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Is it real? by Fleming, Candace,author.(CARDINAL)341516;
Includes bibliographical references."Nestled in the lush green hills of the Scotland Highlands lies Loch Ness, a deep, murky lake with a storied history. It is also the home of the Loch Ness Monster. Numerous stories and photographs by people claiming to have spotted the mysterious monster have surfaced, often gaining immediate fame. But after decades of countless expeditions, documentaries, firsthand accounts, pictures, and videos, the mystery of Nessie continues to haunt us. Now, Sibert Award-winning author Candace Fleming invites you to become a detective and to join the race to uncover the truth. You'll learn how real-life detectives and scientists conduct their investigations to solve the greatest mysteries as the principles of the Scientific Method and more tools for boosting critical thinking and analysis are introduced. You will consider the evidence, see if you can tell the difference between fact and fiction, and maybe you can answer this age-old question about the Loch Ness monster: Is it real?"--Ages 8-12.Grades 3-7.
Subjects: Informational works.; Creative nonfiction.; Illustrated works.; Curiosities and wonders; Loch Ness monster; Monsters; Truthfulness and falsehood; Legends;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 35
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Writing assessment and instruction for students with learning disabilities / by Mather, Nancy.(CARDINAL)781441; Wendling, Barbara J.(CARDINAL)897985; Roberts, Rhia,1959-author.; Gregg, Noel,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-324) and index.Very gently with no red marks -- Components of written language -- Theoretical perspectives and effective principles -- Effective accommodations for struggling writers -- Helping students with handwriting -- Building basic writing skills -- Improving written expression -- Informal assessment and curriculum-based measurement -- Analysis of writing samples -- Writing as communication."A hands-on guide for anyone who teaches writing to students with learning disabilities. This valuable resource helps teachers who want to sharpen their skills in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing--even those who have not been classified as learning disabled. The book offers a review of basic skills--spelling, punctuation, and capitalization--and includes instructional strategies to help children who struggle with these basics. The authors provide numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and offer helpful suggestions for motivating them. Includes a much-needed guide for teaching and assessing writing skills with children with learning disabilities. Contains strategies for working with all students that struggle with writing. Offers classroom-tested strategies, helpful information, 100+ writing samples with guidelines for analysis, and handy progress-monitoring charts. Includes ideas for motivating reluctant writers. Mather is an expert in the field of learning disabilities and is the best-selling author of Essentials of Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement Assessment"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Learning disabled children; English language; English language;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Healthy South Indian cooking / by Vairavan, Alamelu.; Marquardt, Patricia.;
After numerous cooking demonstrations and TV appearances, along with letters and comments from readers, the authors have put together a brand new collection of healthy recipes. With an emphasis on the famed Chettinad cooking tradition of southern India, these 197 mostly vegetarian recipes will allow home cooks to create fabulous exotic fare like Masala Dosa with Coconut Chutney, Pearl Onion and Tomato Sambhar, Chickpea and Bell Pepper Poriyal, and Eggplant Masala Curry. These easy-to-prepare dishes are exceptionally delicious and nutritious, featuring wholesome vegetables and legumes flavored with delicate spices. Each of these low-fat, low-calorie recipes includes complete nutritional analysis. Also included are sample menus of complementary dishes and innovative suggestions for integrating South Indian dishes into traditional Western meals. A section on the varieties and methods of preparation for dals (a lentil dish that is a staple of the cuisine), a multilingual glossary of spices and ingredients, and 16 pages of color photographs make this book a clear and concise introduction to the healthy, delicious cooking of South India.
