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Savannas, barrens, and rock outcrop plant communities of North America / by Anderson, Roger C.(Roger Clark); Fralish, James S.(James Steven); Baskin, Jerry M.(Jerry Mack);
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Savanna plants; Rock plants; Plant communities; Plant ecology; Savanna plants; Rock plants; Plant communities; Plant ecology;
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The end of the world : stories of the apocalypse / by Greenberg, Martin Harry.(CARDINAL)722091;
MARCIVE 08/05/10
Subjects: Apocalyptic fiction.; Science fiction.; Short stories.; Science fiction, American.; Science fiction, English.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Distinguished African Americans in aviation and space science / by Gubert, Betty Kaplan,1934-(CARDINAL)526116; Fannin, Caroline M.(CARDINAL)661055; Sawyer, Miriam.(CARDINAL)661057;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; African American air pilots; African American astronauts;
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This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future / by Brockman, John,1941-(CARDINAL)282534;
The Edge question : introduction / by Daniel C. Dennett -- Evolution changes everything / Scott Sampson -- DNA : writing the software of life / J. Craig Venter -- A change in who we are / PZ Myers -- The robotic moment / Sherry Turkle -- The brain-machine interface / James Geary -- Breaking the species barrier / Richard Dawkins -- Slippery expectations / Corey S. Powell -- The full flourishing of solar technology / Ian McEwan -- Personal genomics--or maybe not / Steven Pinker -- Our genes are not our fate / Dean Ornish -- A forebrain for the world mind / W. Daniel Hillis -- Future as present : a final experiment / Ernst Pöppel -- But we shall all be changed / Frank J. Tipler -- The credit crunch for materialism / Rupert Sheldrake -- The laptop quantum computer / Donald D. Hoffman -- Undo the present ; recall the past / Seth Lloyd -- Rounding an endless vicious circle / Alan Alda -- The idea of negative and iatrogenic science / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The feeling that things will get worse / Brian Eno -- Homesteading in Hilbert space / Frank Wilczek -- Revelation / Stefano Boeri -- The discovery of intelligent life from somewhere else / Douglas Rushkoff -- A cure for humankind's existential loneliness / Paul Saffo -- AI and intellectual mastery / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Avoiding doomsday / Alexander Vilenkin -- Escaping the Gravity Well / David Dalrymple -- Synthetic biology with interplanetary reach / Dimitar Sasselov -- Life (or not) on Mars / Rodney Brooks -- A separate origin for life / Robert Shapiro -- Shadow biosphere / Paul Davies -- Laboratory earth colonies / John Gottman -- Interstellar viruses / George Dyson -- Computers are the new microscopes / Terrence Sejnowski -- Silicon immortality : downloading consciousness into computers / David Eagleman -- The implementation of life in engineered materials / Neil Gershenfeld -- Decoding the brain / Gary Marcus -- Cheap cryonic suspension of brains / Bart Kosko -- Superintelligence / Nick Bostrom -- Becoming robotic / Gregory Paul -- The synchronization of brains / Jamshed Bharucha -- Thinking small : understanding the brain / Irene Pepperberg -- Controlling the brain's plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Never-ending childhood / Alison Gopnik -- The ebb of memory / Kevin Slavin -- Artificial self-replicating meme machines / Susan Blackmore -- Malthusian information famine / Charles Seife -- Reading minds / Kenneth W. Ford -- True lie detection / Sam Harris -- Radiotelepathy : direct communication from brain to brain / Freeman Dyson -- Little changes make the biggest difference / Barry C. Smith -- Neuronally expressed messages / Peter Schwartz -- A new kind of mind / Kevin Kelly -- The age of reputation / Gloria Orrigi -- Cracking open the lockbox of talent / Howard Gardner -- Culture / Timothy Taylor -- Molecular manufacturing / Ed Regis -- Resizing ourselves / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- The actual, the possible, and the unimaginable / Marc D. Hauser -- Computing the embryo / Lewis Wolpert -- Homo evolutis / Juan Enriquez -- The open universe / Stuart Kauffman -- Living to a hundred and fifty / Gregory Benford -- Mastering death / Marcelo Gleiser -- No more time decay / Emanuel Derman -- West Antarctica and seven other sleeping giants / Laurence C. Smith -- Conserving the climate : will Greenland's melting ice the deal? / Stephen H. Schneider -- Climate will change everything / William Calvin -- Molecular manufacturing and climate change / Eric Drexler -- The mastery of climate / Stewart Brand -- The use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population / Lawrence Krauss -- Deployment of a significant rogue nuclear device / Gerald Holton -- Accidental nuclear war / Max Tegmark -- The breakdown of all computers / Anton Zeilinger -- The growing perception of a clash between safety and liberty / Dan Sperber -- Adopting rationality and sustainability / Patrick Bateson -- Fusion expectations / Roger Highfield -- Green oil / Alun Anderson -- Attempts at geoengineering / Oliver Morton -- Why don't running shoes biodegrade? / Daniel Goleman -- The shift from harvesting to manufacturing energy / Andrian Kreye -- The anthroposphere / Nicholas A. Christakis -- At last : technology will change education / Haim Harari -- Inexpensive customizable interactive e-texts for worldwide use / David G. Myers -- On basketball and science camps / Stephon H. Alexander -- A web-empowered revolution in teaching / Chris Anderson -- Wisdom reborn / Roger C. Schank -- Tracks and clusters / David Gelernter -- The mobile phone / Keith Devlin -- Energy and economics : the road to civilization 1.0 / Michael Shermer -- Undoing Babylon / Daniel L. Everett -- Soul travel for selfless beings / Thomas Metzinger -- Inside out : the epistemology of everything / Tor Nørretranders -- Changes in the changers / A. Garrett Lisi -- Neurocosmetics / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization? / Brian Knutson -- Celebratory self-reengineering / Andy Clark -- A different kind of male subjectivity / Tino Sehgal -- Hidden persuaders '09 / Helen Fisher -- A lively gamete market / Henry Harpending -- Immortal cognition, boundless happiness / Marco Iacoboni -- A farewell to harm / Karl Sabbagh -- God need not actually exist to have evolved / Jesse Bering -- Proof of the Riemann hypothesis / Clifford A. Pickover -- The reality of time / Lee Smolin -- The existence of additional spacetime dimensions / Gino Segrè -- Black holes : the ultimate game changer? / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Better measurements / Gregory Cochran -- We are learning to make phenotypes / Mark Pagel -- The next step in human health care? / Ian Wilmut -- Broadening the spectrum of infectious causation / Paul Ewald -- Biological markers for mental illness / Eric Kandel -- Recognizing that the body is not a machine / Randolph Nesse -- The organism itself as the emergent meaning / Brian Goodwin -- Faster evolution means more ethnic differences / Jonathan Haidt -- Africa / James J. O'Donnell -- Epistemology will change the world / Lera Boroditsky -- Social media literacy / Howard Rheingold -- The decline of text / Marti Hearst -- The end of analytic science / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Coordinated computational power will change science / Lisa Randall -- Carniculture / Austin Dacey -- Exploitability / David M. Buss -- Post-rational economic man / David Berreby -- Nothing will change everything / Richard Foreman -- Beyond Boolean logic, digital manipulations, and numerical evaluations / Verna Huber-Dyson -- People who can intuit in six dimensions / Robert Sapolsky -- Massive technological failure / David Bodanis -- Happiness / Betsy Devine -- Our brave new map of the world / Christine Finn -- The unmasking of true human nature / Aubrey de Grey -- And if the big change doesn't arrive? / Carlo Rovelli -- "Everything" has already changed! / Kai Krause -- The slow-motion revolution / Robert R. Provine -- Why human nature will rebel / Nicholas Humphrey."Edge.org presents 125 of today's leading thinkers ... [responding to the question,] 'What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?'"--Cover.
