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Provides practical advice for the modern actor on how to portray Shakespeare's characters.

Should Hoover have taken more aggressive action to combat the Great Depression? Did Roosevelt's New Deal go too far? Should Truman have ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima? These and other controversial issues stamped the presidencies of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, and the crises they addressed marked a series of watersheds in American history. This rich resource of primary documents and commentary is a on...

This title provides the beginning and experienced physical education teacher with information to effectively teach lifetime sports and fitness activities. It helps planning, organizing and sequencing activities, and assists teachers in focusing their efforts on sound teaching principles.

In July 1884, pianist Calixa Lavalee performed a recital of US composers which helped to spark a series of such concerts and encourage the development and perception of US music to increase over the next decade. This study provides a history of the concerts and the critical debate surrounding them.

A guide to vacationing, from the 1800s to the present

Discover the ins and outs of daily life in Ancient Rome through the eyes of the Romans themselves.

Offers a guide for new or busy youth adult librarians who wish to create inexpensive, time-saving young adult library programs.

This work provides an insight into monetary and political problems as they appear in past and ongoing struggles for monetary supremacy in the United States and elsewhere. The book argues that member nation-states with competing and conflicting agendas pose the most serious obstacle.

Young U.S. attorney Marshall Jackson is handed the biggest case of his career when Supreme Court Justice Farrel Douglas is gunned down in Detroit. Conservative Justice Douglas had more than a few enemies in the city's African-American community, and no one is surprised when one of its most notorious radical activists is charged with the crime.But when contradictory evidence turns up that suggests there is more to the murder than meets the eye,...

Offers a concise compendium of the research on global warming as well as the political controversy surrounding it.

Brilliantly conceptualized and thoroughly researched, Mounira Charrad's book breaks important new ground in the explanation of legal changes affecting women's rights. We learn why apparently similar countries have taken very different paths. This book is a 'must read' not only for students of North Africa, but for everyone interested in the impact of nation-building and state policies on gender relations."--Theda Skocpol, author of "States and...

Is there such a thing as "women's music"? Do women write and listen to music differently than men do? While recognizing that the differences among women are as distinct as the differences between genders, this bold new study examines gender's influence on music. The author's unique analytical strategy shows, in its application to actual musical compositions, that there is a fluid relationship between the music and the analyst, between the text...

Defines and explores what it takes to build and sustain exemplary archival programs and related programs such as historical agencies, libraries, and information centers.

In today's culture of insatiable freedom, many believe that to be human is to be an insatiable self-actualizer. Yet insatiable is not sustainable. In order to solve today's crisis of environmental sustainability--and human sustainability--we must let go of our obsession to constantly be more. The desire to have all that we can have comes, Brown argues, from a cultural norm that has evolved to become an economic, social, and moral imperative. A...

Somalia, the Horn of Africa nation, is finally recovering from recent wars and famine. Written by a native Somali, Culture and Customs of Somalia gives students and interested readers an in-depth look at the land and people, past and present. It is the only accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date general reference on this country. Somalia was once colonized by Europeans, but Abdullahi's superb survey, with its historical context, evokes a So...

With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa. But problems abound, and this educational study looks critically at the educational situation and puts forth a number of proposals that could produce better results in contemporary South Africa.

Regarded by many as the finest American female composer of the 20th century, Vivian Fine's accomplishments ranged from the first performances of her work to the composition of a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham. This work provides a bibliography of her compositions.

In this study, Rodney Farnsworth identifies a pattern of filmmakers' obsessions with archetypal rituals centred on sacrifice and family in films made between 1977 and 1983, a period of political upheaval on both sides of the Atlantic. He presents an examination of key films of the period.

This comprehensive, psychological, and naturalistic analysis of prayer offers an alternative to William James's model of prayer. Faber analyzes religious faith psychologically and anthropologically, concluding that subjective prayer is finally an instance of homeopathic "magical" conduct. It ritualistically conjures up a version of the first, primal, biological situation, in which the dependent "little" one cries out to a parental "big" one fo...

Everyone pursues partnerships in education, but few understand their roles and limitations. Given the necessity of combining limited resources, however, such efforts are bound to continue. The various case studies provided point to the utility and limitations of educational partnerships, making this work of interest to scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with educational administration and change.