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George Sly's experiences as a biologist and observer of nature
provide the background for a series of essays which speak movingly
of our relationship with the natural world. His stories carry us
from his rural Indiana home to the rainforests of Malaysia and
Peru. In them, he reminds us of the value of loved ones, our need
for connection with nature, the delights of travel, and the rewards
of a reflective life. In essays ranging from the whimsical to the
serious, his writings reveal to us a world that is indeed
enthralling. From the graphic workings of a family farm, to his
friendship with tribal people of the rainforest, and on to a
grandfathers' attempt to explain life's calamities, these
compositions both entertain and give us much to contemplate.
Join Sly on his adventures in an amazing life from his early days
growing up in the mountains of West Verginia on a farm to his days
in the Air Corp preparing for World War II and training on B-17
Bombers. Later join him on his rags to riches journey to becoming
one of the largest distributorships on the East Coast. Some funny,
some sad and some down right dangerous times will make you not want
to put this book down until you have read the entire book.
Today's woman is courageous, strong, and daring, she is not adverse
to facing any challenges that come her way. So why is it that she
finds herself constantly settling for less when it comes to her
relationships. She constantly wonders why she continues to attract
the same type of guy, when it is clear to see that this type of guy
is not for her.According to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute
of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri, 50% of first
marriages, 67% of second marriages and 74% of third marriages end
in divorce. It is our mission to fight these statistics, but before
you can be great in a relationship, you have to be great by
yourself first.The concept behind "No More Free Milk " is that a
complete and dynamic woman will not have to search for a man. "No
More Free Milk " is the best single, dating, or pre-marriage book
available for women in the market. It is full of poetry, short
stories, advice, to do's, and more. It was written in seven parts
so that it may help all who read its pages.Sly Fleming, a Certified
Christian Life Coach and Motivational Speaker has constructed the
ultimate woman's handbook from a christian male's perspective. This
book will help prevent pitfalls and obstacles that stand in the way
of your happiness. Sly Fleming has pulled no punches in order for
this selfhelp book to produce real results."No More Free Milk " is
truly changing paradigms. Its a workshop in a book. It will
challenge you, while simultaneously causing great moments of
reflection. Life results are the accumulation of our choices; some
good and some bad. Fleming presents you the opportunity for a good
choice, don't let it slip away. Purchase "No More Free Milk "
These 21 national case studies of internal migration were
written especially for this unusual and useful volume. . . . The
resulting blend of the general and the particular, especially when
viewed across the 21 countries, will be useful to a wide range of
basic and applied social scientists. "Choice"
Social and economic change within countries can often be traced
through the movement of population at the national level. The
abandonment or return to inner cities, the volume of movement
within and between rural and urban areas, the movement of the
elderly, all of these factors and others combine to give us an
important picture of national change.
The "International Handbook on Internal Migration" is a
compilation of 21 case studies, each focusing on a different
country, each written specifically for this book by an expert in
the field. Extensively illustrated with tables and figures, the
book will serve as an invaluable reference text. It will also be of
great interest to students of the social sciences, especially
sociology, economics, and geography.
The most up-to-date book on the relationship between sport and
crime. Provides new perspectives for students of sport studies,
criminology or sociology. Topical, with stories of crime,
corruption, doping and abuse in sport frequently in the news.
Theoretically sophisticated, offering important new critical tools
for understanding the sport-crime nexus.
P. G. Sly Canada Centre Inland Waters, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington,
Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada Keywords: symposium, sediments, freshwater
Following the highly successful First Symposium work of the
symposium: on Research into the Interactions between Sedi- I.
Summary of sediment dynamics and distribu- ments and Freshwater
held in Amsterdam, in 1976, tion in fluvial and lacustrine
environments. it was decided that a second symposium in this 2.
Land use effects on sediment yields,and quality. series should be
held to continue the discussions on 3. Sediments in mass balance
models, including progress in this rapidly expanding field of
aquatic total loadings. science. The Second Symposium was held at
4. Sediments as concentrating mechanisms of nat- Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario, between 15 ural and anthropogenic,
organic and inorganic and 18 June 1981. It was originally intended
to hold materials. the meeting in Toronto a year earlier, but
because 5. Release mechanisms, and transfer to biosystem, of
difficulties in planning and the high cost of ac- from bed and
suspended solids. commodation it was necessary to revise the
original 6. Short- and long-term dating methods, spatial program
and schedule. and temporai consistency, bioturbation and dif- The
symposium received generous support from fusion.