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Cooking, Indic.;
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Sex trafficking : inside the business of modern slavery / by Kara, Siddharth,author.(CARDINAL)491642;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index.Sex trafficking : an overview -- India and Nepal -- Italy and western Europe -- Moldova and the former Soviet Union -- Albania and the Balkans -- Thailand and the Mekong subregion -- The United States -- A framework for abolition : risk and demand."Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, the female body requires no such "processing" and can be repeatedly consumed." "In this first-of-its-kind journey, Siddharth Kara investigates the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across four continents and takes stock of its devastating human toll. Since first encountering the horrors of sexual slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995, Kara has taken multiple research trips to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States. He has met hundreds of slaves, has witnessed the sale of numerous human beings into slavery, and has confronted some of the criminals who have exploited them." "Drawing on his background in finance and economics, Kara provides a rare business analysis of sex trafficking, focusing on the local drivers and global macroeconomic trends that gave rise to the industry after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He quantifies the size, growth, and profitability of sex trafficking and other forms of modern slavery - metrics that have never been published before - and locates the sectors that would be hardest hit by specifically designed interventions and penalties."
Subjects: Human trafficking.; Human trafficking; Minorities; Minorities; Globalization; Prostitution.; Slavery.; Sex industry.; Minorities; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.; Sex industry.;
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With their backs against the mountains : 850 years of Waldensian witness / by Frederick, Kevin E.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The Waldensian denomination of the Christian church remains one of the more mysterious sects in history. While much ink has been spilled about the most common Protestant denominations, the simple, humble faith of the Waldensians gets lost in the shuffle. Kevin E. Frederick puts an end to this inequality by providing a detailed account of the Waldensians, from their formation in 1172 to the present day. Frederick includes in-depth analysis of many aspects of the church, including: the biography of its passionate founder, the causes of its spread throughout Europe and the Americas, the consequences of its merger with the Arnoldists and the Swiss Reformed Movement, the impact of its many acts of charity, and the tragedies of its persecution during the Catholic Inquisition and Nazi regime. In the face of numerous massacres and other atrocities, the Waldensians' convictions never wavered. In 2015, they were finally given an important and unprecedented message from the pope himself, but that is not the end of their story. The Waldensians are still practicing their faith in Italy, South America, and North America. Inspired by their own past, they work to protect and support some of the most vulnerable communities in the world.
Subjects: Waldenses;
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The Knoxville Campaign : Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee / by Hess, Earl J.(CARDINAL)168844;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-395) and index.Burnside and East Tennessee -- Turn around -- Lenoir's station -- Campbell's station -- Sanders buys time -- Siege -- Search for a solution -- Fort Sanders -- Relief -- Break away -- Bean's station -- Longstreet in East Tennessee -- Orders of battle -- Appendix A: The forts of Knoxville -- Appendix B: Knoxville's Civil War legacy.In the fall and winter of 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside and Confederate General James Longstreet vied for control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that linked the Confederacy east and west. The generals and their men competed, too, for the hearts and minds of the people of East Tennessee. Often overshadowed by the fighting at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, this important campaign has never received a full scholarly treatment. In this landmark book, award-winning historian Earl J. Hess fills a gap in Civil War scholarship -- a timely contribution that coincides with and commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The East Tennessee campaign was an important part of the war in the West. It brought the conflict to Knoxville in a devastating way, forcing the Union defenders to endure two weeks of siege in worsening winter conditions. The besieging Confederates suffered equally from supply shortages, while the civilian population was caught in the middle and the town itself suffered widespread destruction. The campaign culminated in the famed attack on Fort Sanders early on the morning of November 29, 1863. The bloody repulse of Longstreet's veterans that morning contributed significantly to the unraveling of Confederate hopes in the Western theater of operations. Hess's compelling account is filled with numerous maps and images that enhance the reader's understanding of this vital campaign that tested the heart of East Tennessee. The author's narrative and analysis will appeal to a broad audience, including general readers, seasoned scholars, and new students of Tennessee and Civil War history. The Knoxville Campaign will thoroughly reorient our view of the war as it played out in the mountains and valleys of East Tennessee. - Publisher.
