School Of Living Comfort

Carleton, Robert Howard. Physics for the New Age. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1954.
Ex-school library book; however, unmarked copy. Heavy shelf wear to covers. Some page edges bent for place marks. Yellowing of page edges. Otherwise, in good condition, with clean/unmarked pages. ; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 1.375 x 6 x 9 inches; 656 pages; From the preface: The most obvious features of this text is its organization around the interpretive principles and generalizations of physics. Its authors have, however, been guided by a conviction that the high school physics course has a general education function as well as a somewhat specialized function to perform. Thus, while helping to lay the foundation needed by some of the students for later study of more highly specialized science, this course should help now to clarify for all the students the relations of science to the maintenance of health and comfort, to vocational pursuits, to leisure-time activities, and to other aspects of living to which the subject matter of physics relates and to which it contributes functional understandings and means of control. While retaining what is considered to be the greatest strength of the traditional physics course--its systematic organization--this text adds a "life situation" approach. "Life situation" organizations have in the past led to superior results by way of stimulating interest, inducing self-activity, and calling forth vigorous student response. Their failing has been their general disregard for sequence. Recently leaders in psychology and education have stressed the desirability of combining the recognized advantages of the traditional or longitudinal organization with the motivational advantages of the life situation or lateral organization. Every effort has been made to incorporate the strengths of both of these organizations into the plan of this text..

Revised Edition, Hardcover, Good+ with no dust jacket.

[SW: Carleton, Robert H. Williams, Harry H. Buell, Mahlon H. Physics Teeters, W. R. Textbook High School Science Education,]

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Goldstein, Naama: THE PLACE WILL COMFORT YOU: STORIES, New York Scribner 2004
0743251350 As New Condition

Set in Israel and suburban America, this funny, moving debut collection mines the rich complexities of cultural dislocation in the idiom of in between. "I know-I understand with the full feeling of living life-that you can be of one place and another, not at all the same," says the bilingual third-grade narrator of "The Conduct for Consoling." Goldstein, an American who grew up in Israel, writes eloquently of the longing for home, evoking the material differences between her two countries with a few telling details: a certain breakfast cereal, a prime-time television program or a tiled floor. America both entices and disturbs the Israeli children in "A Pillar of a Cloud," who glimpse it through a visiting cousin casually offering a Sloppy Joe sandwich to an Arab worker. In scenes like these, Goldstein depicts a loaded situation with unexpected originality through her artfully off-kilter syntax and whimsical characters, both insightful and self-deluded. In "A Verse in the Margins," Goldstein conjures the misguided high school teacher Mr. Durchschlag in a single sentence: "With every unclish wink to every blush of theirs the world revolved more steadily, the proper ratio of this to that restored." Even the most limited characters in these eight stories are likable: Shulee, the rebellious Israeli teen in "The Roberto Touch," remains sympathetic though she behaves badly on a school trip. As generous as it is unsentimental, this resonant collection captivates and provokes. Hardcover 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches

[SW: JEWISH YOUTH--FICTION, JEWS--FICTION, UNITED STATES--SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS--FICTION, ISRAEL--SOCIAL CUSTOMS--FICTION]

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Goldstein, Naama: THE PLACE WILL COMFORT YOU, New York Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 2004
ISBN: 0-7432-5135-0 Very good

