Handful of Pencils
Author | : Sarah Bates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781958878972 |
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Author | : Sarah Bates |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781958878972 |
Author | : Henry Petroski |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 1992-11-10 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0679734155 |
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.
Author | : F. C. Hoppensteadt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1997-06-28 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521599290 |
This book describes the signal processing aspects of neural networks. It begins with a presentation of the necessary background material in electronic circuits, mathematical modeling and analysis, signal processing, and neurosciences, and then proceeds to applications. These applications include small networks of neurons, such as those used in control of warm-up and flight in moths and control of respiration during exercise in humans. Next, a theory of mnemonic surfaces is developed and studied and material on pattern formation and cellular automata is presented. Finally, large networks are studied, such as the thalamus-reticular complex circuit, believed to be involved in focusing attention, and the development of connections in the visual cortex. Additional material is also provided about nonlinear wave propagation in networks. This book will serve as an excellent text for advanced undergraduates and graduates in the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, medicine and life sciences.
Author | : Arnold Krupat |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1438469160 |
Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail these students' experiences. The book's analyses are attentive to the topics (topoi) and places (loci) of the boarding schools. Some of these topics are: (re-)Naming students, imposing on them the regimentation of Clock Time, compulsory religious instruction and practice, and corporal punishment, among others. These topics occur in a variety of places, like the Dormitory, the Dining Room, the Chapel, and the Classroom. Krupat's close readings of these narratives provide cultural and historical context as well as critical commentary. In her study of the Chilocco Indian School, K. Tsianina Lomawaima asked poignantly, "What has become of the thousands of Indian voices who spoke the breath of boarding-school life?" Changed Forever lets us hear some of them.
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Jean Rabe |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780756404376 |
Featuring contributions from some of fantasy's finest storytellers, this brand-new collection dares to open Pandora's closet, revealing a vast array of magical items, from a Ring that brings its wearer infinite wealth at a terrible price, to a red hoodie that transforms one young woman's entire world. Original.
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Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Geoffrey McGuinness |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780300083187 |
Are there specific ways for parents and teachers to help children better understand what they read and hear? Is it possible to raise a child's verbal intelligence? The authors of this book answer with a resounding yes. Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness, creators of the acclaimed and widely used Phono-Graphix method of reading instruction, explain why it is important to teach children comprehension skills and how to do it. Parents and teachers seeking sound, research-supported advice on ways to improve their children's reading comprehension will find this book an essential resource. Each of the dozens of exercises and activities in the book is aimed at improving the comprehension -- and the writing skills -- of children from 6 to 18 years of age. We can teach our children the skills they need to understand and use the information they read, the authors assure us. McGuinness and McGuinness show how comprehension can be broken down into small components of understanding. They provide a variety of fun-to-do lessons to help readers progress beyond decoding to real comprehension. The lessons include: -- how to use synonyms -- how to read passive voice -- how to anticipate what will happen in a story -- how to define a word by its context in a story -- how to remember key elements in a written passage -- and many more This book is an essential primer for parents wishing to understand how children learn, process, and use language.
Author | : Suzanne Brooker |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0399580662 |
This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering all aspects of the natural landscape, with additional lessons on using charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, and other media. Following in the footsteps of author, artist, and art instructor Suzanne Brooker's previous title The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, this book pairs the most universally-pursued topic for artists (drawing) with the popular subject matter of the natural landscape. Brooker breaks down landscapes into their various elements--including the earth, water, air, and trees--to convey how the fundamentals of drawing are applied to capture each aspect. Using the graphite pencil as her baseline instrument, Brooker provides you with step-by-step lessons that help you improve your rendering skills and re-create the beauty of the world outdoors. Examples from art history and contemporary masters supplement these lessons. The end result is a drawing instruction book that provides artists with everything they need to render landscapes no matter their skill level.
Author | : Erik H. Erikson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1993-09-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0393347389 |
The landmark work on the social significance of childhood. The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely read and cited, his works have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology, Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood.