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Vanishing Acts
by Phillip M. Margolin; Ami Margolin Rome<p>First Day of 7th Grade—To Do: Find locker, Soccer tryouts 3 p.m., Solve murder case. <p>It's the middle of the night. Junior high starts tomorrow. Madison Kincaid jolts awake to the sound of a phone call from the jailhouse. It's a new case for her father, a renowned defense attorney: Someone's been accused of murdering Madison's second-grade teacher. But no body has turned up. Bent on becoming a lawyer just like her dad, Madison's determined to help him crack the case. <p>At school the next day, Madison finds she's got not one but two mysteries on her plate. Her best friend, Ann, is nowhere to be found. With the help of Jake Stephenson, a fellow soccer player at Pettygrove Junior High, Madison hits the sidewalks of Portland, Oregon, ready to find out just what's hiding behind these two vanishing acts.</p>
Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up
by Jason Cheeseman-MeyerMaster perspective like the pros!Vanishing Pointshows you how to conquer the fundamentals of perspective drawing and then equips you with technical tricks and tools that make dynamic and complex scenes a snap. This complete guide helps you build your understanding of perspective to an intuitive level so you can draw anything you can imagine. Inside you'll find: Complete instruction on drawing in one-, two- and three-point perspective and four- and five-point curvilinear perspective (where "straight" lines are drawn as curves). Curvilinear perspective has not been taught in any other perspective book - until now! Full-color, step-by-step demonstrations move you beyond the theories and let you practice the techniques in real scenes. A special chapter on drawing curves helps you break out of the box and draw cylinders, ellipses, cars and, most importantly, people in perfect perspective. Shortcuts and tips show you how to create believable perspective in no time flat. No matter what your skill level,Vanishing Pointoffers you a new way of looking at perspective and lets you draw as though you have decades of drawing experience - even if you don't. You'll learn everything you need to know to pour your imagination on the page with power and confidence.
The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2)
by Maureen JohnsonIn New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life. <P><P>The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years. It’s the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate was murdered, and her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say. She must move past this obsession with crime. <P><P>Stevie’s willing to do anything to get back to Ellingham, be back with her friends, and solve the Truly Devious case. Even if it means making a deal with the despicable Senator Edward King. And when Stevie finally returns, she also returns to David: the guy she kissed, and the guy who lied about his identity—Edward King’s son. <P><P>But larger issues are at play. Where did the murderer hide? What’s the meaning of the riddle Albert Ellingham left behind? And what, exactly, is at stake in the Truly Devious affair? The Ellingham case isn’t just a piece of history—it’s a live wire into the present. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Vanity Fair's Schools For Scandal: The Inside Dramas at 16 of America's Most Elite Campuses—Plus Oxford!
by Graydon CarterVanity Fair editor Graydon Carter shares a definitive, provocative collection of the magazine’s finest dispatches on the political, sexual, and administrative scandals that have swept our nation’s campuses.Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal, edited by Graydon Carter, with an introduction by Cullen Murphy, brings together the magazine’s finest reporting on the scandals that have swept our nation’s most elite campuses over the past twenty-five years—all in one definitive, provocative volume. The stories collected here speak to an American obsession with status and to the lengths we will go to achieve it, preserve it, or destroy it—from the enduring, shadowy influence of Yale’s secret societies to the infamous “senior salute” at St. Paul’s School; from the false accusations in the Duke lacrosse team’s infamous rape case to the (mis)reportage of a sexual assault at the University of Virginia; from a deadly extreme-sport episode at Oxford to the Keystone Kop theft of a college’s rare books to the allegations of fraud by the now-shuttered Trump University. Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal brings focus to the perils facing American education today and how the life of the mind, and the significance of the institutions meant to foster it, has been negatively impacted by the partisan politics of privatization, tensions over so-called political correctness, the fraught dynamic of the teacher-student relationship, and what happens when visions for a bold future collide with the desire to maintain hidebound (or venerable) traditions. With an array of Vanity Fair’s signature writers—including Buzz Bissinger, William D. Cohan, Sarah Ellison, Evgenia Peretz, Todd S. Purdum, and Sam Tanenhaus, among others—Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal presents a compelling if troubling account of the state of elite education today, and the evolving social, sexual, racial, and economic forces that have shaped it.
