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The chemical sciences and their applications are all around us. Many museums and galleries have scientific departments and collectors of objects, that may not even be "antique" in the strict definition of the word, often need to have some scientific knowledge to stop their collection deteriorating. This resource shows how chemical techniques are used in conserving objects made from a wide variety of materials and seeks to introduce some of the...

This valuable resource presents the skills and strategies today's academic librarians need to reach the next level of service and leadership.

This exciting new resource incorporates engaging media literacy into the ongoing preparation of students for standardized testing.

Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of cr...

The first title in a planned series of classic texts, written and published in Africa, on the history and culture of the Niger Delta. Long out of print, this book brings together oral traditional evidence and all other available historical material including the work of the eminent historian of the Niger Delta, Kenneth Owuka Dike. The study is an attempt to reconstruct the early history of the Ijo people of the Niger Delta, from the nineteenth...

Animals are described in the context of being of God's creation. Their communities and ways of life, and their treatment in the wild and in captivity are described. Every page is illustrated with drawings of the animals, and relevant passages are quoted from the Qur'an and the Hadith.

Presents a collection of Ralph Smith's writings that provides a comprehensive overview of his contributions to understanding the importance of aesthetics in education. These essays record his efforts to construct a rationale for the arts in general education, and a curriculum for art education in our public schools (K-16).

...insightful and informative....the essays in this volume contribute to a better understanding of nationalism and nation-building in multicultural East Central Europe." · German Studies Review The hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization,...

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Presents lessons for teaching English to foreign speakers and discusses organizing small-group comprehension classes, selecting books for students to read, and how students demonstrate understanding.

Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica was a unique thinker in the history of Hasidism with a highly personal vision of Judaism. His teachings, partially derived from the Przysucha-Kotsk school, adopted the concept of absolute divine providence as a cornerstone.

After moving to a new town, eight-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the "Wishing Pond" but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends.

Newer Lies' contains a sequence of narrative lyrics guaranteed to turn readers upside over with its relentless restraint and exquisite comprehension of the world in which we live, work, and die. It's meticulous, accomplished, and endlessly revealing. From East Coker to Northern Ontario, the fine line between poetry and deceit lurks, inevitably, in the corners of each of our lives. Dan Jalowica illuminates precisely these in language honed, spa...

: A must for exhibit developers, researchers, educators, and other museum professionals looking for ways to engage visitors more deeply with interactive science exhibits, this book documents the exploration and findings of the Exploratoriumas Active Prolonged Engagement project, funded by the National Science Foundation. Both a significant contribution to visitor research and a nuts-and-bolts guide to exhibit development, Fostering Active Prol...

The dazzling new edition of this "tremendously valuable resource" (Kliatt) contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing and adapting exercises, revision, and publishing. "The lessons are presented with clarity, common sense, and sophisticated artistic sensibilities."-Misso...

Die vorliegenden Studien verfolgen den 'semantischen Umbau' der Sprachwissenschaft in Deutschland vom Krisendiskurs der Geisteswissenschaften in der Weimarer Republik bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Nach 1918 dominiert bei den deutschen Sprachwissenschaftlern eine hoch ambivalente Einstellung: Das stolze Bewußtsein, einer angesehenen und sehr 'deutschen' Wissenschaft anzugehören wechselt mit der Einsicht, daß die überkommenen Themen, Met...

1950s Quebec: a shy sixteen-year-old in a Catholic boarding school for perspective schoolteachers falls in love with a classmate. When the fantasised relationship fails, she takes superficial refuge with a group of girls, and learns how alone she is, how alone and closed off they all are.

This is the third volume of The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon', which translates the often obscure jargon and technical terminology of economics into direct, plain English understandable by both the academic and the layperson. The most abstruse topic becomes clear as he conveys the sense in ordinary language, without loss of meaning through oversimplification. The volume covers a wide range of economic thought and includes every relevant te...

In a careful exposition of French Marxism, William Lewis places Althusser and his thought alongside the pre- and post-war French communist intellectual climate: the result is an excellent and unique work. Part theoretical treatise on some of Althusser's more complicated and less explored ideas, part intellectual history, Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism is, in total, an important text for philosophy, French and francophone ...

This book explores one of the most important current topics in international relations: whether trade diminishes or enhances conflict. Mark J. C. Crescenzi adopts an original perspective, arguing that the 'exit costs' confronting states - how hard it would be for them to replace the trade they are threatening to cut - determines the credibility of the threat and the effect of such trade on the likelihood of political conflict.