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Book Corn Up Close   El maiz

Download or read book Corn Up Close El maiz written by Katie Franks and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall stalks of corn are a sure sign of summertime, as well as an important food source. This book shows readers the parts that make up the corn plant, as well as the many products into which corn is made.

Book Our Sacred Ma  z Is Our Mother

Download or read book Our Sacred Ma z Is Our Mother written by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving archival records, ancient maps and narratives, and the wisdom of the elders, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez offers compelling evidence that maíz is the historical connector between Indigenous peoples of this continent. Rodriguez brings together the wisdom of scholars and elders to show how maíz/corn connects the peoples of the Americas.

Book Bees Up Close   Las abejas

Download or read book Bees Up Close Las abejas written by Katie Franks and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines bees and their anatomy, behavior, and reproduction.

Book Owls Up Close   Los buhos

Download or read book Owls Up Close Los buhos written by Katie Franks and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines owls and their anatomy, behavior, and reproduction.

Book Sunflowers Up Close   Los girasoles

Download or read book Sunflowers Up Close Los girasoles written by Katie Franks and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the sunflower plant and its anatomy, reproduction, and uses.

Book Turtles Up Close   Las tortugas

Download or read book Turtles Up Close Las tortugas written by Katie Franks and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the anatomy, habitat, and behavior of turtles.

Book Language Use in the Two way Classroom

Download or read book Language Use in the Two way Classroom written by Renée DePalma and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2010 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language (Spanish-English) kindergarten, this book takes a critical look at children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) interactions and the ways that teaching design can help or hinder language development. With a focus on official `Spanish time', it explores the particular challenges of supporting the minority language use as well as the teacher's strategies for doing so. In bilingual classrooms, teachers' goals include bilingualism as well as academic achievement for all. The children may share these interests, but have their own agendas as well. This book explores the linguistic and social interactions that may help, or hinder, these multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. How can teachers design educational practice that takes into consideration broader forces of language hegemony as well as children's immediate interests? "The numerous rich examples of the effectiveness of different strategies and practices within a variety of instructional contexts make this book essential reading for educators, parents, students and researchers interested in second language education. DePalma's findings will have important implications for program design, interventions, curriculum and instructional practices in second language learning programs." Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, San Jose State University, USA

Book The Golden Bough  pt  1 2  Spirits of the corn and of the wild  1912

Download or read book The Golden Bough pt 1 2 Spirits of the corn and of the wild 1912 written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Translation Nation

Download or read book Translation Nation written by Héctor Tobar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the smash hit Deep Down Dark, a definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States—a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and unexpected ways. Tobar begins on familiar terrain, in his native Los Angeles, with his family's story, along with that of two brothers of Mexican origin with very different interpretations of Americanismo, or American identity as seen through a Latin American lens—one headed for U.S. citizenship and the other for the wrong side of the law and the south side of the border. But this is just a jumping-off point. Soon we are in Dalton, Georgia, the most Spanish-speaking town in the Deep South, and in Rupert, Idaho, where the most popular radio DJ is known as "El Chupacabras." By the end of the book, we have traveled from the geographical extremes into the heartland, exploring the familiar complexities of Cuban Miami and the brand-new ones of a busy Omaha INS station. Sophisticated, provocative, and deeply human, Translation Nation uncovers the ways that Hispanic Americans are forging new identities, redefining the experience of the American immigrant, and reinventing the American community. It is a book that rises, brilliantly, to meet one of the most profound shifts in American identity.