Vanya Pranishrusti
by Kanaiyalal Ramanujઆ પુસ્તકમાં પ્રાણીજગતનાં થોડાં પ્રાણીઓની સુરેખ આપવા મેં પ્રયત્ન કર્યો છે. હું કોઈ પ્રાણીનિષ્ણાત નથી. જે ક્ષતિઓ હોય તે અત્યારે વાચકો ક્ષમય ગણશે. ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યમાં આવું પ્રથમ પુસ્તક હોઈ, વાચક વર્ગ આવકારશે તેવી મને ખાતરી છે. - કનૈયાલાલ રામાનુજ
Varalaaru (History) 11th Standard - Tamilnadu Board
by State Council of Educational Research TrainingVaralaaru (History) Textbook for the 11th Standard Students, preparing for Tamil Nadu State Board Exam.
Varalaaru (History) 12th Standard - Tamilnadu Board
by State Council of Educational Research TrainingVaralaaru (History) Textbook for the 12th Standard Students, preparing for Tamil Nadu State Board Exam.
Variational Methods for Eigenvalue Problems: An Introduction to the Weinstein Method of Intermediate Problems (Second Edition) (Mathematical Expositions #10)
by S. H. GouldThe first edition of this book gave a systematic exposition of the Weinstein method of calculating lower bounds of eigenvalues by means of intermediate problems. From the reviews of this edition and from subsequent shorter expositions it has become clear that the method is of considerable interest to the mathematical world; this interest has increased greatly in recent years by the success of some mathematicians in simplifying and extending the numerical applications, particularly in quantum mechanics. Until now new developments have been available only in articles scattered throughout the literature: this second edition presents them systematically in the framework of the material contained in the first edition, which is retained in somewhat modified form.
Varied Voices: On Language and Literacy Learning
by Linda Lonon Blanton"I can say with certainty that this book will add a compelling sense of depth and texture to the existing body of research in first and second language literacy." --Patricia Richard-Amato, California State University at Los Angeles Varied Voices is an ethnographic study of language and literacy learning in a culturally and linguistically diverse Moroccan school. There, children and teachers turn classrooms into social spaces as they work to build learning communities. Suitable for MATESOL courses and in-service training, Varied Voices is a must-read for all instructors working with language minority students at the elementary and secondary school levels.
Varieties of Female Gothic Vol 5
by Gary KellyThis text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.
Varieties of Qualitative Research Methods: Selected Contextual Perspectives (Springer Texts in Education)
by Janet Mola Okoko Scott Tunison Keith D. WalkerThis book is a compilation of more than 70 qualitative research concepts that are used by researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities. The concepts include methods and methodologies applied in qualitative research in various contexts. Each concept is a standalone chapter that is authored by a researcher or practitioner who has had some scholarly experience with it. The chapters are alphabetized using the titles of the concepts to provide easy access for readers. They follow a prescribed outline which ensures homogeneity in the layout of the book. Each chapter starts with a brief historical background of the concept, followed by a concise description of the concept, and the process used in its application. Readers are then provided with the possible ways in which the concept can be used, and its benefits. Each chapter concludes by providing readers with some strengths and limitations of the concept and a list of references that authors have used in the chapter.
The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500
by Marjolijn BolA new history of the techniques, materials, and aesthetic ambitions that gave rise to the radiant verisimilitude of Jan van Eyck’s oil paintings on panel. Panel painters in both the middle ages and the fifteenth century created works that evoke the luster of precious stones, the sheen of polished gold and silver, and the colorful radiance of stained glass. Yet their approaches to rendering these materials were markedly different. Marjolijn Bol explores some of the reasons behind this radical transformation by telling the history of the two oil painting techniques used to depict everything that glistens and glows—varnish and glaze. For more than a century after his death, the fifteenth-century painter Jan van Eyck was widely credited with inventing varnish and oil paint, on account of his unique visual realism. Once this was revealed to be a myth, the verisimilitude of his work was attributed instead to a new translucent painting technique: the glaze. Today, most theories about how Van Eyck achieved this realism revolve around the idea that he was the first to discover or refine the glazing technique. Bol, however, argues that, rather than being a fifteenth-century refinement, varnishing and glazing began centuries before. Drawing from an extensive body of recipes, Bol pieces together how varnishes and glazes were first developed as part of the medieval art of material mimesis. Artisans embellished metalwork and wood with varnishes and glazes to imitate gold and gems; infused rock crystal with oil, resin, and colorants to imitate more precious minerals; and oiled parchment to transform it into the appearance of green glass. Likewise, medieval panel painters used varnishes and glazes to create the look of enamel, silk, and more. The explorations of materials and their optical properties by these artists stimulated natural philosophers to come up with theories about transparent and translucent materials produced by the earth. Natural historians, influenced by medieval artists’ understanding of refraction and reflection, developed theories about gems, their creation, and their optical qualities.
