In My Mother's Garden

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In My Mother's Garden
Melissa Madenski
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (Juv)
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ASIN: 0316543268

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I love this book.......2006-11-17

This book is spectacular and good to read to your children.

And So My Garden Grows (Mother Goose Library)

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And So My Garden Grows (Mother Goose Library)

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Anthology of Multiple Authors' Heartwarming Essays

My Mother's Garden
Dominique Browning , and Jamaica Kincaid
Manufacturer: Chamberlain Bros.
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The beauty of a flower, and the beauty of a family.

A garden and a child-the similarities between the two can be striking. Both require time and patience. Both call for a very special person to look after their needs and to consider their futures. And both will blossom when tended with a mother's love. This heartwarming collection of essays and stories-from beloved classics and modern favorites, authored by writing gardeners and gardening writers alike-celebrates the role of a mother's love in helping her garden and her children grow. Featuring selections from previously published material by noted garden essayists, as well as compelling excerpts from novels and memoirs, this volume is a touching tribute to mothers everywhere, whose perennial gifts of attention and care allow those they love to truly bloom.

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Anthology of Multiple Authors' Heartwarming Essays.......2005-03-31

This collection of essays, authored by an impressive group of writers, is a poignant tribute to mothers everywhere. An easy read, the book is not unlike a bag of literary potato chips -- you just can't stop with the first essay. I found myself totally immersed in one story after another, till the whole book was read. I laughed some, cried a little, and marveled at the pleasant memories of mothers and grandmothers these authors were willing to share with their readers. It was awesome!

In My Mother's Garden (An American Sampler)

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In My Mother's Garden (An American Sampler)
Ann Vanessa
Manufacturer: Better Homes & Gardens Books
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And So My Garden Grows
Mother Goose
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AND SO MY GARDEN GROWS, The Mother Goose Library

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AND SO MY GARDEN GROWS, The Mother Goose Library
Peter, Illustrated By Spier
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BLUEBEARD'S EGG: Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother; Hurricane Hazel; Loulou; or The Domestic Life of the Language; Uglypuss; Betty; Spring Song of the Frogs; Scarlet Ibis; The Salt Garden; The Sin Eater; The Sunrise; Unearthing Suite

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Short stories, not novel
Cracking the shell of the egg
Captivated by the Egg.
Average Atwood
facets of our world

BLUEBEARD'S EGG: Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother; Hurricane Hazel; Loulou; or The Domestic Life of the Language; Uglypuss; Betty; Spring Song of the Frogs; Scarlet Ibis; The Salt Garden; The Sin Eater; The Sunrise; Unearthing Suite
Margaret Atwood
Manufacturer: McClelland and Stewart
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ASIN: 0771008082

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In this acclaimed collection of twelve stories, Margaret Atwood probes the territory of childhood memories and the casual cruelty men and women inflict upon each other and themselves. She looks behind the familiar world of family summers at remote lakes, ordinary lives, and unexpected loves, and she unearths profound truths. A melancholy, teenage love is swept away by a Canadian hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds; a potter tries to come to terms with the group of poets who so smother her that she is driven into the arms of her accountant; and, in the title story, the Bluebeard legend is retold as an ironic tale of marital deception. Stark and scathing at times, humorous and compassionate at others, Bluebeard’s Egg confirms once again Atwood’s reputation as the pre-eminent chronicler of our times.

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Short stories, not novel.......2005-07-20

I was a little disappointed to discover that Bluebeard's Egg was a collection of stories, because I was hoping for another impossible-to-put-down novel by Margaret Atwood. Still, her writing style is fantastic no matter what medium she writes in.

Cracking the shell of the egg.......2004-03-05

Upon reading the first few stories, in this collection, I tended to feel in keeping with some of the reviewers who intimated that the stories were lacking in complexity. However, as I began to probe further, and reread some of the stories, I realized just exactly what a genius Margaret Atwood is... Atwood's writing is a painful blend of the comical and horrific, much as life can be. These stories, some of them, made me cry with laughter. The recognition of some of my own inner demons was a little painful, but at least it was vicarious in nature. Such is the beauty of a story.

I found that the story "The Sunrise" was one of the most exquisite pieces of satire on the art process. As an artist bleeds themselves onto the page or the canvas, the public laps it up like starving vampires. Vicarioulsy. Sometimes the artist gives too much, more than they have to give, and then must seek out the inspiration, the muse, if you will, in someone else. Yvonne, the character here, states that she gave too much at one time. She used to be an artist's model. Now she has shut herself off, but she needs light and life, which she gets from painting unsuspecting humans, and basking in the sunlight. She's like a hothouse flower. She is an artificial creation which she presents to the world. Only she knows the real truth. If this is a collection of stories about the painful truths lurking behind people's hearts, here is the ultimate.

