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Book The Big Noise and Other Noises

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe
  • Publisher : African Books Collective
  • Release : 2019-02-11
  • ISBN : 1779065078
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book The Big Noise and Other Noises written by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The frightening Big Noise of the approaching caterpillars sent by government to build a new dam; to the thundering Other Noises of the caterpillars, again sent by government to destroy their shacks; and to the graduates playing soccer wearing full regalia in the streets of Harare, life for the average citizen has never been the same. Then the 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, was forced to announce his resignation, and Tonderai, one of his secret agents skips the country fearing for his life. Of course, that was after another big noise that saw armoured cars and many people filling the streets of the capital, rejoicing that the dictator had been deposed. Before that there were other noises that frightened people away from their homes, but this time the noises that frightened people were made by those who had silenced the big noise. A confusion reigned. Graduates were jobless. People fled the country to other countries to become political as well as economic refugees.

Book The Big Noise and Other Noises

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kudyahakudadirwe, Christopher
  • Publisher : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
  • Release : 2019-02-10
  • ISBN : 1779063571
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book The Big Noise and Other Noises written by Kudyahakudadirwe, Christopher and published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The frightening Big Noise of the approaching caterpillars sent by government to build a new dam; to the thundering Other Noises of the caterpillars, again sent by government to destroy their shacks; and to the graduates playing soccer wearing full regalia in the streets of Harare, life for the average citizen has never been the same. Then the 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, was forced to announce his resignation, and Tonderai, one of his secret agents skips the country fearing for his life. Of course, that was after another big noise that saw armoured cars and many people filling the streets of the capital, rejoicing that the dictator had been deposed. Before that there were other noises that frightened people away from their homes, but this time the noises that frightened people were made by those who had silenced the big noise. A confusion reigned. Graduates were jobless. People fled the country to other countries to become political as well as economic refugees.

Book Making Noise

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  • Author : Hillel Schwartz
  • Publisher : Mit Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781935408123
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Making Noise written by Hillel Schwartz and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening across millennia, a cultural historian explores the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical--and intriguing--as the original Babel. When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific. At every stage, readers can hear the cultural reverberations of the historical soundwork of actresses, admen, anthropologists, astronomers, builders, composers, dentists, economists, engineers, filmmakers, firemen, grammar school teachers, jailers, nurses, oceanographers, pastors, philosophers, poets, psychologists, and the writers of children's books. Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, letters and daybooks of physicists and physicians, military manuals and training films, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, as well as museum collections of bells, ear trumpets, megaphones, sirens, stethoscopes, and street organs, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel. Endnotes and bibliography are not included in the physical book but are available online at the MIT Press Web site.

Book Noise Control Act of 1971 and Amendments

Download or read book Noise Control Act of 1971 and Amendments written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Noise Control Act of 1971 and Amendments  Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Environment    92 1  on S  1016   and S  1566

Download or read book Noise Control Act of 1971 and Amendments Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Environment 92 1 on S 1016 and S 1566 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Spirit of the Studio

Download or read book In the Spirit of the Studio written by Lella Gandini and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critically acclaimed, lavishly illustrated book will help educators create the highest quality learning opportunties for a new generation of children. The Second Edition features substantial and important changes, including the addition of new chapters by pioneers of the work that happens in the atelier who draw on several decades of experience. The atelier of studio is a key element of the renowned preschools and infant-toddler centres of Reggio Emeilia, Italy. This beautiful, full-colour resource explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire school's approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning. The authors provide examples of projects and address practical aspects of the atelier, including organizing the environment and using materials. No other book presents a more thorough examination of the philosophy, practice, and essential influence of the Reggio-inspired studio.

Book English Synonyms Explained

Download or read book English Synonyms Explained written by George Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Equity in Data

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  • Author : Andrew Knips
  • Publisher : ASCD
  • Release : 2022-10-06
  • ISBN : 1416631402
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Equity in Data written by Andrew Knips and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a better data culture can be the path to better results and greater equity in schools. But what do we mean by data? Your students are not just statistics. They aren't simply a set of numbers or faceless dots on a proficiency scale. They are vibrant collections of experiences, thoughts, perspectives, emotions, wants, and dreams. And taken collectively, all of that information is data—and should be valued as such. Equity in Data not only unpacks the problematic nature of current approaches to data but also helps educators demystify and democratize data. It shows how we can bake equity into our data work and illuminate the disparities, stories, and truths that make our schools safer and stronger—and that help our students grow and thrive. To this end, the authors introduce a four-part framework for how to create an equitable data culture (along with a complementary set of data principles). They demonstrate how we can rethink our approach to data in the interest of equity by making five shifts: * Expand our understanding of data. * Strengthen our knowledge of data principles. * Break through our fear of data. * Decolonize our data gathering processes. * Turn data into meaningful, equitable action. We have an opportunity to realign school data with what students want out of their educational experiences. When we put equity first, we put students first.

