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Tupelo (Paperback)
David Baker, Dick Hill, Mem Leake, Bill Lyle, Julian Riley, …
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By 1858, construction on a new railroad from Mobile, Alabama, to
Cairo, Illinois, had intersected the Fulton/Pontotoc Road near an
area called Gum Pond. That location contained large numbers of
tupelo gum trees, and the intersection became known as Tupelo. Many
merchants in surrounding communities, like Harrisburg and Richmond,
realized that the intersection was going to be a prime area for
commerce and began disassembling buildings that housed places of
business and relocating them to Tupelo. By the beginning of the
Civil War, there were two stores, two hotels, two saloons, and a
temporary depot fronting the railroad just south of present-day
Main Street. During the Civil War, Tupelo became a major location
for shipping grain and livestock to the Confederate army. It also
served as headquarters for the Confederate Army of the West and a
rest and recreation area for Confederate armies.
How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on
Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that
we're all made from stars? Combining knowledge from chemistry,
biology, and physics, with insights from the social sciences and
humanities, A Brief History of the Last 13.8 Billion Years follows
the continuum of historical change in the cosmos - from the Big
Bang, through the evolution of life, to human history. In this
compelling and revealing book, David Baker traces the rise of
complexity in the cosmos, from the first atoms to the first life
and then to humans and the things we have made. He shows us how
simple clumps of hydrogen gas transformed into complex human
societies. This approach - Big History - allows us to see beyond
the chaos of human affairs to the overall trajectory. Finally,
Baker looks at the dramatic and sudden changes we're making to our
planet and its biosphere and how history hints at what might come
next.
Perfect for those interested in the subject and wanting a
comprehensive overview and for potential students.
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Whale Fall - Poems
David Baker
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Acclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David
Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh
collection. Whale Fall is about time, measured in the wingbeats of
a hummingbird or the epochs of geological change, and about place,
whether a backyard in Ohio or the slopes of a melting glacier. In
the exquisite, musical title poem, a deft hybrid of eco-poetic
alarm and intimate narrative, Baker transports us to the deep sea
as a single gray whale carcass falls, decays, and is reinhabited by
a cosmos of teeming lives. Among the strands of ocean health,
microplastics, and related calamities of human disregard, the poet
weaves in a personal story of chronic illness. The result is a
stirring, confident work, astonishing in its emotional acuity and
lyric range. Each poem in Whale Fall is an echolocation, emitting
its music to situate itself among others in the vastness of the
world. Amidst climate change and catastrophe, as amidst a blooming
viburnum or a viral disease, these poems send their songs across
empty spaces of a line, a page, or a continent, to see who is out
there, moving in the depths of being.
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Russian Bombers
David Baker
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Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first
title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends,
Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents
key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of digital
information today, exploring the impact of developing technologies
on the information world. This book emphasises important
contemporary topics and future developments from a global
perspective. Dynamic contents by leaders in the field respond to
what is happening in the field of digital information literacy, and
anticipate future developments. Topics include: the future of
digital information provision; Enquire; cloud computing; building
an information landscape; e-books and journals in a changing
digital landscape; discovering resources; citizens and digital
information; data-management; community usage patterns of
scientific information; software citations; the future of data
curation; JISC; Skills Portal; the future information professional;
university library and information services; academic libraries and
their future; and impediments to new library futures.
Covers major aspects of contemporary digital information
provisionProvides practical adviceStructured so that each chapter
stands alone while contributing to a coherent overall text
This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public,
private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and
shaping society at local, regional, national and international
levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic
tensions, rapid technology development, global warming and other
key environmental factors are all combining in myriad and complex
ways to affect everyone, both individually and collectively.
Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of society
and the bedrock organisations that underpin it. Libraries and
Society considers the key aspects of library provision and the
major challenges that libraries - however defined, managed,
developed and provided - now face, and will continue to face in the
future. It also focuses on the emerging chapter in cultural,
economic and social history and the library s role in serving
diverse communities within this new era.
Looks at all types of library in a period of major and
discontinuous change, tackling the fundamental questions of the
future of libraries in the context of major societal, political and
environmental issuesPoses important questions for the profession
and policy developmentFills a major gap in literature (recent
discourse and debate on the future of democracy, for example, the
library is rarely included)"
Jazz Improvisation focuses on the communicative and technical
aspects of improvisation and makes an excellent resource for both
pros and aspiring improvisers. Assimilate and execute chord
progressions, substitutions, turn arounds and construct a melody
and jazz chorus.
