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Spiderwebs and Silk

Tracing Evolution From Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes

By: Catherine L. Craig

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Spiderwebs and Silk

Tracing Evolution From Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes

By: Catherine L. Craig

Links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioral ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods. This book presents an integrated understanding of an interesting biological system at the molecular and organizational levels.

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Oxford University Press

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0195129164

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The Man Who Saw the Future

A Biography of William Lilly

By: Catherine Blackledge

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The Man Who Saw the Future

A Biography of William Lilly

By: Catherine Blackledge

A spellbinding tale of prophecy, power, and politics—a biography of the 17th-century astrologer whose controversial celestial forecasts of the future changed the course of the English Civil War Winter, 1643: Astrologer William Lilly is gazing at a chamber pot. Parliament has asked him to help: Will leader John Pym live or die? Using an ancient astrological technique called horary, Lilly predicts Pym will die in eight days’ time. He is correct. In the pages of his best-selling pamphlets, Lilly enthralls the civil war-torn nation with his uncannily accurate astral forecasts of who will triumph in combat. He advises the New Model Army on when to fight based on his judgment of King Charles I’s horoscope; the key battle of Naseby is won with this astrological intelligence. Foreseeing the King’s death seals his status as the nation’s arch magus. But not everyone is happy with Parliament’s new prophet and his enemies begin to plot their revenge . . . Can Lilly’s astonishing gift help him best those in power—and save his profession and his life? With a cast of star-gazers, soldiers, and scryers; politicians, priests and prophets, internationally acclaimed author Catherine Blackledge grants fresh insight into a tumultuous period, illuminating William Lilly’s extraordinary life and revealing the secrets of his astonishing foresight.

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256

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Watkins Media Limited

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1780288123

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9781780288123

American Slavery, American Imperialism

US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914

By: Catherine Armstrong

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American Slavery, American Imperialism

US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914

By: Catherine Armstrong

Details how Americans' perceptions of the institution of slavery changed between the end of the Civil War and the onset of World War I.

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299

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Cambridge University Press

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1108477097

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9781108477093

Educational Issues in the Learning Age

By: Catherine Matheson,David Matheson

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Educational Issues in the Learning Age

By: Catherine Matheson,David Matheson

Education and its context are both changing rapidly. In a world characterized by postmodernism and globalization, even the discourses that we use to discuss education are changing. This raises fundamental questions concerning the relationship of education to culture, identity, society, and power.To understand education in the twenty-first century we need a new map. By considering issues both fundamental and tpoical from citizenship to lifelong learning, from school effectiveness to learning outside the school, this book provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary guide to education in the new era.

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257

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A&C Black

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1847143954

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9781847143952

Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate

A Window into Identity Construction, Transnationality, and Schooling

By: Catherine Compton-Lilly,Stephanie Shedrow,Dana Hagerman,Laura Hamman-Ortiz,Yao-Kai Chi,Jieun Kim,Sun Young Lee,Kristin Papoi,Erin Quast,Brooke Ward Taira,Bingjie Zheng

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Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate

A Window into Identity Construction, Transnationality, and Schooling

By: Catherine Compton-Lilly,Stephanie Shedrow,Dana Hagerman,Laura Hamman-Ortiz,Yao-Kai Chi,Jieun Kim,Sun Young Lee,Kristin Papoi,Erin Quast,Brooke Ward Taira,Bingjie Zheng

This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames. Drawing on reports from five years of an ongoing longitudinal research project involving students from immigrant families across their elementary school years, each chapter explores a unique set of questions about the students’ experiences and offers a rich data set of observations, interviews, and student-created artifacts. Authors apply different sociocultural, sociomaterial, and sociopolitical frameworks to better understand the dimensions of the children’s experiences. The multitude of approaches applied demonstrates how viewing the same data through distinct lenses is a powerful way to uncover the differences and comparative uses of these theories. Through such varied lenses, it becomes apparent how the complexities of lived experiences inform and improve our understanding of teaching and learning, and how our understanding of multifaceted literacy practices affects students’ social worlds and identities. Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate is a much-needed resource for scholars, professors, researchers, and graduate students in language and literacy education, English education, and teacher education.

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208

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Routledge

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1000568806

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9781000568806

Salisbury Through Time

By: Carol Dixon-Smith,Catherine Essenhigh

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Salisbury Through Time

By: Carol Dixon-Smith,Catherine Essenhigh

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Salisbury has changed and developed over the past century.

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194

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445658003

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9781445658001

Spider Silk

Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

By: Leslie Brunetta,Catherine L. Craig

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Spider Silk

Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

By: Leslie Brunetta,Catherine L. Craig

Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, “How do they do that?” The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival “toolkit” and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.

