Author: Monica DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Author: Monica DickensOne Pair of Hands
Author: Monica DickensPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448116090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
'Life was a wordless battle of wits between us, with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of neglect, and me trying to disguise my slovenliness by subterfuge. I became an adept at sweeping dust under the bed, and always used the same few pieces of silver' Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls, Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With no experience whatsoever, she gained employment as a cook-general. Monica's cooking and cleaning skills left much to be desired, and her first few positions were short lived, but soon she started to hold her own. Monica discovered the pleasure of daily banter with the milkman and grocer's boy and the joy of doing an honest day's work, all the while keeping a wry eye on the childish pique of her employers. One Pair of Hands is a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining memoir of life upstairs and downstairs in the early 1930s.
Author: Monica Dickens
Author: Illinois. Department of Public HealthThe Foot Fix
Author: Yamuna ZakePublisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1786784742
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book will empower you to get your feet functioning as they should do, without any medical intervention. Includes a 4-week plan of quick-and-easy exercises to get your feet back into shape, plus solutions for specific foot issues, from plantar fasciitis to fallen arches. This is a uniquely helpful and accessible guide to taking control of your own foot health by holistic heath innovator Yamuna Zake. We don't need doctors, orthotics or even surgery to relieve common foot problems, such as plantar fasciitis, bunions, neuromas, arthritis, hammertoes, and flat feet. By learning a correct gait that uses the entire foot to distribute weight, we can relieve and prevent common foot problems without any medical intervention. The book offers an easy-to-follow 4-week program of routines that take just 15 minutes a day during the program and allows readers to fix their feet and take ownership of their body. Each of the four weeks focuses on a different part of the foot: the heel, the arch, the ball and the toes. There are 3-4 exercises in each section and readers try them all and can choose to focus on those exercises in each section that they enjoy most. This programme is then supported with mindful foot practices to ensure bad habits don't return. Six common foot problems are also explored, including their causes (specific incorrect walking patterns) and ways of preventing and relieving them (exercises plus mindful practices). You won't find any medical concepts or terminology in this book, nor do you need to learn complicated foot anatomy. The whole program is based on what you already know: walking. You'll learn how to walk and stand correctly and to use every part of your feet as nature intended. That's all you need to do!
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Author: Lisa SeePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747588155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
Fixing Your Feet
Author: John VonhofPublisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899978312
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Foot pain and injuries can thwart even the most experienced athletes. Foot expert and ultra runner John Vonhof discredits the conventional wisdom of 'no pain, no gain,' teaching instead how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy or hurting feet. With a focus on individual and team care, the 6th edition of Fixing Your Feet covers all that any active person needs to know to find out what works now and also hundreds of miles down the road. This sixth edition has an important new chapter, Blister Prevention - A New Paradigm. It contains new information about blister formation and introduces the concept of shear, which in turn, changes the way we look at blister prevention and treatment. This comprehensive resources covers the full gamut of footwear basics, prevention, and treatments. If it can happen to a foot, it's covered in this book.
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet
Author: Dr. SeussPublisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0394800400
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
¡Una edición en rima y en español de un clásico de la colección Beginner Books de Dr. Seuss acerca de la autoaceptación! En este gracioso y ameno libro de Dr. Seuss, un niño evalúa los pros y los contras de poseer varias extremedidades de animales, como las astas de un venado, el pitorro de una ballena y la trompa de un elefante, solo para concluir que es mejor ser él mismo. Con encantadoras ilustraciones del caricaturista neoyorquino B. Tobey, esta es una historia alocada y reveladora que los primeros lectores querrán escuchar una y otra vez. Creados originalmente por el propio Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books son libros divertidos, graciosos y fáciles de leer. Estos libros de tapa dura sin sobrecubierta animan a los niños a leer individualmente, usando palabras e ilustraciones sencillas. Más pequeños que los clásicos libros ilustrados de Dr. Seuss, de gran formato, como El Lórax y ¡Oh, cuán lejos llegarás!, son perfectos para que los lectores de 3 a 7 años practiquen, ¡y para sus afortunados padres también! Las ediciones en rima y en español de los libros clásicos de Dr. Seuss de Random House hacen que la alegre experiencia de leer los libros del Dr. Seuss esté disponible para los más de 41 millones de personas en los Estados Unidos que hablan español. Los lectores pueden disfrutar de más de 30 títulos clásicos de Dr. Seuss, que incluyen: The Cat in the Hat (El Gato Ensombrerado); Green Eggs and Ham (Huevos verdes con jamón); One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (Un pez dos peces pez rojo pez azul); The Lorax (El Lórax); Oh, the Places You'll Go! (¡Oh, cuán lejos llegarás!); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (¡Cómo el Grinch robó la Navidad!); y Horton Hears a Who! (¡Horton escucha a Quién!). Ideales para su uso en el hogar y en el salón de clases, han sido cuidadosamente traducidos en rima por hispano-hablantes latinoamericanos. A rhymed Spanish edition of Dr. Seuss's classic Beginner Book about self-acceptance! In this comical easy-reader by Dr. Seuss, a young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages—such as a deer's antlers, a whale's spout, and an elephant's trunk-only to decide that he's better off just being himself. With charming illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist B. Tobey, this is a zany, insightful story that beginning readers will wish to hear again and again!
My Turn to Make the Tea
Author: Monica DickensPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349016003
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE 'Wherever her eye falls, it finds the exact, significant detail, and her ear for dialogue is unerring' OBSERVER 'Monica's naked curiosity and general bolshiness are easy to identify with' LISSA EVANS Poppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in the office'. He certainly doesn't think she's a nuisance when it's time for the tea round - a job which never fails to fall to the only female reporter. What Poppy lacks in experience, she makes up for in spirit and ambition. She'll make the Downingham Post the best regional newspaper there is - even if she occasionally gets the names wrong in court hearings. Life for a single professional woman in the post-war years certainly has its challenges - from finding a room, when the tyrannical landlady doesn't consider Poppy to be quite respectable to changing her editor's deeply entrenched ways. This semi-autobiographical novel, recounted with Monica Dickens's wit, warmth and wry observation will charm all who read it. If you enjoyed My Turn to Make the Tea, you will love One Pair of Feet, Dickens's novel of being a wartime trainee nurse, also published in Virago Modern Classics.
