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• Drama / 2m, 1f / interior set –Back cover.
• First produced by the Gate Theatre in London on September 19, 2012 –page 4.
• Kenyatta Shakur is alone. His wife has died, and now this former Black Revolutionary and political prisoner is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Nina. If Kenyatta truly wants to reconcile his past, he must first conquer his most challenging revolution of all — fatherhood. Sunset Baby is an energized, vibrant, and witty look at the point where the personal and political collide.

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• Fathers and daughters — Drama.
• African Americans — Drama.
• Drama. fast (OCoLC)fst01423879

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• Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-295) and index.

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• Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011 — Juvenile literature.
• Computer engineers — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Inventors — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Businesspeople — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Apple Computer, Inc. — History — Juvenile literature.
• Computer industry — United States — History — Juvenile literature.
• Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011.
• Apple Computer, Inc.
• Businessmen.
• Computer engineers.
• Computer industry. — History.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-431) and index.
• Steve Jobs in the Garden of Allah — I didn’t want to be a businessman — Breakthrough and breakdown — What’s next? — A side bet — Bill Gates pays a visit –Luck — Bozos, bastards, and keepers — Maybe they had to be crazy — Following your nose — Do your level best — Two decisions — Stanford — A safe haven for Pixar — The whole widget — Blind spots, grudges, and sharp elbows — Just tell them I’m being an asshole.
• Based on the popular cover story about Steve Jobs in Fast Company in May 2012, this is the behind the scenes account of how Steve Jobs arguably became the most famous and visionary CEO in history. Journalist Brent Schlender and editor Rick Tetzeli have interviewed friends, industry insiders, and the people who knew Jobs best throughout his evolution as a CEO and leader. In addition Schlender, who knew Jobs personally for 25 years, has over 100 hours of interview tapes with Jobs to draw on, many hours of which have never before been transcribed.

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• Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011.
• Apple Computer, Inc. — Management.
• Apple Computer, Inc. — History.
• Computer engineers — United States — Biography.
• Businesspeople — United States — Biography.
• Leadership.
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business. bisacsh
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry. bisacsh
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous. bisacsh
• Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011. fast (OCoLC)fst01774553
• Management. fast (OCoLC)fst01007141
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Jobs, Steven, 1955-2011. (DE-588)118868284 gnd
• Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686
• Biographies. lcgft

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• Includes bibliographical references (page 267) and index.
• This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks–a sort of potato-stamp method–Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless variety of rosettes, friezes, and wallpaper patterns: dazzling art images where the beauty of nature meets the precision of mathematics. Featuring more than 100 stunning color illustrations and requiring only a modest background in math, Creating Symmetry begins by addressing the enigma of a simple curve, whose curious symmetry seems unexplained by its formula. Farris describes how complex numbers unlock the mystery, and how they lead to the next steps on an engaging path to constructing waveforms. He explains how to devise waveforms for each of the 17 possible wallpaper types, and then guides you through a host of other fascinating topics in symmetry, such as color-reversing patterns, three-color patterns, polyhedral symmetry, and hyperbolic symmetry. Along the way, Farris demonstrates how to marry waveforms with photographic images to construct beautiful symmetry patterns as he gradually familiarizes you with more advanced mathematics, including group theory, functional analysis, and partial differential equations. As you progress through the book, you’ll learn how to create breathtaking art images of your own. Fun, accessible, and challenging, Creating Symmetry features numerous examples and exercises throughout, as well as engaging discussions of the history behind the mathematics presented in the book.

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• Symmetry (Mathematics)
• Symmetry (Art)

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Defining Purposes for Learning With Literacies Through Use of Apps — Acquiring Disciplinary Literacies Through Use of Apps — Planning Instruction Using Apps to Foster Learning With Literacy — Using Apps for Accessing and Assessing Information — Using Apps for Reading Digitally — Using Apps for Writing — Using Apps to Foster Discussion — Using Apps to Respond to and Produce Images — Using Apps for Audio and Video Productions — Using Apps for Gaming/Simulations — Using Apps for Reflection/Assessment — Professional Development on Using Apps.
• How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students’ disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculumpresents a wide range of different apps and also assesses their value features methods for and apps related to planning instruction and assessing student learning identifies favorite apps whose affordances are most likely to foster certain disciplinary literacies includes resources and apps for professional developmentprovides examples of student learning in the classroomA website (www.usingipads.pbworks.com) with resources for teaching and further reading for each chapter, a link to a blog for continuing conversations about topics in the book (appsforlearningliteracies.com), and more enhance the usefulness of the book — Provided by publisher.
• Text in English.

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• Application software.
• Internet in education.
• Educational technology.
• Tablet computers.

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• A Wiley brand.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The brain and mathematics learning — The power of mistakes and struggle — The creativity and beauty in mathematics — Creating mathematical mindsets: the importance of flexibility with numbers — Rich mathematical tasks — Mathematics and the path to equity — From tracking to growth mindset grouping — Assessment for a growth mindset — Teaching mathematics for a growth mindset.
• Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler–Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning–has studied why students don’t like math and often fail in math classes. She’s followed thousands of students through middle and high schools to study how they learn and to find the most effective ways to unleash the math potential in all students, –Amazon.com.

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• Mathematics — Study and teaching (Middle school)
• Mathematics — Study and teaching (Secondary)

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• Includes index.
• The magic of numbers — The magic of algebra — The magic of 9 — The magic of counting — The magic of Fibonacci numbers — The magic of proofs — The magic of geometry — The magic of [symbol for pi] — The magic of trigonometry — The magic of i and e — The magic of calculus — The magic of infinity — Aftermath.
• The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples–from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares–this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those formulas and equations that once left your head spinning. You’ll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, but you’ll also have fun fooling around with Fibonacci numbers, investigating infinity, and marveling over mathematical magic tricks that will make you look like a math genius! –Amazon.com.

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• Mathematics — Study and teaching.

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• Includes bibliographical references.

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• Mathematics.
• Art — Mathematics.
• Music — Philosophy and aesthetics.

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• Revision of: The foundations of mathematics / Ian Stewart and David Tall. — Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1977.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index.
• Part I. The intuitive background — 1. Mathematical thinking — 2. Number systems — Part II. The beginnings of formalisation — 3. Sets — 4. Relations — 5. Functions — 6. Mathematical logic — 7. Mathematical proof — Part III. The development of axiomatic systems — 8. Natural numbers and proof by induction — 9. Real numbers — 10. Real numbers as a complete ordered field — 11. Complex numbers and beyond — Part IV. Using axiomatic systems — 12. Axiomatic systems, structure theorems, and flexible thinking — 13. Permutations and groups — 14. Cardinal numbers — 15. Infinitesimals — Part V. Strengthening the foundations — 16. Axioms for set theory.

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• Mathematics.
• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
• Poetic beginnings — Lord Byron : a scandalous ancestry — Annabella : Anglo-Saxon attitudes — The manor of parallelograms — The art of flying — Love — Silken threads — When Ada met Charles — The thinking machine — Kinship — Mad scientist — The analytical engine — The Jacquard loom — A mind with a view — Ada’s offer to Babbage — The Enchantress of Number — A horrible death — Redemption.
• Behind every great man, there’s a great woman no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage’s invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system based on the Jacquard loom. Lovelace, the only legitimate child of English poet Lord Byron, wrote extensive notes about the machine, including an algorithm to compute a long sequence of Bernoulli numbers, which some observers now consider to be the world’s first computer program.

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• Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.
• Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.
• Women mathematicians — Great Britain — Biography.
• Mathematicians — Great Britain — Biography.
• Computers — History — 19th century.

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