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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question posed to forty-six renowned authors in LIGHT THE DARK, each one revealing what gets them started and what keeps them going with the creative work they love. Each writer begins with a favorite passage--from a novel, a song, a poem. From there, incredible lessons and stories of life changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking a volume of Stephen King stories into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled Hosseini learn that nothing he creates will ever be truly finished. Or how Junot Diaz learned that great art can be a friend to help us feel less alone in the world when he discovered Toni Morrison in college. LIGHT THE DARK collects the best of The Atlantic's much-acclaimed "By Heart" series and adds brand new pieces from writers like Marilynne Robinson and Junot Diaz, each one paired with a striking illustration. Here is a guide to creative living and writing in the vein of Daily Rituals, Bird by Bird, and Big Magic for anyone who wants to learn how great writers find inspiration and how to find some of your own.CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS- Elizabeth Gilbert, Neil Gaiman, Junot Diaz, Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Mary Gaitskill, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Roxane Gay, Angela Flournoy, Yiyun Li, Leslie Jamison, Claire Messud, Edwidge Danticat, David Mitchell, Khaled Hosseini, Ayana Mathis, Kathryn Harrison, Azar Nafisi, Hanya Yanagihara, Jane Smiley, Nell Zink, Emma Donoghue, Jeff Tweedy, Eileen Myles, Maggie Shipstead, Sherman Alexie, Andre Dubus III, Billy Collins, Lev Grossman, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Charles Simic, Jim Shepard, T.C. Boyle, Tom Perrotta, Viet Than Nguyen, William Gibson, Mark Haddon, Ethan Canin, Jessie Ball, Jim Crace, and Walter Mosley.A stunning masterclass on the creative process, the craft of writing, and the art of finding inspiration from Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and more of the most acclaimed writers at work today"For artists in need of a creative fix,Light the Darkis as good as a visit from the divine muse." -BookpageWhat inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question posed to forty-six renowned authors in LIGHT THE DARK. Each writer begins with a favorite passage from a novel, a song, a poem-something that gets them started and keeps them going with the creative work they love. From there, incredible lessons and stories of life-changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking books into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled Hosseini learn that nothing he creates will ever be truly finished. Or how a college reading assignment taught Junot Diaz that great art can be a healing conversation, and an unexpected poet led Elizabeth Gilbert to embrace an unyielding optimism, even in the face of darkness. LIGHT THE DARK collects the best of The Atlantic's much-acclaimed "By Heart" series edited by Joe Fassler and adds brand new pieces, each one paired with a striking illustration. Here is a guide to creative living and writing in the vein of Daily Rituals, Bird by Bird,Draft No. 4, and Big Magic for anyone who wants to learn how great writers find inspiration-and to find some of your own.CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS- Elizabeth Gilbert, Junot Diaz, Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Mary Gaitskill, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman,Roxane Gay, Angela Flournoy, Jonathan Franzen,Yiyun Li, Leslie Jamison, Claire Messud, Edwidge Danticat, David Mitchell, Khaled Hosseini, Ayana Mathis, Kathryn Harrison, Azar Nafisi, Hanya Yanagihara, Jane Smiley, Nell Zink, Emma Donoghue, Jeff Tweedy, Eileen Myles, Maggie Shipstead, Sherman Alexie, Andre Dubus III, Billy Collins, Lev Grossman, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Charles Simic, Jim Shepard, T.C. Boyle, Tom Perrotta, Viet Thanh Nguyen, William Gibson, Mark Haddon, Et Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Trade Paperback. This award-winning book has been kicked out of school libraries across the country for dealing head-on with harsh realities that young people face. But far from being a bummer, this book is laugh-out-loud hilarious with great illustrations. Highly recommended for adults young and old. A new copy. A New York Times bestseller--over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling and award winning author Sherman Alexie tells the hearbreaking yet funny story about a boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation who wants to break free of the life he was destined to live. Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, based on the author's own experiences and coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. As New in blue clot with silver titles. 1st Printing. 