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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Marguerite Long, the most important French female pianist of the
20th century, left her stamp on a whole epoch of musical life in
Paris. The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long presents English
translations of the two contributions of Marguerite Long to the
literature of piano pedagogy. These translations of her pedagogical
works, Le Piano and La Petite Méthode de Piano, provide a window
to the old French school of pianism as modernized by Long. Le Piano
is a remarkable text offering piano playing techniques and
pragmatic and philosophical musings and observations about life,
musicians, careers, and more. La Petite Méthode de Piano is a
personal manifesto about how to introduce kids to music. Both works
are treasures revealing Long's deep commitment to teaching and they
are still stunningly relevant. In addition, John Ellis analyzes
each work and puts it in historical context. He places special
emphasis on Long's illustrious international career, her teaching,
her rivalry with Alfred Cortot, and the impact of sexism on her.
Ellis addresses the eclipse of Long's reputation by that of Cortot
and fills a gap in the knowledge of Long's place in the history of
pedagogical heritage.
The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting was held from the 19th to the 22nd
of November, 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Prof
Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate and Founder-Director of the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics. It was an opportunity
for many of his colleagues and students to pay homage to him.
This invaluable volume, comprising the papers presented at the
meeting, reflects the long-lasting passion of Prof Salam for the
theory of the fundamental forces. Most of the contributions are
concerned with recent developments in the theory of superstrings,
including duality, D-branes and related topics.
The Salamfest was held to honor Prof Abdus Salam whose scientific
contribution to the development and dissemination of physics has
deeply influenced the course of scientific advancement. Colleagues,
collaborators and former students met together to celebrate his
scientific achievements, and discuss the highlights of recent
advances in experiment and phenomenology in particle and condensed
matter physics.The Contributors are: A Ali, G Altarelli, L
Alvarez-Gaume, D Amati, J Bahcall, A Chamseddine, R Delbourgo, M
Duff, J Ellis, J Feltesse, P Frampton, M Green, G 't Hooft, T
Kibble, G Mack, Y Ne'eman, L O'Raifeartaigh, J Pati, R Peccei, S
Randjbar-Daemi, Riazuddin & Fayyazuddin, D Schramm, H
Schroeder, D Sciama, E Sezgin, Q Shafi, C Vafa, S Weinberg, P West,
B Winstein, E Witten, C N Yang, A Zichichi and B Zumino.
Culture Matters explores the role of political culture studies as
one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political
science. Culture theory was the focal point of the late Aaron
Wildavsky's teaching and research for the last decade of his life,
a life that profoundly affected many fields of political science
from the study of the pres
George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an
accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of
writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American
Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as
Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams
insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for
attempting to impose radical change without their colonists'
consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events
between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in
American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed
of "prudent" revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic
when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts
America. Written with flair and drama, The Cause brings together a
cast of familiar and forgotten characters who, taken together,
challenge the story we have long told ourselves about our origins
as a people and a nation.
George W. Bush's presidency has helped accelerate a renewed
interest in the legal or formal bases of presidential power. It is
now abundantly clear that presidential power is more than the sum
of bargaining, character, and rhetoric. Presidential power also
inheres in the Constitution or at least assertions of
constitutional powers. Judging Executive Power helps to bring the
Constitution and the courts back into the study of the American
presidency by introducing students to sixteen important Supreme
Court cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency.
The cases selected include the removal power, executive privilege,
executive immunity, and the line-item veto, with particularly
emphasis on a president's wartime powers from the Civil War to the
War on Terror. Through introductions and postscripts that accompany
each case, landmark judicial opinions are placed in their political
and historical contexts, enabling students to understand the
political forces that frame and the political consequences that
follow from legal arguments and judgments.
This new set of original case studies is designed to offer an
empirical counterpart to Cultural Theory (Westview, 1990 ), the
landmark statement of political culture theory authored by Michael
Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky, and to extend and
challenge the analysis developed there. Here, the theoretical
concepts laid out in that book
George W. Bush's presidency has helped accelerate a renewed
interest in the legal or formal bases of presidential power. It is
now abundantly clear that presidential power is more than the sum
of bargaining, character, and rhetoric. Presidential power also
inheres in the Constitution or at least assertions of
constitutional powers. Judging Executive Power helps to bring the
Constitution and the courts back into the study of the American
presidency by introducing students to sixteen important Supreme
Court cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency.
The cases selected include the removal power, executive privilege,
executive immunity, and the line-item veto, with particularly
emphasis on a president's wartime powers from the Civil War to the
War on Terror. Through introductions and postscripts that accompany
each case, landmark judicial opinions are placed in their political
and historical contexts, enabling students to understand the
political forces that frame and the political consequences that
follow from legal arguments and judgments.
