Jane Miller: 36 books
by Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
“Book by book, Jane Miller has evolved a mode, a voice, a palette and landscape entirely her own. If she were a painter, one might describe it as a descendant of cubism, a composition of multiple planes and reflections that appears to emerge out of itself, true to laws of its own nature, and yet...
In My Own Time
Thoughts and Afterthoughts
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully observed pieces about life, politics and Britain open a window to her American readers of a world very different from their own.
'Her...
by Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Our childhood such a large cellar with no bulb.Jane Miller brings a painterly eye to the elegiac in an ambitiously linked sequence that explores ecstasy and desire, memory and loss, the ancient and the ultramodern. Suggesting the thunderbird of Native American lore as readily as modern American...
by Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illuminations that come from the last days of parents. Relations describes a record-keeping kinship and offers portraits of her parents' long marriage, its...
by Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Poor Bob House. A private investigator with nothing to investigate he's nearly out of options. His business associates are drunks and perverts and even his shell-shocked drinking buddies won't bother with him. It's 1978 and times are tough in the Motor City. Now, even the bodies of dead children start to seem like good news to him.
by Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
In this, her seventh collection of poems, Miller redefines poetry to accomodate a richly complex lyric style. Intelligent, lush, and visionary, her poems have been compared as the poetic equivalents of the paintings of Jackson Pollack or Jasper Johns. Miller's poetry is ultra modern, mixing elements...
Outside Looking In
Viewing First Nations Peoples in Canadian Dramatic Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Using recent scholarship in ethnography and popular culture, Miller throws light on both what these series present and what is missing, how various long-standing issues are raised and framed differently over time, and what new issues appear. She looks at narrative arc, characterization, dialogue,...
Sensational Kids Revised Edition
Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Revised and updated—the authoritative bestseller that presents the latest research on Sensory Processing Disorder.
Sensory Processing Disorder is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms that can be difficult for parents and pediatricians to identify. In Sensational...
Sensational Kids
Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Revised and updated—the authoritative bestseller that presents the latest research on Sensory Processing Disorder.
Sensory Processing Disorder is an increasingly common diagnosis, with a wide range of symptoms that can be difficult for parents and pediatricians to identify. In Sensational...
The Tiger and the Hare
Chasing the Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
The Tiger and the Hare offers an exciting and unusual take on Americas Vietnam adventure. Author Jane Chai presents the thrilling story of a young American woman caught up in the seething intrigue of South Vietnam in the early days of 1962 and 1963, an absolutely critical period which set the stage---for...
by Carol Kranowitz, Lucy Jane Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.
Does your child exhibit...
Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a "sensory...
Crazy Age
Thoughts on Being Old
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Ever since I have inhabited old age, I have looked and listened, mostly in vain, for news of what it is like for others who inhabit it too. Naturally, I'm interested in its well-known depredations, the physical and mental ones that people in their forties and fifties so publicly dread. And who would...
Writing for Understanding
Using Backwards Design to Help All Students Write Effectively
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2008
Writing for Understanding is for teachers. The book lays out a manageable, effective approach to teacher planning so that students have access to all of those elements, especially the first three, before they sit down to write. Based on the principle of “backward design” (Wiggins and McTighe), it...
Understanding and Treating Self-Injurious Behavior in Autism
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Self-injurious behavior occurs in almost half of those with autism and is one of the most devastating and challenging-to-treat behaviors. There are many different forms of self-injury, such as head banging, hand biting, hair pulling, excessive scratching, and much more. With contributions from the...