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A Power Stronger Than Itself

The AACM and American Experimental Music

By: George E. Lewis

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A Power Stronger Than Itself

The AACM and American Experimental Music

By: George E. Lewis

Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall’s kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, A Power Stronger Than Itself uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226477037

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9780226477039

Loving Math

Advanced Problems with Solutions, Applications and Comments

By: Lewis Forsheit

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Loving Math

Advanced Problems with Solutions, Applications and Comments

By: Lewis Forsheit

This book was written for high school students and teachers who love exploring beyond standard math curricula for a deeper understanding of the principles and applications of mathematics. It is also for anyone who loves the pursuit of a problem solution, including both professional and amateur mathematicians. The vehicle that transports us through this exploration is the study and solution of classical and advanced math problems. As a high school math student, an engineer, a businessman and, ultimately, a high school math teacher, I collected and created math problems and solutions that can be used for advanced study. Some of the problems may be very familiar to you; some may not. A few may be quite easy to do; others will take more time. Included are classical proofs and their extensions that are often omitted in today's curricula. Beyond the pure enjoyment of this exploration, we also attempt to find a "deeper understanding" of the math. We address four larger aspects of "understanding," namely: convention, evidence, perspective and connection. A portion of these aspects is addressed in the solutions, themselves. The rest is in comments, which come after the solutions. The comments range widely, including: additional points regarding the math itself, historical factoids, linguistics, suggestions for teachers, some personal experiences regarding the material, etc. Readers who only skim the problems and solutions might still find the applications and comments quite interesting. It is hoped that this book will assist teachers and students alike in exploring the subject of mathematics in a new way, whether using material that is thousands of years old, or recently developed. Each problem can be used as a single assignment, done in a few minutes, or a term project that could require intuition, technique, research and/or fortitude (to plow through it). The material can be adapted for use in the standard classroom, subject to students' ability and the constrictions of uniform curricula. It is, perhaps, more applicable to classrooms with the freedom to experiment with project learning and with longer assignment periods. School math clubs or math teams might find this text a handy reference to hone skills, learn new techniques and satisfy the quest for more exciting material beyond the routine. Although the primary focus here is the application of math principles to math problems, these studies are extended to interdisciplinary examples in the sciences, engineering, finance, social studies, etc. The subject material itself is organized into groups. There are twenty-two geometry/trigonometry problems, many of which are "classic proofs." Though some have been forgotten or ignored at large, they are offered here with some new ideas and approaches. There are ten algebra problems, all of which are extensions of a standard curriculum, and offer fresh insights when studied as a group. Statistics, the newest subject to be added to the high school curriculum, has three problems. And calculus, which is not always studied in high schools, has five problems.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412224276

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9781412224277

Lorenzo Dow Turner

Father of Gullah Studies

By: Margaret Wade-Lewis

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Lorenzo Dow Turner

Father of Gullah Studies

By: Margaret Wade-Lewis

The first biography of the acclaimed African American linguist and author of Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story—until now—has remained an enigma, Turner (1890-1972) emerges from behind the shadow of his germinal 1949 study Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect as a man devoted to family, social responsibility, and intellectual contribution. Beginning with Turner's upbringing in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Wade-Lewis describes the high expectations set by his family and his distinguished career as a professor of English, linguistics, and African studies. The story of Turner's studies in the Gullah islands, his research in Brazil, his fieldwork in Nigeria, and his teaching and research on Sierra Leone Krio for the Peace Corps add to his stature as a cultural pioneer and icon. Drawing on Turner's archived private and published papers and on extensive interviews with his widow and others, Wade-Lewis examines the scholar's struggle to secure funding for his research, his relations with Hans Kurath and the Linguistic Atlas Project, his capacity for establishing relationships with Gullah speakers, and his success in making Sea Island Creole a legitimate province of analysis. Here Wade-Lewis answers the question of how a soft-spoken professor could so profoundly influence the development of linguistics in the United States and the work of scholars—especially in Gullah and creole studies—who would follow him. Turner's widow, Lois Turner Williams, provides an introductory note and linguist Irma Aloyce Cunningham provides the foreword.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643363379

