An indispensable guide to the major work of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.

Seated majestically upon a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Highlands, one of New Jersey's most famous and romantic coastal towns, has served, in turns, as sanctuary, battlefield, resort destination, and home to generations of Americans, both immigrant and native. Its history, in many ways, mirrors the epic tale of America's evolution: an untamed wilderness yielding under the determination and sacrifice of a people laboring to create an enduring community--and in Highlands, they succeeded. Highlands, Ney Jersey chronicles this town's remarkable journey across four centuries of adventure, adversity, and prosperity, from the first New World explorers, such as Verrazano and Henry Hudson, to the present-day men and women who work, live, and play along these picturesque shores. This illustrated volume provides a rare glimpse into the Highlands of yesteryear and introduces readers to a cast of unique characters against a backdrop of major local and nation events, such as the Revolutionary War, the luxury era of Highlands in the nineteenth century, its incorporation in 1900, and the gold rush of 1948. Through these stories and their vivid images, the personality and charm of Highlands come to life, reminding today's residents and visitors why this setting has served as a source of inspiration for scores of writers, artists, and businessmen over the years.

An expanded edition of a resource in which new research about the mind, the brain, and the processes of learning are applied to questions regarding curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods. Drawing on the findings from many branches of science, the 11 chapters discuss how experts differ from novices, learning and transfer, how children learn, teachers and teaching, and future directions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Explores questions surrounding why people go to museums, what they learn there, and how museums can facilitate more effective learning experiences. Draws on theory and research in disciplines including psychology, education, anthropology, and neuroscience, as well as museum research, to explain the nature and process of learning in the museum context, and provides advice on how museums can create better learning environments. Falk is director of the Institute for Learning Innovation, and previously worked at the Smithsonian Institution for 14 years. Dierking is associate director of the Institute for Learning Innovation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

L'autore, uno dei più prestigiosi teologi britannici, pensa che sia fininto il tempo della contrapposizione tra fede e ragione: nella sua doppia formazione di fisico e di uomo di chiesa, mostra come sia possibile misurare i classici temi della teologia cristiana - la creazione, il problema del male, il destino ultimo dell'uomo - con le punte più avanzate del pensiero matematico, fisico, biologico e informatico, in una sintesi estremamente originale che se da una parte affascina il grande pubblico, dall'altra stimola anche lo studioso di questi problemi.

Viene riproposto all'attenzione del pubblico un brillante saggio che ha acceso il dibattito musicologico e sociologico proponendo una visione spregiudicata della natura della musica nei suoi aspetti antropologici e culturali.

La guida, presentata in una nuova edizione, propone itinerari attraverso i tesori architettonici, dalle basiliche romaniche alle chiese gotiche, o attraverso le mille suggestioni della Praga letteraria, come pure l'elenco dei locali in cui si suona jazz e rock e delle osterie dove si può gustare la famosa birra ceca. Completa il volume un frasario essenziale in ceco.

This important study in ethnomusicology is an attempt by the author -- a musician who has become a social anthropologist -- to compare his experiences of music-making in different cultures. He is here presenting new information resulting from his research into African music, especially among the Venda. Venda music, he discovered is in its way no less complex in structure than European music. Literacy and the invention of nation may generate extended musical structures, but they express differences of degree, and not the difference in kind that is implied by the distinction between 'art' and 'folk' music. Many, if not all, of music's essential processes may be found in the constitution of the human body and in patterns of interaction of human bodies in society. Thus all music is structurally, as well as functionally, 'folk' music in the sense that music cannot be transmitted of have meaning without associations between people.

If John Blacking's guess about the biological and social origins of music is correct, or even only partly correct, it would generate new ideas about the nature of musicality, the role of music in education and its general role in societies which (like the Venda in the context of their traditional economy) will have more leisure time as automation increases.

As the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service, Robert Hart was the most influential Westerner in China for half a century. These journal entries continue the sequence begun in Entering China's Service and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch'ing bureaucracy, and inspecting the treaty ports. They culminate in Hart's return visit to Europe with the Pin-ch'un Mission and his marriage in Northern Ireland.

Smith, Fairbank and Bruner interleave the segments of Hart's journals with lively narratives describing the contemporary Chinese scene and recounting Hart's responses to the many challenges of establishing a Western-style organization within a Chinese milieu.

A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer, for Tenor and Bass solo, SATB Choir with Organ accompaniment, with hymns for congregational participation. The text was selected and written by Reverend J. Sparrow-Simpson, and revised by Michael Pilkington. The Crucifixion was first performed in 1887. This Novello edition of the vocal score is clear and well presented, with thoroughly accurate and detailed editorial markings and suggestions, as edited by Michael Pilkington.