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  • Proportion

    In Art and Architecture

    What is the difference between ratio and proportion? Do pentagons, hexagons and heptagons really each have their own characters? What is the most beautiful rectangle? Is there a secret to great art? In this beautiful little book, art educator Michael Schneider presents a groundbreaking synthesis of proportion in the ancient world. From temples to dinner plates, paintings to pots, archways to ... Read more

    $6.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?

    This book answers a number of important questions about the distribution of wealth among people and the way that this distribution has changed over time. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the personal distribution of wealth from many dimensions: economic, statistical, ethical, political, sociological and legal.Using data from 21 countries, this book demonstrates how inequality in the ... Read more

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  • A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

    The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

    "A complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators." —John Michell, from the PrefaceYou need not be a philosopher or a botanist, and certainly not a mathematician, to enjoy the bounty of the world around us. But is there some sort of order, a pattern, to the things that we see in the sky, on the ground, at the beach? ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

    Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

    Narrated by Al Kessel ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Evaluating School Superintendents

    A Guide to Employing Fair and Effective Processes and Practices

    This book provides guidelines to Boards of Education and the members of communities to conduct a high-quality, research-based evaluation of their school superintendent. It also includes examples of contemporary practices of evaluating superintendents practiced across the United States. In exploring the important issue of evaluation for the superintendent the complexities and aspects of the process ... Read more

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  • Putting Balloons on a Wall Is Not a Book

    Inspirational Advice (and Non-Advice) for Life from @blcksmth

    From viral balloon-word artist and Instagram sensation Michael James Schneider (@blcksmth) comes a one-of-a-kind debut gift book with never-before-seen original artwork!Featuring many of @blcksmth’s most iconic balloon, flower, and light installations—plus exclusive new content—this book has a little something for everyone. Filled with funny, inspiring, and heartwarming messages on topics like ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Environmental Health and the U.S. Federal System

    Sustainably Managing Health Hazards

    Series series Routledge Studies in Environment and Health
    This book explains how the U.S. federal system manages environmental health issues, with a unique focus on risk management and human health outcomes.Building on a generic approach for understanding human health risk, this book shows how federalism has evolved in response to environmental health problems, political and ideological variations in Washington D.C, as well as in-state and local ... Read more

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  • Toward a Healthier Garden State

    Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID

    While New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry.This book ... Read more

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  • Congressional Deskbook

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    The Congressional Deskbook is the definitive, practical guide to understanding how Congress truly operates-its people, pressures, procedures, and power structures. It offers a clear, accessible explanation of the daily realities of congressional life including the responsibilities of Members and staff.Readers gain a comprehensive understanding of congressional organization, leadership roles, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rebecca & the Renegade

    Can a young woman who's seen her family slain by renegade Indians come to love one of them?It's 1781. While the Revolutionary War winds down east of the Allegheny Mountains, in western Pennsylvania, a tribe of Delaware Indians take to the warpath. A 19-year-old girl, Rebecca Walker, witnesses the killing of her parents and brother by a raiding party and is captured herself. After unsuccessful ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies

    Creativity and CALL Teacher Education

    Series series Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
    This book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the language classroom.The volume builds on existing literature on project-based language learning by extending the focus on the affordances of machinima, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Language Development and Social Integration of Students with English as an Additional Language

    Series series Cambridge Education Research
    Given the current context of the experience of migration on schools in England and Europe, and the competing policies and approaches to social integration in schools, there is a need to understand the connection between language development and social integration as a basis for promoting appropriate policies and practices. This volume explores the complex relationship between language, education ... Read more

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