159pp 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. In 2000, photographer Andrea Modica, well-known for her three previous monographs ? Treadwell, Minor League, and Human Being ? was commissioned by the American Indian College Fund to create a body of portraits of contemporary Native Americans associated with America's Tribal Colleges. Working strictly in b&w, Modica brings to each portrait session an intensity balanced by the ponderousness of her view camera. Gathered together here under the sponsorship of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, her images present the faces of 'real indians' ? individuals who live and breathe as tribal members in contemporary America. The introduction by noted native author Sherman Alexie is both touching and hilarious for it's forthrightness. Andrea Modica was born in New York City and lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of a Knight Award. Her photographs have been featured in many magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Newsweek and American Photo. Modica has exhibited extensively and has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Her photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, and the Bibliotheque Nationale.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(+). Octavo in yellow/purple DJ, orange spine, 192 pages ; 22 cm. Inscribed and signed by author. || Out of print. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Human body -- Children's poetry. || The body and the mind cohabitate, hence this book pf poems about who the body is, what the body does, how we feel and what we think about it. Here are poems to comfort and surprise you and, perhaps, influence your ideas of beauty. Your one body, the one whose hands hold this book, whose eyes read these words, is yours from birth to death.--Patrice Vecchione. || Contents: From I sing the body electric / Walt Whitman -- Planting initiation song, traditional song of the Osage people -- Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros -- Breath / Deema K. Shehabi -- A dialogue / Elizabeth Carter -- Sudden journey / Tess Gallagher -- Black hair / Gary Soto -- Cobwebs / Melinda Goodman -- The gift / Li-Young Lee -- Self-portrait, 1906 / Rainer Maria Rilke -- From Autobiography of a face / Lucy Grealy -- Scars / William Stafford -- Olivia's face, from Twelfth night / William Shakespeare -- Doreen / Janice Mirikitani -- We wear the masks / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- They lied / Ellen Bass -- A hand / Jane Hirshfield -- The nailbiter / Shel Silverstein -- His hands / Natasha Trethewey -- Making tortillas / Alicia Gaspar De Alba -- Rib sandwich / William J. Harris -- Hunger / Miguel Hernández -- Eating the pig / Donald Hall -- Fat / Lyn Lifshin -- The dieter's daughter / Anita Endrezze -- In the morning / Steve Kowit -- From Skinhead / Patricia Smith -- She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Possible / Ruth L. Schwartz -- Height / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- From Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- A breast for all seasons / Keelyn T. Healy -- Pastel dresses / Stephen Dobyns -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- Elbows / Minnie Bruce Pratt -- Your laughter / Pablo Neruda -- Crying / Galway Kinnell -- Stella's kiss / Sir Philip Sidney -- The kiss / Marie Howe -- From Orlando / Virginia Woolf -- Bridge / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Erections / Erin Belieu -- Semen / Pablo Neruda -- This part of your body / Lin Max -- The moment / Sharon Olds -- April / Cornelius Eady -- Heel should not be an insult / Marge Piercy -- I used to be much much darker / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Skin dreaming / Linda Hogan -- The skin of this poem / Kim Ly Bui-Burton -- Giving blood / Sherman Alexie -- The body of man / Van Hanh -- Scleroderma at fifteen / Erin Johnson -- Dem dry bones / Anonymous -- Breath / Reginald Gibbons -- Flipped on its axis, from Listen to our voices / Claire Braz-Valentine -- No parts spared / Tish Benson -- Still life / Diane Ackerman -- Thinking about Bill, dead of AIDS / Miller Williams -- S M / Alice Walker -- The cutting edge / Barbara Hill -- My tattoo / Mark Doty -- From The Woodlanders / Thomas Hardy -- Hot combs / Natasha Trethewey -- Pimples / Andrew Nielsen -- Unscratchable itch / Shel Silverstein -- Blinking / Morton Marcus -- The runner / Walt Whitman -- Swimmers / May Swenson -- When I arise glistening / Deborah Turner -- A Hindu to his body / A.K. Ramanujan -- To sleep / Sir Philip Sidney -- "He wheeled a corpse" / Gary Young -- Legacy / Maurice Kenny -- Biographical notes -- Permissions -- Index of authors -- Index of titles. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to rear corners, light soiling to rear DJ, extremely minor rubbing to DJ corners, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ. First edition, first printing (full number line).

