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Children's & YAExtraordinary Ordinary Ella
by Amber Hedricks (author), Luciana Navarro Powell (illustrator)
Ella is extraordinary. Extraordinarily ordinary, that is. Not graceful like Carmen or musical like Kenji, Ella is determined to prove herself at the school talent show. But when every attempt to find a talent falls flat and her own ordinary acts of kindness steal the show, Ella discovers just how extraordinary ordinary can be!
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Gene therapyMarch 2013Gene Therapy: Technologies and Applications
by Ryuichi Morishita & Hironori Nakagami
This book by renowned experts addresses recent progress in the field of gene therapy. In the first part of the book, basic technologies of gene therapy and the role of immunogene therapy, including vaccination, are addressed. In the second part, the therapeutic applications in specific clinical fields are described; namely, neurology, hereditary diseases, cancers and cardiovascular diseases. Finally, future directions of gene therapy technology and applications are reviewed toward the goal of successful human gene therapy.
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Ceremonias de lo invisible
by David Oubiña
How to apprehend what cannot be seen with an artifact that only captures the evident movement of things? asks David Oubiña, defiantly. Ceremonias de lo invisible proposes to the reader to think of cinema. No longer as a device of representation, but as a machine capable of perceiving the limits of experience, where cinematographic images lose their character of transparency to enter into dilemmas and tensions of reality. In this book, death will be considered as mass annihilation or as an individual and coincidental accident. Both concepts, inverted and complementary, are reviewed by the author in two short essays that are shown in the films Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) and Ugetsu, The tales of the wave after the rain moon (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953). David Oubiña has a PhD in Literature from University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and majored in Cinema at the same institution. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of London and a visiting professor at the University of Bergen, New York University and University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the magazines Las Ranas (arte, ensayo y traducción) and Revista de cine. He has received grants from the Fulbright Commission, the British Council, Fundación Antorchas and Argentine National Endowment for the Arts. In 2006, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published the books: Filmología. Ensayos con el cine (2000, First Essay Award of the Argentine National Endowment for the Arts); El cine de Hugo Santiago (2002); Jean-Luc Godard: el pensamiento del cine (2003); Estudio crítico sobre La ciénaga, de Lucrecia Martel (2007); Una juguetería filosófica: Cine, cronofotografía y arte digital (2009) and El silencio y sus bordes. Modos de lo extremo en la literatura y el cine (2011, Third National Essay Award).
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Examinations & assessmentDecember 2000Testing English-Language Learners in U.S. Schools
Report and Workshop Summary
by Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity, Kenji Hakuta and Alexandra Beatty, Editors, National Research Council
The Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity was created under the auspices of the National Research Council (NRC), and specifically under the oversight of the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA). The committee's charge is to explore the challenges that face U.S. schools as they work to achieve the related goals of academic excellence and equity for all students. This report provides not only the summary of a workshop held by the forum on the testing of English-language learners (students learning English as an additional language) in U.S. schools, but also a report on the committee's conclusions derived from that workshop and from subsequent deliberations.
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FictionI, I'am Going Alone
by Chisako Wakatake
Universal and eternal truths about human existence emerge in bold relief from the reflections of an elderly widow on what at first glance appears to be an unexceptional life. The Japanese title, which can be translated more straightforwardly as “I, I’m Going Alone,” is in the Tōhoku dialect that figures strongly in the story. It is a slight variation on a line from a poem “The Morning of the Last Farewell” by Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933), a well-known poet and children’s author from near where author Chisako Wakatake as well as her story’s protagonist grew up. Narrator Momoko Hidaka is 74 years old. Her husband died 15 years ago, and since then she has been living alone in the home they shared in a suburban Tokyo residential community. Lacking anyone to talk to, she gets to thinking back over her life as she enjoys her daily cup of tea, or when sitting alone in a coffee shop, or as she makes a pilgrimage to her husband’s grave by an isolated back route. She is the mother of two children. The eldest, son Shōji, dropped out of college and moved away to a job in another prefecture. He rarely contacts her, and the words he spat out when he left home still ring in her ears: “You’ve got to stop smothering me, Mom.” Momoko had once lost ¥2.5 million (about $25,000) to an “It’s me, it’s me” scammer, thinking she was sending the money to Shōji. As she reflects on these and other events involving her son, she feels remorse at having taken the joy out of life for Shōji by being overly attached to him. Her daughter Naomi lives with her husband and two children just 20 minutes away by car. Their relationship has long been strained and distant, but she now calls occasionally to see if she can pick some things up at the store for her mother. During one such call, she asks for money to sign her son up for special art lessons. Caught off guard, Momoko is momentarily at a loss, which prompts Naomi to remind her pointedly that she was quick to pay when she thought it was her brother asking for money. After the exchange with her daughter, Momoko reflects on the relationship she had with her own overbearing mother, and her thoughts then drift by association to how she left northeastern Honshu for Tokyo 50 years before. Upon graduating from high school, Momoko had taken a job with the agricultural co-op in her hometown. When she reached 24 her parents arranged a marriage for her—as was the practice in a rural region still bound by old traditions. But the man meant nothing to her, so three days before the wedding, she fled to Tokyo. This was during the boom era of Japan’s economic growth, and there were plenty of jobs to be had. While working at a