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Maracatu Atomico" is the first academic work to investigate the " mangue " movement, one of Brazil's most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years, and the related "new music scene" of Northeast Brazil. Contending with the widespread poverty and social problems, mangue places a renewed value on the local environment and its myriad folk traditions while embracing modern, global pop influences and technology. The book provides historica...

Saturn is back in the news! The Cassini/Huygens spacecraft, a joint venture by NASA and the European Space Agency, is on its way to Saturn, where it will arrive in July 2004. During 2005 it will explore beneath the clouds of Titan, Saturn's largest moon and potential home for extraterrestrial life. Written by an established space historian and experienced author, Mission To Saturn - Cassini and the Huygens Probe is an up-to-date and timely rev...

This book is the second in a series with the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (Series Editor: Matthew P. Janicki). These publications are designed to address the issues of health, adult development and aging among persons with intellectual disabilities. Physical health considerations of persons with an intellectual disability are attracting attention within the contexts of human rights, public hea...

Sounding Indigenous explores the relations between music, people, and places through analysis of Bolivian music performances: by a non-governmental organization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble, and by the people living in two rural areas of Potosi. Based on research conducted between 1993 and 1995, the book frames debates of Bolivian national and indigenous identities in terms of different attitudes people assume...

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Rolf Steyer, Autor des erfolgreichen Lehrbuchs "Messen und Testen", schließt mit diesem Buch die Kluft zwischen Regressionstheorie und deren empirischer Anwendung, der Regressionsanalyse. Grundbegriffe der Statistik werden ohne Bezug zu komplizierten Stichprobenmodellen erläutert. Neben der Regressionsanalyse können auch verschiedene statistische Verfahren, wie die Varianz- oder Faktorenanalyse, als Spezialfälle regressiver Abhängigkeiten ange...

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More than twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over eighty original writings that offers a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Written by women and men--both "of color" and "white"--this bridge we call ...

In this work, John Wilson Foster looks at neglected episodes in Irish cultural history from mid-Victorian to Edwardian times. He discusses Darwinism in late 19th-century Ireland, the building and launching of the Titanic in 1911, and late-19th century interest in amateur scientific fieldwork.

From the author of "Ketjak" and "Paradise" comes another volume of absurdist poetry, criticism, and witticisms.

Equipped only with the final letters written by her murdered great-grandparents and old photography, the author embarked on a journey into the Holocaust, which led to the story of many murdered relatives and also to surviving relatives around the globe.

Dreams of Decadence magazine proudly presents this collection of vampire poetry and fiction by two of its most frequent and popular contributors. Join us on our journey down the crimson path as we explore eternity.

For 30 years Arthur Clery commented on Irish life in the "Leader", and some of his most engaging pieces were reprinted in "The Idea of a Nation" in 1907. For this edition they are supplemented by other pieces, including an early review of James Joyce's "Chamber Music".

Smack in the middle of Kansas, Section 27 in McPherson County has been occupied by the Penner family since 1874. Although few of the area's residents have direct ties to the past, Mil Penner still farms the land that his family has worked for over 125 years. His account of daily life on a Mennonite family farm near Inman, Kansas, retells a universal story of the American heartland sharpened by personal accounts of one family's enduring relatio...

Eye-witness accounts by two reporters from the Irish Independent newspaper of the historic Treaty debates of Dail Eireann, held in University College Dublin's Earlsfort Terrace building in December 1921 and January 1922.

In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting professio...

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For effective sales, two facts stand out above the rest. First, great salespeople build long-term relationships with their customers because people buy from people they like. Second, customers buy from sales-people with behavioral styles similar to their own. They feel more at ease talking to salespeople who make them feel comfortable. I hope you agree that how you sell is as important as what you sell. But how do we make our customers like us...