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Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism,
this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design
principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing
urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the
authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places)
can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of
urban design and physical place-making to planning problems. Design
First uses case studies from the authors' own professional projects
to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice,
using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary
planning and design issues in American communities. The book is
aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners,
elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of
architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating
three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.
There has been a flurry of writing about teachers as inquirers and
researchers as well as books about children as inquirers. This
volume brings these two areas together -- teachers and students are
inquiring at Ridgeway Elementary School. It demonstrates the
importance of thought collectives as forums for student and teacher
learning. The children in the primary classrooms in this book are
working to understand the world around them and their place in it
as literate individuals. Their teachers are studying themselves and
the students. No other book describes the way this work affects
children, teachers, and the ethos of the school in which the work
occurs. In that sense, this book is groundbreaking in that it is an
honest portrayal of the joys and sorrows, the successes and the
stumbling blocks, the clear vision, and the obfuscating that
teachers live as they enact a life of asking questions, being
curious, wandering, and wondering.
Acknowledging and honoring the many faces of inquiry in schools,
this book demonstrates the children's inquiry, their teachers'
inquiry, and the place of that inquiry in schools. It lays out the
ways in which inquiry is fundamental to teaching and learning in a
democracy in which all of the members of the community have a voice
in deciding curricular directions and ways of presenting learning.
Teachers are presented as thinkers and learners, not merely as
technicians enacting others' views of what is to be learned and
when. Readers will find teachers dealing with the real issues of
life in schools; they will see how teachers can use their existing
situations as points of departure for their growth and their
students' learning.
Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism,
this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design
principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing
urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the
authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places)
can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of
urban design and physical place-making to planning problems. Design
First uses case studies from the authors' own professional projects
to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice,
using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary
planning and design issues in American communities. The book is
aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners,
elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of
architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating
three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.
The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B.
Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago
Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national
recognition for her works.Price's twenty-five years in Chicago
formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred
works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral
suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of
spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public
and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major
works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement.
Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from
her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England
Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with
racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown
provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.
This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University
of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life.
In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines
engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions
of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically
complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and
other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee
industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and
Black gospel. Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life,
1600-1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the
history and impact of Black music in the United States.
Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr.,
Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet
Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen
Wade, and Charles Wolfe
The stage rumbled down the frozen road, shaking the lone passenger
mercilessly within. With each turn of the wheel, it took the
reflective young woman farther away from Van Buren...and Seth.
Annie Evans had made a difficult decision - she was going home.
Days later, as the ferry crossed the Mississippi River, Annie
watched Arkansas fade as Tennessee became closer - Tennessee, home
and war. She knew the danger of trying to get to Murfreesboro, but
she also knew she had to try. Maybe she would be able to put what
Rena had taught her to good use. With determination, Annie promised
the Lord she would do what she could - not only to help the
physically wounded but the spiritually wounded as well. Miles away,
in a makeshift Confederate hospital, a young doctor worked with
little rest and only one nurse. He needed help - desperately.
Exhausted from hours of bending over wounded young men, Doctor
Grady Horton once again asked God to send the help needed. Little
did he know, as his eyes closed in sleep, that an Angel of Mercy
was soon to arrive.
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Sonata in E minor (Book)
Florence Price; Created by Rae Linda Brown
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R359
R293
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(Piano Large Works). One of the first African-American women
composers to achieve national recognition. Sonata in E Minor won
First Prize in the 1932 Rodman Wanamaker music contest, the same
year Price's Symphony in E Minor won overall honors.
This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research
and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American
Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University
of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life.
In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines
engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions
of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically
complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and
other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee
industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and
Black gospel. Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life,
1600-1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the
history and impact of Black music in the United States.
Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr.,
Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet
Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen
Wade, and Charles Wolfe
The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B.
Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago
Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national
recognition for her works.Price's twenty-five years in Chicago
formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred
works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral
suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of
spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public
and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major
works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement.
Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from
her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England
Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with
racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown
provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.
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Franzel's Revenge (Hardcover)
Kyri Demby; Contributions by Linda Brown
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R619
R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
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Bisbee Blues (Paperback)
Rhonda Feltman, Linda Brown, Rhonda Brown
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R373
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In the final installment of the Luna Family trilogy Sam prepares to
make a decision that will affect the rest of her life, and that of
her beloved daughter, Joey. However, tragedy strikes before her
plan can be implemented. In dealing with circumstances beyond her
control, Sam comes to love and respect someone she never thought
she'd see again, and to hate someone she once loved. Will Sam's and
Joey's psychic abilities help them overcome the obstacles to a
happy future? Will Sam ever regain her memory of the week she lost,
over five years earlier, a mystery that continues to haunt her?
Find out as you follow Sam and her family and friends to the
conclusion of the Luna Family trilogy.
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