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9781643363370

Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

By: Lewis Regenstein

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Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

By: Lewis Regenstein

Lauded as "the environmental book of the decade" by the Detroit News, America the Poisoned, now expanded, updated and retitled Cleaning Up America the Poisoned, reveals that toxic chemical contamination potentially threatens the entire U.S. population. Lewis Regenstein, two of whose books were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes, shows in his latest work that deadly cancer-causing chemicals are found regularly in our food, air, water, and our own bodies in various forms; that dangerous radiation threatens our lives not just from accidents such as Three Mile Island, but from power lines, computers, and other electronic devices and that such contamination is contributing to our current cancer epidemic -- killing 520,000 of us annually. Cleaning Up America the Poisoned offers practical solutions to such problems, showing how to protect ourselves from these dangers.

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Acropolis Books (NY)

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0874919991

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9780874919998

Eugene Field and His Age

By: Lewis O. Saum

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Eugene Field and His Age

By: Lewis O. Saum

Eugene Field (1850?95) is perhaps best remembered for his children's verse, especially "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." During his journalistic career, however, his column, "Sharps and Flats," in the Chicago Daily News illuminated the shenanigans of local and national politics, captured the excitement of baseball, and praised the cultural scene of Chicago and the West over that of the East Coast and Europe. Field used whimsy, satire, and, at times, unadorned admiration to depict and encapsulate the energy of a young nation reinventing itself and its political ambitions in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Foremost, Field was a political observer. During his lifetime politics saw more public awareness and involvement than at any other time in American history, and Field's great popularity derived mainly from his near-ceaseless commentary?arch, outlandish, comic, serious?on that arena of affairs. Field also devoted many columns to entertainment and diversions, discussing the baseball "idiocy" that stormed Chicago and championing and criticizing authors and actors.

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478

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803242875

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9780803242876

City Doodles Chicago

By: Anna Lewis

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City Doodles Chicago

By: Anna Lewis

Take a journey through Chicago with stops at Wrigley Field, the Adler Planetarium, and the Field Museum. See the city from an incredible vantage point on a skyscraper in the Loop, wander through the shops in the Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue, and don't forget to pick up a loaded hot dog while you're out. Anna Lewis is an author and award-winning toy inventor. Through her company, Ideasplash, she gets kids thinking creatively. Anna makes Chicago her home. Daniel Chaffin has been a chronic doodler since childhood. Today, you might find Daniel in North Carolina with his wife and son, drawing all over their stuff.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423634799

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9781423634799

Rumi - Past and Present, East and West

The Life, Teachings, and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi

By: Franklin D. Lewis

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Rumi - Past and Present, East and West

The Life, Teachings, and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi

By: Franklin D. Lewis

The definitive study of the world's bestselling poet Drawing on a vast array of sources, from writings of the poet himself to the latest scholarly literature, this new anniversary edition of the award-winning work examines the background, the legacy, and the continuing significance of Jalâl al-Din Rumi, today’s bestselling poet in the United States. With new translations of over fifty of Rumi’s poems and including never before seen prose, this landmark study celebrates the astounding appeal of Rumi, still as strong as ever, 800 years after his birth.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780747373

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9781780747378

Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

By: Lewis Regenstein

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Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

By: Lewis Regenstein

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A Power Stronger Than Itself

A Power Stronger Than Itself

Loving Math

Loving Math

Lorenzo Dow Turner

Lorenzo Dow Turner

Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

Eugene Field and His Age

Eugene Field and His Age

City Doodles Chicago

City Doodles Chicago

Rumi - Past and Present, East and West

Rumi - Past and Present, East and West

Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

Cleaning Up America the Poisoned

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