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Author : Jane Bernstein
Release : 2007-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 535/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rachel in the World by : Jane Bernstein
Download or read book Rachel in the World written by Jane Bernstein. This book was released on 2007-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother s attempt to know the heart and mind of a daughter with mental retardation"
Author : Laurie Lawlor
Release : 2014-08-31
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World by : Laurie Lawlor
Download or read book Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World written by Laurie Lawlor. This book was released on 2014-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the pioneering scientist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. "Once you are aware of the wonder and beauty of earth, you will want to learn about it," wrote Rachel Carson. Determined and curious even as a child, Rachel Carson's fascination with the natural world led her to study biology, and pursue a career in science at a time when very few women worked in the field. This lyrical, illustrated biography follows Carson's journey—from a girl exploring the woods, to a woman working to help support her family during the Great Depression, to a journalist and pioneering researcher, investigating and exposing the harmful effects of pesticide overuse. Best known for writing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was a major figure in the early environmental movement, and her work brought a greater understanding of the impact humans have on our planet. Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World offers a glimpse at the early life that shaped her interest in nature, and the way one person's determination can inspire others to fight for real change. An author's note delves into how Silent Spring helped shape the modern environmental movement and inspired a generation of readers to get involved in conservation. Detailed source notes and a list of recommended reading are included. A National Sciencce Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Book A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Author : Rachel S. Cordasco
Release : 2021-12-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 919/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Out of This World by : Rachel S. Cordasco
Download or read book Out of This World written by Rachel S. Cordasco. This book was released on 2021-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction's new globalized era.
Author : Jane Bernstein
Release : 1988
Genre : Children with disabilities
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 043/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Loving Rachel by : Jane Bernstein
Download or read book Loving Rachel written by Jane Bernstein. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother describes the difficult task of coping with a handicapped child as their family moved from grief to acceptance.
Author : Rachel Sussman
Release : 2014-06-03
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 64X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oldest Living Things in the World by : Rachel Sussman
Download or read book The Oldest Living Things in the World written by Rachel Sussman. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.
