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Teaching Secondary Mathematics as if the Planet Matters

By: Alf Coles,Richard Barwell,Tony Cotton,Jan Winter,Laurinda Brown

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Teaching Secondary Mathematics as if the Planet Matters

By: Alf Coles,Richard Barwell,Tony Cotton,Jan Winter,Laurinda Brown

‘This book moves us beyond a theoretical pondering of the issues and makes concrete suggestions for teachers and students for how things can be different in mathematics classrooms. This is long overdue.’ Peter Gates, University of Nottingham Teaching Mathematics as if the Planet Matters explores how Mathematics teachers can develop approaches to curriculum and learning which help students understand the nature of the contemporary world. It sets out a model for teaching and learning that allows teachers to examine existing approaches to teaching and draw upon the insights of mathematics as a discipline to help students relate classroom mathematics to global issues such as climate change, the economy, food supplies, biodiversity, human rights, and social justice. Including practical examples, suggestions for teaching activities and detailed further reading sections, the book covers: the mathematics of description in the measuring, recording and statistical analysis that informs our knowledge of climate change, consumption and sustainability; the mathematics of prediction in the modelling used by governments, scientists and businesses to plan roads, power stations and food supplies and their effects; the mathematics of communication in the news reports, blogs and environmental campaigns, incomplete without graphs, charts and statistics. The true worth of a school subject is revealed in how far it can account for and respond to the major issues of the time. The issue of the environment cuts across subject boundaries and requires an interdisciplinary response. Mathematics teachers are part of that response and they have a crucial role in helping students to respond to environmental issues and representations.

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Routledge

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1136597867

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9781136597862

Undercover

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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Undercover

By: Laurinda D. Brown

The story of Fire & Brimstone continues with the introduction of Nathaniel, a seemingly happily married man and brother-in-law to Chris, but he’s struggling to keep up this performance of happiness while he falls back into an entirely different performance—as a drag queen. In Fire & Brimstone, Laurinda D. Brown began the turbulent love story of two women struggling with finding comfort in each other and in themselves while teetering on the verge of self-destruction. Chris Desmereaux and Gayle Evans: Two women, two mothers, two lovers testing the boundaries of 21st century morality, torn between different ideas of right and wrong. Now in Undercover, the author expands the story, introducing Nathaniel, the monogamous lover of Patrick, a high roller at the Memphis nightclub where Nathaniel transforms himself into a female diva before a standing-room-only crowd until Patrick breaks his heart. Devastated by his lover's rejection, Nathaniel leaves his flamboyant former life behind and reinvents himself yet again. This time it's Nathaniel, the committed family man—a loving husband to his wife, devoted father to his three children, and brother-in-law to Chris. Patrick is a distant, still-seductive memory, until financial woes force Nathaniel to return to his old fast-money way of life. This fateful decision culminates in exposure—and Nathaniel's subsequent downward spiral. Domestic crises abound as Nathaniel struggles with painful issues surrounding his sexual identity, and he must face the ultimate truth about himself in a harrowing climax. Undercover is a powerhouse novel by a gifted storyteller.

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402

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Simon and Schuster

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1439100055

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9781439100059

Fire & Brimstone

A Novel

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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Fire & Brimstone

A Novel

By: Laurinda D. Brown

Chris Desmereaux—college graduate, churchgoer, and single mother—is struggling with poverty, coming to terms with her sexuality, and finding love—though she is unaware that her life will change, for better or worse, the day Gayle Evans finds her personal ad in the paper and answers it. Gayle Evans, toe-tapping, knee-slapping, make-you-wanna-holla Minister of Music with a divine gift from God. "Praise the Lord" is her mantra. Macking women is her game. Destroying every life she touches, Gayle brings more misery than harmony. She has a lesson or two to learn after she uses her "relationship with God" to break up a seemingly happy home. Alternately set in Washington, D.C. and Memphis, Tennessee, Fire & Brimstone is an "in your face" tale that explores lesbianism and black motherhood as both separate and integrated issues impacting the main character's role as a single parent, while opening dialogue on same-sex domestic violence, religious beliefs, bisexuality, negligent fathers, economics, and intra-racial caste systems among African Americans. Depending on one's beliefs and opinions, Fire & Brimstone leaves no room for "in-between" emotions, leading the reader to ultimately draw his or her own conclusion as to what the ending actually means: Is homosexuality a sin, or does God love us as we are? The author reminds us that gay women are everywhere, even in the African American church—a place where no one expects to find them. Fire & Brimstone does an excellent job of testing the boundaries of 21st century morality.

