In Musical Form, Forms, and Formenlehre, three eminent music theorists reflect on the fundamentals of 'musical form.' They discuss how to analyze form in music and question the relevance of analytical theories and methods in general. They illustrate their basic concepts andc oncerns by offering some concrete analyses of works by Mozart (Idomeneo Overture, Jupiter Symphony) and Beethoven (First and Pastoral Symphony, Egmont Overture, and Die Ruinen von Athen Overture).

The volume is divided into three parts, focusing on Caplin's 'theory of formal functions,' Hepokoski's concept of 'dialogic form,' and Webster's method of 'multivalent analysis' respectively. Each part begins with a basic essay by one of the three authors. Subsequently, the two opposing authors comment on issues and analyses they consider to be problematic or underdeveloped, in a style that ranges from the gently critical to the overtly polemical. Finally, the author of the initial essay is given the opportunity to reply to the comments, and to further refine his own fundamental ideas on musical form.

Expert Sudoku is an all-new collection of handcrafted puzzles for the expert puzzle-solver. This is the book that challenges skilled solvers and Sudoku-lovers at the top level—every one of the 320 puzzles is rated 'difficult.' Good luck!

This handbook provides 30 structured learning opportunities for meetings of professional learning communities (PLCs). The book is written as a companion to the author's previous work, Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research and Practice, but can also be used as a stand-alone guide. It begins by briefly reviewing what a PLC is, the roles of its members, and the reasons for establishing and supporting the PLC in a school. The activities are designed to facilitate individual and team development, and explore shared leadership, intentional collective learning, and values and vision. Each activity gives notes on outcome, assumptions, materials, and suggested time (one or at most two consecutive group meetings), then provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by charts, worksheets, readings, research briefs, surveys, or other tools. Hord is a scholar laureate associated with the National Staff Development Council. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The American Founders, as it has been generally forgotten, distrusted political parties. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are parties mentioned, much less given legal protection or privilege. This provocative book traces how by the end of the Civil War the Republicans and Democrats had guaranteed their dominance and subsequently influenced a range of policies developed to protect the duopoly. For example, Bennett examines how the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as amended in 1974 and 1976), which was sold to the public as a nonpartisan act of good government reformism actually reinforced the dominance of the two parties. While focused primarily on the American experience, the book also considers the prevalence of two-party systems around the world (especially in emerging democracies) and the widespread contempt with which they are often viewed. Featuring incisive commentary on the 2008 election, and a foreword by third-party iconoclast, Ralph Nader, the book considers the potential of truly radical reform toward opening the field to vigorous, lively, contentious independent candidacies that might finally offer alienated voters a choice, not an echo.

Many prominent American artists created sculpture and painting with wildlife as the subject. The greatest collection of these works is held by the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States in Jackson, Wyoming. In this impressive catalogue of the collection, full-page color plates of excellent quality present each work, accompanied by a lengthy entry on the artist and the work. Rather than a choppy text, Harris (the museum's curator) has maintained a coherent narrative through the catalogue tracing both the development of American art and the attitudes it displays towards wilderness and wildlife. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Understanding Business by Nickels, McHugh, and McHugh has been the number one textbook in the introduction to business market for several editions for three reasons: (1) The commitment and dedication of an author team that teaches this course and believes in the importance and power of this learning experience, (2) we listen to our customers, and (3) the quality of our supplements package. We consistently look to the experts – full-time faculty members, adjunct instructors, and of course students – to drive the decisions we make about the text itself and the ancillary package. Through a series of focus groups, symposia, as well as full-book, single-chapter, revised manuscript reviews of both text and key ancillaries, we have heard the stories of more than 600 professors and their insights and experiences are evident on every page of the revision and in every supplement. As teachers of the course and users of their own materials, the author team is dedicated to the principles of excellence in business education. From providing the richest most current topical coverage to using dynamic pedagogy that puts students in touch with today's real business issues, to creating groundbreaking and market-defining ancillary items for professors and students alike, Understanding Business leads the way.

In Ghosts of the Bluegrass, James McCormick and Macy Wyatt present stories of Kentucky ghosts past and present. Some of the tales are set in rural areas, but many take place in urban areas such as the haunted house on Broadway in downtown Lexington and in buildings on the University of Kentucky campus, where Adolph Rupp is said to have conversed with the deceased biology professor Dr. Funkhouser. This volume contains chapters on haunted places, poltergeists, communication with the dead, and ghosts who linger to resolve unfinished business from their past lives, as well as a chapter about ghosts who reveal themselves through lights, changes in temperature, or sound. The book even features a chilling account by a nineteenth-century family haunted in their Breckinridge County home. Whether witnesses believe that a spirit has come to protect those it left behind or to complete an unfinished task, ghostly appearances remain a mystery. As McCormick and Wyatt point out, there are no right or wrong answers when it comes to the supernatural. One thing is certain: these tales will bring pleasure and perhaps a goose bump or two to the reader interested in ghost stories and folklore in the Kentucky tradition.

Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, had a genial disposition unless provoked to defend his strong anti-slavery beliefs. He believed so strongly in the Underground Railroad and in helping slaves escape that he chafed under the Quaker belief in non-violence. When he died in 1871, Wilmington's black community saluted him as 'their Moses.' Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett was an important work in antebellum reform when it was first published in 1977. Author James McGowan disputed earlier arguments that white abolitionists were unified in their opposition to slavery and that they were largely responsible for the success of the Underground Railroad while the escaped slaves were helpless and frightened passengers who took advantage of a well-organized network. The present volume has been revised to include new information on Garrett's relationship with Harriet Tubman and the abolitionist newspaper editor William Lloyd Garrison. It also gives readers a new perspective on Thomas Garrett, recognizing his shortcomings as well as the uncompromising nature of his Quaker faith.

This volume presents 24 case studies for use in undergraduate and graduate teacher education courses, as well as by new and experienced teachers, to help them prepare for the first year of teaching. They address issues like pay-for-performance, achievement by boys, No Child Left Behind, special education students, parents that are too involved, block scheduling, autistic students in regular classrooms, gifted students, drop out rates, mentoring, culture, preschool programs, cheating, advising, technology, online communication, grades, and classroom management. There is no index. Hayes has been a high school social studies teacher, administrator, superintendent, and professor of educational leadership at Roberts Wesleyan College. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought on Virginia soil, 1864 brought military campaigning to the Old Dominion. For the first time during the Civil War, the majority of Virginia's forces fought inside the state's borders. Yet soldiers were a distinct minority among the Virginians affected by the war. In Virginia at War, 1864, scholars explore various aspects of the civilian experience in Virginia including transportation and communication, wartime literature, politics and the press, higher education, patriotic celebrations, and early efforts at reconstruction in Union-occupied Virginia. The volume focuses on the effects of war on the civilian infrastructure as well as efforts to maintain the Confederacy. As in previous volumes, the book concludes with an edited and annotated excerpt of the Judith Brockenbrough McGuire diary.

Discover the power of Mother Nature through rich content, including photographs and supporting graphics. Some books feature a lab activity as well!

An anthology of primary texts in translation, An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric offers an overview of the social, cultural, and intellectual factors that influenced the development and growth of rhetoric during the classical period.

• Uses primary source material to analyze rhetoric from the Sophists through St. Augustine
  
• Provides an in-depth introduction to the period, as well as introductions to each author and each selection
  
• Includes study guides to help students develop multiple perspectives on the material, stimulate critical thinking, and provide starting points for dialogue
  
• Highlights include Gorgias's Palamedes, Antiphon's Truth, Isocrates' Helen, and Plato's Protagoras
  
• Each selection is followed by suggested writing topics and a short list of suggested additional readings.

An anthology of primary texts in translation, An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric offers an overview of the social, cultural, and intellectual factors that influenced the development and growth of rhetoric during the classical period.

• Uses primary source material to analyze rhetoric from the Sophists through St. Augustine
  
• Provides an in-depth introduction to the period, as well as introductions to each author and each selection
  
• Includes study guides to help students develop multiple perspectives on the material, stimulate critical thinking, and provide starting points for dialogue
  
• Highlights include Gorgias's Palamedes, Antiphon's Truth, Isocrates' Helen, and Plato's Protagoras
  
• Each selection is followed by suggested writing topics and a short list of suggested additional readings.

Environmentally-friendly renewable fuels have come to the forefront as the consequences of continued global warming become more apparent and fossil fuels prices fluctuate and supplies dwindle. Wood waste and agricultural waste, landfill gas, used cooking oil, grasses, and more potential fuel sources are the subject of increasing research, development and implementation initiatives. This book offers the means to capture these clean, renewable sources of energy. Topics include how to choose and install the appropriate equipment for converting these fuels into energy, evaluate costs, limit emissions, use heat exchangers efficiently, and comply with environmental and safety and health regulations. This well-written book offers practical information, solutions, and examples to take advantage of alternative fuels. Editor and primary author McGowan (thermal systems and air pollution control, TMTS Associates Inc.) and seven co-authors contributed to the book. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments — all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when modernization is necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.

Economics as it is usually taught is the economics of scarcity--the allocation of scarce resources among alternative wants. Designed as a supplementary text for students at the principles and intermediate undergraduate levels, Dugger (economics, U. of Tulsa, Oklahoma) and Peach's (economics, New Mexico State U.) book examines the concept of abundance--that communities can produce an adequate level of goods and services for the knowledge context in which people are operating. The authors discuss the intellectual history of abundance; the meaning of the term; the idea that population, natural resources and the environment are not the source of the problem; social systems of inequality that prevent abundance; and abundance-promoting policies. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This extensively updated sixth edition reflects the primary changes in American national security policy that have occurred over the past decade. Significant features of the book include: an examination of the current international environment and new challenges in the creation of security policy, the Department of Homeland Security and changes within the intelligence community, a survey of national security with an emphasis on post-9/11 security requirements, and new material addressing globalization, transnational actors, and human security. The writing is clear and insightful, and the book contains detailed notes. Chapters include discussion questions, recommended reading, and relevant Internet sources. It is intended for teachers, students, and policy makers. Co-authors are: Jordan (U.S. Military Academy at West Point, former Deputy Undersecretary of State), Taylor (senior adviser, International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies), Meese (social sciences, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Nielsen (international relations and international security studies, U.S. Military Academy at West Point). Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. It's success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the eighteenth century. At the center of the novel is the celebrated `Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel's action: like the nature whose plundering Copper laments, the books placid surfaces conceal inexplicable and deathly forces.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.

Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.