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San Antonians love Cary Clack for the sparkle of wit and wisdom he brings to them in his column in the <I>San Antonio Express-News.</I> But his style and sensibility make his work equally popular far beyond that city. He offers pithy, probing coverage of national issues such as terrorism, racism, and child abuse, but his keen sense of humor often turns to the stuff of everyday life such as the inexplicable power of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and his terror of clowns. The columns collected here sample the best of 13 years' worth of Clack's amusing and thoughtful commentaries, and begin with an enlightening foreword by noted poet Naomi Shihab Nye.
Transforming San Antonio
San Antonio boasts one of the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck. In this lively behind-the-scenes account, former mayor Nelson Wolff focuses on four major developments — the San Antonio Spurs’ AT&T Arena, Toyota, the PGA Village, and the River Walk expansion — that transformed the city. This intriguing, highly readable journey through the contemporary life of one American city offers hope to all cities striving to recreate themselves.
In the Country of Empty Crosses
Arturo Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute, a place in which Madrid's ancestors predate those who landed at Plymouth Rock.<BR><BR><i><b>In the Country of Empty Crosses</i></b> is Madrid’s complex yet affirming memoir about lands before the advent of passable roads–places such as Tierra Amarilla, San Augustín [insert "u" and note accent on I], and Los Fuertes that were once among the most remote in the nation. Madrid grew up in a family that was doubly removed from the community: as Hispanic Protestants, they were a minority among the region's politically dominant Anglo Protestants and a minority within the overwhelmingly Catholic Hispanic populace.<BR><BR>Madrid writes affectingly of the tensions, rifts, and disputes that punctuated the lives of his family as they negotiated prejudice and racism, casual and institutional, to advance and even thrive as farmers, ranchers, and teachers. His story is affectionate as well, embracing generations of ancestors who found their querencias—their beloved home places—in that beautiful if sometimes unforgiving landscape. The result is an account of New Mexico unlike any other, one in which humor and heartache comfortably coexist. Complemented by stunning images by acclaimed photographer Miguel Gandert – ranging from intimate pictures of unkempt rural cemeteries to New Mexico's small villages and stunning vistas – <b><i>In the Country of Empty Crosses</b></i> is a memoir of loss and survival, of hope and redemption, and a lyrical celebration of an often misunderstood native land and its people.
Reagan's Comeback
Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment. <I><b>Reagan's Comeback</b></I> is the story of how one state, one man, and one month changed national politics forever. Chronicling how Reagan’s political career nearly ended, this turnabout story is told by those who made it happen: campaign volunteers, financiers, political activists, and media observers. Positioning Reagan to win in 1980, the birth of the “Reagan Democrat” transformed Texas from Democratic stronghold to the reliably Republican powerhouse it is today, since producing five Republican presidential candidates and two Republican presidents, with more to follow. Reagan’s rise and victory against Ford in 1976 mirrors the current climate between the Tea Party movement and the GOP. With the 2012 election in sight, there is no better time to finally tell the whole story of how the Reagan Revolution found its launching point.
The Way of Natural History
In this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of our lives. Throughout this provocative and uplifting book, writers describe their various experiences in nature and portray how careful, and mindful, attention to the larger world around us brings rewarding and surprising discoveries. They give us the literary, personal, and spiritual stories that point a way toward calm and quiet for which many people today hunger. Contributors to <I><b>The Way of Natural History</b></I> highlight their individual ways of paying attention to nature and discuss how their experiences have enlivened and enhanced their worlds. The anthology is a rich array of writings that provide models for interacting with the natural world, and together, create a call for the importance of natural history as a discipline. Contributors include Robert Aitken, John Anderson, Paul Dayton, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Cristina Eisenberg, Dave Foreman, Wren Farris, Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Charles Goodrich, R. Edward Grumbine, Jane Hirshfield, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ken Lamberton, Robert Macfarlane, Kathleen Dean Moore, Robert Michael Pyle, Sarah Juniper Rabkin, Scott Russell Sanders, Laura Sewall, John Tallmadge, Richard Thompson, and Stephen C. Trombula.