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244

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Simon and Schuster

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1476706581

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9781476706580

The Highest Price for Passion

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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The Highest Price for Passion

By: Laurinda D. Brown

Set during the pre-Civil War period, The Highest Price for Passion delves into the lives of various individuals who are deeply affected by the outcome of the largest sale of slaves in U.S. history called “The Weeping Time.” When Amelia “Passion” Smith, a biracial and beautiful woman, is sold as a slave to the Wellsworth household, she finds herself in the middle of a marriage steeped with secrets. The husband, and master of the house, finds himself drawn to Amelia. Unbeknownst to him, his wife holds a secret love for Amelia, and when she discovers her husband forcing himself on Amelia, the unthinkable happens. The Highest Price for Passion reflects one hundred years of the most volatile era to divide American soil, interspersed with the uncontrollable fervor from the unlikeliest of sources—when both master and mistress vie for the affections of a slave too beautiful to destroy, with a quiet intelligence neither can outwit. Discover a time when the concept of family paled against the principle of human bondage. Fight for the cause. Die for the freedom to live, to choose, to love. Unyielding. Uncompromising. Undeniable. These are the qualities that make The Highest Price for Passion unforgettable.

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273

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Simon and Schuster

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145164289X

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9781451642896

Ethical Health Informatics

By: Laurinda Beebe Harman,Frances Cornelius

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Ethical Health Informatics

By: Laurinda Beebe Harman,Frances Cornelius

Ethical Informatics is an invaluable resource for HIM, the healthcare team (nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy et al.), information technology (IT) students (associate, baccalaureate and graduate) and practitioners. Each chapter includes ethical “real life” scenarios, a discussion of the issues, and a decision-making matrix for each scenario that facilitates an understanding of ethical ways to respond to the problem and actions that would not be considered ethical.

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764

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284114775

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9781284114775

Perilous Chastity

Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine

By: Laurinda S. Dixon

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Perilous Chastity

Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine

By: Laurinda S. Dixon

Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered crones or impish boys leer suggestively in the background. These paintings traditionally have been viewed as commentary on quack doctors or unmarried pregnant women. The first book to examine images of women and illness in the light of medical history, Perilous Chastity reveals a surprising new interpretation. In an engaging analysis enhanced by abundant illustrations-including eight pages of color plates—Laurinda S. Dixon shows how paintings reflect changing medical theories concerning women. While she illuminates a tradition stretching from antiquity to the present, she concentrates on art from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries, and particularly on paintings from seventeenth-century Leiden. Dixon suggests how the assumptions of a predominantly male medical establishment have influenced prevailing notions of women's social place. She traces the evolution of the belief that women's illnesses were caused by "hysteria," so named in ancient Greece after the notion that the uterus had a tendency to wander in the body. All women were considered prone to hysteria-strong emotions, idleness, intellectual activity, or unladylike pursuits could cause it—but it was most commonly diagnosed among celibates. Analyzing paintings of women's sickrooms by Jan Steen, Dirck Hals, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob Ochtervelt, Godfried Schalcken, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Franz van Mieris, Dixon perceives metaphoric identifications of the womb as the source of illness. She also documents changing fashions in cures for hysteria and discusses allusions to the debilitating effects of women's passions not only in paintings, but also in madrigals by John Dowland and Henry Purcell. In conclusion, Dixon argues that her study has strong ramifications of attitudes towards women and illness today. She takes up images in twentieth-century culture as well and calls attention to a resurgence of female "hysteria" after World War II.

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332

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Cornell University Press

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1501735764

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9781501735769

Reversible Color Crochet

A New Technique

By: Laurinda Reddig

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Reversible Color Crochet

A New Technique

By: Laurinda Reddig

Create completely reversible colorwork afghans and more! Innovative crocheter Laurinda Reddig created a unique and award-winning form of crochet that produces clear images that look exactly the same on both sides. Learn about this new method along with 28 reversible squares suitable for afghans or other items, make one of the 10 projects that use them, or find inspiration to design your own! Laurinda explains the basics of her technique and how to work with multiple colors at the same time. She demonstrates how to create graphic colorwork squares that range from simple geometric angles and shapes to a variety of picture squares including quilt-inspired blocks, flowers, the sun & moon, robots, aliens, and other fun projects for children. Create all 10 afghan projects complete with directions for joining, edging, and any additional stitch patterns used. Open your eyes to a whole new crochet technique--you won't want to miss it!