Subjects: Discoveries in science; Twenty-first century; Social prediction.; Science;
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Arbitration 1988 : emerging issues for the 1990s : proceedings of the Forty-first Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, Vancouver, B.C., May 30-June 3, 1988 / by National Academy of Arbitrators.Annual Meeting(41st :1988 :Vancouver, B.C.); Gruenberg, Gladys W.(CARDINAL)285272;
Includes bibliographical references.Employee privacy, monitoring, and new technology : Part I, Introduction / Marcia L. Greenbaum. Part II, Monitoring and new office systems / Alan F. Westin. Part III, A union viewpoint / Karen Nussbaum. Part IV, A management viewpoint / James S. Petrie -- Interest arbitration and ability to pay : Part I, U.S. public sector experience / Edward B. Krinsky. Part II, Canadian experience : a union viewpoint / Felicity D. Briggs -- Dissemination and enforcement of the code of ethics : Part I, Partners in the code : the NAA and the designating agencies / Arnold Zack. Part II, The arbitrator's duty to the process / Robert Coulson. Part III / Jewell L. Myers. Part IV, A code commentary : conduct of the hearing / Richard Mittenthal.International comparison of the role of neutrals in resolving shopfloor disputes : Lessons for arbitrators / J. Joseph Loewenberg. Comment / Jack Stieber -- The arbitration profession : Part I, The demographic and professional characteristics of arbitrators in North America / Mario F. Bognanno and Clifford E. Smith. Part II, Arbitrators and advocates : the consumers' report / Arthur Eliot Berkeley. Comment / George R. Fleischli -- The arbitration process : Part I, Objections at the hearing / Richard I. Bloch. Part II, Arbitral craftsmanship and competence / Roger I. Abrams and Dennis R. Nolan. Comment / Alex Elson -- Arbitration forums : Part I, Academia / Joel M. Douglas. Comment / James P. Begin. Part II, Mature collective bargaining relationships / Donald P. Crane and Michael Jay Jedel.The presidential address : labor arbitration today / Arvid Anderson -- Mediation of interest disputes / Alan B. Gold -- Just cause and the troubled employee : Part I / Daniel G. Collins. Part II, A management viewpoint / Thomas R. Miller and Susan M. Oliver. Part III, A union viewpoint / Linda Lampkin -- Enforceability of awards : Part I, Public policy post-Misco / Jan Vetter. Part II, A union viewpoint / Michael H. Gottesman. Part III, A management viewpoint / John S. Irving -- Privatization, outsourcing, and subcontracting : Part I, United States experience : a management viewpoint / R. Theodore Clark, Jr. Part II, The hidden costs of outsourcing : a union viewpoint / Sheldon Friedman. Part III, Canadian public sector : a union viewpoint / John Fryer. Part IV, Canadian private sector : a management viewpoint / Roy L. Heenan.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Arbitration, Industrial; Arbitration, Industrial;
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Soil. by United States.Department of Agriculture.(CARDINAL)138479;
Drainage Problems and Methods / T.W. Edminster / Ronald C. Reeve -- Systems -- Cropping Systems and Soil / W.H. Allaway -- Soil Classification and Surveys / Guy D. Smith / Andrew R. Aandahl -- The Use of Soil Maps / A.M. Hedge / A.A. Klingebiel -- Three Farming Systems / E.L. Langsford / Charles P. Butler / C.W. Crickman / Trimble R. Hedges -- Economics of Cropping Systems / Earl O. Heady -- Factors of Income / Orlin J. Scoville -- Longtime Investments in Soil Management / M.L. Upchurch -- Financing Changes in Soil Management / J.H. Atkinson / Lowell S. Hardin -- Regions -- Soil Management in Regions / Carleton P. Barnes -- The North Pacific Valleys / H.B. Cheney -- The Dry Mild-Winter Region / D.G. Aldrich -- The Pacific Northwest Wheat Region / C.M. Horner / W.A. Starr / J.K. Patterson -- The Grazing-Irrigated Region / Wynne Thorne -- The Northern Great Plains / E.B. Norum / B.A. Krantz / H.J. Haas -- The Winter Wheat and Grazing Region / J.A. Hobbs -- The Southern Plains / J.R. Johnston -- The Mississippi Delta Region / Perrin H. Grissom -- The Coastal Prairies / R.K. Walker / R.J. Miears -- The Midland Feed Region / W.H. Pierre / F.F. Riecken -- The Northern Lake States / R.J. Muckenhirn / K.C. Berger -- The East-Central Uplands / Eric Winters -- Southeastern Uplands / R.W. Pearson / L.E. Ensminger -- Florida and Flatwoods / J.R. Henderson / F.B. Smith -- The Northeast / N.C. Brady / R.A. Struchtemeyer / R.B. Musgrave -- Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain / William J. Hanna / S.S. Obenshain -- Special Uses -- Soil Management for Pastures / R.R. Robinson / R.E. Blaser / H.B. Peterson -- Soil Management for Ranges / C.H. Wasser / Lincoln Ellison / R.E. Wagner -- Grasses / E.A. Hollowell -- Legumes / E.A. Hollowell --Tobacco / W.E. Colwell -- Managing Soils For Rice / M.B. Sturgis -- Field Crops / John H. Martin -- Home Gardens and Lawns / Charles E. Kellogg -- Ornamental Plants / S.L. Emsweller / N.W. Stuart / Curtis May -- Vegetables / Victor R. Boswell -- Soil Management for Orchards / Damon Boynton / John R. Magness -- Soil Management for Forest Trees / Frank W. Woods / Otis L. Copeland, Jr. / Carl E. Ostrom -- Shelterbelts and Windbreaks / Ernest J. George / Ralph A. Read / E.W. Johnson / A.E. Ferber -- Soul and the Growth of Forests / Earl L. Stone, Jr. / Paul E. Lemmon -- Forest practices and Productivity / V.L. Harper / Bernard Frank / W.E. McQuilkin -- Research Services / H.C. Knoblauch.Principles -- We Seek; We Learn / Charles E. Kellogg -- The Basis of Fertility / Sterling B. Hendricks / Lyle T. Alexander -- What Soils Are / Roy W. Simonson -- Physical Properties / M.B. Russell -- Growth of Plants / C.H. Wadleigh -- Soil Moisture / L.A. Richards / S.H. Richards -- Use of Moisture by Plants / Sterling A. Taylor -- PH, Soil Acidity, and Plant Growth / W.H. Allaway -- The Chemistry of Soil PH / N.T. Coleman / A. Mehlich -- Fertility -- Plant Nutrition and Soil Fertility / L.A. Dean -- Nitrogen and Soil Fertility / Franklin E. Allison -- Soil Phosphorus and Fertility / Sterling R. Olsen / Maurice Fried -- Soil Potassium and Fertility / R.F. Reitemeier -- Sulfur and Soil Fertility / Howard V. Jordan / H.M. Reisenauer -- Iron and Soil Fertility / R.S. Holmes / J.C. Brown -- Zinc and Soil Fertility / Lloyd F. Seatz / J.J. Jurinak -- Boron and Soil Fertility / Darrell A. Russel -- Copper and Soil Fertility / Walter Reuther -- Manganese and Soil Fertility / G. Donald Sherman -- Trace Elements / P.R. Stout / C.M. Johnson -- Organic Matter / F.E. Broadbent -- Living Organisms in the Soil / Francis E. Clark -- Toxic Elements in Soils / Firman E. Bear -- Practices -- How To Determine Nutrient Needs / Frank G. Viets, Jr. / John J. Hanway -- Soil Reaction and Liming / K. Lawton / L.T. Kurtz -- Trends in Fertilizer / J. Richard Adams -- Materials and Mixtures / K.D. Jacob -- New and Better Fertilizers / E.L. Newman / W.L. Hill -- Applying Fertilizers / R.L. Cook / Walter C. Hulburt -- Farm Manure / Myron S. Anderson -- Composts, Peats, and Sewage Sludge / H.W. Reuszer -- Maintaining Organic Matter / W.V. Bartholomew -- Green Manure and Cover Crops / T. Hayden Rogers / Joel E. Giddens -- Soil Management and Crop Quality / Kenneth C. Beeson -- The Economics of Fertilizers / L.B. Nelson / D.B. Ibach -- Soil Care -- Principles of Tillage / W.A. Raney / A.W. Zingg -- Saline and Alkali Soils / C.A. Bower / Milton Fireman -- Erosion on Cultivated Land / B.D. Blakely / J.J. Coyle / J.G. Steele -- Erosion of Soil By Wind / W.S. Chepil -- How to Control a Gully / C.J. Francis -- Stabilizing Sand Dunes / A.D. Stoesz / Robert L. Brown -- Soil Management and Insect Control / Walter E. Fleming -- Soilborne Plant Diseases / Francis e. Clark / William J. Zaumeyer / John T. Presley -- Moisture -- Conserving Soil Moisture / Chester E. Evans / Edgar R. Lemon -- Irrigation in Arid Regions / Wayne D. Criddle / Howard R. Haise -- Irrigation in the East / T.H. Quakenbush / M.D. Thorne."The purpose of this book is to indicate the extent to which that warning has been heeded and at times to repeat it and to describe the knowledge about soils that scientists and farmers have since gained. This book devoted considerable space to classifications of soils, technical aspects of soil science, and the use of land".