Subjects: Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881; Longstreet, James, 1821-1904;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Low-volume roads, 2015. by National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board,issuing body.(CARDINAL)141287; International Conference on Low-volume Roads(11th :2015 :Pittsburgh, Pa.)(CARDINAL)334768;
Includes bibliographical references.Foreword -- Part 1 - Maintenance and pavements -- Markov chain modeling of pavement surfacing -- Evaluation of the use of magnesium chloride for surface stabilization and dust control on unpaved roads -- Recommendations for seal treatment rejuvenation specifications based on bending beam rheometer testing of mixture beams -- Evaluation of the effect of rural road condition on agricultural produce transportation -- Comparison of low-volume road pavement performance with results of accelerated pavement testing -- Implementation of preventive maintenance in network-level optimization: case study of the Serbian low-volume road network -- Optimized maintenance standards for unpaved road networks based on cost-effectiveness analysis -- Use of ash in hot dense mixtures: alternative to reduce environmental liabilities -- Part 2 - Geotechnical engineering -- Applying social return on investment to risk-based transportation asset management plans in low-volume bridges -- Correlations between strains in a thin asphalt pavement structure and deflection basins: Investigation by linear elastic analysis and experiments -- Performance of sand-treated clay subgrade supporting a low-volume flexible pavement -- Neural estimation of localization and classification of soils for use in low-traffic-volume roads -- Design and construction of welded wire retaining walls in the Siuslaw and Willamette national forests -- Evaluation of aggregate-surfaced roads for timber haul -- Estimation of subgrade resilient modulus for fine-grained soil from unconfined compression test -- New approach for upgrading gravel roads to a low-volume sealed standard based on the use of the dynamic cone penetrometer -- Part 3 - Stabilization -- Soil-water characteristic curves for soils stabilized with class c fly ash -- Skid resistance of magnesium chloride roads -- Stabilizing sand roads with wood products and byproducts -- Postsurcharge secondary compression characteristics of marine clay from piezocone penetration tests on a low-volume road -- Lime and cement treatments for low-volume roads: sustainability and resiliency issues -- Development of provisional specification language for chemical treatments for unpaved roads -- Effect of the use of a polymeric stabilizing additive on unconfined compressive strength of soils -- Improvement in physical and mechanical properties of soils by the addition of lime for paving roads -- Part 4- Geosynthetics -- Use of finite difference numerical technique to evaluate deep patch embankment repair with geosynthetics -- Design considerations for deep patch embankment repair with geosynthetics -- Determination of load equivalency for unpaved roads -- The long history of geosynthetics use on forest roads.Every four years, since 1975, the Transportation Research Board has collected the work, experience, and innovations of authors from six continents on the subject of low-volume roads. This 11th publication in a series of peer-reviewed volumes provides a special forum for the exchange of information and innovative ideas on the design, construction, maintenance, operations and safety of low-volume roads. Low-Volume Roads 2015 is presented in three volumes with 80 papers. This volume, Volume 2, presents 28 papers that address the following aspects of low-volume roads: maintenance and pavements, geotechnical engineering, stabilization, and geosynthetics.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Low-volume roads; Rural roads; Low-volume roads; Rural roads; Road materials.; Pavements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book of codes : understanding the world of hidden messages : an illustrated guide to signs, symbols, ciphers, and secret languages / by Lunde, Paul,1943-(CARDINAL)736557;