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272

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Yale University Press

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0300163150

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9780300163155

Migration Narratives

Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions

By: Stanton Wortham,Briana Nichols,Katherine Clonan-Roy,Catherine Rhodes

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Migration Narratives

Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions

By: Stanton Wortham,Briana Nichols,Katherine Clonan-Roy,Catherine Rhodes

Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian communities, the authors describe how interethnic relations played a central role in newcomers' pathways and draw links between the town's earlier cycles of migration. The town represents similar communities across the USA and around the world that have received large numbers of immigrants in a short time. The purpose of the book is to document the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and to suggest ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Boston College.

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281

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350181331

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9781350181335

Crafting Lives

African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900

By: Catherine W. Bishir

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Crafting Lives

African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900

By: Catherine W. Bishir

From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African American artisans in the small but important port city of New Bern. In so doing, she highlights the community's often unrecognized importance in the history of nineteenth-century black life. Drawing upon myriad sources, Bishir brings to life men and women who employed their trade skills, sense of purpose, and community relationships to work for liberty and self-sufficiency, to establish and protect their families, and to assume leadership in churches and associations and in New Bern's dynamic political life during and after the Civil War. Focusing on their words and actions, Crafting Lives provides a new understanding of urban southern black artisans' unique place in the larger picture of American artisan identity.

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393

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UNC Press Books

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1469608766

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9781469608761

Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts

By: Patrick Alan Danaher,Andy Davies,L. De George-Walker,Janice K. Jones,Karl J. Matthews,Warren Midgley,Catherine H. Arden,Linda De George-Walker,Margaret Baguley

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Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts

By: Patrick Alan Danaher,Andy Davies,L. De George-Walker,Janice K. Jones,Karl J. Matthews,Warren Midgley,Catherine H. Arden,Linda De George-Walker,Margaret Baguley

Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities. This book investigates nine research projects, exploring why particular capacities are successful in some situations but not in others.

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Springer

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1137374578

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9781137374578

The Man Who Saw the Future

A Biography of William Lilly

By: Catherine Blackledge

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A Biography of William Lilly

By: Catherine Blackledge

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Watkins Media Limited

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The Story of V

Opening Pandora's Box

By: Catherine Blackledge

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The Story of V

Opening Pandora's Box

By: Catherine Blackledge

A meticulous guide not only to the vagina but to changing perceptions of womanhood' Observer

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0753817764

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The Man who Saw the Future

A Biography of William Lilly : the 17th Century Astrologer who Changed the Course of the English Civil War

By: Catherine Blackledge,Owen Davies

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The Man who Saw the Future

A Biography of William Lilly : the 17th Century Astrologer who Changed the Course of the English Civil War

By: Catherine Blackledge,Owen Davies

A spellbinding tale of prophecy, power and politics, this book tells the fascinating story of the 17th-century astrologer William Lilly - how his celestial forecasts of the future changed the course of the English Civil War, and the establishment's attempts to silence him. Winter, 1643. Astrologer William Lilly is gazing at a pot of piss. Parliament has asked him to help: will leader John Pym live or die? Using an ancient astrological technique called horary, Lilly predicts Pym will die in eight days' time. He is correct. In the pages of his best-selling pamphlets, Lilly enthrals the civil war-torn nation with his uncannily accurate astral forecasts of who will triumph in combat. He advises the New Model Army on when to fight - based on his judgement of King Charles I's horoscope; the key battle of Naseby is won with this astrological intelligence. Foreseeing the King's death seals his status as the nation's arch magus. But not everyone is happy with Parliament's new prophet and his enemies begin to plot their revenge. Can Lilly's astonishing gift help him best those in power, and save his profession and his life? With a cast of star-gazers, soldiers and scryers; politicians, priests and piss-prophets, internationally acclaimed author Catherine Blackledge grants a fresh insight into a tumultuous period: illuminating William Lilly's extraordinary life and revealing the secrets of his astonishing foresight.

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178028800X

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The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe, with Notes by the Late Rev. William Harness

By: Catherine Maria Fanshawe,William Harness

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The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe, with Notes by the Late Rev. William Harness

By: Catherine Maria Fanshawe,William Harness

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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Book's by Catherine Blackledge

Spiderwebs and Silk

Spiderwebs and Silk

The Man Who Saw the Future

The Man Who Saw the Future

American Slavery, American Imperialism

American Slavery, American Imperialism

Educational Issues in the Learning Age

Educational Issues in the Learning Age

Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate

Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate

Salisbury Through Time

Salisbury Through Time

Spider Silk

Spider Silk

Migration Narratives

Migration Narratives

Crafting Lives

Crafting Lives

Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts

Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts

The Man Who Saw the Future

The Man Who Saw the Future

The Story of V

The Story of V

The Man who Saw the Future

The Man who Saw the Future

The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe, with Notes by the Late Rev. William Harness

The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe, with Notes by the Late Rev. William Harness

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