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This book presents a history of folk music festivals in the United States, beginning in the 19th century and ending in the early 21st century. The focus is on the proliferation and diversity of festivals in the 20th century.

Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard in social life. It is invoked in judging individual persons and in judging the basic structure of societies. It has been described as akin to a "human hunger or thirst" (Pascal, Pensees, cited in Hirschman, 1982, p. 91), "more powerful than any physical hunger, and endlessly resilient" (Pitkin, 1981, p. 349). The most prominent contemporary theory of justice proceeds from the claim that justi...

This workshop continues an annual series held since 1990 covering the fundamental understanding of ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics using first-principles theory and experiments. Of particular interest this year are the new high strain single crystal piezoelectrics, superlattices, and complex solid solutions. Also this year is growing interest in understanding dynamical properties of relaxors, using theory and experiment, particularly inelast...

This timely book, reissued with new art, goes right to the heart of the school testing issue. When the lady from the principal's office brings in a test for the first grade class, the children find that none of the proffered answers are exactly right, so they have trouble with the test. Fortunately, their teacher knows what's really important: being creative and being a good friend, things that can't be found on a standardized test. This is a ...

When Alex, the new boy in first grade, tries to make make friends by boasting about his possessions his plan backfires. The first graders don't like liars and refuse to have anything to do with him. However, on the day of the class holiday party, when Jim loses part of his decoration, Alex helps him find it. Jim then befriends Alex who learns that boasting is not the way to make friends. This reissue of Miriam Cohen's book deals sensitively wi...

Ronald D. Cohen is a professor emeritus of history at Indiana University Northwest and the author of many books on radical history and folk music.

Collected correspondence from arguably the most important folklorist of the twentieth century

Features 150 images of Pennsylvanians taken by Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photographers, covering themes ranging from coal miners, steel workers, and women in wartime industries to cities and small towns, farm life, family life, and life among the Amish and Mennonites. A Keystone Book