Incandescent poems about living and aging—about being awake in this young century—by one of our most moving and eloquent poets. These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and seasons in their phases; and the world beyond, both threatening and enriching life. The time before sleep acts as an invitation to reflect on the world's quieter movements—from gardens heavy after a first storm to the moon slipping into darkness in an eclipse—as well as on the subtle but relentless passage of time. Insomnia embodies Linda Pastan's graceful and iconic voice, both lucid and haunting.

This book criticizes sharply the way in which schools create, exacerbate and ignore the distress of children, when in fact the place that is supposed to provide a humane response to that very distress. Taking a broad critical and interdisciplinary approach (philosophical, sociological, psychological and educational), the book points out the organizational, psychological and functional difficulties of today's public school, which prevent the adults working there from sensing taking responsibility for and acting to alleviate the distress of children.

The late Frantsa Belsky, who was born in Brno in what was then Czechoslovakia, modelled four generations of the Royal Family. His first link with the Royal Family was a model of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1962, and he created a bronze head of the Queen in 1981 for the National Portrait Gallery. His other works include the Shell Fountain on the South Bank in London and the Triga in Knightsbridge. He completed a series of sculptures of mothers with children, one of which, The Lesson, stands at Bethnal Green. Belsky was selected by a government panel to create a memorial to Lord Mountbatten of Burma in 1982, three years after he was killed by the IRA. The 9ft statue depicted Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, in naval uniform as though on the bridge of a ship. Belsky had also already produced sculptures or portraits of the Duke of Edinburgh and Sir Winston Churchill. His statues of Churchill and President Truman stand in Missouri in the United States.

"You could do insane twenty-hour shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of a young woman's incredible potential." "Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid with half an eye on his former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the ruthless underdog Irene. Marie doesn't waste any time weeping - Desiree wants her." "Bourgeois existence or suicide. There are no other choices." "Vienna, 1923. A discontented post-war generation diagnose youth to be their sickness and do their best to destroy it." "Ferdinand Bruckner's Pains of Youth, in a version by Martin Crimp, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2009." --Book Jacket.

“No scars at all. Which, when you think about it, is maybe not such a good sign” Catherine is fifteen years old, and was discovered in a state of almost total neglect. No one is even sure if she's ever left the room she was found in. She can't walk and can't speak. Her recovery seems impossible. But children can be shockingly resilient, especially with inspired medical care. Sponsored by a fundraising drive led by a tabloid newspaper, her only surviving relative has been able to get Catherine the best private medical care that money can buy. She responds well to the experimental treatment. But she seems to be getting more violent, and remains stubbornly resistant to language. Or is she? Soon, Catherine's doctors and great-aunt begin to discover what it is, exactly, that they've uncovered... Inspired by true events, Stone Face is Eve Leigh’s second full-length play at the Finborough Theatre.

In 1852, the British H.M. troopship Birkenhead foundered. More than 400 men chose to drown or be eaten alive by sharks rather than allow one woman or child to suffer. This is the story of the bravery and heroism that has come to be known as the Birkenhead drill. - Cover. The British H.M. Troopship Birkenhead was the crowning glory of her generation. The first iron-hulled vessel of war, she was believed to be unusually resilient and seaworthy. On the night of February 26, 1852, she was sailing for the coast of South Africa with about 638 men, women, and children aboard, including a large contingent of military reinforcements for the troops engaged in the Kaffir Wars. At about 2:00 a.m., the vessel struck a ledge off Cape Danger. Twenty minutes later, she was submerged. Before she sank, an important decision was made. The men would sacrifice their lives for the women and children. They would willingly die rather than even possibly capsize the overloaded boats on which the women and children sought refuge. Over the next few hours, wives and children watched as their loved ones drowned or were consumed by man-eating sharks engaged in a wild feeding frenzy. The heroism of these men not only established the maritime principle of "women and children first," but served to inspire generations of men and women to stand by the ancient Christian principles of heroic manhood

Originally published in 1951, this title looks at the study of the hand in relation to psychological diagnosis. This was at the time a new branch of psychology and the author is keen to point out it must not be viewed as perfect or indeed complete. Practical experience and a deeper understanding of psycho-motor phenomena had altered some of the author's theoretical views since the earlier titles. This book builds on and extends her previous research, including new research studies particularly on children who were at the time termed 'mentally defective'. It was designed to contribute some new diagnostic possibilities to psychology and psychiatry. Today we can enjoy it as part of psychology's history.

