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Provides practical advice on dealing with a variety of common real-life issues that new teachers will encounter with their students.

Media Wars is a timely assessment of what we are and are not being told in the most important story of our new century.

Kaum ein Zeitraum vorher hat sich so umfassend in der Darstellung seiner Geschichte selbst bespiegelt, wie das 20. Jahrhundert. Der vorliegende Band möchte nicht eine weitere Musikgeschichtsdarstellung zum 20. Jahrhundert vorlegen, sondern anhand derexistierenden die Voraussetzungen einer solchen thematisieren und nach den Prinzipien der Neuen Musik fragen. Die Unschärfe der Begriffe und die Widersprüchlichkeiten der Geschichtsschreibung führe...

Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties, Cholly created the new specialization of "vocal chor...

In einer dynamischen Zivilisation erhöht sich in Wissenschaft und Technik, in Kunst und Wirtschaft, in Politik und Recht die Neuerungsrate. Die Zeitdauer konstanter Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse nimmt ab. Der Aufenthalt in der Gegenwart verkürzt sich ("Gegenwartsschrumpfung"). Zeit wird insoweit knapper und als Medium der Handlungskoordination sozial und technisch organisationsbedürftig. Ein einzigartiges Panorama der Zeit-Verfassung unserer...

Substance use and abuse are two of the more frequent psychological problems clinicians encounter, both in isolation and in the context of other disorders. Mainstream approaches focus on the biological and psychological factors underpinning drug abuse, but to fully appreciate the issue, we also need to attend to the social, historical, and cultural variables that provide a contextual base. The authors' primary goal is to explore thoroughly such...

Have urban schools failed, or has reform failed urban schools? This book examines existing urban school programs, ranging from desegregation to reading improvement, in light of available historical, empirical, and case study evidence. Miron and St. John and their contributors probe the underlying theoretical, normative, and political assumptions embedded in specific reform initiatives. They explore how reforms might be reconstructed to better ...

Andy Hampton's Saxophone Basics series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner saxophonists and their teachers. This new edition of Saxophone Basics (Pupil's book with CD) offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, fun illustrations, new activities, pull-out fingering chart and all of the great tunes featured in the original.

A major postcolonial feminist theorist explores the gendered nature of citizenship and the state.

A major postcolonial feminist theorist explores the gendered nature of citizenship and the state.

Discusses the effects of globalization on the field of literary studies and the formation of a critical identity in America.

Discusses the effects of globalization on the field of literary studies and the formation of a critical identity in America.

In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on "The Burton Greene Affair, " exploring the tangled relationship between black avant-grade in music and literature in the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of a di...

Distinguished scholars in Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Modern Turkish Studies examine the life and thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) using a variety of approaches--theological, philosophical, sociological, and historical--to shed new light on one of the most important thinkers and religious leaders in the modern Muslim world. Early in his life Nursi had hoped to save the Ottoman Empire from collapse, but after the e...

The first International Conference on Inverse Problems was held at the City University of Hong Kong in January 2002. It addressed the theoretical (mathematics), applied (engineering) and development aspects of inverse problems. It was intended to nurture AsianAmericanEuropean collaborations in this evolving interdisciplinary area.The scope of the proceedings is wide, reflecting the current flourishing theoretical and numerical researches on in...

The theory of solitons involves a broad variety of mathematical methods and appears in many areas of physics, technology, biology, and pure and applied mathematics. In this book, emphasis is placed on both theory (considering mathematical approaches for classical and quantum nonlinear systems -- both continuous and discrete) and experiment (with special discussions on high bit rate optical communications and pulse dynamics in optical materials).

Accountability protects public health and safety, facilitates law enforcement, and enhances national security, but it is much more than a bureaucratic concern for corporations, public administrators, and the criminal justice system. In Why Privacy Isn't Everything, Anita L. Allen provides a highly original treatment of neglected issues affecting the intimacies of everyday life, and freshly examines how a preeminent liberal society accommodates...

Presents a comprehensive account of sickle cell disease (SCD) and its affect on low-income families. This book examines how low-income African American mothers with children suffering from this hereditary, incurable, and chronically painful disease, react to the diagnosis and manage their family's health care.

Im Juni vor 50 Jahren prägten in vielen Orten der DDR sowjetische Panzer Straßen und Plätze. Acht Jahre nach Kriegsende trieben russische Soldaten und Angehörige der Kasernierten Volkspolizei mit Waffengewalt hunderttausende Demonstranten auseinander, die sich gegen die Politik des SED-Regimes empörten und politische Veränderungen erzwingen wollten. Torsten Diedrich schildert anhand vieler neuer Quellen die Ursachen, den Verlauf des Aufstandes...

Two sisters are parted shortly after birth to protect them from those who had killed their parents. The youngest, Ashling goes in search of her sister after having visions of a Great Battle and the death of her beloved, Arion. She finds her sister Aisline and her mate Herne. They go on a journey thru strange lands and become teachers to a young faery, Ainae. Together they encounter spirits of the Underworld, unforsaken lands and hideous creatu...