Tap Roots
Title | Tap Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Knowles |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2002-06-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780786412679 |
Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separates the cultural, societal and historical events that influenced the development of Tap dancing. Section One covers primary influences such as Irish step dancing, English clog dancing and African dancing. Section Two covers theatrical influences (early theatrical developments, "Daddy" Rice, the Virginia Minstrels) and Section Three covers various other influences (Native American, German and Shaker). Also included are accounts of the people present at tap's inception and how various styles of dance were mixed to create a new art form.
Taproots
Title | Taproots PDF eBook |
Author | William Hudson O'Hanlon |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780393700312 |
"This is an essential primer of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and strategic psychotherapy. [...] O'Hanlon provides threads that crystallize practical patterns useful to clinicians at all levels of expertise." -- Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
Taproots of Tennessee
Title | Taproots of Tennessee PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Drysdale Patterson |
Publisher | Univ Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 9781621905110 |
Plant Roots
Title | Plant Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Amram Eshel |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Total Pages | 861 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1439846480 |
The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true with the advancements brought on by the sequencing of whole genomes of model organisms and the development of "omics" techniques. This fourth edition of Plant Roots: The Hidden Half reflects these developments that have transformed not only the field of biology, but also the many facets of root science. Highlights of this new edition include: The basics of root research and their evolution and role in the global context of soil development and atmosphere composition New understandings about roots gained in the post-genomic era, for example, how the development of roots became possible, and the genetic basis required for this to occur The mechanisms that determine root structure, with chapters on cellular patterning, lateral root and vascular development, the molecular basis of adventitious roots, and other topics Plant hormone action and signaling pathways that control root development, including new chapters on strigolactones and brassinosteroids Soil resource acquisition from agricultural and ecological perspectives Root response to stress, with chapters that address the impact of the genomic revolution on this topic Root-rhizosphere interactions, from beneficial microorganisms to detrimental nematodes Modern research techniques for the field and the lab Each chapter not only presents a clear summation of the topic under discussion, but also includes a vision of what is to be expected in the years to come. The wide coverage of themes in this volume continues the tradition that makes this work recognized as a fundamental source of information for root scientists at all levels.
The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
Title | The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Hart |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0801899583 |
A monumental accomplishment in the history of non-Western mathematics, The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra explains the fundamentally visual way Chinese mathematicians understood and solved mathematical problems. It argues convincingly that what the West "discovered" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had already been known to the Chinese for 1,000 years. Accomplished historian and Chinese-language scholar Roger Hart examines Nine Chapters of Mathematical Arts—the classic ancient Chinese mathematics text—and the arcane art of fangcheng, one of the most significant branches of mathematics in Imperial China. Practiced between the first and seventeenth centuries by anonymous and most likely illiterate adepts, fangcheng involves manipulating counting rods on a counting board. It is essentially equivalent to the solution of systems of N equations in N unknowns in modern algebra, and its practice, Hart reveals, was visual and algorithmic. Fangcheng practitioners viewed problems in two dimensions as an array of numbers across counting boards. By "cross multiplying" these, they derived solutions of systems of linear equations that are not found in ancient Greek or early European mathematics. Doing so within a column equates to Gaussian elimination, while the same operation among individual entries produces determinantal-style solutions. Mathematicians and historians of mathematics and science will find in The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra new ways to conceptualize the intellectual development of linear algebra.
Tennessee Taproots
Title | Tennessee Taproots PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Crane |
Publisher | Hillsboro Press |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781881576266 |
Tennessee Taproots is a pictorial collection of the state's ninety-five county courthouses. This handy guide offers something for everyone, from the lifelong resident to the first-time traveler. The wide variety of the courthouses illustrates the economic, social, and scenic diversity of this great southern state.
Roots
Title | Roots PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
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