Book The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

Download or read book The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want written by Garret Keizer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards. He follows noise throughout history and across the globe. He considers what it has to tell us about today's most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. The result is guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.

Book Shouting Won t Help

Download or read book Shouting Won t Help written by Katherine Bouton and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was "the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century." Audiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, and in many cases the cause is unknown. Shouting Won't Help is a deftly written, deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. In the style of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and using her experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, and neurobiologists, and with a variety of people afflicted with midlife hearing loss, braiding their stories with her own to illuminate the startling effects of the condition. The result is a surprisingly engaging account of what it's like to live with an invisible disability—and a robust prescription for our nation's increasing problem with deafness. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

Book Music and Discourse

Download or read book Music and Discourse written by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement on p. [4] of cover, paperback edition.

Book Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site

Download or read book Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indie Games

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  • Author : Bounthavy Suvilay
  • Publisher : Ablaze Publishing
  • Release : 2020-02-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Indie Games written by Bounthavy Suvilay and published by Ablaze Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games have grown exponentially in recent years and have captured the hearts of millions thanks to the success of titles such as Minecraft, Journey, Limbo, Dead Cells, The Banner Saga or Firewatch. To compete with the blockbusters, the independents have had to be massively creative and come up with innovative gameplay, top-notch writing, original graphic universes, and sumptuous soundtracks. INDIE GAMES pays homage to some of the greatest success stories in the world of independent video games. Superbly illustrated, INDIE GAMES contains more than three hundred images from titles that revolutionized the gaming industry. Full of anecdotes and interviews with personalities like industry veteran Eric Chahi and young designers like Ian Dallas. You will see behind the scenes at Indie studios, revealing the creators, designs and marketing. This exploration will give you a better understanding on what is an “Indie” game. Official and authorized, with the participation of studios around the world, including over 50 interviews highlighting over 70 games, INDIE GAMES is the most complete and up-to-date overview of indie video gaming. With exclusive behind the scenes content provided by the studios, it serves as a fitting tribute to the audacity of these developers, who have elevated video games into an art.

Book Mechanical Sound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karin Bijsterveld
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0262026392
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book Mechanical Sound written by Karin Bijsterveld and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

Book Investigating STEM With Infants and Toddlers  Birth   3

Download or read book Investigating STEM With Infants and Toddlers Birth 3 written by Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premiere volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series introduces the Infant Toddler Inquiry Learning Model, a new way to think about how young children (birth–age 3) explore, think, and learn STEM. Accessible to educators from a wide range of educational backgrounds, it is designed specifically to help guide the implementation of STEM experiences into the early childhood curriculum. Readers will see how the model works in real life; how STEM topics can be naturally embedded in daily routines and activities; and how to observe, understand, and interact with children as they explore. This accessible guide presents content and pedagogy aligned with what is known about how children learn and also addresses the challenges educators encounter when implementing STEM with infants and toddlers. Each volume in this new series includes vignettes showing educators and children engaging in inquiry learning, guidance for selecting materials and arranging the learning environment, modifications and accommodations for diverse learners, establishing adult learning communities to support professional development, and more.

Book Popular Mechanics

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1935-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1935-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Book Hearing Impairment

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Suzuki
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 4431683976
  • Pages : 579 pages

Download or read book Hearing Impairment written by J. Suzuki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing Impairment - An Invisible Disability is the first work of its kind to comprehensively cover all aspects of hearing impairment. It covers the following categories through more than 100 contributions from all over the world to constitute an encyclopedia of hearing impairment: - Hearing Basics: What does hearing impairment mean? Its causes and effects are explained through many real-world examples. - Children: Childhood is a time when hearing impairment often begins, so proper treatment at an early stage can help alleviate difficulties and allow for as normal a life as possible. Many case studies from both the developed and developing parts of the world, including Indonesia and Latin America in the latter category, are provided to aid comprehension. - Hearing Aids: Through newly emerging technology and with the help of electronics companies, new and affordable hearing aids are being developed and marketed. The authors take a closer look at this burgeoning field. - Medical Aspects: Medical treatment of hearing impairment has recently shown remarkable change, manifested in improved techniques and applications all over the world. Although mainly of relevance to researchers and practicing physicians, the clear explanation of the medical and technical terminology is likely to be of interest to all concerned with the future of hearing impairment. - Social and International Help: With a wealth of assistance from individuals, NGOs, and international organizations specifically tailored to help the hearing impaired, those in need of guidance can gain confidence from the knowledge that substantial support is available to help them pursue a full and varied life.