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The core of the book is Oliver's account of his research travels throughout tropical Africa from the 1940s to the 1980s, his efforts to train and foster African graduate students to teach in African universities, his role in establishing conferences and journals to bring together the work of historians and archaeologists from Europe and Africa, his encounters with political and religious leaders, scholars, soldiers, and storytellers, and the p...

In an effort to illuminate the interactive processes between analysand and analyst, Mitchell examines the therapeutic action of analysis, anachronistic ideas like anonymity and neutrality, the nature of analytic knowledge and authority, and the problems

This guide provides school superintendents with a comprehensive overview of professional practices, career strategies, and personal concerns. It also includes recent developments in administrative theory and practice as well as leadership, decision making, personnel, unions and negotiations, and school business.

The 1960s counterculture challenged the mainstream practices that dominated the 1950s, producing such groups as the hippies, Diggers, the National Organization for Women, and the American Indian Movement, all of which demanded societal change. The A-Z entries in this volume provide fascinating details on notable persons who stirred alternative ideas such as Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Andy Warhol, and Stokely Carmichael, events such as Woods...

Mary Doria Russell is a former anatomist, has studied six languages, trained as a paleoanthropologist and is the author of scientific papers on subjects as various as bone biology and cannibalism. Her first novel, The Sparrow, won the 1996 James Tiptree Award, the 1998 BSFA Award and the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award and she has also won the Cleveland Arts Council Prize for Literature and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of Science...

Charting the complex route from failed peace following World War I to right-wing radicalism in Italy and Germany to the outbreak of war in Europe and its spread to the Pacific, this comprehensive study balances overview and detail and weaves local struggles into the wider world context. Includes a chronology of events, appendix of key figures, and 4 maps.

With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist-including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser-examine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down" and offer both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease.

This second selection of over 200 old photographs brought together by the Derwentdale Local History Society contiunes the dramatic story of Consett, its people and heritage.

Feeney, a distinguished biochemist, relates the history of arctic and antarctic exploration to the the science of nutrition. Vivid descriptions of explorers and their plights include the expeditions of Stafansson, Franklin, Nares, Greelyl, DeLong, Peary, Cook, Amundsen, Mawson, Scott, and Shackleton.

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence, the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that i...

Duncan MacLeod, member of an age-old race of immortal beings, is in Paris helping a friend organize a museum exhibit of ancient cultures destroyed by the Romans. While unwrapping a priceless scroll of the Torah, Duncan remembers Avram Mordecai, a young Immortal who was determined to see the Romans defeated and the lands of Israel returned to the Hebrews. When Duncan meets Maral, a Palestinian delegate to the Arab-Israeli peace talks, he falls ...

Ben Smoke is an ex-cop, a tough-guy bachelor who never had a case he couldn't crack--that is, until someone starts snatching bodies from a funeral home. This is the kind of challenge Smoke loves--only this time, the case leads him on a bizarre and dangerous journey, leading to a crazy, kinky lady, a twisted killer, black magic, and ancient Egyptian rites. It's a devilish--and deadly--business. This is a case that might just be too hot for Smok...

Die vorliegende Auswahl entstammt den Opusgruppen 19, 38, 53, 63 und 102. Im Wesentlichen wurden Stücke ausgesucht, die den melodiösen Charakter der Klarinette besonders gut zur Geltung kommen lassen. Die Originaltonarten wurden beibehalten, dem Klavier die Rolle des Begleiters zugewiesen. Eine Sammlung, die den Unterricht bereichert, das Gestalten von Melodiebögen fördert und damit das Spielen mit "musikalischem Atem". Auch gut als Konzert- o...

Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed's musical. This songbook is from the 1983 stage version, which itself was adapted from the 1952 movie and the plot closely adheres to the original. Set in Hollywood in the waning days of the silent screen era, it focuses on romantic lead Don Lockwood, his sidekick Cosmo Brown, aspiring actress Kathy Selden, and Lockwood's leading lady Lina Lamont, whose less-than-dulcet vocal tones make her an unlikely candida...

Filled with practical insights, solutions, and tools, this book will help even veteran safety professionals better understand behavioral approaches to safety, improve safety performance and employee involvement, and obtain senior management support. Manning's book presents a simplified, non-technical explanation of the human relations and psychology of safety and uses anecdotes and real-life experiences from the author's own professional exper...

Journalistic ethics are defined, explored, and analyzed in this comprehensive and timely volume. Topic examples include confidentiality of news sources, the right to privacy, deception of news sources, freedom of the press, the role of the media in shaping public policy, news bias, whistle-blowing and the press, journalistic morality and professional competence, ethical problems in broadcast journalism, social responsibility and magazines, and...

Conversations with Albert Murray edited by Roberta S. Maguire As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and profound influence on American art in the decades since the Second World War. Artists as diverse as Walker Percy, Romare Bearden, and Wynton Marsalis have drawn from Murray and his ideas on jazz and the blues, modern consciousness, and the role of race in the American identity. His own...

This book offers a major reappraisal of Jean Baudrillard's thoughts on the image, radical illusion and media culture. Here for the first time, through a number of highly accessible interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard introduces what he calls the `stunning clarity' of the photographic, and fascinatingly outlines his present thoughts on urban reality, aesthetics, virtual reality and new media technologies, in the light of his practice as...

This is a pictoral history of the travellers of Ireland. Photographer Oppersdorff records the transition from nomadism and exclusion from "society", to the concessions to education and settling down in housing projects and caravan parks.

This is a major study of the definition and effects of 'Modernization' on 20th century Arab societies. Focus is on the codification and implementation of legal change in the post-1945 era of nation building and the patterns of reform that have emerged since the 1960's.