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Home Truths: Gender, Domestic Objects and Everyday Life by Sarah Pink, ISBN 1859736912

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Homes are defined by smells, sounds, textures and objects, all of which reflect how people live their everyday lives. From spray-painting the wall to relaxing in the bath, the products we use speak volumes about who we are. "Home Truths explores material and sensory spaces of the home to uncover how gender roles are performed. Sarah Pink shows how everyday items ranging from perfumes to soap powder imprint and reinforce daily experiences and identity. How has the home been affected by the fact that more women now work and more men spend time engaged in domestic tasks? How do more traditional family-centered homes compare with those belonging to diverse family forms and people living alone? What does a study of domestic gender tell us about how change occurs? Answering these questions and many more, "Home Truths shows how everyday activities can be deeply revealing of gender roles in the twenty first century.

Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets: A New View of Cycles, Prices, and Market Volatility, with Disks by Edgar E. Peters, ISBN 0471139386

Presenting new analytical techniques, as well as reexamining methods that have been in use for the past forty years, Chaos and Order offers a thorough examination of chaos theory and fractals as applied to investments and economics. This new edition includes timely examples from today's markets and descriptions of cutting-edge technologies - genetic algorithms, wavelets, complexity theory - and hot innovations, such as fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence. Beyond the history of current capital market theory, Chaos and Order covers the crucial characteristics of fractals, the analysis of fractal time series through rescaled range analysis (R/S), the specifics of fractal statistics, and the definition and analysis of chaotic systems. It offers an in-depth exploration of random walks and efficient markets - the development of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) and modern portfolio theory; the linear paradigm - why it has failed; nonlinear dynamic systems - phase space, the Henon Map... Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets: A New View of Cycles, Prices, and Market Volatility, with Disks by Edgar E. Peters, ISBN 0471139386
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Big & Little by Steve Jenkins, ISBN 0395726646

Each spread of Big and Little shows animals that are related to each other but vary greatly in size. All animals are illustrated on the same scale, so readers can compare them throughout the book. Big & Little by Steve Jenkins, ISBN 0395726646
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Come Look with Me: Exploring Modern Art: Exploring Modern Art by Jessica N. Wright, ISBN 1890674109

Well suited for both individual and classroom use, Exploring Modern Art pairs quality art reproductions with thought-provoking questions, encouraging children to learn through visual exploration and interaction. Thoughtful text introduces the world and work of the artist, making the most of a child's natural curiosity.

Children enter the feelings and flat shapes of Henri Matisse's The Red Room (Harmony in Red); they compare Pablo Picasso's Horse Head Mask
with a firespitter mask from the Ivory Coast; they imagine the expression on the face of the young girl in Diego Rivera's The Flower Vendor (Girl With Lilies).

Come Look with Me: Exploring Modern Art: Exploring Modern Art by Jessica N. Wright, ISBN 1890674109

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Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide for School Library Media Specialists by Kathleen W. Craver, ISBN 0313320802

As prices of traditional library materials increase, and space to house them shrinks, savvy school library media specialists are creating cyber libraries, or school libraries on the Internet. These libraries offer students and their parents 24-hour access and are invaluable for providing up-to-date information in a way traditional materials cannot. This guide outlines the steps library media specialists can take to create a cyber library, provide content and policies for use, and maintain it for maximum efficiency. Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide for School Library Media Specialists by Kathleen W. Craver, ISBN 0313320802
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Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets: A New View of Cycles, Prices, and Market Volatility, with Disks by Edgar E. Peters, ISBN 0471139386

Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin

"Voices and Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin" by Jon Kasparek is the sixth book in the Wisconsin Historical Society's New Badger History series aimed at upper elementary and middle school classrooms. The eight chapters interweave history and civics, providing a comprehensive overview of state, tribal, and local governance in Wisconsin. The accompanying teacher's guide by Bobbie Malone encourages students to compare and contrast historical circumstances with current events, so that young learners come to understand both the differences and the continuities in our evolving democratic society. Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin
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Teaching Reading Strategies in the School Library

Walker and Shaw link the teaching of ten commonly taught reading strategies such as sequencing, compare and contrast, and prediction to newly published picture book titles. Each chapter of the book provides a strategy, a graphic organizer to teach it with, and an in-depth modeled discussion of how to use the strategy with two or three books. Additionally, each chapter furnishes an annotated bibliography of other books that would lend themselves easily to the teaching of this strategy. Teaching Reading Strategies in the School Library
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 30: 1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799 by Barbara B. Oberg, ISBN 0691094985

During the thirteen months covered by this volume, Thomas Jefferson spent more than half of his time in Philadelphia serving as vice president under President John Adams and presiding over a Senate that was dominated by his political opponents, the Federalists. Debates in Congress took place against a backdrop of bitter partisan rivalry, characterized most famously by the near-brawl on the floor of the House between Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold. Congress and the nation waited, in a "state of extraordinary suspense, " for dispatches from the American envoys in France. When the accounts of the XYZ Affair became public, the nation prepared for war. Two days after the Alien Friends Act was signed into law Jefferson left for Monticello, stopping at Montpelier to convey the latest news to James Madison. Disheartened and frustrated by the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jefferson penned the famous resolutions adopted in November by the Kentucky legislature. He kept his authorship a secret, however,... The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 30: 1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799 by Barbara B. Oberg, ISBN 0691094985
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