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It''s easy to assume that French words mean the same as English words when they look and sound pretty much the same. Most of the time you would be correct. However, occasional word pairs look the same, and may even be spelled the same, but have different meanings. They are called "false friends," or faux amis.These faux amis can cause misunderstandings, uncomfortable situations, and even embarrassment when you use them in conversation and they mean something entirely different than what you expected. This book is written to help you avoid these awkward misunderstandings.This is not a dry list of faux amis. It''s a book written in conversational language and is easy and fun to read. Each faux ami word pair is explained so that you will understand the difference between the usage of the word in French and in English, and often even how that difference arose. Each faux amis word is also accompanied by examples of the word used in sentences and phrases to illustrate, and to make very clear, exactly how it is used.When you have finished reading this book, you will have learned most of these faux amis simply because they are fascinating, and incredibly interesting, without ever having had to consciously memorize them.

In 1886, seventeen-year-old mother Emma Lewis left her parents'' home in Indiana and took a train west to the Dakota Territory. She was to join her husband, James, and start her new life as a married woman. With a mixture of excitement and sadness, she looked to the future that lay before her . . .October came in exceedingly hot and dry. Clouds of grasshoppers whirred over the plains, a desolate sight. Charley and Jim left for a few days to get supplies. Emma and the girls sat on the shady side of the house where she was teaching them to crochet. She noticed the acrid odor of smoke. The odor deepened rapidly and the sun turned a bright orange. It then turned a deep ruby red and disappeared into a gloom of hellish smoke swirls. Suddenly, it was night. The little girls were the first to realize the horrible truth, "Oh, Aunt Emma, the prairie''s on fire!" They looked back only once to see the flames lapping up their lovely home. On and on they ran, choked by the smoke, and constantly slapping out the bits of burning grass that caught onto their clothing and hair. Emma was in no condition to carry her child any further. She was completely exhausted and ready to give up . . .A Dakota Woman is a true account of life on the Dakota prairie. Written by Emma Elizabeth Lewis, it documents one family''s hopes, dreams, sorrows, and adventures. From tales of prairie fires to meeting Thomas Edison, A Dakota Woman gives an accurate look into life on the prairie in the late 1800s.

Chrysotile Arizona was established at the bottom of Ash Creek Canyon as an asbestos mining town around 1914. Over time, the community''s existence has been nearly forgotten. Now, through notes, letters, original pictures, and first-hand accounts of one of Chrysotile''s oldest surviving residents, the town comes alive again on the pages of this book. Readers will learn about the good times and the bad as they explore the work and play of those who lived in this remote area, from the town''s humble beginnings in 1914 to its closing in 1945.

The way we appear and the roles we play make up the human shell that coats our spiritual selves. But who are we really? Becoming Beautiful asks pertinent questions that challenge us to look beneath the surface and discover the beautiful being within.We may begin this journey thinking we are too fat, not smart enough, too lazy, too poor, too sinful, too old, too bored, too this or that . . . but as we get beyond the labels we''ve allowed to define us, we can begin to reacquaint ourselves with our spirituality.And as we become spiritually aware and fully present in our own lives, we recover the ability to experience who we truly are. The reality is, we are beautiful.All living things are beautiful.

DUTY, HONOR and VALOR-A Salute to Veterans of All U.S. Wars and Military Service is the exclusive work of The Society of Southwestern Authors (SSA). All accounts and poems contained herein are written by members of SSA. Some are the authors' own stories; others are about or dedicated to friends, family or acquaintances. All stories are true experiences or factual remembrances of the men and women who have served our country in uniform in times of war and peace. The Society of Southwestern Authors is a nonprofit association of writers and other publishing professionals. Its objective is to conduct a program of activities designed to: . Promote mutually supportive friendship among writers . Provide recognition of members' achievements . Encourage and assist persons seeking to become published writers If the Society sounds like the kind of organization that you would like to join, or know more about, contact SSA at website www.ssa-az.org or by postal mail, P.O. Box 30355, Tucson, AZ 85751-0355.

The world today is witnessing the terminal breakup of the great materialist belief systems of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that so powerfully shaped the secular modern mind. No metaphor better encapsulates that breakup of the visionary theories and credos of nature, man, and society advanced by Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud than The Black Box. Each of the materialist faiths generated by modernity's famous quartet of founders contained an unknown chamber of surprises, a black box that its author could not, or did not see into. Today the black boxes stand open. First, the intricate cell of life, which the crude optics of Darwin's time could not penetrate, is indisputably a structure designed by intelligence. Second, the hidden component of mass killing that proved organic to Marxist revolutionary regimes. Third, the propensity of Nietzsche's bold vision of trans-moral overmen to produce, not the aesthetic ideal, but cold totalitarian monsters. Fourth, the widespread subversion of individual moral behavior legitimized by the deluded Freudian assertion of the primacy of subconscious drives over the rational mind. In the early twenty-first century, our civilization looks back upon the tragic legacy of materialism: a worldview that declared God to be a human invention, the galaxies and life on Earth cosmic accidents, and morality a factor of need and situation in an aimless universe. God substitutes emerged to fill the void. Religion-hostile National Socialist and Communist party regimes assumed in the twentieth century higher moral authority to kill their unwanted subjects and alien victims on a scale unprecedented in modern history. The stories of this book dramatize the life-crises of five acolytes of the famous four gospels of materialism that so powerfully shaped the violent twentieth century world, along with a sixth who returned on the eve of the millennium for a second look. In these stories, irony and humor could not be avoided.

