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Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema Nature, Gender, and Agency


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English | ISBN: 1498555136 | 2017 | 284 pages | EPUB | 1375 KB
Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema. This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position on the threshold between "nature" and "culture," which converts them into a focus of, and a limit to, state or colonial biopower. Rachel Randall provides a comprehensive examination of the key themes and developments in boys’ and girls’ cinematic representations since the adoption of children’s rights discourses in the region. Recommended for scholars interested in Latin American studies, film studies, and cultural studies.

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Celebrating a Christ-Centered Easter Children’s Edition


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English | 2015 | ISBN: 1609079779, 1629724181 | EPUB | pages: 32 | 1.0 mb
This is a children’s picture book edition of the best-selling adult book of the same title. Using illustrations and age-appropriate text, this children’s edition features passages of scripture along with original text to tell the Easter story and provides ideas for family traditions that young children can understand to make the holiday more Christ-centered. Each spread uses at least one person from the Easter story-including Simon, Joseph and Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene, the disciples on the road to Emmaus, and Thomas-to illustrate a theme.

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An Author’s Guide to Children’s Book Promotion


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English | 2011 | ISBN: 0962121185 | EPUB | pages: 81 | 1.0 mb
An Author’s Guide to Children’s Book Promotion provides authors and illustrators with the tools they need to get their books into the hands of key decision-makers…teachers, librarians, booksellers and reviewers. Designed to help you make the most of opportunities to sell and promote your book.

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Active Games for Children on the Autism Spectrum Physical Literacy for Life


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English | August 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 171821717X | 184 pages | True EPUB | 11.07 MB
Every school wants to be inclusive. But often children on the autism spectrum are left behind when it comes to participating in physical education and becoming physically literate-in part because many physical educators feel unprepared to include children on the spectrum in class activities.

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How Children Learn


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English | 2017 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0738220086 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how we can nurture and encourage these natural abilities in our children.

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Myths, Legends, and Sacred Stories A Children’s Encyclopedia [Audiobook]


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English | December 01, 2020 | ASIN: B087YYFK8D | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 5m | 158.04 MB
Author: Philip Wilkinson
Narrator: Sara Bowes

From lightning-wielding Zeus, the supreme Greek god, to protective Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love – heroes, gods, and monsters are brought to life in these retellings of myths from around the world.

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The Children of Athena Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400 [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CLMKB4BY | 2023 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Charles Freeman
Narrator: Mark Elstob

A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, travellers and theologians. Charles Freeman’s accounts of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy and the philosopher Descriptioninus are interwoven with contextual ‘interludes’ that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives. Like the author’s The Awakening, The Children of Athena is a cultural history on an epic scale: the story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century AD.

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Conquered The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BH98WJ78 | 2022 | 8 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 454 MB
Author: Eleanor Parker
Narrator: Kristin Atherton

The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England-so what happened to the children this conflict left behind? Conquered offers a fresh take on the Norman Conquest by exploring the lives of those children, who found themselves uprooted by the dramatic events of 1066. Among them were the children of Harold Godwineson and his brothers, survivors of a family shattered by violence who were led by their courageous grandmother Gytha to start again elsewhere. Then there were the last remaining heirs of the Anglo-Saxon royal line-Edgar Ætheling, Margaret, and Christina-who sought refuge in Scotland, where Margaret became a beloved queen and saint.

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