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Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely domina...

The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum is arguably the most important medieval treatise on the symbolism of church architecture and rituals of worship. Written by the French bishop William Durand of Mende (1230-1296), the treatise is ranked with the Bible as one of the most frequently copied and disseminated texts in all of medieval Christianity. It served as an encyclopedic compendium and textbook for liturgists and remains an indispensable guide...

Das Handbuch liefert in 79 Beiträgen einen kompakten und anschaulichen Überblick über die Neuro- und Biopsychologie. Hierbei werden nicht nur grundlegende Theorien und Konzepte der Neurowissenschaften wie Bewusstsein oder die Leib-Seele-Dichotomie aufgegriffen, sondern auch zentrale Methoden und Forschungsansätze der Neuro- und Biopsychologie referiert. Zudem werden wichtige Prinzipien der neuronalen Grundlagen kognitiver, motorischer, sensori...

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Sediments and Ecohyraulics is comprised of papers submitted to the 6th International Conference on Cohesive Sediments (INTERCOH 2005) held in Saga, Japan, September 2005. The papers are divided into two major categories. The first is basic processes, including erosion, settling, flocculation, and consolidation. The second major catagory is application of the understanding of cohesive sediments to address specific issues, including waterway and...

In my last moment, I leave this world a better man, with a poem still in my heart and a pen resting in my hand." SETH B. WILLIAMS Seth Williams thinks in images and conveys them through poetry and prose. Since the age of 12 he's fallen in love with the written art. The love affair has lasted over 21 years. Being visually stimulated by his surroundings, he has a unique gift of painting portraits with words, inviting his readers on journeys thro...

Born on a stump farm in the hinterlands of a Northwestern state, Andrew Stricker follows an uneven, fragmented path in a variety of roles - farm hand, menial jobs, steel worker, soldier, air-craft electrician, fire-fighter, and country western musician. As the latter, he traveled in Europe for eighteen years in a converted German mail truck. He experienced life from the murky depths to the ethereal, and the language is appropriate to the subje...

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It was only a few years ago, God shed his light on me. Anointed me with the gift of writing poetry. He opened my eyes to understand from the scripture that I read. A powerful message came down from above and descended here on me. The grace of God bestowed on me, the special gift that was given. Burns in my soul, lets the words flow on this paper it is written. O may I thank him daily for what he has given to me. May my heart yearn to do his wi...

Although the title of this text promises one hundred questions and answers, typically, the author delivers much more- 144. The questions represents a bolus of perennial salvos from students over several years of teaching. They span a wide range of philosophical, metaphysical and soteriological issues that have perennially troubled the human condition. The answers are culled form Avatars, perfect Masters, and the best philosophical insights, ar...

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Bored and cold in 1816, which was known as ¡§The Year without a Summer¡¿, Percy & Mary Shelly were on chilly holiday with their good friend the poet Byron. Remanded to the indoors, huddling around the fire, they challenged each other to write the scariest ghost story to pass the time. Mary Shelly composed based impart upon the Prometheus legend where in the hero steals Zeus¡¿s fire from the center of the Sun. Now this is a big deal. The acquis...

Bored and cold in 1816, which was known as ¡§The Year without a Summer¡¿, Percy & Mary Shelly were on chilly holiday with their good friend the poet Byron. Remanded to the indoors, huddling around the fire, they challenged each other to write the scariest ghost story to pass the time. Mary Shelly composed based impart upon the Prometheus legend where in the hero steals Zeus¡¿s fire from the center of the Sun. Now this is a big deal. The acquis...

Ralphy is the story of a typical Midwestern U.S. family into whose lives is thrust a misfit, a boy who was born flat and resembles a fish. Ralphy is a throwback to the time when human beings made a wrong turn and separated themselves from the other animals. In Breakthrough, Arthur M. Raintree, Ph.D., achieves his lifelong desire to become a research scientist, but discovers that his work is of far less importance than living in peace and love ...