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View book details for Reading Franz Liszt
Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music
A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticisms piano superstar.Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music immerses readers …
Lexington Books
This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions …
View book details for The United Nations as Leviathan
Global Governance in the Post-American World
The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. Roland Richs Leviathan describes the necessary next version of the United Nations. It is a confident, competent, and …
View book details for Writing and Growing
Transforming High School Students into Writers
In this book, Dr. Timothy Horan presents an original and highly effective writing program whose major goal is to transform high school students into accomplished writers and mature young adults. This writing program is innovative, rigorous, and engaging, and was …
View book details for China and the Uyghurs
A Concise Introduction
This balanced history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants traces the development of this ethnic group from imperial China to the present and its fraught relationship with the Chinese state. Morris Rossabi focuses especially on CCP policies, both progressive and …
The book presents a comprehensive and original analysis from a Brazilian perspective of both traditional and emerging topics related to the so-called El Dorados of the 21st century: Amazonia and Antarctica. By gathering distinguished scholars, the resulting set of high-level …
View book details for Self-Supervision
Psychodynamic Strategies
Dr. Marc Lubin and Dr. Jed Yalof invite future and current therapists, counselors, and their supervisors to construct ways to achieve a more extensive and effective self-awareness and develop a "self-supervisory self" for a deeper and more informed clinical practice. …
View book details for Conversation Classrooms
A Profound Shift from Delivery of Information to Partnership
Conversation Classrooms: A Profound Shift from Delivery of Information to Partnership invites teachers to let go of dispensing knowledge and information to be given back on quizzes and tests. In creating partnerships with students through conversation, teachers see themselves on …
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A Decade of Deals from a Messy Minivan
"This fun tale is entertaining and inspiring in equal measure." Publishers WeeklyCome along for the ride, as Jamie and Brian Ratner show you how to build a successful business with your spouse. When Jamie Ratner pitched her new idea for …
View book details for Dear Younger Me
What 35 Trailblazing Women Wish Theyd Known as Girls
An inspiring book for young adult readers that Kirkus Reviews says offers "many inspiring, resilient role models along with encouraging advice to take away."A fascinating group of women from all walks of life share their inspirations, advice, and what they …
View book details for Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies
Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science
Includes the contribution of James A. Robinson, 2024 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsOver the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, …
View book details for Knowledge as a Feeling
How Neuroscience and Psychology Impact Human Information Behavior
Much of information science theory assumes a type of rationality in how individuals process the world around them but the impact of misinformation and disinformation along with the polarization of society into competing information factions calls for new understandings around …
View book details for Physical Hazard Control
Preventing Injuries in the Workplace
People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas. In any situation, people face potential hazardoften more than one hazard in each situationand these hazards often lead to …
View book details for Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen
Intersectionally Black
Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen broadens the historical narrative of Indigenous, Autochthonous, and First World people who have been classified historically as Negro, Black, Colored, Afro, and African American. By addressing the ways in which the singular …
View book details for Heidegger in the Literary World
Variations on Poetic Thinking
Within the vast reception history of Martin Heideggers philosophical thought poets, novelists, and playwrights have occupied a central place. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives by tracing the manifold, often surprising ways in which Heideggerian concepts, motifs, and …
View book details for The Feedback Process
Engaging Students with Meaningful Comments About their Writing
The Feedback Process: Engaging Students with Meaningful Comments About their Writing features curriculum and instruction to assist humanities educators with commenting on student drafts. The focus is on students non-fiction writing or arguments supported with credible sources. To make a …
View book details for An American's Grand Slam
A True Adventurer's Unlikely Journey
On May 6, 2014 Ryan Waters accomplished something that has not been replicated since. He and fellow explorer Eric Larsen stood atop the geographic North Pole, after 53 grueling days battling their way over an ever-melting sheet of ice that …
View book details for Doing the Right Thing
Sometimes Difficult, But Always Correct
Doing the Right Thing Sometimes Difficult, But Always Correct contains fourteen scenarios and solutions. The scenarios are real-life situations the author had to deal with as a principal and superintendent. Doing the right thing is sometimes challenging, but always correct. …
View book details for Magic in Early Modern England
Literature, Politics, and Supernatural Power
This book reconsiders the place of magic at the foundations of modernity. Through careful close reading of plays, spell books, philosophical treatises, and witch trial narratives, Andrew Moore shows us that magic was ubiquitous in early modern England. Rather than …
View book details for Reinterpreting a Native American Identity
Examining the Lumbee through the Peoplehood Model
Lexington Books
Reinterpreting a Native American Identity discusses the ongoing and morphing politicsbehind the federal governments denial of full Lumbee tribal recognition. At the core ofthe Lumbee struggle for federal recognition are issues of cultural authenticity, racism, misrecognition, and assimilation grounded in …
The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following …
View book details for The Strengths of African American Families
Twenty-Five Years Later
Returning to his innovative work of twenty-five years ago, Robert Hill once more offers an incisive analysis of five key cultural strengths of African-American families. With compassion and eloquence, he argues that these existing strengths provide a solid foundation upon …
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Icon of American Empire
In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends that the eponymous movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as her tenure as the most beautiful and famous woman in the world coincides with the era of postcolonialism …
View book details for Rhythmicity and Deleuze
Practice as Research in the Musical-Philosophical
In this detailed and comprehensive study of concepts from Gilles Deleuzes philosophy of time, Tromans undertakes a series of practice as research projects that reformulate Deleuzes work via what Tromans calls a musical-philosophical practice. Tromans interweaves his own solo-piano improvisation …
Lexington Books
In Rethinking the Anthropology of Love and Tourism, Sagar Singh draws on anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, religious studies, literature, and the study of mysticism, among other disciplines, to arrive at an understanding of love that is free from theoretical biases. …
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