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There ’s a new amusement park in town. Come on in–and find out all the exciting ways you can have fun with math in everyday life. Wander through the fractal forest, take a ride on the M¨obius-strip roller coaster, and get dizzy learning about how math makes the Tilt-A-Whirl possible. The more activities you try, the more you’ll learn how cool it can be to see the world through the eyes of a mathematician. Once you’ve sampled some of the interesting and unique projects in Math Trek, from untangling unknots to winning games with weird dice to figuring out secret codes, you’ll see that every trip to the MathZone is an exciting adventure!
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Changing Fate (Paperback)
Clarise Tan; Edited by Nancy Henderson; Charisse Spiers
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R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
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Rocked by Fate (Paperback)
Clarise Tan; Edited by Nancy Henderson, Elizabeth Thiele
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R352
Discovery Miles 3 520
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Alluring Fate (Paperback)
James Critchley; Illustrated by Clarise Tan; Edited by Nancy Henderson
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R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
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Chasing Fate (Paperback)
Clarise Tan; Photographs by Eric Battershell; Edited by Nancy Henderson
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R483
Discovery Miles 4 830
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Finding Fate (Paperback)
Nancy Henderson; Illustrated by Clarise Tan; Photographs by Darren Birks
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R616
Discovery Miles 6 160
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Gifted Fate (Paperback)
Clarise Tan; Edited by Nancy Henderson, Nikkita McDuffie
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R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
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Fated for Me (Paperback)
Nancy Henderson; Illustrated by Clarise Tan; Charisse Spiers
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R467
Discovery Miles 4 670
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Accepted Fate (Paperback)
Clarise Tan; Edited by Jessica Grover, Nancy Henderson
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R404
Discovery Miles 4 040
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Fated for You (Paperback)
Nancy Henderson; Illustrated by Clarise Tan; Charisse Spiers
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R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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At Home Abroad is a stunning autobiography of Nancy
Henderson-James's youth in Africa. Heart-wrenching is her uprooting
at age 15 when the war for independence began, from Angola, whose
natural world, people, customs, languages she so loved. Nancy
bravely and articulately recounts a true saga of personal loss and
bereavement. But out of the crucible of conflicts between herself
and her parents, the Africa she loved and the America from which
she felt estranged, comes crystalline strength, confidence, humor,
and self-knowledge. Her journey to wholeness, with its exquisite
analysis and detail, enlightens us, so that we, too, see our own
lives with new understanding and compassion and recognize better
our place in the 21st century as citizens of the world.
Judy Hogan, Founding Editor of Carolina Wren Press, 1976-91.
In this intimate and detailed autobiography, Nancy Henderson-James
throws open the door on a room in the history of religion that has
been locked and double-bolted: the life of a child of Christian
missionaries in the 1950's in Africa. It is not another story of
the children of a crazy preacher or an abusive father. Rather it is
a story of the loneliness of a daughter of liberal Protestant
missionaries who do (almost) everything right professionally, but
are absent in crucial ways to the lives of their children. "I was
dancing between complex alliances of race, nationality, gender and
religion." Readers will wince at a wastebasket made from an
elephant's foot, at a child going to a male teacher to tell a
secret that belongs to a parent, at images of spacious homes and
multiple servants in a village of poor dwellings - ." . . my life
in white colonial Angola . . .in the midst of a system fast coming
apart." But At Home Abroad is also the story of a young woman
finding her own way to survival, to freedom, and to her own
spiritual path.
Pat Schneider, author: Writing Alone and With Others, Oxford
University Press, 2003
Nancy Henderson-James has written a tremendous book. Her writing
skillfully weaves the threads of a beautiful exotic setting, the
discoveries and tensions of adolescence, the powerful shaping
attachment to a very particular place, and the void of absence. I
highly recommend her memoir to anyone exploring the mysterious
terrain of childhood, the challenge of straddling vastly different
worlds, or the way loss adds depth as well as pain to a thoughtful
life.
Mary Edwards Wertsch, author of Military Brats: Legacies of
Childhood Inside the Fortress
Henderson-James has written a wonderfully constructed memoir
filled with honesty and tenderness describing an intriguing
childhood life compelling her to straddle different cultures. And
through its elegant prose, resonant images and informative
commentaries, this gem of a book effectively presents a thoroughly
engrossing and moving account of experiences that most of us would
otherwise know very little about.
Norm Goldman, Publisher and Editor, bookpleasures.com
In a time when companies are outsourcing abroad, Habitat
International, a Tennessee-based carpet manufacturer, has managed
to achieve superior levels of productivity at home, often two to
three times greater than its competition. Habitat's business has
grown enormously, with much of its new business coming from work
outsourced to them by competitors who could not come close to
matching its productivity. Habitat's secret: they hire the people
no one else will. At Habitat three of every four workers have a
physical or mental disability. They earn normal wages and are
cross-trained on every job. They work harder, with less
supervision, lower turnover and an unparalleled level of loyalty.
The challenges have been significant; the rewards extraordinary.
This is Habitat's story. It's a powerful and moving tale of
personal courage, deep commitment and challenging expectations.
It's a story of success and personal triumph. It'll change the way
you think about business ... and the people around you.
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