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"Does anyone know who this little chick belongs to?" Hannah sets
out to help a friend who is lost and on the way learns about the
world around her. She meets lots of different creatures while on a
journey at the hippo pools.
Insects have a greater impact on human lives and livelihoods than any other group of organisms. This guide will help you to identify insects that are frequently encountered, very striking or ecologically important in the region. Compact and easy-to-use, it features more than
400 of the interesting and diverse insect groups found in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
Full-colour photographs of all featured species are accompanied by concise text giving key identification features for each group.
• Is a conceptually complete paradigm and a comprehensive design
methodology for intermediate and advanced game designers. •
Covers concept development, from coming up with a raw idea for a
game to greenlighting a refined version of that idea for
pre-production and later development. • Ludotronics is a
methodology that will help you whip ideas into shape until they are
strong and sturdy enough to qualify for a killer proposal and
become the beating heart of your game design document.
Meet the menagerie of lifeforms that dig, crunch, bore, and
otherwise reshape our planet. Â Did you know elephants dig
ballroom-sized caves alongside volcanoes? Or that parrotfish chew
coral reefs and poop sandy beaches? Or that our planet once hosted
a five-ton dinosaur-crunching alligator cousin? In fact, almost
since its fascinating start, life was boring. Billions of years ago
bacteria, algae, and fungi began breaking down rocks in oceans, a
role they still perform today. About a half-billion years ago,
animal ancestors began drilling, scraping, gnawing, or breaking
rocky seascapes. In turn, their descendants crunched through the
materials of life itself—shells, wood, and bones. Today, such
“bioeroders†continue to shape our planet—from the bacteria
that devour our teeth to the mighty moon snail, always hunting for
food, as evidenced by tiny snail-made boreholes in clams and other
moon snails. Â There is no better guide to these lifeforms
than Anthony J. Martin, a popular science author, paleontologist,
and co-discoverer of the first known burrowing dinosaur. Following
the crumbs of lichens, sponges, worms, clams, snails, octopi,
barnacles, sea urchins, termites, beetles, fishes, dinosaurs,
crocodilians, birds, elephants, and (of course) humans, Life
Sculpted reveals how bioerosion expanded with the tree of life,
becoming an essential part of how ecosystems function while
reshaping the face of our planet. With vast knowledge and no small
amount of whimsy, Martin uses paleontology, biology, and geology to
reveal the awesome power of life’s chewing force. He provokes us
to think deeply about the past and present of bioerosion, while
also considering how knowledge of this history might aid us in
mitigating and adapting to climate change in the future. Yes,
Martin concedes, sometimes life can be hard—but life also makes
everything less hard every day.
• Is a conceptually complete paradigm and a comprehensive design
methodology for intermediate and advanced game designers. •
Covers concept development, from coming up with a raw idea for a
game to greenlighting a refined version of that idea for
pre-production and later development. • Ludotronics is a
methodology that will help you whip ideas into shape until they are
strong and sturdy enough to qualify for a killer proposal and
become the beating heart of your game design document.
Music in the Post-9/11 World addresses the varied and complex roles
music has played in the wake of September 11, 2001.
Interdisciplinary in approach, international in scope, and critical
in orientation, the twelve essays in this groundbreaking volume
examine a diverse array of musical responses to the terrorist
attacks of that day, and reflect upon the altered social, economic,
and political environment of "post-9/11" music production and
consumption. Individual essays are devoted to the mass-mediated
works of popular musicians such as Bruce Springsteen and Darryl
Worley, as well as to lesser-known musical responses by artists in
countries including Afghanistan, Egypt, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, and
Senegal. Contributors also discuss a range of themes including the
role played by Western classical music in rites of mourning and
commemoration, "invisible" musical practices such as the creation
of television news music, and implicit censorship in the mainstream
media. Taken as a whole, this collection presents powerful evidence
of the central role music has played in expressing, shaping, and
contesting worldwide public attitudes toward the defining event of
the early twenty-first century.
