Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.All kinds of people are coming to America. If you’re European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you’re African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each with its own story. Meet Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown. Join William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike over the mountains with Daniel Boone. And let Ben Franklin give you some salty advice in his Poor Richard’s Almanac in this remarkable journey through the dynamic creation of what one day becomes the United States.About the Series:Master storyteller Joy Hakim has excited millions of young minds with the great drama of American history in her award-winning series A History of US. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text, A History of US weaves together exciting stories that bring American history to life. Hailed by reviewers, historians, educators, and parents for its exciting, thought-provoking narrative, the books have been recognized as a break-through tool in teaching history and critical reading skills to young people. In ten books that span from Prehistory to the 21st century, young people will never think of American history as boring again.
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Author: Joy Hakim Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199989034 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2012 192 pages
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology.
When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit. The multiply-hyphenated peoples of color are not simply placed in a duality between two cultural heritages; throughout, Trinh describes the predicament of having to live “a difference that has no name and too many names already.” She argues for multicultural revision of knowledge so that a new politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it. By rewriting the always emerging, already distorted place of struggle, such work seeks to “beat the master at his own game.”
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Author: Trinh T. Minh-ha Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781135204556 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2014 240 pages
Lehrbuch für Studierende der Ingenieurwissenschaften
Dieses Lehrbuch stellt ausführlich und gut strukturiert die wesentlichen wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Thermodynamik für eine praxisorientierte Lehre dar. Es vermittelt analytisch zuverlässiges Wissen mit Blick auf eine ingenieurtechnische Anwendung und liefert den Schlüssel zum schnellen Verständnis der Kraft- und Arbeitsmaschinen. In der aktuellen Auflage wurde die Anzahl von Diagrammen und Stoffwert-Tabellen deutlich erhöht, um die praktische Handhabung noch weiter zu verbessern. Viele Beispiele werden jetzt ausführlicher beschrieben, um dem Lernenden das Nachvollziehen zu erleichtern. Neu sind auch dimensionslose Gleichungen zur Berechnung der Nußelt-Zahl sowie ein Formelzeichen-Verzeichnis.
Author: Ernst Doering; Herbert Schedwill; Martin Dehli Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden ISBN: 9783658151485 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2016 526 pages
E-Business berührt jeden Bereich der Immobilienwirtschaft, nicht nur Immobilien-Portale oder -Marktplätze.
Hier beschreiben Marktinsider, welchen Einfluss E-Business sich auf den Immobilienmarkt haben wird. Es zeigt Gefahren, aber auch Chancen für Marktentwicklungen.
Author: Werner Rohmert; Jürgen Böhm Publisher: Gabler Verlag ISBN: 9783322889690 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2013 315 pages
Bible verses from 1 Corinthians 13, also known as the Love Chapter, are brought to life in a relatable way for young children, with colorful illustrations and relatable examples. Includes verses 1-8 and 13.
Author: Salem de Bezenac Publisher: Publish on Demand Global LLC ISBN: 9781623870843 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2012 32 pages
Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined. Polymers are long molecules with a shape that can be changed. As a network, polymers form rubber – a soft solid that is locally liquid-like and capable of huge extension. Liquid crystal elastomers are a combination of all these curious aspects, but with additional, revolutionary new phenomena – for example, spontaneous shape changes of several hundred percent induced by temperature change, with equally largeopto-mechanical responses, shape change without energy cost (“soft elasticity”), colour change with strain, lasing and photonics, sensitivity to molecular handedness and soft solid ferroelectricity. This book is a primer for liquid crystals, polymers, rubber, and elasticity. It then describes thetheory and experiment of these remarkable materials for the first time as a monograph. Worked examples are solved so that the reader can become proficient in the field himself. The book is directed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level and beyond
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Author: Mark Warner; Eugene Michael Terentjev Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780191523632 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2003 422 pages
Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself. The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society.
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Author: Jürgen Habermas Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9780745694603 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2014 240 pages
Henry sets out to build a boat one day. He has a hammer and a saw and a sister and a Teddy. With a buoyant, rhythmic text, ideal for reading aloud, The Boy Who Built the Boat celebrates the simple joy of making things.
Author: Ross Mueller; Craig Smith Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781741768473 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2006 40 pages
Theory, Fast Solvers, and Applications in Solid Mechanics
This definitive introduction to finite element methods was thoroughly updated for this 2007 third edition, which features important material for both research and application of the finite element method. The discussion of saddle-point problems is a highlight of the book and has been elaborated to include many more nonstandard applications. The chapter on applications in elasticity now contains a complete discussion of locking phenomena. The numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations is an important application of finite elements and the author discusses this subject comprehensively. These equations are treated as variational problems for which the Sobolev spaces are the right framework. Graduate students who do not necessarily have any particular background in differential equations, but require an introduction to finite element methods will find this text invaluable. Specifically, the chapter on finite elements in solid mechanics provides a bridge between mathematics and engineering.
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Author: Dietrich Braess Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780511276101 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2007 385 pages
An ideal introduction to Buddhism for anyone who has unanswered questions about one of the world’s largest and most popular religions.
A fascinating, short book that challenges us to strip away existing preconceptions we may have about Buddhism
Considers questions such as: Can we talk of Buddhism as a unified religion or are there many Buddhisms? Is Buddhism a religion of tolerance and pacifism as many people think? And is Buddhism a religion without god(s), or is it more of a philosophy than a religion?
Traces the basic history, beliefs and nature of Buddhism in easy-to-understand language
Written by renowned Buddhist scholar, Bernard Faure, it is an ideal introduction for anyone who has unanswered questions about one of the world’s largest and most popular religions
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Author: Bernard Faure Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781444308402 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2009 167 pages
