![]() ![]() But I didn't know they were part of the geography department. ![]() "Ah, right, we have Asian and African and Latin American studies programs here. "Some geographers specialize in different world regions." "Sociology, economics, cultural studies, poli sci." But we also study the social and economic and cultural and geopolitical sides of-" ![]() "How is that different from ecology or environmental science?" Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings 3.9 (12) Paperback 18.00 Paperback 18.00 eBook 13.99 Audiobook 0. We're also interested in how humans relate to their planet." "It's broader than just physical geography. "So, it's like oceanography or hydrology." Geographers also study oceans, lakes, the water cycle." "Well, yes, but we're interested in the whole world, not just the rocky bits. "Geography is Greek for 'writing about the earth.' We study the Earth." Imagine the poor geographer trying to explain to someone at a campus cocktail party (or even to an unsympathetic adminitrator) exactly what it is he or she studies. “The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline. ![]()
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As I said before the pictures of the students in this book represent students across several different ethnicities. The way this book is graphically presented speaks so much to the title of this book. If we were all the same then there would be nothing that we could learn from one another. Diversity among each other makes life worth living and we can learn from each other because those differences exist. ![]() ![]() This book would also be a great tool to show students how everyone is different and how it is okay to be different from one another. Several ethnicities are observed through this book as the author has chosen to take pictures of students that are Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American. Each sentence on every page begins with “I am” and then finishes out with a characteristic of the student or something that they like to do. 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Fearing something is amiss, Hermux follows the rat, and soon finds himself in the middle of a dangerous web of deception and intrigue.What has happened to Ms. Instead, a shady-looking rat comes in and damands her watch. ![]() Perflinger again, but she doesn't return. Linka Perflinger, dashing daredevil aviatrix and adventuress, bursts into his watch shop, drops off a broken watch, and steals his heart.Hermux can't wait to see Ms. But his quiet life takes a dramatic turn when Ms. Watchmaker Hermux Tantamoq is a hardworking mouse who is thankful for ordinary things: donuts, coffee, peaceful evenings at home with his pet ladybug. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Krosoczka was also an instructor at Montserrat College of Art for four years. (He had been submitting for two years at that point.) His first book, Good Night, Monkey Boy, was published on June 12, 2001, by Random House. 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National Book Award finalist ( Hey, Kiddo) ![]() Krosoczka at the 2015 National Book Festival ![]() ![]() ![]() Jin starts to think of himself as a punchline for white amusement. Every interaction with Wei-Chen results in them getting humiliated in public. Wei-Chen’s outspoken confidence and unawareness constantly conflict with Jin’s desire for unwanted attention. Jin's hopes shatter once he's assigned to guide new Chinese exchange student Wei-Chen (Jimmy Liu) through his school. ![]() He also hopes to get his crush, Amelia (Sydney Taylor), to notice him. As he enters the tenth grade, Jin is desperate to assimilate into the school’s homogeneous system, play for the school soccer team, and befriend his obnoxious jock teammates. At his predominantly white high school, he disregards everything he considers embarrassing about himself: His love for manga and anime, his Chinese heritage, and his nerdy/cosplaying best friend Anuj (Mahi Alam) are all banished from his orbit. At home, the marriage between his mom Christine (Yeo Yann Yann), and dad Simon ( Chin Han), hangs by a thread. ![]() Developed by “Bob’s Burgers'' writer/producer Kelvin Yu, the series centers on Jin Wang (Ben Wang), a second-gen Chinese American teenager in suburban California who wants to lead an ‘American’ life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New and longtime “fans will be enthralled” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) by this gripping and richly told addition to a masterful series. But his fiercest enemy in this deadly game of cat and mouse may well be his own deep self-doubt about his ability to save those he loves. ![]() He knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. ![]() Desperate, Cork begins tracking the killers but his own skills as a hunter are severely tested by nightfall and a late season snowstorm. Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. The New York Times bestselling Cork OConnor Mystery Series returns with this genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel (TheNew York Times Book Review) as. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. The New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery Series returns with this “genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel” ( The New York Times Book Review ) as Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will his feelings for Nikki be enough to stop Luis from entering a dark and violent world and permanently living on the edge? When Chuy reveals a disturbing secret about Luis’s family, the youngest Fuentes finds himself questioning everything he’s ever believed to be true. Getting Nikki to take a chance on a south sider is Luis’s biggest challenge, until he finds himself targeted by Chuy Soto, the new head of the Latino Blood. ![]() ![]() Then she meets Luis at Alex’s wedding, and suddenly, she’s tempted to break all her rules. Her parents may be from Mexico, but as a doctor’s daughter, she has more in common with her north-side neighbors than the Latino Blood at her school. 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Judges rectified this in 2013 when the Edgar award of Best Novel went to Lehane’s Live By Night, a mob caper set during the Prohibition era. For many years, Lehane’s work, while taking home many international literary accolades, failed to bring home the biggest prize in crime writing, the Edgar Award. ![]() Then he started producing other powerhouse novels like Shutter Island and Mystic River-books that brought alive the mean streets of the city and plumbed the darkness of the human heart. As a Boston native and crime fiction lover since childhood, I always felt like I got on the Dennis Lehane train early, with his superb first entry in the Kenzie and Gennaro PI series, A Drink Before the War. ![]() ![]() A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. ![]() Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. This island paradise has secrets it would keep not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War. Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. ![]() |