This book explores why the properties of liquid crystals make them
ideal for use in photovoltaic applications. It achieves this by
presenting a description of the properties of liquid crystals and
how their electronic properties compare to that of polymers used in
organic photovoltaics. It explores how the type of liquid crystal
chosen can help in improving the efficiency of the photovoltaics.
It compares experimental and theoretical ways in which the
efficiency is directly or indirectly estimated between the organic
photovoltaics and the organic photovoltaics that contain a liquid
crystal. It first introduces liquid crystals and their different
varieties, before reviewing their electronic transfer properties
and how they can improve efficiency. It is an ideal text for
graduate students and young researches considering entering the
area of photovoltaics - specifically, organic photovoltaics – who
do not yet have knowledge of this field. Introduces the field of
liquid crystals and provides basic information to those new to the
field, in a concise and visual manner Describes which
characteristics of a liquid crystal are most advantageous to use in
photovoltaics Provides basic knowledge of photovoltaics for those
who do not have previous knowledge of how they behave
electronically
A new retrospective of the work of trailblazing artist Barbara
Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud is a bestselling novelist, an
award-winning poet, and a renowned visual artist whose sculpture
and drawings are in museum collections around the world. Among her
best-known sculptural work is the Malcolm X series of flowing cast
bronze forms combined with braided fiber elements. Barbara
Chase-Riboud Monumentale traces this pioneering artist's remarkable
career from the 1950s to the present, providing the most
comprehensive account of her important body of work to date. The
book features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks that
highlight Chase-Riboud's groundbreaking contributions to
contemporary sculpture. In addition to some forty sculptures, the
book presents nearly twenty works on paper, a selection of
Chase-Riboud's poetry, and excerpts from an interview with the
artist. Exploring the many different aspects of Chase-Riboud's
artistic practice, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale provides
unprecedented insights into her meditations on form, memory, and
monument, while revealing the rich array of inspiration she has
drawn from global art history and literature. Published in
association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation Exhibition Schedule
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis September 16, 2022-February 5,
2023
An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and
philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to
design natural places and create wild species. Environmental
restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern.
Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other
institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive
species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their
habitats. But restoration has not always been so intensively
practiced. It began as the pastime of a few wildflower enthusiasts
and the first practitioners of the new scientific discipline of
ecology. Restoration has been a touchstone of US environmentalism
since the beginning of the twentieth century. Diverging from
popular ideas about preservation, which romanticized nature as an
Eden to be left untouched by human hands, and conservation, the
managed use of natural resources, restoration emerged as a "third
way." Restorationists grappled with the deepest puzzles of human
care for life on earth: How to intervene in nature for nature's own
sake? What are the natural baselines that humans should aim to
restore? Is it possible to design nature without destroying
wildness? Laura J. Martin shows how, over time, amateur and
professional ecologists, interest groups, and government agencies
coalesced around a mode of environmental management that sought to
respect the world-making, and even the decision-making, of other
species. At the same time, restoration science reshaped material
environments in ways that powerfully influenced what we understand
the wild to be. In Wild by Design, restoration's past provides
vital knowledge for climate change policy. But Martin also offers
something more-a meditation on what it means to be wild and a call
for ecological restoration that is socially just.
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The first monograph on the work of celebrated and influential
Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu's remarkable
body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology,
politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her
paintings, sculptures, and collages, often enriched with
culturally-charged materials including tea, synthetic hair, Kenyan
soil, feathers, and sand, interweave fact with fiction, generating
a unique form of myth-making that sets her apart from classical
history or popular culture. This is the first book to document her
evolution and explore her impact.
Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church presents
views, concepts and perspectives on the relationships among
Indigenous Peoples and the Catholic Church, as well as stories,
images and art as metaphors for survival in a contemporary world.
Few studies present such interdisciplinary interpretations from
contributors in multiple disciplines regarding appropriation,
spiritual and religious tradition, educational issues in the
teaching of art and art history, the effects of government
sanctions on traditional practice, or the artistic interpretation
of symbols from Indigenous perspectives. Through photographs and
visual materials, interviews and data analysis, personal narratives
and stories, these chapters explore the experiences of Indigenous
Peoples whose lives have been impacted by multiple forces -
Christian missionaries, governmental policies, immigration and
colonization, education, assimilation and acculturation.
