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Brand New Fence is a collection of poetry that touches our hearts, stings our souls, and pokes fun at society for taking life so seriously. Ward's poems depict everyday people and those moments (good and bad) we often overlook. With subtle imagery and cutting diction, Ward's poems remind us of life's simplicities during our most trying times. One boy recalls the taste of his spearmint gum after the death of his mother, another man pleads for a...

From an Italian ghetto to the Board Room, only in America.Here is a first person memoir of the son of an immigrant factory worker through the Great Depression and WW II, as portrayed by Tom Brokaw's third person account in the Greatest Generation.Passing the Torch tells the Horatio Alger story of the odyssey that culminated as the CEO of a nationally known company. It is an inspirational message to all, a tribute to his many contemporaries.]It...

The Lonely Doll Makes New Friends continues Dare Wright's classic series that began with publication of The Lonely Doll® in 1957. The new authors, Brook Ashley, Brett Wilbur and John Ogilvie, have photographed this latest Lonely Doll book in vibrant color. Edith and the Bears are the originals that Dare Wright used in her books. Edith's friends are Lenci dolls from the 1920s and 30s. Edith is a doll who lives with her companions, Mr. Bear and ...

The Globus Toolkit (http: //www.globus.org/toolkit/) is a key technology in Grid Computing, the exciting new computing paradigm that allows users to share processing power, data, storage, and other computing resources across institutional and geographic boundaries. "Globus Toolkit 4: Programming Java Services" provides an introduction to the latest version of this widely acclaimed toolkit. Based on the popular web-based The Globus Toolkit 4 Pr...

Hundreds of the letters that Gustav Mahler addressed to his parents and sisters survive in the Mahler-Rosé Collection at the University of Western Ontario, yet are almost entirely unknown. These family letters, which date from the mid-1880s through 1910, form the largest and most important single source of information about his life, his personality, and his relationships, particularly before the mid-1890s. They document such things as Mahler'...

Weighing the World is a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the scientific events leading to modern map making written by one of the world's master surveyor. Edwin Danson, using a similar approach to his earlier best seller, "Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most ImportantBorder in America" (Wiley, 2000) takes us on a journey telling the story of this experiment that has not been written about in over two hundred years. Natio...

National Identity and Global Sports Events looks at the significance of international sporting events and why they generate enormous audiences worldwide. Focusing on the Olympic Games and the men's football (soccer) World Cup, the contributors examine the political, cultural, economic, and ideological influences that frame these events. Selected case studies include the 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin, the 1934 World Cup Finals in Italy, the uniq...

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Der Sammelband "Spätmoderne" bildet den Auftakt zur Reihe "Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts in Ost-Mittel-Europa" und widmet sich zuvorderst osteuropäischen Dichtwerken, die zwischen 1920 und 1940 entstanden sind. Mit der Untersuchung einer "spätmodernen" Phase in der Dichtung lenkt der Band den Blick auf diejenigen Lyriker, welche nicht immer eindeutig bestimmten literarischen Strömungen zugeordnet werden konnten, und hinterfragt geläu¿ge Einordnun...

Young Clergy: A Biographical and Developmental Study ably employs Daniel Levinson's developmental theory--which emphasizes the importance of the professional development of young adults in their 20s and 30s to their careers. Using the biographies of five historical clergymen, Phillips Brooks, Jonathan Edwards, John Henry Newman, John Wesley, and Orestes Brownson, the book carefully maps the five career patterns of ministry during that time per...

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Provides an account of how primary school children and teachers can use maps to enhance learning. This book includes various aspects of map use, covering maps of various scales. It is useful to primary teachers and subject teachers in secondary school, as well as non-specialist geography teachers.

In the wake of school shootings and the more recent threats of terrorism, schools - like many public institutions - have begun installing techno-security equipment ranging from surveillance cameras to microchip tracking systems. Is this equipment necessary and who really benefits from its use? Selling Us the Fortress, the first qualitative study of the relationship between the security industry and schools, analyzes how technologies once reser...

What is multicultural psychotherapy?How do we integrate issues of gender, class and sexual orientation in multicultural psychotherapy? "Race, Culture and Psychotherapy provides a thorough critical examination of contemporary multiculturalism and culturalism, including discussion of the full range of issues, debates and controversies that are emerging in the field of multicultural psychotherapy. Beginning with a general critique of race, cultur...

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This thoroughly revised edition of Educating the "Right" Way brings readers up to date on what are now clearly lasting transformations in the movements, ideologies, assumptions, structures, and practices of education.

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This timely book introduces the revolutionary Couples Contract, which secures important advantages for any committed couple, whether getting married, already married, or just living together. This contract represents a commitment to a lasting relationship based on the highest principles of trust. It introduces concepts that can help solve relationship problems as they arise, keeps the terms of the relationship stable in case the couple moves t...