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Kierkegaard - Ettore Rocca - Bog - Gyldendal - Plusbog.dk

Kierkegaard - Ettore Rocca - Bog - Gyldendal - Plusbog.dk

Kierkegaard er en indføring i Søren Kierkegaards forfatterskab.Med udgangspunkt i Søren Kierkegaards grundproblem, at kristendommen er liv og ikke viden, og at det derfor er paradoksalt at skrive om at blive kristen i stedet for at leve kristendommen, gennemgår lektor og adjungeret professor Ettore Rocca de centrale begreber i Kierkegaards forfatterskab. Herunder bl.a. det æstetiske, friheden, angsten, troen, kærligheden og fortvivlelsen.Bogen følger Kierkegaard fra hans litterære debut til hans sidste kamp mod den institutionelle kristendom. Den giver et indblik i Kierkegaards forhold til den kulturelle samtid og til traditionens centrale skikkelser som Sokrates, Luther og Hegel. Desuden fortæller Rocca om Kierkegaards vigtigste livsrelationer, nemlig faderen, Regine og biskop Mynster, men bestræber sig samtidig på at afmytologisere deres betydning for forfatterskabet.Ud fra Kierkegaards begrebsunivers behandler bogen en række spørgsmål om individualitet, frihed og religion, som er ligeså relevante i dag som på Kierkegaards tid.

DKK 241.00
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Mobituaries - Mo Rocca - Bog - Simon & Schuster - Plusbog.dk

Mobituaries - Mo Rocca - Bog - Simon & Schuster - Plusbog.dk

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him. Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries—reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His quest to right that wrong inspired Mobituaries, his #1 hit podcast. Now with Mobituaries , the book, he has gone much further, with all new essays on artists, entertainers, sports stars, political pioneers, founding fathers, and more. Even if you know the names, you’ve never understood why they matter...until now. Take Herbert Hoover: before he was president, he was the “Great Humanitarian,” the man who saved tens of millions from starvation. But after less than a year in the White House, the stock market crashed, and all the good he had done seemed to be forgotten. Then there’s Marlene Dietrich, well remembered as a screen goddess, less remembered as a great patriot. Alongside American servicemen on the front lines during World War II, she risked her life to help defeat the Nazis of her native Germany. And what about Billy Carter and history’s unruly presidential brothers? Were they ne’er-do-well liabilities…or secret weapons? Plus, Mobits for dead sports teams, dead countries, the dearly departed station wagon, and dragons. Yes, dragons. Rocca is an expert researcher and storyteller. He draws on these skills here. With his dogged reporting and trademark wit, Rocca brings these men and women back to life like no one else can. Mobituaries is an insightful and unconventional account of the people who made life worth living for the rest of us, one that asks us to think about who gets remembered, and why.

DKK 270.00
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Spinoza - Michael Della Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Spinoza - Michael Della Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Renowned for his metaphysics, Spinoza made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Spinoza''s life, Michael Della Rocca carefully unpacks and explains Spinoza''s philosophy: his metaphysics of substance and argument at the center of his whole system that God is the sole independent substance; his account of the human mind and its relation to the body; his theory that human beings tend towards self-preservation and his most famous work, the Ethics, including the problem of free will; and his writings on the state, religion and scripture. Della Rocca concludes with a chapter on Spinoza''s legacy and how modern philosophers, Hume, Hegel, and Nietzsche, responded to Spinoza''s challenge. Ideal for those coming to Spinoza for the first time as well as those already acquainted with his thought, Spinoza is essential reading for anyone studying philosophy.

DKK 283.00
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Roctogenarians - Mo Rocca - Bog - Simon & Schuster - Plusbog.dk

Roctogenarians - Mo Rocca - Bog - Simon & Schuster - Plusbog.dk

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering—breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records—and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise, becoming a first-time father. (Take that, Al Pacino!) In the vein of Mobituaries , Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans—some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Mel Brooks, yukking it up at close to one hundred). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. Then there’s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventy-three (because sometimes finding the right word takes time.) With passion and wonder Rocca and Greenberg recount the stories of yesterday’s and today’s strongest finishers. Because with all due respect to the Golden Girls, some people will never be content sitting out on the lanai. (PS Actress Estelle Getty was sixty-two when she got her big break. And yes, she’s in the book.)