Atwood brilliantly satirizes the whole creative process when she says: "Though if art sucks and everything is only art, what has she done with her life?" The symbology throughout the story is one of blatant vampirism, which only the most obtuse could not see. The creation of art and the sordidness of the art world do suck life not only from the artist, but the viewer as well. Just as some of Yvonne's vitality goes into the young man's collage. Atwood says Yvonne will suck the blood of the tulip until it dies,and that she eats a portion of the souls of her sitters, i.e. her victims. Yes, as one reviewer says, the book is rife with symbology, or apparent symbology, symbols for the reader to do with as they will, instead of being spoon-fed.

She pokes fun at the reader and the critic,even before they would have had a chance to read this work, by making Yvonne the artist, a woman who paints phalluses. She pokes fun at how a phallus cannot be seen as a phallic symbol, because it IS phallic, in and of itself. Even the razor blade she calls a 'memento mori'.

The most exquisite satire comes early in the story, when she writes that it is boring to be characterized by what you paint. "There was one advantage though: people bought her paintings, though not for ultra-top prices, especially after magic realism came back in." If magic realism is the use of supernatural elements treated as if they were commonplace, and she is commenting on how boring it is to be taken so literally, to in essence, have no surprises for the audience, as well as making allusions to the whole vampire myth, then this is truly brilliant satire!

For those of us who get it, here is a treasure, a gem, that has to be dug for, not unlike buried treasure. The very thing which kills her artist's spirit, or cuts off her cash flow, is a renewed fascination on the part of the fickle audience with elements of the supernatural, the mythical, the mysterious, the inutitive. They want mystery and juxtaposed images that don't have meaning until you look under the surface. Like the young man's collages which drain her into them. It's too late for her to use that ploy herself, and she said so, earlier. For the ones who get it, Atwood seems to be slamming the critics right out of the starting gate. She's having the first laugh, and I think it is infinitely funny!

Captivated by the Egg........2002-06-03

In the car I always have an audiobook to listen to, and the last weeks I really have enjoyed Margareth Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg and other stories.

This is a collection of short stories written by a master of words, and a master of short stories. When Atwood writes she uses no extra words or sentences, she takes us right to the point, and the point in this collection is human beings. Common human beings fighting for their lives. No heros, just plain people like you and me. Every time a new story starts I think, this one cannot be better than the last, but it happend again and again, the story captivates me, and it is all mornings hard to stop the car and go to work - I want to hear just one more sentence, and then one more.

My favorite story though is the one that has given name to the collection, Bluebeard's Egg. A well known fairy tale, told and given it's own meaning by Atwood, or may be she just shows us the original meaning of the story. Sally, the main carachter of the story struggles with the puzzle of her life, to keep all the pieces together. The center of her life is her husband Ed, but how can she be sure that she is also the center in Ed's life? No one can write about this, invite us into and let us be in the feeling of the story like Atwood do.

Britt Arnhild Lindland

Average Atwood.......2000-07-27

No one will mistake Margaret Atwood for Alice Munro when it comes to short stories. Most of these stories are trifles. Atwood's tendency to be elliptical really gets in the way of any development. Her narrators seem to just be skimming the surface of life with little or no consequence of that. Only the stories "Bluebeard's Egg" and "Scarlet Ibis" really rise above the level of craft, particularly the former. I love the preciseness with which Atwood details feminine rivalry over men! Overall, a hodge-podge of "short fiction pieces," not short stories.

facets of our world.......1999-09-17

This was the first book by Margaret Atwood I read after reading the short story "Happy Ending" in an anthology.

A great writer is easily recognisable. All you have to do is to write a few lines of a novel or a short story. You will just keep on reading and feel sorry when you are closer to the end than to the beginning of the story.

This collection of short stories shows that Margaret Atwood is a major writer and story teller. Of course, not in the pulp fiction or slimy-sweet sense but you need a curiosity for the inner world of soliloquies and self-observations.

However, she does not give us lectures on psychology, but tells us the story and we can live it from the inside.

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A Look into Life.......2000-12-07

This is a powerful book that tells the simple truth. It takes you into the world of the holocaust that is very real and a part of our past. I learned alot and gained an understanding of what happened not too long ago that has affected generation after generation. I actually had the opportunity to meet Elizabeth Jaranyi and I was put to awe with her incredible stories and strength that seemed to come through her writing as well as speach. I am haunted by the past and have a deep respect for all who had to experience such a horrible part of human history. This book is more than a story, it is a first hand experience and it sweeps you away leaving you with a new perspective and new respect for life.