In a Special Light
Elroy Bode’s books on nature and life have made him a favorite of readers and critics. Here he explores his home city of El Paso, the land and people of Central Texas, and his roles as teacher, father, and writer. These sharply observed, beautifully written pieces find the universal in the particular — a young boy in a barbershop, plaza life, a young couple in Smokey’s Barbecue. <i><b>In a Special Light</b></i> discovers pleasure in the lives of ordinary people, and joy in the worlds in which they live.
Home Ground
Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of <I>Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape</I> met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, <I>Home Ground</I> revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is available to an entire new segment of readers. <I>Home Ground</I> brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. <I>Home Ground</I> includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly O’Halloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.
Engaging Young Students in Mathematics through Competitions — World Perspectives and Practices
The two volumes of 'Engaging Young Students in Mathematics through Competitions' present a wide scope of aspects relating to mathematics competitions and their meaning in the world of mathematical research, teaching and entertainment. Volume II contains background information on connections between the mathematics of competitions and the organization of such competitions, their interplay with research, teaching and more. It will be of interest to anyone involved with mathematics competitions at any level, be they researchers, competition participants, teachers or theoretical educators. The various chapters were written by the participants of the 8th Congress of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions in Austria in 2018. Contents: Mathematics Competitions and Research: From the Lifting-the-Exponent-Lemma to Elliptic Curves with Isomorphic Groups of Points: How Olympiad Mathematics Influences Mathematical Research (Clemens Heuberger) Examples of Mathematics and Competitions Influencing Each Other (Peter Taylor and Kevin McAvaney) University Mathematics in the Polish Mathematical Olympiad (Krzysztof Ciesielski) Building Bridges Between Olympiads and Mathematics: Three Long-Distance Trains of Thought (Alexander Soifer) Mathematics Competitions and Teaching: Beyond the Rainbow — Thoughts on the Potential of Mathematics Competition Problems in the Classroom (Robert Geretschläger) How to Create and Solve: Analysis of Items from the Mathematical Kangaroo from Two Perspectives (Lukas Andritsch, Evita Hauke and Jakob Kelz) The Special Role of Mathematics Competitions in Certain Countries: The Impact of Mathematical Olympiads on the Mathematics Community of Colombia (María Falk de Losada) The Impact of Mathematical Olympiads on the Mathematics Community of Venezuela (Rafael Sánchez Lamoneda) Mathematical Olympiads in Cabo Verde: Genesis, History and Comments (Natália Furtado) Special Mathematics Competitions: Some Selected Problems from the Mediterranean Mathematics Competition after its First 20 Years (Francisco Bellot-Rosado) Náboj: A Somehow Different Competition (Erich Fuchs, Bettina Kreuzer, Alexander Slávik and Martina Vaváčková) The CompMath Competition: Solving Math Problems with Computer Algebra Systems (Stoyan Kapralov, Penka Ivanova and Stefka Bouyuklieva) Evolving Ideas in Problem Series of the Chernorizec Hrabar Math Tournament (Borislav Yordanov Lazarov) The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival: A Complement and Alternative to Competitions (Mark Saul) The Flavor of the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: A Concerto in Four Movements (Alexander Soifer) Computational Thinking Hackathon (Yahya Tabesh and Shaya Zarkesh) Readership: Students, teachers, researchers, and general public interested in mathematics competition problems.Mathematics Competitions;Mathematics Education;Mathematical Puzzles00
Housing Shock
The deepening housing crisis in Ireland is having profound social, political and economic impacts on equality, wellbeing and health. Hearn contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context by examining the origins of the contemporary crisis in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Exposing the catastrophic depth of situation, he brings to the fore the personal voices, stories and perspectives of those most affected and the activists who are campaigning on the issue. This book provides innovative global solutions for the crisis in housing and the development of housing initiatives that properly address inequality, climate change and citizenship exclusion.
Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture
This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars analyze complex questions about how the body is lived and imagined as a locus of meaning-making in contemporary Japan. Exploring such topics as mind-body dualism, aging and illness, spirit possession, beauty, performance, and gender, this collection addresses the wide array of socio-cultural and literary contexts in which the body is interpreted in Japanese culture and thought.