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Glass houses / by Heid, Andrew,writer of introduction.;
Toward a harmony between architecture and nature by Andrew Heid - The glass houses - Index.Glass Houses presents 50 stunning architect designed homes that utilize glass to maximum effect. The international selection includes early modernist houses from the 1930s, such as Philip Johnson's Glass House and Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, and glamorous mid-century LA villas like Pierre Koenig's Case Study #22, alongside outstanding contemporary examples, where new innovations have made even more daring glass structures possible. Each house is celebrated with awe-inspiring photographs that showcase the dynamic, light-filled living spaces that only glass can deliver.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Architect-designed houses.; Architect-designed houses; Architecture, Domestic.; Architecture, Domestic; Glass construction.; Glass construction;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Immigration and education in North Carolina : the challenges and responses in a new gateway state / by Rong, Xue Lan,editor.(CARDINAL)350295; Hilburn, Jeremy,editor.(CARDINAL)350294;
Includes bibliographical references.Immigration, demographic changes and schools in North Carolina from 1990 to 2015 : transformations to a multiethnic, global community / Xue Lan Rong, Jeremy Hilburn and Wenyang Sun -- The lost years of opportunity for North Carolina's ESL students / Sharon Shofer -- Schooling experience of Latino/a immigrant adolescents in North Carolina : an examination of relationships between peers, teachers, and parents / Matthew Green, Krista M. Perreira and Linda K. Ko -- "I'm not ashamed of who I am" : counter-stories of Muslim, Arab immigrant students in North Carolina / Kate R. Allman -- Social studies educators' perceptions on policy issues and efforts to teach immigrant students in North Carolina / Jeremy Hilburn -- Citizenship without papers : a case study of undocumented youth fighting for in-state tuition policy / Hillary Parkhouse and Emily Freeman -- In search of Aztlán, North Carolina : Jose's story / Juan Carrillo -- The "problem" of the mixed class dynamic : teaching Spanish to heritage language learners and second language learners in North Carolina's high school classrooms / Linwood J. Randolph Jr. -- Countering silence and reconstructing identities in a Spanish/English two-way immersion program : Latina mothers' pedagogies in el nuevo sur / Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon and Alison M. Turner -- Heritage language sustainability and transnational affect : the case of second-generation Korean Americans / Ji-Yeon O. Jo and Seok-In Lee -- Czech and Slovak mothers struggling to maintain children's heritage language in North Carolina / Marta McCabe."Fourth-wave immigration, with its vast economic, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversities, have brought new dynamics into the existing social and demographic structures and added both opportunities and challenges to educational systems in North Carolina, a Southern U.S. state with the fastest growing rate of foreign-born population in the nation in 1990-2010 and unique geopolitical history. This book brings together 17 scholars who have extensive experience working with immigrants in North Carolina and represent a wide range of educational expertise. Together, their studies illustrate the intersections between historical contexts (geopolitical, historical constraints), structural factors (power, policies and laws, institutions and organization), cultural issues (philosophies, ideologies, identities, beliefs, values, and traditions), and immigrant students' characteristics on the development of educational practices, policies, reforms, and resistance. Most importantly, studying how North Carolina education systems and actors adapt to meet the challenges may offer valuable opportunities for researchers to understand the transformation of educational systems in other new gateway states. Collectively, studies in this book deconstruct the framework of the traditional hierarchical assimilation and linguisticism policies in recasting the concept of becoming Americans in the New South. The authors utilize frameworks that recognize the structural barriers that disadvantage immigrants in new gateway states but also position youth, families, and communities as possessing and utilizing valuable resources to promote educational access and achievement. In this sense, this book contributes significantly to major contemporary empirical and theoretical debates relating to educating immigrant children. It is our hope that this critical dialogue will continue at a national platform to promote discussion of these timely issues."
Subjects: Immigrant students;
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African dress : fashion, agency, performance / by Hansen, Karen Tranberg,editor.(CARDINAL)841295; Madison, D. Soyini,editor.(CARDINAL)377737;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, 'African Dress' explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.