A Look into Life.......2000-12-07

This book was outstanding and superb when it came to telling a story. I was moved deeply and found myself crying after I finished reading it. I gained a deeper understanding and I felt emotions that were portrayed by the author. I actually had the opportunity to meet Elizabeth Jaranyi and I was put to awe with her stories and incredible strength. She is a wonderful person and tells an amazing story that brings the past alive and it haunts me to this very day what happened to all these people and it gave to a better understanding of the long term effects on the people and the generations to come. I thank her for writing this book and allowing the rest of us to learn from her.

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The foundation of all object-oriented software design, including agile methods such as extreme programming, is object thinking. But many developers have not mastered its underlying concepts and principles—relying on methodology and process instead of fully exploiting the power of object thinking in software design. In this essential, high-level reference, well-known object technologist David West provides a deep historical and contextual discussion of object thinking, including the behavioral approaches to object discovery and design. Readers will master the fundamental principles and learn how to apply object thinking to improve software development at every phase of the process.

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Great read and design learning tool........2007-02-15

I found it a great read and thought the author really had some great points and strategies to Object Oriented design and development. He draws on a vast knowledge of smalltalk style programming which is unfamiliar to me because my background is with Microsoft technologies but now I use it alot with C# and .NET. I took off one star because he tends to reemphasize over and over the battle between the object and the structural camps in programming; while I thought it was interesting and funny the first times he talked about it, around the tenth I was getting a little bored.

An overview of object oriented development.......2005-09-30

This book provides a philosophical look at object oriented development by taking the perspective that everything is an object and that behavior is what is the focus of the object oriented. Development evolution or agile methods are the way to find what the behavior is for the objects. Having experience modeling and understanding the process of modeling, this book provided a good perspective on how to think about going into the process of modeling and understanding objects. Taking this perspective and seeing everything in our world as an object helps to go from the unfamiliar to the object model. I especially found the object principles quite useful as well and heuristics as the way to design from an experienced designer. I recommend this book highly.

Content-free grammar.......2005-04-11

I almost gave up on this book after the first 100 pages. I should have. I managed to hang on to within 25 pages of the end. That was where Mr. West presents the reader with the formula X=4q+(p*r), and solemnly announces (I'm not making this up) "4 represents a constant value," with the word 'constant' set in italics to emphasize its gravity. By the standards set elsewhere in this book, that qualifies as a technically profound statement.

At least it's not just plain wrong, as were statements elsewhere in the book. For example, p.270 asserts that "Ensuring that it's possible for two objects to exchange messages is a matter of visibility: the objects have to be able to see each other." Well, no. Systems like Linda allow objects to leave messages for each other at anonymous drops. Component systems like the Bean Box count on some third party able to see both, a 'Mediator' in the Gang of Four terms that West generally disparages. Heck, anyone who's ever seen a Unix command pipeline would know how silly that claim is. He also asserts (p.253) that over-riding a superclass method causes "cognitive dissonance." For those not familiar with psycho-babble, that means it confuses him.

Those are probably low points, since the rest of the book is so vague and philosophical that it neither informs nor misinforms. Mr. West goes on at length on the hermeneutics of objects and their postmodernist interpetations (p.59). He goes on about how Alexander's design patterns have been misunderstood by mere application, how their real purpose is personal transformation within the user. Mostly, he just goes on.

By now, I guess my lack of fawning shows that I haven't been born again into the mysteries of "Object Thinking," whatever that is. True believers initiated into the mystery will probably say that I'm not competent to comment on the wonderfulness of The Way of West. Well, maybe that's a good thing.

I wish Mr. West all success in his navel-gazing. Maybe if he's busy with that, he won't get in the way of people trying to get work done.

//wiredweird

The Philosophy of Thinking Differently.......2005-03-23

Dr. West is correct in that Object Orientation is more a way of thinking than anything facilitated by a language. It's also clearly the language of the moment. I really like the quotation from T. Rentsch given in the book: "My guess is that object-oriented programmine will be in the 1980's what structured programming was in the 1970's. Everyone will be in favor of it. Every manufacturer will promote his products as supporting it. Every manager will pay lip service to it. Every programmer will practice it (differently). And no one will know just what it is."

Dr. West is clearly a supporter of not only object orientation, but of XP and Agile as the natural consequence of OO. This book is more of a philosophical treatise trying to get people to think "objectly." It's not a programming book.

I read the book. I even enjoyed it. I learned more about object orientation than I knew before. But I look at some Java code that I write and compare it with that from recent college graduates who began to think in object terms from the beginning, and my code is still rather procedural, no, make that very procedural. After all, I started programming in assembly language and FORTRAN while the college kids parents were busy being born.

What will kill object orientation is not us old procedural types, but the new concepts in languages currently being researched at the universities and places like Sun. Then the OO people will move to where we procedural people are now. But remember with the Y2K problem created such a concern about the old COBOL programs. COBOL and SQL and even FORTRAN are still with us.

