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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Excerpt from Bird Legend and LifeThe most important avian legends and superstitions and also to discover in them evidences of apparent truth. Some of the most agreeable and interesting legends of the past were gathered about these guests of our groves Whose actions formed the basis of innumerable fancies and superstitions. Birds exercised a strong in¿uence on prehistoric religion, having been worshiped as gods in the earlier days, and, later, ...

Excerpt from Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends: A Book of Nature Dolls and OthersChildren throw aside as uninteresting the finished toys from the shops when they have once learned to make playthings for, themselves. To an imaginative child the possibilities of green things growing, of other materials provided by the changing seasons, and of the apparently useless trifles to be found in any home, are endless, and far surpass in permanent interest ...

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Incorporating chapters by some of the top researchers in communication, this book covers communication work specific to difficult conversations and challenging issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.

Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian perfor...

Walker proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is shaped by culture and history. The new edition contains a new preface, chapters and an afterword responding to critics.

Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942. Over the next fifty years she enriched American literature in endless ways through her writings and, in 1993, she received an American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. This Is My Century is Walker's own defining summation of her career.

Effective, flexible and creative performance management lies at the heart of excellent leadership, which creates successful and innovative businesses. This book is aimed at people who are line managers, team managers or supervisors who really want to improve the way that they lead and encourage their staff to perform at their best. It gives a practical approach to solving real workplace issues with a step by step guide to actions that will enc...

Performance Management for Excellence in Business. How use a step by step process to improve the performance of your team through measurement, appraisal and easy to use management techniques. Effective, flexible and creative performance management lies at the heart of excellent leadership, which creates successful and innovative businesses. This book gives a practical approach to solving real workplace issues with a step by step guide to actio...

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This chronicle relays the birth, growth, and development of "Jubilee,

This first comprehensive collection of Margaret Walker's autobiographical and literary essays has been acclaimed as "a powerful social history and as a serious study of black American literature."-"Kirkus Review" In the title essay, Walker recounts the search for family and social history from which she wrote her carefully researched novel of the Civil War. The autobiographical essays reflect on her work and her life as an artist, as African-A...

The ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences in society by race, gender, and social class, and in a form which combines insight from the humanities as well as the social sciences.

Excerpt from Our Birds and Their Nestlings Since permanent interest in any subject cannot be awakened through occasional lessons, it is believed that much profit will come from a few weeks' continuous read ing along a single line, - reading which will create a love for the beautiful through understanding. Ignorance closes the door to much of our best' literature, which can be interpreted only through a sympathetic familiarity with nature. Co...

Excerpt from Bird Legend and LifeThe most important avian legends and superstitions and also to discover in them evidences of apparent truth. Some of the most agreeable and interesting legends of the past were gathered about these guests of our groves Whose actions formed the basis of innumerable fancies and superstitions. Birds exercised a strong in¿uence on prehistoric religion, having been worshiped as gods in the earlier days, and, later, ...