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How Proteins Work is an up-to-date and authoritative account of
protein function in living systems, explained within the governing
parameters of physics, chemistry, and evolution. This text will
enable advanced undergraduate students in biochemistry and
biophysics to understand the relationships among protein function,
structure, and dynamics. It will also serve as a valuable resource
for graduate students and researchers looking for a reference on
the fundamentals underlying protein function. By providing an
integrated view of proteins at both a cellular and systemic level,
this textbook shows how evolution drives proteins to adopt domain
structures that combine to achieve biological outcomes. The
association of proteins into dimers, molecular machines, and
multi-enzymatic complexes enables them to achieve catalytic and
functional efficiency.
SOLDIERS OUT OF TIME Then: First Lieutenant Sean Elliott and nine
other mixed-service U.S. soldiers on a convoy in Afghanistan
suddenly found themselves and their MRAP vehicle thrown back to
Earth's Paleolithic Age. And they were not alone. Displaced Rom
SOLDIERS OUT OF TIME Then: First Lieutenant Sean Elliott and nine
other mixed-service U.S. soldiers on a convoy in Afghanistan
suddenly found themselves and their MRAP vehicle thrown back to
Earth's Paleolithic Age. And they were not alone. Displaced Rom
The Scope of Justice Within a military that prides teamwork,
strength in numbers, and camaraderie, the sniper is the outlier.
The loner. The specialist whose talent can mean the difference
between mission success and disaster. And often between life and d
set in the late 1930's of Germany and New York. This fictional
story set amongst true events and persons; is of a young couple and
their love over a three year period. Their love and passion for
each other; are tested to the limit, by the cunning, deceit, and
murder that becomes part of their lives and those that surround
them.
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The Bicycle (Paperback)
Michele Williamson; Natasha Thomas Simmons
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R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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After working through the spring, summer and fall, saving for the
coveted bicycle is nearly complete. Waiting through the winter,
however, seems to be the hardest job of all. But instead of
settling in for the long wait until spring, a surprising act of
thoughtfulness prompts a good deed in return. Kids will love
reading this endearing story of kindness with its upbeat rhymes and
surprise ending. Parents and teachers can use the story as a
teaching tool about sharing, caring and helping others. The cutout
in the back of the book prompts kids to action by allowing them to
"cycle the biCYCLE" and keep the cycle of good deeds going.
Denison, Iowa, is as close to the heart of Middle America as it
gets. The hometown of Donna Reed, Denison has adopted "It's a
wonderful life" as its slogan and painted the phrase on the water
tower that hovers over everything in town. And in many respects,
life is pretty good here: it's a quiet town, a great place to raise
children; the crime rate is low, the schools strong. It's home to
the county's only Wal-Mart and a factory that does a booming
business in antiterrorism barriers. For outsiders looking in, there
is something familiar and comforting about Denison -- it conforms
to the picture of the wholesome, corn-fed heartland which we as a
nation cherish and which we think we know so well.
But something new and unfamiliar is happening in Denison, and
traditional viewpoints and partisan labels don't quite capture it.
The change goes beyond the post-9/11 loss of innocence; the sense
of unease and, in some cases, of rebirth began well before 2001.
Relations between the growing Latino population and the established
Anglo citizenry are not always smooth. The industries that still
predominate have become a mixed blessing for many people -- in the
1980s the meat-processing plant, for instance, froze wages, and
they have remained basically static to this day.
For many years, Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson have made it
their business to document interior America. In 1990 they won the
Pulitzer Prize for their book And Their Children After Them, a
conscious homage to the 1941 classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James Agee and Walker Evans. To gather their observations and
insights on Denison, Maharidge and Williamson lived there for a
year, spending time among the 8,000 people who live, love, work,
run for office, go to school, and sometimes struggle to get by
there. From the Lutheran woman who singlehandedly teaches English
to Latino immigrants seeking grueling work in meatpacking plants to
the leaders who struggle to rescue the community from economic ruin
to the Latino businessman whose career is saved by two white men
risking the wrath of small-town politics, the author and
photographer trace the intersections of lives, the successes and
failures, the real stories beneath Denison's mom-and-apple-pie
surface.
Through Maharidge's gorgeous, plainspoken prose and Williamson's
stunning photography, we are privy to a sweeping perspective
layered with a microscopic depth of observation, and a searingly
honest portrait tempered by heartfelt compassion. Denison, Iowa is
a big, beautiful book about a small town at a critical time in our
history -- and it's the crowning work of a brilliant,
quarter-century partnership.
This book explores the following key questions: What is literacy?
What do we mean when we profess literacy? How can we create a
theoretical map of writing studies in which to locate the ways we
define and situate our notions and assumptions about literacy? The
author addresses these questions by mapping the ideological
perspectives on literacy that inform the field's theoretical
terrain.
This study views the history of error in composition instruction
through a reader's rather than a writer's perspective, and in so
doing, documents the manner in which our visions of error and
perceptions of student writers who produce error have both
transformed and remained static over the course of 130 years. A
central conclusion derived from this is an assertion that error is
largely produced by readers of student writers, rather than student
writers themselves.
This book explores tensions surrounding the teaching of literacy in
three settings of nontraditional adult education: correctional
education, vocational education, and the Highlander Folk School.
What literacy is supposed to do, and thus what it means, varies
widely across these discourses. At its center of the book is the
belief that teachers and scholars must understand the worlds toward
which they, and the institutions they teach within, aspire to
create through the process of education.
Includes essays that illustrate and analyze various classroom-based
strategies for productive collaboration between literature and
composition. This work covers topics that span textuality and
critical pedagogy, argumentation and hybrid genres, student
engagement and popular culture, and materiality and assessment.
Brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutions,
methodologies and genres, who are interested in writing and
preparing teachers and researchers of writing. This book covers,
topics such as writing assessment, teaching writing and teacher
preparation, graduate education, electronic technologies, community
literacy, and more.
This book provides theoretical models and practical methods for
helping writing teachers and writing program administrators within
postsecondary institutions conduct the interdisciplinary,
collaborative consulting activities that are common with formal and
information writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs. It
specifically discusses how to conduct the day-to-day work of
negotiating close working partnerships with faculty in other
disciplines and is the first book length treatment to do so. The
book deepens current understandings of how writing specialist
collaborate with non-writing specialists in academic contexts and
provides a map for structuring successful collaborations in the
future.
This work calls attention to the ways that teachers of writing must
attend to the idea of the classroom, must be conscious of the
spaces in which they meet students and must be aware of the
physical, material conditions that constrain or affect the teaching
of writing.
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