A Hero Like You
Title | A Hero Like You PDF eBook |
Author | Nikki Rogers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2020-10-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780648723233 |
A Hero Like You looks at everyday heroes and highlights qualities such as loyalty, compassion, resourcefulness, justice, and courage. The lyrical rhyme and relatable illustrations remind us that we all have the opportunity to be a hero by helping others, doing right and making the world a better place. "What the world needs is a hero like you!"
Captain Marvel: What Makes a Hero
Title | Captain Marvel: What Makes a Hero PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Bobowicz |
Publisher | Disney Electronic Content |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1368050573 |
Introduce the young reader in your life to the inimitable, expectation-destroying, glass ceiling-shattering, world-saving female Super Heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Captain Marvel and Shuri to Gamora, Black Widow, Nebula, and more, in this beautifully-illustrated picture book aimed at the young reader set. Fans of all ages will be thrilled by this adventure that celebrates the strength, intelligence, and ingenuity of the women who are vital to MCU's best stories, distilled into a child-friendly package.
What Makes a Hero?
Title | What Makes a Hero? PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Svoboda |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1101622644 |
An entertaining investigation into the biology and psychology of why we sacrifice for other people Researchers are now applying the lens of science to study heroism for the first time. How do biology, upbringing, and outside influences intersect to produce altruistic and heroic behavior? And how can we encourage this behavior in corporations, classrooms, and individuals? Using dozens of fascinating real-life examples, Elizabeth Svoboda explains how our genes compel us to do good for others, how going through suffering is linked to altruism, and how acting heroic can greatly improve your mental health. She also reveals the concrete things we can do to encourage our most heroic selves to step forward. It’s a common misconception that heroes are heroic just because they’re innately predisposed to be that way. Svoboda shows why it’s not simply a matter of biological hardwiring and how anyone can be a hero if they're committed to developing their heroic potential.
A Hero Of Our Time
Title | A Hero Of Our Time PDF eBook |
Author | Mikhail Lermontov |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2009-01-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1590209567 |
The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov’s own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute.
A Hero in His Time
Title | A Hero in His Time PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur A. Cohen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780226112527 |
All his life Yuri Maximovich Isakovsky, a minor Russian poet, editor of a journal of folk music, sometime English translator, has assiduously avoided power and politics—in fact, attention of any kind. How can it be, then, that the Soviet government has chosen him to attend a conference in the fabled land of bourgeois temptation itself, New York City? And not only that, but to do a "piece of work" for the KGB, to deliver a code message embedded in the text of a certain poem to be read in public along with his own . . . "Cohen has achieved here a tour de force, bringing the idea of poetry to life in a messy little man, no hero at all, not even that much of a poet. . . . [The novel] is stately as well as funny, an authentically noble account of a celebrant. . . . It is the true article."—Geoffrey Wolff, New York Times Book Review "Arthur Cohen catches fire. . . . A Hero in His Time represents for him a great imaginative leap, for we are shown the interior mental landscape of a middle-aged Russian-Jewish minor poet and . . . most astonishing is that we believe, without question, in this poet."—Doris Grumbach, Village Voice "A tremendous achievement. . . . To have made this tremendous imaginative leap from the heart of American Jewishness to the heart of Russian Jewishness was a daring thing to do, and it has been accomplished with absolute conviction."—The Sunday Times (London) "A rich compound of high seriousness and robust comedy."—Newsweek
Pj Masks Time to Be a Hero
Title | Pj Masks Time to Be a Hero PDF eBook |
Author | Parragon Books Ltd. |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781527003071 |
Use the included paint palette and crayons and bring to life your favorite PJ Mask characters Owlette, Gekko, Luna Girl and many more. To add to the fun, this book comes with 50 amazing stickers.
A Hero of Our Time
Title | A Hero of Our Time PDF eBook |
Author | Naben Ruthnum |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2022-01-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0771096518 |
A wry comic novel with an acerbic wit, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity. Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s quest for corporate domination at AAP, an edutech startup determined to automate higher education. Osman, obsessed by Olivia’s ability to successfully disguise ambition and self-interest as collectivist diversity politics, is bent on exposing her. Aided by his colleague turned comrade-in-arms Nena, who loathes and tolerates him in equal measure, Osman delves into Olivia's twisted past. But at every turn, he's stymied by his unfailing gift for cruel observation, which he turns with most ferocity on himself, without ever noticing what it is that stops him from connecting to anyone in his past or present. As Osman loses his grip on his family, Nena, and everything he thought was essential to his identity, he confronts an enemy who may simply be too good at her job to be defeated. A Hero of Our Time cracks the veneer of well-intentioned race conversations in the West, dismantles cheery narratives of progress through tech and “streamlined” education, and exposes the venomous self-congratulation and devouring lust for wealth, power, and property that lurks beneath.