Build your first grader’s understanding of physical, life, and earth science with this full-color activity book! Engaging reading selections, activities, and hands-on projects will motivate your child to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards. The simple hands-on activities help your child understand and retain science concepts in a memorable way
(2018) The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. “Duckworth’s ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better” (The New York Times Book Review). Among Grit’s most valuable insights: any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal; grit can be learned, regardless of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high standards will work by themselves; how to trigger lifelong interest; the magic of the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).
(2020) Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.
With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
“Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation
“An incredibly potent debut.” —Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost
“Acevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” —Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street
This young adult novel, a selection of the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List, is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 6 to 8, in the classroom or for homeschooling.
Plus don’t miss Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land!
(2007) A groundbreaking, practical guide to attaining happiness based on innovative scientific research, The How of Happiness is a powerful contribution to the field of positive psychology and a gift to people who have sought to take their happiness into their own hands. Drawing upon years of her own pioneering research with thousands of men and women, psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky reveals that much of our capacity for happiness is within our power. Detailing an easy-to- follow plan, including exercises in new ways of thinking and understanding our individual obstacles, The How of Happiness offers a positive and empowering way to sustain a new level of joy in our lives.
– إن براعة ويليام شيتيك في ترجمة مقالات شمس الدين التبريزي تنقل معلم الرومي المحبوب من الظل الى النور، وتعيد شمس الى مكانته المركزية التي يستحقها بجداره. ينضم هذا العمل علي الفور الي القائمة القصيرة والتي لا غنى عنها للأعمال العلمية عن الرومي ومجتمعه. يوصى به بشدة لجميع الباحثين وتلاميذ التصوّف والفلسفة الإسلامية والأدب الفارسي، وبالطبع لجموع المعجبين بالرومي.
تُرى، ماذا سيحدث لو أنّ العقلَ البشريّ يظلُّ على قيد العمل لبضع دقائق ثمينة، بُعيدَ لحظة الوفاة؟ عشرُ دقائق، وثمانٍ وثلاثون ثانية، على وجه التحديد…
كلّ اللحظات التي أعقبتْ وفاةَ ليلى حملَتْ معها ذكرى حسِّيّةً مختلفة: نكهةَ يخنة لحم الماعز مع التوابل؛ ومشهدَ قُدُورٍ من مزيج الليمون والسُّكر المغليّ؛ ورائحةَ القهوة المهيّلة التي تشارَكَتها ليلى مع طالبٍ وسيم. وكانت كلّ ذكرى، أيضًا، تعيدُ إلى ذهنها الأصدقاءَ الذين عرفَتهم في كلّ لحظة مفصليّة من حياتها – أولئك الأصدقاء الذين يبذلون الآن ما أوتوا من قوّةٍ لكي يعثروا عليها.
في سنة 1939، جهَّزَ ﭘابلو نيرودا لرحلة السفينة وينيبيغ؛ وهي السفينة الأسطوريَّة التي أبحرتْ من فرنسا إلى تشيلي حاملةً على متنها ألفيْ لاجئ إسبانيّ كانوا قد فرُّوا من نظام فرانكو القمعيّ. واستنادًا إلى هذا الحدث التاريخيّ الذي سيتذكَّرُه نيرودا باعتباره “أجمل قصائده”، تروي إيزابيل ألليندي الحكايةَ الأخَّاذة لعازفة بيانو حبلى وطبيب أُجبرا على مغادرة برشلونة المُحاصَرة آنذاك، ويحلمان في الحصول على فرصة ثانية في المنفى
أنا لست متدينة كأمى ولا أؤمن أن الكائنات تدرك بالحواس الخمس فقط كأبى، إذا فأين أنا؟ أليست هناك طريقة حياة مختلفة عن التدين المطلق أو استخدام العقل المطلق؟ أليس هناك طريق ثالث؟ من يعلم؟”
حكاية بنات حواء الثلاث حكاية معاصرة تدور أحداثها بين تركيا وأوروبا وبين الماضى والحاضر.
وستكون هذه الرواية من أكثر الروايات جدلا وهى تناقش بحكايات أبطالها المثيرة ولن تنسى بسهولة
