books about: separate     books:       When Mom and Dad Separate: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief from Divorce6 reviews Marge Heegard Woodland Press, 1990 useful tool I found this book extremely helpful in my therapy work with children whose parents are divorcing. The art therapy format was especially helpful for my nonverbal kids. The book nicely addresses many issues that may arise for children in a nonthreatening manner. Most of all, it did a good job of explaining "divorce", a very grown-up concept, in kid terms.             Spark Notes A Separate Peace John Knowles, SparkNotes Editors SparkNotes, 2002 Get your "A" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes ? has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes '? motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because: · They feature the most ...             Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else94 reviews Geoff Colvin Portfolio Trade, 2010 Genuinely useful info, and a fascinating read Superb book with fascinating and useful info. I found it a bit lengthy to get through - all of the most salient points were made in the first half, plus the last chapter. Still, very important info for those interested in self-development. I found it a little meatier than Outliers, with more research and fewer out-there hypotheses. My Kindle version is filled with notes and highlights. Great!             A Separate Country60 reviews Robert Hicks Grand Central Publishing, 2009 An Author of Rare Talent If you thought THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH was Robert Hicks's masterpiece, you had no idea what he had in him. And if A SEPARATE COUNTRY isn't the fullness of his genius, then we haven't seen his like in a long long while.             Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South (Brown Thrasher Books)3 reviews Melton A. McLaurin University of Georgia Press, 1998 A poignant recollection of growing up in a changing South. McLaurin's book is a touching recollection of growing up in the South during the 1950s. His rich narative describes not only the difficulties all teenagers face, but explores how these difficulties are made even more difficult in a changing environment. While so many imagine the white teenagers of the Little Rock school integration as pictures of young whites during the 1950s, McLaurin paints a ...             Knowles' A Separate Peace (Cliffs Notes)3 reviews Charles Higgins, Regina Higgins, ... Cliffs Notes, 2000 Easy Reading This book helped me to help my grandson answer the questions that would promote thought. The characters became alive and understandable. I would highly recommend this book to anyone reading "A Separate Peace". The condition of the book was in excellent condition.             A Separate Peace787 reviews John Knowles Scribner, 2003 A beautiful story rich in imagery and symbolism The year is 1942, the setting a boys' school in New Hampshire, the narrator Gene Forrester, now in his thirties, as he looks back at his last years at Devon School for Boys. His room-mate and best friend was Phineas, athletic and enigmatic, processing a charm, vitality and way with words that would soften the hardest of masters. Gene, excelling academically while Phineas does in sports, takes us ...             Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal18 reviews Andrew Hacker Scribner, 2003 Great book for it's honesty and and intellectual acumen Having read this book in 1992 and recently purchased it for my collection, this a great read with various chapters based on history, politcal,and social mores of African- Americans (in the black corner)and our archenemies White Americans (in the white corner). got to hype up the race war angle some of you white conservatives who are doing it in your reviews about this book. If you have a ...             A Separate Peace13 reviews John Knowles Bantam Books, 1953 A Line Runs Through the Human Heart Walking down the aisles of a bookstore or a library and encountering a book called A Separate Peace, flipping open the cover and noting that the copyright is dated 1959, it would not be much of an intuitive leap for the reader to guess that the subject matter involved war. The reader would be right, though he or she could not possibly intuit the richly layered tale that unfolds as pages turn, ...             Separate Reality33 reviews Carlos Castaneda Washington Square Press, 1991 A pleased and satisfied reader For those with the ability to see beyond what is normal, these books open a vary interesting door. I say good work Carlos, a collection well worth owning.             Our Separate Ways9 reviews Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Stella M. Nkomo Harvard Business Press, 2003 At the Sharp End Bell and Nkomo dive straight to the heart of the matter. They base their findings on comprehensive personal interviews of African-American and white women working as managers or executives. Ultimately, the authors hit the reader over the head with the obvious: People from strikingly different backgrounds bring profound personal differences to the workplace. Too often, organizations stupidly ...             