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An in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US.

Prime Time offers a compelling introduction to the work of Serbian-born, Berlin-based artist Goran Djurovic (born 1952), whose grim and enigmatic paintings place human figures in absurd theatrical situations or show them performing seemingly pointless actions, in the idiom of Edward Hopper or Michaël Borremans.

Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes follows Mann's own obsession with the artistic life through his characters. Mann probes deeper than perhaps any other author into questions of how an artist is formed, why he must defy conventional society, and how suffering and disease affect his work.

Intermediate and advanced art students receive a broad vocabulary of effects with this in-depth study of light. Diagrams and paintings illustrate applications of principles to figure, still life, and landscape paintings.

Guides children through six types of regions that are shaped by rainfall—or the lack thereof. Readers take a journey that starts with dense tropical rainforests and woodlands, travels through grassy savannahs and prairies, and ends at dry steppes and deserts. Throughout the book, attentive readers can compare how and why each region is alike and different.

Music envelops New Orleans, and this guidebook--with listings of music clubs, restaurants and venues that are a bit of both--depicts this cultural milieu of sound and entertainment. The city offers the world traveler much more than its famous Bourbon Street, and this pocket guide points the way. 84 b&w, photos. Illustrations.

Featuring artwork from The Museum of Modern Art's extraordinary collection, each volume in the MoMA Artist Series guides readers through one artist's most memorable achievements, explaining their significance and placing them in context among the ground-breaking innovations of their time. The second collection presents the pivotal work made in the second half of the twentieth century by six American artists: Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Ro...

In the fall of 1964, Trappist monk Thomas Merton prepared to host an unprecedented gathering of peace activists. "About all we have is a great need for roots, " he observed, "but to know this is already something." His remark anticipated their agenda--a search for spiritual roots to nurture sound motives for "protest." This event's originality lay in the varied religious commitments present. Convened in an era of well-kept faith boundaries...

Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into Jane Jacobs's complex and often contrarian way of thinking. Now, more than 50 years after the initial publication of her famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) in a period of rapid globalisation and deregulated approaches in planning, new challenges have arisen. The contributors in this book argue that it is not possible simply ...

With both contemporary and historical analyses, the book traces the legacy, characteristics, contours, and goals of the sociology of service, shedding light on its roots in early American sociology and its deep connections to activism, before examining the social context that underlies the call for volunteerism, community involvement and non-profit organisations, as well as the strategies that have promise in remedying contemporary social prob...

This book explores the domestic factors of the two Koreas and the four major powers that influence their security policies towards North Korea and Northeast Asia. This well thought out and consistently analysed volume has huge potential to frame the conversation on Northeast Asian relations in the coming years.

By reshaping ideas that have previously been considered as predominantly theoretical and abstract, Morley¿s work provides an innovative framework that enables social work and human services practitioners to find hope, agency and practical strategies to work towards change, despite operating in contexts that appear immutably oppressive.

This informative and incisively written edited collection brings together experts from around the world to explore the tension between a normative and a political base of social work and social development and, therefore, to address the question: how can social work and social policies contribute to the endeavor to respect, protect and fulfill human rights? This volume will show that there is no straightforward answer to this question owing to...

Exploring the controversy surrounding therapeutic human cloning, this book draws upon data collected from news articles and interviews with journalists to examine the role of mass media in shaping biomedical controversies. With specific reference to the US and the UK, together with attention to the important role played by nations in Southeast Asia, this book sheds light on media representations of scientific developments, the unrealistic hype...

The first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the far right parties in the Balkans -- .

The war on terror thrives on pantomime demons, created and maintained by political opportunism, convenient stereotype and uncritical celebrity scholarship. ,

About the Contributor(s): Lodovico Balducci is a physician, medical oncologist, Senior Member of the Moffitt Cancer Center, and he is Professor of Medicine and Oncologic Science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He is considered the father of geriatric oncology, a discipline he developed and publicized over the past twenty-five years. He is the senior editor of three textbooks of geriatric oncology and two textbooks of geriatric hem...

About the Contributor(s): Creola Thomas was born and raised in Chicago in the most notorious housing complexes. His mother was an urban missionary and his father was a noted pastor committed to living and working amongst the poor. Growing up in the hardest part of Chicago taught him that even on the dark side of life our light as Christians can still shine. After high school Thomas attended Columbia College and majored in Theater. He had the h...

What sort of interaction is there between, for example, slow-moving objects like climate and comparatively fast-moving objects like governments? Using real-world examples, the author shows how a networked concept of space and time is at the heart of our central political concerns.

Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles of preparation being among the most consumable of the converging cultural elements. This book traces the pathways of migrants and travelers and the mixing of their cultures in the Caribbean from the Atlantic slave trade to the modern tourism economy....