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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Children's Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction
of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning
and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges
the widely held belief that children's whole number knowledge is a
distraction from their learning of fractions by positing that their
fractional learning involves reorganizing-not simply using or
building upon-their whole number knowledge. This hypothesis is
explained in detail using examples of actual grade-schoolers
approaching problems in fractions including the schemes they
construct to relate parts to a whole, to produce a fraction as a
multiple of a unit part, to transform a fraction into a
commensurate fraction, or to combine two fractions multiplicatively
or additively. These case studies provide a singular journey into
children's mathematics experience, which often varies greatly from
that of adults. Moreover, the authors' descriptive terms reflect
children's quantitative operations, as opposed to adult
mathematical phrases rooted in concepts that do not reflect-and
which in the classroom may even suppress-youngsters' learning
experiences. Highlights of the coverage: Toward a formulation of a
mathematics of living instead of being Operations that produce
numerical counting schemes Case studies: children's part-whole,
partitive, iterative, and other fraction schemes Using the
generalized number sequence to produce fraction schemes Redefining
school mathematics This fresh perspective is of immediate
importance to researchers in mathematics education. With the
up-close lens onto mathematical development found in Children's
Fractional Knowledge, readers can work toward creating more
effective methods for improving young learners' quantitative
reasoning skills.
The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged
by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering
of George Saintbury's writings. From a score of different sources
they have chosen essays and papers that have lain uncollected, with
their themes ranging from Captain Marryat to Erasmus, from Rosetti
to Xenephon, from Swinburne to Balzac's early pot boilers. Included
is an entrancing study of the literary associations of the city of
Bath; and the editors have followed Saintbury's own example by
collecting a Scrap Book more than thirty shorter notes and jeux
d'esprit on all kinds of subjects: wigs, sensation novelists,
Drummond and Ben Jonson, George Sand, compulsory Greek at Oxford,
Shakespeare and Welsh, Laurence Sterne tittle-tattle, Marcel
Proust, and much else in true Saintsburian vein.
The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged
by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering
of George Saintbury's writings. From a score of different sources
they have chosen essays and papers that have lain uncollected, with
their themes ranging from Captain Marryat to Erasmus, from Rosetti
to Xenephon, from Swinburne to Balzac's early pot boilers. Included
is an entrancing study of the literary associations of the city of
Bath; and the editors have followed Saintbury's own example by
collecting a Scrap Book more than thirty shorter notes and jeux
d'esprit on all kinds of subjects: wigs, sensation novelists,
Drummond and Ben Jonson, George Sand, compulsory Greek at Oxford,
Shakespeare and Welsh, Laurence Sterne tittle-tattle, Marcel
Proust, and much else in true Saintsburian vein.
Children's Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction
of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning
and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges
the widely held belief that children's whole number knowledge is a
distraction from their learning of fractions by positing that their
fractional learning involves reorganizing-not simply using or
building upon-their whole number knowledge. This hypothesis is
explained in detail using examples of actual grade-schoolers
approaching problems in fractions including the schemes they
construct to relate parts to a whole, to produce a fraction as a
multiple of a unit part, to transform a fraction into a
commensurate fraction, or to combine two fractions multiplicatively
or additively. These case studies provide a singular journey into
children's mathematics experience, which often varies greatly from
that of adults. Moreover, the authors' descriptive terms reflect
children's quantitative operations, as opposed to adult
mathematical phrases rooted in concepts that do not reflect-and
which in the classroom may even suppress-youngsters' learning
experiences. Highlights of the coverage: Toward a formulation of a
mathematics of living instead of being Operations that produce
numerical counting schemes Case studies: children's part-whole,
partitive, iterative, and other fraction schemes Using the
generalized number sequence to produce fraction schemes Redefining
school mathematics This fresh perspective is of immediate
importance to researchers in mathematics education. With the
up-close lens onto mathematical development found in Children's
Fractional Knowledge, readers can work toward creating more
effective methods for improving young learners' quantitative
reasoning skills.
Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary
Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Simeon Chardin's
perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house of cards;
Jean Honore Fragonard's monumental suite of landscapes showing
aristocrats at play in picturesque gardens--these are among the
familiar and beloved masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art,
which houses one of the most important collections of French old
master paintings outside France. This lavishly illustrated book,
written by leading scholars and the result of years of research and
technical analysis, catalogues nearly one hundred paintings, from
works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by
elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth.
French art before the revolution is characterized by an
astonishing variety of styles and themes and by a consistently high
quality of production, the result of an efficient training system
developed by the traditional guilds and the Royal Academy of
Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 by King Louis XIV. The
National Gallery collection reflects this quality and diversity,
featuring excellent examples by all the leading painters: ideal
landscapes by Claude Lorrain and biblical subjects by Nicolas
Poussin, two artists who spent most of their careers in Rome;
deeply moving religious works by La Tour, Sebastien Bourdon, and
Simon Vouet; portraits of the grandest format (Philippe de
Champaigne's "Omer Talon") and the most intimate (Nicolas de
Largillierre's "Elizabeth Throckmorton"); and familiar scenes of
daily life by the Le Nain brothers in the seventeenth century and
Chardin in the eighteenth. The Gallery's collection is especially
notable for its holdings of eighteenth-century painting, from Jean
Antoine Watteau to Hubert Robert, and including marvelous suites of
paintings by Francois Boucher and Fragonard. All these works are
explored in detailed, readable entries that will appeal as much to
the general art lover as to the specialist."
A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a
long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize
nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the
Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including
Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan.
Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous
adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London
and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People's
Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to
"find himself." But this small sliver of a country in West Africa,
recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil
with the discovery of cobanium-a radioactive mineral 500 times more
powerful than uranium, making it irresistible for greedy
speculators, grifters, and charlatans. Overnight, outsiders descend
upon the sleepy capital city looking for "a piece of the action."
When a plot to assassinate Guanaya's leader is discovered, Jimmy
Jay-a dead ringer for the Prime Minister-is enlisted in a counter
scheme to foil the would-be coup. He will travel to America with
half of Guanaya's cabinet ministers to meet with the President of
the United States and address the UN General Assembly, while the
rest of the cabinet will remain in Guanaya with the real Prime
Minister. What could go wrong? Everything. Set in the 1980s, this
smart, funny, dazzlingly brilliant novel is a literary delight-and
the final gift from an American literary legend.
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