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Environmental Science: A Global Concern
By William P. Cunningham, Mary Ann Cunningham. 2018
Environmental Science: A Global Concern is a comprehensive presentation of environmental science for non-science majors which emphasizes critical thinking, environmental…
responsibility, and global awareness. This book is intended for use in a one or two-semester course in environmental science, human ecology, or environmental studies at the college or advanced placement high school level. As practicing scientists and educators, the Cunningham author team brings decades of experience in the classroom, in the practice of science, and in civic engagement. This experience helps give students a clear sense of what environmental science is and why it matters in this exciting, new 14th edition. Environmental Science: A Global Concern provides readers with an up-to-date, introductory global view of essential themes in environmental science. The authors balance evidence of serious environmental challenges with ideas about what we can do to overcome them. An entire chapter focuses on ecological restoration; one of the most important aspects of ecology today. Case studies in most chapters show examples of real progress, and “What Can You Do?” lists give students ideas for contributing to solutions.Practical Problems In Mathematics for Drafting and CAD (Practical Problems In Mathematics)
By John Larkin, Concetta Duval. 2013
Designed to enhance math skills of the reader in the field of drafting, this completely updated fourth edition of Practical…
Problems in Mathematics For Drafting and CAD presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary drafting problems, CAD drawings, and industry applications and practices. This text provides a variety of integrated math problems and CAD operations in order to facilitate critical thinking, problem solving, and basic mathematics literacy. Filled with real-world applications and designed to cover a range of skills and levels of difficulty, the fourth edition includes updated figures, illustrations, problem sets, examples, and solutions in order to give you the skills you need to succeed in the field of drafting.The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques
By Anastasia Young. 2010
This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference for jewelers brings together a vast range of skills, techniques, and technical data into…
one volume. Offering detailed explanations and step-by-step photography to demonstrate procedures, this handbook includes a complete reference section featuring tool shapes, an index of gems, a glossary, standard sizes and measurements, conversion tables, and an extensive list of resources. Additionally, the manual offers a directory of tools and materials--including a key to identifying tools for a "beginner's kit"--a historical introduction to jewelry, and suggestions for photographing and promoting completed pieces. Remarkable cutting-edge pieces by jewelry makers and designers from around the world are used to illustrate the various processes involved in creating exceptional jewelry. Covering everything from traditional metalsmithing skills and using alternative materials, such as plastics and resin, to discussing issues involved with outsourcing work to specialist external suppliers, this is an indispensable and essential resource for both students and professionals.Social Problems
By John J. Macionis. 2020
Macionis's book is the only social problems text that explains how society frames social problems and solutions through politics. The…
text analyzes social issues and policies, using the concepts of sociological theory and the everyday language of politics. It also helps students understand the attitudes and values that define the political spectrum in the United States. Once students know how social problems are defined by our society through politics, and how the policies to solve these problems are developed, they can become involved in solving social problems through activism and political involvement.Making Waves: My Journey to Winning Olympic Gold and Defeating the East German Doping Program
By Chris Epting Shirley Babashoff. 2016
In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she…
was the most successful U.S. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer in the world. Heading into the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Babashoff was pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and followed closely by the media. Hopes were high that she would become “the female Mark Spitz.” All of that changed once Babashoff questioned the shocking masculinity of the swimmers on the East German women’s team. Once celebrated as America’s golden girl, Babashoff was accused of poor sportsmanship and vilified by the press with a new nickname: “Surly Shirley.” Making Waves displays the remarkable strength and resilience that made Babashoff such a dynamic champion. From her difficult childhood and beginnings as a determined young athlete growing up in Southern California in the 1960s, through her triumphs as the greatest female amateur swimmer in the world, Babashoff tells her story in the same unflinching manner that made her both the most dominant female swimmer of her time and one of the most controversial athletes in Olympic history.During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature…
that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, high-minded and well-intentioned scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that the complexity of literature—of ideas bound to concrete images, of ideologies leavened with experiences—enshrined such values as no other medium could. Creative writing emerged as a graduate discipline in the United States amid this astonishing swirl of grand conceptions. The early workshops were formed not only at the time of, but in the image of, and under the tremendous urgency of, the postwar imperatives for the humanities. Vivid renderings of personal experience would preserve the liberal democratic soul—a soul menaced by the gathering leftwing totalitarianism of the USSR and the memory of fascism in Italy and Germany. Workshops of Empire explores this history via the careers of Paul Engle at the University of Iowa and Wallace Stegner at Stanford. In the story of these founding fathers of the discipline, Eric Bennett discovers the cultural, political, literary, intellectual, and institutional underpinnings of creative writing programs within the university. He shows how the model of literary technique championed by the first writing programs—a model that values the interior and private life of the individual, whose experiences are not determined by any community, ideology, or political system—was born out of this Cold War context and continues to influence the way creative writing is taught, studied, read, and written into the twenty-first century.Science 6
