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- 2001-06-01
- in Juvenile Fiction
- Mandy Stanley
Bloomer
The Dog You Can Play With!
Author: Mandy Stanley
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 12
View: 391
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"Have you ever wanted a dog of your own? Well, meet Bloomer! You can feed him, bathe him, take him for walks, and put him to bed when it gets dark ..."--Cover, p. [4].
- 2021-01-19
- in Psychology
- Rich Karlgaard
Late Bloomers
The Hidden Strengths of Learning and Succeeding at Your Own Pace
Author: Rich Karlgaard
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category: Psychology
Page: 321
View: 309
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A groundbreaking exploration of how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness. “What Yogi Berra observed about a baseball game—it ain't over till it's over—is true about life, and [Late Bloomers] is the ultimate proof of this. . . . It’s a keeper.”—Forbes We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early achievement, from getting perfect scores on SATs to getting into Ivy League colleges to landing an amazing job at Google or Facebook—or even better, creating a start-up with the potential to be the next Google, Facebook or Uber. We see coders and entrepreneurs become millionaires or billionaires before age thirty, and feel we are failing if we are not one of them. Late bloomers, on the other hand, are under-valued—in popular culture, by educators and employers, and even unwittingly by parents. Yet the fact is, a lot of us—most of us—do not explode out of the gates in life. We have to discover our passions and talents and gifts. That was true for author Rich Karlgaard, who had a mediocre academic career at Stanford (which he got into by a fluke) and, after graduating, worked as a dishwasher and night watchman before finding the inner motivation and drive that ultimately led him to start up a high-tech magazine in Silicon Valley, and eventually to become the publisher of Forbes magazine. There is a scientific explanation for why so many of us bloom later in life. The executive function of our brains doesn’t mature until age twenty-five, and later for some. In fact, our brain’s capabilities peak at different ages. We actually experience multiple periods of blooming in our lives. Moreover, late bloomers enjoy hidden strengths because they take their time to discover their way in life—strengths coveted by many employers and partners—including curiosity, insight, compassion, resilience, and wisdom. Based on years of research, personal experience, interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and countless people at different stages of their careers, Late Bloomers reveals how and when we achieve our full potential. Praise for Late Bloomers “The underlying message that we should ‘consider a kinder clock for human development’ is a compelling one.”—Financial Times “Late Bloomers spoke to me deeply as a parent of two millennials and as a coach to many new college grads (the children of my friends and associates). It’s a bracing tonic for the anxiety they are swimming through, with a facts-based approach to help us all calm down.”—Robin Wolaner, founder of Parenting magazine
- 2007
- in Body, Mind & Spirit
- Jed McKenna
Spiritual Warfare
Author: Jed McKenna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Page: 328
View: 756
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Book Three of Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy: Guns and bombs are children's toys. A true war wages, and you're invited. IT'S AN INVITATION you may not be able to accept if you want to, or decline if you don't. It's an invitation to fight in a war like no other; a war where loss is counted as gain, surrender as victory, and where the enemy you must face, an enemy of unimaginable superiority, is yourself. Spiritual Warfare issues a damning and irrefutable indictment of its own audience and genre, putting spirituality and religion themselves on trial. Spiritual Warfare is a sharp-edged book for those who want to experience a direct and authentic spirituality.
- 2000
- in Juvenile Fiction
- Shana Corey
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer
A Very Improper Story
Author: Shana Corey
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 40
View: 520
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Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way 19th-century society says a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women. Full-color illustrations.
- 1996
- in
- Rhoda Blumberg
Bloomers!
Author: Rhoda Blumberg
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN:
Category:
Page: 0
View: 341
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Explains how the new-fashioned outfit, bloomers, helped Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony spread the word about women's rights.
- 2017-01-18
- in Sports & Recreation
- Debra A Shattuck
Bloomer Girls
Women Baseball Pioneers
Author: Debra A Shattuck
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 328
View: 534
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Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity.
- 2017-01-03
- in Religion
- George Bloomer
Witchcraft in the Pews
Author: George Bloomer
Publisher: Whitaker House
ISBN:
Category: Religion
Page: 224
View: 340
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Deception, witchcraft, and occult practices reign worldwide—and these evils have even infiltrated the Christian church! So, fasten your seatbelt as you read the most provocative book of our time, in which you will learn to recognize: Ministers who use intimidation and fear Controlling power in families Spiritual discernment and its many uses Manipulative media techniques Distractions coming from Satan It's time to take a stand and engage in spiritual warfare. Bishop Bloomer shows how to prevent others from unfairly taking advantage of you.
- 2021-06-29
- in Biography & Autobiography
- Doree Shafrir
Thanks for Waiting
The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
Author: Doree Shafrir
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN:
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 304
View: 253
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An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected “Thanks for Waiting is the loving, wise, cuttingly funny older sister we all need in book form.”—Tara Schuster, author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies Doree Shafrir spent much of her twenties and thirties feeling out of sync with her peers. She was an intern at twenty-nine and met her husband on Tinder in her late thirties, after many of her friends had already gotten married, started families, and entered couples’ counseling. After a long fertility struggle, she became a first-time mom at forty-one, joining Mommy & Me classes where most of the other moms were at least ten years younger. And while she was one of Gawker’s early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed, she didn’t find professional fulfillment until she co-launched the successful self-care podcast Forever35—at forty. Now, in her debut memoir, Shafrir explores the enormous pressures we feel, especially as women, to hit particular milestones at certain times and how we can redefine what it means to be a late bloomer. She writes about everything from dating to infertility, to how friendships evolve as you get older, to why being pregnant at forty-one is unexpectedly freeing—all with the goal of appreciating the lives we’ve lived so far and the lives we still hope to live. Thanks for Waiting is about how achieving the milestones you thought were so important don’t always happen on the time line you imagined. In a world of 30 Under 30 lists, this book is a welcome reminder that it’s okay to live life at your own speed.
- 2004-01-01
- in Religion
- George Bloomer
Spiritual Warfare
Author: George Bloomer
Publisher: Whitaker House
ISBN:
Category: Religion
Page: 176
View: 533
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However the world might paint the situation, Satan does not battle us with flaming arrows and the quick stab of a pitchfork. He’s much wiser and much more cunning. He battles us using our own limitations, fears, and doubts. He preys upon our guilt and finds ways to manipulate, dominate, and intimidate us, all in an attempt to separate us from Christ. George Bloomer knows the strategies and methods of the devil. Here he offers a tactical guide to help you battle the enemy, drawing on the true Source of power that can enable you to do so. Read and learn… How to silence Satan’s roar and quash his assault How to find peace in the midst of your fear and doubt Why it is foolish to be weighed down by guilt Where Satan comes from and where he’s going How others have found victory in the past Don’t walk into enemy fire unarmed. This is war, and you have a battle to fight.
- 1994-01-20
- in Juvenile Fiction
- Robert Kraus
Leo the Late Bloomer
Author: Robert Kraus
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 36
View: 733
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Leo isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he's ready. 'Reassuring for other late bloomers, this book is illustrated with beguiling pictures.' -- Saturday Review.