restaurant, she met and fell in love with a handsome customer named Shūzō who came from the same part of the country she did, and they eventually got married. Until this she had been self-conscious about her country accent and dialect, but the marriage allowed her to renew her fondness for the language she’d grown up with. From then until Shūzō died of a sudden heart attack, she had devoted herself body and soul to serving her husband and family. Shūzō’s death had brought her an unbearable sadness as painful as being torn limb from limb. Even after so many years have gone by, she still misses Shūzō dearly in her now solitary life, and frequently wishes she could see him again. But she also wonders if it was her love that killed him. It was out of love that she’d devoted herself to serving her husband, but at the same time, she had in effect held power over him by making it impossible for him to live without her. Then, just when she began to feel hemmed in by the walls she had constructed for herself, he had died. She blames herself for failing to notice how tired he had become. Now she feels her own decline, sensing the approach of death day by day. Momoko’s reflections often take the form of conversations in her childhood dialect with and among voices in her head—voices that are different “layers” of herself. One of the voices tells her that Shūzō died in order to let Momoko live freely. On a winter’s day, Momoko recalls a vision she once had in which a procession of women were walking along with mute determination, their eyes fixed straight ahead. She understands them to be women of the last generation who, like her, lived their entire lives in silent endurance. Soon spring arrives, and out of the blue one day, her eight-year-old granddaughter Sayaka comes to visit. Momoko feels a surge of happiness as she sits talking with her beloved grandchild. The reflections on love, self, and meaning that unfold within a lonely old woman’s internal conversations with herself will pull on every reader’s heartstrings.
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Children's & YAJune 2020A THOUSAND PAPER BIRDS
by Severino Rodrigues
Letícia and Makoto both faced difficult situations. She had quite a scare – imagine having a near-heart attack before the age of 20? He lost his beloved grandfather and since then, a great sadness has invaded him. Together, they will discover what it means to live, grow and overcome the problems life throws our way.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2016Chinese Silkand the Silk Road
by Zhao Feng
This is a monograph that gives a deep interpretation of the silk culture in ancient times and described the historical evolution of the clothes—basic elements of daily life, which all together displays the beauty of silk and the Silk Road.This book is awarded the“Best Books of China” in 2016 by CCTV
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SchoolsApril 1997Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children
A Research Agenda
by Diane August and Kenji Hakuta, Editors; Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited English Proficient and Bilingual Students, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
How do we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken? In Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children, a committee of experts focuses on this central question, striving toward the construction of a strong and credible knowledge base to inform the activities of those who educate children as well as those who fund and conduct research. The book reviews a broad range of studies--from basic ones on language, literacy, and learning to others in educational settings. The committee proposes a research agenda that responds to issues of policy and practice yet maintains scientific integrity. This comprehensive volume provides perspective on the history of bilingual education in the United States; summarizes relevant research on development of a second language, literacy, and content knowledge; reviews past evaluation studies; explores what we know about effective schools and classrooms for these children; examines research on the education of teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse students; critically reviews the system for the collection of education statistics as it relates to this student population; and recommends changes in the infrastructure that supports research on these students.
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SchoolsFebruary 1998Educating Language-Minority Children
by Diane August and Kenji Hakuta, Editors; Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes in which the language background is other than English. These students present unique challenges for America's education system. Based on Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children, a comprehensive study published in 1997, this book summarizes for teachers and education policymakers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating such students. It discusses a broad range of educational issues: how students learn a second language; how reading and writing skills develop in the first and second languages; how information on specific subjects (for example, biology) is stored and learned and the implications for second-language learners; how social and motivational factors affect learning for English-language learners; how the English proficiency and subject matter knowledge of English-language learners are assessed; and what is known about the attributes of effective schools and classrooms that serve English-language learners.
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FictionAlcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Stories and Essays
by Tim McLoughlin
In Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Tim McLoughlin draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance. A lifetime living and working in New York City feeds short stories that evoke a landscape of characters rife with personal arrogance and misjudgment; and nonfiction essays about toeing the line when the line keeps disappearing. An opioid-addicted catsitter electronically eavesdrops on his neighbors only to hear devastating truths. A degenerate gambler stakes his life on a long shot because he sees three lucky numbers on the license plate of a passing car. In the nonfiction essays, we learn that the system plays a role in supporting vice, as long as it gets a cut. Altar boys compete to work weddings and funerals for tips in the shadow of predatory priests. Cops become robbers, and a mob boss just might be a civil rights icon. McLoughlin shines a light on worlds that few have access to. Always urban, often New York–centric, in his work a recurring theme is chronic displacement, people standing still in a city that is always changing. These are McLoughlin’s ghosts, these casualties of progress, and he holds them dear and celebrates them.