DKK 192.00
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The Sober Revolution - Lucy Rocca - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

The Sober Revolution - Lucy Rocca - Bog - Headline Publishing Group - Plusbog.dk

Do you count down the minutes to wine o'clock? You are not alone. When it comes to alcohol, plenty of people find it hard to exercise moderation and become stuck in a vicious cycle of blame, guilt and addiction. If you want to take back control and stop being defined by alcohol now is the time to join The Sober Revolution. In this empowering book, addictions counsellor Sarah Turner and life coach Lucy Rocca examine women's relationship with alcohol and offer insight and advice into overcoming this addiction. The Sober Revolution explores the myths behind this socially acceptable yet often destructive habit and, through personal accounts of alcohol abuse and its impacts on relationships, careers and finances, you are invited to examine your own relationship with alcohol and its impact on your life. Read it now. Regain control and lead a happier, healthier life. Call time on wine o'clock forever. Lucy Rocca is the founder of Soberistas.com, the social networking site for women who have successfully kicked the booze or would like.

DKK 152.00
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The Next Superpower? - Francis X. Rocca - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

The Next Superpower? - Francis X. Rocca - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Americans have been recently lectured that ''Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.'' But this slogan fails to account for the economic might of the European Union, which has elevated the EU_and its member countries_to near superpower status. What are the implications of this development for the United States? Ambassador Rockwell A. Schnabel and Francis X. Rocca take up this critical and complex question in a detailed, firsthand analysis of the EU institutions, their leadership, and the member countries. Although Europe today cannot challenge America in military terms, the 25-nation economic giant can influence world events to the benefit or detriment of the United States. This book will answer the timely and crucial question of how the ''rise of Europe will affect U.S. prosperity and security for decades to come.'' Ambassador Schnabel dispenses with diplomatic niceties. He is critical of both U.S. and European policies. Schnabel and Rocca give readers a compelling and provocative inside look at the people and issues that will decide whether the world''s most consequential partnership flourishes or flounders. While alerting readers to the economic and geopolitical challenges posed by a stronger EU, the authors reject the complacency of those who see American ''unipolarity'' as a license to neglect our allies, or those who entertain the illusion that we can ''divide and conquer'' Europe. This book will make clear why the U.S. must work with the EU_or expect the EU to work against it.

DKK 185.00
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Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca - Stefano Passamonti - Bog - Quart Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca - Stefano Passamonti - Bog - Quart Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca (1904–1993) shaped the architectural landscape of Italy – especially Genoa – through changing times. His work is impossible to categorise and, without taking any political stance, expressed itself in a variety of styles between the periods of the monarchy and the republic: from futurism to neoplasticism, and from Fascist rhetoric to experiments with concrete. This monograph not only reconstructs the past, but also reveals the present-day ­relevance of Morozzo della Rocca’s approaches. It demonstrates how it is possible to take an autonomous path and simultaneously develop a universal vision of the world through architecture. Presenting his most important works – ranging from villas and palazzi to apartment buildings and his INA Casa projects – this publication traces the story of an architect who was ahead of his time and whose influence is tangible to this day.

DKK 444.00
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The Parmenidean Ascent - Michael (andrew Downey Orrick Professor Of Philosophy Della Rocca - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Parmenidean Ascent - Michael (andrew Downey Orrick Professor Of Philosophy Della Rocca - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

