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  Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy, 6-12

  Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Tanya N. Baker, and Julie Dube

  As students move on to more challenging texts in middle and high school, their reading skills don't grow automatically to meet those demands. They need help figuring out how to read, not just what to read. Strategic Reading provides the tools teachers need to help students of all abilities make this important transition to higher-level texts.

  Rather than "student-centered" or "teacher-centered," Wilhelm and his coauthors rely on a "learning-centered" approach to reading. They offer a thorough examination of the issues surrounding teaching and learning, and of the specific demands particular texts make on readers. Then they provide dozens of innovative strategies for teaching students to comprehend, engage, and make use of these kinds of texts. By placing the emphasis on learning how to learn, students become active participants in their own education and part of a classroom community of learners.

  For too many students, reading instruction falls by the wayside at the time when they need it most. As the focus on reading more sophisticated kinds of texts intensifies in our schools, students need more help than ever. Using Wilhelm and his coauthors' learning-centered approach, teachers can make reading processes visible and available to students. Armed with an understanding of reading strategies and the ability to apply them in any context, students become empowered readers not only in the English classroom, but in their lives as well.

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  Emerging Materials for Civil Infrastructure: State of the Art

  Roberto A. Lopez-Anido Editor, Tarun R. Naik Editor, Gary T. Fry Editor, David A. Lange Editor, and Vistasp M. Karbhari

  This special publication presents a review of the state of the art on emerging materials for use in civil engineering infrastructure. Emerging materials include novel and new materials, as well as traditional materials with profound potential in new applications. A material or class of materials is considered emerging if its use has not yet developed to a stage wherein well established guidelines, codes, and specifications exist for its use. This book is conveniently divided into chapters that address specific classes of materials highlighting the most recent developments in materials technologies relevant to civil infrastructure. The practicing engineer, student, or lay reader will find this to be an easy-to-use reference for a number of construction material systems that are increasingly being developed and considered for use in civil engineering. Topics covered include: smart materials for civil engineering applications; fiber reinforced composites in civil infrastructure; emerging geomaterials for ground improvement; aluminum materials and the infrastructure; polymer concrete made with recycled plastics; state of the practice in asphalt technology; emerging uses for masonry materials; and emerging uses for window glass.

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  Temporal, Spatial, and Spatio-temporal Data Mining, First International Workshop, TSDM 2000, Lyon, France, September 12, 2000: Revised Papers

  John F. Roddick Editor and Kathleen Hornsby Editor

  This volume contains updated versions of the ten papers presented at the First International Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (TSDM 2000) held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2000) in Lyons, France in September, 2000. The aim of the workshop was to bring together experts in the analysis of temporal and spatial data mining and knowledge discovery in temporal, spatial or spatio-temporal database systems as well as knowledge engineers and domain experts from allied disciplines. The workshop focused on research and practice of knowledge discovery from datasets containing explicit or implicit temporal, spatial or spatio-temporal information. The ten original papers in this volume represent those accepted by peer review following an international call for papers. All papers submitted were refereed by an international team of data mining researchers listed below. We would like to thank the team for their expert and useful help with this process. Following the workshop, authors were invited to amend their papers to enable the feedback received from the conference to be included in the final papers appearing in this volume. A workshop report was compiled by Kathleen Hornsby which also discusses the panel session that was held.

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  Fluxus : the History of an Attitude

  Owen F. Smith

  FLUXUS: THE HISTORY OF AN ATTITUDE by Owen F. Smith is A HOT mix of dada, fluxus, art theory and art history. Owen F. Smith's exhaustive archival research tracks the physical remains of this fascinating interdisciplinary and international arts movement that began in the 1960s.

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  Chinese Brushstrokes: Stories of China

  Sandra Lynn Hutchison

  In the autumn of 1998, nine months before the Tiananmen Uprising, Sandra Hutchison traveled to Anhui Province, China, to teach English literature. Her students shared with her their dreams, their hopes, and their lives, and she, in turn, embraced their culture as fully as any outsider could. Chinese Brushstrokes tells of Hutchison's pilgrimage to the top of a holy Buddhist mountain, a sojourn in a village deep in the Chinese countryside, encounters with local peasants and famous artists, and the rise of the Democracy Movement in Beijing, Shanghai and Heifei.

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  Ann Radcliffe: A Bio-Bibliography

  Deborah D. Rogers

  Arguably the most popular novelist of her day and the mother of the female Gothic literary tradition, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) has received varying amounts of critical attention and is now being recognized for her important contribution to English literature. This volume recounts what little is known about her life and provides an extensive bibliographic overview of works by and about her. Included are annotated entries for editions and translations, reviews, critical studies of Radcliffe, and adaptations of her works.

