This classic book allows its readers for the first time to comprehend the size, organization, staffing and operation of a national system of hospitals and residential services for the subnormal. It also allows for the first time, reliable estimates to be given of the scale and severity of certain problems. The basis has been laid for an evaluation of the effectiveness of hospitals for the subnormal. All this has been made possible by a generous grant from the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children to the Department of Sociology in the University of Essex upon the foundation of...
This classic book allows its readers for the first time to comprehend the size, organization, staffing and operation of a national system of hospit...
Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication in 1929. Old People in Three Industrial Societies may well set similar standards for studies in its fi eld for many years to come. In addition to achieving a signifi cant breakthrough in the progress of socio logical research techniques, the book offers a monumental cross-cultural exposition of the health, family relationships, and social and economic status of the aged in three countries-the United States, Britain, and Denmark.
Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication...
The family of musical styles known as jazz came into being around 1900 as several popular black musical idioms coalesced. This free-flowing, spontaneous music based in improvisation emerged primarily from ragtime and the blues. But jazz did not remain solely in the domain of American music, for very quickly it swept through virtually all of the national culture as fiction, poetry, film, photography, painting, and classical music came under its spell. If it's art that expresses a nation's essence best, then jazz set America's tempo and afforded an artistic pattern for modernism.
In this...
The family of musical styles known as jazz came into being around 1900 as several popular black musical idioms coalesced. This free-flowing, sponta...
This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in American society itself. It describes how the infrastructure of American music, the interdependent fields of recording, touring, live engagements, radio and the movies, was experiencing change in the conditions of wartime, and how this impacted upon musical styles, and hence upon the later...
This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world...
This research examines the concept of Intercultural Capability.It is relevant to people involved in training and developing international managers, as a framework for training designs and practical exercises for development. As theorised, this capability of international managers involves having justified confidence in one's ability to behave appropriately in both familiar and unfamiliar cultures. Intercultural Capability, as a theoretical construct, focuses the factors derived from previous elements described in the research literature, relevant to the social capabilities of international...
This research examines the concept of Intercultural Capability.It is relevant to people involved in training and developing international managers, as...
This book contains mainly a selection of papers that were presented at the International Workshop on High Performance Computing/or Computer Graphics and Visualisation, held in Swansea, United Kingdom on 3-4 July 1995. The workshop was sponsored by the HEFCWI Initiative on .Parallel Computing - Foundations and Applications., and it has provided the international computer graphics community with a platform for: assessing and reviewing the impact of the development of high performance computing on the progress of computer graphics and visualisation; presenting the current use of high performance...
This book contains mainly a selection of papers that were presented at the International Workshop on High Performance Computing/or Computer Graphics a...
All aspects of music are evolving and driven by culture, experience, star performers, better instruments and concert halls, plus access to international musical styles offered by recordings and broadcasting. Musical expectations have risen and our appreciation is more diverse and flexible. Composition has matched these developments. Sounds of Music explores driving forces from new instrument designs, cult of personality, and the immense impact of electronics and recording. Each and every change means we never experience older music in the way that it was first heard. Even from the same CD....
All aspects of music are evolving and driven by culture, experience, star performers, better instruments and concert halls, plus access to internation...
Many questions are currently being asked about the place of Islam in the modern world. Among these questions the most important one of all sometimes gets lost: Is Islam true? With his new book author Peter Townsend invites you to accompany him on a journey through the foundational texts of the Muslim religion. In the process the truth-claims of Islam will be respectfully, honestly and impartially evaluated. Along the way the following questions will be asked: -Can the traditional Islamic historical accounts be trusted? -Is the Qur'an a 'Perfect Book, Perfectly Preserved'? -Was Muhammad indeed...
Many questions are currently being asked about the place of Islam in the modern world. Among these questions the most important one of all sometimes g...
