The pieces in this book have been selected for their musical and technical value. They have been carefully transcribed and edited to create interest in technical development and in general musicianshi
These solos, with piano accompaniment, can be used by individual players as well as for performance by groups. They have proven effective for recruiting string players in the public schools, and for s
Presents evidence to support a thesis that there is much crime in the upper socio-economic classes and only the administrative procedures, used to deal with it, separate it from other animal behavior
A study of sequential nonparametric methods emphasizing the unified Martingale approach to the theory, with a detailed explanation of major applications including problems arising in clinical trials,
This authoritative new work replaces the author's 1968 edition. It takes into account recent advances in scholarship with entirely revised notes on the text passages and improved and simplified explan
The perfect book for anyone who enjoys playing cards, either alone or with others. It includes 150 different solitaire games, along with puzzlers, ESP tests, and more.
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication
Like English literature and English manners, the English style of decorating has been copied and admired for generations around the world. It is a style that can be found in a simple cottage with gabl
This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes - and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into
Vladimir Beltov, a wealthy landowner in nineteenth century Russia, inadvertently disrupts the Krutsifersky family when he falls in love with Dmitry's wife, Lyubonka
With wit and thoughtful compassion, Richard Meehan presents one of the most perplexing of contemporary moral predicaments, one that arises in every attempt to assess potentially hazardous technologies
Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole pl
Volume two of the Journal includes Thoreau's extensive reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his first impressions and observations e
Over the past five years, through a continually increasing wave of activity in the physics community, supergravity has come to be regarded as one of the most promising ways of unifying gravity with ot
This volume, co-published with the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, highlights the enormous complexity of the missionizing process in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The updated second edition offers expanded discussions of the chi square test of significance and the potential measures of association available for use with categoric data. Reviewing basic technique
An outstanding advanced text intended to complement and supplement Indonesian language materials now available. The author takes the student through a series of original essays and previously publishe
A collection of high interest fiction features short stories with an adjustment theme, including "A Problem with Mother," "A Baby Again," and "The Other Woman."
A comprehensive introduction to the critical issues raised by scholarship on both books of Samuel. The often intricate problems are dealt with clearly and engagingly; the chapters deal with the Deuter
This selection includes 450 lines of Martial and 580 of Pliny the Younger. The introduction deals with scansion and gives an outline of Martial's life and this relations with Pliny. Thirty-three epigr
Drawing on personal experience, White House Memoranda, contemporary news reports, and interviews with media insiders, this book by the editor of Jack Anderson's syndicated column, tells the fascinatin
A collection of interviews with 11 of the nation's leading economic theorists providing an introduction to current issues in economic theory and to the ways in which economists think.
Hundreds of interviews provide the substance of a practical and positive guide to parents that deals with facts and feelings and offers advice on open and hopeful discussions
Unlike the papers of some other great economists, those of Kenneth Arrow are being read and studied today with even greater care and attention than when they first appeared in the journals. The public
When the code of honor” ruled the antebellum Southor at least its upper classesthe slightest insult might give rise to a pistol duel at twenty paces, conducted with elaborate politeness. A crime on th
Teaching Listening Comprehension is about developing listening comprehension skills in the language classroom. In Part I, some essential background issues are dealt with. The author defines the charac
This work is addressed to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in astronomy, geology, chemistry, meteorology, and the planetary sciences as well as to researchers with pertinent areas of speci
What is most admirable in Green's first full length collection is the felt intamacy with the poet, the degree to which the reader knows precisely what Green and her life are like... Her stories are si