For the Parmenidean monist, there are no distinctions whatsoever-indeed, distinctions are unintelligible. In The Parmenidean Ascent, Michael Della Rocca aims to revive this controversial approach on rationalist grounds. He not only defends the attribution of such an extreme monism to the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides, but also embraces this extreme monism in its own right and expands these monistic results to many of the most crucial areas of philosophy, including being, action, knowledge, meaning, truth, and metaphysical explanation. On Della Rocca''s account, there is no differentiated being, no differentiated action, knowledge, or meaning; rather all is being, just as all is action, all is knowledge, all is meaning. Motivating this argument is a detailed survey of the failure of leading positions (both historical and contemporary) to meet a demand for the explanation of a given phenomenon, together with a powerful, original version of a Bradleyan argument against the reality of relations. The result is a rationalist rejection of all distinctions and a skeptical denial of the intelligibility of ordinary, relational notions of being, action, knowledge, and meaning. Della Rocca then turns this analysis on the practice of philosophy itself. Followed to its conclusion, Parmenidean monism rejects any distinction between philosophy and the study of its history. Such a conclusion challenges methods popular in the practice of philosophy today, including especially the method of relying on intuitions and common sense as the basis of philosophical inquiry. The historically-minded and rationalist approach used throughout the book aims to demonstrate the ultimate bankruptcy of the prevailing methodology. It promises-on rationalist grounds-to inspire much soul-searching on the part of philosophers and to challenge the content and the methods of so much philosophy both now and in the past.

DKK 387.00
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Catching Fireflies - Tony Rocca - Bog - Cornerstone - Plusbog.dk

Catching Fireflies - Tony Rocca - Bog - Cornerstone - Plusbog.dk

Following an extended bout of hard city life, Tony Rocca and his wife, Mira, decided that some of the really important things were missing - good food, plenty of sunshine and a relaxed approach to life. Despite Tony''s name, however, their decision to move to Chianti was not based on heritage, nor any knowledge of the Italian language or spirit that had failed to pass down the line to him. Hardly expecting things to be straightforward, Tony and Mira set about raising a loan to purchase Collelungo, the dilapidated property they had set their hearts on converting into an ''agriturismo'' hotel. Complications and misinterpretations followed hot on the heels of each other, and before long they found themselves in trouble with the Monte dei Paschi bank with a debt of one billion Lire. Finding drumming-up business to be a tougher task than they had anticipated, it was not long before the Roccas realised that alternative avenues would have to be explored to increase their income. Keeping on the hospitality business, Tony was persuaded by Mira to experiment with the vines that had been part of the property purchase. Sceptical though he was about the investment involved, the success of these wines was unprecedented.What follows is a heart-warming story of success and integration into a community through persistence, good humour, and sheer hard work.

DKK 161.00
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The Intuitive Drawing Journal - Almudena Rocca - Bog - Watkins Media Limited - Plusbog.dk

The Intuitive Drawing Journal - Almudena Rocca - Bog - Watkins Media Limited - Plusbog.dk

Process your emotions and improve your wellbeing with this inspiring guided journal which introduces intuitive drawing as an evolution of mindful drawing. What if drawing could help you express and process your emotions? Emotions add depth to our experiences, but sometimes they can be overwhelming or challenging. In this beautifully illustrated guided journal, Almudena Rocca presents an amazing technique – intuitive drawing – which will help you to understand and work through your feelings by accessing your unconscious.You will learn essential intuitive drawing skills, from working with patterns to drawing objects, before diving into 11 core emotions, including anger, fear and trust. This journal is filled with thought-provoking drawing prompts and quotes, allowing you to explore memories, relationships and events that may still impact you today.You don’t need to be an artist to enjoy this book – it is the perfect resource for anyone who enjoys creative self-care.

DKK 152.00
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Oscar Romero - Morozzo Della Rocca Roberto - Bog - Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Oscar Romero - Morozzo Della Rocca Roberto - Bog - Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Oscar Romero: Prophet of Hope is a comprehensive account of the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador’s incredible journey of holiness and courageous witness in the face of cruel state oppression. Historian Roberto Morozzo Della Rocca draws directly on previously unpublished documents – some of which were used as evidence in the process leading to Romero’s beatification in 2015 – to write the most authoritative biography of Romero to date.Morozzo tells the complete story of Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, from his humble roots in Ciudad Barros, El Salvador, to his ordination in Rome and his eventual appointment as Archbishop of San Salvador. It weaves a sensitive account of Romero’s character – both public and private – with a mature appraisal of his theology and unfailing commitment to the poor, marginalised and persecuted of Latin America. The final chapter describes Romero’s movements and words during the final months, weeks and days that led to his martyrdom – assassinated while celebrating Mass the day after publicly appealing to soldiers of El Salvador’s Revolutionary Government to refuse their orders to kill.

