California STAR Grades 8 and 9 Math
California STAR Grades 8 and 9 Math

Author: Stephen Hearne

Publisher: Research & Education Assoc.

Published: 2012-07-13

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0738668036

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Every eighth and ninth grade student in California must participate in the STAR program…Are you ready for the STAR Mathematics Exam? REA’s California STAR Grades 8 & 9 Mathematics test prep helps you sharpen your skills and pass the exam! Fully aligned with the learning standards of the California Department of Education, this second edition of our popular test prep provides the up-to-date instruction and practice that eighth and ninth grade students need to improve their math skills and pass this important state-required exam. The comprehensive review features student-friendly, easy-to-follow lessons and examples that reinforce the key concepts tested on the STAR, including: Arithmetic Algebra Geometry Data Analysis Statistics Word Problems Focused lessons explain math concepts in easy-to-understand language that’s suitable for eighth and ninth grade students at any learning level. Our tutorials and targeted drills increase comprehension while enhancing your math skills. Color icons and graphics throughout the book highlight practice problems, charts, and figures. The book contains four diagnostic tests that are perfect for classroom quizzes, homework, or extra study. A full-length practice exam lets you test your knowledge and reinforces what you’ve learned. The practice test comes complete with detailed explanations of answers, allowing you to focus on areas in need of further study. REA’s test-taking tips and strategies give you an added boost of confidence so you can succeed on the exam. Whether used in a classroom, at home for self-study, or as a textbook supplement, teachers, parents, and students will consider this book a “must-have” prep for the STAR. REA test preps have proven to be the extra support students need to pass their challenging state-required tests. Our comprehensive test preps are teacher-recommended and written by experienced educators.

California
California

Author: Andrew Rolle

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1118701143

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The eighth edition of California: A History covers the entire scope of the history of the Golden State, from before first contact with Europeans through the present; an accessible and compelling narrative that comprises the stories of the many diverse peoples who have called, and currently do call, California home. Explores the latest developments relating to California’s immigration, energy, environment, and transportation concerns Features concise chapters and a narrative approach along with numerous maps, photographs, and new graphic features to facilitate student comprehension Offers illuminating insights into the significant events and people that shaped the lengthy and complex history of a state that has become synonymous with the American dream Includes discussion of recent – and uniquely Californian – social trends connecting Hollywood, social media, and Silicon Valley – and most recently "Silicon Beach"

Sorting Things Out
Sorting Things Out

Author: Geoffrey C. Bowker

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2000-08-25

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0262522950

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A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.

America's Lone Star Constitution
America's Lone Star Constitution

Author: Lucas A. Powe Jr.

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0520970012

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Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.

The Life of a Hood Star
The Life of a Hood Star

Author: Ca$h

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-24

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9781952936005

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The Feds labeled her the Queen of Tax Fraud, and accused her of defrauding the United States government out of twenty-one million dollars. The streets called her the 1$t Lady. BET gave her the title TRAP QUEEN. Whatever the label, RASHIA WILSON wore it well because she was undisputedly a BO$$ CHICK and Tampa Bay's most well-known female HOOD STAR. Like many around the way girls, Rashia was born into a desultory struggle of which she saw no way out of but to hustle and grind. Along the way, she was used by man after man, and she was in and out of jail for an array of crimes and money schemes. But, when she crosses paths with a particular street entrepreneur, Rashia quickly goes from hood rat status and groupie to SUPASTAR. With her newfound celebrity and ill-gained wealth, Rashia is courted by many of your favorite rappers, entertainers and professional athletes, and she's giving up the tea in her steamy relationships with many of them. Unfortunately, with the fame comes a plethora of haters and the Feds, who are always watching. When Rashia's rock star life takes a drastic turn for the worst, will THE LIFE OF A HOOD STAR be worth the long prison sentence that awaited her?

California
California

Author: Kevin Starr

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2007-03-13

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 081297753X

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“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco

Indians of California
Indians of California

Author: James J. Rawls

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780806120201

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Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion

The Star Rover
The Star Rover

Author: Jack London

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13:

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"The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.