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Evolution : the story of life on Earth / by Hosler, Jay(Jay S.)(CARDINAL)544471; Cannon, Kevin.(CARDINAL)492756; Cannon, Zander.(CARDINAL)667014;
Includes bibliographical references (page 145).An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biology Jay Hosler. Evolution features the same characters introduced in the highly regarded The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, now here to explain the fundamentals of the evolution of life on earth. On the heels of explaining to his planetary leader the intricacies of human genetics in The Stuff of Life, the intrepid alien scientist Bloort-183 is charged in this sequel with covering the wider story of evolution. Using the same storytelling conceit that Plenty magazine declared "so charming that you won't even notice you've absorbed an entire scientific field" and that caused Seed to pick The Stuff of Life as a best book of 2008, Evolution brilliantly answers Wired's demand, "What's the solution to America's crisis in science education? More comic books!" Evolution, the most accessible graphic work on this universally studied subject, takes the reader from earth's primordial soup to the vestigial structures, like the coccyx and the male nipple, of modern humans. Once again, the award-winning illustrations of the Cannons render the complex clear and everything cleverly comedic. And in Hosler, Evolution has an award-winning biology teacher whose science comics have earned him a National Science Foundation grant and an interview on NPR's Morning Edition.GN900LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Evolution (Biology);
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The artist as citizen / by Polisi, Joseph.(CARDINAL)790908;
Prologue -- Juilliard commencement, President's message, May 21, 1993, Alice Tully Hall, New York City -- Speech at the 55th National Biennial Conference of the Music Educator's National Conference, April 19, 1996, Kansas City, Missouri -- The human side of Juilliard, July 12, 1998, East Hampton, New York -- Address to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Arts, August 4, 1995, Washington, DC -- Culture, the arts, and diplomacy, April 23, 2003, the New York Academy of Arts, New York City -- Thoughts on the wide world of music, May 22-June 6, 1993, Ninth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas -- Juilliard commencement President's message, May 17, 1985, Alice Tully Hall, New York City -- Juilliard commencement President's message, May 20, 1988, Alice Tully Hall, New York City -- American culture and the performing arts, February 16, 1988, Fresno Lecture Series, California State University -- Aspen Music Festival Convocation Address, June 18, 2001, Aspen, Colorado -- Are there too many musicians? : September 28, 1987, Van Cliburn Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas -- The "good" of Lincoln Center, October 2003 -- The last Samurai January 2004 -- The subtle art : educating the musician of the twenty-first century, July 31-August 3, 1986, Fourth Annual Symposium of Medical Problems of Musicians and Dancers, Aspen, Colorado -- A lament for John's (Coffee Shop), October 1990, Juilliard Journal -- Address to the Juilliard faculty, September 12, 1984, Paul Hall, New York City -- Address to the Juilliard faculty, September 4, 1985, Paul Hall, New York City -- Address to the Juilliard faculty, December 11, 1985, Paul Hall, New York City -- The conductor's world : new directions in a changing time January 4, 1985, Conductors Guild of the American Symphony Orchestra League, New York City -- Planning for the twenty-first century, February 1996-May 2004, the Juilliard School, New York City -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Juilliard School.; Music;
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Earth [videorecording] : the operators' manual / by Akuginow, Erna.pro(CARDINAL)225463; Alley, Richard B.(CARDINAL)304434; Haines-Stiles, Geoffrey.ausdrtpro(CARDINAL)225464; Howard, Art.cng(CARDINAL)305306; Quinn, Andrew.flm; Schibsted, Evantheia.res; Geoff Haines-Stiles Production, Inc.; National Science Foundation (U.S.)(CARDINAL)138156; Passport to Knowledge (Firm)(CARDINAL)327374; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)(CARDINAL)189964;
Director of photography, Art Howard ; editor/2nd camera, Andrew Quinn ; researcher, Evantheia Schibsted ; music, DeWolfe Music ; executive producers, Erna Akuginow, Geoff Haines-Stiles.Presenter and science editor, Richard Alley."Is the planet due for an oil change? Why are fossil fuels unsustainable? Can renewable energy power the planet? These and many other questions are answered in "Earth: The Operator's Manual." This accurate, understandable and upbeat report on the interconnected stories of humans, fossil fuels, earth's climate history and our future energy options will leave you amazed at the beauty and bounty of the planet, inspired by human ingenuity, and optimistic about the future"--Container.Rated TV-G.DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Energy development; Global warming.; Renewable energy sources.;
