Wise Words and Wives' Tales
Author: Stuart Berg Flexner
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alphabetically arranged compendium of facts about the history and evolution of the most time-honored words of folk wisdom.
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Wise Words
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1591280141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of original fairy tales illustrating selections from the biblical book of Proverbs.
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 039334178X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
Wise Words & Country Ways for Cooks
Author: Ruth Binney
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0715333925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a unique and charming collection of cooking and kitchen-based sayings, proverbs and country wisdom. Containing the familiar and the unfamiliar, this mixture of practical tips and amusing anecdotes is the perfect addition to any kitchen. Ruth Binney explores the origin and merits of each saying, often proving that 'old wives' tales' are just as relevant today as they were in times past.It features tips and advice on a wide range of subjects from meat and fish to fruit and veg, cooking methods to kitchen equipment, all the time providing pertinent lessons in the healthier and much less wasteful ways of former generations.Illustrated with delightful line drawings throughout, Wise Words and Country Ways for the Cook is the ideal gift for any cook or nostalgia lover.
Wise Words and Country Ways Weather Lore
Author: Ruth Binney
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1446356779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An enthralling book that not only satisfies our fascination for lost wisdom of our ancestors but also indulges the British obsession with the weather. Probably the best known country saying of them all is 'red sky at night, shepherd's delight'. Wise Words and Country Ways Weather Lore presents us with dozens more similar, but largely now forgotten, words of wisdom that are imbued with a centuries-old understanding of the patterns of British weather, seasonal changes and the behavior of plants and animals around us. It has highly relevant content for an age where we all feel we have lost touch with the patterns of nature.
Wise Words and Country Ways for House and Home
Author: Ruth Binney
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1446356752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains generations of advice on simple ways to run an environmentally-friendly home, based around well-known, and not-so-well-known, sayings. Everyone is keen to reduce their carbon footprint, conserve resources, eat and live more healthily. Ruth Binney's fascinating collection of traditional wisdom shares how our forbears lived well within the resources available.
Wise Men and Their Tales
Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0805211209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson, the solitary hero and protector of his people, whose singular weakness brought about his tragic end; Isaiah, caught in the middle of the struggle between God and man, his messages of anger and sorrow counterbalanced by his timeless, eloquent vision of a world at peace; the saintly Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, who by virtue of a lifetime of good deeds was permitted to enter heaven while still alive and who tried to ensure a similar fate for all humanity by stealing the sword of the Angel of Death. Elie Wiesel tells the stories of these and other men and women who have been sent by God to help us find the godliness within our own lives. And what interests him most about these people is their humanity, in all its glorious complexity. They get angry—at God for demanding so much, and at people, for doing so little. They make mistakes. They get frustrated. But through it all one constant remains—their love for the people they have been charged to teach and their devotion to the Supreme Being who has sent them. In these tales of battles won and lost, of exile and redemption, of despair and renewal, we learn not only by listening to what they have come to tell us, but by watching as they live lives that are both grounded in earthly reality and that soar upward to the heavens.
Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, Grades 3-5
Author: Lesley Mandel Morrow
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 146250793X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the first academic standards to be independently adopted by almost every state in the country. The purpose and intent of the Common Core standards for English Language Arts (ELA), as well as Literacy in History/Social Studies and Science education, are the focus of this book. This volume is aimed at educators, administrators, graduate students, university professors, and others who deal with students in grades 3 through 5. Each of the chapters addresses one of the major English Language Arts domains: literature, informational texts, foundational skills, writing, speaking and listening, language, technology, and assessment. They contain invaluable information, insight, and research from literacy leaders in their respective fields. Their objective is twofold: to provide a theoretical background and detailed explanation of each of the CCSS/ELA standards, as well as practical suggestions, classroom vignettes, models, instructional resources, and unit ideas to implement the standards"--
Old Wives' Tales
Author: Mary Chamberlain
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0752486799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?
