I recommend this book to teachers hoping to energize their literature
or writing classes by positioning all students as creative, ambitious
researchers capable of critiquing or even transforming worlds outside
the classroom. When I discovered it two months ago, it struck me as
just the resource I needed for revitalizing my college survey of
multicultural literature for freshman and sophomores, a course
which sometimes engaged and sometimes bored students. I have since
redesigned materials for the course, using Beach and Myers' idea that
to fully understand literature-or our own lives-we must think of individual people (whether characters in a story, authors of those stories, or
ourselves and others in the real world) as part of larger systems or
"social worlds," acting to protect and continue those systems or to
challenge and change them. The book clearly delineates the components
of social worlds and is full of sample activities and assignments; with
these, I have revised my own discussion questions,presentation assignments and writing prompts. I have also shown Chapter 8, "School and Sports Worlds," to several high school teachers who now plan to assign the ethnographic inquiry projects outlined there rather than assigning traditional research papers. This is a practical, accessible, entirely useable book.
Schaum's Outline of Signals and Systems by Hwei Hsu
Book Description
This powerful study guide gives you 571
problems in signals and systems, fully solved step-by-step! From
SchaumÕs, the original study guide, and studentsÕ favorite with over 30
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Erich Von Daniken, Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past
Souvenir Press Ltd 1969
ISBN 0285502565
PDF | 1.4 MB
119 pages
Professor Dr Willy Ley, the well-known scientific writer and friend of Wernher von Braun, told me in New York: 'The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 milliards. The assumption that our Milky Way contains at least 18 milliard planetary systems is considered admissible by present-day astronomers. If we now try to reduce the figures in question as much aspossible and assume that the distances between planetary systems are so regulated that only in one case in a hundred does a planet orbit in the ecosphere of its own sun, that still leaves 180 million planets capable of supporting life. If we further assume that only one planet in a hundred that might support life actually does so, we should still have the figure of 1-8 million planets with life. Let us further suppose that out of every hundred planets with life there is one on which creatures with the same level of intelligence as homo sapiens live. Then even this last supposition gives our 'Milky Way the vast number of 18,000 inhabited planets.'
Embedded Systems Dictionary
Though the use of embedded processors is now a practice more than three
decades old, there’s been no previous attempt to gather all its
vocabulary in one place and clarify the meanings and usage of
individual terms. This dictionary provides the precise definitions
needed to use embedded systems terminology properly. This authoritative
work defines the meaning and usage of 2,800 of the most-used terms in
embedded systems in a way that serves technical and non-technical
audiences alike. Key terms are defined in encyclopedic detail. In each
case, the primary definition is a concise statement of that term’s
meaning tailored to the needs of less technical readers.
Engineers, technical writers, and others will find ample expansion of each definition including:
* pronunciation
* abbreviations and acronyms
* alternative terms
* cross references
* examples
* diagrams, schematics, and figures
* equations
* code listings
* tips for further reading
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