Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this book offers an innovative analysis of Sephardic merchants in 17th c. Amsterdam’s trade. Challenging views that Sephardic success stemmed from endogamous business relationships, it shows that Sephardic merchants traded with non-Sephardim.

Same But Different Math is a powerful routine to help students improve their mathematical reasoning, clarify concepts and make critical connections between ideas. Popular math consultant Sue Looney takes you step by step through implementation so you can easily add this routine into your toolbox. She establishes the rationale for the routine and then walks you through specific examples of when to use it, how to use it and how to make specific connections for learners. Throughout the book, you’ll find examples of lessons with images from a range of grade levels and mathematical content to show you the routine in action. There are also exercises for you to complete while reading to help you apply what you’ve learned, as well as a handy planning section with a template and resource links. In addition, there are Appendices featuring additional examples, which you can download from our website www.routledge.com/9781032126555 for classroom use. With the helpful features in this book, you’ll come away confidently able to implement this routine, bringing all your students to deeper levels of understanding in math.

From coast to coast, hockey is played, watched, loved, and detested, but it means something different in Quebec. Although much of English Canada believes that hockey is a fanatically followed social unifier in the French-speaking province, in reality it has always been politicized, divided, and troubled by religion, class, gender, and language. In The Same but Different, writers from inside and outside Quebec assess the game’s history and culture in the province from the nineteenth century to the present. This volume surveys the past and present uses of hockey and how it has been represented in literature, drama, television, and autobiography. While the legendary Montreal Canadiens loom throughout the book’s chapters, the collection also discusses Quebecers’ favourite sport beyond the team’s shadow. Employing a broad range of approaches including study of gender, memory, and culture, the authors examine how hockey has become a lightning rod for discussions about Québécois identity. Hockey reveals much about Quebec and its relationship with the rest of Canada. The Same but Different brings new insights into the celebrated game as a site for community engagement, social conflict, and national expression.

Exactly the Same…But Different By: Dr. Rick Miller PhD Although there has been a vast amount of information gathered on the history of the Earth, there are still many things that have yet to be discovered. To help spread more knowledge on the physical and biological history among our population, Miller outlines some of this information. This book discusses alternative explanations for Earth's history that will motivate you to learn more information.

Talk show host Holly Robinson Peete pairs with her twins in this narrative about the challenges and triumphs of being a teen who has autism and the effects on family, school, friends, and life. Being a teen is hard enough. But when you have autism--or when your brother or sister is struggling with the disorder--life can be challenging. It's one thing when you're a kid in grade school, and a playdate goes south due to autism in a family. Or when you're a little kid, and a vacation or holiday turns less-than-happy because of an autistic family member. But being a teen with autism can get pretty hairy--especially when you're up against dating, parties, sports, body changes, school, and other kids who just don't 'get' you. In this powerful book, teenagers Ryan Elizabeth Peete and her twin brother, Rodney, who has autism, share their up-close-and-personal experiences on what it means to be a teen living with autism. SAME BUT DIFFERENT, explores the funny, painful, and unexpected aspects of teen autism, while daring to address issues nobody talks about. SAME BUT DIFFERENT underscores tolerance, love, and the understanding that everybody's unique drumbeat is worth dancing to.

'Same same, but different' is an account of some of the author's travel experiences in greenland, Australia, Southeast Asi, New Zealand and Colombia. It is not intended as a travel guide but is a way for the author to share her experiences with others.

Have you ever wondered if there is more than meets the eye to mental illness than what the medical establishment offers? Have you ever wondered if maybe those voices could be real? Have you had strange phenomena happening to you making you wonder if you were crazy? The world is experiencing the biggest global shift ever known to mankind. Spiritual awakenings and psychic phenomena are becoming more common than ever before. The next step in our spiritual evolution is understanding the nature of the soul. Chances are you or someone close to you has been touched by mental health issues; whether you’ve been diagnosed or not, or have had great times of darkness and despair. Maybe you want to live a life of purpose and freedom and just can’t get there. Perhaps you’ve felt crazy because you’ve had unusual experiences in your life – apparently unexplainable ones. Perhaps you have gut feelings, strange occurrences and a pull to learn more about spiritual and esoteric subjects without knowing why. Perhaps you want to learn how to raise and use your intuition, or what your purpose is here on this planet! Within these pages, Marie shares stories of her personal journey and channelled information and activations from spiritual and galactic guides she has grown to know and love. Readers are offered an experience of solace, self -understanding and a deep integral shift, especially to those who have ever felt different to everybody else. The 12 keys (chapters) in this book offer an empathic way out of the mainstream medical views to a soul approach, also including a shamanic perspective. Each key has its own teaching and are designed to provide a deep intrapsychic activation and healing. Following over 15 years of research and experience, Marie brings a light-hearted, down to earth and humorous multidimensional framework to how we view sanity.

Tens of thousands of readers have enjoyed Mike’s Worthless Opinions (www.mikesworthlessopinion.com) over the past five years; his refreshingly simple way of looking at life has promoted patience, tolerance, and good will worldwide. Mike reveals his simple solutions to complicated issues with knowledge gained by real experience. Having traveled to over one hundred countries, educated by Jesuits, and his extensive business success, Mike’s opinions reveal amazing logic and truth. Same Same, but Different is a continuing collection of issues we all face, and the follow up book to Mike’s, Memoirs of a White Man, a book that deals with man’s social struggles, mistakes, and the lessons we learn from them. Sit back and enjoy; you may find out that Mike’s opinions, are not that worthless after all.

An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.