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NASCAR Winston Cup stock car racing is America s fastest growing and most popular spectator sport. This book is a cultural and social reading of Winston Cup racing, the people who made the sport what it is today, and the corporations who sponsor the participants during their thirty-two race, ten-month quest for the national championship.

In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.

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Changes in English Renaissance technical books provide a new, and as yet largely unexplored means of viewing the Renaissance and the dramatic changes that emerged during the 1475-1640 period, the first years of English printing. This work covers this topic.

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An investigation into the lives of adolescent girls in middle school, this text follows a group of girls in and out of the classroom, focusing on what they read and write. It suggests that literacy plays an important role in maintaining friendship groups and in the construction of the self.

This volume brings together chapters by leaders in all curriculum areas and chapters by special educators, argues that the reform agenda must address the needs of all students and gives practical suggestions for both the classroom and the district level.

Most existing housing offers a poor fit for older people and people with disabilities, and new construction adds less than 2 per cent to the housing each year. This title emphasizes the disabilities and abilities of environments instead of individuals. It integrates theoretical and practical ideas about housing adaptation.

The stories of 33 officers, from the years 1797 through 1996, who were killed in the line of duty.

This timely book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction.

Karin Breidenbach untersucht, ob und inwiefern der deutsche Normensetzungsprozeß für die Rechnungslegung geändert werden sollte, um die Anwendung internationaler Normen zu ermöglichen und den Einfluß der betroffenen Gruppen zu verbessern.

In his award-winning study, Death and Property in Siena, historian Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., used close analysis of last wills to chart transformations in mentalities over a six-hundred-year history. Now, in The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death, Cohn applies the same methodology to fashion a comparative history of six Italian city-states - Arezzo, Florence, Perugia, Assisi, Pisa, and Siena - showing the rise of a new Renaissance cult of reme...

Das Bilderbuch "Peter und der Wolf" nach dem musikalischen Märchen von Sergej Prokofjew ist schon für kleine Kinder verständlich. Die bekannten Märchengestalten - Peter, der kleine Vogel, der Großvater, die Ente, der riesengroße Wolf, die Katze und die Jäger - werden mit ihren Instrumenten vorgestellt. Ein Standardwerk der Musikgeschichte, das Kinder und Erwachsene immer wieder gleichermaßen fasziniert.

Created to help educators understand, appreciate and deal with religious diversity in the classroom, this guide describes a variety of religions from the perspective of a sympathetic observer. There is a focus on religions with living traditions flourishing in the United States.