Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race, Nico Slate
Автор: Steven Pinker Название: The Blank Slate ISBN: 014027605X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140276053 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. This title shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature.
Автор: Slate, Jenny Название: Little Weirds ISBN: 0349726426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349726427 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An essay collection from actor and stand-up comedian, Jenny Slate
Автор: Slate Magazine Название: The Explainer ISBN: 1400034264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400034260 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1191.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: What happens to recalled meat? What's the difference between a serial killer and a spree killer? How do you stop a lava flow? Does homeowner's insurance cover murder? And what is Ovaltine anyway? Answers to these and other fascinating questions you never thought to ask, from the writers at Slate Magazine
An entertaining and genuinely informative compilation of answers to some of life's most improbable questions, from the writers of the online magazine Slate. Often inspired by events in the news, the "Explainer" column asks the questions we never think to ask, or that we're too embarrassed to admit we don't know how to answer. Filling in these overlooked blanks of our daily lives, the book provides memorable tidbits for conversations, further rumination, or important context as we follow current events from day to day. Full of fascinating information about unlikely but important subjects, The Explainer will entertain and inform anyone who has ever stopped to wonder who runs Antarctica, how cell phones can reveal your location, or whether one can live off lizard meat.
Автор: Filloux-Bennett Henry, Slater Nigel Название: Nigel Slater`s Toast ISBN: 0573115591 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573115592 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Around 1910, three Dutch intellectuals separately visited Manila. Feminist doctor Aletta Jacobs, orientalist scholar Gerret Rouffaer, and ethnologist Hendrik Muller were all curious to see how the Americans were implementing their colonial policy of "benevolent assimilation." In this book their reports are for the first time made available, adding to the social history of the city and the country.
Автор: Slate, Joseph Название: Miss Bindergarten Celebrates 100th Day K ISBN: 0142500054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142500057 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Miss Bindergarten, the world's best kindergarten teacher, is getting ready for another milestone. Tomorrow she and her class will have been together for 100 days. To celebrate, each student must bring "100 of some wonderful, one-hundred-full thing!" At night, while the students go to work assembling their projects, Miss Bindergarten is working, too, making special surprises for the class.
The 100th day of kindergarten is bound to be unforgettable! Children will delight in hearing about this special event, a common cause for celebration in kindergartens today.
Illustrated by Ashley Wolff.
Автор: Pinker, Steven Название: Blank Slate, The ISBN: 0142003344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142003343 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2023.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time
Now updated with a new afterword
One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.
Автор: Slate, Joseph Название: Ms Bindergarten & Best Friends ISBN: 0448481324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780448481326 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 367.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Slate Jenny Название: Little Weirds ISBN: 0316485349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316485340 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 2822.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).
You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility.
As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed.
Описание: The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the network of Indo-American interconnections over a wider time frame. The case studies stretch into the early decades of the American republic hinting at a longer history of mutual influence and exchange, beyond the registers of ‘the American century’ of globalization. By bringing together academics working across disciplines ranging from history to cultural and literary studies, comparative religion, political science and sociology, this volume thus foregrounds and historicizes the complex, multi-sited, polyvalent nature of the Indo-US encounter. At the same time, the book explore the possibilities of methodologically engaging with established categories—such as the nation, the imperial and Empire—and test alternative typologies to better understand this encounter. Taken together, our authors reconstruct the myriad ways in which Americans and Indians have engaged with each other through trade, diplomacy, intellectual comradeship, missionary evangelism and revolutionary fervor.
"My entry into concentrated Catholicism, a forced alteration in my DNA, was to take place today." So begins John's parochial education in this enchanting, semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy ready to learn the mysteries of the Universe.
First-grader John has an interesting perspective on life, much to the dismay of the nuns at the Catholic school he attends. To them, boys who ask too many questions are dangerous and poised to enter the ultimate fiery pit. As he struggles to figure out the lessons the nuns are trying to teach him, John does his best to puzzle out the religious teachings and how they apply to his place is in this world.
This tale focuses on John and the complexities of his family, who do what they need to do in order to scrape by in a blue-collar town. Dominating the landscape of his life is his Irish culture, which informs every part of what he knows about family and the world around him.
At times touching and often very funny, readers will identify with a young boy's confusion over the contradiction between what he is told is right and what his heart tells him is right.
Автор: Robinson William E. Название: Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena ISBN: 0986239364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986239366 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2941.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the late nineteenth century, mediums across the country were busy delivering messages from the dead to anyone who would listen. And there were plenty who would. Often these words from beyond appeared on slates during s ances. But the brand of magic that mediums offered was nothing more than that-magic. Author William E. Robinson, an accomplished magician who worked as a stage manager and assistant to Alexander Herrmann and Harry Kellar, knew all the tricks of the trade. His book, Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena, published in 1898, explained them all.
This new edition includes all the original illustrations, along with an introduction by Henry Ridgely Evans-another turn-of-the-century magician who knew the dead couldn't talk, except through the preservation of the written word. Just as Evans and Robinson will be doing between these covers.
Автор: Lastella Alyssa Название: Clean Slate ISBN: 1735636649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735636641 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
After an unexpected tragedy strikes, Dylan Fields struggles with what his life has become despite the support system that he has around him. Leaving the most important people in his life behind, he flees to the opposite side of the country in order to escape everything that reminds him of his late little sister. Being all alone in a new place to deal with his broken heart seems intriguing to Dylan, but he doesn't realize until he's on the plane that escaping the memory of Natalie might be harder than he thought.
On the plane, he meets Ellie, a girl who is fighting battles of her own as her past tries to control her. Dylan and Ellie find simplicity in bonding over the things that they don't want to talk about. Their conversations remain comfortably shallow and the two prefer small talk so that their designated touchy subjects don't come up.
Getting a better understanding of how the other's past has shaped who they are, the two grow closer. While they help each other deal with their struggles and cope with their new lives, they find themselves falling in love with the first person that they feel understands them and their stories.
In the midst of helping each other face the darkness and find their individual ways out of it, Dylan and Ellie manage to break down each other's walls and fall for each other, making facing things much more manageable.
Together, the two discover no matter what life throws at you, having someone who understands you by your side, makes everything that much easier.
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