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Die Ausweitung des pentatonischen Spielraums will neben Übungsmaterial zur Stabspieltechnik auch Anregungen zum Improvisieren und Erfinden ähnlicher Stücke vermitteln und zeigen, dass unter dem Begriff "Pentatonik" nicht nur kindertümliche Melodik, sondern ain melodisch wie klanglich in vielfältiger Form verwertbares Feld elementarer Tonalität und Modalität zu verstehen ist.

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?The authors' central argument is that a common pattern runs through American foreign policy toward the Third World. They use the three failure' cases of Vietnam, Iran, and Nicaragua to trace the similarities in motivations, objectives, and consequences of American policy. Their presentation is one of the more forcefully argued yet still empirically based critiques that this reviewer has seen. ... The book concludes with an interesting prescri...

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William V. Ruch examines and compares corporate communications systems in the United States and Japan to discover what each can learn from the other. The author demonstrates that business organization in each country is highly reflective of the overall culture. In American corporations, communication is intended to transmit information rapidly, it is direct, efficient, and invites confrontation. Japanese corporate communciation also transmits ...

This book presents a rounded critique of the conventional wisdom about the legality of nuclear weapons by experts in international and constitutional law. Part I addresses the status of nuclear weapons under international law. Scholars on one side of the question draw upon treaties and international custom to argue that most uses of nuclear weapons are illegal and that even mere possession of such weaponry is legally unjustifiable. Others argu...

?According to Tyor and Bell, ... debate over how to meet the needs of the retarded is not a new one. Their interpretation is that mentally retarded people have been viewed traditionally with a mixture of pity, scorn, fear, and contempt, and have been consigned to the periphery of society.' The mentally retarded are, they emphasize, an underclass of forgotten people.' Even though some have championed their cause, the mentally retared have had f...

The countries of Latin America are plagued by poverty, high rates of population growth and unemployment, low growth in their gross national product, low rates of industrialization, high dependencee on agriculture, and uneven income distribution. Low income and growth reflect structural weaknesses which will prevent more rapid economic development if major changes are not made. The real problem for policy makers is how to combine overall econom...

The countries of the African continent suffer from numerous and severe economic maladies that inhibit their chances for effective economic growth. The problem confronting Africa's policy makers is how to combine overall economic growth with a more equitable distribution of income and economic assistance. This resource book examines the experiences of the African countries in implementing development programs and policies during the 1970s, and ...

?History and sociology students and persons interested in the status of particular minorities will welcome this bibliography. The character of its introductory essay and its annotations will make it useful even where there is not ready access to the literature cited.?-Reference Books Bulletin

?A major resource for both general and scholarly audiences. Using a dictionary catalog arrangement, The Companion offers full synopses and scenarios, production information, and critical commentary for O'Neill's major and minor plays. Character analyses appear for all but a very few minor figures. Cast lists of original productions and selected revivals are provided along with essays on specific theatrical companies. Biographies of persons inv...

Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this dependence at the point where it placed...

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Extracted from Volumes 11 and 18. This selection of Jung's writings brings together a number of articles that are necessary for the understanding of his interpretation of the religious life and development of Western man: views that are central to his psychological thought.

A guide to the literary aspects of the Bible, this book surveys such biblical forms as narrative, poetry, proverb, gospel, parable, and epistle. It also discusses the literary unity of the Bible.