Varsity 170 (Gravel Road series)
by Evan JacobsNever in his wildest dreams could he imagine his best day turning into his worst. Chad and Marcus ruled the school. Smart. Athletic. Popular. A looming wrestle off for their weight class made Chad jumpy. Marcus told him to chill. But with one slam to the mat, Marcus would be dead.
Varsity's Soldiers: The University of Toronto Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps, 1914−1968 (The Canadian Experience of War)
by Eric McGeerThe role of Canadian universities in selecting and training officers for the armed forces is an important yet overlooked chapter in the history of higher education in Canada. For more than fifty years, the University of Toronto supported the largest and most active contingent of the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC), which sent thousands of officer candidates into the regular and reserve forces. Based on the rich fund of documents housed in the university archives, Varsity’s Soldiers offers the first full-length history of military training in Toronto. Beginning with the formation of a student rifle company in 1861, and focussing on the story of the COTC from 1914 to 1968, author Eric McGeer seeks to enlarge appreciation of the university’s remarkable contribution to the defence of Canada, the place of military education in an academic setting, and the experience of the students who embodied the ideal of service to alma mater and to country.
Vasant
by National Council Of Educational Research TrainingThis book prescribed by central board of secondary education, India for the students of class 6th subject Hindi, studying through Hindi medium. This accessible version of the book doesn't leave any part of the book. The book is handy companion of the school and university students desiring to read facts in interesting way. NCERT books are must read for aspirants of competitive and job related examinations in India.
Vasant Bhag 2
by National Council Of Educational Research TrainingThis book prescribed by central board of secondary education, India for the students of class 7th subject Hindi, studying through Hindi medium. This accessible version of the book doesn’t leave any part of the book. The book is handy companion of the school and university students desiring to read facts in interesting way. NCERT books are must read for aspirants of competitive and job related examinations in India.
Vasant Bhag 2 class 7 - NCERT: वसंत भाग 2 कक्षा 7 - एनसीईआरटी
by Rashtriy Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadयह पाठ्यपुस्तक राष्ट्रीय पाठ्यचर्या की रूपरेखा (2005) के आधार पर तैयार किए गए पाठ्यक्रम पर आधारित है। यह पारंपरिक भाषा-शिक्षण की कई सीमाओं से आगे जाती है। राष्ट्रीय पाठ्यचर्या की नयी रूपरेखा भाषा को विद्यार्थी के व्यक्तित्व का सबसे समृद्ध संसाधन मानते हुए उसे पाठ्यक्रम के हर विषय से जोड़कर देखती है। इस नाते पाठ्यसामग्री का चयन और अभ्यासों में विद्यार्थी के भाषायी विकास की समग्रता को ध्यान में रखा गया है। कई प्रश्न-अभ्यास भाषा शिक्षण की परिचित परिधि से बाहर जाकर प्रकृति, समाज, विज्ञान, इतिहास आदि में विद्यार्थी की जिज्ञासा को नए आयाम देते हैं। पाठ केंद्रित प्रश्नों को क्रमशः विस्तार देते हुए पाठ के आसपास के ज्ञान-क्षेत्रों को भी दूसरे प्रश्न-समूहों में साथ रखने का प्रयास किया गया है। भाषा की बात करते हुए ऐसे शब्दों और प्रयोगों पर विद्यार्थी का ध्यान दिलाया गया है जिन्हें समाज की जीवंतता को साहित्यिक कृतियों में समेटते हुए साहित्यकार अपनी कृति में रखना आवश्यक समझते हैं और अकसर ऐसे आंचलिक शब्द और वाक्य प्रयोग आज के शहरी जीवन में अपेक्षाकृत कम सुनाई पड़ते हैं।
VASANT bhag 3
by National Council Of Educational Research TrainingThis book prescribed by central board of secondary education, India for the students of class 8th subject Hindi, studying through Hindi medium. This accessible version of the book doesn't leave any part of the book. The book is handy companion of the school and university students desiring to read facts in interesting way. NCERT books are must read for aspirants of competitive and job related examinations in India.
