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Explore over 40 contemporary villas by today's most creative
architects. Their brilliant architectural designs integrate the
built structure and natural environment in open countryside and
urban spaces, realizing ideal places. Villas in deserts, mountains,
and meadows, with seaside or lakeside vistas, and in urban
locations are all revealed in informative text and 560 gorgeous
color photos and plans. Using modern techniques and au courant
design theories, these contemporary villas invite Nature to
participate in the design process, treating light, for example, as
a deliberate design element. All of these highly individualistic
villas deftly blend form and function. Clean-lined interiors eschew
ornamentation, placing emphasis on the exhilarating response to
voluminous space inside and infinite space viewed through walls of
glass that erase the boundary between interior and exterior. This
response cannot be experienced in traditional architecture.
Homeowners, architects, interior designers, and all who are
fascinated by contemporary architecture, with its new regard for
Nature as design partner, will treasure this book.
--Shows pre-service and in-service middle and high school teachers
how to integrate an understanding of adolescent development with
strong pedagogical applications for their students, in a concise
and accessible format. --Blends contemporary research on adolescent
development with authentic teachers' voices, showing ways of
successfully observing, understanding, engaging, and teaching
adolescent students, particularly around the developmental changes
that occur from ages 10 to 15 (grades 5 to 10). --The book features
real-world classroom narratives that illustrate the successes-and
struggles-of everyday teachers, and details specific teaching
practices, classroom activities, and lesson ideas that help
teachers tap the energy and talents bring to the classroom, all
contributed by practicing teachers.
--Shows pre-service and in-service middle and high school teachers
how to integrate an understanding of adolescent development with
strong pedagogical applications for their students, in a concise
and accessible format. --Blends contemporary research on adolescent
development with authentic teachers' voices, showing ways of
successfully observing, understanding, engaging, and teaching
adolescent students, particularly around the developmental changes
that occur from ages 10 to 15 (grades 5 to 10). --The book features
real-world classroom narratives that illustrate the successes-and
struggles-of everyday teachers, and details specific teaching
practices, classroom activities, and lesson ideas that help
teachers tap the energy and talents bring to the classroom, all
contributed by practicing teachers.
This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in
the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long.
Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal
decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more
dangerous than international terrorism, and more urgent than
climate change. World leaders know it, so why aren't they telling?
The last oil shock is the secret behind the crises in Iraq and
Iran, the reason your gas bill is going through the roof, the basis
of a secret deal cooked up in Texas between George Bush and Tony
Blair, the cause of an imminent and unprecedented economic
collapse, and the reason you may soon be kissing your car keys and
boarding pass goodbye. David Strahan explains how we reached this
critical state, how the silence of governments, oil companies and
environmentalists conspires to keep the public in the dark, what it
means for energy policy, and what you can do to protect yourself
and your family from the ravages of the last oil shock.
In 545 beautiful color images, this fascinating book presents a
broad sampling of residences that embody a living and evolving
history of the Alamo City (including some repurposed commercial
sites). Some of these structures are grand in their own right,
others modest. Different in size, style, and locations, these
varied living spaces share a similar sensitivity to the past and
dynamic engagement in San Antonio's future. Those who refurbished
these structures did not view them as frozen-in-time period pieces
to double as museums or simply as Hollywood movie sets. Rather,
they chose to breathe new life into these places in a number of
remarkable and time-honoring ways. Two of the houses presented,
from the historic King William district, are excellent examples of
once-grand structures restored for living elegantly in the present,
the late 19th century Nix House, the city's and perhaps the
nation's first LEEDS/Platinum historic preservation home, and the
exquisite Chabot House. This book will be a treasure to all who
enjoy architecture or San Antonio.
This book is about deep change. In a series of research reports and
commentaries, it mainly features case studies of powerful reform
for the most part in local districts and in individual schools.
They are set within the constraints of obvious political realities,
essentially the recently legislated and bureaucratically enforced
dimensions of high-stakes accountability. In this book, educational
practice does not flow only from theory; neither does theory evolve
only from educational practice. Rather, practice and theory
fruitfully interact, not just some of the time, but most of the
time. These accounts of deep change, moreover, are written
gracefully, in understandable prose, and largely absent the
barnacles of breathless advocacy. To be sure, the accounts are
uneven, not as a function of their quality which uncommonly is
high, but as a function of their foci and perceived attractiveness
This book is about deep change. In a series of research reports and
commentaries, it mainly features case studies of powerful reform
for the most part in local districts and in individual schools.
They are set within the constraints of obvious political realities,
essentially the recently legislated and bureaucratically enforced
dimensions of high-stakes accountability. In this book, educational
practice does not flow only from theory; neither does theory evolve
only from educational practice. Rather, practice and theory
fruitfully interact, not just some of the time, but most of the
time. These accounts of deep change, moreover, are written
gracefully, in understandable prose, and largely absent the
barnacles of breathless advocacy. To be sure, the accounts are
uneven, not as a function of their quality which uncommonly is
high, but as a function of their foci and perceived attractiveness
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