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Unveils a critical period of Albanian music history, creating a new form for discussing the topic of Communism and understanding the culture and style of all contemporary European musicians and composers. This book analyses the life, musical style, and compositions of one of the most important figures of Albanian contemporary classical music.

It is widely accepted that documents on Ottoman architects are rare and that little is known about the architectural practice in the Ottoman world. A group of texts that have appeared between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, however, form an exception to this general assumption. This comparative research monograph features these texts.

A reference tool based on the classical reasoning of Aristotle and other rhetoricians i.e. the importance of metaphor in persuasive communication.

Intended for poetry-translation scholars, teachers, students, and practitioners, this book provides an in-depth look at poetry translation as an act of creative recreation. It is designed to help readers understand the nature of poetry, the key elements of its language, the challenges encountered in its translation, and the procedures, methods and strategies required to translate poems into poems.

Presents an incisive look at the increasingly popular academic programme known as dual credit, and lays out a thorough introduction to the scientific, psychological, and philosophical approaches to understanding human/student learning within the larger context of dual credit education.

Addresses educating women, encouraging them to develop further in career as well as in life, encouraging women to develop entrepreneurial skills (which in turn, would make them employers rather than employees), advocating the promotion of gender equality within, and educating people about the achievements of gender equality.

The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan Lessons of Life for Every Day represents decades of work by Leo Tolstoy in writing, collecting, and organizing aphorisms and observations into the most complete exposition of his pacifist interpretation of Christianity, designed to be read each day. Interspersed with hundreds of passages by Tolstoy himself, many of which appear nowhere else in his published works, are the thoughtsof authors as diverse as Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal, the American social critic John Ruskin, the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, and the Sufi poet Saadi, as well as quotes from the Bible, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Vamana Purana, and many other religious books, arranged in calendar form. Tolstoy's goal is to reveal the path to spiritual freedom, based on his revolutionary vision of religion.The Keys to Freedom is the most methodical elaboration of Tolstoy's entire religious philosophical system, particularly his ideas on metaphysics, pacifism, and anarchy. The reader will find not only a wealth of wisdom, but also the keys to a better understanding of the author's great works of fiction.

Assesses the reconstruction programs in the post-conflict societies of Cambodia and Rwanda in the context of existing security challenges to women compared to their pre-conflict role and status. This study examines the causes of violence against women and how much the political stability, democratic form of government and economic progress helps to ensure security to women.

Primarily based on a wide array of Ottoman administrative sources, this monograph builds on earlier studies of Sarajevo and other Ottoman cities to analyze the critical factors behind the conversion to Islam and the development in social and economic growth, which unified both the city and its hinterland.

Through the prism of literary analysis and cultural studies, The Politics of Identity in Cuban-American Literature is an original examination of the Cuban-American community's diasporic and identitive genealogy from the perspective of their Cuban and American nationalisms.

Explores a historical deception has survived as a tradition for nearly 400 years, despite numerous challenges. This is the "tradition" that the works attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon were actually written by him, despite no evidence of schooling or access to libraries, lack of recognition by other playwrights when he died, and much more.

Offers the first history of height in America. It begins with Native Americans in approximately 3300 BCE and continues to the present and tries to answer two important historical and biological questions: why have the heights of Americans fluctuated over time, and what do changing heights tell us about the American experience?

Uncovers in the works of Plato and Nietzsche, not some royal road to truth, but rather the intensity of their love and commitment to the life of thought, whatever it discovers and wherever it might lead.

Focuses on the highly specialized and stylized liturgical language of Russian Church Slavonic (RCS). This work analyses the reforms of the 16th to 18th centuries as seen in hymnography from those centuries, and the 20th century compositions of Valeria Hoecke, a self-taught hymnographer of the Russian diaspora.

This book considers the issue of school suspension and expulsion. In so doing it examines the factors contributing to a suspension or expulsion and uses literature and narrative interview data from a range of participants, including staff and students, to elicit some responses from those involved in this process.The methodology which underpins this project is biographical narrative data obtained from the use of interviews. The rationale of this is that as an educational piece of literature, the use of pupil consultation is heralded as a positive vehicle for developing a mutually agreed behavior policy with clear rewards and sanctions (Kinder and Wilkin, 1998). Moreover, a clearly defined policy that is specific in how school discipline and, where applicable, suspension or expulsion, is to be implemented, incorporating feedback from those directly involved in it, has proved to be an insightful way of revising how those at risk of suspension or expulsion may be more effectively cared for. The timely nature of this work is apparent, as most literature is dated and may not reflect current practice. Against this background, this work has found that school behavior policies incorporating suspension are used at times in an arbitrary way and this inconsistency can lead to dissatisfaction and disengagement with schooling. In addition, some students were uninspired by lack of innovative and engaging teaching methodologies and consequently behaved poorly. This allows a clearly transparent behavior policy to be re-worked, which is applied consistently and fairly, and has taken the time to interview and hear the life experiences of those involved and considered the diversities of issues and how a policy may embody the ideas and thoughts and feelings of a range of students and practitioners and be workable and manageable in promoting positive behavior. This work has some unique insights and offers tentative generalizability across disciplines (such as social sciences, social work and intervention) and in other settings; although educational research in a single place, its methodology can be applied to other institutions and its conclusions used to develop practice for the benefit of staff and students.

