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Author: Boyce Richardson
Publisher: Between The Lines
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1896357806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn insider's critical account of the modern media by one of Canada's most accomplished journalists and filmmakers
Author: Zoltan Paul Dienes
Publisher: Upfront Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9781844261925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Zoltan Dienes is a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the 'new mathematics' - an approach to mathematics learning which uses games, songs and dance to make it more appealing to children. Holder of numerous honorary degrees, Dr Dienes has had a long and fruitful career, breaking new ground and gaining many followers with his revolutionary ideas of learning often complex mathematical concepts in such fun ways that children are often unaware that they are learning anything.This is an honest account of an academic radical, covering his sometimes unconventional childhood in Hungary, France, Germany and Britain, his peripatetic academic career, his successes and failures and his personal affairs. Occasionally sad or moving, frequently amusing and always fascinating, this autobiography shares some of the intelligence, spirit and humanity that have made Dr Dienes such a landmark figure in mathematics education. A 'must-read' for anyone with a professional interest in the field, this is also an absorbing and frank book for anyone interested in the life of a man of ideas who was not afraid to take on the might of the traditionalist educational establishment.
Author: Benoit Mandelbrot
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 030738991X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics, the financial world, and the arts. Mandelbrot recounts his early years in Warsaw and in Paris, where he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle, through his days evading the Nazis in occupied France, to his education at Caltech, Princeton, and MIT, and his illustrious career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. An outside to mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others had thought impossible: develop a new geometry that combines revelatory beauty with a radical way of unfolding formerly hidden scientific laws. In the process he was able to use geometry to solve fresh, real-world problems. With exuberance and an eloquent fluency, Benoit Mandelbrot recounts the high points of his fascinating life, offering us a glimpse into the evolution of his extraordinary mind. With full-color inserts and black-and-white photographs throughout.
Author: Mary Adams Maverick
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick Samuel Augustus Maverick, my husband, was born July 23rd, 1803, at Pendleton, South Carolina. His parents were Samuel Maverick and his wife Elizabeth Anderson. She was the daughter of General Robert Anderson, of South Carolina, and of Revolutionary note, and his wife Ann Thompson of Virginia. Samuel Maverick was once a prominent merchant of Charleston, S.C., where he had raised himself from the almost abject poverty, to which the war of the Revolution had reduced his family, to a position of great affluence. It is said of him that he sent ventures to the Celestial Empire, and that he shipped the first bale of cotton from America to Europe. Some mer cantile miscarriage caused him subsequently to withdraw from, and close out, his business, and he retired to Pendle ton District* in the north west corner of South Carolina, at the foot of the mountains. Here he spent the balance of his days, and invested and speculated largely in lands in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 1610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Waugh
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2010-02
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 0773585265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.
Author: John Varty
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781770221321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of South Africa's best-known - and most controversial - wildlife conservationist, famous for his films of big cats.
Author: Farrington Reed Carpenter
Publisher: Colorado Historical Society
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780942576276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hans M. Carlson
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0774858516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1970 in Quebec, there has been immense change for the Cree, who now live with the consequences of Quebec's massive development of the North. Home Is the Hunter presents the historical, environmental, and cultural context from which this recent story grows. Hans Carlson shows how the Cree view their lands as their home, their garden, and their memory of themselves as a people. By investigating the Cree's three hundred years of contact with outsiders, he illuminates the process of cultural negotiation at the foundation of ongoing political and environmental debates. This book offers a way of thinking about indigenous peoples' struggles for rights and environmental justice in Canada and elsewhere.
Author: Francoise Dussart
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1487513771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society. Most of the entangled lands to which Indigenous peoples are connected have been physically transformed and their ecological balance destroyed. Each chapter in this volume refers to specific circumstances in which Indigenous peoples have become intertwined with non-Aboriginal institutions and projects including the construction of hydroelectric dams and open mining pits. Long after the agents of resource extraction have abandoned these lands to their fate, Indigenous peoples will continue to claim ancestral ties and responsibilities that cannot be understood by agents of capitalism. The editors and contributors to this volume develop an anthropology of entanglement to further examine the larger debates about the vexed relationships between settlers and indigenous peoples over the meaning, knowledge, and management of traditionally-owned lands.