Subjects: Soils.; Soil conservation; Soils;
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What makes this book so great / by Walton, Jo.(CARDINAL)703875;
Ford's Growing Up Weightless -- Overlodading the sense : Samuel Delany's Nova -- Aliens and Jesuits : James Blish's A Case of Conscience -- Swiftly goes the swordplay : Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword -- The work of disenchantment never ends : Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge -- Literary criticism vs talking about books.Why I re-read -- A Deepness in the Sky, the tragical history of Pham Nuwen -- The singularity problem and non-problem -- Random Acts of Senseless Violence : why isn't it a classic of the field? -- From herring to marmalade : the perfect plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -- "That's just scenery" : what do we mean by "mainstream" ? -- Re-reading long series -- The distopic earths of Heinlein's juveniles -- Happiness, meaning and significance : Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes -- The weirdest book in the world -- The poetry of deep time : Arthur C. Clark's Against the Fall of Night -- Clarke reimagined in hot pink : Tanith Leed's Biting the Sun -- Something rich and strange : Candas Jane Dorsey's Black Wine -- To trace impunity : Greg Egan's Permutation City -- Black and white and read a million times : Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries -- College as magic garden : why Pamela Dean's Tam Lin is a book you'll either love or hate -- Making the future work : Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang -- Anathem : what does it gain from not being our world? -- A happy ending depends on when you stop : Heavy Time, Hellburner and C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe -- Knights who say "Fuck" : swearing in genre fiction -- "Earth is one world" : C. J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station -- "Space is wide and good friends are too few" : Cherryh's Merchanter novels -- "A need to deal wounds" : rape of men in Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels -- How to talk to writers -- "Give me back the Berlin Wall" : Ken MacLeod's The Sky Road -- What a pity she couldn't have single-handedly invented science fiction! George Eliot's Middlemarch -- The beauty of lists : Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial -- Like pop rocks for the brain : Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand -- Between two worlds : S. P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights -- Lots of reasons to love these : Daniel Abraham's Long Price books -- Maori fantasy : Keri Hulme's The Bone People -- Better to have loved and lost? Series that go downhill -- More questions than answers : Robert A. Henlein's The Stone Pillow -- Weeping for her enemies : Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor -- Forward momentum : Lois McMaster Bujold's The Warrior's Apprentice -- Quest for ovaries : Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos -- Why he must not fail : Lois McMaster Bujold's Borders of Infinity -- What have you done with your baby brother? Lois McMaster Bujold's Brothers in Arms -- Hard on his superiors : Lois McMaster Bujold's The Vor Game -- One birth, one death, and all the acts of pain and will between : Lois McMater Bujold's Barrayar -- All true wealth is biological : Lois McMaster Bujold's Mirros Dance -- Luck is something you make for yourself : Lois McMaster Bujold's Cetaganda -- This is my old identity, actually : Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory -- But I'm Vor : Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr -- She's getting away! Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign -- Just my job : Lois McMater Bujold's Diplomatic Immunity -- Every day is a gift : Lois McMaster Bujold's "Winterfair Gifts" -- Choose again, and change : Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga -- So, what sort of series do you like? -- Time travel and slavery : Octavia Butler's Kindred -- America the Beautiful : Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain -- Susan Palwick's Shelter -- Scintillations of a sensory syrynx : Samuel Delany's Nova -- You may not know it, but you want to read this : Francis Spufford's Backroom Boys : the Secret Return of the British Boffin -- Faster than light at any speed -- Gender and glaciers : Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness -- Licensed to see weasels and jade earrings : the short stories of Lord Dunsany -- The net of a million lies : Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep -- The worst book I love : Robert A. Heinlein's Friday -- India's superheroes : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children -- A funny book with a lot of death in it : Iain Banks's The Crow Road -- More dimensions than you'd expect : Samuel Delany's Babel-17 -- Bad, but good : David Feintuch's Midshipman's Hope -- Subtly twisted history : John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting --A very long poem : Alan Garner's