Poetry. Beth Gylys is a poet that people will remember and BODIES THAT HUM is going to be an auspicious debut collection. Her subject is an ordinary one, love and its discontents, but her music is ext
This collection of world-famous classical music Includes original piano solos by famous composers such as Bach and Schumann in addition to arrangements of famous operatic and orchestral works. Once th
Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made. William Helmreich writes of their experiences, beginning wi
In the late 20th century, there has been a rethinking of the whole concept of development, including a growing awareness of its gender, cultural and environmental dimensions, and the impact of globali
The essays in America, the West, and Liberal Education attempt to advance our understanding of the proper purposes of liberal education in America by exploring the relationship between the free pursui
This resource helps teachers to help students become confident, competent, and responsible investigators of the world around them. Each activity is built upon an ecological principle, a scientific obj
Details the courage and determination of three men--Jefferson Holt, Clay Holt, and Ned Holt--as they battle for freedom, their lives, and a chance to make their dreams a reality, in a gripping novel s
"Superbly demonstrating the conception of factorials in mathematics, the text and pictures combine to present a lesson in a palatable form as well as the pleasure of looking at pictures that only Mits
This moving memoir of an African-American woman's lifelong fight to identify and overcome depression offers an inspirational story of healing and emergence. Wrapped within Danquah's engaging account o
It appears that someone is trying to prevent young movie star Tate Radison from making another movie, so he hides out at the old Radley mansion, but his bad luck continues when someone leaks his where
Davy, an energetic little bunny, gets into bigger and bigger trouble when his exuberance causes a series of accidents, in a story that explains why actions speak louder that words when it comes to apo
Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States presents a thematically unified analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries_from the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China.
A practical introduction to the main theories and methods of qualitative research for the health sciences is offered in this book. It covers the full range of conventional and new qualitative methods
This remarkable book charts the effects of the economic boom on women across Asia. Yori Matsui, one of Japan's leading journalists, demonstrates how Asian women are confronting rapid economic developm
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, the Virginia Peninsula immediately became a center for the intensive activities required to prepare the nation for war. The fertile farm fields over
Most cognitive psychology texts are organized around empirical findings on standard substantive topics such as perception, memory, vision, and language. This book is the first to introduce the study o
The cultural processes of the Enlightenment and the subsequent development of industrial cultures informed the early ideas of Modernism and led to a world of rapid communication, fast cars and cities
Dermot Michael Coyne isn't sure what he's gotten himself into. Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful and vivacious "Celtic witch" has finally agreed to marry him. But they've barely tied the knot when Nu
Speechcraft is a multi-book project that includes one core text that can be accompanied by several different workbooks, depending on the needs of the learner. The first workbook to accompany the core
Since its original publication in 1976, The Needlepoint Book has become known as "The Black Bible" -- the one resource every aficionado of needlepoint needs to own. Completely revised and expanded, th
This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the cont
Offers more than fifty selections--including tribal myths, animal folklore, and tales of the supernatural--representing the oral traditions of tribes from Nova Scotia to California
When his baseball flies into the window of the old house next to the ball field, Sammy joins the other Shoebox Kids in investigating the mystery of the house and making some discoveries about prejudic
translated by Paul Hendrickson Exemplifying a fruitful fusion of French and German approaches to social theory, The Power of Dialogue transforms Habermas's version of critical theory into a new &q
This book examines the biological, especially the neural, substrates of affiliation and related social behaviors. Affiliation refers to social behaviors that bring individuals closer together. This in
Public choice theory should be taken seriously?but not too seriously. In this thought-provoking book, Jerry Mashaw stakes out a middle ground between those who champion public choice theory (the appli
Subjecting biographical evidence to close examination, Stevie Davies' book questions the legibility of Emily Brontë's life-records, explores the symphonic qualities of Wuthering Heights and establishe
Examines the ways in which certain forms and genres in television have registered a period of cultural upheaval and to what extent they have developed a more reflexive and more critical television cul
How to conduct Census 2000 has become a highly contentious issue, and the delay in selecting an approach threatens the census's eventual effectiveness. In dispute is the proposed "census sampling" tec
In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novelsTypee,White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and PierreSamuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideolo
In The Natural Rights Republic, renowned political theorist Michael P. Zuckert examines the natural rights philosophy as expressed in sources like the Declaration of Independence and aims to counter c
This book covers the most important issues in the theory of functional differential equations and their applications for both deterministic and stochastic cases. Among the subjects treated are qual
Infrastructure is an important activity both for business enterprises and government. Traditionally, infrastructure provisioning has been left to the government since it was perceived as a public good
Millions of slum residents across the world suffer the hazards and misery of frequent flooding of their streets and homes, which may result in the savings of a lifetime being washed away in a few hour
