Beautiful Failures

2017-01-30
Beautiful Failures

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  • Author: Lucy Clark
  • Publisher: Random House Australia
  • ISBN: 085798926X
  • Category : Academic achievement
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

'I want to tell you a story about my daughter, my beautiful failure. Every day of her high school life was a struggle. She woke up in the morning and the thought of going to school was like an enormous mountain to climb.' 'Nothing will ever be as easy as your school years, ' well-meaning adults told her, but I knew for my daughter, and for many kids who have struggled as square pegs trying to make themselves round, this was dead wrong. When Lucy Clark's daughter graduated from school a 'failure', she started asking questions about the way we measure success. Why is there so much pressure on kids today? Where does it come from? Most importantly, as we seem to be in the grip of an epidemic of anxiety, how can we reduce that pressure? Beautiful Failures explores, through personal experience and journalistic investigation, a broken education system that fails too many kids and puts terrible pressure on all kids, including those who 'succeed'. It challenges accepted wisdoms about schooling, calls on parents to examine their own expectations, and questions the purpose of education, and indeed the purpose of childhood.--

Beautiful Losers

1994-08-01
Beautiful Losers

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  • Author: Samuel Francis
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press
  • ISBN: 0826260551
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

The 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republican party. In Beautiful Losers, Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but the failure of the American conservatism.

Mother Earth

1907
Mother Earth

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  • Author:
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Anarchism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 634

Beautiful Losers

2011-01-26
Beautiful Losers

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  • Author: Leonard Cohen
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307778576
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy--and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors. First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.

A World Without Failures

2019-05-21
A World Without Failures

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  • Author: Esther Pia Cordova
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9783948298036
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

Does your kid also hate mistakes and would love to never have to make mistakes again? Join David on his way to discover that a world without failure might would be less thrilling than expected. The whimsical illustrations will show how a world without failure would look like. Will there be refrigerators? What about ipads, or supermarkets? This book will highlight how failures are actually a good thing and how important mistakes for successful learning. Something to internalize not only for our small readers. At the end of the book you will find a whole page with discussion starter questions. So you can dig deeper into the area of mistakes and growth mindset. If you enjoyed the first book in the Power Of Yet growth mindset series (I Can't Do That YET) you will definitely will enjoy A World Without Failures. This charming, fun-to-read and thought provoking book will empower both boys and girls ages 4-8. Perfect for ages: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and up. You can follow Power Of Yet on Instagram @powerofyet. GET IT NOW and get the ebook for FREE!

The Failures of Public Art and Participation

2022-08-25
The Failures of Public Art and Participation

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  • Author: Cameron Cartiere
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000631427
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 241

This collection of original essays takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the theme of failure through the broad spectrum of public art and social practice. The anthology brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, planners, and educators from around the world to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of failure in commissioning, planning, producing, evaluating, and engaging communities in the continually evolving field of art in the public realm. As such, this book offers a survey of currently unexplored and interconnected thinking, and provides a much-needed critical voice to the commissioning of public and participatory arts. The volume includes case studies from the UK, the US, China, Cuba, and Denmark, as well as discussions of digital public art collections. The Failures of Public Art and Participation will be of interest for students and scholars of visual arts, design and architecture interested in how art in the public realm fits within social and political contexts.

Necessary Errors

2013-08-06
Necessary Errors

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  • Author: Caleb Crain
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 014312241X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 482

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS The Wall Street Journal • Slate • Kansas City Star • Flavorwire • Policy Mic • Buzzfeed “Necessary Errors is a very good novel, an enviably good one, and to read it is to relive all the anxieties and illusions and grand projects of one’s own youth.”—James Wood, The New Yorker The exquisite debut novel by the author of Overthrow that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague It’s October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He’s arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia’s revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense of possibility. As the men and women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another, no one turns out to be quite the same as the idea Jacob has of them—including Jacob himself. Necessary Errors is the long-awaited first novel from literary critic and journalist Caleb Crain. Shimmering and expansive, Crain’s prose richly captures the turbulent feelings and discoveries of youth as it stretches toward adulthood—the chance encounters that grow into lasting, unforgettable experiences and the surprises of our first ventures into a foreign world—and the treasure of living in Prague during an era of historic change.

The Girl who Never Made Mistakes

2011
The Girl who Never Made Mistakes

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  • Author: Mark Pett
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • ISBN: 1402255446
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 34

"Beatrice offers a lesson we could all benefit from: learn from your mistakes, let go, laugh, and enjoy the ride." --JENNIFER FOSBERRY, New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Not Isabella Being perfect is overrated. Beatrice Bottomwell has NEVER (not once ) made a mistake. She never forgets her math homework, she never wears mismatched socks, and she ALWAYS wins the yearly talent show at school. In fact, the entire town calls her The Girl Who Never Makes Mistakes One day, the inevitable happens: Beatrice makes a huge mistake in front of everyone But in the end, readers (and perfectionists) will realize that life is more fun when you enjoy everything--even the mistakes. Additional praise for The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes: "This funny and heartfelt book conveys a powerful message about how putting too much pressure on yourself to be perfect can suck the joy out of everything. Beatrice's discovery that you can laugh off even a very public mistake shows the importance of resiliency and helps perfectionist kids keep things in perspective. Most importantly, Beatrice reminds the reader that it's more important to enjoy the things that you do than worry about doing them perfectly." --A Mighty Girl "The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes is a must-read for any young (or old ) perfectionist. Beatrice Bottomwell is perfectly imperfect " --Stephanie Oppenheim, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio "It's fun and instructive without feeling overly didactic and the illustrations are darling." --Parenting "This book will help little perfectionists see that making mistakes is okay, and it can be a lot of fun too " --Kids Book Blog

Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Society

1903
Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Society

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  • Author: Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Floriculture
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

Copycats, Stickybeaks and Scallywags, Our Children All

2023-04-04
Copycats, Stickybeaks and Scallywags, Our Children All

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  • Author: Bruce L Jones
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

Inspired by all the wonderful professional teachers who worked tirelessly in creating inspirational learning environments in our schools for the thousands of Copycats, Stickybeaks and Scallywags who enjoyed learning with them so much. I enjoyed learning with them too. As so often was said, “It was more fun than the pictures.” and we all agreed.