'Inviting School Success' helps readers to see how teachers and all involved in schools can work to make their schools a truly inviting place. It also offers strategies on how to overcome challenging situations by applying class-tested theory in the practice of everyday teaching to students of all ages.
First published in 1879 and later revised and enlarged, this work contains an introduction to the Greek language and its dialects. It includes five major sections: letters; syllables and their accentuation; morphology; syntax, including multiple examples; and the metrics of Greek verse. There is also a catalogue of Greek verbs and full indexes, ...
In 1861 William Watson, a native Scot who had established himself as a Louisiana businessman, enlisted in the Confederate forces although still a British subject. In 1887 he penned his memoirs "to give", he said, "a simple narrative of my experience in a war campaign". Far from simple, Watson's work clearly and forcefully describes his experiences ...
Long unavailable, these letters by the young Faulkner, written when he was in his 20s, are a fascinating and eloquent testimony to his growth and development as a writer and a man.
This title details the cover-up of one of the worst labour tragedies in American history. The authors conducted an archaeological dig of the site and include their observations. It includes many illustrations. It will appeal to readers interested in Irish and Irish-American history, labour history, and the history of technology and medicine. In ...
In the chaotic aftermath of the fall of Acre in 1291 and the reconquest of the Holy Land by the Moslems, the last survivors of the Order of the Temple make their bloody retreat from the Middle East. Loading the treasure of their Order into a decrepit, leaky vessel, they set sail for Europe, where, unbeknownst to them, King Philip of France plots ...
This authoritative, stimulating book brims with information on techniques, media, and artistic examples. Comprehensive chapters explain how to use pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, brush and ink, quill and rush pens, and felt-tip, wash, and mixed media. 250 black-and-white illustrations provide sketches and drawings by the authors, as well as old ...
This work is the first in a three volume series that surveys China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era of the Tang Dynasty around AD 900. The book discusses in ...
Written during his twenties, this collection of nearly 150 letters describes Faulkner's first journeys to the northern states of the USA. All letters have never before been published and belong to the Faulkner Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas.
This beautiful book is the second in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artefacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. It covers the most prolific and broad-ranging period of Chinese art history, from the Song Dynasty with its spectacular landscape paintings to the Ming Dynasty ...
Since 1964, when it was first published, people working in every field of music have been turning to This Business of Music for answers to questions on legal, financial, or economic aspects of the industry. With an exhaustive appendix of standard industry forms and legal extracts, this bestseller continues in its role as the bible of the business ...
The Arts of China after 1620 concludes a major three-volume survey that examines China's huge wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the present. Beginning with discussions of 'fine' art and painting and progressing to analysis of carving and sculpture, ceramics, glassware and textiles, the authors demonstrate how, in ...
This revised guide to the music industry has been expanded to look at today's growing market for music videos and compact discs, DAT technology and changes in the copyright laws.
Designed for student research, this resource contains information, reference material and analysis of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union. Combining narrative description, analytical essays, biographical profiles and primary documents, the author explores the reasons for the decline.
"Crash Course: Anatomy" takes you through the anatomy of the human body in a comprehensive yet reassuringly concise format. Anatomical terms and basic structures are first defined before moving on to more detailed perspectives of the upper limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, lower limb, head and neck, and back. Radiological representations ...
This book is about the inner voice of the self. It addresses the ways students, teachers, and others speak to themselves about who they are and how they fit in the world.
For 1400 years, France has been in contact with Islam and Muslim populations. This study explores their long relationship and history, examining in particular the expansion and contraction of France's "Islamic" Empire throughout the 20th century. This modern empire essentially consisted of conquered territories inhabited by Muslims and ...
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