Most Popular Books by Mary Anne

An index, arranged alphabetically by topic, that lists more than five hundred book sources for science experiments suitable for all grade levels.

The first book to cover the fascinating world of the guitar in its entirety.

The present study investigated effects of (1) the stated probability at .25 versus .85 with no pretest shock demonstration and (2) pretest shock demonstration versus no demonstration with the stated probability held constant at .65. Subjects were 70 entering aviation trainees. The task was a subject-paced, four-choice discrimination task. Ten subjects were used as controls, with the remainder divided among the experimental conditions. A 5-minute practice period without threat preceded a 5-minute experimental period for all conditions. It was concluded that (1) shock demonstration is not necessary, and its elimination would provide a more useful range for individual difference measurement; (2) .65 probability is better for producing measurable performance decrement than either the lower or higher extremes of .25 and .85; (3) threat perception as measured by mean performance level across time may be as useful a parameter as performance decrement immediately preceding the anticipated harmful stimulus. (Author).

The celebration of Saint Josephs Day dates back to the Middle Ages, when a severe famine devastated Sicily. The poor farmers prayed to God and to Saint Joseph, their patron saint, for rain. When the rains came, the crops flourished. The farmers rejoiced and gave thanks with a feast. They fed everyone, the greatest and the least, in thanksgiving. Tavola di San GiuseppeTable of Saint Josephlives on today throughout the world in homes, churches, and organizations. Viva San Giuseppe!

An eyewitness account by an acclaimed New Yorker reporter Wedged between India and Afghanistan, Pakistan is the second-largest nation in the Islamic world, and is situated in what is currently one of the most volatile regions on earth. It has assumed a commanding role in militant Islam, a frightening portent being its creation of Afghanistan''s bizarre fundamentalist student militia, the Taliban; and with some fifteen private Islamist armies and at least twenty nuclear weapons, it is considered to be one of the most terrifying places in the world. Its disintegration would pose an unthinkable threat to the United States and the West, and the man who will determine Pakistan''s future course is the little-known, enigmatic General Pervez Musharraf. Mary Anne Weaver presents her personal journey through a country in turmoil, reconstructing, largely in the voices of the key participants themselves--Generals Musharraf and Zia, and Benazir Bhutto--the legacies now haunting Pakistan in the aftermath of the U.S.-sponsored jihad of the 1980s in Afghanistan. Fusing geopolitical choices with a vivid portrait of a land--of its people, its mystery, and its clans--Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan, provides an essential background for those seeking to understand the problems the international community now faces, and poses some deeply disturbing questions about the future of conflict in South Asia.

Although an increasing number of girls are diagnosed with ADHD every year, most of the focus of parent and teacher interventions has been on boys, leaving girls with ADHD frustrated and prone to acting out. Written by two professionals who have “been there and done that” with their own children with ADHD, Raising Girls With ADHD provides expert information to empower parents to make decisions about identification, treatment options, behavioral strategies, personal/social adjustment, educational impact, and many other issues from preschool through high school. These girls'' struggles with socialization and peer acceptance, executive functioning skills like memory and organization, and emotional well-being and self-confidence are discussed with a goal of maximizing strengths and providing supports for weaknesses. Complete self-reflection surveys and action steps for parents and girls alike are included to create a dynamic action plan for your daughter''s success in school and beyond.

A lavishly illustrated photographic journey through the history and traditions of the ancient churches of Ethiopia. The ancient Aksumite Kingdom, now a part of Ethiopia, was among the first in the world to adopt Christianity as the official state religion. In AD 340 King Ezana commissioned the construction of the imposing basilica of St. Mary of Tsion. It was here, the Ethiopians say, that Menelik, son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, brought the Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments. By the fifth century, nine saints from Byzantium were spreading the faith deep into the mountainous countryside, and over the next ten centuries a series of spectacular churches were either built or excavated out of solid rock, all of them in regular use to this day. Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has the best known cluster, but the northern region of Tigray, less well known and more remote, has many churches that are architectural masterpieces of the basilical type. Ethiopia: The Living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom traces the broad sweep of ecclesiastic history, legend, art, and faith in this sub-Saharan African kingdom as seen through the prism of sixty-six breathtaking churches, unveiling the secrets of their medieval murals, their colorful history, and the rich panoply of their religious festivals, all illustrated with more than eight hundred superb color photographs by some of the most celebrated international photographers of traditional cultures. This magnificent, large-format, full-color volume is the most comprehensive celebration yet published of Ethiopia’s extraordinary Christian heritage. Ethiopia is the third book on iconic places of worship published by Ludwig Publishing and the American University in Cairo Press, following the bestselling success of The Churches of Egypt and The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo.

Ideal for a variety of courses in materials science, Properties of Materials offers students a wide-ranging and introductory survey of this exciting field. It uses an atomic and molecular approach to introduce the basic principles of materials science from the perspective of various properties--optical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, and mechanical--highlighting the relationships among the properties. Opening with a general introduction to issues in materials science, the text goes on to discuss various types of matter: metals, semiconductors (intrinsic and extrinsic), insulators, glasses, orientationally disordered crystals, defective solids, liquid crystals, Fullerenes, Langmuir-Blodgett films, colloids, inclusion compounds, and more. The volume incorporates several pedagogical features including extensive further reading suggestions and problems at the end of each chapter, comment sections on applications of materials science, comprehensive biographical notes on major contributors to the field, and a helpful website that updates recent references to the contemporary literature. In addition, the book includes unique tutorials that enable students to apply the principles they have learned in order to work out the physical principles behind such important advances as the photocopy process, photography, fiber optics, heat storage materials, magnetic devices, and more.