This volume presents 19 national case studies of international
migration. . . . The authors of these well-written, detailed, but
nontechnical chapters have complied with the editors' request,
thereby yielding a number of general observations that appear to
hold across these diverse countries. "Choice"
Immigration, the most difficult of all the demographic processes
to document accurately, has the most immediate impact on a nation's
demographic structure and the essays included in this volume
provide a useful overview of the immigration process as it is
currently structured. In order to facilitate transnational
comparisons, each contributor has adhered to a common outline which
includes historical setting, legal policies, types and quality of
data, major international migrations, demographic effects of
international migration, social and economic effects of
international migration, and public policy issues. The future of
international migration is also assessed.
The individual chapters are devoted to case studies of
immigration in a variety of national settings. Included are
chapters dealing with the principal receiving nations of permanent
immigration; countries where immigration consists mainly of
short-term imported labor; countries receiving an influx of persons
from former colonial territories; countries where immigration is
based on religious factors or which are destinations of refugees;
and countries whose history as a colony influences current
immigration and emigration patterns. Additional chapters address
economically advanced countries and also focus on some of the
principal sending nations of current international population
flows. Offering insights into the economic consequences of
migration from the perspectives of both sending and receiving
nations, assessing the overall impact of immigration, and detailing
the contributions of immigrants, Handbook on International
Migration is an important resource for public policymakers and
those who must be cognizant of the economic and demographic
situation of other nations.
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical
Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song
cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a
focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of
each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging
from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as
Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known
works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sanchez, this collection
of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in
contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own
analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical
structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic
narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music
history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and
Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the
contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars,
students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.
The papers appearing in this volume reflect the current attention
in sediment/water science to five main topics of investigation:
Sediment dynamics in estuaries, coastal waters, lakes, reservoirs
and rivers; Sediment-associated biological processes; Contaminant
accumulation, distribution and geochemistry; Fluxes from sediments;
and Element cycling. Contributors address sediment/water
interactions related to both fresh and salt water conditions.
This incisive work reviews the salient aspects of the demographic,
social, and economic characteristics of the aging of the population
of the United States. It deals not only with the past and current
aspects of population aging but also emphasizes the future outlook
with regard to characteristics of the elderly and relative size and
composition of the future older population. The book begins with a
retrospective review of the population aging process of the United
States throughout the twentieth century and continues with a
prospective view of aging through most of the next century. Through
the use of 67 tables, the authors go on to consider the demographic
determinants of population aging and examine the role that each of
the three demographic processes has actually played in the shaping
of the status quo, as well as the roles that they may play in the
future. Succeeding chapters are devoted to spatial aspects of aging
in the United States; various social and economic aspects of aging
and the older population in the United States; economic
characteristics of previous, current, and future generations of
older Americans with a focus on labor force, income, and
educational attainment; and health status and patterns of health
care utilization among older Americans. A final chapter brings all
the preceding material together by considering the policy
implications of prospective population aging within the United
States with reference to both the increased number and proportion
of older persons within the American population and to the aging of
the older population itself during the next century. This reference
work is a must for all professionals in demography and gerontology.
It also deserves close attention by those taking courses in social
gerontology and demography.
The most up-to-date book on the relationship between sport and
crime. Provides new perspectives for students of sport studies,
criminology or sociology. Topical, with stories of crime,
corruption, doping and abuse in sport frequently in the news.
Theoretically sophisticated, offering important new critical tools
for understanding the sport-crime nexus.
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical
Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song
cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a
focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of
each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging
from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as
Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known
works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sanchez, this collection
of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in
contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own
analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical
structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic
narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music
history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and
Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the
contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars,
students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.
Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates,
manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation. It engages its
audience by inviting prediction, association, and interpretation.
That sonata form was the chief vehicle of dramatic instrumental
music for nearly 200 years is due to the power, the universality,
and the tonal and stylistic adaptability of its conception. This
book presents nine studies whose central focus is sonata form.
