In the Kingdom of the Sick (Inbunden)
avLaurie Edwards
ISBN: 9780802718013 - UTGIVEN: 201306Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ...Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live w[...]
Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works (Häftad)
avTillie Olsen, Laurie Olsen, Rebekah Edwards
ISBN: 9780803245778 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09A century after her birth, Tillie Olsen's writing is as relevant as when it first appeared; indeed, the clarity and passion of her vision and style have, if anything, become even more striking over time. Collected here for the first time are several of Olsen's nonfiction pieces about the 1930s, earl[...]
Emerging Perspectives on Gesture and Embodiment in Mathematics (Inbunden)
avLaurie D. (EDT) Edwards, Francesca (EDT) Ferrara, Deborah (EDT) Moore-russo
ISBN: 9781623965549 - UTGIVEN: 2014-10The purpose of the book is to establish a common language for, and understanding of, embodiment as it applies to mathematical thinking, and to link mathematics education research to recent work in gesture studies, cognitive linguistics and the theory of embodied cognition. Just as in past decades, m[...]
