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Wolfe and Higgins: Master Architects of the Spanish Revival

Wolfe and Higgins: Master Architects of the Spanish Revival

Krista Van Laan

Among these are some of the most recognizable architectural landmarks in Northern California.In Wolfe & Higgins: Master Architects of the Spanish Revival, architectural historian Krista Van Laan provides an in-depth look at the prodigious ...
The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

Krista Van Laan

Inside the Book Is This Job for Me? What does it take to be a technical writer? Building the Foundation: What skills and tools do you need to get started? The Best Laid Plans: How do you create a schedule that won’t make you go crazy?
Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales

Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales

Nancy Van Laan

Children will tingle with terror and shriek with glee over Nancy Van Laan and Victoria Chess's hilariously spooky -- but not too spooky -- read-aloud tales.
Little Baby Bobby

Little Baby Bobby

Nancy Van Laan

A perfect read-aloud reminiscent of Nancy Van Laan's "Possum Come a-Knockin', this rollicking, rhythmic text gathers momentum as Baby Bobby's buggy wends its way through the town.
The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

Krista Van Laan

A growing field, technical writing requires multiple skills, including an understanding of technology, writing ability, and great people skills. This resource can help readers be a successful technical writer and build a satisfying career.
A Relationship Restored: Trends in U.S.-China Educational ...

A Relationship Restored: Trends in U.S.-China Educational ...

The Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China

Mary Ellen Adams, Alfred C.Julian, and Krista Van Laan, eds., Open Doors: 1983/ 84, Report on International Educational Exchange (New York: Institute of International Education, 1984), p. 18. 35. “Renmin Ribao Reports on Chinese Studying ...
Busy, Busy Moose

Busy, Busy Moose

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Busy Busy Moose Nancy Van Laan Illustrated by Amy Rusch For my sweet second grandson, Sky, who will one day. 3% Houghton Mifflin Company Boston Text copyright © 2003 by Nancy Van Laan Illustrations copyright. Front Cover.
Frank Delos Wolfe: California Prairie Architecture

Frank Delos Wolfe: California Prairie Architecture

Krista Van Laan

Set against the backdrop of the Santa Clara Valley during a period of economic and architectural growth, "Frank Delos Wolfe: California Prairie Architecture" tells the stories of these special buildings and their special owners and ...
Tickle Tum!

Tickle Tum!

Nancy Van Laan

A mother and toddler have fun at suppertime.
A Tree for Me

A Tree for Me

Nancy Van Laan

A child climbs five different trees, looking for a place to hide and finding an increasing number of animals already in residence.
Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small ...

Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small ...

Andrew Canessa

Krista Van Vleet in her study of the people of Sullk'ata notes that “most couples would not admit that they felt affection for their partner before marriage. Most Sullk'atas do not say they married because they 'fell in love' ” (2008: 141). Van Vleet ...
Tree for Me

Tree for Me

Nancy Van Laan

A young child looks for the perfect tree to climb and, along the way, counts animals from one to five in this engaging, rhythmic story.
Nit-Pickin'

Nit-Pickin'

Nancy Van Laan

Family members go to great lengths to rid their child of head lice, but with the nits threatening to take over, it just may take a miracle to save our hero (or maybe just some good shampoo).
Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not

Nancy Van Laan

Young readers are given an emotionally powerful yet accessible introduction to what it is like having a close family member with Alzheimer’s disease in this deeply resonant story about the relationship between a girl and her grandmother.
When winter comes

When winter comes

Nancy Van Laan

Rhyming text asks what happens to different animals and plants "when winter comes and the cold wind blows."
Scrubba Dub

Scrubba Dub

Nancy Van Laan

Scrubba dub dubba squigga giggle squash.
Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of ...

Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of ...

Hans van der Laan

Architectonic Space is the most complete and coherent treatise on the nature, purpose and meaning of architecture that has so far been attempted.
The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality ...

The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality ...

Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

I am grateful to Krista Van Vleet for reminding me of this. 14 Relationships of compadrazgo also have classificatory uses: Cristina called me comadre after I became godmother to her grandchild, and Melquíades calls Wilmer padrino because ...
Moose Tales

Moose Tales

Nancy Van Laan

In three simple stories, Moose takes a walk, takes a nap under a tree that Beaver is gnawing, and finally joins all his friends in making an almost perfect snow creature with antlers.
Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone: ...

Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone: ...

Nancy E Riley

I thank my wonderfully supportive colleagues at Bowdoin College, including Krista Van Vleet, Craig McEwen, and Susan Bell. I am especially grateful to Sara Dickey for all the tea and chocolate and the many helpful conversations I have had ...
The Monologic Imagination

The Monologic Imagination

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Mannheim, Bruce, and Krista Van Vleet. 1998. “The Dialogics of Southern Quechua Narrative.” American Anthropologist 100(2): 326–346. Ochs, Elinor. 1992. “Indexing Gender.” In Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon ...
Between Concept and Identity

Between Concept and Identity

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2 In order to have a wider vision of his life span, one may browse the numerous details collected in Richard Padovan, Dom Hans van der Laan, modern primitive (Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press, 1994). 3 Lecture read in Leiden, ...
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

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Mannheim, Bruce and Krista E. van Vleet. 1998. The dialogics of Quechua narrative. American Anthropologist 100(2): 326–346. McLendon, Sally. 1977. Cultural presuppositions and discourse analysis. In Linguistics and anthropology, ed.
Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in ...

Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in ...

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Mannheim, Bruce, and Krista Van Vleet. 1998. The Dialogics of Southern Quechua Narrative. American Anthropologist 100, no. 2:326–46. Mauss, Marcel. 1990 [1950]. The Gift: Forms and Functions ofExchange in Archaic Societies, trans.
Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of ...

Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of ...

Krista E. Van Vleet

La lucha por la dote en un ayllu an- dino. In más allá del silencio: fronteras de género en los Andes, Vol. 1, Denise Arnold, ed., pp. 109–173. La Paz: Centre for indigenous America studies and exchange/instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara.
Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts from the ...

Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts from the ...

Krista Van Fleit Hang

Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1993,152. Denton, KirkA. “Model Drama as Myth: A Semiotic Analysis of TakingTiger Mountain by Strategy,”inConstantine Tung, ed., Drama in the People's Republic of China. Albany, NY: SUNY.
LGBT Families

LGBT Families

Nancy J. Mezey

Series Editor Susan J. Ferguson Grinnell College Volumes in the Series Families : A Social Class Perspective Shirley A. Hill Making Families Through Adoption Nancy E. Riley and Krista E. Van Vleet Global Families, Second Edition Meg ...

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