Contributors investigate current contexts and complex areas of
conflict regarding missionization, appropriation and colonizing
practices through asking questions such as, 'What does the use of
images mean for resistance, transformation and cultural
destruction?' And, 'What new interpretations and perspectives are
necessary for Indigenous traditions to survive and flourish in the
future?'
Handbook of Educational Psychology and Students with Special Needs
provides educational and psychological researchers, practitioners,
policy-makers, and graduate students with critical expertise on the
factors and processes relevant to learning for students with
special needs. This includes students with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, other executive function
difficulties, behavior and emotional disorders, autism spectrum
disorder, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities,
dyslexia, language and communication difficulties, physical and
sensory disabilities, and more. With the bulk of educational
psychology focused on "mainstream" or "typically developing"
learners, relatively little educational psychology theory,
research, measurement, or practice has attended to students with
"special needs." As clearly demonstrated in this book, the factors
and processes studied within educational psychology-motivation and
engagement, cognition and neuroscience, social-emotional
development, instruction, home and school environments, and
more-are vital to all learners, especially those at risk or
disabled. Integrating guidance from the DSM-5 by the American
Psychiatric Association and the International Classification of
Diseases (ICD-10) by the World Health Organization, this book
synthesizes and builds on existing interdisciplinary research to
establish a comprehensive case for effective psycho-educational
theory, research, and practice that address learners with special
needs. Twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field are structured
into three parts on diverse special needs categories, perspectives
from major educational psychology theories, and constructs relevant
to special needs learning, development, and knowledge building.
Over the last decade, statisticians have developed new statistical
tools in the field of spatial point processes. At the same time,
observational efforts have yielded a huge amount of new
cosmological data to analyze. Although the main tools in astronomy
for comparing theoretical results with observation are statistical,
in recent years, cosmologists have not been generally aware of the
developments in statistics and vice versa. Statistics of the Galaxy
Distribution describes both the available observational data on the
distribution of galaxies and the applications of spatial statistics
in cosmology. It gives a detailed derivation of the statistical
methods used to study the galaxy distribution and the cosmological
physics needed to formulate the statistical models. Because the
prevalent approach in cosmological statistics has been frequentist,
the authors focus on the most widely used of these methods, but
they also explore Bayesian techniques that have become popular in
large-scale structure studies. Describing the most popular methods,
their latest applications, and the necessary mathematical and
astrophysical background, this groundbreaking book presents the
state of the art in the statistical description of the large-scale
structure of the Universe. Cosmology's well-defined and growing
data sets represent an important challenge for the statistical
analysis, and therefore for the statistics community. Statistics of
the Galaxy Distribution presents a unique opportunity for
researchers in both fields to strengthen the connection between
them and, using a common language, explore the statistical
description of the universe.
The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger
phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy
makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian
intervention, and a litany of other concerns on the foreign policy
agenda pose complex dilemmas for which there are no simple answers.
Through lucid, lively analysis, as well as multiple illustrations
and case studies, US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century
explores the difficult choices that confront the United States
today in a complicated and often dangerous post-Cold War
environment. Author J. Martin Rochester engages students in an
intelligent examination of American foreign policy past, present,
and future, involving them in critical thinking about how foreign
policy is made, what factors affect foreign policy decisions and
behavior, and how one might go about not only describing and
explaining foreign policy but also evaluating it and prescribing
solutions.
Small changes can make a big difference in your powers of
persuasion
What one word can you start using today to increase your
persuasiveness by more than fifty percent?
Which item of stationery can dramatically increase people's
responses to your requests?
How can you win over your rivals by inconveniencing them?
Why does knowing that so many dentists are named Dennis improve
your persuasive prowess?
Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we
want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is
not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it
have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your
direction. Based on more than sixty years of research into the
psychology of persuasion, "Yes " reveals fifty simple but
remarkably effective strategies that will make you much more
persuasive at work and in your personal life, too.
