MGPL Webrary® - Web Sites for Book Lovers Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book Teenreads | Go Book Yourself Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! Simone de Beauvoir Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, commonly known as Simone de Beauvoir (French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ]; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986), was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. She did not consider herself a philosopher but she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.[1] Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography and monographs on philosophy, politics and social issues. She is best known for her novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, as well as her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. Early years[edit] Beauvoir was born in Paris, the elder daughter of Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir, a legal secretary who once aspired to be an actor,[2] and Françoise Beauvoir (née Brasseur), a wealthy banker’s daughter and devout Catholic. Middle years[edit]
YALSA's Book Awards & Booklists *YALSA has launched the new Teen Book Finder Database, which is a one-stop shop for finding selected lists and award winners. Users can search this free resource by award, list name, year, author, genre and more, as well as print customizable lists. This new resource will replace the individual award and list web pages currently on YALSA’s site that are not searchable and that are organized only by year. Looking for great teen books? While these books have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, the award-winning titles and the titles on YALSA's selected lists span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. Book Awards Learn more about the Alex Awards, Edwards Award, Morris Award, Odyssey Award, Nonfiction Award, and Printz Award and read speeches from winners Selected Book & Media Lists Teen Book Finder App Find YALSA's award-winning books and media and selected lists wherever you are with this app, funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Best of the Best
The Adaptive Function of Literature and the Other Arts Massive Modularity vs. Cognitive Flexibility Evolutionists insist that genes constrain and direct human behavior. Cultural constructivists counter that culture, embodied in the arts, shapes human experience. Both these claims are true, but some evolutionists and some cultural constructivists have mistakenly regarded them as mutually exclusive (D. In the early phases of EP, theorists seeking to counter the concept of the mind as a “blank slate” committed themselves to the idea of “massive modularity,” the idea that the mind operates almost exclusively through dedicated bits of neural machinery adapted to solve specific practical problems in ancestral environments. In How the Mind Works (1997), Steven Pinker locates the arts within an EP conception of human cognitive evolution (524-43). The distinguished sociobiologist Edward O. If the arts are steered by inborn rules of mental development, they are end products not just of conventional history but also of genetic evolution. Bibliography
Panda Book Awards - Mature Readers - Shortlist 2012 Blackman, Malorie. Boys Don't Cry. 2010. You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it's your old girlfriend; and she's carrying a baby. Your baby. <a href=" rel="nofollow">My Library</a> at <a href=" rel="nofollow">LibraryThing</a> The 100 most useful emailing phrases This is a carefully edited list of the most important English emailing phrases. You should make sure you have learnt and can use the phrases below before trying to learn and use more complex and rarer phrases. A big list of useful phrases for the whole of emails and intensive practice are available in the e-book Teaching Emailing: Interactive Classroom Activities. This article is part of a series on useful emailing phrases: Useful phrases for opening emails Opening greeting to one person Dear Mr/ Ms/ Dr/ Professor + family name (= Dear Mr./ Ms./ Dr./ Prof + family name) Dear Alex Hi (John) Dear Sir or Madam Opening greeting to more than one person Dear all Hi (everyone/ guys) To: All faculty members/ To: New recruits/ To: All members/ To:… Useful email opening lines Opening line mentioning the last contact between you Opening line with the subject of the email Social opening line/ Friendly opening line Useful phrases for closing emails Closing line when you need a reply Other closing lines Requests
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