Their diversity attests both to the manifold analytical approaches
to which the form responds, and to the vast range of musical
possibility within the form's exemplars. At the same time, common
compositional issues, analytical methods, and overarching
perspectives on the essential nature of the form weave their way
through the volume. Several of the essays approach the musical
structure directly as drama, casting the work as an expression of
its composer's engagement with an idea or principle that is dynamic
and at times intensely difficult. Others concentrate their
attention on a composer's use of "motive," which typically takes
the form of a simple melodic span that shapes the musical
architecture through an interdependent series of structural levels.
Integrating these motivic threads within the musical fabric often
warrants departures from formal norms in other areas. Analyses that
seek to understand works with anomalous formal qualities-whether
engendered by a motivic component or not-have a prominent place in
the volume. Among these, accounts of idiosyncratic tonal discourse
that threatens to undermine the unfolding of form-defining
qualities or events are central.
Riding horses is an age-old pleasure but one that can't be taken
lightly. People who want to take up this wonderfully satisfying
sport, and those who wish to improve their skill, will find this
comprehensive and responsible book to riding styles and skills both
inspiring and informative. Basic Riding Techniques tells you what
you need to know to get started, section two goes into slightly
more advanced skills, such as how to achieve bend and flexion.
Introduction to Jumping explores the principles of rhythm and
balance; The World of the Horse is a fascinating introduction to
the world of competition and international horse shows; and,
Equestrian Events examines the exciting world open to people who
ride for sport and pleasure. (Parts of the book have been
previously published in Debby's Practical Rider's Handbook, now
OOP, with extensive new material and updates for this new volume.)
First-century Alexandria vied with Rome to be the greatest city of
the Roman empire. More than half a million people lived in its
cosmopolitan four square miles. It was a major centre for
international trade and shipping.
Little remains of Alexandria's golden age. Few papyrus records of
the city survive. Archaeologists' attempts to reveal its past have
been frustrated by years of subsidence, earthquakes and continuous
demolition and rebuilding. Our main guide to the city is Philo, an
Alexandrian Jew, who, sometimes inadvertantly, incorporated
information about his home city into his copious religious
writings.
In this compelling new study, Dorothy I. Sly searches through
Philo's treatises for information about Alexandria. By recognising
his shortcomings and prejudices, and questioning his judgements,
she builds up an authentic picture of life in the first century.
One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a
trailblazer who created a new kind of music, mixing Black and
white, male and female, funk and rock; penned some of the most
iconic anthems of the 1960s and 70s, from "Everyday People" to
"Family Affair"; and electrified audiences with a persona and stage
presence that set a lasting standard for pop culture performance.
Yet he has also been a cautionary tale, known as much for how he
dropped out of sight as for what put him in the spotlight in the
first place. As much as people know the music, the man remains a
mystery. In Thank You, his much-anticipated memoir, he's finally
ready to share his story - a story that many thought he'd never
have the chance to tell. Written with Ben Greenman, who has written
memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson among others, Thank
You will include a foreword by Questlove. The book was created in
collaboration with Sly Stone's manager Arlene Hirschkowitz. "For as
long as I can remember folks have been asking me to tell my story,"
says Stone. "I wasn't ready. I had to be in a new frame of mind to
become Sylvester Stewart again to tell the true story of Sly Stone.
It's been a wild ride and hopefully my fans enjoy it too."
P. G. Sly Canada Centre Inland Waters, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington,
Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada Keywords: symposium, sediments, freshwater
Following the highly successful First Symposium work of the
symposium: on Research into the Interactions between Sedi- I.
Summary of sediment dynamics and distribu- ments and Freshwater
held in Amsterdam, in 1976, tion in fluvial and lacustrine
environments. it was decided that a second symposium in this 2.