Separate But Not Equal2 reviews Jim Haskins Scholastic Paperbacks, 2002 Seperate but not equal To me this book is one of the best books i've ever read.This book is about the struggles of young african americans and their struggles with education.In 1957 they tried to get black students to go in a white school and they had to walk to school by a wall of soldiers.This book is also good because each chapter is a different story about another persons struggle. This is a very good book.             A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War (Young Readers' History of the Civil War)3 reviews Ina Chang Puffin, 1996 Fiction format will grab the most apprehensive reader The text looks at the famous and not so famous women who participated in the Civil War. It is written in a narrative format, more like a fictional text than a non-fiction. The book is filled with original pictures and short informational biographies of the most important women featured. The illustrations are very large and would be nice to use with an opaque projector when speaking about some ...             Separate Journeys: Short Stories by Contemporary Indian Women1 review Geeta Dharmarajan University of South Carolina Press, 2004 An anthology of fifteen short stories Separate Journeys: Short Stories By Contemporary Indian Women is an anthology of fifteen short stories all by female East Indian authors. The tales are surprisingly diverse, offering a wide variety of regional, linguistic, and class-based perspectives. Edited by the director of Katha, and organization dedicated to storytelling and preserving the role of story-sharing in human culture, Separate ...             Separate Lies Nigel Balchin Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005 James Manning is perfectly content. He has a busy and successful life as a magistrate in the city, a bright young thing of a wife, Jill, and an idyllic home in the countryside. The only fly in the ointment as far as he can see is the 'HonBule' - the Honourable William Stephen Fitzharding Bule, very much the country gentleman with too much time on his hands. When a young man is knocked off his bicycle and subsequently dies, James is sure that the ...             A Separate Peace John Knowles Bantam Books, 1979 Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of "A Separate Peace".             Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't40 reviews Ram Charan Crown Business, 2007 How to be or judge a great CEO The book starts out by discussing a frustrating topic "the appearance of leadership." Unfortunately certain traits can lead people to assume someone would make a good (effective) CEO, but these can often be deceptive. A CEO that delivers results over a sustained period will be one who has "know-how". The author describes that as the following eight characteristics: 1. The ability to ...             No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life3 reviews Thomas J. Espenshade, Alexandria Walton Radford Princeton University Press, 2009 The facts about elite college admissions As a parent of teenagers and someone who has remain involved with my alma mater, this book confirmed much of what I have learned on my own over the years. The advantage to this book is that it shows you the detailed data from which the authors draw their conclusions. And a word of warning - if you're not one for footnotes, this book will probably give you a headache. There are some pearls of ...             John Knowles's a Separate Peace (Barron's Book Notes)26 reviews Neil Baldwin Barron's Educational Series, 1984 A Separate Peace John Knowles' A Separate Peace is a great book about trust, betrayal, friendship, and finding your true identity. The book, set in 1942, at the beginning of WWII for America, shows a great deal about trust and friendship at that time. Through out the book we see the actions of two friends and how one trust the other in such a great way that he forgives the other for literally ruining his life ...             Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond The Illusion Of A Separate Self15 reviews Nirmala Endless Satsang Foundation, 2008 Pure Wisdom and the Simple Truth Exceptional reading for anyone, but especially those with any degree of apprehension of non-duality teachings or those who have read similar books on the subject and are not quite sure "what now." Nirmala's simple down to earth approach to everything he publishes is just what many of us need to cut through the brush of material available, most of which is either too complicated, too abstract, or ...              search for books admission, children, college, contemporary, country, divorce, everybody, growing, history, hostile, illusion, journeys, know-how, knowles, nations, nothing, overrated, perform, performers, personal, readers, reality, really, segregated, separate, separates, stories, thrasher, unequal, world-class books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen health & personal care: Omron HJ-112 Digital Pocket Pedometer home  impressum - about us