This new set of original case studies is designed to offer an
empirical counterpart to Cultural Theory (Westview, 1990 ), the
landmark statement of political culture theory authored by Michael
Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky, and to extend and
challenge the analysis developed there.
At a time when the institution of the presidency seems in a state
of almost permanent crisis, it is particularly important to
understand what sort of an institution the framers of the
Constitution thought they were creating. Founding the American
Presidency offers a first-hand view of the minds of the founders by
bringing together extensive selections from the constitutional
convention in Philadelphia as well as representative selections
from the subsequent debates over ratification. Organized topically,
the book focuses on those issues of executive power that most
deeply concerned and often sharply divided the founders, including
the electoral college and impeachment, the presidential term and
reeligibility, the veto power and war powers, the power of
appointment and the power of pardon. EllisO judicious selections
mean that teachers and students no longer need to settle for the
meager rations of a Federalist paper or two supplemented by a quick
summary of the founders' thoughts before being fast-forwarded to
the contemporary presidency. Pointed discussion questions provoke
students to consider new perspectives on the presidency. Ideal for
all courses on the presidency, the book is also important for all
citizens who want to understand not only the past but the future of
the American presidency.
This book has been written in part with the aim of providing a text
which will be useful in teaching the biochemical applications of
spectroscopy. This book will be of particular use to the biochemist
or biologist who does not have a background in spectroscopy, but
desires to find out what sort of information spectroscopy can
provide. Attention was limited to those techniques most frequently
used, and which at present have the widest applications.
This book has been written in part with the aim of providing a text
which will be useful in teaching the biochemical applications of
spectroscopy. This book will be of particular use to the biochemist
or biologist who does not have a background in spectroscopy, but
desires to find out what sort of information spectroscopy can
provide. Attention was limited to those techniques most frequently
used, and which at present have the widest applications.
A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the
author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the
National Book Award winning American Sphinx.
The Rookwood pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, produced
experimental decorated and commercial pottery from 1880 until 1967.
This new book stands ahead of all other references by offering the
most complete understanding of Rookwood products, and it places
Rookwood's glaze lines in the context of the pottery's history.
Author Anita Ellis conclusively explains the Decorated Wares,
especially those made after 1915 which have always been
problematic, and categorizes and defines the Commercial Ware for
the first time. The book is unique in offering the most complete
set of Rookwood pottery, potter and decorator marks; a thorough
glossary of terms; and all the glaze lines. Over 200 beautiful
color photographs of the elegant Rookwood pottery shapes illustrate
the glaze lines. A values reference and charts of the talented
decorators are included.
This book is the compilation of papers presented at the
International Symposium on In Vivo Body Composition Studies, held
in Houston, Texas, November 10-12, 1992. The purpose of this
conference was to report on the state-of-the-art techniques for in
vivo body composition measurements and to present the most recent
human data on normal body composition and changes during disease.
This conference was the third in a series of meetings on body
composition studies held in North America, and follows the
successful meetings at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1986, and
the one in Toronto in 1989. A large number of excellent research
papers were offered for consideration at this Conference which
demonstrates the rapid growth of the field in the last three years.
However, we had to limit the presentations to approximately 90
papers which provided a broad spectrum of the applications and
recent interest in the subject. The proceedings of the Brookhaven
meeting "In Vivo Body Composition Studies," is published by The
Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine, London. The proceedings
of the Toronto meeting "In Vivo Body Composition Studies" was
published by Plenum Press in its basic life science series. Both
these meetings placed more emphasis on technical aspects while the
current Houston meeting tried to emphasize more the emerging
clinical applications of these techniques. The general sessions
used at the Conference for presentations forms the basis of the
order of appearance of the papers in this book.
An authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a
nation
How did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the
Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army?
How did thinkers from disparate backgrounds shape a government that
transformed modern politics? The Founding Fathers explains how,
putting valuable information on this historic period at your
fingertips--straight from one of the most trusted sources of
information around the globe.
This comprehensive guide takes a compelling look at prominent
statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas
Paine, and George Washington and lesser-known but influential
leaders such as Samuel Chase, Charles Pinckney, and others.
Alphabetized for easy reference, it also offers discussions of key
issues, including slavery, the separation of powers, the
presidency, and Deism and Christianity; events, such as the
American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Louisiana
Purchase; and documents, including the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights. Every special essay and concise entry--from ""Abigail
Adams"" to ""George Wythe""--promotes the deeper understanding of
the personalities, issues, and events that only Encyclop?dia
Britannica can provide.
The book's balanced, fact-based coverage of the Founding Fathers is
especially relevant today, when differing interpretations of their
intent are used in debates over current policies. The Founding
Fathers is the ideal resource for anyone looking to hone his or her
knowledge of the fascinating figures who wrote the first chapter of
U.S. history.
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