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Getting yours : the complete guide to government money / by Lesko, Matthew.(CARDINAL)520654;
Subjects: Directories.; Economic assistance, Domestic; Administrative agencies;
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Island world : a history of Hawai'i and the United States / by Okihiro, Gary Y.,1945-(CARDINAL)748881;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index.List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Regions of fire -- 2: Oceania's expanse -- 3: Pagan priest -- 4: Schooling for subservience -- 5: Hawaiian Diaspora -- 5: Poetry in motion -- 7: Islands and continents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.From the Publisher: Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai'i. Instead, Island World depicts the islands' press against the continent, endowing America's story with fresh meaning. Okihiro's reconsidered history reveals Hawaiians fighting in the Civil War, sailing on nineteenth-century New England ships, and living in pre-gold rush California. He points to Hawai'i's lingering effect on twentieth-century American culture-from surfboards, hula, sports, and films, to art, imagination, and racial perspectives-even as the islands themselves succumb slowly to the continental United States. In placing Hawai'i at the center of the national story, Island World rejects the premise that continents comprise "natural" states while islands are "tiny spaces," without significance, to be acted upon by continents. An astonishingly compact tour de force, this book not only revises the way we think about islands, oceans, and continents; it also recasts the way we write about space and time.
Subjects: Folklore; Hawaiians; Popular culture;
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Possessing the past : treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei / by Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan.(CARDINAL)159536; Fong, Wen.(CARDINAL)150925; Watt, James C. Y.(CARDINAL)154674;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 610-624) and index.The National Palace Museum : a history of the collection / Chang Lin-sheng -- Chinese art and cross-cultural understanding / Wen C. Fong -- Jade ; The Bronze Age and the first empires / James C.Y. Watt -- The imperial cult ; Some cultural prototypes ; Monumental landscape painting ; Sung imperial portraits ; The scholar-official as artist / Wen C. Fong -- The Imperial Painting Academy / James Cahill -- Some Buddhist images / Wai-kam Ho and Wen C. Fong -- Antiquarianism and naturalism / James C.Y. Watt -- The orthodox lineage of Tao / Wen C. Fong -- Imperial portraits of the Yüan Court / Wen C. Fong and Maxwell K. Hearn -- Reunification and revival ; The artist as hero / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Imperial portraiture of the Ming Dynasty / Wen C. Fong -- The return of the academy / Richard M. Barnhart -- The literati artists of the Ming dynasty ; The expanding literati culture ; Creating a synthesis / Wen C. Fong -- Official art and commercial art / James C.Y. Watt -- The orthodox school of painting ; The individualist masters / Wen C. Fong -- The antique-elegant / James C.Y. Watt -- Imperial patronage of the arts under the Ch'ing / Wen C. Fong.Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic traditions of Chinese civilization. Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei is the publication that accompanies the third great exhibition of Chinese masterworks to travel to the West. Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book tells the story of Chinese art from its foundations in the Bronze Age and the first empires through the rich diversity of art produced during the Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, contrasting China's absolutist political structure with the humanism of its artistic and moral philosophy. Synthesizing scholarship of the past three decades, the authors present not only the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, but a reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history, reflecting a fundamental shift in the study of Chinese art from a focus on documentation and connoisseurship to an emphasis on the cultural significance of the visual arts. National treasures passed down from dynasty to dynasty, the works of art that now form the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, originally constituted the personal collection of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, who ruled China from 1736 to 1795. Two centuries after Ch'ien-lung ascended the dragon throne, when the Japanese invaded China in 1937, the nearly 10,000 masterworks of painting and calligraphy and more than 600,000 objects and rare books and documents - which had earlier been moved from Peking to Nanking following the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931 - were packed in crates and evacuated to caves near the wartime capital, Chungking. It was not until after World War II that the crated treasures were moved to their present home in Taiwan, where today they represent a major portion of China's artistic and cultural legacy.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan; Art, Chinese; Art;
