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Written by a professional storyteller and artist who has studied with kamishibai artists and practitioners in Japan, this book is a practical "how-to" for creating and performing original kamishibai

Based on empirical research from 15 European cities, covering 29 major postwar housing estates, the contributors to this volume explore the idea that mass housing experiments represent an important e

Scholars of education from all over the world--many specializing in science and mathematics education, but others in, for example childhood or adult education--grapple with issues that arise from teac

Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings

This volume discusses the basic geometric contents of an image and presents a tree data structure to handle those contents efficiently. The nodes of the tree are derived from connected components of l

First published in 1891, this book was the earliest attempt to construct a systematic classification of all the indigenous languages of the Americas, focusing particularly on the relationship between culture and grammar and vocabulary. It addresses the various theories of the origins of the American race, and the archaeological evidence for the presence of humans in the Americas. It discusses geologists' opinions and the physical geography of the Americas in relation to Europe, and considers the physical characteristics of the Native Americans, their culture, religion, domestic habits and family organisation, providing a comprehensive anthropological and historical context for the linguistic work. Special attention is paid to the parts of the continent, mostly south of Mexico, whose ethnography was little known at the time of writing. Each chapter covers a particular region, and there is a detailed linguistic appendix.

One of Franz Schubert's most important aspects of his song production has remained relatively neglected: the many occasions on which he set poetry to music more than once. This practice of returning

There has long been a presumption that serial murderers are all sexually motivated, insane, or acting on the basis of no motive at all. Several definitions of serial murder specifically exclude comme

Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance. The complexity of the task expounds limits of steering in three dimensions: goals, knowledge, and pow

International contributors address current issues and technologies in infonomics, the economics of information, in light of the transformation from closed hierarchical organizations to organizations c

In recent years, the RAND National Defense Research Institute has developed a simulation model that is capable of managing hundreds or thousands of officers individually according to complex laws, pol

The 17 chapters in this collection present architectures and platforms for the development and adoption of the next generation of mobile learning systems in terms of non-functional requirements, such

McDonald (Chinese, U. of Auckland) offers an exploration that brings together two concepts--syntax and text--that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation

Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and var

This is the real thing If you want to know when Jesus Christ will return to reign as LORD over all the earth, this book will tell you. The book is controversial because it is unique. The time given di

McLaughlin's (reading education, East Stroudsburg U. of Pennsylvania) text is designed to help preservice and inservice teachers of science, mathematics, social science, language, the arts, physical e

Now a protestant minister in the Netherlands, Mol has revised and translated from Dutch his 2002 doctoral thesis in theology for the University of Utrecht. He grapples with the close proximity of two

This anonymous guide to Cambridge, printed in 1790, is full of fascinating details which give insights into life in the university and the town at the end of the eighteenth century. It contains a history of the colleges (with lists of their benefactors and 'bishops and eminent men') and public buildings; details of the university officers, term dates and prizes; descriptions of the town, its situation, buildings, markets and fairs, and the county, its towns, villages, seats of the nobility and gentry, topography and agriculture; timetables and fares for the various stagecoaches which kept Cambridge in touch with the wider world; and a gazetteer showing the distance from Cambridge to London and other major towns and cities. The volume includes a supplement published in the same year which gives a 'catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges, in the University of Cambridge'.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009, held in Salamanca, Spain in June 2009.The 167 revised full papers pr

This book reveals conceptual and algorithmic perspectives on research issues, findings, and approaches to mobile and wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. Chapters are in sections on information retr

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of

Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the need to prepare and train mental health personnel in working with diverse populations. In order to fully understand individuals from differ

Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been socially and politically aware, marked by social

FIRE AND WATER is a true account of discovery, validation, and healing from sexual and ritual abuse. A therapeutic memoir written from a Christian perspective about the emotional, physical, spiritual,

This is Chicken Soup's first book about the growing world of twins and multiples. Co-author Susan M Heim, who has published several other books on twins, provides stories that highlight the special b

Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economis

Creating ExtraOrdinary Teachers helps teachers identify and evaluate their unique profile of leadership skills and demonstrates the strategic use and development of those gifts both in and out of the

The world has changed radically since the first edition of this book was published in 2001. Spammers, virus writers, phishermen, money launderers, and spies now trade busily with each other in a livel

A core textbook on a single convenient CD?ROM, Early Intervention in Action is an interactive, field tested training tool on a subject every EI professional needs to master: how to collaborate effecti