ENCODING THE WORLD: Describing time -- Describing form -- Force and motion -- Mathematics: the indescribable -- The periodic table -- Defining the world -- Encoding the landscape -- Navigation -- Taxonomy -- The genetic code -- Genetic ancestry -- Using the genetic code -- CODES OF CIVILIZATION: Codes of construction -- Taoist mysticism -- South Asian sacred imagery -- The language of Buddhism -- The patterns of Islam -- Mysteries of the North -- Medieval visual sermons -- Stained glass windows -- Renaissance iconography -- The age of reason -- Victoriana -- Textiles, carpets, and embroidery -- CODES OF COMMERCE: Commercial codes -- Brands & trademarks -- Makers' marks -- Codes of work -- Currency and counterfeits -- The book in your hands -- CODES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR: Body language -- Survival signals -- Sporting codes -- Etiquette -- Dressing your message -- Heraldry -- Formal dress codes -- Decoding the unconscious -- The language of dreams -- VISUAL CODES: Signs & signage -- Highway codes -- Challenged communication -- Describing music -- Musical scores -- Animal talk -- Extraterrestrials -- IMAGINARY CODES: Modern magic and mayhem -- The Bible code -- The Beale Papers -- Mystery and imagination -- Fantasy codes -- Doomsday codes -- THE DIGITAL AGE. The first computers -- Supercomputers -- Talking to computers -- Alice, Bob, & Eve -- Future medicine -- Where are codes taking us?THE FIRST CODES: Reading the landscape -- Tracking animals -- Bushcraft signs -- Early petroglyphs -- First writing systems -- Reading cuneiform -- Alphabets and scripts -- The evolution of numerical systems -- Linear A & Linear B -- The Phaistos disc -- The mystery of hieroglyphs -- Hieroglyphs revealed -- The riddle of the Maya -- Indigenous traditions -- SECTS, SYMBOLS, & SECRET SOCIETIES: Early Christians -- The pentangle -- Divination -- Heresies, sects and cults -- Rosslyn Chapel -- Alchemy -- Kabbalism -- Necromancy -- Rosicrucians -- Freemasons -- CODES FOR SECRECY: The art of concealment -- For your eyes only -- Frequency analysis -- Disguising ciphers -- Medieval cipher systems -- The Babington plot -- The da Vinci code -- Ciphertexts and keys -- Grilles -- Spies and black chambers -- Mechanical devices -- Hidden in plain sight -- COMMUNICATING AT A DISTANCE: Long-distance alarms -- Flag signals -- Semaphore and the telegraph -- Morse code -- Person to person -- CODES OF WAR: Classical codes of war -- The 'indecipherable' code -- The great cipher -- 19th-century innovations -- Military map codes -- Field signals -- The Zimmermann telegram -- Enigma: the 'unbreakable' system -- WWII codes and code breakers -- Cracking enigma -- Navajo windtalkers -- Cold war codes -- CODES OF THE UNDERWORLD: Street slang -- From Samurai to Yakuza -- Cockney rhyming slang -- The Mob -- Ramblers' sign language -- Cops and codes -- The zodiac mystery -- The zodiac legacy -- Graffiti -- Youth codes -- Digital subversion --
Subjects: Ciphers.; Cryptography.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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How to interpret your DNA test results for family history & ancestry : scientists speak out on genealogy joining genetics / by Hart, Anne.(CARDINAL)290896;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235), dictionary of genetic terms, and index.Scientists in the news speak out from opposite sides of the fence on the question of DNA testing for researching family history and ancestry. How do you interpret your own DNA test results? How do you work with or research oral history? What's the cultural component behind a trait as biological as your genes? If you're a beginning family historian, an oral history researcher, or a person with no science background fascinated with ancestry, here's how to understand and use the results of DNA tests. Scientists, media, historians, and business owners share different opinions on whether DNA testing is a useful tool in the hands of family historians.Steve Olson, author of the book, Mapping Human History in a telephone interview with me answered my question, "What do you say about using DNA as a tool for genealogy-to extend family history research?"Does Steve Olson think DNA testing as a tool is useful to genealogists? What does Bryan Sykes, author of the best-selling, The Seven Daughters of Eve have to say? Sykes's book has a very different opinion about DNA testing and genealogy/family history research. The two have opposite views. Numerous scientists comment.Sykes is associated with Oxford Ancestors, the world's first company to harness the power and precision of modern DNA-based genetics for use in genealogy. The motto on the Oxford Ancestors Web site reads: "Putting the genes in genealogy." Use these resources and easy to understand explanations for family history research.