Is your public school too large and distant (both physically and socially) for you and your children, too impersonal (take a number, please), and too bureaucratic (with layers and layers of officials)?Though one-room and small schools are sometimes seen through rose-colored glasses, they made parents and students feel more welcomed, more interactive, more intimate with each other and the school''s programs, and-even today where they still exist in the United States (the mid- and far-West)-more academically superior.Today, with electronic advancements available-computers, videos, distance libraries and learning for research-there is no reason to crowd students like a herd of cattle into schools and classrooms. Research has proven that a smaller economy of scale is not more expensive. Some have recently started talking about scaling down the size of schools (not those, of course, with a vested interest in the large school "plant"), but it has been mostly talk. When will the real community school return?This volume has three focuses: 1) The nostalgic remembrances of an early Maryland one-room school by those who attended and taught there (with interesting data and old-timey pictures), 2) a brief, succinct, and eye-opening history of small schools in America, and 3) easy-to-read research briefs that support returning to smaller, local-community schools today.

As educators, we are truly "saving lives" every day. Teaching is an awesome task that requires a missionary zeal that can drain the best of educators. Teaching: Excellence or Survival? celebrates the impact teachers have on children and encourages teachers to not just survive their journey, but to strive for excellence. Using real-world examples, educational research, humor, and a dash of common sense, this easy-to-read reflective guide examines the challenges and rewards of the greatest profession in the world.

It isn''t easy to let go of those we love so deeply. Sometimes we feel as if we will explode with grief. For many years, Maria A. Behm allowed her estranged relationship with her son to weigh her down, crying to alleviate the pain. Many times she thought she would not survive because all she knew was her children and what they brought into her life. She didn''t realize that her struggles were putting a strain on her marriage.Mothering is forever, and forever we are mothering, says Maria. The uncertainty that comes with motherhood, however, can be replaced with love and purpose—if we decide to let go. Maria found that by writing about her anger and resentment, she found peace, serenity, and the fulfillment that only comes from within. In writing to find solace, Maria found herself.

A refreshingly simple and entertaining story, The Legend of Destiny is a must read.

The i Tetralogy-i, I Am Gunther, Gunther's Lament, Gunther Redux-is the gut-wrenching epic depiction of the dehumanization of man through an incisive observation of three pivotal characters. Each of them, victim, perpetrator, and murderer's son, is inextricably linked by the varying dimensions of their moral nature. Assaying the monumental impact of the Holocaust, this species-shattering event, the tetralogy elucidates a truth about humanity: the Holocaust has forever defined the species as indelibly damaged, capable on a molecular level of killing and consuming its own. The reader experiences this unvarnished-perhaps axiomatic-truth about humanity, which no revisionist can deny. The reader also ponders the risk in forgetting, in sanitizing, in "sweetening" the Holocaust.

The United States is on the brink of total collapse. The military has been reduced to near extinction, economic turmoil saps hope, and anarchy threatens as world powers hover like vultures, eager to devour the remains. In a desperate move, a few powerful men call a secret meeting to plot the overthrow of the government. Fifty-five men came to Philadelphia in May of 1787 with a congressional charter to revise the Articles of Confederation. Instead they founded the longest lasting republic in world history. Tempest at Dawn tells their story.

Heidi Siefkas lost her health, her career, and her marriage after she was struck by a one-thousand-pound tree branch. While she made great strides in her physical and emotional recovery in the months that followed -- an arduous process that she chronicled in When All Balls Drop -- Heidi wasn't content to merely survive her setbacks. The time was right to build a new life. One she could live on her own terms.But what would a redesigned life look like? In her quest for answers, Heidi returned to her childhood home in Wisconsin, dove into the South Florida dating scene, revisited old flames in New England, sold her first home, jumped out of a plane, and traveled alone to South America. Every leg of her journey provided a healthy dose of perspective.With New Eyes is full of mishaps and bold decisions, all seasoned with sassy humor. Through her signature down-to-earth vignettes, Heidi inspires you to conquer your fears, head for adventure, and become the captain of your own ship.

My earlier book, The Wrights of Vermont (Wheatmark, 2013), reported the search I began about ten years ago for my father's Vermont forebears. I had learned a lot, especially about my grandmother's heroic efforts to save her shaky marriage. Eventually she left Vermont to begin a new life on Staten Island for herself and her two sons, Dad and Uncle Ray.This book shows Dad and Mother starting their family on Staten Island and describes our home, our neighborhood, the boarding house where we sometimes dined, the schools we attended, the songs we sang, how we learned to think about money, work, fun, guilt, and politics, and our experience, especially mine, of illness, solitude, and books.Later chapters show our horizons expanding. They tell where we went on outings and how we spent our summers (ours at a riverside cottage near the New Jersey coast, and mine at an unusual summer camp in upstate New York), and they sketch the different world we found when we moved to Manhattan in 1941. I entered Columbia then and began to discover new realms of literature, philosophy, and music. Then at eighteen, with other young men of that time, I was swept up into military service in the U.S. Army and war in France and Germany.