![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mirage welcomes Jim Jefferies June 2, Wayne Brady June 10 and Kathleen Madigan June 30. ![]() The field narrows down to the Main Event June 25-July 8 with millions in prize money at stake. More than 600 tables will welcome thousands of players at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos. The World Series of Poker, which gets underway a few days before June on May 30, is the largest gaming event in the world. Join the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas Money raised for Restaurant Week benefits the Three Square food bank, which helps feed families in need. It's the perfect opportunity to check out places that might typically be out of your price range and sample their signature dishes. Participating restaurants offer great food at fantastic prices with a three-course prix fixe menu, specialty menu, or takeaway menus available. Restaurant Week returns in June, running well over a week with more options than ever. James Taylor comes to the Cosmopolitan for the first time, playing five dates June 3-10. Otherwise, you'll want to check out Usher, whose "My Way" residency continues at Dolby Live inside the Park MGM, Barry Manilow at Westgate, and Seal who plays two shows at the Venetian Theatre (June 2-3). Dates are scheduled throughout June for Garth Brooks at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Carrie Underwood at the Resorts World Theater and Keith Urban at Planet Hollywood's Zappos Theater. It's a great month for country music fans. Carrie Underwood (Photo: Jeff Johnson) See a Concert in Las Vegas ![]()
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![]() ![]() I was the wife of Jesus ben Joseph of Nazareth. ![]() ![]() The Book of Longings is about a woman named Ana who ends up married to Jesus. Though, really, it’s only the story of Ana, Jesus’ wife, that can be spoiled because I’m assuming that readers don’t need a spoiler alert that Jesus is crucified in the end. This book is about the recovering of the voices of women in a culture that hides them, and that idea was constantly on my mind as I read the book.Īnd, just as a warning: spoilers ahead. ![]() She explains in the readers guide in my edition, “I’d been exploring feminist theology for years and writing about silenced and marginalized women and the missing feminine within religion” (guide, p. I really enjoyed this book partly because of the connections that I made as I read to works of feminist biblical scholars-some of which I’m sure were an inspiration to Sue Monk Kidd since she has said that feminist theology was an inspiration to her in writing this book. This post is a review of the book based in part on the comments I made as part of the virtual book club. Toward the end of 2021 I participated in a virtual book club through my alma mater, Georgetown University, in which we read Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings (Penguin Books, 2020). ![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll want to read the whole series over and over again. “You sweat during the intense parts and cry during the sad times. ![]() Read this, and you’ll never look at your plain old tabby the same way again.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer Listen to a selection of the Warriors 1: Into the Wild audiobook Like what you hear Check out the links below to find out where you can get the full audio. Ignoring his friends warning of the wild cats, Rusty stumbles into a fight with a warrior apprentice named Graypaw. “The series is patterned in the style of classics by J.R.R. In the book 'Warriors: Into the Wild' Rusty, an orange house cat, is baffled by his dream of hunting mice and decides to go into the local woods. “The author has created an intriguing world with an intricate structure and mythology, and an engaging young hero.” - School Library Journal Sure to appeal to followers of Brian Jacques’ ongoing Redwall series.” - ALA Booklist “The first spine-tingling episode in the planned Warriors series. ![]() Certain to please any young reader who has ever wondered what dreams of grandeur may haunt the family cat.” - Publishers Weekly ![]() Teen readers will readily identify with Firepaw’s strenuous efforts to fit into the group, applaud his courage to follow his own convictions, and rejoice at the promised sequel.” - Kirkus Reviews evil theme, this is a great book for kids who love fantastical stories or love cats.” - Brightly “I love it! Erin Hunter made the best novel I’ve read since Harry Potter! Full of adventures, battling clans, and a classic good vs. Warriors #1: Into the Wild (Warriors: The Prophecies Begin #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() The majority of chapters in the book detail various parent strategies for helping children cope with and overcome anxiety. For example, he writes about “The Security System” to analyze “how anxiety is triggered, experienced, expressed and completed.” Like much of the book, he relies on simple metaphors and code words to explain concepts and the underlying assumptions of his approach. The book is filled with illustrations and case vignettes that are intended to explain how parents can and should deal with situations that provoke anxiety and associated difficult behavior in their children.Ĭohen first introduces parents to the biological and social causes of childhood anxiety through a basic overview of temperament, physiology and fight-or-flight responding. His therapeutic approach, which he calls playful parenting, stresses facilitative, supportive and nurturing relationships between parent and child. Cohen, was written for parents of anxious children. ![]() ![]() Unless properly treated, anxiety disorders can create serious psychosocial challenges among children and youth at school, within the family and later adulthood. Indeed, childhood anxiety is one of the most common clinical problems seen by mental health professionals. Many children experience chronic anxiety, persistent worry and specific fears. ![]() “The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Parenting Approach to Childhood Anxieties and Fears”īook helpful for parents of anxious children ![]() ![]() It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships. Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. ![]() New!!: Needle (novel) and 7 Billion Needles Is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuaki Tadano and published in North America by Vertical. New!!: Needle (novel) and The Brain from Planet Arous Juran, that stars John Agar, Joyce Meadows, and Robert Fuller. The Brain from Planet Arous is a 1957 American science fiction film, produced by Jacques R. New!!: Needle (novel) and Hector Garrido Ī needle is generally a thin, cylindrical object, often with a sharp point on the end. Hector Garrido is an American book cover illustrator. ![]() ![]() Harry Clement Stubbs (– October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. ĥ relations: Hal Clement, Hector Garrido, Needle, The Brain from Planet Arous, 7 Billion Needles. Needle is a 1950 novel written by Hal Clement, originally published the previous year in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. ![]() ![]() He buys a carpet from a man, who claims that the carpet is magical. ![]() The novel begins with Abdullah, a young carpet merchant living in a baazar in the city of Zanzib. The story speeds along with tantalizing twists and turns until the prophecies are fulfilled, true identities are revealed, and all is resolved in a totally satisfying, breathtaking, surprise-filled ending. There are good and bad djinns, a genie in a bottle, wizards, witches, cats and dogs (but are they cats and dogs?), and a mysterious floating castle filled with kidnapped princesses, as well as two puzzling prophecies. In this stunning sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones has again created a large-scale, fast-paced fantasy in which people and things are never quite what they seem. He was content with his life and his daydreams until, one day, a stranger sold him a magic carpet. There was also a princess who had been betrothed to him at birth. In his dreams he was not the son of his father, but the long-lost son of a prince. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent his time daydreaming. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Edited by Vanja Malloy, with contributions from Brenda Danilowitz, Sarah Lowengard, Karen Koehler, Jeffrey Saletnik, and Susan R. The work also shows how much of Albers’s approach to color-dismissed in its day by a scientific approach to the study and taxonomy of color driven chiefly by industrial and commercial interests-ultimately anticipated what neuroscience now reveals about how we perceive this most fundamental element of our visual experience. It shows the formative influence on his work of non-scientific approaches to color (notably the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) and the emergence of Gestalt psychology in the first decades of the twentieth century. With contributions from the disciplines of art history, the intellectual and cultural significance of Gestalt psychology, and neuroscience, Intersecting Colors offers a timely reappraisal of the immense impact of Albers’s thinking, writing, teaching, and art on generations of students. ![]() An extraordinary teacher whose influence continues today, Josef Albers helped shape the Bauhaus school in Germany and established the art and design programs at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and Yale University. ![]() in 1933, his ideas about how the mind understands color influenced generations of students, inspired countless artists, and anticipated the findings of neuroscience in the latter half of the twentieth century. An incisive analysis of the pedagogy of influential artist and teacher Josef Albers. A member of the Bauhaus who fled to the U.S. Josef Albers (1888–1976) was an artist, teacher, and seminal thinker on the perception of color. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their relationships see a few ups and downs, but ultimately they remain friends. ![]() Actually, Agatha appointed one of those two ladies as her assistant and the other one is a reputed architect working at an archaeological site. Agatha also finds a mysterious passenger on the Orient Express and wish that “ the little grey cells” of Hercule Poirot should help her to uncover the mystery.Įventually, they all meet in Baghdad, Ur and other places. On the Orient Express, she met with two fellow ladies in different circumstances and they three became friends. She decided to run away from the city to somewhere unknown, possibly to Baghdad, via the Orient Express! She wanted to be at the place where she is unknown, she needs some time in isolation. She was also unsure about her only child’s reaction to this new marriage. Agatha, who is almost shocked by knowing this fact, don’t know how to face this situation. Her husband is in love with someone else and is seriously planning to marry his new love. I must warn you that there are some spoilers may be there.Īgatha Christie, a famous author whose crime fictions are loved by many, is running through the low phase in her personal life. ![]() Let us take a bird’s eye view to the plot of the book. ![]() The Woman on the Orient Express – a book by – Lindsay Jayne Ashford – Cover Page Book Plot: ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 85, CORNHILL. ![]() Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders. SABINE BARING-GOULD, M.A., AUTHOR OF 'ICELAND: ITS SCENES AND SAGAS,' 'POST MEDIVAL PREACHERS,' ETC. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Buy The Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition By Sabine Baring-Gould. ![]() ![]() But the main pleasure here is the touching love story. We learn about the quiet faith and bravery of the Quakers. We learn a great deal (without a hint of the author stuffing the narrative with her research for our edification) about seventeenth-century manners, morals, clothes, medicine, reading, eating, and penal conditions. We see the narrative unfolding through the alternating viewpoints of William and Susanna, and this allows us access to every part of a society which is both complex and fascinating. The end of the novel, which reduced this reader to tears, leaves you longing for the sequel." - Adele Geras, THE GUARDIAN - Adele Geras, THE GUARDIAN, "Here is a novel that needs a trumpet to be blown for it. "Here is a novel that needs a trumpet to be blown for it. ![]() |