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This nonfiction picture book is a children's version of NASA astronaut Jerry L. Ross's autobiography, Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer, designed for ages 7-12. Told in friendly first-person narration, it represents how Ross followed his dream from rural 1950s northern Indiana to Purdue University and then outer space.The thirty-two-page book is illustrated with personal photos and memorabilia. It is formatted into twenty-three narratives organized in chronological order illustrating events and experiences in Ross's life. Pages attractively interweave photos and text while prompts encourage readers to engage in in the story.Ross possessed specific character traits that helped him make choices and overcome obstacles as he struggled against the odds to realize his dream: curiosity, persistence, and believing in oneself. As the story unfolds and readers begin to make personal connections with Ross, his approach to problem solving and working through setbacks provides a powerful example for children.Content area concepts are integrated throughout the story, including but not limited to science, technology, engineering, math, visual literacy, financial literacy, geography, flight, and the race to space. Gravity, for example, is a major theme illustrated within the content of the story. Online guides for teachers using the book in a classroom setting (third to fourth grade recommended) are linked to throughout.A map of the United States on the inside front cover invites children to follow the path of Ross's journey from Crown Point, Indiana, to Kennedy Space Center. A timeline on the inside back cover compares and contrasts benchmark events in Ross's life and career with important events in flight and space travel history. Further electronic materials are available at www.jerrylross.com.

Describes how industrial engineering evolved by developing methods and principles for the planning, design, and control of production and service systems. This book focuses on the growth of the discipline at Purdue University where it helped shape the university itself and made substantial contributions to the industrialization of America.

This collection of essays drawn from a range of disciplines explores American paranoia and the continuum of fear that has centred on enemies real and imagined in American culture. Contributors examine areas such as theoretical constructions of fear, racial discrimination and religious intolerance.

This is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for choosing plant material for landscape designs. It includes comprehensive lists with search criteria for each of the major plant groups, including trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennials, vines, grasses, and ferns.

Examines the connections between artistic production and political action. This book focuses on the politics of the black movement and the literary production of a Sao Paulo-based group of Afro-Brazilian writers, the Quilombhoje.

Demonstrates that ""only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human"". The second edition of this text features a revised and expanded appendix and an additional chapter on the myths of self-narrative and ethical concerns.

This fascinating autobiography is set against the backdrop of some of the most dramatic episodes of the twentieth century. It is the story of a stubborn struggle against unjust regimes, sustained by a deep belief in the strength of the human spirit and the transcendental power of music. It is also an account of a rich spiritual life, during which the author has built upon her Jewish roots through the study of Eastern philosophy and meditation. Born in Germany, Eva Mayer Schay's early childhood in Mallorca was an idyllic one. Her parents had emigrated to the island following the Nazi party's rise to power, but in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, the family was repatriated to Germany. Her father was arrested and given the choice of concentration camp or departing for Italy. They managed to leave Mussolini's Italy for South Africa before the race laws were implemented. During World War II, Mayer Schay's parents were classed as "e;enemy aliens"e; in South Africa, which led to considerable hardship. Her father died in 1945, after the end of the war. She went through all her schooling and university in Johannesburg, continued her musical studies in London, and after returning to Johannesburg, taught violin, played chamber music, and became a member of the SABC Symphony Orchestra. Defying apartheid, she was fired, later reinstated, but left Johannesburg to play with the Durban Civic Orchestra in 1959. Appalled at the increasing harshness of the nationalist government and by the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, she and her mother finally emigrated to England in 1961.In London, Mayer Schay worked as freelance violinist and was married in 1967. In September 1968, she joined the orchestra of Sadler's Wells Opera at the Coliseum Theatre, later renamed English National Opera, where she remained for almost thirty years.

Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory.

This text is designed to take the reader through the entire manufacturing process of hardwood plywood. Beginning with an explanation of lay terminology, it then addresses the many processes by which hardwood and decorative veneers can be cut and manufactured.

Includes coverage of the topics: Coordinating Effective Government Responses to Bio-terrorism; Interagency Relations in Animal Biosecurity Disasters; Nuclear Power Plant Security; and, Modeling and Analysis of Public Policies. This volume is for those who are involved with issues of homeland security from planners to administrators to researchers.

Examines the promotion and reception of the image of Franz Joseph, as a symbol of common identity in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy. In the second half of the nineteenth century, and the first decades of the twentieth century, the promotion of the cult of the emperor encouraged a Cisleithania-wide culture of imperial celebration.

Deals with the issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.

Rothenberg's work in the first analytical, full, length study of the army of Francis Joseph throughout its history from 1815-1918.

Hegel's ""Science of Logic"", still remains for most philosophers (both figuratively and literally) a firmly closed book. The purpose of this title is to dispel the myths that surround the ""Logic"" and to show that Hegel's unjustly neglected text is a work of extraordinary subtlety and insight.

The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. In addition to the papers, the volume contains a bibliography of Kertesz's works including translations, and a bibliography of studies in several languages about his work.

These essays examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. The volume also seeks to engage historians of culture and nationalism in other geographic areas and those who work on the Habsburgs' Europe from other perspectives.

This volume of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent scholarship about Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. The papers are followed by a bibliography of scholarship about Ondaatje's oeuvre, a list of his works, and the bio-profiles of the contributors to the volume.

This volume aims to show the right questions to ask in a survey questionnaire. It presents a framework of seven simple questions, and the advantage and disadvantage of the different question types and when to use each.