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Molecular nanotechnology involves the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules to produce materials and devices with very precise, predictable properties. This is the first volume to cover this new and exciting field.

In 1974, a group of teenage Peruvians became part of a facinating journey through the remote mystical places of Peru. Through the narrative of Sixto Paz Wells, the reader is confronted with one of the most complex cases of ET contact ever documented. A rare case which has astounded journalists, from nearly every country, as they defiantly witnessed the undeniable physical presence of an advanced civilization. The invitation stands as a docu...

This book outlines the changes that have been made in the conventional wisdom of programming for the gifted and talented, discusses the emerging thinking about talent development, offers, strategies for discovering `hidden' programmes, and presents 65 such programmes that are readily available in schools, the community, and at home (most of which require little if any, additional funding)

Providing easy access to information on nearly 450 short stories, this unique guide surveys a wide spectrum of world literature, canonical works, and contemporary fiction. Librarians and teachers will find multiple purposes for this expertly-compiled resource, which can be employed in much the same way as a standard bibliography.

Smith probes the songwriters' lives and work to reveal how two distinct, equally significant artists have learned from and contributed to an ongoing and important American musical tradition.

Politics, language and culture are three of the most powerful forces affecting education today. This text looks at their effects through the eyes of teachers, administrators and "insiders/outsiders" who are actually living reform at the school level in four widely different urban US school systems.

Speeches ranging from 1872 to 1967, including many never before published on the issue of civil rights, integration, and the defense of segregation.

Linda Hoyt provides a practical, classroom-friendly guide to unlocking the treasures of informational text.

With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. < /p>

Offers the first-ever analysis of the American women's magazine as a distinct form, as well as a presentation of the construction of the popular woman reader.

Over the years, linguistic anthropological research has shown how classrooms are socializing institutions and how language functions as one medium through which this socialization is accomplished. Early work in the field has captured the immediacy of social practice and language use in educational contexts, and has created useful characterizations of variations in communicative competence.The present work builds on the strengths of prior work,...

In The News and Other Poems, David Citino confronts and attempts to make sense of the news. He explores the good and bad ways the world has of careening into a life and sending it off course. Citino tries to understand how we come to know what we know, driven as we are by haughty assumptions about the world we're making and the control we think we exert over our own lives and loves.While still holding romantic notions of ivory towers and ivy-c...

An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate ho...

This unique volume focuses on coastal archaeology, lithic analysis, and ceramic analysis within the study of New England archaeology.

A study of the work of one of the most original and influential art critics, Rosalind Krauss. The book traces her development from her formalist writings in the 1960s through the post-structuralism of the current academic climate.

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Following the death of Diana, the British media presented an image of the country united in grief, suggesting that the mourners who dominated media coverage represented public opinion. This title challenges these myths and provides an examination of popular attitudes during September 1997.