As Sharma-Sindhar sobbed in her mother’s lap, she stroked her hair, hugged her and told me her there would be another test, and she’d pass that one. She went to her mother, teary-eyed, with her results. Parenting example: Sharma-Sindhar shares a story in her Atlantic blog about how she herself failed a Hindi test when she was in fifth or sixth grade. Elephant Mom: A mom who believes that she needs to nurture, protect and encourage her children. Parenting example: Chua shares a story in her book about how she hauled her then–7-year-old daughter's dollhouse out to the car and told her that the dollhouse would be donated to the Salvation Army piece by piece if the daughter didn’t master a difficult piano composition by the next day. Tiger Mother: A mother who is very strict with her child to foster an academically competitive spirit. For those of you unclear about what Tiger and Elephant moms are, here’s a breakdown. Blogger Priyanka Sharma-Sindhar recently wrote a piece for the Atlantic titled “Being an ‘Elephant Mom’ in the Time of the Tiger Mother,” which takes a look at the softer side of parenting while challenging the tough love parenting approach writer Amy Chua discusses in her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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But when James uncovers evidence of police corruption he realizes that Moran may be in as much danger as he is. So does Argent want to clear him or expose him? Touching Sparks by Ginn Hale: When photojournalist James Sparks discovers an underworld of sorcery, blood sports, and demonic drug traffic, he turns to Detective Ben Moran, a hard-bodied Hell Cop whose touch sends James's pulse racing. Instead, he gets Argent, a man with intimate knowledge of Michael and whom Michael can't penetrate with his psychic powers. As a half-demon he expects trouble from the city's Hell Cops. His apartment's been ransacked, his dad's missing, and he's been framed for murder. Red Sands by Nicole Kimberling: Anthropologist Michael Gold's got problems. But Jay's burgeoning hope is threatened when a malevolent sorcerer unleashes a host of demonic assassins against Brian. Isolated, he is tortured by desire, until he meets Brian, a sensual young man who touches him with impunity. 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Check out this book The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Above all she was struck by the extraordinary hospitality, generosity and helpfulness of the Siberians who made this strange phenomenon - a maimed Irish babushka - so welcome in their towns and homes. Although hardly able to walk, her subsequent experiences, in an unexpected place, and in an incapacitated state, provided many pleasant surprises. But by accident, or rather because she had an accident - a painful leg injury -, she found herself stymied in Eastern Siberia, a place she knew very little about. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead. Surveying Caffa in 1340, a Muslim visitor declared it a handsome town of "beautiful markets with a worthy port in which I saw two hundred ships big and small." Thrusting church spires and towers crowded the busy skyline, while across the bustling town docks flowed Merdacaxi silks from Central Asia, sturgeon from the Don, slaves from the Ukraine, and timber and furs from the great Russian forests to the north. Eighty years later, seventy thousand to eighty thousand people coursed through Caffa's narrow streets, and a dozen different tongues echoed through its noisy markets. In 1266, when the Genoese first arrived in southern Russia, Caffa was a primitive fishing village tucked away far from the eyes of God and man on the dark side of the Crimea - a collection of windswept lean-tos set between an empty sea and a ring of low-rising hills. But in the Middle Ages, when Feodosiya was called Caffa and a Genoese proconsul sat in a white palace above the harbor, the city was one of the fastest-growing ports in the medieval world. Today the city is a rusty wasteland of post-Soviet decay. An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time Chapter One Oimmeddamįeodosiya sits on the eastern coast of the crimea, a rectangular spit of land where the Eurasian steppe stops to dip its toe into the Black Sea. |