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Presents the public face of folk music in the United States through its commercial promotion and presentation through much of the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers, sheet music, book, songbook, magazine, and album covers, concert posters and flyers, and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colours.

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Roughly one of every three Americans has some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including more than 70% of persons older than 75 years of age. Long associated with increased risk for mortality and disability, CVD is also a major risk factor for stroke and cerebrovascular disease. There has been growing consensus that CVD is also an important contributor to poor neurocognitive outcome in own right. Numerous studies now link CVD to accelerat...

Religous pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape. Gods in America brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of these phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society.

Religious pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape. Gods in America brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of these phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society.

The primary purposes of this volume are: 1. To provide mental health practitioners with a current overview of our knowledge about normal parental development during pregnancy and its relation to fetal development, with particular emphasis on the impact of acute and chronic stress on these developmental processes. 2. To provide an understanding of the general state of the field of pregnancy and childbirth care both in conventional health system...

For a brief period from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, folk music captured a mass audience in the United States, as college students and others swarmed to concerts by the likes of Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. In this comprehensive study, Ronald D. Cohen reconstructs the history of this singular cultural moment, tracing its origins to the early decades of the twentieth century.Drawing on scores of interviews and numerous manu...

This work contains the proceedings of the Fifth Williamsburg Workshop. The focus of this workshop was first-principles calculations for ferroelectrics.

An engaging introduction to a popular area, this text draws upon the most recent and relevant scholarship available, and provides a concise history of folk music in the US, Canada, and England.

A unique insider's guide to turning risk into opportunity, essential reading for entrepreneurs.

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This workshop was on the tenth anniversary of a series that has met every year since 1990 in Colonial Williamsburg until this year, and is thus commonly known as the AWilliamsburg Workshop on Ferroelectrics. The workshop brought together people from a wide range of disciplines interested in ferroelectrics, from theorists working on understanding ferroelectric and dielectric behavior using the fundamental physics of quantum mechanics, to experi...

Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the US. His most popular song, 'This Land is Your Land' has become the country's unofficial national anthem. Here, in a short biography, Cohen introduces Guthrie's life and music to students of American history and culture.

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When the first grade plans a costume party, Anna Maria decides to be a fairy princess, Willy a clown, and Jim the strongest man in the world. But on the day of the party, the third grade bully comes in to harass everyone and tries to ruin the fun. Jim saves the day when he accidentally takes on the bully.

Once viewed as a somewhat vague metaphysical construct, not suitable for behavioral  inquiry, attention  is now recognized as a core cognitive function, essential to the brain's processing of outside stimuli. Not surprisingly in an era of advanced information technologies--and rising rates of ADD--attention has also emerged as a significant area of study within neuropsychology.  The Second Edition of Neuropsychology of Attention reflects this ...

Collected correspondence from arguably the most important folklorist of the twentieth century Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was one of the most stimulating and influential cultural workers of the twentieth century. He began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He record...