Chopin scheint in seinen Nocturnes wohl am romantischsten, mit den Mazurken gehören sie zu jener Werkgruppe des Meisters, welche auch dem weniger geübten Spieler zugänglich ist. Beides mag die unverändert große Beliebtheit dieser musikalisch eminent reich nuancierten Miniaturen erklären. Wie alle von Jan Ekier, dem Solisten, Pädagogen und Wissenschaftler, betreuten Chopin-Publikationen innerhalb der Wiener Urtext Edition, ist auch die vorliege...
The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook, Second Edition adds new insights into the plight that faces the twenty-first century teacher. With changing demographics and added pressure from state and local governments in the area of accountability and stricter standards for teachers and students alike, new teachers need a resource that can help guide them through their day-to-day routine. This book helps them do just that with activities, strategies...
The Science of Mental Health is a one-stop resource for major issues and classic controversies in mental health. This publication is Volume 9: Stress and the Brain.
The Science of Mental Health is a one-stop resource for major issues and classic controversies in mental health. This publication is Volume 8: Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome.
The Science of Mental Health is a one-stop resource for major issues and classic controversies in mental health. This publication is Volume 4: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders.
This important study offers a comprehensive analysis-cum-critique of the phenomenon of globalization and links the criticism to the inherent contradictions of modernity. It represents an effort to reverse a dangerous, and possible destructive tide in human existence. Dr. Segesvary's work links the phenomenon of globalization to the increasing importance of inter-civilizational relations - these latter representing the powerful counter-current ...
Several companies are now manufacturing reinforced composite products and researchers are developing manufacturing methods without a reference that thoroughly covers the manufacturing guidelines. Composites Manufacturing: Materials, Product and Process Engineering fills this void. It encompasses all of the aspects of high-quality, low cost composite parts manufacturing. The author presents a fundamental classification of processes, helping you...
Environmental economics is one of the fastest growing branches of economic studies. This volume brings together several classic articles in the field on a wide range of topics such as externality, non-renewable resources, commons, valuation techniques, sustainability, poverty and environmental resource base, and environmental policy. An introductory paper on environmental policy deals with Indian environmental policy regime and addresses inter...
The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilisations of the East sympathetically. With important changes of methodology and approach to the cultures and religions of As...
Tremendous technological developments and rapid progress in theory have opened a new area of modern physics: high-field electrodynamics, characterized by two fundamental scales: the relativistic intensity regime and the quantum electrodynamics (QED) scale. This text focuses on the theory of electromagnetic interactions near the relativistic intensity regime. It gives a comprehensive, detailed description of the theoretical tools needed to appr...
This thoroughly revised Companion (first published in 1998) is immensely readable and entertaining with a range of curious and unexpected entries, such as those on duels, two-up, Vegemite, and the six o'clock swill. Thoroughly cross-referenced for easy access to all information, this volume contains many new entries as well as revisions on existing entries. This is a superb reference for all Australians as well as those interested in Australia...
T.S. Eliot's poetry is well known for its allusiveness and reference to a wide range of historical and literary subjects. At the same time, the roots of explanations and critical readings necessary to elucidate and contextualize Eliot's poetry have seldom been available. This book offers a carefully explanatory as well as critical reading of Eliot's Selected Poems. It tackles each poem individually, offering comments and explanations that draw...
The business of filmmaking began with the Thomas Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Many studios have come and gone since then. From the little guys like feisty Mark Dintenfass and his 1905 "Actophone" unit (an unlicensed Path camera furtively grinding out films in defiance of the Motion Picture Patents Company) to heavyweights like Samuel Goldwyn and M-G-M, 66 studios of all sizes and specialties are covered in this book. The culminati...