As strains appear in her marriage and her two children grow up, Rosemary Streeter reexamines her attitudes towards love and fulfillment

Ada Sarah Ballin or Ada Ballin (4 May 1863 - 14 May 1906) was a British magazine editor and proprietor, and writer on health. Ballin was born in Bloomsbury in 1863. She attended University College London and she was one of the women admitted to their first degree course. She was at UCL from 1878 to 1870 and gained a Hollier scholarship for Hebrew the following year. She won other awards and trained under Professor William Henry Corfield. She does not appear to have completed her degree.She was living in Tavistock Square in 1881 with her retired father and her elder brother and still a student at UCL. She published the Science of Dress in 1885 which gave a range of advice to women and their children. She continued her association with UCL and she was attending their UC Society meetings in 1886. Ballin was the editor of the monthly illustrated journal Baby: the Mothers' Magazine in 1887 which proposed that babies should be dressed in wool with their arms free.

The book "" The Coward Behind the Curtain "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

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An anthology of poetry dealing with strange phenomena for which there is no rational explanation.

A collection of poems about such topics as bugs, weather, food, and the sea, by poets ranging from Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter de la Mare to Gwendolyn Brooks and Arnold Lobel.

These stories are about the relationship between Rosa and her grandfather. Grandad no longer cares what people think of him and so he enjoys life - he's a great singer and loves nothing better than to show off. Rosa is captivated by him, even though her mother finds him very difficult.

Two hauntingly atmospheric stories from author/songwriter Leon Rosselson. Both stories feature a child who is seen to be ‘different’ by his/her peer group and both suffer bullying, resolved through a mysterious force, a ghostly spirit. Sarah is a tall awkward girl, very slow and dreamy who a an amazing rapport with animals. Because she is different, she gets teased by her classmates. The teasing becomes taunting and the taunting becomes aggressive bullying. Sarah ignores it but then the leader of the bullying turns his attention towards her cat… but he doesn’t get away with it… The second story features Mark, a child with ‘special needs’ who can only talk through his glove puppet with a monkey face. Because he’s different he gets teased too but he’s befriended by Tim who tries to protect him. When Mark’s glove puppet vanishes, Mark doesn’t come to school. Tim tracks both down and discovers just how and why Mark came to be so different.

Helbert and his mother like doing a lot of things together, but their experiment with a plum stone gets out of hand.

Excerpt from Salt: A Novel Now he tried her name once more: Sarah. Sarah. Sarah. Yes, over. He opened the refrigerator and gazed inside. It began its hot pumping labor at keeping cool. The last evident sign of Sarah's taking nourishment with him was the two pears she had brought as her Saturday morning gift - luxury fruits from a luxury fruiterer, deep yellow and green, carried in tissue across town from Madison Avenue. Well, those pears should be served at room temperature, but they were pretty good chilled, too. Gluttonous, destroying, he ate them both, hunched over the sink, his hands drenched in ripe pear juice. He washed. He opened the window. Bruised pear fragrance gone. Goodbye, Sarah; go home to your cuckold; farewell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

First edition hard cover. From the collection of Nina Carroll (Steane) and John Steane, John being the former county archaeologist for Oxfordshire, a founder member of the Oxford Buildings Record and the Oxfordshire Buildings Trust. Gift dedication and signature from author on FEP and correspondence between Nina Carroll and Gerda Meyer laid in. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning and light wear to jacket, corners bumped, and pageblock tanned. Within, pages tightly bound, and content unmarked. CN

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A small fish with a big imagination, Eleanor Levenson's goldfish thinks about things like falling in love, getting old, and climate change. But there is one thing that he thinks about every day . . . Illustrated with a wry humor, here are philosophical musings about the meaning of life--and swimming--from a fishy perspective.