The Wonderful Mistake
Author: Lewis Thomas
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780192830647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lewis Thomas
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780192830647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barney Saltzberg
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2010-09-23
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 076115728X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It’s OK to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery. A spill doesn’t ruin a drawing—not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. And an accidental tear in your paper? Don’t be upset about it when you can turn it into the roaring mouth of an alligator. An award winning, best-selling, one-of-a-kind interactive book, Beautiful Oops! shows young readers how every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. A singular work of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops! is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion “telescope”—each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder.
Author: Lewis Thomas
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1978-02-23
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1101667052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."
Author: Vi Keeland
Publisher: C. Scott Publishing
Published: 2017-07-17
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1942215592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Corinna Luyken
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 0735227926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Zoom meets Beautiful Oops! in this memorable picture book debut about the creative process, and the way in which "mistakes" can blossom into inspiration One eye was bigger than the other. That was a mistake. The weird frog-cat-cow thing? It made an excellent bush. And the inky smudges… they look as if they were always meant to be leaves floating gently across the sky. As one artist incorporates accidental splotches, spots, and misshapen things into her art, she transforms her piece in quirky and unexpected ways, taking readers on a journey through her process. Told in minimal, playful text, this story shows readers that even the biggest “mistakes” can be the source of the brightest ideas—and that, at the end of the day, we are all works in progress, too. Fans of Peter Reynolds’s Ish and Patrick McDonnell’s A Perfectly Messed-Up Story will love the funny, poignant, completely unique storytelling of The Book of Mistakes. And, like Oh, The Places You’ll Go!, it makes the perfect graduation gift, encouraging readers to have a positive outlook as they learn to face life’s obstacles.
Author: Lewis Thomas
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1101667060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.
Author: Barney Saltzberg
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2017-05-30
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 0761189505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. This is the central idea of Beautiful Oops!, Barney Saltzberg’s beloved bestseller—and now My Book of Beautiful Oops!, an interactive journal for young artists, takes that principle into unexpected new directions. A hands-on journal that’s meant to be personalized—drawn in, painted on, torn up, smudged, or otherwise artistically wrecked—My Book of Beautiful Oops! is filled with folded, crumpled, die-cut, and lift-the-flap pages that will challenge the reader’s sense of play. The friendly green alligator from the first book prompts the reader: Bend a page. Decorate a smudge. Play with splats and spills. Even complete a poem that was accidentally ripped in half. My Beautiful Book of Oops! champions imagination, play, and the courage to express oneself. It’s about self-forgiveness, about turning off that inner critic that clamors for perfection. And it’s about freedom—the freedom to be creative and follow your curiosity wherever it goes. That’s a lesson to celebrate.
Author: Maya Khandelwal
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Published: 2013-08-07
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1482810042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The internal conflict leads the central female character in a roller-coaster ride into her past when she came in contact with Aditya through a wrong phone call. Being a middle-class girl, she couldnt fly in the teeth of moral scruples imposed by society, of course. The reminiscences take her to the various ordeals underwent by her as a girl from the typical Punjabi background who aspired to marry a Baniya guy. Moreover, she was Papas good girl. How could she say she loves a guy other than the one chosen by him? Find out the role played by destiny to bind the sweethearts into wedlock. Wait . . . Does it really work for long? Does the lovers actually live happy ever after? The story tells about Mansi who, amidst the untold joys of her wedded life, feels forlorn. She has a loving husband she yearned and fought for. What then causes her many sleepless nights? The bubble of life may vanish any day. Why not leave a footprint on the intellectual world? She is torn between her liabilities as a mother and wife on one hand and her thirst for self-realization on the other. Should she sacrifice her quest for self-identity at the altar of nuptial happiness? Will the soul mates be reevaluating their special relationship or drift apart due to their separate sets of egos? A question faced by innumerable couples in the turbulent urban life . . .
Author: Kristin Dwyer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 006308855X
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Author: Marissa Moss
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1995-03-27
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780395700938
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