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Provides an introduction to the performers and music that make opera an enduring and well-loved musical style. Organized in two parts, this book gives a brief introduction to four centuries of opera, and is useful for students and interested listeners who want to learn about this important musical style.

Historically, U.S. citizens have accepted most Supreme Court decisions without protest, but there have also been rulings that have aroused public anger, condemnation and defiance. These public reactions and the debates they have inspired have helped shape the social and political character of the nation. ''The Public Debate Over Controversial Supreme Court Decisions explores public reaction to over forty of the most well known and contentious ...

Compiled by specialists from the Cochrane Collaboration Airways Management Group, "Evidence-based Respiratory Medicine" is the first major evidence-based text in adult respiratory medicine.Providing a comprehensive summary of the best treatments for the most important respiratory diseases, some of the world's leading physicians review the evidence for a broad range of treatments using evidence-based principles. Essential information is present...

This book is based on an archaeological research project completed in Bahrain aimed at investigating the period between the sixth and thirteenth centuries AD. Technologies such as pearl diving and pottery manufacture, as well as animal keeping and butchery, are all considered. Additionally, this volume examines the role of trade and commerce in creating the complex history manifest in the Persian Gulf region, as well as the role of religious a...

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Compiled from presentations given at the 2004 American Psychopathological Association (APPA) annual meeting, "Medical and Psychiatric Comorbidity Over the Course of Life" reviews the comorbidity of mental and chronic physical syndromes in an epidemiological and life course context, offering fresh insights and identifying crucial clues?gleaned from the overlapping areas or areas of mutual pathogenesis linking disparate realms of knowledge?to th...

The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological-physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale.

This book is an exploration of how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. Historically, Native American autobiographers have written in the shadow of "Indian law, " a nuanced form of natural law discourse with its own set of related institutions and forms (the reservation, the treaty, etc.). In

As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon Parker provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the field. Bringing together considerable disparate literature, Parker offers an up-to-date assessment of new research findings. Key issues addressed include raising finance, job creation by the self-employed, growth and exit behavior of new ventures, and the role of government policy in pr...

Denise Gallo's book provides an excellent introduction to the performers and music that make opera an enduring and well-loved musical style. Clearly organized in two parts, it gives a brief introduction to four centuries of opera, and is ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style.

< b>A New York Times Bestselling Author< /b>< P>After 25 years of John Paul II's guidance, the Catholic Church is entering a new age, with its bedrock traditions intact but pressing questions of its vitality to address a rapidly changing world. Beginning with a portrait of John Paul's final days, God's Choice offers an extraordinary account of the conclave that produced Benedict XVI as the next pope. George Weigel also gives us an authoritativ...

At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed our trust and endangered our democracy. Tom Fenton is the senior European correspondent for CBS News. In his long journalistic experience, he has reported on everything from the fall of the Shah of Iran to the crumbling of communism in East Germany to the bombing of Israel during the first Gulf War....

To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even individuals? Of crucial importance in the attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of human cognition, these remain amongst the most difficult of questions in the cognitive sciences. This volume brings together ten new contributions from leading scholars working in a wide cross-section of disciplines,...

To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even individuals? Of crucial importance in the attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of human cognition, these remain amongst the most difficult of questions in the cognitive sciences. This volume brings together ten new contributions from leading scholars working in a wide cross-section of disciplines,...

This major revision of Adams's classic text on the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, lavishly illustrated with 130 b&w, illustrations and 18 maps, adds new information from archaeological fieldwork in the region from the 1990s through 2004 and evaluates recent theories regarding the remarkable prehistoric cultures of this region.

This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, ...

Focuses on the forest as a theme in contemporary art. This full-colour catalogue accompanies one of the inaugural exhibitions at the new Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, on view from October 2, 2005, through January 29, 2006. It includes drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, film, video, digital imagery, and sound art.

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods, theories, thematic concerns, and contemporary debates in the field. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, contributors explain the impact of history, sociology and philosophy on the study of postcolo...

Examines the negotiations and controversies that took place during the planning and construction of The Dalles Dam and the profound impact the project had on both the Indian community of Celilo Village and the non-Indian town of The Dalles, intertwined with local concerns that affected the entire American West.

The Endangered Species Act at Thirty is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of issues surrounding the Endangered Species Act, with a specific focus on the act's actual implementation record over the past thirty years. The result of a unique, multi-year collaboration among stakeholder groups from across the political spectrum, the two volumes offer a dispassionate consideration of a highly polarized topic.Renewing the Conservation Promise...