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Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world.

Through fiction, journalism, books of etiquette, letters, diaries and travel accounts, Barbara Santich has compiled a fabulous potpourri of popular writing on the theme of Australian cooking and eating. Wonderful accounts of food, culture and history from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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Diophantine analysis, an area of number theory that helps to discover hidden treasures and truths within the numbers by exploring rational numbers, comprises two different but interconnected domains - diophantine approximation and diophantine equations. This book presents the fundamental ideas and theorems from diophantine approximation.

Complete and unabridged, this economical softcover edition of O'Dowd and Phillips's "masterpiece" includes all original references and illustrations. The narrative engages and draws the reader along, page after page. The work contains several special features - in particular, a detailed chronological table at the end of each section, and a large number of short biographies in a separate section, at the end of the book, of individuals who have ...

When the Scottish Parliament sat in Edinburgh for the first time in nearly three hundred years it was the climax of Europe's most peaceable and legalistic national movement. But dull it wasn't. In war and peace, from Empire to Europe, through the rise and fall of industry, the cause of self-government has been endlessly reinvented and remodelled, sometimes surviving more as a poetic fashion rather than as a political campaign. But it got there...

This is the final part of a critical trilogy that explores cinema in the latter half of the twentieth century. It fuses analysis of objective form in Cinema and Modernity with a subsequent critique of subjective form in Contemporary Cinema, and reassesses the close ties of the aesthetic and the political up to the present time. The book examines the cinematic city in Kieslowski and Cronenberg, the cinema of wonder in Tarkovsky and Angelopoulos...

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Designed as a ready-reference and biographical source for educators and young readers, this book offers a more current and affordable alternative to multivolume publications. Fascinating profiles of 100 of the most beloved and celebrated picture book authors and illustrators are accompanied by photos, reading lists, and lists of related information sources (such as Web pages). Contemporary authors and illustrators whose works are still in prin...

Sixteen-year-old Kevin Colvin, burdened by his parent's fighting, the recent death of his best friend and slipping grades, despairs that he's just "a waste of space on this planet. Is this a passing thought or is he about to seriously contemplate suicide? Do you know any students like Kevin who are caught in the downward emotional spiral of disappointment to discouragement to despair? What can you say or do to help? What do they need most righ...

Practical Drainage is easy to read and presented in a non-technical style generously supported with helpful illustrations. There are three key messages in this book: water moves sideways only slowly through soil--leading to a detailed description of how drains work, the how-and-why of perched water table methods of construction, and sands are different from one another--they must be tested before use in turf root zones. These key messages are ...

This book examines how the Russian Empire expanded across the barrier of the Caucasus mountains to take control of the Georgian lands at the close of the 18th century. With no organized plan for conquest, imperial policy fluctuated based on personnel changes in the imperial government and strategic reevaluations of imperial interests. Particular attention is paid to the role of two significant individuals--Princes Potemkin and Tsitsianov--in p...

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Kornnattern und Erdnattern sind ohne jeden Zweifel die beliebtesten Schlangen im Terrarium überhaupt: sei es, dass man sich an der Schönheit der Naturformen erfreut oder sich für die unzähligen Zuchtvatianten bei beiden Arten begeistert. Sie bieten gleichermaßen ein ergiebiges Betätigungsfeld für Anfänger in der Schlangenhaltung wie für fortgeschrittene Züchter. In diesem Buch stellt Dr. Dieter Schmidt seine jahrzehntelangen Erfahrungen mit di...

Policy-makers in Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Rotterdam are confronted with rapidly changing social and economic environments. Public- and private-sector organizations in the three cities are increasingly addressing regional issues strategically, and are joining together in partnerships to promote competitiveness and economic growth. This book covers the complexities of modern governance under such circumstances, the diversity and patterning of ...

Using the method of spiritual reading, lectio divina or "divine reading" as it is called in monasteries, John S. Dunne sets out his interpretation of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and especially John in Reading the Gospel.Reading the Gospels, according to Dunne, means passing over into the relation of Jesus with his God, the God he calls Abba in prayer, and then coming back from that with a changed vision of life and death. If I pass over into the rela...

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The international flow of long-term private capital has increased dramatically in the 1990s. In fact, many policymakers now consider private foreign capital to be an essential resource for the acceleration of economic growth. This volume focuses attention on the microeconomic determinants and effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the East Asian region, allowing researchers to explore the overall structure of FDI, to offer case studies ...