Co-written by the world's most quoted expert on influence,
Professor Robert Cialdini, "Yes " presents dozens of surprising
discoveries from the science of persuasion in short, enjoyable, and
insightful chapters that you can apply immediately to become a more
effective persuader. Why did a sign pointing out the problem of
vandalism in the Petrified Forest National Park actually "increase"
the theft of pieces of petrified wood? Why did sales of jam
multiply tenfold when consumers were offered many "fewer" flavors?
Why did people prefer a Mercedes immediately after giving reasons
why they prefer a BMW? What simple message on cards left in hotel
rooms greatly increased the number of people who behaved in
environmentally friendly ways?
Often counterintuitive, the findings presented in "Yes " will steer
you away from common pitfalls while empowering you with little
known but proven wisdom.
Whether you are in advertising, marketing, management, on sales, or
just curious about how to be more influential in everyday life,
"Yes " shows how making small, scientifically proven changes to
your approach can have a dramatic effect on your persuasive powers.
The history of Japan during the Imperial Age, 1868 to 1945, is rich
and complex. Japan went from a feudal and secluded Asian nation to
a world powerhouse in less than fifty years. Japan's relationship
with the United States was just as complicated, moving from
reluctant trading partner to ally in war to enemy. The documents
from this era are a piece of that history. This book is an
introduction to the field of collecting Japanese award documents.
Over sixty-five documents are featured in color photographs that
highlight their beauty and details. The documents range from awards
given to farmers for growing crops to the Grand Cordon of the
Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, signed by the emperor and given
to a prime minister. The book also features tools to help the
collector translate and identify documents, as well as to store and
display them.
This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in
the context of African American experience and concern.
Cutting-edge scholarship that is in tune with African American
churches calls into question many of the canons of traditional
biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African
American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery,
and African heritage as these play a role in Christian scripture
and the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people. Contributors to
this volume include the volume editors, Thomas Hoyt, Ann Holmes
Redding, Vincent Wimbush, and sixteen other notable scholars.
Power rarely works by force alone: it also rules by winning hearts
and minds. States, classes, and social groups all seek political
dominance by exerting political, ideological, or cultural
leadership over others. This idea - hegemony - is a subtle, complex
one, which is too often applied crudely. In this succinct
introduction, political theorist James Martin skilfully examines
these nuances and shines a new light on hegemony. He introduces its
component ideas and critically surveys the most influential
thinking about hegemony, from Gramsci's theory of hegemony as a
revolutionary strategy and Marxist theories of the state, politics,
and culture to the Post-Marxist project of radical democracy. He
then considers the concept's critical role in analysing
international politics and global political economy, and evaluates
the criticism that hegemony is too state-centric to truly capture
the dynamics of contemporary struggles for emancipation. This lucid
and accessible guide to hegemony will be essential reading for all
students of radical politics and social and political theory.
This book looks at the evolving relationship between war and
international law, examining the complex practical and legal
dilemmas posed by the changing nature of war in the contemporary
world, whether the traditional rules governing the onset and
conduct of hostilities apply anymore, and how they might be adapted
to new realities. War, always messy, has become even messier today,
with the blurring of interstate, intrastate, and extrastate
violence. How can the United States and other countries be expected
to fight honourably and observe the existing norms when they often
are up against an adversary who recognizes no such obligations?
Indeed, how do we even know whether an "armed conflict" is underway
when modern wars tend to lack neat beginnings and endings and seem
geographically indeterminate, as well? What is the legality of
anticipatory self-defense, humanitarian intervention, targeted
killings, drones, detention of captured prisoners without POW
status, and other controversial practices? These questions are
explored through a review of the United Nations Charter, Geneva
Conventions, and other regimes and how they have operated in recent
conflicts. Through a series of case studies, including the U.S. war
on terror and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Kosovo, and
Congo, the author illustrates the challenges we face today in the
ongoing effort to reduce war and, when it occurs, to make it more
humane.
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