By Bju Press. 2020
Science 6 explores earth science, physical science, life science, and the human body. Hands-on activities bring concepts to life, and…
allow the student to see what biblical principles are at work in nature. Clearly-written chapters will help students engage with the subjects introduced, including earthquakes, volcanoes, weathering, natural resources, cells, classification system, reproduction, genetics, atoms, molecules, motion, machines, and the nervous & immune systems. Science experiments, projects, diagrams, and charts are also provided, along with review exercises. 408 pages, softcover.Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis And Application
By Richard West, Lynn H. Turner. 2007
This popular text introduces the field of communication to students who may have little or no background in communication theory.…
Its three overriding goals are to help students understand the pervasiveness of theory in their lives, to demystify the theoretical process, and to help students become more systematic and critical on their thinking about theory. Each theory chapter follows a consistent format that includes a vignette, an introduction, a summary of assumptions, a description of core concepts, and a critique. This consistency provides continuity for students and ensures a balanced presentation of theories. The Third edition includes the most current communication research available (at the time), with over 100 new references.Contemporary Economics
By William A. McEachern. 2018
Bring economics to life with rich, practical examples that make concepts clear and intriguing. CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS blends economic expertise and…
educational insights with comprehensive content, sound instructional design, and extensive print and media teaching tools. The book covers CEE's (Council for Economic Education) Standards completely and repeatedly. This text includes two chapters covering personal finance, including information on managing money and being a responsible consumer. A wealth of print, video, electronic, and online resources make it simple to address varied learning styles, use formal and informal assessment, and integrate technology where it makes sense to you.What School Leaders Need to Know About English Learners
By Jan Dormer. 2016
School leaders have the unique opportunity and responsibility to play a crucial role in creating a culture of high expectations…
and an environment of support so that English language learners can succeed and continue to enrich the fabric of our country. What School Leaders Need to Know About English Learners offers school leaders the foundation, the ideas, and the strategies to not only improve outcomes for English language learners, but to create rich multicultural and multilingual school environments which benefit all students. This book equips school leaders with effective, research-based strategies and best practices to help both ESOL and content-area teachers succeed in their roles. Includes a Professional Development Guide and a rich array of "Grab and Go" online resources. Copublished with National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus: Modern Photography Explained
By Jackie Higgins. 2013
This lively, informed defense of modern photography focuses on not focusing--and other unconventional methods that have been successfully employed by…
acclaimed photographers. In an age where anyone with a camera can call him- or herself a photographer, an apparent lack of technique might be mistaken for a lack of artistic sophistication. In this delightful follow-up to Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That, Jackie Higgins offers superb examples to counter that assumption, such as Hiroshi Sugimoto's anachronistic use of a 19th-century large-format camera to produce intentionally fuzzy pictures, and Richard Prince's controversial technique of "re-photographing" photos, which unleashed a barrage of criticism that he was profiting from others' work. From portraits to documentary images and from abstractions to landscapes, the author identifies 100 important images that are emblematic of innovation in modern photography, revealing the frequently complex processes involved in their composition. In so doing, she offers a provocative reminder of what makes a great photograph.Tort Law and Practice
By Dominick Vetri, Lawrence C. Levine, Joan E. Vogel, Ibrahim J. Gassama. 2016
Tort Law and Practice provides a rich context for the study of Tort Law. Teachers and students consistently rate this…
book highly. This innovative casebook thoroughly develops the core torts principles, and has many unique features, such as: emphasis on contemporary cases while retaining the classic cases; use of problems (with model answers for teachers) to facilitate learning and application; variety of negligence duty issues to select from for classroom focus; balanced presentation of alternative points of view; inclusion of substantive and damages issues reflecting the diversity of U.S. society; summary of contents at the beginning of each chapter to help students keep the concepts in focus; boxed outline summaries and flow charts to facilitate learning; ethical issues in personal injury cases discussed in context; and practice materials included to help students understand the process.Who or what lurks below the decks of the ships at Mystic Seaport? Does playwright Eugene O?Neill still ?live? in…
his family's cottage on the New London shore? Are there really vampires in Connecticut? Can Israel Putnam's ghost still see the whites of your eyes?This captivating book presents tales and legends from Eastern Connecticut's most haunted locations?dark deeds and lore from New London and Mystic, and stretching all the way to Brooklyn, Windham and Franklin. Like eerie and desperate whispers on the wind, the ghosts of Connecticut's past reveal their deepest, darkest secrets to author and paranormal investigator Donna Kent as she sheds new light on this collection of spine-tingling legends.Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy
By Jay L. Garfield. 2015
This is a book for scholars of Western philosophy who wish to engage with Buddhist philosophy, or who simply want…