DKK 119.00
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The Iron Horse in Indian Country - Alessandra La Rocca Link - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Iron Horse in Indian Country - Alessandra La Rocca Link - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Historians have long pondered the railroad''s profound and far-reaching role in transforming the United States'' economic, political, social, and physical landscapes. The Iron Horse in Indian Country de-centers and reframes this scholarship by spotlighting both the inner workings of railroad colonialism and the means by which Indigenous peoples incorporated railroads into their own networks. By foregrounding Indigenous entanglements with railroads, La Rocca Link challenges deep-seated stereotypes of Indians as either violently resisting the juggernaut of the Iron Horse, or simply vanishing at the first blast of a locomotive''s whistle.This project begins with a study of Indigenous contributions to the Pacific Railway Surveys of the 1850s, and extends through to the rise of automobile travel and the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in the 1920s. The Iron Horse in Indian Country demonstrates that even as railroad-driven colonialism brought calamities to Indigenous communities, Native peoples turned trains into a literal and figurative vehicle of survival, repurposing this novel technology to establish themselves as decisive actors in a modern world.

DKK 260.00
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Patterns of Revision, Grade 5 - Whitney La Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Patterns of Revision, Grade 5 - Whitney La Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

How do we get fifth-grade writers to revise? And once we do get them thinking about revision, what, exactly, do they do? What do we do? In Patterns of Revision , best-selling authors Whitney La Rocca and Jeff Anderson answer these questions and more. This practical resource uses the research-proven and classroom-tested methods of sentence combining in a meaningful, engaging way that supports authentic writing as well as writing for performance-based or multiple-choice tests. Flip the book open to immediately find: - The DRAFT mnemonic to help students know where to begin the revision process and how to keep going - Concrete, doable lessons that spark academic conversations (oral rehearsal and play) about meaning, effect, and purpose that are grounded in a student-centered revision approach - Easily accessed display and printable pages to seamlessly support student revision learning, embedded in each lesson right where you need it - Authentic and engaging model text excerpts curated to support each lesson - An engaging process for revision instruction that can be immediately implemented to support any writing approach or as a supplemental resource for Patterns of Power , 1-5 as well as Patterns of Power Plus, Grade 5 With every lesson grounded in the critical strategy of writers talking out their revisions, Patterns of Revision will establish routines, practices, and mindsets to set up you and your students for success from Day 1. Discover the joy inherent in writing—and writing instruction—by exploring revision through engaging inquiry and the study of models, building flexible, competent revisors, step-by-step, in an open-ended discussion of meaning-driven revision choices and their effects.

DKK 477.00
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Patterns of Revision, Grade 4 - Whitney La Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Patterns of Revision, Grade 4 - Whitney La Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

How do we get fourth-grade writers to revise? And once we do get them thinking about revision, what, exactly, do they do? What do we do? In Patterns of Revision, best-selling authors Whitney La Rocca and Jeff Anderson answer these questions and more. This practical resource uses the research-proven and classroom-tested methods of sentence combining in a meaningful, engaging way that supports authentic writing as well as writing for performance-based or multiple-choice tests. Flip the book open to immediately find: - The DRAFT mnemonic to help students know where to begin the revision process and how to keep going - Concrete, doable lessons that spark academic conversations (oral rehearsal and play) about meaning, effect, and purpose that are grounded in a student-centered revision approach - Easily accessed display and printable pages to seamlessly support student revision learning, embedded in each lesson right where you need it - Authentic and engaging model text excerpts curated to support each lesson - An engaging process for revision instruction that can be immediately implemented to support any writing approach or as a supplemental resource for Patterns of Power, 1-5 as well as Patterns of Power Plus, Grade 4 With every lesson grounded in the critical strategy of writers talking out their revisions, Patterns of Revision will establish routines, practices, and mindsets to set up you and your students for success from Day 1. Discover the joy inherent in writing—and writing instruction—by exploring revision through engaging inquiry and the study of models, building flexible, competent revisors, step-by-step, in an open-ended discussion of meaning-driven revision choices and their effects.

