Book Description
Examines and provides comments on language trends while tracing the origins of timely words and phrases that discuss such topics as technology, entertainment, and everyday life.
Author : William Safire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780743258128
Examines and provides comments on language trends while tracing the origins of timely words and phrases that discuss such topics as technology, entertainment, and everyday life.
Author : Faye Ginsburg
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1992-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807046135
"Engaged and insightful, this collection explores the dynamics of gender, class, and race in today's United States. Sophisticated theory, passionate concern, and vivid examples make this a landmark work of social criticism." --Renato Rosaldo
Author : Mark Dittrick
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Harvey F. Silver
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452279837
Teach to the Common Core, differentiate instruction, and keep students engaged—all at the same time! With new Common Core–aligned tools and strategies, this second edition of a bestseller is an all-in-one math classroom management resource. Covering everything from lesson design to math-specific learning styles, the book's 60+ tools will enable you to: Work in smarter, more efficient ways with all of your students, no matter the class size or make up Create standards-based lesson plans, tests, and formative assessments Reach every learner regardless of understanding level or learning style Integrate technology into class time for more engaging math lessons
Author : Ding Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811312532
This book reports on the latest advances in adaptive critic control with robust stabilization for uncertain nonlinear systems. Covering the core theory, novel methods, and a number of typical industrial applications related to the robust adaptive critic control field, it develops a comprehensive framework of robust adaptive strategies, including theoretical analysis, algorithm design, simulation verification, and experimental results. As such, it is of interest to university researchers, graduate students, and engineers in the fields of automation, computer science, and electrical engineering wishing to learn about the fundamental principles, methods, algorithms, and applications in the field of robust adaptive critic control. In addition, it promotes the development of robust adaptive critic control approaches, and the construction of higher-level intelligent systems.
Author : L. S. Gardiner
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1609385535
So far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this most urgent emergency. Weaving scientific facts and research together with humor and emotion, Gardiner explores human responses to erosion, earthquakes, fires, invasive species, marine degradation, volcanic eruptions, and floods in order to illuminate why we find it so challenging to deal with climate change. Insight emerges from unexpected places—a mermaid exhibit, a Magic 8 Ball, and midcentury cartoons about a future that never came to be. Instead of focusing on the economics and geopolitics of the debate over climate change, this book brings large-scale disaster to a human scale, emphasizing the role of the individual. We humans do have the capacity to deal with disasters. When we face threatening changes, we don’t just stand there pretending it isn’t so, we do something. But because we’re human, our responses aren’t always the right ones the first time—yet we can learn to do better. This book is essential reading for all who want to know how we can draw on our strengths to survive the climate catastrophe and forge a new relationship with nature.
Author : Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262539888
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.
Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN :
Author : James Stanyer
Publisher : Polity
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745627986
The author provides an accessible and comprehensive account of the fast-paced transformation of political communication systems of the United States and the United Kingdom and the consequences of this for democratic practice.
Author : John Bouvier
Publisher :
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Law
ISBN :