Subjects: Clothing and dress; Fashion;
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Archaeology for kids. [videorecording] by Wonderscape Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)347532;
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about the Mayan Ruins. How have recent advances in technology facilitated the discovery of Mayan structures? How did the Maya people live, what crops did they grow, and how did they irrigate them? What was their class structure? What were the Mayan achievements? What Mayan traditions survive to this day? What are the theories as to how the Mayan civilization collapsed? What Mayan ruins could I go to and explore? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with exciting videos and dynamic graphics that reinforce important concepts.Ages 010-014.Closed captioning in EnglishDVD; widescreen (Aspect ratio 16x9)
Subjects: Children's films.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Archaeology; Mayas; Mayas;
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Fossil horses : systematics, paleobiology, and evolution of the family Equidae / by MacFadden, Bruce J.(CARDINAL)337066;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and indexes.1. Introduction: Why study fossil horses? The lore of horses and humans. Rationale, purpose, and scope -- 2. A renaissance in paleontology. The growth of vertebrate paleontology. The past few decades: a modern renaissance. New fossil discoveries. The new paleobiology -- 3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard. The foundations of orthogenesis. Marsh and fossil horses. Orthogenetic concepts and causality. Other views of fossil horses: a complexly branching tree. The spread of orthogenesis: old notions die hard -- 4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries. The antiquity and development of collecting fossil vertebrates. The importance of museum collections. Fossil horses, exceptional discoveries, and Lagerstatten: six case studies. Epilogue: conservation of threatened sites -- 5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and. Equidae. History of development of systematic thought: Ungulata and Perissodactyla. Monophyly and close relatives of the Perissodactyla. Perissodactyl clades: the cast of characters. The phylogenetic position of Hyracotherium. Grades, clades, and horses. Major clades of New World Equidae. Comments on the systematics of the Equidae.6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time. Relative geological time. "Absolute" geological time: isotopes and paleomagnetism. Development of Cenozoic land-mammal Chronology and fossil horses. Concluding remarks -- 7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance. Biogeography before plate tectonics. Determinants of land-mammal distribution. Centers of origin and patterns of dispersal. Plate tectonics, Noah's Arks, vicariance, and isotopes. Distribution of fossil horses throughout the Cenozoic. Concluding comments -- 8. Evolutionary processes: variation, speciation, and extinction. Phenotypic variation and selection: the raw material and evolutionary catalyst. Species recognition in paleontology. Interpreting anagenesis and cladogenesis from the fossil record: theoretical and practical considerations. Speciation of fossil horses in North America. Key characters, adaptive radiations, and clade evolution. Extinction -- 9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution. Quantifying rates of morphological evolution: Haldane and darwins. Rates of morphological change in fossil horses. Allometry and scaling of horse evolution: Does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny?Cenozoic terrestrial communities in North America and fossil horses. Patterns of community structure: selected topics related to fossil horses. Concluding comments on paleoecology of Cenozoic mammals -- 14. Epilogue. Dominant themes. The future of paleontology. Concluding comments: So, where do we go from here? -- App. I. Abbreviations and conventions used in the text -- App. II. Classification of the Equidae.Taxonomic evolution: origination, duration, and extinction. Concluding remarks: Are evolutionary rates gradual or punctuated? -- 10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution. Fossil horses and classic trends in evolution. Cope's law and the evolution of body size in horses. Dollo's law, atavisms, and the irreversibility of evolution. Progress and purpose in evolution -- 11. What's the use? Functional morphology of feeding and locomotion. Feeding: herbivorous ungulates and hypsodonty. Horses and herbivory. Locomotion and the evolution of cursoriality. Concluding comment: horse chauvinism -- 12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and "paleoethology" Behavioral ecology and social organization of modern equids. Behavioral ecology and social organization of fossil horses: juggling the parameters. Sex in fossil horses. Age structure and population dynamics. Evolution of body size, vegetation, habitat, and climate: implications for the population biology of fossil Equidae. Evolution of selected life-history strategies from Hyracotherium to Equus: a summary. Concluding remarks: Does behavior fossilize? -- 13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution. Chronofaunas and paleoguilds.