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Strange days on planet earth [videorecording]. by Norton, Edward.nrt(CARDINAL)273634; National Geographic Television & Film.(CARDINAL)273629; NGT Production Inc.; Sea Studios Foundation.(CARDINAL)273631; Vulcan Productions.(CARDINAL)273630; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
Disc 1: Episode 1. Invaders -- Episode 2. The one degree factor.Disc 2: Episode 3. Predators -- Episode 4. Troubled waters.Disc 3: Episode 5. Dangerous catch -- Episode 6: Dirty secrets.Hosted by Edward Norton.This series uses state-of-the-art graphics, cutting-edge research and globe-spanning investigations to understand how our environment is changing and why.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Television programs.; Biological invasions.; Climatic changes.; Compact discs.; Fisheries; Fishes; Global environmental change.; Global warming.; Introduced animals.; Invasive plants.; Nature; Predation (Biology); Water; Water;
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The Black box : writing the race / by Gates, Henry Louis,Jr.,author.(CARDINAL)162666;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.Preface : The black box -- Race, reason, and writing -- What's in a name? -- Who's your daddy?: Frederick Douglass and the politics of self-representation -- Who's your mama?: the politics of disrespectability -- The "true art of a race's past": art, propaganda, and the new negro -- Modernism and its discontents: Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright play the dozens -- Sellouts vs. race men: on the concept of passing -- Conclusion : Policing the color line."A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create a livable world--a "home"--for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history's most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a "community." Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be "Black," and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future. This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of--and resisted confinement in--the "black box" inside which this "nation within a nation" has been assigned, willy nilly, from the nation's founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Biographies.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans in literature.;
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Avatar : the Last Airbender and philosophy : wisdom from Aang to Zuko / by De Cruz, Helen,1978-editor.; De Smedt, Johan(Philosopher),editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender -- native philosophies and relationality in Avatar: The Last Airbender: it's (lion) turtles all the way down / Miranda Belarde-Lewis(Zuni/Tlingit) and Clementine Bordeaux(Sicangu Oglala Lakota) -- Getting elemental: how many elements are there in Avatar: The Last Airbender? / Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa -- The personalities of martial arts in Avatar: The Last Airbender / Zachary Isrow -- The end of the world: nationhood and abolition in Avatar: The Last Airbender / Nicholas Whittaker -- The bending world, a bent world: supernatural power and its political implications / Yao Lin -- Part II: water -- Avatar: The Last Airbender and Anishinaabe philosophy / Brad Cloud -- "Lemur!" - "dinner!": human-animal relations in Avatar: The Last Airbender / Daniel Wawrzyniak -- On the moral neutrality of bloodbending / Johnathan Flowers -- On the ethics of bloodbending: why is it so wrong and can it ever be good? / Mike Gregory -- Mystical rationality / Isaac Wilhelm -- "I will never, ever turn my back on people who need me": repairing the world through care / Nicole Fice -- Spirits, visions, and dreams: Native American epistemology and the Aang Gaang / Justin Skirry and Samuel Skirry -- Part III: Earth -- Time is an illusion: time and space in the swamp / Natalia Strok -- There is no truth in Ba Sing Se: bald-faced lies and the nature of lying / Nathan Kellen -- The rocky terrain of disability gain in Avatar: The Last Airbender: is Toph a supercrip stereotype or a disability pride icon? / Joseph A. Stramondo -- The Earth King, ignorance, and responsibility / Saba Fatima -- The middle way and the many faces of Earth / Thomas Arnold -- Part IV: fire -- The battle within: Confucianism and legalism in the nation, the family, and the soul / Kody W. Cooper -- Not giving up on Zuko: relational identity and the stories we tell / Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap -- Uncle Iroh, from fool to sage - or sage all along? / Eric Schwitzgebel and David Schwitzgebel -- Being bad at being good: Zuko's transformation and residual practical identities / Justin F. White -- Compassion and moral responsibility in Avatar: The Last Airbender: "I was never angry; I was afraid that you had lost your way" / Robert H. Wallace -- Part V: air -- The fire nation and the united states: genocide as the foundation for empire building / Kerri J. Malloy -- Anarchist airbenders: on anarchist philosophy in Avatar: The Last Airbender / Savriël Dillingh -- A Buddhist perspective on energy bending, strength, and the power of Aang's spirit / Nicholaos Jones and Holly Jones -- Ahimsa and Aang's dilemma: "everyone . . . [has] to be treated like they're worth giving a chance" / James William Lincoln -- The Avatar meets the Karmapa: interconnections, friendship, and moral training / Brett Patterson."Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we tell whether uncle Iroh is a fool or a sage? The world is out of sorts. The four nations, Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, are imbalanced because of the unrelenting conquest of the Fire Nation. The only one who can restore balance to the world is the Avatar. On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the world is a team effort, embodied in Team Avatar, aka the Gaang. Aang needs help from his friends and tutors, even from non-human animals. Through the teachings of Guru Pathik and Huu he comes to realize that though the world and its nations seem separate, we are all one people. We all have the same roots and we are all branches of the same tree. Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy brings to the fore the Eastern, Western, and Indigenous philosophies that are implicit in the show. Following Uncle Iroh's advice that it is important to draw wisdom from many traditions, this volume features contributions by experts on Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and Indigenous schools of thought, next to focusing on Western classical authors such as Plotinus, Kant, and Merleau-Ponty. The volume is also unique in drawing on less common traditions such as black abolitionism, anarchism, and the philosophy of martial arts. Intertwining experience and reflection, ATLA and Philosophy helps readers to deeply engage with today's burning questions, such as how to deal with ecological destruction, the aftermath of colonialism and genocide, and wealth inequality, using the tools from a wide range of philosophical traditions"--
Subjects: Avatar, the last airbender (Television program); Philosophy.; Wisdom.;
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You could look it up : the reference shelf, from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia / by Lynch, Jack(John T.)(CARDINAL)659981;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-442) and index.Looking it up -- Justice in the earth : laws of the ancient world -- Of making many books : information overload -- In the beginning was the word : the first dictionaries -- A fraction of the total : counting reference books -- The history of nature : science in antiquity -- Easy as ABC : the rise (and fall?) of alphabetical order -- Round earth's imagined corners : mapping the world -- The invention of the codex -- The circle of the sciences : ancient encyclopedias -- The dictionary gets its day in court -- Leechcraft : medieval medicine -- Plagiarism : the crime of literary theft -- New Worlds : cartography in an age of discovery -- Tell me how you organize your books -- Admirable artifice : computers before computers -- To bring people together : societies -- The infirmity of human nature : guides to error -- Ignorance, pure ignorance : of omissions, ambiguities, and plain old blunders -- Guarding the avenues of language : dictionaries in the eighteenth century -- Of ghosts and Mountweazels -- The way of faith : guidelines for believers -- Who's who and what's what : making the cut -- Erotic recreations : sex manuals -- The boys' club -- Collecting knowledge into the smallest areas : the great encyclopedias -- Dictionary or encyclopedia? -- Of redheads and Babus : dictionaries and empire -- A small army : collaborative endeavors -- Killing time : games and sports -- Out of print -- Monuments of erudition : the great national dictionaries -- Counting editions -- Grecian glory, Roman grandeur : Victorian eyes on the ancient world -- Lost projects : what might have been -- Words telling their own stories : the historical dictionaries -- Overlong and overdue -- An Alms-Basket of words : the reference book as salvation -- Reading the dictionary -- Modern materia medica : staying healthy -- Incomplete and abandoned projects -- The foundation stone : library catalogs -- Index learning -- The good life : the arts and high society -- Some unlikely reference books -- Presumed purity : science in a scientific age -- At no extra cost! the business of reference books -- Full and authoritative information : doctrine for the modern world -- Unpersons : damnatio memoriae -- Nothing special : books for browsers -- The world's information : the encyclopedia dream."Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge." -- Publisher's website.
Subjects: Reference books; Encyclopedias and dictionaries;
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