Many scientific studies confirm the positive effects of music education in prenatal and earliest phases of life on childrens' holistic development. In this book, the authors' examine how musical development and learning are established in the family environment and the effects of music on children's development. Other chapters examine musical and non-musical learning as a reflection of the internationalization of China's sociopolitical ideologies and the relative nationalism of its education system; the planning of musical objectives in the psychomotor domain; and a multicultural perspective of the "Orff-Schulwerk" music-movement approach, using it primarily as a possible means of expressing one's own sensations and recognizing the sensations of others.

A powerful affirmation of the necessity and importance of a wide-ranging American space program that can develop lunar outposts and, ultimately, permanently staffed, self-sufficient bases on the Moon.

Documents the challenges and the social, political, and economic factors involved in the planning and technological achievement of the Mariner 10 mission, and features more than one hundred high-resolution photographs of the surface of Mercury.

Traces the history of scientific research on the planet Jupiter from the observations of Galileo to the explorations of the Pioneer and Voyager space probes.

An account of the 1976 Viking expedition to Mars describes the spacecraft and its instruments, the journey itself, and the mission's results.