Vasant Bhag 3 class 8 - NCERT: वसंत भाग 3 कक्षा 8 - एनसीईआरटी
by Rashtriy Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadकक्षा 8 के लिए हिंदी की पाठ्यपुस्तक, एन.सी.ई.आर.टी. इस पुस्तक की रचना के लिए बनाई गई पाठ्यपुस्तक निर्माण समिति के परिश्रम के लिए कृतज्ञता व्यक्त करती है। परिषद् भाषा सलाहकार समिति के अध्यक्ष प्रोफ़ेसर नामवर सिंह और इस पुस्तक के मुख्य सलाहकार प्रोफ़ेसर पुरुषोत्तम अग्रवाल की विशेष आभारी है। इस पाठ्यपुस्तक के विकास में कई शिक्षकों ने योगदान किया, इस योगदान को संभव बनाने के लिए हम उनके प्राचार्यों के आभारी हैं। हम उन सभी संस्थाओं और संगठनों के प्रति कृतज्ञ हैं जिन्होंने अपने संसाधनों, सामग्री तथा सहयोगियों की मदद लेने में हमें उदारतापूर्वक सहयोग दिया। हम माध्यमिक एवं उच्च शिक्षा विभाग, मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्रालय द्वारा प्रोफ़ेसर मृणाल मीरी एवं प्रोफ़ेसर जी.पी. देशपांडे की अध्यक्षता में गठित निगरानी समिति (मॉनिटरिंग कमेटी) के सदस्यों को अपना मूल्यवान समय और सहयोग देने के लिए धन्यवाद देते हैं।
Vasari on Technique: Being The Introduction To The Three Arts Of Design, Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Prefixed to the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Dover Art Instruction)
by Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that Vasari was a painter and architect as well as a biographer, and that he wrote one of the most valuable treatises on the technical methods of the painters, architects, and sculptors of his time. This is the first and only English translation of this important technical material (originally published in 1550 as an introduction to Vasari's Lives of the Artists).Vasari, as a practical craftsman, brings to his work as unusual understanding of the processes and materials he writes about, and conveys this knowledge to the reader in a style of the pleasantest and most readable kind. In the section on architecture, he describes the methods used in constructing rustic fountains and grottos; how Michelangelo developed new uses for architectural materials; the architectural uses of enriched plaster; the Renaissance view of Ionic, Doric, Gothic, and other types of architecture; and many similar topics.In the selection on sculpture, the reader will learn about the making of the model, completion of the statue, reliefs, bronze casting, modelled plaster work, sculpture in wood, and other processes. The final section, on painting, discusses aesthetics, perspective, foreshortening, how colors were blended, fresco painting, painting in tempera, oil painting, and much more.Scholars and historians of art have long used this book as the most detailed and valuable sourcebook of its time. But its full, readable discussions, combined with the sense of actuality and historical presence it contains, make it also perhaps the best possible description of the Renaissance artists in the heyday of their achievement.