The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the
variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary
scholarship in the field of big history. The volume is divided into
five parts, each representing current and evolving areas of
interest to the community, including big history's relationship to
science, social science, the humanities, and the future, as well as
teaching big history and 'little big histories'. Considering an
ever-expanding range of theoretical, pedagogical and research
topics, the book addresses such questions as what is the
relationship between big history and scientific research, how are
big historians working with philosophers and religious thinkers to
help construct 'meaning', how are leading theoreticians making
sense of big history and its relationship to other creation
narratives and paradigms, what is 'little big history', and how
does big history impact on thinking about the future? The book
highlights the place of big history in historiographical traditions
and the ways in which it can be used in education and public
discourse across disciplines and at all levels. A timely collection
with contributions from leading proponents in the field, it is the
ideal guide for those wanting to engage with the theories and
concepts behind big history.
Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam
Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level Maths First teaching:
September 2017 First exams: June 2018 This Student Book provides
full support for the second year of AQA's new specification.
Covering both the compulsory content (further pure) and all the
optional content (mechanics, statistics and discrete maths), each
chapter starts with an Orientation box, clarifying which A Level
Maths topics are being built on, and what learning objectives will
be covered. Each chapter section starts with a clear and concise
explanation of the maths, with an emphasis on visual presentation.
Abundant worked examples show how key techniques can be used and
common pitfalls to avoid. Separate exercises allow students to
practise first their fluency and skills, and then the new
exam-style problem-solving and modelling questions. The
problem-solving is supported by Strategy boxes, which provide
guidance on how best to approach these questions. Answers are given
in the back of the book, while full step-by-step solutions to every
single question can be found online. This Student Book provides a
complete course for Year 2 Further Maths and is the ideal way for a
student to become a mathematician.
Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could
gain financial independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or
simply enjoy musical participation. Existing literature on visual
impairment and music includes perspectives from the social history
of music, ethnomusicology, child development and areas of music
psychology, music therapy, special educational needs, and music
education, as well as more popular biographical texts on famous
musicians. But there has been relatively little sociological
research bringing together the views and experiences of visually
impaired musicians themselves across the life course. Insights in
Sound: Visually Impaired Musicians' Lives and Learning aims to
increase knowledge and understanding both within and beyond this
multifaceted group. Through an international survey combined with
life-history interviews, a vivid picture is drawn of how visually
impaired musicians approach and conceive their musical activities,
with detailed illustrations of the particular opportunities and
challenges faced by a variety of individuals. Baker and Green look
beyond affiliation with particular musical styles, genres,
instruments or practices. All 'levels' are included: from adult
beginners to those who have returned to music-making after a gap;
and from 'regular' amateur and professional musicians, to some who
are extraordinarily 'elite' or 'successful'. Themes surrounding
education, training, and informal learning; notation and ear
playing; digital technologies; and issues around disability,
identity, opportunity, marginality, discrimination, despair,
fulfilment, and joy surfaced, as the authors set out to discover,
analyse, and share insights into the worlds of these musicians.
A three-volume series that includes the scales, chords and modes
necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that
is most influential in today's music. The first volume includes
scales, chords and modes most commonly used in bebop and other
musical styles. The second volume covers the bebop language,
patterns, formulas and other linking exercises necessary to play
bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most
influential in today's music.
This volume of "International Perspectives on Education and
Society" investigates the often controversial relationship between
gender, equality and education from international and comparative
perspectives. Much has been written recently about the global
progress made toward gender parity in enrolment and curriculum in
nations around the world. And there is much to tout in these areas.
Although gender parity is not yet the global norm, the expectation
of gender equality increasingly is. Some have gone so far as to say
that the global expansion of modern mass schooling has created a
world culture of gender equality in education. Yet, while there
have been many positive advances regarding girls' and women's
education around the world, there are still significant differences
that are institutionalized in the policies and administrative
structures of national education systems. For example, some of the
strongest evidence of gendered inequality in schooling is the fact
that in many developing countries there are large proportions of
school-age children who are not in school - many if not most of
whom are girls. The question this volume investigates is whether
gender equality in education is really being achieved in schools
around the world or not.
Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could
gain financial independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or
simply enjoy musical participation. Existing literature on visual
impairment and music includes perspectives from the social history
of music, ethnomusicology, child development and areas of music
psychology, music therapy, special educational needs, and music
education, as well as more popular biographical texts on famous
musicians. But there has been relatively little sociological
research bringing together the views and experiences of visually
impaired musicians themselves across the life course. Insights in
Sound: Visually Impaired Musicians' Lives and Learning aims to
increase knowledge and understanding both within and beyond this
multifaceted group. Through an international survey combined with
life-history interviews, a vivid picture is drawn of how visually
impaired musicians approach and conceive their musical activities,
with detailed illustrations of the particular opportunities and
challenges faced by a variety of individuals. Baker and Green look
beyond affiliation with particular musical styles, genres,
instruments or practices. All 'levels' are included: from adult
beginners to those who have returned to music-making after a gap;
and from 'regular' amateur and professional musicians, to some who
are extraordinarily 'elite' or 'successful'. Themes surrounding
education, training, and informal learning; notation and ear
playing; digital technologies; and issues around disability,
identity, opportunity, marginality, discrimination, despair,
fulfilment, and joy surfaced, as the authors set out to discover,
analyse, and share insights into the worlds of these musicians.
