Funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested, the materials presented give teachers the opportunity to grow as learners for the classes they teach.

This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as black-and-white photos. 'Testimony changed the perception of Shostakovich's life and work dramatically, and influenced innumerable performances of his music.' - New Grove Dictionary

Un folto gruppo di politici e costituzionalisti, che fecero parte dell'Assemblea costituente e delle commissioni bicamerali, risponde a quindici domande sull'impianto della nostra Carta costituzionale e sullo stravolgimento cui esso è sottoposto dai progetti di riforma della destra al governo.

Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there's a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one favorite verses. Whether it's Jack jumping over a candlestick (atop a cupcake), Georgie Porgie kissing the girls (at the playground), or a fine lady riding a white horse (on the carousel), this exuberant treasury is sure to be read and enjoyed over and over again.

A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. Twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, written by both world-famous and first-time authors, make the story of growing up displaced feel universal. Best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer and Ariel Dorfman contribute powerful and deeply personal accounts of mobile childhoods and the cultural experiences they engender. The memoirs touch on the opportunities and difficulties of growing up in the ever-changing landscape of expatriate communities.

On the first visit to El Rancho Grande in Mexico, a Mexican American boy hears the stories of how his grandfather bought it 'for a song.'

A ten-minute play is a blaze of theatrical energy. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking collection Take Ten, editors Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have put together a veritable bonfire of talent. Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays provides a fast-track tour of the current theatrical landscape, from the slapstick ingenuity of David Ives' Arabian Nights to the searing tension of Diana Son's 9/11 drama The Moon, Please, to Susan Miller's luminous fable The Grand Design. This remarkably diverse anthology includes thirty-five short plays by such major American playwrights as Christopher Durang, Warren Leight, Romulus Linney and Donald Margulies, alongside a host of exciting new voices.

Actors, directors, producers and teachers will find Take Ten II an invaluable source of meaty roles for people of every age, ethnicity and gender; lovers of theatre will find it a richly satisfying read. These deceptively short plays throb with life in all its variety: harrowing, hilarious, and breathtakingly vital.

Modeling of Induction Motors with One and Two Degrees of Mechanical Freedom presents the mathematical model of induction motors with two degrees of mechanical freedom (IM-2DMF), formed in the electromagnetic field as well as in circuit theory, which allows analyzing the performance of these three groups of motors taking into account edge effects, winding and current asymmetry. The model derived is based on the concept of magnetic field wave moving in the air-gap with a helical motion. In general, the rotor moves helically too with the rotary-linear slip. The electromagnetic field as well as motor performance of the particular motors is analyzed.

The mathematical model of IM-2DMF is more general to the model of induction motors with one degree of mechanical freedom, i.e. rotary and linear motors. Examples of modeling two types of rotary disc motors and flat linear motor with twisted primary part are presented with inclusion of finite stator and rotor length and width effects. The simulation results are backed by the measurements carried out on the laboratory models, which were tested on the unique measurement stand.

A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russia about a young girl's jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions, The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved to be a literary phenomenon in Europe where it was first published. A spellbinding, short novel set in post-revolutionary RussiaThe Accompanist portrays with extraordinary sensitivity the entangled relationships of three intriguing characters. Sonechka is a talented but shy young pianist hired by a beautiful soprano (Maria Nikolaevna) and her devoted, bourgeois husband. Maria is everything Sonechka is notglamorous and flamboyant. Her voice brings with it 'something immortal and indisputable, something which gives reality to the human being's dream of having wings.' Doomed to live in her mentor's shadow, the young girl secretly schemes to expose the singer's infidelities. But as she awaits her chance, the diva's husband takes matters into his own hands, bringing events to a surprising resolution. This intense and beautiful little novel was published in America almost fifty years after it was written; sadly out of print for a number of years, it is a wonderfully compelling and crucial addition to Nina Berberova's growing number of published fictional works.

Milano, ora. Un incendio in una delle piazze più importanti della capitale morale d'Italia, quel piazzale Loreto dove fu impiccato Mussolini, mette a nudo il disegno di un'inaspettata e forse decisiva congiura. Chi è Moses, colui che ai congiurati leggeva un Vangelo terribile, più apocrifo degli apocrifi? Chi è il Gobbo, l'edicolante che sembra disporre di un caleidoscopio per vedere tutto? E chi sono, in realtà, i personaggi apparentemente normali e integrati che ruotano come un turbine intorno ai congiurati? E cosa c'entrano le sceneggiature di un notissimo fumettista americano con questa storia? Sotto l'apparenza, emerge l'orrore: un gioco di ruolo vero, condotto attraverso mosse di una crudeltà disumana, dove le pedine sono esseri umani.

Discusses major Jewish life cycle events, including their historical background and meaning, as well as a description of the steps involved.

I saggi proposti in questo volume esaminano la risposta del sistema politico e delle istituzioni alle profonde trasformazioni intervenute nel corso degli anni Settanta sul piano internazionale e su quello interno. Anni cruciali, caratterizzati da una crisi che accelera il tempo storico, crea delle separazioni, impone scelte e giudizi. Sono gli anni di crisi della politica e della democrazia così come erano state disegnate nel patto costituzionale e nell'allora breve storia repubblicana. Attraverso l'apporto di nuova documentazione, l'affinamento dell'analisi e degli approcci metodologici, le diverse proposte interpretative, si propone un quadro ampio e significativo della storia della politica e delle istituzioni nel decennio.

Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through the eyes of Hang, a young woman in her twenties who has grown up amidst the slums and intermittent beauty of Hanoi, we come to know the tragedy of her family as land reform rips apart their village. When her uncle Chinh‘s political loyalties replace family devotion, Hang is torn between her mother‘s appalling self–sacrifice and the bitterness of her aunt who can avenge but not forgive. Only by freeing herself from the past will Hang be able to find dignity –– and a future.

Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, 'Where are all the great roles for women?' The roles are right here, in this magnificently diverse collection of plays–full-lenghts, one-acts, and monologues--with mainly female casts, which represent the answer to any actress's prayer.
The editors of the groundbreaking anthology Plays for Actresses have once again gathered an abundance of strong female roles in a selection of works by award-winning authors and cutting-edge newer voices, from Wendy Wasserstein and Christopher Durang to Claudia Shear, Eve Ensler, and Margaret Edson. The characters who populate these seven full-length plays, four ten-minute plays, and eleven monologues include a vivid cross-section of female experience: girl gang members, Southern debutantes, pilots, teachers, traffic reporters, and rebel teenagers. From a hilarious take on Medea to a taboo-breaking excerpt from The Vagina Monologues to a moving scene from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, the plays in Leading Women are complex, funny, tragic, and always original--and a boon for talented actresses everywhere.

Questo volume porta alla luce il ruolo svolto dalle associazioni geografiche e coloniali nella costruzione del consenso coloniali nella costruzione del consenso coloniale per il periodo che va dalla sconfitta di Adua alla vigilia del primo conflitto mondiale: un tema poco indagato sia dalla storiografia sul colonialismo, sia da quella sul nazionalismo italiano. Le associazioni 'espansioniste' contribuiscono a formare in Italia una coscienza coloniale come base di consenso alla politica estera, ma anche come elemento chiave del processo di costruzione dell'identità nazionale. Organismi elitari, esercitarono la loro influenza sulla classe dirigente dell'epoca proponendosi anche come laboratori di nuova ideologia e di nuove collocazioni politico-parlamentari. Esaltando la centralità del fenomeno emigratorio e proponendo il 'primato della politica estera' elaborarono una teoria espansionista strettamente connessa a una concezione autoritaria dello Stato.