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Graphic Music Analysis
An Introduction to Schenkerian Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Graphic Music Analysis presents Schenkerian analysis in a practical and engaging manner that will resonate with musicology, theory, and composition students, as well as performing musicians. With over 650 musical examples, Eric Wen guides students through the step-by-step process of creating graphic...
Doing the Math of Mission
Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Over the past ten years, the North American mission field has experienced dramatic changes, which in turn have required congregations, middle judicatories, and denominations to adapt. Among these adaptations is an expectation for clear goals and quantified progress towards those goals. Church leaders...
Double Standard
Social Policy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In Double Standard, James W. Russell shows how and why different models of social and welfare policy developed in the United States and Europe. The fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent political developments that are having significant policy consequences, including...
The Presenter's Fieldbook
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Proper presentations have the power to persuade and transform people and organizations. This is a book about the art of presenting. Using current knowledge about learning, this book describes best practices for designing, delivering, debriefing, and growing from the presenting experience. Some highlights...
The Teacher Leader
Core Competencies and Strategies for Effective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with a national school resource expert to write a comprehensive book on teacher leaders. Everything you need to know regarding the leadership role of teacher leaders in school improvement, managing change and improving learning are covered. The book starts...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: Literary Appropriations
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Volume 37— Literary Appropriations—examines medieval literature in a different light. This volume features six original articles, focusing on the art of appropriation, as well as fourteen reviews of recent scholarly publications.
The first article “The Oldest Manuscript Witness of the...
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities”...
Class, Race, Gender, and Crime
The Social Realities of Justice in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is a popular, and provocative, introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book systematically explores how the main sites of power and privilege in the United States consciously or unconsciously...
The Grateful Dead's 100 Essential Songs
The Music Never Stops
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In the studio and more than 2,300 concerts between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead performed more than 400 different songs. Their music continues to be tremendously popular as surviving band members and countless tribute bands memorialize the legacy the band left us upon the death of lead guitarist...
Uncollecting Cheever
The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Ten years ago, publishers, authors, scholars, and the reading public watched anxiously the results of two lawsuits involving the family of John Cheever, famed short story writer, and Academy Chicago Publishers, a small publishing house. At stake was not only a collection of Cheever's lesser-known...
A Contemporary Cuba Reader
The Revolution under Raúl Castro
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new commercial relations in...
Tyranny of the Textbook
An Insider Exposes How Educational Materials Undermine Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Educational reforms and standards have been a topic of public debate for decades, with the latest go-round being the State Common Core Curriculum Standards. But time and again those reforms have failed, and each set of standards, no matter how new and different, has had little impact on improving...
Trade and Globalization
An Introduction to Regional Trade Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
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Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are not new, but their importance in global economics and politics has grown exponentially in the past two decades. At the same time, RTAs have become increasingly controversial as their...
by Tibor R. Machan, James E. Chesher
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
A Primer on Business Ethics is an accessibly written, engaging introduction to the fundamental questions of business ethics, for use in the undergraduate classroom. Machan and Chesher approach the business enterprise in a friendly, pro-business spirit, and identify the virtue of prudence as its moral...