From Blackland Prairie to Blacktop

From Blackland Prairie to Blacktop

Author: Randolph W. Farmer

Publisher: Community Heritage

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781935377443

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Contains over 100 historical photos pertaining to the history of Collin County, Texas from the Stone Age to the Digital Age.


Collin County

Collin County

Author: Roy F. Hall

Publisher:

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9780788400377

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Originally published: Quanah, Tex.: Nortex Press, c1975.


A New Literacies Sampler

A New Literacies Sampler

Author: Michele Knobel

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780820495231

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The study of new literacies is quickly emerging as a major research field. This book «samples» work in the broad area of new literacies research along two dimensions. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies - video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, role play gaming, using websites to participate in affinity practices, memes, and other social activities involving mobile technologies. Second, the studies collectively sample from a wide range of approaches potentially available for researching and studying new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Readers will come away with a rich sense of what new literacies are, and a generous appreciation of how they are being researched.


Building Foundations for Early Learning

Building Foundations for Early Learning

Author: Raising Literacy Australia

Publisher:

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780987386106

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Comprehensive training manual on early childhood brain development and effective story and play time programs


National Bicycling and Walking Study

National Bicycling and Walking Study

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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The fiscal year 1991 U.S. DOT Appropriations Act directed the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a National Bicycling and Walking Study. The five objectives of the study as specified in the Act were to: (1) Determine the current levels of bicycling and walking and identify reasons they are not better used as means of transportation; (2) Develop a plan for the increased use and enhanced safety of these modes and identify the resources necessary to implement and achieve this plan; (3) Determine the full costs and benefits of promoting bicycling and walking in urban and suburban areas; (4) Review and evaluate the success of promotion programs around the world to determine their applicability to the role required of the U.S. DOT to implement a successful program; and (5) Develop an action plan, including timetable and budget, for implementation of such Federal transportation policy. The purpose of this Interim Report is to document progress in addressing these five objectives. In dealing with each objective, this report summarizes available information, discusses what additional information is required, and outlines the approach to be used in collecting it.


Silica Stories

Silica Stories

Author: Christina De La Rocha

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3319540548

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Do you know silica, the tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen constituting the crystals of New Agers and the desiccant in a box of new shoes? It's no mere mundane mineral. As chemically reacting silicate rocks, silica set off the chain of events known as the origin of life. As biomineralized opal, it is the cell wall, skeleton, spicules, and scales of organisms ornamenting numerous lobes of the tree of life. Cryptocrystalline silica made into stone tools helped drive the evolution of our hands and our capability for complex grammar, music, and mathematics. As quartz crystals, silica is impressively electric and ubiquitous in modern technology (think sonar, radios, telephones, ultrasound, and cheap but precise watches). Silica is inescapable when we take a drink or mow the lawn and it has already started to save the Earth from the carbon dioxide we're spewing into the atmosphere. This book tells these scientific tales and more, to give dear, modest silica its due.


Therapeutic Modalities

Therapeutic Modalities

Author: Chad Starkey

Publisher: F.A. Davis

Published: 2013-01-23

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0803639023

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The 4th Edition of the field’s premier text on therapeutic modalities reflects evidence-based practice research and technologies that are impacting professional practice today. Step by step, you’ll build a solid foundation in the theory and science that underlie today’s best practices and then learn how to treat a wide range of orthopedic injuries.


Biosemiotic Medicine

Biosemiotic Medicine

Author: Farzad Goli

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3319350927

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This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics. It proposes that a metalanguage for the physical, mental, social, and cultural aspects of health and medicine could bring all parts and aspects of human life together and thus shape a picture of the human being as a whole, made up from the heterogeneous images of the vast variety of sciences and technologies in medicine discourse. The book adopts a biosemiotics clinical model of thinking because, similar to the ancient principle of alchemy, tam ethice quam physice, everything in this model is physical as much as it is mental. Signs in the forms of vibrations, molecules, cells, words, images, reflections and rites conform cultural, mental, physical, and social phenomena. The book decodes healing, dealing with health, illness and therapy by emphasizing the first-person experience as well as objective events. It allows readers to follow the energy-information flows through and between embodied minds and to see how they form physiological functions such as our emotions and narratives.