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In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. Focusing on Nashville and its Middle Tennessee hinterland, this work explores the impetus for this migration and illuminates its effects.

In this unique volume Toni reveals her secrets and shares her knowledge from over 20 years as a tarot reader. The System of Symbols has the full symbolic meaning of each tarot card, how to interpret each tarot card, including reversed tarot interpretations, true life examples and key words for easy use. There is also information on the use of numbers in tarot, part of the art which is often forgotten these days, and yet is vital to a true unde...

The Jazz Itinerariesseries, a new format based on Ken Vail's successful Jazz Diaries, charts the careers of famous jazz musicians, listing club and concert appearances with details of recording sessions and movie appearances. Copiously illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads and posters, the series provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the greatest jazz musicians of our time...

`Makes fascinating reading and at the same time provides a good grounding in the study of the language of organizations, both for those who know little of the area and for those who are looking for a comprehensive overview of the field. Overall I would warmly recommend this book as an asset for students and teachers of organizational behaviour and for those with a general interest in the way in which language shapes our lives and work' - Organ...

In Philosophies of Space and Time, Howard Congdon presents a collection of readings from antiquity to the present, showing how philosophers have thought about and understood the concepts of space and time. This examination shows how human thinking has evolved in attempting to answer the questions embedded in the concepts of space and time.

The US Army requirement for a light utility helicopter was formulated after the Korean War. This title details all the technological background behind the development and use of the Huey "Slick" in Vietnam, as well as covering all the major uses that this transport aircraft was put to.

The Normans were some of the most feared warriors of the High Medieval period, descended from the Vikings. They built on their warlike reputation, culminating in their quest of England under Duke William I. This work covers all these developments from the early days of William I.

The last three decades have seen an explosion of social, psychological and clinical research to identify effective strategies to prevent and treat alcohol-related problems. This "Essential Handbook" contains an updated selection of reviews of "what works", drawn from the critically acclaimed International Handbook of Alcohol Dependence and Problems. Selected specifically for health and other professionals, who need to provide effective respon...

Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? In Cool Men and the Second Sex, Susan Fraiman identifies them all with "cool masculinity" and boldly unpacks the gender politics of their work. According to Fraiman, "cool men" rebel against a mainstream defined as maternal. Bad boys resist t...

The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2, 000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.

With the needs of nonprofit organizations only growing as donations shrink, special events become more and more vital in sustaining the life of these organizations. Nonprofit lay leaders, professionals, and staff, as well as marketing professionals and event planners who work with nonprofits, will all find in Special Events, Second Edition a clearly drawn road map leading to fundraising success.

Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, case managers, and psychiatric social workers in training and practice in clinic, hospital and community settings will find this book an essential practical resource for working with individuals (and their families) with co-occurring disorders.

One of the most important components of the front-line Luftwaffe was the Schlacht, or ground attack, arm. This work details the Schlacht units who were in the thick of the fighting from the first day of the war until the last.

In A Great Duty L. B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has previously been recognized. He looks at the responses of cultural critics to such topics as war, reconstruction, science, conformity, personality, and commemoration, catching outspoken observers in the act of synthesizing new interpretations of the contemporary world and protesting the dominance o...

Die Fotografie und der moderne Tanz sind kulturelle, ästhetische Erscheinungen, die sich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts stark verändern und jeweils eine eigene Formensprache ausbilden. Das Tanzfoto wird zu einer Schnittstelle der beiden künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen, die durch zwei konträre Prinzipien bestimmt sind: die auf die Fläche bezogene Fotografie und den durch Raum und Zeit konstituierten Tanz. Die Fotografinnen Charlotte Rudolph, Sus...

This textbook applies insight from the social sciences and history to a wide range of violence inspired by religious motivations.

The story of Sierra Vista, Arizona begins with Coronado's explorations of the southwestern desert in the sixteenth century, long before the 1877 establishment of Camp Huachuca, home of the famed 24th Infantry "Buffalo Soldiers." Sierra Vista grew up in the fury of the silver and copper mining days surrounded by three stunning mountains and the San Perdro River. Once known as Fry, this frontier town bloomed from a virtually unpopulated settleme...

Au cours des 40 dernieres annees, la sante des populations des pays de l'OCDE s'est considerablement amelioree. De leur côte, les depenses de sante ont rapidement augmente et representent maintenant plus de 8 % du produit interieur brut (PIB) dans plus

Psyche and Spirit involves a series of interdisciplinary studies of the psychology of religious experience from the vantage point of psychoanalysis, psychology of religion, literary study, philosophy and theology.

In diesem Sammelband werden diverse Textphänomene aus der Sicht einer multidisziplinär ausgerichteten Textwissenschaft untersucht. Die Beiträge dokumentieren sowohl die wissenschaftshistorische als auch die aktuelle Diskussion über Grenzen und Perspektiven der Textforschung. Den Autoren ging es darum, das Schillernde am Textphänomen ins Auge zu fassen, Gestaltungsspielräume für einzelne Textsorten zu fixieren, die Machart der Texte und die Unt...