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Star Trek Reader's Reference to the Novels

1994-1996: Volume 8

By: Alva Underwood

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Star Trek Reader's Reference to the Novels

1994-1996: Volume 8

By: Alva Underwood

Volume eight: New aliens, old adversaries, and planetary disasters confront Enterprise. The loyalty of the Bridge crew to Kirk is tested when Sulu and Chekov, labeled traitors, are helped by Dr. McCoy and Scotty, along with Kirk, Spock, and Klingon commander Kang, to bring the real traitors to justice. Kirk faces a Dohlman and with Uhura's help everts a war and establishes the true Dohlman on the throne. Kirk is sorely tested by the joy machine created by a planet seeking unbounded joy if one gives control to the machine. Enterprise and crew, thrown back in time during military maneuvers, discover their home planet never evolved humans. A landing team must stop a group of Ru determined to destroy the asteroid that changed the evolutionary line of earth. New comrades come from the future seeking help against the suffocating control of the Consilium. Enterprise meets new aliens: the Tauteans who nearly destroy themselves in the search for unlimited energy; the Rimillians facing a civil uprising as one group attempts to re-start their planet's spin; Furies, a dedicated group of new aliens, who threaten the Klingon Empire; and the yagghorth, a radiation-sensitive alien. Dr. McCoy faces the news of an unknown daughter while Sulu embraces the daughter he didn't know he fathered. An aging Kirk, called upon to witness the launch of a new hospital ship, which he fears will be disastrous as it has no captain, finds his fears confirmed. Deciding he doesn't want to grow old and give up adventuring in space, Kirk agrees to help the planet Chal.

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147727510X

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Star Trek Reader’S Reference to the Novels: 1992-1993

By: Alva Underwood

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Star Trek Reader’S Reference to the Novels: 1992-1993

By: Alva Underwood

Volume seven of the "Star Trek Reader's Reference to the Novels" offers additional information about the adventures of Kirk and his Bridge officers, especially Kirk's early years and Dr. McCoy's first deep-space assignment. Meet a variety of fascinating new villains including Dr. Omen who believes he's created the perfect weapon, a Romulan captain who seeks to destroy an entire species because he fears they will be weapons against Romulans, Roy Moss who feels he has not received the adulation he deserves, and High Assassin Shil Andrachis who believes killing is both a gift and a right. Meet other who offer new experiences such as the Reys of Gullrey, archeologist and musician Dr. Andrea Benar, and Variants who are genetically altered human stock. Read about a horrid new species, now extinct, and follow Kirk as he "becomes" a Kh!lict. Delve further into the mysteries surrounding the Probe that nearly destroyed Terra. Take on the Klingons in a new ploy against the Federation. Experience an ice plant almost destroyed when too many of its native marine animals are taken from the seas and meet the Kitka who are aware of an intelligent life form known as a kraken who shares their world. Sail along on the Great Starship Race that pits the resourcefulness of Kirk and crew against the machinations of a Romulan captain. Study how Kirk resolves a near-war situation by reading from the Obirrhat Holy Book, learn how Kirk, Spock, and McCoy evade the Reborning process on Sanctuary, and discover new theories about orphan cultures.

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1463447825

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9781463447823

Beauty Regimes

A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941

By: Genevieve Alva Clutario

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Beauty Regimes

A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941

By: Genevieve Alva Clutario

Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation building during the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires.

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Duke University Press

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1478024275

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9781478024279

Understanding William Gibson

By: Gerald Alva Miller, Jr.

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Understanding William Gibson

By: Gerald Alva Miller, Jr.