Book Quechua de Huar  s  en Espa  ol e Ingl  s  Glosario

Download or read book Quechua de Huar s en Espa ol e Ingl s Glosario written by Menandra Mosquera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This glossary has been prepared in order to leave a record of the Quechua spoken by the people of Huarás and surrounding areas in the mid-20th century. Huarás, capital of the Region (Department) of Ancash, Peru, has a distinct form of Quechua. That dialect was endangered due to a massive earthquake on May 31, 1970. Tens of thousands of people died, and the city was destroyed. Many of the survivors left the area. Once rebuilt, Huarás was repopulated with people new to the area who use Spanish or a different dialect to communicate. Since then, technological influences such as the Internet also reinforce the use of Spanish, to the detriment of the local Quechua. Born in Huarás, I was raised in a bilingual environment, Spanish and Quechua. Although I left the area to attend the university, I could always feel at home upon returning, until that earthquake. Since then it seems strange to return to an unfamiliar city, due to people, language and environment. I hope this glossary will help the newer generations better understand, not only their grandparents and ancestors, but the culture from which they come. Language and culture are intimately tied, and much more than words is lost when a language dies. The Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyo) was invaded by Spain in 1532. At that time Quechua was spoken, never written, throughout the Inca civilization, with many dialects. Since then, the Spanish language has been imposed, but in Huarás never did it replace Quechua to the extent that it did in 1970. This glossary contains words, several verb forms, and phrases. It is written with the expectation that it may help to preserve the inherited Quechua, so that Huarás may remain bilingual. It is written for huarasinos, the people of Huarás. If others find it useful, better yet. The glossary is in Quechua. To facilitate access to the Quechua, indices in Spanish and in English are included. M. Mosquera

Book Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica

Download or read book Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica written by Merideth Paxton and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area. These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur with architecture, in manuscripts, on large pieces of cloth, and on ceramics.

Book Our Sacred Ma  z Is Our Mother

Download or read book Our Sacred Ma z Is Our Mother written by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States. Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture. Rodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of maíz/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. The author argues that, given the restrictive immigration policies and popular resentment toward migrants, a continued connection to maíz culture challenges the social exclusion and discrimination that frames migrants as outsiders and gives them a sense of belonging not encapsulated in the idea of citizenship. The “hidden transcripts” of corn in everyday culture—art, song, stories, dance, and cuisine (maíz-based foods like the tortilla)—have nurtured, even across centuries of colonialism, the living maíz culture of ancient knowledge.

Book Maiz

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elisa Ramírez Castañeda
  • Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 854 pages

Download or read book Maiz written by Elisa Ramírez Castañeda and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 2001 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art as Social Practice

    Book Details:
  • Author : xtine burrough
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2022-03-07
  • ISBN : 1000546144
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Art as Social Practice written by xtine burrough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and digital practices. Suzanne Lacy’s Foreword and section introduction authors Anne Balsamo, Harrell Fletcher, Natalie Loveless, Karen Moss, and Stephanie Rothenberg present twenty-five in-depth case studies by established and emerging contemporary artists including Kim Abeles, Christopher Blay, Joseph DeLappe, Mary Beth Heffernan, Chris Johnson, Rebekah Modrak, Praba Pilar, Tabita Rezaire, Sylvain Souklaye, and collaborators Victoria Vesna and Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Artists offer firsthand insight into how they activate methods used in socially engaged art projects from the twentieth century and incorporated new technologies to create twenty-first century, socially engaged, digital art practices. Works highlighted in this book span collaborative image-making, immersive experiences, telematic art, time machines, artificial intelligence, and physical computing. These reflective case studies reveal how the artists collaborate with participants and communities, and have found ways to expand, transform, reimagine, and create new platforms for meaningful exchange in both physical and virtual spaces. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of art, technology, and new media, as well as artists interested in exploring these intersections.

Book Corn

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. Wayne Smith
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2004-03-08
  • ISBN : 9780471411840
  • Pages : 984 pages

Download or read book Corn written by C. Wayne Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-03-08 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your all-in-one guide to corn. This book provides practical advice on planting techniques and rates, seed production, treating plant diseases, insect infestation and weeds, harvesting, processing, and worldwide utilization. This is the fourth, and final, volume in the series of comprehensive references on the major crops of the world. Covers new biotechnology techniques for plant breeding and pest management Provides practical advice on planting techniques and rates, seed production, treating plant diseases, insect infestation and weeds, harvesting, processing and worldwide utilization.