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One hundred years ago the Labour Representation Committee was formed -- this is usually taken as the founding meeting of the Labour Party. However a month before, in January 1900, the Scottish Workers' Parliamentary Election Committee was established to achieve the same things in Scotland - the election of working-class representatives to the House of Commons who would act independently of the existing political parties. This reflected the way...

In Writing Men, Berthold Shoene-Harwood outlines the historical development of literary representations of masculinity from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein to Ian McEwan's The Child in Time. Subdivided into four parts, the study's first section takes a journey into the nineteenth-century pre-history of post-war and contemporary British men's writing, introducing readers to literature's capacity to both consolidate and unsettle traditional conceptio...

Nearly 500 key reference sources in the education field today-most new to this edition and published within the last decade-are listed by subject and type of work. Numerous Web site references and an increased number of journal annotations reflect the increasing reliance on these sources. Topics include educational technology and media, multilingual and multicultural education, adult alternative, continuing, and distance education, and educati...

Known for his paintings and writings on North Africa, Fromentin (1820-1876) was a French orientalist whose artistic work was influential in shaping Western stereotypes about the East. His semi-fictional travelogue, first published in 1859, offers insight into the French imagination and provides keen observations of Algerian culture.

As the end of the century draws closer, one of the most pressing challenges facing educators in the United States is the specter of an 'ethnic and cultural war' - a code phrase that engenders our society's licentiousness toward racism. In Dancing With Bigotry, Macedo and Bartolomé use examples from the mass media, popular culture, and politics to illustrate the larger situations facing educators and how this type of argument is both ignored in...

The authors blend public policy analysis, historical research, and legal analysis as they address the contemporary financial, social, legal, and policy pressures currently experienced by human rights commissions across Canada

Between Emma Peel and tire Ministry of Silly Walks British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python's Flying Circus, how American audiences received these uniquely British sho...

Between Emma Peel and tire Ministry of Silly Walks British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python's Flying Circus, how American audiences received these uniquely British sho...

Thompson and Henley show the relationship between information literacy standards and national subject area curriculum standards. Scenarios that illustrate applications of the standards and strategies for incorporating standards and objectives into instructional units are given along with specific examples of integrated units of instruction. An accompanying disk supplies an annotated bibliography of information literacy resources on the Web.

In this first major work on the muskox, Peter C. Lent presents a comprehensive account of how its fortunes have been intertwined with our own since the glaciations of the Pleistocene era.Drawing from paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, and Indian and Inuit lore, Lent examines muskoxen in prehistory. Changing concepts in biology, conservation and management, animal husbandry, and contemporary arctic economics complete the picture. In uniti...

The 12 essays that comprise this work examine the writings of one of American's greatest poets. Robert Frost was dismissed by some critics as a poet without technical or rhetorical complexity. These essays reassess his work from various viewpoints including gender, biography and cultural studies.

Der afrikanische Junge Arif hilft einem kleinen Elefanten, dessen Mutter erschossen wurde. Der Elefant wohnt bei ihm im Dorf, aber als er zu groß wird, muss er das Dorf verlassen. Jahre später gibt es eine Begegnung zwischen Arif und dem Elefanten, die beweist, dass ein Elefant niemals vergisst. Lesen macht Spaß! Mit spannenden, informativen, kontroversen Lektüren führt die Reihe Cornelsen English Library die Schüler/-innen schrit...

This volume brings together essays by leading German and American historians on the subject of German emigration in the eighteenth century when Germans were moving to a variety of destinations: Russia, Prussian Lithuania, and various other German territories as well as North America.What drove men and women from different regional and social backgrounds to leave their homes during this time? Some migrations were forced, as for the Mennonites, ...

A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would become fundamental to the West's imperial project. These founding ideas, he claims, have informed the American national i...

A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would become fundamental to the West's imperial project. These founding ideas, he claims, have informed the American national i...

Building on proven methods of effective supervision, this book offers academic librarians a practical guide for the day-to-day challenges that arise in supervising student employees. The authors describe the roles of employees and supervisors and review general management principles. They then explain how to organize for student employment. Hiring, compensation, orientation and training, and supervision strategies are covered in addition to co...

One of Swami Satchidananda's greatest, compact works, The Key to Peace shows clearly that peace is what really matters in life and explains how to be in that peace always by not disturbing our real nature. When our supreme inner peace is undisturbed, we are automatically in joy, in love, in light. It inspires us to lead a life of balance, contentment, above likes and dislikes-a life where everything comes to you. Topics include the forbidden f...

A Highland soldier journeys by land and canoe in the 1830s to attend the "gift-giving" ceremony on Manitoulin Island.