This text is intended for introductory-level, interdisciplinary courses offered in a variety of departments such as humanities, philosophy, art, English, music and education. Arranged topically by art forms, from painting, sculpture, photography and architecture to literature, music, theatre, film and dance, this illustrated work helps students ...
"Humanities through the Arts" is intended for introductory-level, interdisciplinary courses offered across the curriculum in the Humanities, Philosophy, Art, English, Music, and Education departments. It is arranged topically by art form from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture to literature, music, theater, film, and dance. This ...
For courses in Forced Air Heating.This text offers a complete guide to the installation, maintenance, and service of gas, oil, and electric forced warm air heating systems. It explores--in great detail--a large base of newer as well as traditional equipment, using the principles and practices of older furnaces as a means of understanding the newer ...
A social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the Sixties. This account - part of it gleaned from secret government files - tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s and how the drug then spread into the popular culture.
A vital handbook for deciphering widespread media bias, this book dissects news coverage of a wide range of issues--taxes, the Persian Gulf, social security, abortion, drugs, environmental pollution, U.S.-Soviet relations, terrorism, the Third World--and exposes the key stories that have been censored or glossed over by major media. **Lightning ...
Seven friends made a pact to write haikus every day for a year as a way to keep in touch with each other. The result is "The Haiku Year." Michael Stipe's entries recall his twilight-drenched lyrics for R.E.M. Douglas Martin's spare, elegant prose illuminates the hidden corners of life while Grant Lee Phillips thoughtful storytelling is pared down ...
Spanning the 1950s to the 1990s, this volume is a collaborative effort by past and present editors of "Film Quarterly" to celebrate and illuminate the medium that has prompted so much thought and exchange during the journal's lifetime.
A history of the Fascist underground movement in Europe and the Americas, which began with the collapse of Nazism at the end of World War II and has continued (via skinhead and white supremacist movements) up to the present day. Lee maintains that the Allied Powers connived to allow the escape of high-ranking war criminals and unreconstructed ...
For one/two-semester, beginning/intermediate-level courses in Forced Air Heating (using gas, fuel oil, electricity, and heat pump fuel sources). This text offers a complete guide to the installation, maintenance, and service of gas, oil, and electric forced warm air heating and heat pump systems. It explores-in great detail-a large base of newer ...
The ACE-2000 Symposium summarizes experimental and theoretical aspects of the acceleration and transport of high-energy particles in space. Included are new results from NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and other spacecraft on particles accelerated by the Sun and by interplanetary shocks, and on the acceleration of cosmic rays by ...
What does it mean to speak of a ?canon? of scripture? How, when, and where, did the canon of the Hebrew Bible come into existence? Why does it have three divisions? What canon was in use among the Jews of the Hellenistic diaspora? At Qumran? In Roman Palestine? Among the rabbis? What Bible did Jesus and his disciples know and use? How was the New ...
A guide to quantitative field ecology--paleoecology--this book makes statistical techniques accessible to a wide range of students and scientists. The chapters take the uninitiated slowly and carefully, and even creatively, through subjects ranging from estimating population densities to estimating the relative abundance of species to measuring ...
This is a coffee table-sized colour book that has gathered in one place more information about all The Islands of San Francisco Bay, in text and photos, than any other. It focuses on Island ecology: birds, animals, plants and island topography. A collection of over 400 images showing dramatic nature scenery is coupled with in-depth information on ...
A guide to quantitative field ecology--paleoecology--this book makes statistical techniques accessible to a wide range of students and scientists. The chapters take the uninitiated slowly and carefully, and even creatively, through subjects ranging from estimating population densities to estimating the relative abundance of species to measuring ...
Written by a team of experts in the field of workplace diversity, "The Global Diversity Desk Reference" offers a strategic approach for international organizations that want to succeed in the worldwide marketplace by maximizing the potential of all their employees. You'll discover how to increase effectiveness in managing diversity at three levels ...
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