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On Becoming Bilingual: Children's Experiences across Homes,
Schools, and Communities provides a theoretical and methodological
introduction to research on children's participation in and across
a multiplicity of activities where they display complex linguistic
and sociocultural knowledge. From a perspective that engages
intersections of language, race, and class, the book reviews
foundational and recent studies highlighting innovations, trends,
and future directions for research. The book offers a helpful set
of resources, including guiding questions at the start of each
chapter, links to online and bibliographic sources, discussion
questions and activities, and a glossary of key terms. This book is
intended for scholars and students in language-oriented fields of
study who are interested in learning about how bilingual children
engage with, negotiate, and transform their social worlds.
On Becoming Bilingual: Children's Experiences across Homes,
Schools, and Communities provides a theoretical and methodological
introduction to research on children's participation in and across
a multiplicity of activities where they display complex linguistic
and sociocultural knowledge. From a perspective that engages
intersections of language, race, and class, the book reviews
foundational and recent studies highlighting innovations, trends,
and future directions for research. The book offers a helpful set
of resources, including guiding questions at the start of each
chapter, links to online and bibliographic sources, discussion
questions and activities, and a glossary of key terms. This book is
intended for scholars and students in language-oriented fields of
study who are interested in learning about how bilingual children
engage with, negotiate, and transform their social worlds.
Designed for an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level course,
Abstract Algebra provides an example-oriented, less heavily
symbolic approach to abstract algebra. The text emphasizes
specifics such as basic number theory, polynomials, finite fields,
as well as linear and multilinear algebra. This classroom-tested,
how-to manual takes a more narrative approach than the stiff
formalism of many other textbooks, presenting coherent storylines
to convey crucial ideas in a student-friendly, accessible manner.
An unusual feature of the text is the systematic characterization
of objects by universal mapping properties, rather than by
constructions whose technical details are irrelevant. Addresses
Common Curricular Weaknesses In addition to standard introductory
material on the subject, such as Lagrange's and Sylow's theorems in
group theory, the text provides important specific illustrations of
general theory, discussing in detail finite fields, cyclotomic
polynomials, and cyclotomic fields. The book also focuses on
broader background, including brief but representative discussions
of naive set theory and equivalents of the axiom of choice,
quadratic reciprocity, Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic
progressions, and some basic complex analysis. Numerous worked
examples and exercises throughout facilitate a thorough
understanding of the material.
Designed for an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level course,
Abstract Algebra provides an example-oriented, less heavily
symbolic approach to abstract algebra. The text emphasizes
specifics such as basic number theory, polynomials, finite fields,
as well as linear and multilinear algebra. This classroom-tested,
how-to manual takes a more narrative approach than the stiff
formalism of many other textbooks, presenting coherent storylines
to convey crucial ideas in a student-friendly, accessible manner.
An unusual feature of the text is the systematic characterization
of objects by universal mapping properties, rather than by
constructions whose technical details are irrelevant. Addresses
Common Curricular Weaknesses In addition to standard introductory
material on the subject, such as Lagrange's and Sylow's theorems in
group theory, the text provides important specific illustrations of
general theory, discussing in detail finite fields, cyclotomic
polynomials, and cyclotomic fields. The book also focuses on
broader background, including brief but representative discussions
of naive set theory and equivalents of the axiom of choice,
quadratic reciprocity, Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic
progressions, and some basic complex analysis. Numerous worked
examples and exercises throughout facilitate a thorough
understanding of the material.
We live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death,
but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has
contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of
life. The essays in this collection examine processes of-and our
understanding of-extinction across various domains. The
contributors argue that extinction events can be catalysts for new
cultural, social, environmental, and technological
developments-that extinction processes can, paradoxically, be
productive as well as destructive. The essays consider a number of
widely publicized cases: island species in the Galapagos and
Madagascar; the death of Native American languages; ethnic
minorities under pressure to assimilate in China; cloning as a form
of species regeneration; and the tiny hominid Homo floresiensis
fossils ("hobbits") recently identified in Indonesia. The
Anthropology of Extinction offers compelling explorations of issues
of widespread concern. -- Indiana University Press
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