Land use effects on sediment yields,and quality. series should be
held to continue the discussions on 3. Sediments in mass balance
models, including progress in this rapidly expanding field of
aquatic total loadings. science. The Second Symposium was held at
4. Sediments as concentrating mechanisms of nat- Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario, between 15 ural and anthropogenic,
organic and inorganic and 18 June 1981. It was originally intended
to hold materials. the meeting in Toronto a year earlier, but
because 5. Release mechanisms, and transfer to biosystem, of
difficulties in planning and the high cost of ac- from bed and
suspended solids. commodation it was necessary to revise the
original 6. Short- and long-term dating methods, spatial program
and schedule. and temporai consistency, bioturbation and dif- The
symposium received generous support from fusion.
Biomechanics is concerned with the response of living matter to
forces, and its study has taken long strides in recent years. In
the past two decades, biomechanics has brought improved
understanding of normal and patho physiology of organisms at
molecular, cellular, and organ levels; it has helped developing
medical diagnostic and treatment procedures; it has guided the
design and manufacturing of prosthesis and instruments; it has
suggested the means for improving human performance in the
workplace, sports, and space; it has made us understand trauma in
war and in peace. Looking toward the future, we see many more areas
of possible development such as: reduction in heart diseases and
atherosclerosis improved vascular assist and replacement devices,
including a permanent artifical heart enhanced oxygen transport in
the lung understanding and control of growth and changes mechanics
of neuromuscular control and robotics prevention of joint
degeneration permanent total joint replacements prevention of low
back pain workplace designs to enhance productivity ambulation
systems for the handicapped fully implantable hearing aids improved
understanding of the mechanisms for permanent disability injuries
identification of factors such as alcohol use and disease influence
on impact tolerance improved cellular bioreactor designs mechanics
of DNA and its application in biotechnology. * Obviously, the
attainment of these prospects will greatly improve the quality of
human life and reduce the costs of living. * This list is from a
report by the U. S. National Committee on Biomechanics, April,
1985."
‘Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the
Asylum’ brings together the histories of people who died in
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime
that led to them being pronounced criminally insane, necessitating
their confinement and containment for their own protection, as well
as that of the public. Nowadays, staff have a wide range of
therapeutic tools at their disposal but historically the only
treatment offered to patients was work, leisure activities and
abundant fresh air. All human life is here – the addicts, the
mentally deranged, the delusional, the tragic and the chronically
and postnatally depressed – men and women whose acts of madness
led them to be reviled and feared, but who were often as much
victims of their own internal demons as were those they harmed. As
well as wife murderers James Potter and Peter Whittle, the
characters within include Henry Dommett, James Senior and Mary Ann
Parr, who each killed their own children and Christiana Edmunds,
who poisoned several people in Brighton to divert suspicion from
herself, after attempting to murder her love rival. Other vignettes
include serial arsonist John Green, counterfeiter Emma Jackson and
James Stevenson and Roderick Edward McClean, both of whom took
exception to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the
throne, the latter attempting to assassinate her. Daniel McNaughten
became so paranoid about the ‘Tory’ spies that he believed
followed him constantly that he killed a civil servant in 1843,
mistakenly believing his victim to be prime minister Sir Robert
Peel. Such was McNaughten’s derangement that his crime spawned a
new standard for the legal definition of insanity. Generously
illustrated throughout, this book will prove of interest to those
with a fascination for historical true crime and the way its
perpetrators were dealt with by society.
Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching
designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William
Blake solo song cycles. By questioning when a group of songs ought
to be understood not merely as a collection, but as a cycle, Sly
shows that Britten's personal selection and arrangement is
indispensable to understanding these cycles' extra-musical
communication. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Winter Words (poems
by Hardy) and Songs and Proverbs of William Blake - composed in
1945, 1953 and 1965 respectively - each represent a philosophical
exploration. The terrains set out by the three poets are distinct,
but also engage one another in important and unexpected ways. Their
cyclic architectures are expressed not only in their poetic
arrangement, but in their musical settings. Key relationships and
motive remain central for Britten. Keys convey a network of
interconnections, create groupings of songs, and establish levels
of tonal affinity or distance. Motive - often intervals that can
fit into any melodic, harmonic or rhythmic context - is used to
create aural affinities between or among individual songs. This
book also offers a broader narrative revealing Britten's evolving
philosophical convictions in post-war Britain. While it may not be
the case that Britten intended any broader philosophical comment,
the works together outline the cold and brittle state that emerges
from loss and aligns with their composer's increasingly stark
outlook on humanity.
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