The Borning Room

Author : Paul Fleischman
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482101157
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Borning Room written by Paul Fleischman and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.

Author : Paul Fleischman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780780453654
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borning Room written by Paul Fleischman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard W. Wertz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300040876
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lying-in written by Richard W. Wertz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the 1980's. Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to bring the story up to date. In a new chapter and epilogue, Richard and Dorothy Wertz discuss the recent focus on delivering perfect babies, with its emphasis on technology, prenatal testing, and Caesarean sections. They argue that there are many viable alternatives--including out-of-hospital births--in the search for the best birthing system. Review of the first edition: "Highly readable, extensively documented, and well illustrated...A welcome addition to American social history and women's studies. It can also be read with profit by health planners, hospital administrators, 'consumers' of health care, and all those who are concerned with improving the circumstances associated with childbirth."--Claire Elizabeth Fox, bulletin of the History of Medicine "A fascinating, brilliantly documented history not merely of childbirth, but of men's attitudes towards women, the effect of a burgeoning medical profession on our very conception of maternity and motherhood, and the influence of religion on medical technology and science."--Thomas J. Cottle, Boston Globe "This superb book...is both an impeccably documented recitation of the chronological history of medical intervention in American childbirth and a sociological analysis of the various meanings given to childbirth by individuals, interested groups, and American society as a whole."--Barbara Howe, American Journal of Sociology Richard W. Wertz, a builder in Westport, Massachusetts, is formerly an associate professor of American history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dorothy C. Wertz, is a research professor at the School of Public Health, Boston University

Author : Toni Buzzeo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439207638
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 35 Best Books for Teaching U.S. Regions written by Toni Buzzeo and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your students on a learning-packed trip across the U.S. with books they ll love! This resource includes background information, activity ideas, reproducibles, and Internet connections to help you use 35 great novels as springboards to social studies learning. A great way to get your kids to read more deeplyand learn about the seven U.S. regions. For use with Grades 4-8."

Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252006074
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Kin written by Michael S. Harper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harper's poetry is not limited by color or attitude. In Images of Kin, Harper amazes with his keen sense of political and personal histories, his breadth of expression. This collection fixes Harper as one of the dominant poetic voices of his generation" -- Chicago Sun-Times "It is Mr. Harper's achievement to have projected his most difficult and complex insights and feelings through the epical manner, yet at the same time carried us along to identify with him." -- New York Times Book Review

Author : Doris Doane
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921137
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Cape Cod Houses written by Doris Doane and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask any child to draw a house, and what you will probably get is a symmetrical structure of one and a half stories with a door in the middle and a window on either side - in other words, a "Cape." From the mid-1600s to the 1850s, capes were the standard New England home, providing farmers and fishermen, city dwellers and country folk with houses that were easy to build, economical, and whose low-slung design stood up to the bracing winds that swept in from the ocean. After World War II, these straightforward practical designs were adapted to twentieth-century living. Here is the history of these charming homes, accompanied by detailed and elegant pencil drawings illuminating everything from the wallpapers to the floor plans.

Author : Paul Fleischman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062283685
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads. Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway. The book's many tributaries—from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico—are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One. "The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains." —Christian Science Monitor And don’t miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!

Author : Steve Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847395848
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Standing Up written by Steve Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Martin has been an international star for over thirty years. Here, for the first time, he looks back to the beginning of his career and charmingly evokes the young man he once was. Born in Texas but raised in California, Steve was seduced early by the comedy shows that played on the radio when the family travelled back and forth to visit relatives. When Disneyland opened just a couple of miles away from home, an enchanted Steve was given his first chance to learn magic and entertain an audience. He describes how he noted the reaction to each joke in a ledger - 'big laugh' or 'quiet' - and assiduously studied the acts of colleagues, stealing jokes when needed. With superb detail, Steve recreates the world of small, dark clubs and the fear and exhilaration of standing in the spotlight. While a philosophy student at UCLA, he worked hard at local clubs honing his comedy and slowly attracting a following until he was picked up to write for TV. From here on, Steve Martin became an acclaimed comedian, packing out venues nationwide. One night, however, he noticed empty seats and realised he had 'reached the top of the rollercoaster'. BORN STANDING UP is a funny and riveting chronicle of how Steve Martin became the comedy genius we now know and is also a fascinating portrait of an era.

Author : Jenny Irish
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1625571119
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Faithful written by Jenny Irish and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often slyly funny and always devastatingly observant, Jenny Irish writes about the precarities of our moment with gorgeous prose and heartbreaking acuity. --Laura Kipnis

Author : Paul Fleischman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062283677
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyful Noise written by Paul Fleischman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrates the insect world. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. The poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the drone of the honeybee. They can be fully appreciated by an individual reader, but they're particularly striking when read aloud by two voices, making this an ideal pick for classroom use. Eric Beddows′s vibrant drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off the page in its own unique way. With Joyful Noise, Paul Fleischman created not only a fascinating guide to the insect world but an exultant celebration of life.