Immaginate di lasciarvi trasportare dalle struggenti note del violino, di riempirvi del fragore del violoncello o di divertirvi a battere i piedi al ritmo di Gershwin. Un libro da ascoltare e riascoltare. Premi la nota su ogni pagina per ascoltare la melodia. Età di lettura: da 5 anni.

Gli umani hanno escogitato infiniti modi per comunicare tramite le parole. Dai geroglifici agli haiku, dalla lingua dei segni a Shakespeare, il linguaggio è indispensabile per condividere le idee. Questa storia è piena di figure e personaggi provenienti da epoche e luoghi diversi, che con la comunicazione ci sanno fare: vieni a conoscerli e scopri anche tu come usare le parole per fare del mondo un posto migliore. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

Intraprendi un viaggio attraverso la storia della musica. Ascolta le melodie sognanti di Mozart, balla per il carnevale di Rio e batti i piedi al ritmo del ragtime di Scott Joplin. Ascolta i suoni più dolci della storia e scopri i musicisti e gli strumenti che li hanno creati. Un libro per avvicinare i bambini alla musica e abituarli a sentire emozioni attraverso le note. Premi la nota su ogni pagina e ascolta la melodia. Età di lettura: da 5 anni.

Gli umani hanno escogitato infiniti modi per comunicare tramite le parole. Dai geroglifici agli haiku, dalla lingua dei segni a Shakespeare, il linguaggio è indispensabile per condividere le idee. Questa storia è piena di figure e personaggi provenienti da epoche e luoghi diversi, che con la comunicazione ci sanno fare: vieni a conoscerli e scopri anche tu come usare le parole per fare del mondo un posto migliore. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

A book guiding girls to use their imagination, solve problems, and learn also includes funny animal photographs, decorating tips, and interesting facts.

Explore the fascinating story of Whidbey Island in Washington.

This authoritative guide for ensuring all students are able to achieve high standards is an essential resource for educators in any school with English learners. It provides practical help for designing and implementing effective RTI programs using the SIOP^® Model, and ensuring the appropriate type of instruction that English leaners need and deserve. Response to Intervention (RTI) and English Learners, 2/e includes important background information on RTI; examines the academic and linguistic challenges that English learners face; and covers appropriate and effective multi-tier instruction, assessment, and intervention with RTI, specifically for English learners. The authors include recommendations for implementing the eight components of the SIOP^® Model for Tier 1 within an RTI framework, and additional suggestions for implementing RTI in secondary schools.

Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh German Yearbook is the only peer-reviewed German Studies publication that each year invites scholarly contributions on a single topic of current challenge to the field. Focusing on 'Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture,' volume 6 investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness and melancholy in German-language literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the present where, arguably, it has fallen from the heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity of earlier epochs to become the embarrassing other of a Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Interrogating the distinction between sadness as an anthropological constant and melancholy as a shifting cultural discourse, the contributions explore how different authors use established literary and cultural topoi from melancholy discourses to comment on topics as diverse as war, religion, gender inequality, and modernity. As well as essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Betty Paoli and Julia Schoch. Contributors: Per Brandt, Peter Damrau, Kristian Donko, Svenja Frank, Jens Hobus, Stephen Joy, Johannes D. Kaminski, Franziska Meyer, Richard Millington, Karin S. Wozonig. Mary Cosgrove is Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance.

Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and political level. The book combines:

• a biography, setting out the contexts of Abramovic’s work
• an examination of the artist through her writings, interviews and influences
• a detailed analysis of her work, including studies of the Rhythm series, Nightsea Crossing and The House with the Ocean View
• practical explorations of the performances and their origins

As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.

The English Country House takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries—from the medieval Stokesay Castle to the newly built, Lutyens-inspired Corfe Farm—brought to life through the world-renowned photography library of Country Life. More than four hundred color and black and white illustrations provide an insight into the architecture, decoration, gardens, and landscape settings of these houses, which are set into their architectural and historical context by the accompanying text and extended captions.
 
The book provides an entrée into the houses to which Country Life has had privileged access over the years, many of which are still private homes, often occupied by descendants of the families that built them. Punctuating the book at intervals in the form of booklets on rich, uncoated paper are six essays by leading British architectural historians that set the English country house into its social context and chart the changing tastes in decorating and collecting, the development of ancillary buildings, gardens and landscapes, and finally, its influence in the United States. 

Written by and for scholars and practitioners, these 22 essays reflect the role of culture in the process of solving problems. Topics include the fear of the sacred, the cultural world view, new roles for conflict resolution, the daily continuum of violence, the rape of Black girls, kithitu among the Akamba, the reciprocal nature of knowledge, the effects of injustice in the African American community, maximum inclusion of interests and knowledge, neutrality, the Hawaiian journey of 'Ike Ho'oponopono, African Americans in mediation literature, the language of culture and the new practices of conflict resolution, power and conflict in culture, tensions in practices (based on a Sri Lanka workshop experience), multicultural respect and organizational success, mediating Filipino culture, three cultures in a Texas middle school, challenges in breaking into professional mediation, lessons from combating modern racism, and the place of justice in practice. Includes an interview with Hasshan Batts. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)