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Follow a trail of magic dust on St Patrick's Day, do a lion dance for Chinese New Year, and try on wings from the Wing Shop for Aviation Day. In this book, each holiday theme includes directions for a variety of open-ended, developmentally appropriate activities.

Traces the origins of attitudes and behaviours in nursing, their historical, psycho-social and professional backgrounds, their cross-generational transmission and their cause and effect. This study is useful for managers, nurse teachers, practising nurses and students alike.

The coeditor of the enormously popular Jewish Catalog "help(s) readers understand more fully the meaning of our holidays and thereby to observe these festivals . . . with a greater devotion and joy."--Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler

Die Hoffnungen bei der Umgestaltung der ehemals sozialistischen Wirtschaftssysteme beruhen vor allem auf dem Aufbau eines breiten Mittelstands. In diesem Buch wird die politisch umstrittene Thematik auf eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Basis gestellt. Die Autoren haben in den beiden ersten Jahren nach der Wiedervereinigung die Entwicklung des ostdeutschen Mittelstands intensiv verfolgt. Es wurde jedoch auch weit über den deutschen Tellerrand hi...

A reanalysis of Sand's major writing, ranging from her early short stories to her later fiction, which identifies her writing as an example of an aesthetic mode often associated with femininity. The study compares Sand's place in the history of the realist novel to that of her male counterparts.

Did Darwin see evolution as progressive, directed toward producing ever more advanced forms of life? Most contemporary scholars say no. In this challenge to prevailing views, Robert J. Richards says yes--and argues that current perspectives on Darwin and his theory are both ideologically motivated and scientifically unsound. This provocative new reading of Darwin goes directly to the origins of evolutionary theory. Unlike most contemporary bio...

This book presents many exciting, delicious, and interesting dishes for breakfasts and brunches besides giving delightful suggestions on how and when to entertain early in the day. In response to growing concerns about nutrition, The Book of Great Breakfasts and Brunches provides a host of healthy meals as well as traditional favorites.

The ICMS Handbook is acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures. It was first published as A Basic Guide to Museum Security, and is now fully revised, enlarged and updated. The manual covers: general principles security, theft and burglary: security personnel, training, collection management and transport, disaster planning, fire and environmental hazards, checklist of security procedures. It is designed to o...

In this first major study of the captivating life of Audrey Hepburn, Ian Woodward uncovers the truly sensational story of one of Hollywood's most enduring legends.

Der Autor bevorzugt symbolische Notationen im Sinne von Lagally-Gibbs, stellt aber auch deren Zusammenhänge mit dem Indexkalkül (Duscheck-Hochrainer-Ricci-Einstein) ausführlich dar. Das Buch ist an den algebraischen Bedürfnissen der modernen Kontinuumsmechanik orientiert.

The Emergence of Civilization argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on nineteenth-century speculation, are wrong. Charles Maisels integrates archaeology, ecology and textual history into a new anthropological perspective.

This study explores how cultural forms in Western society construct and reinforce social attitudes that encourage sexual violence. The contributors argue that literature reflects a patriarchal representation which makes the act of rape seem natural and inevitable.

With the vision that children can learn well and achieve excellence if provided with opportunity and challenge, Flack offers exciting ideas and strategies to identify and develop the unique talents found in each one. These strategies employ the library media specialist and teacher as allies in the talent development process, and they promote the concept of basic skills beyond literacy and numeracy into goal setting, time management, library re...

Part 1 deals with the psychological and political origins of the war, part 2 focuses on George Bush, Saddam Hussein and the nature of their leadership and judgement, part 3 discusses the battle for public perceptions and beliefs waged by both sides, part 4 analyses the results of that battle as revealed by the understanding of the US, Israeli and Arab publics, and part 5 deals with the war's consequences.

The fifteen essays in this collection, published here for the first time, survey the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work since then has continued to develop interestingly. Most of the dramatists considered here, however, are those who have begun writing more recently,...

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The Historical Romance explores the ways in which romance authors seek to represent our fantasies of life in the past. Examining how the cut-and-thrust swashbucklers of the 1930s gave way to female-orientated romances, Helen Hughes takes a comprehensive look at how romance authors have dealt with the turbulent question of female independence, and how traditional attitudes towards love, marriage and women's sexuality have been approached in mor...

A complete ethnography of an Afro-American community in the USA. Set in a town in the Deep South, it describes how the people struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community "after freedom", almost three-quarters of a century after emancipation.

The third book in a trilogy that includes "Seeing the Divine" and "Hearing the Divine, " this book articulates the religious sensibility underlying the traditional performing arts and examines the relationships between the arts and religion in India today.

A selection of works by the French intellectual Roland Barthes, including seminal essays, such as 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives' as well as his more unusual works, such as 'The World of Wrestling'.