A study of the science fiction author who popularized the concept of cyberspace Gerald Alva Miller Jr.'s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards. Gibson's iconic novel, Neuromancer, popularized the concept of cyberspace. With his early stories and his first trilogy of novels, Gibson became the father figure for a new genre of science fiction called "cyberpunk" that brought a gritty realism to its cerebral plots involving hackers and artificial intelligences. This study situates Gibson as a major figure in both science fiction history and contemporary American fiction, and it traces how his aesthetic affected both areas of literature. Miller follows a brief biographical sketch and a survey of the works that influenced him with an examination that divides Gibson's body of work into early stories, his three major novel trilogies, and his standalone works. Miller does not confine his study to major works but instead also delves into Gibson's obscure stories, published and unpublished screenplays, major essays, and collaborations with other authors. Miller's exploration starts by connecting Gibson to the major countercultural movements that influenced him (the Beat Generation, the hippies, and the punk rock movement) while also placing him within the history of science fiction and examining how his early works reacted against contemporaneous trends in the genre. These early works also exhibit the development of his unique aesthetic that would influence science fiction and literature more generally. Next a lengthy chapter explicates his groundbreaking Sprawl Trilogy, which began with Neuromancer. Miller then traces Gibson's aesthetic transformations across his two subsequent novel trilogies that increasingly eschew distant futures either to focus on our contemporary historical moment as a kind of science fiction itself or to imagine technological singularities that might lie just around the corner. These chapters detail how Gibson's aesthetic has morphed along with social, cultural, and technological changes in the real world. The study also looks at such standalone works as his collaborative steampunk novel, his attempts at screenwriting, his major essays, and even his experimental hypertext poetry. The study concludes with a discussion of Gibson's lasting influence and a brief examination of his most recent novel, The Peripheral, which signals yet another radical change in Gibson's aesthetic.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611176344

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Equity in School–Parent Partnerships

Cultivating Community and Family Trust in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

By: Socorro G. Herrera,Lisa Porter,Katherine Barko-Alva

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Equity in School–Parent Partnerships

Cultivating Community and Family Trust in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

By: Socorro G. Herrera,Lisa Porter,Katherine Barko-Alva

Starting from the premise that children learn better when their learning community respects their families and cultures, this thought-provoking resource shows what it means—and what it takes— to include today’s diverse parents in their children’s learning. Moving readers away from out-of-date practices that can potentially marginalize and devalue the cultural assets of families, the authors provide practical, ready-to-use strategies to help schools re-envision the meaning of parental involvement and engagement. Based on the research and K–12 teaching experience of three educators, chapters address contemporary issues such as the absent parent, homework, vulnerable populations, limitations of current school-based family programs, and pedagogies of hope. “Framed by the work of critical pedagogues, such as Freire, Bourdieu, and Noddings, the authors skillfully guide educators toward disrupting fossilized educational practices while building confianza, cariño, y respeto (trust, loving care, and respect) with culturally and linguistically diverse families. This book fills a critical need and a step forward in rehumanizing education in the 21st century.” —Maria R. Coady, University of Florida “In this book Herrera and Barko-Alva invite educators to reframe and re-imagine traditional, top-down, school-centered parent involvement, and propose a new paradigm that centers family engagement as locally informed, assets-based relationship-building (‘radical kinship’) and as a process of mutual accommodation. As parent involvement has become a centerpiece of school reform, this book is a must-read for all educators, including administrators.” —Ester de Jong, University of Florida; president of TESOL International Association (2017–2018)

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Teachers College Press

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0807778516

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Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

By: Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

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Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

By: Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

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Springer

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1137330791

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9781137330796

College Football Stadiums

An Illustrated Guide to NCAA Division I-A

By: Alva W. Stewart

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College Football Stadiums

An Illustrated Guide to NCAA Division I-A

By: Alva W. Stewart

This is a complete guide to the football stadiums of the 114 colleges and universities that are in the NCAA Division I-A. Information for each stadium includes the year it opened, its current seating capacity, its special features, the dates, descriptions, costs and financing of any renovation or addition, and its playing field surface. Related information includes the team mascot, nickname, colors, fight song, and year of the school's first intercollegiate football game. The names and tenure of all athletic directors and head coaches since the stadium opened are provided as well.

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McFarland

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1476606137

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9781476606132

Joseph Hopkinson, 1770-1842

Jurist, Scholar, Inspirer of the Arts

By: Burton Alva Konkle

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Joseph Hopkinson, 1770-1842

Jurist, Scholar, Inspirer of the Arts

By: Burton Alva Konkle

Portrait of a versatile citizen of the early days of the Republic, his civic and literary activities, and his friendships with many famous men of his day.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512817368

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9781512817362

The LCSH Century

One Hundred Years with the Library of Congress Subject Headings System

By: Alva T. Stone

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The LCSH Century

One Hundred Years with the Library of Congress Subject Headings System

By: Alva T. Stone

The LCSH Century traces the 100-year history of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, from its beginning with the implementation of a dictionary catalog in 1898 to the present day. You will explore the most significant changes in LCSH policies and practices, including a summary of other contributions celebrating the centennial of the world's most popular library subject heading language.

