Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Mondo Publishing
ISBN: 9781572552067
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Despite the admonitions of his friends, a straight line enjoys expressing himself by twirling in whirls, pointing his joints, and creeping in heaps.
The Straight Line Wonder
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Mondo Publishing
ISBN: 9781572552067
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Despite the admonitions of his friends, a straight line enjoys expressing himself by twirling in whirls, pointing his joints, and creeping in heaps.
Publisher: Mondo Publishing
ISBN: 9781572552067
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Despite the admonitions of his friends, a straight line enjoys expressing himself by twirling in whirls, pointing his joints, and creeping in heaps.
Radical Reflections
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156079471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The internationally acclaimed children's book writer and educator offers her insights into the learning process, language education, and the pleasure, growth, and power that reading and writing can bring.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156079471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The internationally acclaimed children's book writer and educator offers her insights into the learning process, language education, and the pleasure, growth, and power that reading and writing can bring.
The Straight Line
Author: Tom Waidzunas
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to “cure” homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe, the science of sexuality has made some adjustments, too, Tom Waidzunas tells us in this provocative work. Intervening in the politics of sexuality and science, The Straight Line argues that scientific definitions of sexual orientation do not merely reflect the results of investigations into human nature, but rather emerge through a process of social negotiation between opposing groups. The demedicalization of homosexuality and the discrediting of reparative therapies, ex-gay ministries, and reorientation research have, Waidzunas contends, required scientists to enforce key boundaries around scientific expertise and research methods. Drawing on extensive participant observation at conferences for ex-gays, reorientation therapists, mainstream psychologists, and survivors of ex-gay therapy, as well as interviews with experts and activists, The Straight Line traces reorientation debates in the United States from the 1950s to the present, following homosexuality therapies from the mainstream to the margins. As the ex-gay movement has become increasingly transnational in recent years, Waidzunas turns to Uganda, where ideas about the scientific nature of homosexuality influenced the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. While most studies treat the ex-gay movement as a religious phenomenon, this book looks at how the movement, in its attempts to establish legitimacy, has engaged with scientific institutions, shaping virulent anti-gay public policy.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to “cure” homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe, the science of sexuality has made some adjustments, too, Tom Waidzunas tells us in this provocative work. Intervening in the politics of sexuality and science, The Straight Line argues that scientific definitions of sexual orientation do not merely reflect the results of investigations into human nature, but rather emerge through a process of social negotiation between opposing groups. The demedicalization of homosexuality and the discrediting of reparative therapies, ex-gay ministries, and reorientation research have, Waidzunas contends, required scientists to enforce key boundaries around scientific expertise and research methods. Drawing on extensive participant observation at conferences for ex-gays, reorientation therapists, mainstream psychologists, and survivors of ex-gay therapy, as well as interviews with experts and activists, The Straight Line traces reorientation debates in the United States from the 1950s to the present, following homosexuality therapies from the mainstream to the margins. As the ex-gay movement has become increasingly transnational in recent years, Waidzunas turns to Uganda, where ideas about the scientific nature of homosexuality influenced the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. While most studies treat the ex-gay movement as a religious phenomenon, this book looks at how the movement, in its attempts to establish legitimacy, has engaged with scientific institutions, shaping virulent anti-gay public policy.
Math, Manipulatives, & Magic Wands
Author: Karen Simmons
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0929895495
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book shows you how to teach national math standards with literature-based make-and-take projects. Suggestions for illustrating math concepts with children's literature are included for each activity.
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0929895495
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book shows you how to teach national math standards with literature-based make-and-take projects. Suggestions for illustrating math concepts with children's literature are included for each activity.
The Wonder Book of Geometry
Author: David Acheson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192585371
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help determine the speed of a bullet? David Acheson takes the reader on a highly illustrated tour through the history of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present day. He emphasizes throughout elegant deduction and practical applications, and argues that geometry can offer the quickest route to the whole spirit of mathematics at its best. Along the way, we encounter the quirky and the unexpected, meet the great personalities involved, and uncover some of the loveliest surprises in mathematics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192585371
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help determine the speed of a bullet? David Acheson takes the reader on a highly illustrated tour through the history of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present day. He emphasizes throughout elegant deduction and practical applications, and argues that geometry can offer the quickest route to the whole spirit of mathematics at its best. Along the way, we encounter the quirky and the unexpected, meet the great personalities involved, and uncover some of the loveliest surprises in mathematics.
This Wonder-world
Author: Agnes Giberne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
No Straight Lines
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956766243
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The author argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, we have entered an era in which the rules we have previously organised our lives around no longer apply. Leaving us with both a design problem and a design challenge which we must urgently solve. By describing an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational innovation to happen, No straight lines presents a revolutionary logic and an inspiring plea for a more human-centric world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956766243
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The author argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, we have entered an era in which the rules we have previously organised our lives around no longer apply. Leaving us with both a design problem and a design challenge which we must urgently solve. By describing an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational innovation to happen, No straight lines presents a revolutionary logic and an inspiring plea for a more human-centric world.
The Wonder Book of Geometry
Author: David Acheson
Publisher:
ISBN: 019884638X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Following in the footsteps of his bestselling The Calculus Story, David Acheson offers a highly illustrated tour of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present day, packed with elegant deductions and wide applications. And along the way, he uncovers some of the loveliest surprises in mathematics. Book jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 019884638X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Following in the footsteps of his bestselling The Calculus Story, David Acheson offers a highly illustrated tour of geometry, from ancient Greece to the present day, packed with elegant deductions and wide applications. And along the way, he uncovers some of the loveliest surprises in mathematics. Book jacket.
The Wonder of Mathematics
Author: Suleiman Gierdien
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450092330
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This is a Mathematics book with a difference, as can be clearly deduced from the author’s philosophy: “We should SEE mathematics not merely think Mathematics”. The simplicity with which the author explains basics of Algebra, Geometry & Trigonometry will definitely exceed the reader’s wildest expectations. Simple concepts like “What is pi?” & BODMAS are adequately explained in user-friendly terms, even to learners who are being introduced to the subject for the first time. Even the conventional belief that Area of Circle is the exception to the rule where all areas are calculated with length times breadth as the basis are refuted. This book is a must-read for anyone who think that they know Mathematics & even more so for those struggling with Mathematics. Educators will find this book invaluable with the uncovery of countless ‘new’ tools which will put the fun back into the learning of Mathematics. The author unmistakably shows that Mathematics should not be taught by encouraging memorization of rules & regulations but by promoting understanding of the logic behind them.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450092330
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This is a Mathematics book with a difference, as can be clearly deduced from the author’s philosophy: “We should SEE mathematics not merely think Mathematics”. The simplicity with which the author explains basics of Algebra, Geometry & Trigonometry will definitely exceed the reader’s wildest expectations. Simple concepts like “What is pi?” & BODMAS are adequately explained in user-friendly terms, even to learners who are being introduced to the subject for the first time. Even the conventional belief that Area of Circle is the exception to the rule where all areas are calculated with length times breadth as the basis are refuted. This book is a must-read for anyone who think that they know Mathematics & even more so for those struggling with Mathematics. Educators will find this book invaluable with the uncovery of countless ‘new’ tools which will put the fun back into the learning of Mathematics. The author unmistakably shows that Mathematics should not be taught by encouraging memorization of rules & regulations but by promoting understanding of the logic behind them.
The Wonder & the Glory of the Stars
Author: George Forbes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description