Contents Preface Acknowledgement Contributors 1 Rushdie?s Haroun and the Sea of Stories as a children?s bookRama Kundu 2 The Akela trilogy by Chaman NahalShyam Samtani 3 Ideology in children?s fiction the discourse of pluralism in Sorry Best FriendMala Pandurang 4 That singsong reservation accent Sherman Alexie?s Young Adult NovelRichard Sax 5 Writing for children and writer?s responsibilitySharad Rajimwale 6 Literature for children fables with a purposeKalpana Purohit 7 Contemporary children?s literature resurgence of experience from innocenceAnil K Prasad 8 An assessment of Margaret Atwood?s portrayal of childhood relationships in cat?s eyeMR Khatri 9 Kunjunni master - The Little Master of KeralaDevika MP 10 Values the soul of educationVijay Kumar Roy 11 Children?s literature in India genres reading education and the demands of the digital ageManisha Sharma 12 Shaping up of the mind and story-tellingSunidhi Bissa 13 Teenage wasteland portrayal of women in young adult literatureVibha Bhoot 14 A survey of various topics in adolescent literatureAndrea G Trivisonno 15 The inimitable Ruskin BondBandana Burman 16 Portrayal of the child in Charles Dickens?s novelsMadhvika Mathur 17 Literature of the westRitu Sharma IndexChildren?s world is filled with fun and fantasy In their growing lives the vitality of joy and laughter prepares them to face challenges of adult life by strengthening those foundations whose material is hope and positive world-view It is with this belief that writers and artists have gone on fashioning a parallel world of images in which children can find greater freedom to discover how they can grapple and overcome those problems which in real life appeal formidable Literature written for children introduces them to the meaning of compassion inestimable strength and value of truth honesty and self sacrifice and the golden doors that open out of difficult existence to a meaningful life In this quintessential understanding can be found the great significance of timeless creations of Leo Tolstoy Oscar Wilde Hans Christian Andersen James Barrie and numerous other writersChanging times have affected writings and other means of entertainment for children Out of a welter of theories and influences children?s literature is emerging in a new avatar somewhat different with a new role and explanation for its being This has also occasioned a fierce debate among scholars and common readers seeking to analyze new works that are being offered to children Children?s literature has opened out a new field of research attracting inputs form experts in such diverse areas as sociology psychology linguistics and culture studiesThe present anthology offers a rich collection of opinions on a diversity of topics pertaining to writings for children Written by scholars engaged in research in different areas these papers not only provide insights into individual works and basic theoretical concerns but also stimulate further inquiry 218 pp.

sonst. Bücher. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Dieses Unterrichtsmodell bezieht sich auf folgende Textausgaben: Cornelsen, Bestell-Nr.: 031263 oder Bestell-Nr.: 031264Ein Lehrer im Pyjama, tägliche Schulhofprügeleien, uralte Schulbücher: Mit Wut im Bauch erkennt der 14-jährige Spokane-Indianer Junior, dass ihm die triste Reservatsschule von Wellpinit keine Chancen bietet. Kurz entschlossen wechselt er zur Reardan High School außerhalb des Reservats. Als einziger Indianer unter reichen, weißen Highschoolkids muss sich Junior von nun an in zwei Welten behaupten: In der Welt des Reservats, in der er als Verräter gilt, und in der Welt der weißen Mittelschicht, in der er zunächst als Außenseiter ignoriert wird.Ehrlich und voller Selbstironie berichtet der Erzähler in Sherman Alexies autobiografisch gefärbtem Roman vom Erwachsenwerden und der schwierigen Suche nach Identität. Das Buch gewann in den USA zahlreiche Jugendbuchpreise.Die Lektüre eignet sich für die Jahrgangsstufen 9-12, u.a. in Verbindung mit den Themen The American Dream, Individual and Society, National Identity and Diversity. Dieses Modell liefert einen praxisorientierten Leitfaden zur Behandlung im Englischunterricht.Contents:The characters - Contents - The author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Romans im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmodells - Components - Weiterführende MaterialienComponent 1: Pre-reading and exposition (pp. 5-33): Sitting Indian-style - Part I - the exposition of the novelComponent 2: Junior goes to Reardan (pp. 34-52): Consequences of Junior's smashing Mr. P in the face with his book - Mr. P's confession - Internet research - education of the Indians - Go means go - Rowdy sings the blues - the end of a friendship Component 3: Coping in Reardan (pp. 53-119): How to fight monsters - The rules of fist fighting or David against Goliath - Trying to cope (group work) - Integration at Reardan - Chapters pp. 91-119 (skills training)Component 4: Wins and losses - playing basketball at Reardan (pp. 120-181): Junior plays varsity - Between the games - Junior's perfect gameComponent 5: Death, grief and hope - how Junior copes with the terrible deaths within his family (pp. 146-163, pp. 183-210): Wake - Eugene and Mary: how not to despair - Junior: an incarnation of hope - ReconciliationComponent 6: Post-reading activities: Junior's characterization - How to write a book review - Taboo - More ideas for while-/post-reading activities.