Excellent look at culture.......2005-03-21

Some things I like about the book:
- excellent writing and not filled with typos like most technical books; care was obviously taken with this book
- superb look into culture and unstated assumptions in OO/XP development
- unique perspective on OO that doesn't just assume that UML = OO design
- David West is obviously very creative and has great vision into the big picture of software development

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Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects -- levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies -- Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time.

Bertoloni Meli reexamines such major texts as Galileo's Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, and Newton's Principia, and in them finds a reliance on objects that has escaped proper understanding. From Pappus of Alexandria to Guidobaldo dal Monte, Bertoloni Meli sees significant developments in the history of mechanical experimentation, all of them crucial for understanding Galileo. Bertoloni Meli uses similarities and tensions between dal Monte and Galileo as a springboard for exploring the revolutionary nature of seventeenth-century mechanics.

Examining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment.

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His study is a recommended survey for any class strong in science history........2007-04-07

THINKING WITH OBJECTS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MECHANICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY is a pick for college-level collections strong on both science and history: it examines the changes which took place in mechanics during the 18th century, considering major texts from Galileo, Descartes and others as it surveys the shift from the study and theory to the applications of mechanics. Domenico Meli is a history and philosophy professor: his study is a recommended survey for any class strong in science history.

Looking at Lines: Interesting Objects and Linear Functions (Grades 6-9) (Algebraic Thinking Series)

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Looking at Lines: Interesting Objects and Linear Functions (Grades 6-9) (Algebraic Thinking Series)
Arthur Wiebe , Jim Wilson , Sheldon Erickson , Michelle Youngs , and Chris Brownell
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Mental acts: their content and their objects, (Studies in philosophical psychology)

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Mental acts: their content and their objects, (Studies in philosophical psychology)
P. T Geach
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The Dimensional Thinker: From Building a Constructivist Edge to Finding Bloom on Mars

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Beyond the classroom .....

The Dimensional Thinker: From Building a Constructivist Edge to Finding Bloom on Mars
William C. Bruce , and Jean K. Bruce
Manufacturer: Home Tree Media
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Pofessor William C. Bruce sometimes thinks of THE DIMENSIONAL THINKER as the fertility of Extra Virgin Bloom's taxonomy: how not to define knowledge just by memory, but by comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Professor Bruce makes a point about taxonomy by drawing on facts about the olive tree. Early olive tree classification presented one of the first ways our ancestors improved olive oil. What may seem at odds with categorization is Auguste Rodin, his sculpture, The Thinker. Rodin never named The Thinker. Rodin's Thinker represents all mankind. Mars represents the Rosetta Stone of goals. Blooms taxonomy is the Rosetta Stone for categorization of educational objectives. To Professor Bruce, the question of how humans reached Mars looms as incredibly poignant. Explorers of Mars had to own a bank of creative processes. Did those creative processes exploit different cognitive domains? Gene sequencing made taxonomy a hot scientific field. Professor Bruce believes that categorizing educational objectives is important enough to try to change the way we think about instructive taxonomy. This book is based on the principle that the mind's resourcefulness develops better complex thinking processes when presented with complex thinking objectives. Professor Bruce brings life to Bloom's taxonomy through instruction, categorization exercises with feedback, glossaries, and summative assessments. Professor Bruce crafts the variations on the different thinking level themes, called dimensions, and how they network. Whether inspired by the potential of Mars exploration, or merely as a human survival affirmation, the text emphasizes how to use the categorization of educational objectives to build thinking skills that go beyond memory level to evaluation.

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Beyond the classroom ............2004-01-28

As a textbook, this was an excellent tool to learn Bloom's taxonomy at a deeper level. In the classroom the book was a vital helper when working with categorizing the educational objectives. However, I found it even more indispensable when studying for the Teacher's Certification Examination. Dr. Bruce's method of explaining the taxonomy levels, combined with his categorization exercises with explainations, served to reinforce what I had learned in my education classes. This is a book I will keep in my personal library for future reference.

From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects (Thinking Gender)

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From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects (Thinking Gender)
Claud Moscovici
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ASIN: 0415918111

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From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects traces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is idential to other similarly defined individuals--developed by Luce Irigaray, Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault.

In her work, Moscovici brings together the wide-ranging discussion of subjectivity with debates about public discourse. In so doing she attempts a synthesis between the two discussions that have recently engaged feminist theorists and others.

Object-Oriented Programming: A New Way of Thinking

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Object-Oriented Programming: A New Way of Thinking
Donald W. Macvittie , and Lori A. Macvittie
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Objects of Thought
A. N. Prior
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Thinking in C: Including Object Oriented Programming C++

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Thinking in C: Including Object Oriented Programming C++
P.B. Mahapatra
Manufacturer: A H Wheeler Publishing Co Ltd
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ASIN: 8185814848

Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality

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Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality
Andrew Woodfield
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