Väter und ihre Söhne
by Alexander CherdronDas Buch widmet sich der Vater-Sohn-Beziehung – und zwar mit Blick auf jedermann; ebenso wie es Söhnen und Vätern anregende und aufschlussreiche Lektüre sein soll, können Psychotherapeuten und Berater mit Gewinn mitlesen. Nach einem historischen Abriss der Vater-Sohn-Beziehung wird deren Wandel im Laufe der Lebensphasen für beide Beteiligten und die Veränderung der Vaterrolle, insbesondere in der jüngeren Zeit hin zum soziologischen Terminus des „modernen Vaters“, beleuchtet. Auch aktuelle Ergebnisse der Väter-Forschung finden Beachtung. Aus tiefenpsychologischer Betrachtung werden klassische Konflikte der Vater-Sohn-Beziehung aufgezeigt und mit Fallbeispielen verdeutlicht. Das Spektrum ist breit und gut lesbar: vom „Normalen“, auch gesamt-gesellschaftlich Bedeutsamen (z. B. in der aktuellen Diskussionen um die sog. Generation Y) bis hin zu den oftmals tragischen unglücklichen Folgen, pathologisch ausgetragener Vater-Sohn-Konflikte.
Väter und ihre Söhne: Eine besondere Beziehung
by Alexander CherdronDieses Sachbuch widmet sich der Vater-Sohn-Beziehung – und zwar mit Blick auf jedermann; ebenso wie es Söhnen und Vätern (und Müttern) anregende und aufschlussreiche Lektüre sein soll, können Psychotherapeuten und Berater mit Gewinn mitlesen. Es werden zunächst Aspekte beleuchtet, die Vater-Werden, Mann-Sein und Sohn-Sein heute beinhalten. Anschließend wird der Wandel der Vater-Rolle und des Vater-Bildes, insbesondere in der jüngeren Zeit, dargestellt. Untermauert durch aktuelle Ergebnisse der Väter-Forschung wird die besondere Rolle des Vaters für die Entwicklung der Söhne erläutert. Hierbei werden phasenspezifische Entwicklungsschritte und das lebenslange Wechselspiel der Gefühlswelten zwischen beiden Beteiligten „einfühlbar“. Aus tiefenpsychologischer Betrachtung werden klassische Spannungsfelder zwischen Vätern und Söhnen aufgezeigt und an Hand von Fallbeispielen verdeutlicht. Gut lesbar wird hierbei das ganze Spektrum betrachtet: von der „normalen“ Entwicklung, auch in gesamtgesellschaftlichen Kontexten, bis hin zu den oftmals tragischen Folgen unglücklich verlaufender Vater-Sohn-Beziehungen. Aus dem Inhalt: Teil I Die Vater-Sohn-Beziehung in Geschichte und Gegenwart, soziologisch und psychoanalytisch betrachtet – Teil II Kommentierte Fallgeschichten. Der Autor: Dr. med. Alexander Cherdron ist Facharzt für Allgemeinmedizin, Psychotherapeut und Psychoanalytiker in eigener Praxis in Wiesbaden.
Vaterschaft in Regenbogenfamilien: Eine Fallstudie zur Familiengestaltung und Elternpraxis homosexueller Männer (Familienforschung)
by Christian SagertChristian Sagert geht in diesem Buch der Frage auf den Grund, wie Väter ihre Lebenspraxis in gemeinsam realisierten Regenbogenfamilien gestalten, in denen eine normativ idealisierte Mutterrolle vermeintlich nicht existiert. Die qualitative Studie legt den Fokus erstmals auf Männerpaare, die den Wunsch nach Familiengründung fern von heterosexuellen Gründungszusammenhängen realisiert haben und macht dabei deutlich, welche Wirkungsmacht heteronormative Gesellschaftsstrukturen gerade für diese Familien entfalten. Daneben wird ein ausführlicher Überblick über die Lebenssituationen dieser Familien in Deutschland geboten: So werden u.a. die verschiedenen Entstehungszusammenhänge, die rechtliche Rahmung sowie Heteronormativität und Stigmata herausgestellt.
Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education: The impact and legacy of Gravissimum Educationis
by Sean WhittleIt is only in the years since Vatican II that the new thinking about Catholic education has crystalised into shape. Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education provides an opportune moment to take stock of the impact of Vatican II on Catholic education. This volume considers the various ways in which Vatican II and its teaching on education has been received and engages with the challenges and testing times that beset faith-based education in the twenty-first century. With insights from an international range of leading and influential advocates of Catholic education, the volume demonstrates the differing contexts of Catholic education and explores the ways in which Vatican II’s teaching on education has been received over the past four or five decades.