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This series is designed to be used in conjunction with Piano for the Young Beginner, Primers A and B. Short pieces, written exercises, and technic studies are used to emphasize and reinforce concepts.

Dramaturgical analysis describes social behavior from the standpoint of the language of the theater: individuals are defined as actors and social interactions viewed as dramatic productions. It is pershaps the most comprehensive theory available today for the analysis of collective behaviors. Although individual perspectives of dramaturgical analysis are available, no single current text providing a summary and examples of generally accepted v...

This comprehensive bibliography of the literature on women in Ireland presents over 2, 300 annotated, classified listings in a one-volume format. It is divided into fourteen subject categories covering women's traditional roles and their participation in the whole range of human endeavor: the arts, the professions, economic life, religion and politics. Presenting a wide spectrum of approaches and viewpoints, Brady has incorporated popular, rom...

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Working Conference "Boundary variations and boundary control" held in Nice (France), June 10-13, 1986. The aim of this Conference was to stimulate exchange of ideas between the group working on shape optimization (including free boundary problems) and the group working on boundary control of hyperbolic systems (including stabilization). An important remark is that if one considers a dynamical system...

This book provides an overview of ethnic-American personal writing with descriptive studies of more than twenty-five major autobiographies. In addition to providing biographical information about the writers, and bibliographical data about their tests, the volume presents both descriptions and analyses of the selected narratives.

Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacture (CAM) are but two of the more recent examples of computer applications in domains previously dominated by human labour. The use of computers in such areas has increasingly attracted social science research. There are several reasons one could suggest for this, not least of them being the simple fact that public money is being provided for such research. Of course, some of the interest ...

Aufgrund der verscharften Wettbewerbssituation sind in den letzten Jahren in nahezu allen Branchen die Anforderungen an die Produktionsplanung der Unternehmen stark gestiegen. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung haben zahlreiche Betriebe ihre An­ strengungen zur Erhohung der Leistungsfahigkeit der Produk­ tionsplanung und der sie unterstutzenden Planungssysteme ver­ starkt. Als groBes Problem hat sich hierbei bei einigen Be­ triebstypen das Fehlen geei...

Die gestiegenen Anforderungen an die Flexibilität und Anpassungsfähigkeit von Industrieunternehmen können häufig nur mit moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IuK-Technologie) bewältigt werden. Bei der Einführung entsprechender Systeme sind eine Vielzahl von Faktoren zu berücksichtigen, um den Erfolg des Einsatzes von IuK-Technologie sicherzustellen. Im vorliegenden Werk wird eine praxisorientierte Vorgehensweise zur Implementi...

An invaluable work on black African cinema has at last appeared in English. Francoise Pfaff's volume synthesizes relevant information, devoid of hagiography, about twenty-five sub-Saharan African filmmakers, according a separate chapter--consisting of a biography, filmography, and thematic analyses of individual films--to each. Varying critical viewpoints are brought to bear from both African and non-African perspectives. The author has gone b...

Land Settlement Policies and Population Redistribution in Developing Countries" provides a comparative analysis, initiated by the International Labour Office, of land settlement policies and programs in developing countries under various socioeconomic conditions. It reports the findings of nine case studies conducted in countries which have established resettlement schemes. The major focus of the studies is the identification of the factors th...

This book is a reflection of a growing awareness among philosophers and psychologists of the inescapable entanglement of psychology with its philosophical underpinnings. It deals with the dissection of the assumptions that control contemporary inquiry into psychological events, and it offers a preliminary examination of the consequences for understanding behavior that different assumptions provide. The broad scope of topics provides a number o...

Immigration and Ethnic Conflict reviews the experience of post-industrial countries that have experienced large-scale movements of population since the Second World War, creating ethnically diverse multicultural societies in a context of rapid economic, technological and social change. The book uses a critical theoretical approach which emphasises the dynamic nature of the structural changes which have taken place and the interdependence of ec...

This volume brings together leading economists in the UK to address the issue of the sustainable use of the natural environment. The result is a set of original essays which reappraise the 'no growth' debate, investigate the new environmental ethic being built on the concept of sustainable development, look at the way in which projects with major environmental consequences should be evaluated, and ask how future generations are to be represent...

The island was lost-dropped from sight and memory-for not less than four centuries. Once a cenobite shared his hermitage with the island's crawling things, but that was all briefly. A year, more, who knows? He died unrecorded. Lost like the island, he was rediscovered by fishermen, a skeleton with cross and scapular, miraculously intact but moldy with moss. The island was otherwise uninhabited for these several centuries, except for the dead.