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Author: Danielle Shafer Hammelef
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1491429321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a crash course in middle school math, and see how decimals, fractions, and ratios can be powerful tools in todays world. Grasp geometry by figuring out what size pizza is the best deal. Make fractions as easy as pie. You'll soon discover that math is the real deal for real life.
Author: Marvin Terban
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1993-10-18
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 0547346271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Enjoyable and informative . . . Using this humorously presented book, children will truly improve their styles of writing” (School Library Journal). Writing “The road was bumpy” is okay . . . but isn’t it more fun to say “It felt like we were riding on square tires”? This lively guide shows kids how to make their writing more dramatic, more memorable, or just plain funnier—whether they’re writing for school or for creative expression. It explains six techniques: Similes Metaphors Onomatopoeia Alliteration Hyperbole Personification . . . and provides guidelines for their use, plenty of examples, and entertaining illustrations.
Author: Tim Cassedy
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1609386124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTim Cassedy’s fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one’s identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian) and globalization, language served as a way to categorize people within a world that appeared more diverse than ever. Linguistic differences, especially among English-speakers, seemed to validate the emerging national, racial, local, and regional identity categories that took shape in this new world order. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time—from the woman known as “Princess Caraboo” to wordsmith Noah Webster—Cassedy shows how each put language at the center of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era’s linguistic ideas. The result is a highly entertaining and equally informative look at how perceptions about who spoke what language—and how they spoke it—determined the shape of communities in the British American colonies and beyond. This engagingly written story is sure to appeal to historians of literature, culture, and communication; to linguists and book historians; and to general readers interested in how ideas about English developed in the early United States and throughout the English-speaking world.
Author: Melody Tyden
Publisher:
Published: 2024-01-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781915869371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce upon a time, Amy's future seemed golden. Training to be a world-class ice dancer with her partner Austin, she dreamed of Olympic glory and the day when Austin would see her as something more than just the little girl he skated with. Then, in the blink of an eye, her whole life changed. Four years later, she's just another face in the crowd at her university journalism program and everyone calls her Mia. Only her closest friends and family know anything about her past or the dreams she used to have. And that's what she thought she wanted, until another twist of fate throws her temporarily back into Austin's world. Can she keep the truth about who she is hidden from the one person who used to know her better than anyone? This is part one of a 2-book duet.
Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1619320738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses "broken sonnets" to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.
Author: Matthew deTar
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2022-03-23
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0815655274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father (Atatürk). This familiar vocabulary functions as more than a set of descriptors of institutions, phenomena, or issues to debate in public. These five primary “figures” emerge from national identity, public discourse, and scholarship about Turkey to represent Turkish history and political authority while also shaping history and political authority. These figures unify disparate phenomena into governable categories and index historical relations of power that define Turkish politics. As these concepts circulate, they operate as a shorthand for complex networks and histories of authority, producing and limiting ways of knowing Turkish modernity, democracy, and political culture. These figures not only are spoken and discussed in public, but they also produce the context into which they are projected, in a sense speaking on their own. Figures That Speak explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.
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Publisher: Delmonico Books
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781636810744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essential volume on the great fashion designer, entrepreneur and Louis Vuitton artistic director, back in print This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the designer himself, accompanies his acclaimed landmark 2019-23 touring exhibition and offers in-depth analysis of his career and his inspirations. More than a catalog, Figures of Speechis a 500-page user's manual to Abloh's genre-bending work in art, fashion and design. The first section features essays and an interview that examine Abloh's oeuvre through the lenses of contemporary art history, architecture, streetwear, high fashion and race, to provide insight into a prolific and impactful career that cuts across mediums, connecting visual artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers, major brands and architects. The book also contains a massive archive of images culled from Abloh's personal files on major projects, revealing behind-the-scenes snapshots, prototypes, inspirations and more--accompanied by intimate commentary from the artist. Finally, a gorgeous full-color plate section offers a detailed view of Abloh's work across disciplines. Virgil Abloh(1980-2021) was a fashion designer and entrepreneur, and the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's men's wear collection from 2018 to 2021. He was also CEO of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2013. Born in Rockford, Illinois, to Ghanaian parents, he entered the world of fashion with an internship at Fendi in 2009 alongside rapper Kanye West. The two began an artistic collaboration that would launch Abloh's career with the founding of Off-White. Timemagazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.
Author: Beth E. Levy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-04-18
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 0520952022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
Author: Vladimir Grigorʹevich Bolti︠a︡nskiĭ
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 0226063577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contrast to the vast literature on Euclidean geometry as a whole, little has been published on the relatively recent developments in the field of combinatorial geometry. Boltyanskii and Gohberg's book investigates this area, which has undergone particularly rapid growth in the last thirty years. By restricting themselves to two dimensions, the authors make the book uniquely accessible to interested high school students while maintaining a high level of rigor. They discuss a variety of problems on figures of constant width, convex figures, coverings, and illumination. The book offers a thorough exposition of the problem of cutting figures into smaller pieces. The central theorem gives the minimum number of pieces into which a figure can be divided so that all the pieces are of smaller diameter than the original figure. This theorem, which serves as a basis for the rest of the material, is proved for both the Euclidean plane and Minkowski's plane.
