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Inside the Classroom (and Out) examines folklore and its many roles in education. Several articles explore teaching in rural school houses in the early twentieth century, while others provide insight into more serious academic scholarship in the field of folklore itself. One chapter looks at the "early years, " including works about day care centers, scout programs, children's books, and the basic definition of what we mean by "folklore." Anot...

Provides a philosophical investigation stretching over several traditions, such as analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. This book draws on the thought of Tolstoy, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Camus and explores the insights these thinkers offer regarding their own difficulties concerning the meaning of life.

Provides a view using close readings of Aristotle and Hamilton, that the United States is often characterized by its devotion to the pursuit of commerce, that at its founding it was neither modern nor low. This book examines Aristotle's views of economics as presented in the Politics, and presents an account of the political economy of Hamilton.

It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in "samizdat" and emigre publications. Some called it the last of the Russian avant-garde, and others called it the first (and last) instance of Absurdism in Russia, however difficult to classify, it was OBERIU (from an acronym standing for The Union of ...

Biomes of the Earth is a new 10-volume set that outlines the main features of each of Earth's major biomes. The biomes covered include the tundra habitats, the taiga and temperate forests, grasslands of the prairies and the tropical savanna, deserts of the world, tropical forests of the equatorial regions, wetlands of the world, vast oceans, rivers and lakes, and a manmade biome--"agricultural and urban areas. This richly illustrated set provi...

Biomes of the Earth is a new 10-volume set that outlines the main features of each of Earth's major biomes. The biomes covered include the tundra habitats, the taiga and temperate forests, grasslands of the prairies and the tropical savanna, deserts of the world, tropical forests of the equatorial regions, wetlands of the world, vast oceans, rivers and lakes, and a manmade biome--"agricultural and urban areas. This richly illustrated set provi...

International in scope and analytical in approach,

Why don't more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? This work addresses these questions through a look at how candidates are recruited. It focuses on the mechanism by which parties' informal recruitment practices shape who runs - or doesn't run - for political office in America.

Among the twelve articles included in the newest volume from the American Academy in Rome are: "The Native Market for Greek Vases and its Implications", "Unpublished Documents Shed New Light on the Licinian Tomb", "The Chronicle of Francesco Venimbeni da Fabriano", and "Venice Before the Grand Canal." Anthony Corbeill is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das Phänomen der Geldwäsche ist vor allem in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten verstärkt in den Blickpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt. Neben anfänglich eher juristisch geprägten wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen wurde es nach und nach zunehmend auch aus der betriebswirtschaftlichen und volkswirtschaftlichen Perspektive beleuchtet. Außerdem findet die Geldwäsche dank ihres offenkundigen Bezuges zur Kriminalität...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Informationen, Berichte und Bewertungen zu neuen Kinofilmen finden wir in einer Vielzahl von unterschiedlichen Medienquellen in der heutigen Gesellschaft, aber auch nicht mediale Quellen wie interpersonale Kommunikation spielen im Kontext Kino eine wichtige Rolle. Das Sprechen über Filme, der gemeinsame Austausch über erlebte Gefühle, über das Interesse Filme sehen zu wollen und subjektive geschmackliche Einordnungen...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Der Baseler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht veröffentlichte im Januar 2001 das zweite Konsultationspapier zur neuen Eigenkapitalvereinbarung (Basel II). Dieses Abkommen, das voraussichtlich Ende 2006 in Kraft treten wird, beinhaltet die grundlegende Änderung der Eigenkapitalunterlegung der Kreditausfallrisiken bei Banken. Die Eigenkapitalausstattung der mittelständischen Unternehmen in Deutschland ist sehr gering. ...

A reference guide to the history and development of feminist literature. This book covers a wide range of works and genres, including novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and criticism. It focuses on the feminist works and writers such as Willa Cather, George Eliot, and Helen Keller, and works such as "The Bell Jar" and "The Feminist Mystique".

Profiles 22 women who have held the top positions of political leadership around the world.

The first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Ivan Bunin is often considered the last of the great Russian masters. Already renowned in Russia before the revolution, he fled the country in 1920 and lived the remainder of his life in France, where he continued to write for thirty years. Bunin made his name as a short-story writer with such masterpieces as "The Gentleman from San Francisco, " the title piece in one of his colle...

A creepy collection of true-life tales from ghost walker Kenneth Goor.

This book is a unique collection of new interviews with award-winning writers - novelists, poets, playwrights and children's writers. Each writer discusses their process, both mental and physical: why they write, who they write for, where and how often they write, their recurring themes, their problems and achievements.  The interviews are personal, honest, informative, intriguing and often humorous.  Each writer has also chosen a short extrac...

Biology profiles 10 individuals who beat the odds and pioneered their way to a permanent place in the scientific community. Entries include Charles Darwin, Sir Alexander Fleming, William Harvey, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Carl Linnaeus, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Gregor Mendel, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Charles Henry Turner, and James D. Watson.

On their summer vacation, the boys travel to the Windy Mountains to hunt and fish. To help Shep's father, the boys agree to take pictures of "real" hunting and fishing scenes, which will require daring and risk. They are attacked by wildcats and deal with foxes. Mysteriously, some of their belongings disappear and they know their task is in jeopardy.

The boys experience winter season at their camp, encountering bears, deer, and ducks and celebrating a remarkable Christmas. They face the difficulties of blizzards, the howls of wolves, and a mysterious stranger. As they enter the new year, a mystery unfolds with unbelievable realizations. Can they survive?