to extend their philosophical horizons. It is also a book for scholars of Buddhist studies who want to see how Buddhist theory articulates with contemporary philosophy. Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy articulates the basic metaphysical framework common to Buddhist traditions. It then explores questions in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, the philosophy of language and ethics as they are raised and addressed in a variety of Asian Buddhist traditions. In each case the focus is on philosophical problems; in each case the connections between Buddhist and contemporary Western debates are addressed, as are the distinctive contributions that the Buddhist tradition can make to Western discussions. Engaging Buddhism is not an introduction to Buddhist philosophy, but an engagement with it, and an argument for the importance of that engagement. It does not pretend to comprehensiveness, but it does address a wide range of Buddhist traditions, emphasizing the heterogeneity and the richness of those traditions. The book concludes with methodological reflections on how to prosecute dialogue between Buddhist and Western traditions.The Future of Whiteness
By Linda Martín Alcoff. 2015
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of…
slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly clear: 'to take our country back.' Meanwhile the spectre of 'minority status' draws closer, and the material advantages of being born white are eroding. This is the political and cultural reality tackled by Linda Martín Alcoff in The Future of Whiteness. She argues that whiteness is here to stay, at least for a while, but that half of whites have given up on ideas of white supremacy, and the shared public, material culture is more integrated than ever. More and more, whites are becoming aware of how they appear to non-whites, both at home and abroad, and this is having profound effects on white identity in North America. The young generation of whites today, as well as all those who follow, will have never known a country in which they could take white identity as the unchallenged default that dominates the political, economic and cultural leadership. Change is on the horizon, and the most important battleground is among white people themselves. The Future of Whiteness makes no predictions but astutely analyzes the present reaction and evaluates the current signs of turmoil. Beautifully written and cogently argued, the book looks set to spark debate in the field and to illuminate an important area of racial politics.Stories of the Sea (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics)
By Diana Secker Tesdell. 2010
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea,…
of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters. Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London mix with marvelously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith, and J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury’s “The Fog Horn” summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths; John Updike’s vacationing lovers retrace the route of Homer’s Odyssey on a cruise ship. From Edgar Allan Poe’s dramatic “A Descent into the Maelstrom” to Ernest Hemingway’s chilling “After the Storm” to Mark Helprin’s heartbreaking “Sail Shining in White,” the stories here are as wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself.The Aspern Papers and Other Tales
By Henry James. 2014
This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James’s short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and…
life. In the title story, “The Aspern Papers,” a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet’s papers hidden in a faded Venetian house—no mater what the human cost. “The Author of Beltraffio,” “The Lesson of the Master,” and “The Figure in the Carpet” all focus on naive young men’s unsettling encounters with their literary heroes. In “The Middle Years,” a dying novelist begins to glimpse his own potential, while “The Real Thing” and “Greville Fane” explore the tension between artistic and commercial success. These fables of the creative life reveal James at his ironic, provocative best. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (Norton Critical Editions)
By Olaudah Equiano, Werner Sollors. 2001
Chosen by the Guardian as one of the one hundred best nonfiction books of all time, Olaudah Equiano’s searing first-person…
account helped awaken contemporary readers to the nightmare of slavery. Olaudah Equiano begins his memoir with reflections on his childhood in West Africa - but that discussion ends abruptly as Equiano and his sister are kidnapped, separated, and sold into bondage. Subsequent sales take Equiano across the Atlantic Ocean to Bermuda, then out to sea, and then back across the Atlantic to England. As a result, Equiano is able to testify to the unfathomable cruelties of eighteenth-century slavery at many stages, including the journey across the Middle Passage, life on a plantation, and the quest for self-emancipation. Equiano eventually purchases his freedom and achieves some success, but his narrative stands as a clear-eyed testimony against the institution of slavery - one that also played an important role in enlisting readers all over the world in the cause of abolition.Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense
By Greg Johnson, Thomas R. Arp. 2018
An authoritative, continually updated bestseller for over sixty years, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE, 13e provides the most effective…
introduction to literature for a new generation of learners. Written for students beginning a serious study of literature, the text introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts ignore, such as "Is some literature better?" and "How can it be evaluated?" A rich and diverse selection of classic, modern, and contemporary readings brings the elements of literature to life and is updated with new stories, poems, and plays by some of the finest authors of any era. In addition, the thirteenth edition reflects the most recently published MLA guide (8th edition, 2016).Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician
By William Hopkins. 2019
Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician, 5th edition offers a friendly, intuitive, self-instructional approach to the lifelong understanding of…
pharmacy calculations. Filled with real-world practice problems and the author s good humor and encouragement, the book is a unique training resource, whether for the classroom, the national Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination, or the pharmacy practice setting.