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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” This is the beggining of the book and then:
A girl lose her brother during the jouney to meet their foster family, during his funeral she finds her first book. Her adoptive father teaches her to read and to become grateful in life besides the horrors of the war.
Free step by step guide to plan, fund and implement youth projects involving migrant and multicultural youth groups, created using participative methods.
An extraordinary ethnographic study about an Italian woman who after living for years in New York City, and teaching at a University in Milan, decides to explore the South Bronx.
This book has just come out. It is by the eminent neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh. If you have wondered what it feels like to have responsibility for life and death in your hands, this is a brilliant testament. Wonderfully honest and intensely readable, it is also very moving.
"The Free World takes place in the near past — 1978 — and chronicles the adventures of the Krasnanskys, a family of Russian Jews, at a critical moment in their history. The family, a three-generational collective, has decided to take advantage of a minor loophole in Soviet emigration po
"If it is true, and I think it is, that literature often serves as a sounding board for the collective psychic preoccupations of a particular time and place, then it is perhaps not surprising, in our post millennial financial implosion world, that the American Dream is receiving some pointed lite