Red Shift -- Beautiful, poetic and experimental : Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand -- Waking the dragon : George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire -- Who reads cosy catastrophes? -- Stalinism vs champagne at the opera : Constantine Fitzgibbon's When the Kissing Had to Stop -- The future of the Commonwealth : Nevil Shute's In the Wet -- Twists of the God game : John Fowles's The Magus -- Playing the angles on a world : Steven Brust's Dragaera -- Jhereg feeds on others' kills : Steven Brust's Jhereg -- Yendi coils and strikes unseen : Steven Brust's Yendi -- A coachman's tale : Steven Brust's Brokedown Palace -- Frightened teckla hides in grass : Steven Brust's Teckla -- How can you tell? Steven Brust's Taltos -- Phoenix rise from ashes grey : Steven Brust's Phoenix -- I have been asking fo nothing else for an hour : Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards -- Athyra rules minds' interplay : Steven Brust's Athyra -- What, is there more? Steven Brust's Five Hundred Years After -- Orca circles, hard and lean : Steven Brust's Orca -- Haughty dragon yearns to slay : Steven Brust's Dragon -- Issola strikes from courtly bow : Steven Brust's Issola -- What has gone before? -- The time about which I have the honor to write : Steven Brust's The Viscount of Adrilankha -- Dzur stalks and blends with night : Steven Brust's Dzur -- Jhegaala shifts as moments pass : Steven Brust's Jhegaala -- Quiet iorich won't forget : Steven Brust's Iorich -- Quakers in space : Molly Gloss's The Dazzle of Day -- Locked in our separate skulls : Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall -- Saving both worlds : Katherine Blake (Dorothy Heydt)'s The Interior Life -- Yearning for the unattainable : James Tiptree Jr.'s short stories -- SF reading protocols -- Incredibly readable : Robert A. Heinlein's The Door in Summer -- Nasty, but brilliant : John Barnes's Kaleidoscope Century -- Growing up in a space dystopia : John Barnes's Orbital Resonance -- The joy of an unfinished series -- Fantasy and the need to remake our origin stories -- The mind, the heart, sex, class, feminism, true love, intrigue, not your everyday ho-hum detective story : Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night -- Three short Hainish novels : Ursula K. Le Guin's Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions -- On reflection, not very dangerous : Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions -- Why do I re-read things I don't like? -- Yakking about who's civilised and who's not : H. Beam Piper's Space Viking -- Feast or famine? -- Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, Jay Schreib's play of Samuel Delany's Dhalgren -- Not much changes on the street, only the faces : George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails -- History inside out : Howard Waldrop's Them Bones -- I'd love this book if I didn't loathe the protagonist : Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr's Household Gods -- Screwball-comedy time travel : John Kessel's Corrupting Dr. Nice -- Academic time travel : Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog -- The society of time : John Brunner's Times Without Number -- Five short stories with useless time travel -- Time control : Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity -- Texan ghost fantasy : Sean Stewart's Perfect Circle -- The language of stones : Terri Windling's The Wood Wife -- A great castle made of sea : why hasn't Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell been more influential? -- Gulp or sip : how do you read? -- Quincentennial : Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth -- Do you skim? -- A merrier world : J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit -- Monuments from the future : Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths -- The suck fairy -- Trains on the moon : John M."As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading--about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series. Among Walton's many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by "mainstream"; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field's many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Books and reading; Fantasy fiction, American; Science fiction, American;
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Black lives matter at school : an uprising for educational justice / by Jones, Denisha(Denisha Natasha),editor.(CARDINAL)838799; Hagopian, Jesse,editor.(CARDINAL)617492; Tometi, Opal,1984-writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-303) and index."Black Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from successful challenges to institutional racism that have been won through the Black Lives Matter at School movement. This book will inspire many more educators and activists to join the Black Lives Matter at School movement at a moment when this antiracist work in our schools could not be more urgent and critical to education justice. Contributors include Opal Tometi, who wrote a moving foreword, Bettina Love who shares a powerful chapter on abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones who centers Black Lives Matter at School in the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education and prominent teacher union leaders from Chicago to Los Angeles and beyond who discuss the importance of anti-racist struggle in education unions. The book includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from educators, students and parents around the country who have been building Black Lives Matter at School on the ground." -- Publisher's description
