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Juan 3:16 puede pasar fácilmente por nuestros cerebros sin mucho pensamiento consciente, y además muchos no han entendido el verdadero significado de este verso. Pero alguna vez ¿nos hemos detenido a considerar lo que realmente significa? Encontramos en el Evangelio de Juan el Capitulo 3 quizás una de las presentaciones más claras del evangelio, entre una conversación de Jesús y un gobernante religioso prestigioso( Nicodemo). En esta conversación...
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In Read Alouds for All Learners: A Comprehensive Plan for Every Subject, Every Day, Grades PreK–8, Molly Ness, supported by current research and personal experiences, demonstrates the sobering effect an absence of read alouds in classrooms has on preK–8 students' comprehension skills. She provides intentional directions on planning and implementing a read-aloud routine that supports young learners' literacy development, content-area knowledge,...
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In this eye-opening book, Mary McCarthy shares her love of the novel and her fear that it is becoming an endangered literary species "He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it." So begins Mary McCarthy's fascinating critical analysis of the novel (and its practitioners) from her double-edged perspective as both reader and writer. The bestselling author of The Group takes T. S. Eliot's quote about Henry James, written in 1918, as a jumping-off...
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Twelve-year-old Listen Taylor learns a great deal from the eccentric and secretive Zing family, as she fumbles her way through a new school, problems with old friends, and a spell book she finds soon after she and her father move in with Marbie Zing.
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Reading Comprehension - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Read Faster, How to Mind Map and How to Study Effectively.
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HOW TO READ FASTER:
7 Steps to Master Speed Reading Techniques, Reading Comprehension & Fast Reading.
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· The fundamentals of speed reading.
· Factors that affect reading comprehension.
· Causes of reading difficulties in children and adults.
· Solutions which you can employ...
7) Honorarium
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In Honorarium, Nathaniel G. Moore compiles twenty years worth of reading other people's books, while also faithfully attempting to convey a sense of what it's like to work behind-the-scenes in CanLit. Always breaking from convention, Moore's non-fiction is imbued a sense of urgency, passion and intimacy with the community of creators that surround him; creators that include Derek McCormack, Sheila Heti, Camilla Gibb, Jen Sookfong Lee, Catullus and...
8) Proust's Way
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The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.
9) Brida
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Brida O'Fern, a beautiful young Irish girl on a quest for knowledge and understanding, encounters a wise man who teaches her how to overcome her fears and a woman who introduces her to the hidden music of the world.
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
Le roi se meurt est une pièce de théâtre d'Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), créée le 13 décembre 1962 à l'Alliance française à Paris, dans une mise en scène de Jacques Mauclair. Ionesco est alors un auteur consacré. Malgré le succès médiatique et critique du « théâtre de...
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Les Précieuses ridicules est une comédie en un acte et en prose de Molière (1622-1673), créée le 18 novembre 1659 au Théâtre du Petit-Bourbon à Paris. La pièce, qui comprend dix-sept scènes, constitue le premier grand succès parisien de la troupe. Depuis leur retour dans la capitale...
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A collection of essays "filled with pleasantly rambling opinions about everything from self-help books to erotica" from the celebrated Canadian author (The Chronicle Journal).
An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada, sometimes called "America's attic," speaks here of the delights of reading, and of what mass education has done to readers today, to taste, to books, to culture. With his usual wit and breadth of vision, Robertson...
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Meeting Jesus, Common People, Uncommon Stories is the result of a pastoralexperience linked with cultural Biblical knowledge. The book was really written for one person, thus it is a very personal endeavor. Maggie LIechty was an elderly woman who was housebound because of health issues. Regular pastoral visits grew to include serious faith conversations about Biblical persons whose lives were changed by their encounter with Jesus. Maggie was not about...
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Prophecies of the end of the world began to interest Lennart Wingardh in 1981, after reading Prophecies & Predictions Everybody's Guide to the Coming Changes by Moira Timms He found that God's ancient prophecies were revealed in the Jewish Bible and in the book of Revelation and were later on complement, very extensively, in the Qur'an. It is the aspiration of this book that the reader shall realize that the ancient prophecies are real and that they...
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Le 5 mai 1664, la cour de France se rend à Versailles pour assister aux Plaisirs de l'île enchantée, la première des grandes fêtes du règne de Louis XIV. Pendant près de dix jours, démonstrations équestres, festins, feux d'artifice et représentations théâtrales se succèdent...
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What's in a name?
In our "look at me" era, everyone's a brand. Privacy now seems a quaint relic, and self-effacement is a thing of the past. Yet, as Nom de Plume reminds us, this was not always the case. Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame.
Biographies have chronicled the lives...
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How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think?
What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens's serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and...
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La Danseuse (Gallimard, 2023), qui donne son titre au roman de Patrick Modiano, n'a pas de nom. Mais, dès l'incipit du livre, le narrateur s'interroge sur la couleur de ses cheveux. Cette incertitude revient souvent dans le récit qui, comme Chevreuse (2021) et comme tous les romans de l'auteur,...
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La paix n'est pas la fin de la guerre. Ceux qui font l'expérience la plus amère de ce douloureux paradoxe sont certainement les prisonniers retenus dans des camps et qui, une fois les hostilités terminées, doivent encore attendre plusieurs mois, voire des années, avant de pouvoir rentrer chez...
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Jean le Bleu est un récit autobiographique de Jean Giono (1895-1920) publié en novembre 1932 chez Grasset. Peu auparavant, plusieurs fragments avaient paru dans des revues, dont « La femme du boulanger » à la NRF. Fils unique d'une famille pauvre de Manosque, Giono a trouvé sa vocation...
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