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; DNA; Genealogy.; Heredity.; Paternity testing.; Human population genetics.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Memory / by Farr, Ian,1960-editor.(CARDINAL)350006;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-232) and index.Introduction : Not quite how I remember it / Ian Farr -- Proust's binoculars, 1964 / Roger Shattuck -- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime, 1993 / Martin Jay -- Memory images, 1927 / Siegfried Kracauer -- Space and the collective memory, 1925 / Maurice Halbwachs -- Outmoded spaces, 1993 / Hal Foster -- House and universe, 1958 / Gaston Bachelard -- Realms of memory, 1984 / Pierre Nora -- Memories and images, 2004 / Paul Ricoeur -- The infinite line, 2004 / Briony Fer -- The sadness of the machine, 2001 / Ollivier Dyens -- Garden center '44, 1944-72 / Joseph Cornell -- Places (notes on a work in progress), 1974 / Georges Perec -- Perec: uncovering the infra-ordinary, 2006 / Michael Sheringham -- In conversation with W.J.T. Mitchell, 1994 / Robert Morris -- Idris Khan, 2010 / Francis Hodgson -- The journey-form (3): temporal bifurcations, 2009 / Nicolas Bourriaud -- Clarice Lispector: the approach, 1979 / Hélène Cixous -- Uta Barth, 2000 / Margaret Sundell -- Resistance to replication, 2007 / Margaret Iversen -- Analogue, chance and memory, 2011 / Michael Newman -- The ontology of performance: representation without reproduction, 1993 / Peggy Phelan -- Apparition, 2003 / Roger Malbert -- Addict-love, 2008 / Tom Burr -- Portrait of an image: a portfolio by Roni Horn, 2005 / Lauren Sedofsky -- Past future/split attention, 1972 / Dan Graham -- Subject as object, 2001 / Anne Rorimer -- On Kent State (1970), 1972 / Richard Hamilton -- The industrialization of memory, 1996 / Bernard Stiegler -- Pierre Huyghe: The third memory (1999), 2007 / Tom McDonough -- Documents into monuments: archives as meditations on time, 2008 / Okwui Enwezor -- Crystals, 2005 / Daniel Birnbaum -- Kota Ezawa: Lennon Sontag Beuys (2004), 2005 / Megan Ratner -- Living with ghosts: from appropriation to invocation in contemporary art, 2007 / Jan Verwoert -- Retro/Necro: from beyond the grave of the politics of re-enactment, 2007 / Pia & Galia Kollectiv -- Marina Abramovic's Time, 2010 / Abigail Levine -- One-person protests: notes about going (back) there, 2008 / Johanna Burton -- Strange temporalities, 1994 / Victor Burgin -- Make me stop smoking, 2006 / Rabih Mroué -- Lost in narration: in conversation with Anthony Downey, 2012 / Rabih Mroué -- The anarchive, 2008 / Tom McDonough -- Negative images, 2006 / Lisa Saltzman -- In the dark regions of the world, 2000 / Hans Rudolf Reust -- Latent archives, roving lens, 2006 / Uriel Orlow -- Kutlug Ataman: Küba, 2005 / Peter Suchin -- Being-political, 2010 / T.J. Demos -- Stan Douglas' Inconsolable memories, 2006 / Sylvie Fortin."This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of "haunting" and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of "active" forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward, ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramović's Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of "memory" Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces, which "forget" in their present configurations their previous slides and falls. Contextualizing memory's role in visual theory and aesthetic politics--from Marcel Proust's optics to Bernard Stiegler's analysis of memory's "industrialization"--This collection also surveys the diversity of situations and registers in which contemporary artists explore memory. Art that engages with memory embodied in material and spatial conditions is examined beside works that reflect upon memory's effects through time, and yet others that enlist the agency of remembrance or forgetting to work through aspects of the numerous pasts by which the present is always haunted."--Publisher.
Subjects: Memory in art.; Arts, Modern; Arts, Modern;
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