Like its predecessors, the third in the series offers a collection of practical techniques for the computer graphics programmer. The "gems" are accessible and useful in formulating clean, fast programs and provide a wide variety of approaches. All of the code from this volume as well as the first two are included on the accompanying disk. A number of images generated through these algorithms are included in a color insert. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Graphics Gems III

Computers & Technology

KIRK, DAVID

Programming

Academic Pr

Welcome to the world of Miss Spider and her Sunny Patch friends! In a delightful first story, Miss Spider tries to arrange a tea party and begs the bugs to stay but they shriek "oh no" and run away! Happily, a sudden rainstorm changes their minds and a tea party is soon in full swing.

Miss Spiders Tea Party

Children's Books

Animals

Ladybird Books, Ltd.

Miss Spider has met a wonderful spider man who is wise, kind and sincere - perhaps he's her Mr Right. But when her well-meaning friends set out to find her a more dashing mate, the suave arachnid strongman they choose threatens to destroy even the best-spun spider plans.

Miss Spiders Wedding

Penguin Putnam~trade

Inspired by the true story of sixteenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto, David Kirk has crafted a rich, absorbing novel of one young man’s coming of age at a crucial turning point in Japanese history. Thirteen-year-old Bennosuke is deeply disconnected from the rest of his village. When he was five, his mother died, and his father, a powerful samurai, has been traveling the country in service to his lord ever since. Raised by his uncle, a monk, who has tried to teach his charge to eschew violence and martial glory and embrace knowledge and peace, Bennosuke worships his absent, renowned father, Munisai. Subject to shifting alliances beyond his control, Munisai has become indebted to the odious Nakata clan. This escalating feud forces him to return home to his village—followed by his enemies. Now Bennosuke will be forced to confront harsh truths about his family history and his own place in it—and to choose between the paths of samurai and monk.

Child of Vengeance (Saga of Musashi Miyamoto)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Anchor

Samurai Musashi Miyamoto may have survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, but not without making enemies among the Yoshioka school of warriors. The second Musashi shows his face in Kyoto, he knows they will do everything in their power to make good on their threat to feed him to the crows. Still, taking down the Yoshioka is a crucial step in abolishing the “way of the sword,” an ancient code that binds samurai to their masters with unquestioning obedience. Musashi is prepared to risk everything … but even his spectacular gifts with the sword may prove no match for the cunning of powerful lords.

Sword of Honor: A Novel (Saga of Musashi Miyamoto)

United States

Models-based Practice in Physical Education (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport)

This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of over 40 years of research on models in physical education to suggest Models-based Practice (MbP) as an innovative future approach to physical education. It lays out the ideal conditions for MbP to flourish by situating pedagogical models at the core of physical education programs and allowing space for local agency and the co-construction of practice. 
Starting from the premise that true MbP does not yet exist, the book makes a case for the term "pedagogical model" over alternatives such as curriculum model and instructional model, and explains how learners’ cognitive, social, affective and psychomotor needs should be organised in ways that are distinctive and unique to each model. It examines the core principles underpinning the pedagogical models that make up MbP, including pedagogical models as organising centres for program design and as design specifications for developing local programs. The book also explores how a common structure can be applied to analyse pedagogical models at macro, meso and micro levels of discourse. Having created a language through which to talk about pedagogical models and MbP, the book concludes by identifying the conditions - some existing and some aspirational - under which MbP can prosper in reforming physical education. 
An essential read for academics, doctoral and post-graduate students, and pre-service and in-service teachers, Models-based Practice in Physical Education is a vital point of reference for anyone who is interested in pedagogical models and wants to embrace this potential future of physical education.

Casey, Ashley

Sports & Outdoors

Routledge

Precarity, Critical Pedagogy and Physical Education (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport)

This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people. It exposes physical educators' unpreparedness to provide inclusive, fair and equitable forms of physical education that might empower young people to overcome the mal effects of precarity. Following a thorough analysis and critique of critical pedagogy, David Kirk advocates for critical pedagogies of affect as physical education's response to precarity, providing detailed outlines of these pedagogies and their grounding in research. He argues that now more than ever physical educators need to be alive to the serious social and economic challenges that shape young people's health, happiness and life chances. This bold and provocative book is essential reading for all researchers in the field of physical education and health education pedagogy, as well as teacher educators, curriculum policy makers, and other professionals who work with young people living in precarity.

Coaching

Applying Models-based Practice in Physical Education (Routledge Focus on Sport Pedagogy)

Child of Vengeance: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Random House Audio |

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