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By autumn 1943 in Danton, Kentucky, the government has converted the small town's college into an Army Air Corps pre-preflight facility, the nearby state mental hospital into a treatment center for soldiers suffering battle-fatigue, and installs a satellite POW camp in the south end of town. Major Sam Ross, a fighter pilot shot down and badly wounded in Tunisia, arrives to take command of the school. Ross, also an excellent musician, has a cha...

The small town of Stone, Virginia is about to get the show of its life. The president is coming for an appearance, and his aids have a surprise. When a staged assassination plot starts to unravel, Millicent Van Horn, tries to clear her brother's name, and is pulled deeper into a deadly web of presidential deceit. Police Detective Van Horn finds herself investigating incidences she'd rather let lie, but there are too many lives at stake. Never ...

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But then, from way off, with cranking"comes my night, and when it arrives"I go to it like a callboy to a c-note."--"My Interior" "Jeff Clark's poems . . . marry the stoned reveries of our postmodern era with the symbolist bliss of a previous one . . . In meticulously crafted verse and prose poems, "The Little Door Slides Back" offers the reader glimpses of a shadow world, seen by a visionary who has a clear strategy for depicting them." --*Rut...

Clark writes with a warm, Southern friendliness. His cogent explanations about why he created his rules and his closing tips on dealing with parents and children offer plenty of ideas and much-needed support. "Clark's book is a handy blueprint for parents who want to equip their elementary and middle school children..."--"Time." (Education)

With the help of the workbook, readers can apply Clark's rules to a more "parent-directed" approach to improving study and work habits. Included are activities to help fire up a child's enthusiasm for the classroom, fun role-playing exercises, and quizzes to discover a child's strengths.

A poem is a shelter, provisional--a little wobbly-- a house whose rooms have no walls, whose windows are prairie sloughs whose ceilings stream with the clouds. (from Dwelling) Hilary Clark's newest volume of poems shelters a world of stories and poems, of the tricks of language that are the dearest home of a writer. The hinge, she writes later in Dwelling, is attention to the moment, its particular light. And Clark attends with mind acutely tu...

The Theory Books of the DAVID CARR GLOVER PIANO LIBRARY are written in "programed instruction" style, one of the most effective means of learning in modern education. Programed instruction is based on three generally accepted principles: 1. The material is presented in small steps called "frames." 2. The student makes an immediate written response to each frame so that his learning is constantly checked. 3. The student knows if his answer is c...

Community, Trade, and Networks traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast.

This collection of nineteenth-century reviews provides a wealth of information for scholars interested in Alcott.

In "The Dark Days of October, " Floyd F. Clark vividly recounts with candor and compassion some of the most painful memories that have left their indelible mark on his life. From those poverty-ridden, childhood days of the Depression, he carries his reader through the struggles of a teenager trying to obtain a quality education in pursuit of his dream--to become a writer or teacher, and, of the personal pleasures forfeited in adulthood...as h...

THE MUSIC TREE series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz, and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked in...

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The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafs, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic technique, T. J. Clark describes the painting of Manet, Degas, Seurat, and others as an attempt to give form to that modernity and seek out its typical repr...

Contains papers that offer regional diversity: two papers with principal focus on England, one on Germany, one on Australia, and three on the United States.

Detective Houser wants nothing more than his retirement, but when a murder case involving the WMM firm lands on his desk, he cant avoid it. All of law enforcement knows that WMM Advertising, also known as We Make Millionaires, is one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state of Georgia. A tape recording of a mans death may finally help Houser make a case against the firm. Calling in Alexis Greenspan, a...

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This volume offers a powerful response to the long-felt need for a substantial study of urban education that takes full comparative account of both the historical and international contexts. A distinguished international team of contributors has been assembled to assess the principal theoretical and methodological approaches to the history of urban education in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia and the specific way in whi...