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Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled generating core values for the field of music education, the core in larger societal and educational contexts, what to teach and how to teach it effectively, how we need to educate our teachers, the role of research in our profession, and how to improve our f...

Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled generating core values for the field of music education, the core in larger societal and educational contexts, what to teach and how to teach it effectively, how we need to educate our teachers, the role of research in our profession, and how to improve our f...

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This volume portrays the Polish or Lvov-Warsaw School, one of the most influential schools in analytic philosophy, which, as discussed in the thorough introduction, presented an alternative "working" picture of the unity of science. The school was founded by a phenomenologist, Kazimierz Twardowski, who trained a team of researchers that included some of the most important logicians and philosophers of the history of analytical philosophy, such...

The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent on many policy agendas in recent years. Governments have identified the growing consumer potential for cultural/creative industry products in the home market, as well as for the growth of exports. The emphasis now lies on creativity, innovation, small business growth, and access to global markets – all in line with the move from cheap manufacture towards high value-added p...

China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. Social factors relating to gender and gender inequality exacerbate the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in China. A better understanding of the proximate social determinants of HIV related to gender will be crucial to effectively curbing HIV and other STIs in China. Aspects of Ch...

How do we gain authentic information and generate credible knowledge from research in difficult places and from difficult audiences? Can we do this? Are there practical solutions to the challenges and barriers often put before us? This book guides researchers in conducting research in situations of violent conflict or human rights abuses.

2009 marks the centenary of Ambler's birth, his thrilling and realistic spy thrillers helped to invent the genre, and they are now published in "Modern Classics" with new introductions.

The paperback edition of the bestselling travelogue by the country's favourite Renaissance Man. Join Stephen Fry as he drives his black cab across the United States in search of the real America. His findings are recorded here in his inimitable witty style and illustrated with 30 colour plates of stunning photography. Accompanies the popular BBC se

2nd edition. The only available directory of community-based tourism listings, for exciting holiday experiences to suit all tastes and budgets. Addresses ethical and practical issues to ensure that local communities don't suffer.

This is the most thorough, revealing, and illuminating account of the inner workings of psychoanalytic institutions that has ever been written. It comprises ground-breaking, in depth, recent political histories of the four leading psychoanalytic institutes in the United States_New York, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles_based on the author's extensive field work. Kirsner also provides dramatic insights into what psychoanalysts and their institu...

This is a book about the history of the Christian Science church and the reasons for the decline of the religion during the twentieth century.

A team of world-renowned experts cast new light on Milton Friedman's 1953 essay 'The methodology of positive economics'.

A team of world-renowned experts cast new light on Milton Friedman's 1953 essay 'The methodology of positive economics'.

Starting in the mid-1980s, the international human rights movement began focusing on attempts to hold high level officials accountable for atrocities. The results have been dramatic, exceeding what any of those involved in the accountability effort could have expected. As Ellen Lutz and Caitlin Reiger show us in Prosecuting Heads of State, some sixty-seven former heads of state or government have been prosecuted since 1990 for serious human ri...

Food habits are constantly being impacted by the perpetually increasing amount of information available to every person. Print and electronic media is full of advice regarding what should be eaten and why. Recommendations are often conflicting. Many foods are declared detrimental to health on one day and beneficial the next. The average consumer ends up being confused or even disillusioned by the scientific method. A major reason for the confu...

A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a synthetic biology that provides a characterization of life. Biology extends physics. Life is not a specialization of mechanism, but an expansive generaliz...

This tribute to Alan S. Kaufman is edited by his son James, with contributions by a 'who's who' in IQ testing.

Learning, Policy Making, and Market Reforms is the first study that tests the impact of policy learning on economic policy choices across time and space.

This collection of essays pays tribute to director Edgar Ulmer, the so-called "King of Poverty Row, " whose classic works include The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945). This volume also includes an interview with Ulmer's wife Shirley, as well as the first English translation of an interview with Ulmer conducted in 1965.