This thoroughly updated edition of a pioneering classic combines proven material on timeless issues such as learning strategies, critical thinking, time management, relationships, and personal health with new information on cutting-edge trends, topics, and technology important to today's students. The text reflects a stronger focus on purpose, ...
John Costello goes about the debunking of some of the Second World War's biggest heroes: MacArthur, Roosevelt, and Churchill. He asserts that, through a combination of errors and secret deals, they caused the disastrous defeats at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines.
"Coaching Youth Basketball" is the must-have guide for teaching the game, drilling the skills and building kid's confidence. Written for coaches of both boy and girl teams, this guide to the game covers basic terminology and rules, practice drills, strategies, tips for communicating with the kids and their parents, advice for training and ...
Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, ...
Mean Streets is a field study of young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. This book includes the personal narratives and explanatory accounts, in their own words, of some of the more than four hundred young people who participated in the summer-long study, which featured intensive personal ...
From Palaeothic times to the present, people have used masks to add power and mystery to religious rituals, warfare and entertainment. This companion volume to the 1999-2000 exhibtion at The Saint Louis Museum of Art provides a cultural history of these artefacts.
Everything you need to start playing blues guitar! The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive Blues Guitar Course designed by world-renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy. Learn essential blues chords and scales, the BB Box, lead techniques used by greats such as Stevie ...
The future of business is inextricably bound up with the Internet. Written by strategists at KPMG Consulting/Mertrius, this text provides executives with a "road map" for leading their companies through the transistion from business to e-business. By using interviews with those dealing with the e-business development, this book reveals the ...
We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our nation, our family, our hometown or house. So how come one can find these feelings of belonging in a place that one has never visited before? Is it something about Ireland as a physical entity - its landscape - or its people that offered itself up as a mother's bosom to ...
Introduces the skills of dribbling, juggling, passing, and receiving the ball, discusses field positions and strategies, and offers advice on warmups, conditioning, and practice drills.
Handbooks in The Betterway Coaching Kids series serve as the perfect step-by-step introductory primers for parents and coaches. Written in an easy, conversational style, these books cover all the basic skill-building techniques, rules of the games, proper equipment and first aid. These guides focus on team spirit, the importance of fair play and ...
The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation. The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the ...
The 2006 supplement includes the following updates: Chapter 15 was expanded to include the disclosure required by GASB Statement 40, Deposit and Investment Risk Disclosures, an amendment of GASB 3; Chapter 26 on Investments has been expanded to address Auditing Interpretations 9328, Auditing Fair Value Measurements, and 9332, Auditing Derivative ...
Anyone interested in coaching youth soccer will find all they need in this book. It offers advice on how to promote positive athletic competition while effectively teaching kids sports fundamentals. It will give readers: basic terminology and rules of the game; practice plans and drills that are fun, making teams eager to learn; tips for ...
Handbooks in The Betterway Coaching Kids series serve as the perfect step-by-step introductory primers for parents and coaches. Written in an easy, conversational style, these books cover all the basic skill-building techniques, rules of the games, proper equipment and first aid. These guides focus on team spirit, the importance of fair play and ...
This popular volume, available again in paperback, presents the exciting history of Colorado though the lives of thirty-two of its most noteworthy citizens, both famous and obscure, who helped to shape Colorado as we know it today. Among those featured are: Black Kettle (Cheyenne chief); David Day (outspoken newspaper editor of the San Juans); ...
Spaces of holomorphic functions have been a prominent theme in analysis since early in the twentieth century. Of interest to complex analysts, functional analysts, operator theorists and systems theorists, their study is now flourishing. This volume, an outgrowth of a 1995 program at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, contains ...
Intriguing and informative, this biography celebrates one of England's most respected and beloved 20th-century Catholic sons. Based on sound scholarship and thorough research, this study deals with the life; background; intellectual context; political and economic beliefs, particularly those concerning the theory that capitalism and socialism are ...
Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, starting with a lengthy excerpt from the original source, Prince and Smolensky's never-before-published report Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. The 33 selections cover a broad range of ...
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