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All for strings is a comprehensive three-volume method surrounded by a wealth of supplementary materials for teaching and performance.This complete curriculum covers virtually every aspect of beginning through intermediate string study, emphasizing technical skills, rhythmic understanding, and quality musical experiences. Many of the National Standards for Music Education can be easily implemented into the classroom setting with the varied com...

Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante's poetics of conversion.

The fully authorized tribute to America's favorite soap opera-the longest running drama in broadcast historyThis collector's guide includes: • The Backstage Saga: A historical overview, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, rare photos, and fascinating trivia • On the Set: A typical day of production-with photos • The Story on Radio 1937-1952 • The Story on TV 1952-1987: Story line, selected dialogue, and photos of the stars • Who's Who and Who Was Who...

A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight."-The New York TimesDr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends-and their amazing links to recent discoveries. "How can I persuade every intelligent person to read...

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During the past several years, research into the frontal divisions of the ocean has been particularly intensive. The significance of this lies not only in the fact that, in the five years from 1976 to 1980, more than 500 papers on this question were published in various journals throughout the world and at least three major international discussions were held (see p. 17). The newness of the discussion of the topic stems from the qualitative re...

One Development of the Motivation for Particular Activity Scale.- Discussion.- Two In the Atkinson Tradition: The Motivational Function of Emotion.- Attributions Related to Affects.- Feelings Related to Action.- General Summary.- Three Conscious and Unconscious Processes in the Psychology of Motivation.- Four Motivational Chaos: A Simple Model.- The Concepts of Reflexivity and Interdependence.- A Recursive Model of Achievement Motivation.- App...

The Wadsworth Chaucer is the quintessential collection of Chaucer's works. It features updated explanatory notes and glossary, and informative introductory materials.

In the late nineteenth century, life became more stable and orderly for most American city dwellers, but not for blacks. Roger Lane offers a historical explanation for the rising levels of black urban crime and family instability during this paradoxical era. Philadelphia serves as test case because of the richness of the data: DuBois's classic study, "The Philadelphia Negro, " newspapers, records of the criminal justice system and other local ...

Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.

We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle(at)lt, br(at)gt, (at)lt, br(at)gt, These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our land and a bold challenge to protect the world we love.

It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . .

In this book Minami studies the last hundred years of Japan's remarkable economic growth from the Meiji period up to the present day. First he reveals the factors which account for Japan's successful economic take-off during the Meiji period. Secondly he explains why Japan achieved a more rapid rate of economic growth than other developed countries. This forms the major part of the book and will interest those people in the developed countries...

The Dictionary of Cliches offers the most thorough treatment yet published of all those trite but apt sayings we use all the time but rarely stop to consider.