Stressed Out!: Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcome Stress is an easy-to-read guide for parents to help their children understand stress, its effects on kids'' day-to-day lives, and how to handle it. The book suggests stress management solutions that can be implemented by even the busiest parents and kids, focusing on a variety of common stressful situations that are grouped according to three categories--school, family, or environmental. Strategies include sample dialogues parents can use in conversation with their child and activities to help children gain insight and understanding into the nature of their stress, such as worksheets, role-play scenarios, or children''s stories. Designed for maximum accessibility, parents and their children can immediately apply and reinforce the solutions. Inherent in each chapter is the underlying understanding that stress in children is very individual and solutions need to be individualized to fit the circumstances and personality of each child. 2018 NAGC Book of the Year Award Winner

Traditionally, there has been an implicit acceptance of the autonomy of the artwork and a blindness to what Mary Anne Staniszewski calls "the power of display." In this groundbreaking examination of installation design as an aesthetic medium, Staniszewski offers the first history of exhibitions at the most powerful and influential modern art museum--The Museum of Modern Art in New York. MoMA''s displays are analyzed in relation to those of the avant-gardes of the first half of the 20th century to make visible the "political unconscious" of exhibitions and the often overlooked foundations of contemporary practices, such as viewer interactivity and site specificity, as well as multimedia, electronic, and installation-based art.

For introductory courses in computer concepts or computer literacy often including instruction in Microsoft Office. & A Computer Concepts Text Focused on Today& '' s Student! & Technology in Action engages students by combining& a unique teaching approach with rich companion media.

Mary Anne Oliver develops an alternate to ''celibate'' religious practices, drawing from the experience of couples and diverse sources in the Christian tradition. This work explores the dynamics of conjugal love.

Swordplay, scandal, and sex—welcome to the world of Tremontaine, a glittering new entry in Ellen Kushner''s classic Riverside series. This is the 4th episode in the second season of Tremontaine, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Joel Derfner. Diane begins to gather support for her bid to become duchess in her own right. Rafe uses Arthur in his quest to find Will. Micah, confronted by Diane, wonders if the duchess is a secretly a mathematician. And after a strange encounter with a shadowy Riverside criminal, Kaab fights her first professional duel. Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. A Duchess whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; a handsome young scholar with more passion than sense; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius whose discoveries herald revolution when games of politics begin, no one is safe. Keep your wit as sharp as your steel in this world where politics is everything, and outcasts are the tastemakers.

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A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism, racism, and classism to take on crucial roles in the establishment and growth of Modernism across the United States. Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy describe how the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Massachusetts evolved for the professional education of women between 1916 and 1942. While alumnae such as Eleanor Agnes Raymond, Victorine du Pont Homsey, and Sarah Pillsbury Harkness achieved some notoriety, others like Elizabeth-Ann Campbell Knapp and Louisa Vaughan Conrad have been largely absent from histories of Modernism. Hunting and Murphy describe how these innovative practitioners capitalized on social, educational, and professional ties to achieve success and used architecture to address social concerns, including how modernist ideas could engage with community and the environment. Some joined women-led architectural firms while others partnered with men or contributed to Modernism as retailers of household furnishings, writers and educators, photographers and designers, or fine artists. With stunning illustrations, Women Architects at Work offers new histories of recognized figures while recovering the stories of previously unsung women, all of whom contributed to the modernization of American architecture and design.

Liturgical prayer and sacramental celebration are of profound importance for the life of a the Christian community. It is especially important, then for Catechumenate Team leaders to be able to lead good prayer experiences for those who are being initiated into the Church community. Mary Anne Ravizza offers team formation for liturgical prayer, along with reflections on the nature of liturgical prayer. The book also offers an exploration of praying with catechumens and candidates, as well as criteria for evaluating prayer sessions in the catechumenate, with helps for presiding at liturgical prayer.

In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain’s transformation into the home of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and provide important literary evidence for the development of Buddhism in China. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the poems using Buddhist scriptures and pilgrimage records, as well as the contemporaneous wall-painting of Mount Wutai in Dunhuang cave 61. The poems demonstrate how the mountain was created as a sacred Buddhist space, as their motifs reflect the cosmology associated with the mountain by the Tang dynasty, and they vividly portray the experience of the pilgrim traveling through a divinely empowered landscape.

In "Rudiments of Conchology: Intended as a Familiar Introduction to the Science," Mary Anne Venning embarks on a systematic exploration of the intricate world of mollusks. This work is characterized by its accessible prose and pedagogical style, designed to demystify the complexities of conchology for the curious layperson. Venning meticulously categorizes various species, offering insightful illustrations that illuminate the diverse forms and habits of these creatures, situating her work within the broader context of 19th-century natural sciences that sought to make scientific knowledge approachable and engaging for a popular audience. Mary Anne Venning, an author and naturalist of her time, was deeply inspired by the blooming interest in natural history and science education that characterized the Victorian era. Her background and systematic approach reflect her commitment to enlightening readers about the significance of mollusks in ecological and evolutionary studies. Venning''Äôs work can be seen as part of a larger movement aiming to bridge the gap between scientific communities and the public, fostering a newfound appreciation for the natural world. This book is highly recommended for enthusiasts of natural history, educators, and anyone with a keen interest in the natural sciences. Venning''s approachable style and thorough research make this an indispensable foundational text in conchology, encouraging readers to appreciate the beauty and complexity of marine life.

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