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Looking at Jewelry A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

Gansicke Susanne, Markowitz Yvonne J.

ISBN: PB: 9781606065990, Getty Publications, June 2019
304 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, colour illus.

The fascination with personal adornment is universal. It is a preoccupation that is primal, instinctive, and uniquely human. 'Jewelry' encompasses a seemingly endless number of ornaments produced across time and in all cultures. The range of material...

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Language, Power, and Resistance Mainstreaming Deaf Education

Mathews Elizabeth S.

ISBN: HB: 9781944838041, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table

The current policy of educating d/Deaf and h/Hard of hearing (DHH) students in a mainstream setting, rather than in the segregated environments of deaf schools, has been portrayed as a positive step forward in creating greater equality for DHH studen...

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Lost Classroom, Lost Community Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America

Brinig Margaret F., Garnett Nicole Stelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226418438, ISBN: HB: 9780226122007, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 6 line drawings, 14 tables

In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools – public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations – have open...

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Living with Moral Disagreement The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action

Moses Michele S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226344386, ISBN: HB: 9780226344249, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policies – espec...

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Learning American Sign Language in High School Motivation, Strategies, and Achievement

Rosen Russell S.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686429, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 tables

Reflecting the exponential growth of college courses offering American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language, high schools have followed suit with significant increases in ASL classes during the past two decades. Despite this trend, high school A...

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Lives in Science How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

Hermanowicz Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005645, ISBN: HB: 9780226327617, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 tables, 1 line illus.

hat can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different st...

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Leaving College Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition

Tinto Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226007571, ISBN: HB: 9780226804491, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 3 line illus.

In this 1994 classic work on student retention, Vincent Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention, Tinto demonstrates, is in a strong commi...

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Listen. Write. Present. The Elements for Communicating Science and Technology

Roberson Barnard Stephanie, St. James Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300176278, Yale University Press, February 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained clearly, concisely, and convincingly to others. Scientists, engineers, health care professionals, and technology specialists become leaders in their fields not just by way of discovery,...

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Looking at Textiles A Guide to Technical Terms

Phipps Elena

ISBN: PB: 9781606060803, Getty Publications, December 2011
112 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 78 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This is a concise yet detailed guide to the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse – whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish ca...

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Learning in Depth A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling

Egan Kieran

ISBN: HB: 9780226190433, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
232 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm

For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge...

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