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View book details for Library Board Strategic Guide
Going to the Next Level
Scarecrow Press
View the author's companion website for more information and extra materialsWhether they have full governance powers or are just there in an advisory capacity, trustees on library boards need to understand the complex issues that affect a library's ability to …
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group …
View book details for Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education
Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap
AltaMira Press
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory. By including readings that each feature a theoretical perspective, Huffman provides a comparison of each …
View book details for Japanese Grammar
The Connecting Point
UPA
Japanese Grammar: The Connecting Point is instrumental for anyone learning Japanese who seeks to gain a firm grasp of the most important aspect of the language: verb usage. Learning Japanese may seem to be a daunting task, but Dr. Nomura's …
View book details for Ladies in the Laboratory III
South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Women in Science: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Scarecrow Press
Published in 1998, Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research. A companion volume, published in 2004, focused on women scientists from Western Europe. In this …
View book details for Plundering the Egyptians
The Old Testament and Historical Criticism at Westminster Theological Seminary (1929-1998)
UPA
Plundering the Egyptians focuses on the study of the Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1929 to 1998. More specifically, it presents the lives and academic labors of Robert Dick Wilson (1929-1930), Edward Joseph Young (1936-1968), Raymond Bryan Dillard …
View book details for Bach for a Hundred Years
A Social History of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem
Lehigh University Press
This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J. S.Bach and to develop it into a choir of international importance. Singers, instrumentalists, industrialists, academicians, …
Scarecrow Press
While Iceland is the second largest inhabited island in Europe, with only 313,000 inhabitants in 2007, the Icelanders form one of the smallest independent nations in the world. Around two-thirds of the population lives in the capital, Reykjavik, and its …
View book details for Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Literary and Cultural Practices
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Sentimentalism emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as a moral philosophy founded on the belief that individuals are able to form relationships and communities because they can, by an effort of the imagination, understand one anothers feelings. American authors of both sexes …
Scarecrow Press
Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student. It aims to equip the student with a basic skill set that he or she …
View book details for Public-Private Partnerships
Success and Failure Factors for In-Transition Countries
UPA
Public-Private Partnerships aims to discover the conditions under which public private partnerships may provide a viable alternative to the provision of public services and infrastructures by the state, while achieving efficient, sustainable, peaceful, and equitable development in four transition countries: …
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The Ultimate Teen Guide
Scarecrow Press
Social networking is now an entrenched activity for nearly every teen in the country. A recent study showed that nearly 75% of American teens use an online social network, a percentage that continues to rise. Librarians, such as the author …
View book details for Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
A Selected Bibliography
Scarecrow Press
The Anglo-Zulu War was one of many colonial campaigns in which the British Army served as the instrument of British imperialism. The conflict, fought against a native adversary the British initially under-estimated, is remarkable for battles that included perhaps the …
Scarecrow Press
Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous paths. …
View book details for Rabbi David
A Documentary Catalogue
UPA
Rabbinic documents of David, progenitor of the Messiah, carry forward the scriptural narrative of David the king. But he also is turned by Rabbinic writings of late antiquityfrom the Mishnah through the Yerushalmi and the Bavliinto a sage. Consequently, the …
View book details for The World We Want
New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change
AltaMira Press
In The World We Want, Peter Karoff presents a collective vision of an ideal world. By sharing his experiences and through conversations with more than forty social entrepreneurs, activists, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropists who are changing notions of 'the human …
Government Institutes
Many Healthcare workers must deal on a daily basis with the transportation, preparation, storage, clean up, and disposal of cytotoxic drugs, which are used in chemotherapy because of their harmful effect on cancer cells. These drugs also have harmful effects …
View book details for Common Misconceptions in Mathematics
Strategies to Correct Them
UPA
This book should be a handy tool for teachers of mathematics as they develop plans to confront the problem of misconceptions, which are common with students that often have their own notion of certain mathematical concepts, right or not. The …
View book details for Johann Leisentrits Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, 1567
Hymnody of the Counter-Reformation in Germany
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, 1567, was compiled and published by Johann Leisentrit, a Roman Catholic priest who from 1559 to the time of his death in 1586, was Dean at the Cathedral of St. Peters in Bautzen, a town in …
View book details for Margaret Atwood
A Reference Guide, 1988-2005
Scarecrow Press
Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 …
Scarecrow Press
Sergio Leone's renown as a filmmaker rests upon a fistful of films, most notably the three Westerns he made with Clint Eastwood in the mid-1960s: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the …
View book details for Becoming the Arsenal
The American Industrial Mobilization for World War II, 1938-1942
UPA
Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy. The first was the Great Depression and the government's New Deal recovery program. The second …
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Language, Tradition, and the Message of Bin Laden
UPA
Understanding Muslim Discourse provides a well-illustrated account of the major ideas currently in use within the Muslim discourse, and also examines the mechanics whereby Bin Laden's message has become popular, legitimate, and one of the most dominant voices in this …
View book details for Barack Obama and the New America
The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the …
Bucknell University Press
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the …
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