The best American essays 2013

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Each day : a veteran educator's guide to raising children by Wilson, Zebulon Vance

Table of Contents: “…A humane intelligence -- Anonymous heroism -- Toughness -- Band of brothers -- Eighth grade -- A boy's voice -- The hours -- The quality of being there -- Too much of a good thing -- Let the rumpus begin -- On specialization -- An eternal present -- A prophet in his own homeland -- A rough coming -- Silence -- Rhythm: keeping the difficult balance -- Mark each day -- The road to Emmaus: a language of God -- Faith, vocation, and work -- For God and for the state -- I will sing unto the Lord -- The philosopher's stone -- Good time, inhuman time -- Chancing the arm -- And miles to go -- Our man Micah -- The prodigal son -- Anna and the sniper -- Philip -- Harvard or heaven? …”
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Conversations with Jonathan Lethem by Lethem, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Nash, 2007 -- An interview with Jonathan Lethem / Michael Silverblatt, 2007 -- Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Millet / Lydia Millet, 2008 -- "If dean street could talk": Jonathan Lethem / Brian Berger, 2009 -- The Rumpus long interview with jOnathan Lethem / Ronnie Scott, 2010 -- An interview with Jonathan Lethem / Michael Silverblatt, 2010.…”
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Engaging Play. by Brooker, Liz

Table of Contents: “…10 Framing play for learning: Professional reflections on the role of open-ended play in early childhood education11 Powerful pedagogies and playful resistance: Role play in the early childhood classroom; 12 Using power on the playground; 13 Let the wild rumpus begin! The radical possibilities of play for young children with disabilities; 14 Children's enculturation through play; 15 Playing with some tensions: Poststructuralism, Foucault and early childhood education; Afterword; Index; Back cover.…”
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Conversations with Paul Auster by Auster, Paul, 1947-2024

Table of Contents: “…Translation / Stephen Rodefer (1985) -- Interview with Paul Auster / Joseph Mallia (1987) -- An interview with Paul Auster / Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory (1989) -- Memory's escape inventing the music of chance: a conversation with Paul Auster / Mark Irwin (1992) -- The making of smoke / Annette Insdorf (1994) -- The manuscript in the book: a conversation / Michel Contat (1994) -- An interview with Paul Auster / Ashton Applewhite (1994) -- The futurist radio hour: an interview with Paul Auster / Stephen Capen (1996) -- Paul Auster: writer and director / Rebecca Prime (1998) -- Off the page: Paul Auster / Carole Burns (2003) -- Paul Auster: the art of fiction / Michael Wood (2003) -- Jonathan Lethem talks with Paul Auster / The believer (2005) -- A conversation with Paul Auster / Mary Morris (2005) -- The making of the inner life of Martin Frost / Celine Curiol (2006) -- Interview: Paul Auster / Greg Lagambina (2008) -- A connoisseur of clouds, a meteorologist of whims: the rumpus: Interview with Paul Auster / Juliet Linderman (2009) -- Interview: Paul Auster on his new novel, Invisible / Nick Obourn (2010).…”
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Critical psychiatry : a biography by Cummins, Ian, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication page; Table of Contents; Meet the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Critical psychiatry Or anti-psychiatry; Psychiatry and the counterculture; 1 R D Laing: the psychiatrist of the counterculture; Glasgow; Major works; The rumpus room and the establishment of Kingsley Hall; Kingsley Hall; Laing, the family and madness; Mental illness as a journey; Mad to be normal?…”
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New York Stories : the Best of the City Section of the New York Times. by Rosenblum, Constance

Table of Contents: “…ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Part I A Sense of Place; The House on West 11th Street; Spanish Harlem on His Mind; The Old Neighbors; Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part I; Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part II; Nothing But Net; New York's Rumpus Room; Manhattan ' 03; Back to the Home Planet; Latte on the Hudson; Screech, Memory; Bungalow Chic; Part II Moods and Mores; The Allure of the Ledge; There's No Place Like Home. …”
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The Silent Child : Communication without Words

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER THIRTEEN Countertransference in the psychoanalysis of a silent adolescent boyCHAPTER FOURTEENA journey through family therapy with a non-speaking child; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Opaque silence in groups; PART IV CREATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR NON-SPEAKING CHILDREN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN The creative group experience; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Roar and rumpus: engaging non-speaking children through stories and songs; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX.…”
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Surrealist women : an international anthology

Table of Contents: “…. ; Unpublished Correspondence; The Philosophers'' Stone; The Lake; Eardrops from Babylon; Complaint for a Sorcerer; Womb; Round the World with the Rumpus God ...…”
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