11 Ergebnisse.

More than twelve years ago, over the course of ten years training teachers to write their own poems in order to pass the craft along to students, McEwen realized that nothing comes easily when life is conducted at a high rate of speed. In this updated, second edition, she reflects on the experience of publishing World Enough & Time in 2011. In addition readers and the public comment on the impact World Enough has had on their lives. McEwen dra...

Eine abgelegene Insel. Ein geheimes Trainingslager der US-Regierung. Und eine Gruppe von Jugendlichen, die zu den besten Geheimagenten der Welt ausgebildet werden soll. Willkommen im CAMP HONOR! In Band 2 der explosiven Action-Reihe verbreitet ein Cyberterrorist Angst und Schrecken. Nun liegt es an Wyatt und seinen Freunden aus Camp Honor, den Terroristen zu stoppen. Oder spielen sie dem Feind damit genau in die Hände? *** Explosive Ac...

Eine abgelegene Insel. Ein geheimes Trainingslager der US-Regierung. Und eine Gruppe von Jugendlichen, die zu den besten Geheimagenten der Welt ausgebildet werden soll. Willkommen im CAMP HONOR! *** Explosive Action, heldenhafte Missionen und ein Team, das füreinander durchs Feuer gehen würde - Band 1 der Action-Reihe für Jungs ab 14! *** »Wer sind Sie?«, fragte Wyatt. »Mein Name ist Sergeant Hallsy.« »Und ... was ist Camp Honor?« »Ein Somme...

Between 2009 and 2014, McEwen interviewed more than 50 women about their relationship to money. Those interviews culminated in a play (Legal Tender), as well as numerous presentations and workshops, and now this book, in which she shares those stories and some of her own discoveries.

Over the course of ten years training teachers to write their own poems in order to pass the craft along to students, McEwen realized that nothing comes easily when life is conducted at a high rate of speed. She draws not only on personal experience, but on readings ranging from literary anecdote and poetry to Buddhism, anthropology, current news, and social history, all supplemented by interviews with contemporary writers and artists. This is...

In the Wake of Home is a volume of acute tenderness: for a father's drinking, a sister's death by drowning, a brother's suicide, a lover found and lost, and above all for the vulnerable child self that remains alive in the grown woman who seeks "a way to praise.

Rory was best known for his watercolours of leaves and flowers on vellum. He died (too young) in 1982. But his work remains: in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in museums and private collections all over the world.His niece, Christian says of Rory:"It was from looking at Rory's pictures that I first began to see. He was my mentor for a crucial nine years, from my late teens until well into my ...

We called him tortoise because he taught us."¿Lewis Carroll A daily reader of prayer and meditation in serving the practice of lectio divina or "divine reading" based on the twelve chapters of Christian McEwen's 2011 book called World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down. Focusing in turn on different subjects, each month introduces a new subject ranging from "the art of slowing down, " considering good company and conversation, inves...

A treasure-trove for current friends of poetry, and a legacy for future generations

The Alphabet of the Trees is a superb collection of essays about teaching all aspects and forms of nature writing, including poems, field journals, fiction, and nonfiction. It is a practical handbook, an introduction to nature writing, nature poetry, and fieldwork, and a guide to some basic strategies for teachers at all levels. The distinguished contributors to this volume include nature writers, poets, fiction writers, and educators: Eleanor...

Louisa May Alcott's energetic, ambitious, and androgynous Jo March has inspired generations of tomboys. But at the close of Little Women even Jo's valiant tomboy spirit has been subordinated to her role as wife and mother. For Jo's Girls, editor Christian McEwen has assembled a collection of fiction and memoir that looks at what it has really meant to be a tomboy from the nineteenth century to the present-and at what the refusal to turn into a...