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This volume evaluates British womens' poetry by identifying how their work registered and influenced the cultural shifts between the years 1910-1939. Special emphasis is put upon their participation in modernist innovation and the simultaneous internalization and rejection of the feminine ideal.

This companion volume to the best-selling Gil Kane: The Art of Comics features over 100 pieces of original artwork, 300 illustrations, and numerous unpublished interviews with the likes of Julius Schwartz, Roy Thomas, and Ron Goulart as they share their personal perspectives and associations with this beloved comic book and fantasy illustrating icon. This in-depth 200-page book includes a comprehensive overview of Kane's career and over 75 pag...

Making it easy to communicate within the floriculture industry, this bilingual dictionary annotates specific terms including those that relate to the biological, botanical, and entomological applications in the industry. Tables highlight translations of the most frequently used terms, provide conversions for measurements of temperature, length, volume, area, and weight, and facilitate quick reference of scientific and chemical names.

The beginnings of western science and philosophy are discussed in this book on Thales of Miletus, the Greek thinker born in the mid-620s BC. Patricia O'Grady examines Thales' ideas about mythology, the earth and the cosmos, as well as Aristotle's view of his work.

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Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts. Jensen argues that faith in high culture's unproven ability to transform people and society allows social critics to keep faith with the idea of a democratic society while deploring popular culture. Instead of expecting the arts to improve th...

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Proceedings of the Improved Ceramics through New Measurements, Processing, and Standards Symposium held at PAC RIM 4 November 4-8 2001, in Maui, Hawaii"--T.p. verso.

Referrals, suspensions, and expulsions of African American students, especially males, are at an all-time high. However, as this book shows, culturally determined assumptions and friction over communication have a role to play in this as well. This book is designed to make readers aware of how cultural factors relate to the ways that discipline is meted out. Administrators and teachers will gain an understanding of how culturally conditioned b...

Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was the beginning of the United States' battle with Japan during World War II. In the months following the attack, Japan was successful in a series of victories throughout Southeast Asia and the Western Paci

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Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work and role marginalized as insignificant despite compelling evidence to the contrary. This enlightening discussion of the misperceptions about the profession offers a thoughtful perspective on the real work done by educators and examines some of the harm done by efforts to 'fix' what is wrong.

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This important study explores the multifaceted experience of Mongols in China, past and present, as their identity balances precariously between historical memory and their contemporary position as an ethnic minority. Uradyn E. Bulag assesses the intricate relationship between socialism and nationalism that generates both resistance and complicity and defines the moral dilemmas that have confronted Mongols and Chinese in negotiating nationalit...

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This book combines theory, practice, and ethnography in an exploration of how teachers can fully implement diversity and antiracism as a foundation of their teaching approach. Kailin presents her curriculum, which has been influenced by many years of active involvement with parents and teachers in schools, along with ethnographic reports of the processes of change that teachers experience as they fully explore the realities of race relations, ...

The sixteen essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been ...

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