If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face? write by Alan Alda. This book was released on 2017. If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Never Have Your Dog Stuffed write by Alan Alda. This book was released on 2005-09-13. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. “My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six,” begins Alda’s irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. Yet Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show-business ups and downs. It is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only just begun to grow. It is the story of turning points in Alda’s life, events that would make him what he is–if only he could survive them. From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist’s shop with a hideous expression on his face, and he learns that death can’t be undone, to the decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father, both personally and professionally, Alda learns the hard way that change, uncertainty, and transformation are what life is made of, and true happiness is found in embracing them. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, filled with curiosity about nature, good humor, and honesty, is the crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen.
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself write by Alan Alda. This book was released on 2007-09-04. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions Alan Alda has asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?) Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself not only glad to be alive but searching for a way to squeeze the most juice out of his new life. Looking for a sense of meaning that would make this extra time count, he listens in on things he’s heard himself saying in private and in public at critical points in his life–from the turbulence of the sixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his life and in all our lives, he notices that “doorways are where the truth is told,” and wonders if there’s one thing–art, activism, family, money, fame–that could lead to a “life of meaning.” In a book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it is incisive, Alda amuses and moves us with his unique and hilarious meditations on questions great and small. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself is another superb Alan Alda performance, as inspiring and entertaining as the man himself. Praise for Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself “Engagingly thoughtful and thought-provoking . . . [Alan Alda] candidly shares many stories of his life, so easily and wittily you can hear him speak as you read.” –Sydney Sun Herald “Alda is chatty, easygoing and humble, rather like a Mr. Rogers for grownups. His words of inspiration would be a perfect gift for a college grad or for anyone facing major life changes.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Smart, engaged, funny and observant.” –San Antonio Express-News
Fires in the Mind
Fires in the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fires in the Mind write by Kathleen Cushman. This book was released on 2010-05-05. Fires in the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Teens talk to adults about how they develop motivation and mastery Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all. To put these students' ideas into practice, the book also includes practical tips for educators. Breaks new ground by bringing youth voices to a timely topic-motivation and mastery Includes worksheets, tips, and discussion guides that help put the book's ideas into practice Author has 18 previous books on adolescent learning and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Educational Leadership, and American Educator From the acclaimed author of Fires in the Bathroom, this is the next-step book that pushes the conversation to next level, as teenagers tackle the pressing challenges of motivation and mastery.
If I Get to Five
If I Get to Five - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If I Get to Five write by Fred Epstein. This book was released on 2004-05. If I Get to Five available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pediatric neurosurgeon shares lessons of hope, courage, love, and compassion learned from young patients facing life-threatening illnesses--lessons that sustained the talented surgeon through his own medical crisis.
