Classic Painting Atelier by Juliette Aristides
A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
Want to paint like Rembrandt– and not like “modern artists” like Pollock? Read this beautifully illustrated and exquisitely written book.
Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott
“No parent wakes up in the morning planning to make a child’s life miserable. No mother or father says, ‘Today I’ll yell, nag, and humiliate my child whenever possible.’ On the contrary, in the morning many parents resolve, ‘This is going to be a peaceful day. No yelling, no arguing, and no fighting.’ Yet, in spite of good intentions, the unwanted war breaks out again.” […]
“What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? Do we run after her and say “What is the matter with you? Every time you come to visit you forget something. If it’s not one thing it’s another. Why can’t you be like your sister? When she comes to visit, she knows how to behave. You’re forty-four years old! Will you never learn? I’m not a slave to pick up after you! I bet you’d forget your head if it weren’t attached to your shoulders.” That’s not what we say to a guest. We say “Here’s your umbrella, Alice,” without adding “scatterbrain.” Parents need to learn to respond to their children as they do to guests.” – Haim Ginott
According to Dr. Ginott’s parenting is a skill that can be learned via a series of communication techniques that allow the parent to:
- discipline without bribes, sarcasm, and punishment,
- criticize without demeaning,
- express anger without alienating,
- acknowledge rather than argue with a child’s feelings,
- respond so that children will learn to trust and develop self-confidence.
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future By Johan Norberg
“Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering, darkness and division, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now.”
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators is the story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s, moving on to Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orzcy
“Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down.”