  Ann Radcliffe wrote some of the most electrifying and popular novels of her day. Not only is she one of the most important Mothers of the novel, she almost singlehandedly developed the Female Gothic to explore female experience. This form has achieved almost mythical status.

  This volume is an indispensible guide to the life and work of this pioneering woman novelist. A biography provides new information on Radcliffe from a source that has been virtually ignored, the one substantial extant manuscript, her forty-two leaf commonplace book, which is in deteriorating condition. The remainder of the book is an extensive annotated bibliography of works by Radcliffe and critical studies of her writing. Included are entries for early and modern editions, early reviews, and bibliographic studies. Two chapters are devoted to 20th-century critical studies of Radcliffe, in response to the growing amount of material being written about her. Appendices record her artistic legacy as presented in adaptations, imitations, parodies, and abridgments; and the volume includes a list of works falsely attributed to her.

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  Two Gothic Classics by Women

  Deborah D. Rogers

  In The Italian, the beautiful Ellena and her lover, Vivaldi, are tormented and chased by a mysterious cowled figure, while in Austen's Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland plots to expose her dashing host's mysterious past.

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  Rob Roy (Afterward)

  Deborah D. Rogers and Walter Scott

  From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognized as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realized characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorized, unprincipled predator to others. Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventures of his fictional hero, Frank Osbaldistone, amid the political turmoil of England and Scotland in 1715. With characteristic care Scott reconstructs the period and settings so as to place Rob Roy and the Scotland he inhabits amid conflicting moral, economic and historical forces. This edition features, besides a new critical introduction and extensive explanatory notes, an essay outlining clearly the novels historical context and a glossary of Scottish words and phrases used by Scott's colorful, vernacular characters.

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  Persisting Traditions: Artisan Work and Culture in Bangor, Maine, 1820-1860

  Carol N. Toner

  This book is about the work and culture of artisans in Bangor, Maine, during the decades of early industrialization. The central question posed here is how did these artisans, these highly skilled housewrights and shipwrights, tinsmiths and blacksmiths, carriage makers and cabinet makers, coopers and cordwainers, iron founders and other skilled workers, respond to the emerging industrial system?

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  Critical Response to Ann Radcliffe

  Deborah D. Rogers Editor

  Ann Radcliffe was one of the most influential women writers of the 18th century. Best known as the author of The Italian and The Mysteries of Udolpho, she contributed to the rise of the English novel and the development of the female gothic. This book brings together, for the first time, almost one hundred documents on her work, including contemporary reviews, letters, diary entries, the most important critical assessments, and several new pieces. The volume begins with an extensive introductory essay on Radcliffe's work and the critical reception of it. The chapters that follow consist of chronologically arranged critical analyses of particular works by Radcliffe. Several chapters then present general critical responses to her writings. The book concludes with a bibliography of selected additional readings.

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  Bookseller as Rogue: John Almon and the Politics of Eighteenth-Century Publishing

  Deborah D. Rogers

  Based on archival research, this fascinating new work represents the first full-length biography of John Almon, the most important political bookseller of the second half of the eighteenth century. Using Almon as a case study, Deborah Rogers examines the way in which political pressure on booksellers affected the literature of the period. Bookseller as Rogue chronicles Almon's relationships with such important politicians as Richard Grenville (Earl Temple), John Wilkes, John Calcraft, Edmund Burke, and Benjamin Franklin. Rogers also analyzes Almon's libel trials, his fight for freedom of the press, and his efforts on behalf of the American Revolution. A valuable appendix catalogues works issued under Almon's imprint.

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  Disorders of War: The Revolution in South Carolina

  Jerome J. Nadelhaft

  Perhaps historians neglected South Carolina because the more populous Massachusetts and Virginia seemed more active in precipitating the Revolution and because they produced men who became presidents and vice presidents. Perhaps they were wooed by the published collections of revolutionary era documents and the massive unpublished private papers. By comparison, few of South Carolina's records have been published and few private papers have survived. There is little personal material for Christopher Gadsden, less still for John Rutledge, and less still for Alexander Gillon. This book is an attempt to help redress the old imbalance, to describe the consequences of American Independence and the Revolutionary War in South Carolina.

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  Basic Processes in Adult Developmental Psychology

  Merrill F. Elias Editor, Penelope K. Elias, and Jeffrey W. Elias