ABOUT THE BOOK The Place Will Comfort You FROM THE PUBLISHER Intelligent, evocative and darkly comic, Naama Goldstein's collection introduces a remarkable talent. In these sharply focused stories, the line between nation and self is as elusive as the distinction between past and present, fear and desire, the real and the imagined. Against a backdrop that spans from the Galilean wilderness to midtown Manhattan, and from the 1970s to the present, the inhabitants of these stories struggle to feel at home in foreign and sometimes unwelcoming lands. In "A Pillar of a Cloud," a young American babysitting her Israeli cousins scandalizes the children when she invites an Arab roofer for dinner. "The Worker Rests Under the Hero Trees" features a twenty-something Israeli expatriate vying for romance with a childhood hero turned cranberry expert. "Anatevka Tender" stands on a fault line between ideologies as a mother who blames herself for her elder son's battle shock following the Lebanon War resettles her children in the suburban safety of an East Coast condo. The brilliantly observed and haunting stories of The Place Will Comfort You illustrate the cultural divide between American and Israeli Jews -- and the difficulties of moving between these two vastly different worlds. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Set in Israel and suburban America, this funny, moving debut collection mines the rich complexities of cultural dislocation in the idiom of in between. "I know-I understand with the full feeling of living life-that you can be of one place and another, not at all the same," says the bilingual third-grade narrator of "The Conduct for Consoling." Goldstein, an American who grew up in Israel, writes eloquently of the longing for home, evoking the material differences between her two countries with a few telling details: a certain breakfast cereal, a prime-time television program or a tiled floor. America both entices and disturbs the Israeli children in "A Pillar of a Cloud," who glimpse it through a visiting cousin casually offering a Sloppy Joe sandwich to an Arab worker. In scenes like these, Goldstein depicts a loaded situation with unexpected originality through her artfully off-kilter syntax and whimsical characters, both insightful and self-deluded. In "A Verse in the Margins," Goldstein conjures the misguided high school teacher Mr. Durchschlag in a single sentence: "With every unclish wink to every blush of theirs the world revolved more steadily, the proper ratio of this to that restored." Even the most limited characters in these eight stories are likable: Shulee, the rebellious Israeli teen in "The Roberto Touch," remains sympathetic though she behaves badly on a school trip. As generous as it is unsentimental, this resonant collection captivates and provokes. Agent, Maria Massie at Witherspoon Associates. (May) Forecast: The publisher compares Goldstein to Nathan Englander and Allegra Goodman, but with her fresh, inventive syntax she's more like a young Grace Paley. This original collection should find an audience with readers interested in literary short fiction and Israeli and Jewish culture. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Library Journal In her quirky debut collection, Goldstein, an Israeli American who grew up in Orthodox surroundings in Israel, explores the circumstances of people who have immigrated to or emigrated from her native land. In "The Conduct for Consoling," several young people are unprepared for the feisty, peculiar response of a newly orphaned classmate, who defies them all and later wreaks havoc on the household of the American narrator. "The Verse in the Margin" features a male instructor in a religious vocational school for girls desperately trying to teach his less-than-devout young charges something about modesty, only to be outwitted. In "Barbary Apes," the scene shifts to Manhattan, where a rabbi tries desperately to impart some knowledge of the Sephardic diaspora to his college students. But the student he would most like to engage has her mind elsewhere. The cultural Hardcover 8.84x5.80x.86 in. .70 lbs.

[SW: United States -- Social life and customs --, Fiction, Israel -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Jewish youth -- Fiction, Jews -- Fiction]

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JACKSON, BRIAN KEITH; Hill, Janet. The Queen of Harlem : A Novel. New York: Harlem Moon - Broadway Books, 2003.
Marfree, tite fresh prtg ENSCRIBED by author; not marked-in, clearance or discard. Usually mails within 12 hours. ; 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches; 259 pages; Kirkus Reviews Can a black southern preppie survive in Harlem? Mason Randolph puts off entering Stanford Law School for a year and heads for Manhattan, where he spots an ad for a shared rental in a Harlem townhouse and beats out the competition when the very attractive owner favors him over the other applicants. Maybe it's because he looks a little dangerous (but not too dangerous) in his twisted dreadlocks. Maybe it's because he changed his first name to something slightly tougher, Malik, after the homies on the corner razzed him for acting like a Huxtable. He's got a great place to stay; now all he needs is a job so he can buy himself some baggy jeans and a bubble coat and start earning some street creds. Not that he's wants his overbearing mother to know he's swilling malt liquor and living with an older woman. Fortunately, Carmen England, his elegant landlady, seems to know everyone worth knowing, including lots of artists and other louche types. Malik escorts Carmen to fascinatingly weird parties and in his spare time explores Harlem. He ventures as far as Columbia University, where he befriends law student Malcolm, whose struggling single mother dishes up food in the university cafeteria to pay for his tuition. Malcolm's friend Kyra is sexy and sassy-and Malik knows her heart surgeon father isn't going to be impressed by a good-for-nothing drifter with a worthless credit crd. He can't decide which story to tell, and gives away too many clues to his real identity. Some of his new friends are simply too amoral to care-reinventing yourself is what New York is all about, right? But Kyra does care, and so does Carmen, whom Malik has dubbed the Queen of Harlem-and who turns out to be an imposterherself. From Jackson (The View From Here, 1996; Walking Through Mirrors, 1998) : an intriguing and well-written look at the nature of identity, whatever the color. From Booklist Mason Randolph, a college graduate from a prestigious Louisiana family, heads to Harlem to find himself. His New York detour en route to Stanford Law School is the experience he feels is necessary to have a "real" black experience. He becomes the boarder of the indescribable, fortysomething socialite Carmen England, whom he affectionately calls the Queen of Harlem. To fit into the New York scene, Mason decides that he can best aDJust by changing his name and recreating himself as Malik. As he becomes more comfortable with his new identity, he meets someone whom he can finally be honest with, Kyra Jamison. She represents the privilege and comfort of the life he is trying to abandon. Mason's tenure in New York forces him to rethink his choices and learn some truths about himself and his family. It isn't until he is confronted by the people he has tried to deceive that he is able to recognize that "playing poor isn't a privilege afforded to all. " A believable and refreshing tale about secrets and identity. Lillian Lewis © American Library Association. ; Signed by Author. 0767908392.

Softcover, Fine.

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