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353

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Penguin

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1620335255

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9781620335253

Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information

By: Laurinda B. Harman

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Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information

By: Laurinda B. Harman

Reference for clinicians and healthcare information management professionals, addressing the multifaceted ethical challenges of working with sensitive health information in an ethical way. Features Web site addresses for additional resources, real-life scenarios, and a consistent structure that reinforces the material.

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696

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763747327

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9780763747329

Hurricane Katrina

Lessons for Army Planning and Operations

By: Lynn E. Davis,Jill Rough,Gary Cecchine,Agnes Gereben Schaefer,Laurinda L. Rohn,Laurinda L. Zeman

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Hurricane Katrina

Lessons for Army Planning and Operations

By: Lynn E. Davis,Jill Rough,Gary Cecchine,Agnes Gereben Schaefer,Laurinda L. Rohn,Laurinda L. Zeman

The efforts undertaken by civilian and military organizations in response to Hurricane Katrina were historically unprecedented, but a number of changes would enhance future Army and National Guard disaster-response efforts, including preparing governors to call up Guard units for out-of-state emergencies and the creation of regional standing homeland security task forces.

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Rand Corporation

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0833042742

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9780833042743

Women & Diabetes

Staying Healthy in Body, Mind, and Spirit

By: Laurinda M. Poirier,Katharine M. Coburn

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Women & Diabetes

Staying Healthy in Body, Mind, and Spirit

By: Laurinda M. Poirier,Katharine M. Coburn

Created to help women deal with the emotional issues and practical concerns that accompany diabetes, this revised second edition also encourages women to be educated about the recommendations made by their health-care team to ensure their long-term good health. Women will learn how to develop a support system, confront fears that can make self-care difficult, pay attention to their body's wisdom, and more.

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252

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Contemporary Books

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1580400582

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9781580400589

Undercover

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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By: Laurinda D. Brown

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Simon and Schuster

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1439100055

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9781439100059

Fire & Brimstone

A Novel

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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A Novel

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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Fire and Brimstone

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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Fire and Brimstone

By: Laurinda D. Brown

brown presents an "in your face" novel exploring lesbianism and motherhood while opening dialogue on same-sex domestic violence, religious beliefs, bisexuality, negligent fathers, economics and intra-racial caste systems among African-Americans.

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187

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Creative Enterprises Incorporated

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0971001928

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9780971001923

Under Cover

By: Laurinda D. Brown

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Under Cover

By: Laurinda D. Brown

In UnderCover, Brown expands the story begun in Fire & Brimstone, introducing Nathaniel, the monogamous lover of Patrick, a high roller at the Memphis nightclub where Nathaniel transforms himself into a female diva before a standing-room-only crowd until Patrick breaks his heart. Devastated by his lover's rejection, Nathaniel leaves his flamboyant former life behind and reinvents himself yet again. This time it's Nathaniel, the committed family man -- a loving husband to his wife, devoted father to his three children, and brother-in-law to Chris. Patrick is a distant, still-seductive memory until financial woes force Nathaniel to return to his old fast-money way of life. This fateful decision culminates in exposure -- and Nathaniel's subsequent downward spiral. Domestic crises abound as Nathaniel struggles with painful issues surrounding his sexual identity, and he must face the ultimate truth about himself in a harrowing climax.

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0739451162

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Teaching Secondary Mathematics as if the Planet Matters

Teaching Secondary Mathematics as if the Planet Matters

Undercover

Undercover

Fire & Brimstone

Fire & Brimstone

The Highest Price for Passion

The Highest Price for Passion

Ethical Health Informatics

Ethical Health Informatics

Perilous Chastity

Perilous Chastity

Reversible Color Crochet

Reversible Color Crochet

Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information

Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Women & Diabetes

Women & Diabetes

Undercover

Undercover

Fire & Brimstone

Fire & Brimstone

Fire and Brimstone

Fire and Brimstone

Under Cover

Under Cover

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