DKK 486.00
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Algorithms and Data Structures in Action - Marcello La Rocca - Bog - Manning Publications - Plusbog.dk

Algorithms and Data Structures in Action - Marcello La Rocca - Bog - Manning Publications - Plusbog.dk

As a software engineer, you’ll encounter countless programming challenges that initially seem confusing, difficult, or even impossible. Don’t despair! Many of these “new” problems already have well-established solutions. Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures teaches you powerful approaches to a wide range of tricky coding challenges that you can adapt and apply to your own applications. Providing a balanced blend of classic, advanced, and new algorithms, this practical guide upgrades your programming toolbox with new perspectives and hands-on techniques. about the technology Data structures and algorithms are the foundations for how programs store and process information. Choosing the optimal algorithms ensures that your programs are fast, efficient, and reliable. about the book Algorithms and Data Structures in Action expands on the basic algorithms you already know to give you a better selection of solutions to different programming problems. In it, you’ll discover techniques for improving priority queues, efficient caching, clustering data, and more. Each example is fully illustrated with graphics, language agnostic pseudo-code, and code samples in various languages. When you’re done, you will be able to implement advanced and little-known algorithms to deliver better performance from your code. what''s inside - - Improving on basic data structures - - Efficient caching - - Nearest neighbour search, including k-d trees and S-trees - - Full ‘pseudo-code’ and samples in multiple languages - about the reader For programmers with basic or intermediate skills. Written in a language-agnostic manner, no specific language knowledge is required. about the author Marcello La Rocca is a research scientist and a full-stack engineer focused on optimization algorithms, genetic algorithms, machine learning and quantum computing. He has contributed to large-scale web applications at companies like Twitter and Microsoft, has undertaken applied research in both academia and industry, and authored the Neatsort adaptive sorting algorithm.

DKK 476.00
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Speaking the Incomprehensible God - Gregory P. Rocca - Bog - The Catholic University of America Press - Plusbog.dk

Speaking the Incomprehensible God - Gregory P. Rocca - Bog - The Catholic University of America Press - Plusbog.dk

How can the Church speak of the God who transcends all thought and speech? This book is a comprehensive retrieval of Thomas Aquinas's theological epistemology of the divine names, which is his profound contribution to that perennial question. His theology of the divine names is a rich and complex tapestry that weaves together the twin themes of negative and positive theology. Tempering any extreme agnosticism, Aquinas sets out a multi-layered negative theology respectful of God's incomprehensibility, while he also proposes a view of theological analogy that places it at the heart of his positive theology. Finally, he grounds his epistemology in the fundamental theological truth that God is the infinitely perfect and self-subsistence Creator. Gregory Rocca's nuanced discussion prevents Aquinas's thought from being capsulised in familiar slogans and is an antidote to unilateralist or monochrome views about God-talk. Rocca laces Aquinas's negative and positive theology together, because only that intertwining can do justice to the mystery of God. This study finds that, contrary to the views of some, Aquinas's analogy is more a matter of judgement and truth than of concept and meaning; despite his own presuppositions, Aquinas bases his theological analogy more on the insights of faith than those of reason. Aquinas's theology of the divine names encourages contemporary dialogue to keep the tensioned truth of God in view and to remember that only a fruitful interplay of positive and negative theology can do justice to the Elusive One who evades our linguistic capture and yet desires to be acknowledged and worshipped as Creator and Sustainer. The book will prove helpful to specialists in Aquinas and to others who are interested in the God-talk dialogue and can profit from an in-depth retrieval of Aquinas.

