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Autore |
Gould Claudia |
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Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field / Claudia Gould ; foreword by Lee Haring |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (126 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Protestants - North Carolina |
Ethnology |
Parables |
Religious fiction, American |
Short stories, American |
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Morganton (N.C.) Social life and customs Fiction |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Jesus in America -- A red crayon -- The mountains of spices -- Personal storage -- A moment of rapture -- Jack at the mercy seat. |
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Claudia Gould draws on fieldwork she conducted, as an anthropologist, in North Carolina, where she earlier spent large parts of her childhood, among a net of paternal relations. From that ethnography and from lifelong observation, she crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist Christian belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them pull us into the complicated, variable core of religious experience among southern American Christians. Jesus in America, a perceptive work rich with cultural insight, is a singular addition to the growing genre of ethnographic fiction. |
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UNINA9910782268703321 |
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Autore |
Akiyama J |
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A day's adventure in math wonderland [[electronic resource] /] / Jin Akiyama, Mari-Jo Ruiz |
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River Edge, N. J., : World Scientific, c2008 |
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1-281-96816-1 |
9786611968168 |
981-281-477-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p. ) : ill. (chiefly col.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Mathematics - Study and teaching |
Manipulatives (Education) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-233). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Math is fun? -- Fat triangles & flattened bagels -- Cool curves -- A roomful of right triangles -- Math in music -- Pachinko math -- GCF-LCM machine -- Baumkuchen, spaghetti & watermelon -- Automat(h) -- A slice of a cone -- Paper twists -- Fold and cut -- Jigsaws from tetrahedrons -- Single & double duty solids -- Reversible solids --All the way home. |
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Math Wonderland is a museum of interactive mathematical models in Hokkaido, Japan, founded by one of the authors, Jin Akiyama, in 2003. The models in Wonderland, many of which have been exhibited all over Japan and in cities around the world, are meant to help children and young adults discover and experience the wonders of mathematics. This book is centered around the experiences of three fictional middle-school students during a visit to Wonderland. They spend a day in Wonderland, handling the interactive models and participating in the activities offered there. At the end of the day, they leave with a genuine appreciation of mathematics gained from witnessing its beauty, applicability and inevitability. The book is an important contribution to the genre because it presents mathematics and models that have never before appeared in books in the same category: reversible solids, plane tiling with developments of tetrahedrons, and double-packable solids, |
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which are derived from the authors' own research papers published in mathematics journals. It is designed to entertain, inform and even teach some mathematics. Although it is targeted at young adults, parents and teachers may learn something from the book as well. |
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