![]() This commentary considers some of these aspects in the context of Piaget’s legacy for contemporary psychology. The interview captured many facets of Piaget’s remarkable career: his roots in epistemology and natural history his interests in the underlying processes of intelligence and reasoning, the development of morality, and the theoretical basis within developmental psychology for educational practices and his comparisons between his theory and other major theoretical positions of the day. ![]() ![]() During that year, the international Jean Piaget Society was formed, and the society, as well as Piaget’s influence, endure. The Psychology Today interview with Jean Piaget took place in 1970 at the height of his influence. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Read cold hearted rake![]() ![]() He found Winterborne pulling shards of glass from his hair, his eyes still closed¸ his face scored with a mesh of bloody scratches. They couldn’t afford to wait for help.Ĭoughing from the smoke-glazed air, Devon ducked back into the carriage. The problem was the extreme cold, which would finish them off quickly. ![]() The water appeared to be no more than hip deep. Poking his head out, he calculated their distance from the riverbank. Once the lock was broken, Devon pushed the door open until it swung free and thudded against the outer side of the vehicle. ![]() ![]() And all the while, water rushed in, swirling up to their knees now. The diagonal tilt of the carriage made it difficult work. Gasping with effort, he used the brass rod as a makeshift crowbar to pry open the door. He crawled over another seat and reached upward for the locked side door on the downstream side of the current. Indecipherable Welsh phrases tore through the air before Winterborne said in English, “My leg is broken.”Ĭursing, Devon shoved more debris aside and found a brass window bar that had broken from its rivets. “I can’t see.”ĭevon tried to pull him higher as the water inched steadily upward. Winterborne rubbed at his bloody face and grunted in pain. “The train derailed,” Devon replied, panting. ![]() ![]() Her writing style - clear, direct, uncomplicated - mirrored the author's own trajectory. And I think children like to find themselves in books." And in my childhood, many years ago, children's books seemed to be about English children, or pioneer children. ![]() "I wanted to read about the sort of boys and girls that I knew in my neighborhood and in my school. That's what I wanted to read about when I was growing up," Cleary told NPR's Linda Wertheimer in 1999. "I think children want to read about normal, everyday kids. Generations of readers tore around the playground, learned to write in cursive, rebelled against tuna fish sandwiches and acquired all the glorious scrapes and bruises of childhood right along with Ramona.Ĭleary's simple idea - to write about the kids in her own neighborhood - ensured that her books have never gone out of print. Cleary was the creator of some of the most authentic characters in children's literature - Henry Huggins, Ralph S. Mouse).Ĭhildren's author Beverly Cleary died Thursday in Carmel, Calif., her publisher HarperCollins said. ![]() Beverly Cleary was the author behind many beloved characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby (as well as Ribsy, Socks and Ralph S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether in striking single portraits or dramatic situations of figure and setting, we trace the photographer’s cinematic inflections and his provocative play with female archetypes as subjects adopt the guise of dancers, actresses, heroines, and femmes fatales. The image didn’t just bring revered faces together for the first time, it marked the beginning of a new fashion era and a new understanding of female beauty.Ĭoinciding with his major retrospective at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, Netherlands, this book gathers more than 400 images from four decades of Lindbergh’s photography to celebrate his unique and game-changing storytelling and the new romantic and narrative vision it brought to art and fashion. When German photographer Peter Lindbergh took pictures of five young models in downtown New York City in 1989, he produced not only the iconic British Vogue January 1990 cover but also the birth certificate of the supermodels. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Aria nazanine hozar![]() The book is never bogged down in political or historical details but the author uses characters and their various situation to broadly outline some of the issues behind the revolution and help the reader understand how a nation developed to this point.Īria’s life is straddled between poverty and wealth, her own desires often overcome by what’s allowed around her and what’s seen as acceptable. Hozar does an excellent job of paralleling these two stories. And as Aria’s own life is altered forever, Iran enters the revolution. ![]() ![]() We stay close to Aria and her perspective but the book is also divided into sections named after her three mothers Zahra, Fereshteh, and Mehri, and we see how each forms her and changes her life.Īdjacent to Aria’s personal timeline is the story of Iran, a nation going through tumultuous changes. He names her Aria, after the word for song, even though this is usually a boy’s name in his country.įrom there the book follows Aria through childhood into teenage hood and young adulthood. A little girl who is almost immediately abandoned but then found by a man who chooses to raise her as his own. The book begins with the birth of a baby in Iran. ![]() I knew very little about the novel so it was quite lovely to find myself immersed in a story I might not have chosen on my own. I picked it up from the library as part of my Writers Fest Challenge, as Nazanine Hozar will be speaking at the Festival as one of the New Voices. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The book of magic by alice hoffman![]() ![]() The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. ![]() Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work. ![]() The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. "Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant" ( The New York Times Book Review ) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series-a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate? For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love-but all of that is about to change. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A time of gifts![]() However, I kept not quite getting around to opening up a copy to actually read it. Recently this happened to me as I finally got around to reading Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts and as I plunged in, it felt like meeting an old friend.įor years, via an early-twenties obsession with Bruce Chatwin and a long-standing liking for books involving long walks – such as Laurie Lee’s I walked out one midsummer morning, I had been dimly aware of Leigh Fermor’s work and had the feeling that I might enjoy it. I remember handling paperback copies and noticing John Craxton’s cover illustrations on several occasions over the years since at least the 1980s, when helping-out in my Mum’s bookshop in Bristol and later working in The Gloucester Road Bookshop in London in the mid 1990s. One day you will read the book that’s been nagging at you and when you do open the first page, then turn the next and the next, and on and on as you are drawn in, you’ll wonder what took you so long. They haunt your days appearing in bookshop window displays, in people’s hands on trains, or in review section round-ups of the books the literary world wants the rest of us to know it has been reading. “For now the time of gifts is gone, O boys that grow, O snows that melt.” Louis MacNeiceĪs a reader, some books are inevitable. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bob mehr replacements![]() ![]() interview with Julie Panebianco, where he shares his thoughts on the writing and recording of Pleased to Meet Me.įrom alcohol-fueled and trick-filled sessions in Memphis to the controversy of using horns and strings to the existential conflict of being an underground rock band in a major label world, the episode offers a unique look at this pivotal moment in the Replacements’ history. Guitarist Bob Stinson was famously dismissed by the Replacements and died in 1995 at the age of 35. Additionally, we’ll hear from Paul Westerberg himself, in a 1987 Warner Bros. Luther Dickinson, son of the late producer, Jim Dickinson, reflects on his father’s contribution to the album, as well as his own experience of joining the band in the studio as a teenager. ![]() In celebration of the Pleased to Meet Me Deluxe Edition, we look back at the unique circumstances around how the record was created.īob Mehr, author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements, offers a detailed perspective of this uncertain period when the Replacements entered Ardent Studios after splitting with guitarist Bob Stinson. The Replacements were a dynamic band, tweaking and modifying songs from one take to the next. THE MAKING OF PLEASED TO MEET ME by the replacements - FEATURING bob mehr and Luther Dickinson Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements, by Bob Mehr (Da Capo Press, 2016). ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Pet emezi review![]() ![]() The ways in which we have the power to realize reality. Featuring a trans main character, Jam’s supportive parents, and family, in general, made my heart ache. That it’s not easy to tell the monsters from the angels. About searching for angels and realizing the world isn’t so cut and dry. ![]() ![]() It’s a book about monsters hiding in plain sight. Pet was not what I expected in the best of ways. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question - How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? Review Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. FINALLY! Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. We all have those books right? That make it onto our radar, but then suddenly disappear? But for Black History Month this year, I joined Hannah in buddy reading Pet. Pet is one of those books I’ve heard so much about. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also some fairly stark descriptions of the situation that the refugees have left behind via the news stories that Fred sees, and the disintegrating situation that they face in Australia. It doesn’t shy away from details like the young girls in the centre asking to have their hair cut short to look more like boys for their own safety, even if Fred doesn’t understand the implications. ![]() The book deals with the harsh politics of the refugee centre that was established at Sorrento, and the lives of the refugees there. I admit that in 2020, when the world feels so heavy, I found it hard to read a book that deals with some of the things that Fred experiences even as sensitively as The Year the Maps Changed, and I would advise caution with some young readers. ![]() ![]() It’s 1999, and a group of Kosovar-Albanian refugees have been brought to a government ‘safe haven’ just outside of Sorrento. Through Fred’s eyes, we see the political manoeuvring on the news, the lines that get drawn in the community, and the refugees themselves and the issues that they face. In Sorrento, Victoria, where Fred lives things are changing too. Things are changing fast, and Fred isn’t sure how to handle it all. Fred’s mother died when she was six and she’s always seen her step-father Luca as her dad, but now she has to share him and her house with his girlfriend Anika, and Anika’s son Sam. ![]() |