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'What can literature teach us about resilience in the face of climate change and planetary-scale vulnerability In 'Weak Planet,' Wai Chee Dimock proposes a way forward by showing how writers have met past hazards with experiments in non-paralysis, and how their works still inspire readers to 'find their strength.' Dimock looks for hope not in heroic resistance but in the unspectacular and inconclusive. Focusing on tenuous networks among authors and unstable phenomena such as genre, she shows that literature's durability is at once weak but vital. Dimock's literary history pays special attention to low-grade, low-threshold phenomena that, in not being developed to their fullest or most forceful extent, have often been overlooked. Along the way, she considers Louise Erdrich's and Sherman Alexie's reclamation of Mary Rowlandson; elaborations of Moby-Dick in works by C. L. R. James, Frank Stella, and Amitav Ghosh; weak forms of Irishness in Colm Toâibâin, Oscar Wilde, and W. B. Yeats, and the appearance of an atmospheric Islam in works by Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes. Joining conversations in environmental humanities, disability studies, and several other fields, 'Weak Planet' offers a new literary history along with new ways to think about our collective future'.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Grove Press, (2012). First Edition. Fine. Presentation copy, signed with a smiley face saying "The Greatest" and the inscription "Don't run away with any authors!".

Wrappers in Pictorial Slipcase. Condition: As New. First Edition 1/5000. np (192pp), profusely illustrated in duotone and color. Art Director - Nathaniel Kilcer. "The latest volume in Bruce Weber's ongoing literary and art journal series celebrates individuals whose risk-taking and personal vision set them apart from the crowd. There's a common enthusiasm running through this volume, a sense that this cast of characters - be they subjects of the book or contributors to it - was born ready to stand up, face the odds, and declare themselves unabashedly to the world. The book opens with a poem about Basketball by Sherman Alexie. A new commission by Sean Thomas finds him back in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, documenting the teen rites of passage that pile up at the end of high school: senior prom, first romances, lazy summer jobs. Then Bruce Weber's first story in the book is a profile of Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries - the pioneering Los Angeles-based gang intervention and rehabilitation program. From there All-American travels to Harlem with Lisa Eisner, whose commissioned story about Amateur Night at the Apollo becomes a love poem to the vibrant neighborhood. Weber's second contribution is a profile of the charming and eccentric Mickey Wolfson, whose extraordinary collection of furniture, paintings, books, prints, and decorative objects became the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, Florida. A portfolio of paintings by the Palm Beach society fixture Ralph Wolfe Cowan presents everyone from Doris Duke to Johnny Mathis to Princess Grace in the most ethereal and unexpected light. All-American then traces one woman's personal struggle for justice through exclusive images from the personal archive of Edith Windsor, whose Supreme Court case resulted in the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) earlier this year. This story also features portraits by Bruce Weber and photographs by Poppy De Villeneuve. All-American Volume Thirteen closes with an in-depth look at the world of professional motocross racing. Bruce Weber traveled this summer to Southwick, Massachusetts together with photographers John Scott and Michael John Murphy to capture stars like Ryan Dungey and James Stewart racing against a host of up-and-comers". As with all of the "All-American"s, the quality of the design, paper and printing is impeccable. Not unlike the previous books, there will be only one printing of this title. A brand new, pristine example in slipcase in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Photography Monograph.