In this masterful new work by "the most moving and expansive poet
to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright" (Marilyn
Hacker), David Baker constructs a layered natural history of his
beloved Midwest and traces the complex story of human habitation
from family and village life to the evolving nature of work and the
mysterious habitats of the heart. At the centre of Scavenger Loop
is a sustained investigation of cycles and the natural recycling of
things and a discovery that even out of the discarded and the lost
may come rebirth and renewal. In the process Baker reveals how
everything bears the potential to be both invasive and life-giving:
plants that beautify and conquer, chemicals that heal and destroy,
words that mislead and instruct. Widely praised for his "impeccable
formalism" (Booklist), Baker pushes to new stylistic methods,
moving fluidly between unity and disorder, working at times in
sustained narratives and intricate syllabics, at other times in
fragments, cross-outs, and erasures. These poems praise and sing
but are also clear-eyed in their documentation of destruction, the
loss of human livelihood and natural habitat, the spreading threat
of agri-business and unchecked development. From eco-poetics to the
erotic, Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and
the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.
Series Information: Issues in Heritage Management
Managing Historic Sites and Buildings looks at the choices and the tensions that exist in conservation and interpretation of the heritage. Preservation and presentation are central activities, arguably means and ends in the conservation of the historic environment. But are they self-reinforcing or do they work against each other? In a series of essays which span form prehistoric sacred site to Second World war military remains, from medieval monastery to 1970s housing estate, we look at contemporary concerns and debates about the way the past is shaped, physically and metaphorically , by these two aspects of heritage management. Starting from the position that the fundamental purpose of the whole process is to communicate understanding about the human past, these essays examine how far the ideologies, strategies, tactics and techniques of preservation and presentation are mutually supportive. the success of integrated approaches that are inclusive of social, economic and green environmental concerns is understood, but the value of developing truly sustainable management for individual historic places is only just becoming evident. At the heart of such an approach lies a crucial relationship between the activity of preserving historic places and of promoting understanding of their significance. eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415208149
Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services: New
Strategic Choices in Challenging Times provides the foundations of
ongoing research in the development of collections and services.
The book contributes to practical outputs of general benefit to the
sector, including customers, clients or stakeholders, offering
ideas for how to identify comparative strengths and weaknesses and
improve or enhance present practices regardless of how well
institutions currently perform. The centerpiece of the book is a
description, report and analysis of a major international QB
exercise that culminates in a set of good practice statements. The
benefits of the QB methodology are applicable to individual
institutions. Because of the current global turbulence,
individuals, leaders and whole institutions are keen to learn more
about what is happening and how they can develop sustainable
solutions to both immediate challenges and longer-term
scenarios. These include an analysis of third sector
organizations, e-libraries, marketing information services,
vocational training in higher education, the creative arts, and the
role of partnerships in organizational openness.
David Baker, acclaimed for his combination of "visionary scope"
(Gettysburg Review) and "emotional intensity" (Georgia Review), is
one of contemporary poetry's most gifted lyric poets. In Swift, he
gathers poems from eight collections, including his masterful
latest, Scavenger Loop (2015); the prize-winning, intimate
travelogues of Never-Ending Birds (2009); and the complications of
history and home in Changeable Thunder (2001). Opening the volume
are fifteen new poems that continue Baker's growth in form and
voice as he investigates the death of parents, the loss of homeland
and a widening natural history, not only of his beloved Midwest but
of the tropical flora and fauna of a Caribbean island. Together,
these poems showcase the evolution of Baker's distinct eco-poetic
conscience, his mastery of forms both erotic and elegiac and his
keen eye for the shifting landscapes of passion, heartbreak and
renewal. With equal curiosity and candour, Baker explores the many
worlds we all inhabit-from our most intimate relationships to the
wider social worlds of neighbourhoods, villages and our complex
national identity, to the environmental community we all share.
With his dazzling formal restlessness and lifelong devotion to
landscapes both natural and human on full display, David Baker
demonstrates why he has been called "the most expansive and moving
poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright"
(Marilyn Hacker).
This book provides mock papers for the new 2017 Edexcel A Level
(first exams in 2019). Mock papers are the ideal revision resource
for AS Level maths, and these have been created to perfectly match
the style and content of the new linear exams. The book contains 3
sets of AS papers, therefore six papers in total. With rubric at
the front, and space to write answers directly onto the page, this
book provides realistic practice of the actual exam. Answers are in
the back of the book with the full mark scheme available online.
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