Subjects: Educational sociology; Civil rights movements; African Americans; African Americans; Black lives matter movement.; Black Lives Matter movement.;
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Southern accent : seeking the American South in contemporary art / by Camposeco, Diego,contributor.(CARDINAL)415595; Chin, Mel,1951-contributor.(CARDINAL)337594; Cooper, Brittney C.,1980-contributor.(CARDINAL)415315; Edge, John T.,contributor.(CARDINAL)338725; Fagaly, William A.,contributor.(CARDINAL)168639; Foster, Carter E.,contributor.(CARDINAL)223540; Greaves, Brendan,contributor.(CARDINAL)543834; Haynes, Harrison,contributor.; Hood, Patterson,1964-contributor.(CARDINAL)594126; Lash, Miranda Isabel,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)310600; Limón, Ada,contributor.(CARDINAL)549826; Marcopoulos, Ari,1957-contributor.(CARDINAL)835712; Neal, Mark Anthony,contributor.(CARDINAL)530537; Opie, Catherine,1961-contributor.(CARDINAL)265349; Pecou, Fahamu,1975-contributor.(CARDINAL)356647; Powell, Richard J.,1953-contributor.(CARDINAL)193885; Rankin, Tom,contributor.(CARDINAL)178301; Robleto, Dario,1972-contributor.; Schoonmaker, Trevor,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)281758; Sumrall, Bradley,contributor.; Trethewey, Natasha D.,1966-contributor.(CARDINAL)334699; Walker, Kara Elizabeth,contributor.(CARDINAL)266792; Whetstone, Jeff,1968-contributor.(CARDINAL)870122; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)281728; Speed Art Museum,organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)560891;
Includes bibliographical references.What do we envision when we talk about the South? / Miranda Lash -- Southern accent : the sound of seeing / Trevor Schoonmaker -- South / Natasha Trethewey -- Latinos and the North Carolina landscape / Diego Camposeco -- Riding the soul food rickshaw / John T. Edge -- Accents inside my head / Carter Foster -- KEW ACM ATL / Kara Walker and Ari Marcopolous -- On things unseen / Tom Rankin -- Porch and drawl / Richard J. Powell -- Southern mountain time / Jeff Whetstone -- Womanish / Brittney Cooper -- "Humming this song trying to remember the way another one goes" : intermedia conversations in a Southern vernacular / Brendan Greaves -- Down home on the Moon / Mark Anthony Neal -- I reckon / Harrison Haynes -- The three great Alabama icons / Patterson Hood -- Soul food / Fahamu Pecou -- No lonesome road / Catherine Opie -- Honky-tonks and hospices / Dario Robleto -- Medicine / Mel Chin -- The fast-talking, knife-throwing, trouble-making motorcycle legend and naturalist, Jim Roche, makes some damn good work / Bradley Sumrall -- Field bling / Ada Limón -- Southern accent music library / Brendan Greaves, Harrison Haynes, and Trevor Schoonmaker -- Chronology of Southern art and scholarship / Andrew Hibbard -- The first Southern Rim experience / William Fagaly -- Southern accent reading list / Miranda Lash.Featuring the work of sixty artists and including 300 illustrations, the catalog 'Southern Accent' accompanies a major contemporary art exhibition that questions and explores the complex and contested space of the American South. This unprecedented exhibition investigates the many realities, fantasies, and myths of the South that have long captured the public's imagination, while presenting a wide range of perspectives that create a composite portrait of southern identity through contemporary art. It looks at the South as an open-ended question and concept in itself by encompassing a broad spectrum of media and approaches, demonstrating that southernness is more of a shared sensibility than any one definable culture or style. While the exhibition includes artwork from the 1950s to the present, it primarily focuses on the past thirty-five years. With numerous contributions by artists, scholars, musicians, and poets, a music-listening library, and a timeline of scholarship on southern art, this catalog redefines the way we look at the South in contemporary art.
Subjects: Art.; Exhibition catalogs.; Art, American; Art, American;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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100 Christian women who changed the twentieth century / by Hosier, Helen Kooiman.(CARDINAL)724176;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-377) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Christian women;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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