it reframes our view of both women and marriage.