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  • Brokering Tareas

    Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies

    by Steven Alvarez ...
    Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families.Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book in Community Writing Award presented by the Coalition for Community WritingBrokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that connected immigrant parents with English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual children with ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Selling War

    A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

    by Steven J. Alvarez ...
    In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush’s famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier displayed the banner “Mission Accomplished,” the dynamics of the war shifted. Selling War recounts how the U.S. military lost the information war in ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Writing for Engagement

    Responsive Practice for Social Action

    by Linda Adler-Kassner, Steven Alvarez, Shannon Carter, Kaitlin Clinnin, Daniele Cunningham, Dànielle DeVoss, Christiane Donahue, Donna Dunbar-Odom, Rachel Gramer, Kay Halasek, Bump Halbritter, David A. Jolliffe, Michael Knievel, Stephanie Rae Larson, Adela C. Licona, Heather Lindenman, Julie Lindquist, Londie T. Martin, Ben McCorkle, Julia Paganelli-Martin, Shiloh Peters, Stephen Schneider, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins, Cynthia L. Selfe, Patrick W. Berry, Steve Parks, Syracuse University ...
    Series series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
    Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts—addressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Foliations 2012 - Proceedings Of The International Conference

    by Jesus A Alvarez Lopez, Steven Hurder, Remi Langevin, Takashi Tsuboi, Pawel Walczak ...
    This volume is a compilation of new results and surveys on the current state of some aspects of the foliation theory presented during the conference “FOLIATIONS 2012”. It contains recent materials on foliation theory which is related to differential geometry, the theory of dynamical systems and differential topology. Both the original research and survey articles found in here should inspire ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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    ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

    by Patrick Cockburn ...
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  • It's What I Do

    A Photographer's Life of Love and War

    by Lynsey Addario ...
    **The New York Times bestselling memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning war photojournalist Lynsey Addario"Beautifully written and vividly illustrated . . . Addario is an artist of empathy, a witness not to grand ideas about human sacrifice and suffering, but to human beings, simply being." —The Boston Globe"An unflinching memoir." —The Washington Post**A young photojournalist just finding her way, ... Read more

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  • Geometry from a Differentiable Viewpoint

    by John McCleary ...
    The development of geometry from Euclid to Euler to Lobachevsky, Bolyai, Gauss and Riemann is a story that is often broken into parts – axiomatic geometry, non-Euclidean geometry and differential geometry. This poses a problem for undergraduates: Which part is geometry? What is the big picture to which these parts belong? In this introduction to differential geometry, the parts are united with all ... Read more

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  • A Disappearance in Damascus

    A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War

    by Deborah Campbell ...
    Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction:In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, the renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide, "fixer," and friend. Her frank, personal account of her journey to rescue her, and the triumph of friendship and courage over terrorism, is as riveting as it is ... Read more

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  • First Steps in Differential Geometry

    Riemannian, Contact, Symplectic

    by Andrew McInerney ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Differential geometry arguably offers the smoothest transition from the standard university mathematics sequence of the first four semesters in calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations to the higher levels of abstraction and proof encountered at the upper division by mathematics majors. Today it is possible to describe differential geometry as "the study of structures on the tangent ... Read more

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  • Topics in Physical Mathematics

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    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    As many readers will know, the 20th century was a time when the fields of mathematics and the sciences were seen as two separate entities. Caused by the rapid growth of the physical sciences and an increasing abstraction in mathematical research, each party, physicists and mathematicians alike, suffered a misconception; not only of the opposition’s theoretical underpinning, but of how the two ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Heaven

    The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

    by Andrew Scott Cooper ...
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  • The Unraveling

    High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

    by Emma Sky ...
    When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving her an unrivaled perspective of the entire conflict.As the representative of the Coalition Provisional ... Read more

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