Imagine getting an invitation to the very first party ever held on the moon. In addition to the surprise and excitement, the invitation is delivered by a zillion fireflies. A trip to the moon would take Peaches and frog on an adventure in space, to a place of beauty and wonder. How were they going to get there? That was their first problem. What would you bring along, and who would you take if you were going to the moon? These were questions that created other problems Peaches had to solve before he could leave. Everyone is invited to come along for the space adventure. A window seat in Peaches spaceship is reserved for the young reader who will probably never look at the moon in the same light again. Fasten your seatbelts. Get ready for takeoff.
This is a story of an Asian boy growing up in Silicon Valley, California. It is a wonderful coming-of-age true story that shares a powerful theme of overcoming differences, and rising above personal challenges. This inspiring story includes parental wisdom, direction and love. The chapters convey various situations that many children face today. The reader will get a glimpse of Chinese culture. It is a real page turner recommended for children and adults.
Who ever had Thanksgiving in the month of September? The answer is the American pilgrims. It is said they got the idea for the harvest celebration from the Bible story that described an ancient Jewish harvest festival called Sukkot. This story is woven against the setting of Sukkot. Complications arise when Allan (age ten) and his sister, Molly (almost thirteen), resist celebrating this tradition because their grandparents have moved to a retirement village in Arizona. The family decides to bring the holiday all the way across California. That means they have to load unusual things on top of their van. They are a strange sight as they drive across the majestic San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge. Allans challenge expands when he is given a Sunday school assignment to perform four random acts of loving kindness in four days. He has trouble understanding that mitzvah is a Jewish word that refers to doing an unexpected good deed that can help enrich the lives of people. In the long, tiring car trip, the family encounters a homeless stranger, a family who is forced to live in their car, a senior citizen whose car crashed into a storefront, and a man in Room 10B who is grouchy and does not come out of his room even for meals. A Latino girl and a Jewish girl find out how much they share in common in spite of their differences. The childrens intergenerational and multicultural experiences set the stage for a series of mitzvahs that have far-reaching consequences.
This is a story of an Asian boy growing up in Silicon Valley, California. It is a wonderful coming-of-age true story that shares a powerful theme of overcoming differences, and rising above personal challenges. This inspiring story includes parental wisdom, direction and love. The chapters convey various situations that many children face today. The reader will get a glimpse of Chinese culture. It is a real page turner recommended for children and adults.
Who ever had Thanksgiving in the month of September? The answer is the American pilgrims. It is said they got the idea for the harvest celebration from the Bible story that described an ancient Jewish harvest festival called Sukkot. This story is woven against the setting of Sukkot. Complications arise when Allan (age ten) and his sister, Molly (almost thirteen), resist celebrating this tradition because their grandparents have moved to a retirement village in Arizona. The family decides to bring the holiday all the way across California. That means they have to load unusual things on top of their van. They are a strange sight as they drive across the majestic San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge. Allans challenge expands when he is given a Sunday school assignment to perform four random acts of loving kindness in four days. He has trouble understanding that mitzvah is a Jewish word that refers to doing an unexpected good deed that can help enrich the lives of people. In the long, tiring car trip, the family encounters a homeless stranger, a family who is forced to live in their car, a senior citizen whose car crashed into a storefront, and a man in Room 10B who is grouchy and does not come out of his room even for meals. A Latino girl and a Jewish girl find out how much they share in common in spite of their differences. The childrens intergenerational and multicultural experiences set the stage for a series of mitzvahs that have far-reaching consequences.
Imagine getting an invitation to the very first party ever held on the moon. In addition to the surprise and excitement, the invitation is delivered by a zillion fireflies. A trip to the moon would take Peaches and frog on an adventure in space, to a place of beauty and wonder. How were they going to get there? That was their first problem. What would you bring along, and who would you take if you were going to the moon? These were questions that created other problems Peaches had to solve before he could leave. Everyone is invited to come along for the space adventure. A window seat in Peaches spaceship is reserved for the young reader who will probably never look at the moon in the same light again. Fasten your seatbelts. Get ready for takeoff.
Computers have changed the ways that mathematics are taught and learned. Is your institution taking advantage of what today's technology offers? With contributions from researchers and practitioners alike, Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education explores the impact of the computer on the curriculum, the teaching and learning of mathematics, and the professional development of teachers, both pre-service and in-service. As editor James Tooke states: “The connection between mathematics and the computer is obvious. Elementary notions of mathematics gave rise to the computer; advanced notions gave it a more powerful state. As the computer advanced, it expanded mathematics, allowing the creation of further branches of the field; for instance, fractal geometry had no reality until the advent of high-speed computers.” In its look at the relationship between mathematics, the computer, and mathematics education, Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education: addresses the computer as a vehicle for teaching calculus at Texas A&M includes reports from several programs that have utilized the computer when teaching mathematics at lower levels of content than calculus such as intermediate algebra and geometry examines the computer's role in student learning probability discusses the use of computers in the professional development of teachers explores ways to use computers to reduce mathematics anxiety Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education examines the history and impact of computers in mathematics and mathematics education--from the early, crude computer-assisted instruction efforts through LOGO software for elementary schools, through MAPLE for the university, to the Web-based calculus courses now being offered by outstanding universities. Use it to facilitate learning and teacher growth in your institution!
An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson. Richard Avedon was arguably the world’s most famous photographer—as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and then Vogue), groundbreaking books, and unforgettable portraits of everyone who was anyone. He also went on the road to find and photograph remarkable uncelebrated faces, with an eye toward constructing a grand composite picture of America. Avedon dazzled even his most dazzling subjects. He possessed a mystique so unique it was itself a kind of genius—everyone fell under his spell. But the Richard Avedon the world saw was perhaps his greatest creation: he relentlessly curated his reputation and controlled his image, managing to remain, for all his exposure, among the most private of celebrities. No one knew him better than did Norma Stevens, who for thirty years was his business partner and closest confidant. In Avedon: Something Personal—equal parts memoir, biography, and oral history, including an intimate portrait of the legendary Avedon studio—Stevens and co-author Steven M. L. Aronson masterfully trace Avedon’s life from his birth to his death, in 2004, at the age of eighty-one, while at work in Texas for The New Yorker (whose first-ever staff photographer he had become in 1992). The book contains startlingly candid reminiscences by Mike Nichols, Calvin Klein, Claude Picasso, Renata Adler, Brooke Shields, David Remnick, Naomi Campbell, Twyla Tharp, Jerry Hall, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bruce Weber, Cindy Crawford, Donatella Versace, Jann Wenner, and Isabella Rossellini, among dozens of others. Avedon: Something Personal is the confiding, compelling full story of a man who for half a century was an enormous influence on both high and popular culture, on both fashion and art—to this day he remains the only artist to have had not one but two retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his lifetime. Not unlike Richard Avedon’s own defining portraits, the book delivers the person beneath the surface, with all his contradictions and complexities, and in all his touching humanity.
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