DKK 410.00
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Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5 - Whitney La Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5 - Whitney La Rocca - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Author Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language . Here, young, emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the English language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar. The book comes with standards-aligned lessons that can be incorporated in 10 minutes a day. Patterns of Power ’s responsive, invitational approach puts students in an involved role and has them explore and discuss the purpose and meaning of what they read. Students study short, authentic texts and are asked to share their findings out loud, engaging in rich conversations to make meaning. Inside you’ll find: - Ready-to-use lesson plan sets that include excerpts from authentic and diverse mentor texts curated for grades 1-5 and can be adapted over 5 grade levels - Real-life classroom examples, tips, and Power Notes gleaned from the authors’ experiences that can be applied to any level of writer - Resources, including a Patterns of Power Planning Guide and musical soundtracks, to use in classroom instruction or as handouts for student literacy notebooks Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5 provides a simple classroom routine that is structured in length and approach, but provides teachers flexibility in choosing the texts, allowing for numerous, diverse voices in the classroom. The practice helps students build cognitive recognition and provides a formative assessment for teachers on student progress. With these short lessons, students will grow their confidence and move beyond limitation to produce effortless writing in your class and beyond. The Patterns of Power series also includes Patterns of Power, Grades 6-8: Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language ; Patterns of Power en Español, Grades 1-5: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish ; Patterns of Power, Grades 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing and Patterns of Wonder, Grades PreK-1: Inviting Emergent Writers to Play with the Conventions of Language .

DKK 597.00
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The Iron Horse in Indian Country - Alessandra La Rocca Link - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Iron Horse in Indian Country - Alessandra La Rocca Link - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In 1872, artist John Gast rendered one of the more famous depictions of nineteenth-century Western settlement, a painting titled American Progress. Gast''s painting celebrated the US colonization of the West as the culmination of industrial progress by foregrounding two relatively new technologies: the telegraph and the railroad. For Gast, as for so many other Americans, the Iron Horse seemed destined to serve as the literal engine by which the industrial acumen and God-given civilization of the expanding nation would conquer western lands and peoples. On Gast''s canvas, American Indians shuffled toward the painting''s edge. Faced with the locomotive''s irrepressible force, Gast assumed that native peoples, incapable of adapting to modernity, would have no choice but to fade away.The Iron Horse in Indian Country shows how indigenous Americans across the trans-Mississippi West actively engaged with western railroads, not simply as passive bystanders to and victims of railroad expansion and dispossession as they have traditionally been cast. Foregrounding the hidden histories of native entanglements with the Iron Horse between the 1850s and 1930s, Alessandra La Rocca Link reveals how they played central roles as guides, passengers, entrepreneurs, wage-earners, and tribal citizens. Many Indians became wage earners (and, in some cases, wage payers) at a historic moment when the federal government sought to sequester natives on isolated reservations and limit their labors to agriculture. Indigenous political envoys made authorized and unauthorized visits to Washington, DC for negotiations among native leaders, railroad corporations, and the federal government, the beginnings of tribal and intertribal activism that would accelerate in the early twentieth century. The railroad provided Indigenous communities with a tool that they often put in the service of sustaining their cultural and material lives in the face of colonization. Indeed, the end of formal treaty relations with Native Americans in 1871 resulted from growing concerns about private negotiations taking place between corporations and tribal governments that directed the course of settlement in the region. Additionally, railroads facilitated a growing intertribal, Indian identity, as Native Americans used proliferating western railroad networks to visit one another, thus forging and renewing cultural, political, and social ties. Such ties were critical to the survival of Indigenous communities facing demographic decline over the course of the nineteenth century.Just as the West shrank with the arrival of the horse on the Plains, so too would it shrink as steam-powered locomotives brought far-flung locales into the traveling range of many Lakotas, Navajos, Cherokees, and others. Presenting a story that goes beyond the narrative of dispossession of Native land and resources, The Iron Horse in Indian Country demonstrates how the locomotive-powered settlement of the West was constantly contested, thwarted, and negotiated by the original inhabitants of the region who appropriated and repurposed this technology to transform it into a literal and figurative vehicle of survival.

DKK 776.00
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