Subjects: Horses, Fossil.; Horses; Horses; Paleontology; Equidae, Fossil.; Equidae; Equidae;
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Leading from the roots : nature inspired leadership lessons for today's world / by Allen, Kathleen E.,author.(CARDINAL)808980;
Includes bibliographical references.In a time of volatile and complex uncertainty, it is time to learn the lessons that nature has compiled from 3.8 billion years of research and development. Nature is an interdependent, dynamic and living system - just like today's organizations and communities.Kathleen Allen uses nature as a model, mentor, and muse to rethink how leadership is practiced today. Leading from the Roots takes nature as a source of inspiration to help organizations see a new way of leading and designing workplace structure, applying the generous framework found in mature ecologies to human organizations. Kathleen Allen helps shift assumptions, practices, structures, and processes of organizations to become more resilient and nourishing for all, and, along the way, design the way out of workplace dysfunction and drama.
Subjects: Leadership.; Nature;
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The basics of reproduction / by O'Daly, Anne,1966-author.(CARDINAL)390961;
Includes glossary and index.What is reproduction and why is it important? -- Asexual reproduction -- Sexual reproduction -- The stages of life -- How humans reproduce -- Human development -- Growing older -- Biography: Barbara McClintock.This volume offers readers a comprehensive study of animal and plant reproduction, how the pollination process works, vertebrate and invertebrate reproduction, Darwin's theories on evolution, and so much more. Further, readers explore the mechanics of reproduction including the passage of genetic information from parent to offspring, cell division, and the structure of DNA. Each topic is aligned with curriculum standards for science, as eye-catching imagery and diagrams of this dynamic resource make the topic approachable yet authoritative.
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Illustrated works.; Young adult literature.; Reproduction.;
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Capital in the twenty-first century / by Piketty, Thomas,1971-author.(CARDINAL)636283; Goldhammer, Arthur,translator.(CARDINAL)636265;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Income and Capital. Income and output ; Growth: illusions and realities. -- The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio. The metamorphoses of capital ; From old Europe to the new world ; The capital/income ratio over the long run ; The capital-labor split in the twenty-first century. -- The Structure of Inequality. Inequality and concentration: preliminary bearings ; Two worlds ; Inequality of labor income ; Inequality of capital ownership ; Merit and inheritance in the long run ; Global inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century. -- Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A social state for the twenty-first century ; Rethinking the progressive income tax ; A global tax on capital ; The question of the public debt.What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality, the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth, today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Subjects: Capital.; Income distribution.; Labor economics.; Wealth.;
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The ultimate guide to video game writing and design / by Dille, Flint.(CARDINAL)776357; Platten, John Zuur.(CARDINAL)797549;
Subjects: Video games; Video games;
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Read this to get smarter : about race, class, gender, disability & more / by Imani, Blair,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index.Get smarter about identity -- Get smarter about relationships -- Get smarter about class -- Get smarter about disability -- Get smarter about race and racism -- Get smarter about sex, gender, and sexual orientation.We live in a time where it has never been more important to be knowledgeable about a host of social issues, and to be confident and appropriate in how to talk about them. What's the best way to ask someone what their pronouns are? How do you talk about racism with someone who doesn't seem to get it? What is intersectionality, and why do you need to understand it? While it can seem intimidating or overwhelming to learn and talk about such issues, it's never been easier thanks to educator and historian Blair Imani, creator of the viral sensation Smarter in Seconds videos. Accessible to learners of all levels--from those just getting started on the journey to those already versed in social justice--Read This to Get Smarter covers a range of topics, including race, gender, class, disability, relationships, family, power dynamics, oppression, and beyond. This essential guide is a radical but warm and non-judgmental call to arms, structured in such a way that you can read it cover to cover or start with any topic you want to learn more about.
Subjects: Disabilities.; Social classes.; Gender identity.; Race.; Social justice.; Social problems.; Gender identity.;
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