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(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Contents: Pulcinella Suite (revised 1949 version) * Apollon Musagete (revised 1947 version) * Le Baiser de la Fee (revised 1950 version).

Revised edition of Cold Mountain's poetry by the acclaimed translator of the "Tao Te Ching.

Brits in Spain' first achieved notoriety during the 1980s - popularly imagined as a group made up of exiled criminals, drunken hooligans and leathery looking pensioners - welcome to 'Little England'! The British on the Costa Del Sol is the very first book to study this British expatriate community in any great depth and, through use of interviews with members of this community, paints a far more complex picture of its members. In doing so the ...

Critics of Herodotus have generally shown an unease in the face of the religious passages of the Histories, a sense that he 'lets himself down' by delving into matters irrelevant to the proper purpose of history. They have tended consequently to latch on to isolated instances ofscepticism in an attempt to vindicate Herodotus from imagined charges of obscurantism. Historians of Greek religion, on the other hand, by their concentration on ritual...

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Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

This volume includes previously unknown texts from Qumran Cave 4 (which did not fit into previous volumes of DJD, which were arranged by literary genre) and some literary and documentary texts from sites near Qumran.

A vital overview of perspective on the history of the world system for all graduates and researchers in a variety of fields such as international political economy, world history and sociology.

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The essays in Northcliffe's Legacy explore the popular press since 1896 - from Harmsworth's Daily Mail to Maxwell's Mirror . Topics include: the sorry tale of the Daily Herald , early dealings with the BBC, the role of photojournalism, the contribution of Reuters, and the roots of financial journalism for a mass market. The history of the popular press has always been about more than big headlines and big profit margins, as this volume success...

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Harriers are a charismatic group of birds of prey with a worldwide distribution that have long fascinated bird watchers and scientists. Here for the first time the biology of the world's harriers is treated within one over, in readily accessible language. There are detailed comparisons ofnorthern and southern species, descriptions of mating systems and population dynamics life histories, and insights into the selection pressures shaping the bi...

This book is a study of how some of the world's leading democratic states have responded to the challenge of territorial or sub-national movements seeking to increase the salience of cultural differences - ethnic, linguistic and regional identity - on the national agenda. International experts explore the various ways that cultural differences have acquired political significance and how these are managed by democratic states in every region o...

This volume presents new editions of Fa¿e Entertainment, and Fa¿e 2, and four hitherto unpublished numbers all in new, clear engraving.A detailed preface explains the fascinating history of the work, with full textual notes and an appendix of the poems.The score and parts are also available from the OUP Hire Library.

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion wi

Climate Responsive Design provides a unique source for students and practising architects requiring guidance on climatic design. Covering theory and application it provides examples of innovative and best practice in 'responsive architecture' through case studies. The book also covers the broader topic of technology as a generator in design which will be of interest to all those involved in design and building. The book focuses on tropical cli...

Douglass Bailey's volume fills the huge gap that existed for a comprehensive synthesis, in English, of the archaeology of the Balkans between 6, 500 and 2, 000 BC, much research on the prehistory of Eastern Europe was inaccessible to a western audience before now, because of linguistic barriers. Bailey argues against traditional interpretations of the period, which focus on the origins of agriculture and animal breeding. He demonstrates that t...

This book describes the present status and the history of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) - the most representative international psychological body. The IUPsyS includes national psychological associations from 66 countries, with more joining every year, and it has formal relations with the United Nations, UNESCO, the World Health Organization, the International Council for Science, and the International Social Scienc...

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