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In Origins of Story, notable writers for children consider how literature, memory, and moral passion serve the writers. Among the seventeen authors represented here are Tom Feelings, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maurice Sendak, Susan Cooper, Sarah Ellis, Katherine Paterson, Jill Paton Walsh, and Virginia Hamilton. These contributing authors reach beyond themselves and their work to discuss vitally important subjects such as home and homelessness, violence and nonviolence, and the nature of heroism. Implicit in their essays is the realization that we have much to learn from literature that mirrors the lives of children.

Story is as new for children as experience itself. And when children's writers are wise, they anticipate the freshness of their audience and reserve for children the choicest of material -- what Walter de la Mare called "the rarest kind of best."

Under the sponsorship of Children's Literature New England (CLNE), a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1987, individuals have met annually on university campuses on both sides of the Atlantic to discuss books and their insight into children's lives. The essays in Origins of Story represent some of the themes of the annual programs. This collection is a treasure trove, an affirmation of the vital connection between children's books and the imagination.Amazon.com Review
Writing for children is serious work. Thankfully, there arewriters up to the task. In these essays, which originated asChildren's Literature New England talks, "notable writers for childrenconsider how literature, memory, and moral passion serve the writer." Gillian Cross (TheGreat American Elephant Chase) uses the story of Jack and theBeanstalk to explore the import--for author, reader, and sometimesprotagonist--of entering a fictional world.Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild ThingsAre) illuminates a current running through his books having todo with survival. "How do children survive under the best conditionswith loving parents," he wonders, "or worse, with unlovingparents--how do kids make out?" Susan Cooper (The Grey King)explores our motives for reading, as children and as adults. "Moreoften than not," she determines, "[the child] is on a voyage ofdiscovery, seeking out new worlds. Not us; we tend to look for thefamiliar." And Pat O'Shea (The Hounds of theMorrigan) tells us what children get from books. "As childrenread," she says, "they learn about the dangers of the world, butultimately in a safe and strengthening way, a way that tells them thatweak and vulnerable as they may be... they and their own lives are ofvalue, have importance, that they make a difference to the world andto the life around them." Other contributors include Ursula K. LeGuin, Gregory Maguire, Sarah Ellis, and Madeleine L'Engle. --JaneSteinberg ... Read more

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So many authors in one place!
If you are interested in reading many successful authors' thoughts on the power of story and reading, this book is a must.The essays in this collection are inspiring, diverse, and unified in their passion for writing and storytelling.I found myself returning to passages over and over, savoring the passions for children's literature that are similar to my own.A stellar collection of authors are presented including Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, Maurice Sendak and many more that appear on most required reading lists.(They are listed entirely in the professional reviews above.)This is a great book for librarians, teachers, students, and anyone who loves one or all of the many authors represented. ... Read more

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A previously published mystery follows New York City sleuth-for-hire Chip Harrison as he confronts his first case, in which five beautiful sisters--one of them a former flame--are hunted down by their wicked relatives. Original." ... Read more

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Nero Wolfe with sex
Leo Haig, a dabbler in rare fish, has read every mystery book known and adopted the Nero Wolfe image as his own. Chip Harrison plays his Archie Goodwin and narrator; at Haig's behest he throws in a couple of juicy sex scenes to entice the modern reader. Chip finds his girlfriend Melanie nude and dead, supposedly of an overdose. However when Chip finds that two of Melanie's five other sisters have died of possible homicides, Haig is intrigued, especially since the sisters are heiresses to a great fortune. Numerous other murders occur before Chip believes he has identified the murderer. Wolfe naturally rejects this finding and instead calls for the grand-standing finale at which the true murderer is unveiled. Lawrence Block (under a psuedynom) pulls off his usual sly humor making for a quick but fun read. ... Read more

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This project described in this book focused on developing distribution system water quality optimization plans (DSOPs) for 3 utilities, along with development of a template of best management practices and anoutline for implementation that are applicable to utilities of any size .Coverage helps the reader determine if their system could benefit from a DSOP, prepare a customized audit used to plan a DSOP.Many example programs and practices are provided along with a CD of templates. ... Read more

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Hoping to win over the beautiful Francine, Chip Harrison is astonished when an attempt is made on his life, an event that places him at the forefront of a fast-paced investigation. ... Read more

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warning:not a mystery
Lawrence Block is known as a mystery writer, and I like his mysteries very much.Probably because publishers are jerks, this book is billed as a mystery.It isn't.There is very little suspense, and no mystery at all.This book is erotic fiction.If you know that before you read it, so that you are not disappointed by the lack of mystery, you may well enjoy it very much:it is *very* good erotic fiction

Pure Porno; Why is Lawrence Block Allowing a Reprint?
No Score refers to the title characters inability to complete the sex act with numerous partners throughout the story. Lawrence Block is one of my favorite authors. He must have written this book when he desperately needed the money. It should not have been republished ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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With a final leaf of advertisements.

London : printed for Aaron Ward; and sold by H. Whitridge, 1729. 38,[2]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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The devilish Chip Harrison--young, broke, and girlless--stumbles on a discarded bus ticket and finds himself in South Carolina, where he becomes the local sheriff's protege+a7 and falls in love with a preacher's daughter. ... Read more

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Not on the level with Block's other books
This is from a series Block wrote early in his career.I think most people who read Blocks mysteries will be disappointed if they pick this up.It is fluff and not so interesting.

The saga continues...
Chip Harrison is back.This time he finds a bus ticket to Bordentown, South Carolina. Chip gets himself into trouble and then charmed the local sheriff who helps him get his Social Security card a driver's license.Lands a job as a bouncer at the local bordello and falls in love with thepreacher's daughter.Better than No Score but a far cry from Block'sseries about Bernie Rhodenbarr and Matt Scudder it is light enjoyablereading. ... Read more

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With an Introduction by Fred Chappell. Selections from 3,465 nominations made by editors of 364 other small independent literary presses and magazines, including college and university ones, of work they had published.
Work from The Paris Review, BOA Editions, Curbstone Press, Ploughshares, The Literary Review, Firebrand Books, The Caribbean Writer, Tia Chucha Press, Tribe: An American Gay Journal, Thunder's Mouth Press and sixty-six others.
The previous Editor's Choice volumes span the period from 1965 to 1978, and consist of 837 pages combined. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2096 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This digital document is an article from AI Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 3405 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The American Association for Artificial Intelligence was pleased to present the AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium Series, held Friday through Sunday, October 13-15, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Washington, DC. Seven symposia were held. The titles were (1) Aurally Informed Performance: Integrating Machine Listening and Auditory Presentation in Robotic Systems; (2) Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection; (3) Developmental Systems; (4) Integrating Reasoning into Everyday Applications; (5) Interaction and Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents; (6) Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition; and (7) Spacecraft Autonomy: Using AI to Expand Human Space Exploration.

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Title: Reports on the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposia.(American Association for Artificial Intelligence )(Conference news)
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Date: March 22, 2007
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