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Routledge

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1317956877

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Thomas Willing and the First American Financial System

By: Burton Alva Konkle

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Thomas Willing and the First American Financial System

By: Burton Alva Konkle

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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151280343X

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The Entanglement

How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

By: Alva Noë

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The Entanglement

How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

By: Alva Noë

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature. Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us resources to live differently. Our lives are permeated with the aesthetic. Indeed, human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon, and art—our most direct and authentic way of engaging the aesthetic—is the truest way of understanding ourselves. All this suggests that human nature is not a natural phenomenon. Neither biology, cognitive science, nor AI can tell a complete story of us, and we can no more pin ourselves down than we can fix or settle on the meaning of an artwork. Even more, art and philosophy are the means to set ourselves free, at least to some degree, from convention, habit, technology, culture, and even biology. In making these provocative claims, Noë explores examples of entanglement—in artworks and seeing, writing and speech, and choreography and dancing—and examines a range of scientific efforts to explain the human. Challenging the notions that art is a mere cultural curiosity and that philosophy has been outmoded by science, The Entanglement offers a new way of thinking about human nature, the limits of natural science in understanding the human, and the essential role of art and philosophy in trying to know ourselves.

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Princeton University Press

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0691249571

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9780691249575

The Legendary Mizners

By: Alva Johnston

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The Legendary Mizners

By: Alva Johnston

The real-life adventures of Addison and Wilson Mizner, the subjects of the Stephen Sondheim musical Gold! Alva Johnston's joint biography of Addison and Wilson Mizner is a delightful portrait of two of the early twentieth century's most clever and infamous rascals. Born in the 1870s in California, the brothers quickly rose to prominence during the various booms of the 1920s. Addison, the elder, was a self-made architect and real-estate dealer who designed many of the fantastic homes of the fantastically rich in Palm Beach. He could "age" a house and its furnishings to any period his client desired--and would pay for. Wilson's adventures were even more daring and varied, and his quick wit was legendary. In addition to getting rich on the Alaskan gold rush, he had careers as a singer, playwright, prizefight promoter, con man, real-estate salesman, and shady hotel owner. Perhaps his most famous quip was one he delivered on being told that President Coolidge had died: "How do they know?

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466807989

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Naked Before God

Out of Darkness Unto Light

By: Alva B. See (Jr)

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Naked Before God

Out of Darkness Unto Light

By: Alva B. See (Jr)

Depend on the Lord in whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3 Over a thirty-three-year period, A. B. See, Jr., experienced seventeen divine revelations, which help to answer the following questions: • What does God really look like? • How does God feel about war? • How was the stone moved from the front of the tomb where Jesus lay? • Does God have additional commandments for us to follow? • How can the debate between creationism And The theory of evolution be finally resolved? • Does Satan really exist? • is there going to be an Apocalypse? the author believes that the answers to these questions, As found in one of the most profound books of our time, can make believers out of unbelievers, bring hope To The broken, and point a way to happiness and fulfillment in the readers' relationships. As readers discover and follow God's mission, they will begin their own journey from individual darkness unto His holy light.

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1617390976

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Star Trek Reader's Reference to the Novels

Star Trek Reader's Reference to the Novels

Star Trek Reader’S Reference to the Novels: 1992-1993

Star Trek Reader’S Reference to the Novels: 1992-1993

Beauty Regimes

Beauty Regimes

Understanding William Gibson

Understanding William Gibson

Equity in School–Parent Partnerships

Equity in School–Parent Partnerships

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

College Football Stadiums

College Football Stadiums

Joseph Hopkinson, 1770-1842

Joseph Hopkinson, 1770-1842

The LCSH Century

The LCSH Century

Thomas Willing and the First American Financial System

Thomas Willing and the First American Financial System

The Entanglement

The Entanglement

The Legendary Mizners

The Legendary Mizners

Naked Before God

Naked Before God

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