Seeking the Beautiful: A Study in Literary Aesthetics comprises essays both theoretical and applied, with a focus on English medieval and Renaissance texts. While the term aesthetics may imply simply sensory perception or expression, this volume considers what makes literary texts beautiful. While of course any such study must involve subjective judgment, one can still describe subjective experience and share it with others with the goal of expanding others' and one's own potential for enjoying works of literary art.Academic discussion most often deals with meaning or the social or psychological implications of writing and reading; we tend to neglect what often draws us to read in the first place: a text's verbal or imaginative beauty. Our favorite texts make us re-readers as well as readers.Using a variety of examples-including Shakespeare plays, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Worth's Urania, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Chaucer's Knight's Tale, Beowulf, and "The Dream of the Rood." and others-this study highlights the idea of texture, pleasure through depth, variety, and passionate liveliness, as a means to consider textual beauty. Explicitly an essay, an attempt, it aims to connect theoretical strands from Classical through Postmodern thought to formulate a joy of reading that may encourage dialogue on why we love the literature we love.

This book is an exploration of the origins of the American evangelical movement in the United States during the Cold War, specifically between 1945 and 1981. Amongst numerous other theories that already exist regarding the emergence of this religious and social movement, the text carries out this exploration through the theory of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.

Change Partners will give an educated reader a deep understanding of a particular conceptual `village' (memory, privacy, now change) -- hence the designation `intellectual ethnography.' As a book about change, this is also a book about motion, becoming, and difference, because all of these concepts circulate around the same patches of meanings.

Taking a human rights perspective, this book explores how human trafficking has been used as a ""brand"" to achieve political and/or economic objectives. This book asserts that human trafficking violates human rights, has no capacity to support human emancipation, and causes human beings to be treated as animals or objects or commodified a brand.

Discusses the history of Japanese Catholic intellectuals and their reception of the spirit and ideas of John Henry Newman in historical, geopolitical and cultural contexts. Japanese Catholic Intellectuals and Newman Studies argues for the unique history of the formation of Catholic intellectuals and their representation of Newman in Japanese modernization.

Covers a crucial but overlooked period of music history and Jewish life in Los Angeles through five case studies of nearly forgotten musicians. In their own ways, large and small, Leopold M. Loeb, Alfred Arndt, Victor Rosenstein, Abraham Frankum Frankenstein, and Walter Henry Rothwell helped lay the difficult groundwork for what would become a musical Mecca and home to the US's second largest Jewish population.

Provides a compendium of the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka's creative works. Book One shows the dramatic, intellectual, fundamental, aesthetic and moral art. Book Two dwells on literature, value, art, morality, aesthetics and other human interests. Book Three speaks to the mythology, history, and culture of the Yoruba people.

Focuses on the educational needs of homeless adults as they navigate the myriad of services systems, public and private, that exist in the United States. Dr.McKinley's research contributes both to the fields of adult education and of social work.

The topic of this keenly researched research monograph is the allusive and interdisciplinary nature of literary translation. Dr. Martin's work concentrates on the fields of rhetoric and new media studies. That is, these fields are sites that help develop the theories and methodology presented, but are also sites that benefit from the study of literary translation.

This major research study provides a fresh, critical look at the way automobile electronics are and should be built. Written by Silicon Valley pioneer John Hall, this book is based on his nearly 40 years of experience in developing and producing semiconductors for the automobile industry and other customers.Highly readable and comprehensible for even beginning students of electronics and semiconductor design, this volume provides an in-depth explanation of the factors to be considered when building vehicle systems. Starting with a concise history of vehicle electronics, Hall walks the reader through the environmental conditions faced by these systems and the variety of failure mechanisms that can occur.Basic and advanced semiconductor issues raised by vehicle implementation are then discussed in detail. A wide range of issues confronting designers-from over-marketing of risky features to time and cost constraints-are explained. Complex electronic modules from many different manufacturers are examined and discussed as real-world case studies of good and bad design techniques.Hall concludes by providing design recommendations that will allow vehicle electronics system developers to build much tougher devices at little or no incremental production cost.This book is the first major work to focus on key issues emerging as major causes of safety and performance problems.Vehicle makers increasingly seek market advantages by providing ever-more-capable electronics in their products. While these features add much value to vehicles, they fail in ways that are beyond the experience and comprehension of most technicians and accident investigators. By combining decades of design experience and innovation with extensive research, Hall has produced unique insights and explanations so engineers can prevent most, or perhaps all, of these problems.John Hall is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific independent pioneers and inventors. He founded Union Carbide's semi conductor operation in 1962.He is a founder of Interstil and Micro Power Systems. He is the inventor of the first electronic watch, first LCD digital watch; first CMOS liquid crystal display hand held calculator, color autofocus cameras among many successful commercial products. He has worked for many American and foreign automakers on specific projects such as integrated two way radios and seat belt interlocks. He is working with DoD on hardening electronics systems against non nuclear events.

The authors give a Lacanian hearing to Pinter's characters in "The Homecoming” as these characters could not go through the processes of language properly, subverted the Lacanian developmental orders, and thus are victimised by language. Now they are denied any access to the Symbolic Order, they live in and can "be” only in the margins of it. The study problematises and lays out the elusive and complex nature of these characters; and the ontological correlation between their identity formation processes and their failure to integrate into the Symbolic Order.

Investigates new business models for journalism on the Internet and how legal perspective can lead to new business models. Through the use of pertinent case law as a departure point, the different models of producing information and news on the Internet are identified. The different legal elements are then discussed.

T.S. Eliot's writing career lasted more than 60 years. About half way through this prestigious literary career the poet shifted his creative efforts to drama, and wrote a series of plays. His last four four major works were based on classical Greek plays. J.A. Grant argues that an understanding of the tropes recurring throughout these four plays can be found in a biographical assessment of the playwright that looks at Eliot's own troubled personal relationships.

Offers a discussion of John Henry Newman's apologetic defence of the place of Marian doctrines and piety within Catholicism. This is achieved through an analysis of the two of Newman's most important apologetic works: the Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845) and Letter to Pusey (1866).