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Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything...
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Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion...
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The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.
Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display images. The three essays in Image, written by...
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Kids will discover some of the many ways they can get creative with 3 primary materials, felt, craft sticks, and clothespins. They will be inspired by example projects featuring these materials then construct their own toys, gifts, and more. In doing so, young makers will develop their essential makerspace tools of imagination, inspiration, collaboration, and problem-solving. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super...
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Kids will discover some of the many ways they can get creative with 3 primary materials, cardboard, crayons, and duct tape. They will be inspired by example projects featuring these materials then construct their own toys, gifts, and more. In doing so, young makers will develop their essential makerspace tools of imagination, inspiration, collaboration, and problem-solving.
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Kids will discover some of the many ways they can get creative with 3 primary materials, chenille stems, bottles, and tissue paper. They will be inspired by example projects featuring these materials then construct their own toys, gifts, and more. In doing so, young makers will develop their essential makerspace tools of imagination, inspiration, collaboration, and problem-solving.
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Kids will discover some of the many ways they can get creative with 3 primary materials, newspaper, buttons, and paper clips. They will be inspired by example projects featuring these materials then construct their own toys, gifts, and more. In doing so, young makers will develop their essential makerspace tools of imagination, inspiration, collaboration, and problem-solving.
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Kids will discover some of the many ways they can get creative with 3 primary materials, paper tubes, rubber bands, and yarn. They will be inspired by example projects featuring these materials then construct their own toys, gifts, and more. In doing so, young makers will develop their essential makerspace tools of imagination, inspiration, collaboration, and problem-solving. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super...
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Time warp trio series volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Joe receives a magic book for his birthday present from his uncle. Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to a time when evil knights, fire-breathing dragons, and vile-smelling giants roamed the land.
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Time warp trio series volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown, " when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
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Time warp trio series volume 15
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After arriving in Pennsylvania during the winter of 1776, time travelers Joe, Fred, and Samantha inspire General George Washington, "the man on the one dollar bill, " to carry out a surprise attack on Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey, that will change the course of the Revolutionary War.
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Time warp trio series volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Once again, three friends are sent back in time by a magic book and they find themselves prisoners of the evil pirate Blackbeard.
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Time warp trio series volume 7
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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At the beginning of summer vacation Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves trapped inside their summer reading list, involved in a battle between good and evil characters from well-known children's books.
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Time warp trio series volume 14
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In their latest time travel adventure, Fred, Joe, and Sam da Brooklyn meet Leonardo da Vinci and try to avoid becoming toilet scrubbers in a sixteenth-century Italian army.
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Time warp trio series volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock" music takes on a whole new meaning.
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Time warp trio series volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and Indians.
18) Marco? Polo
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Time warp trio series volume 16
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Time Warp Trio find themselves in a desert in China, and in order to retrieve their magical book from the court of Kublai Khan, they must pose as astrologers and join the caravan of Marco Polo and his father.
19) Sam Samurai
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Time warp trio series volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.
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Time warp trio series volume 12
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English