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The Women's Movement and the Politics of Change at a Women's College
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 152.00This study analyzes how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith's institutional culture that fit with her vision for higher education. more...
Light and Dark
CRC Press 2002; US$ 41.95The wide range of topics in this book are linked by the theme of the title. It looks at many familiar phenomena, such as the variations in the duration of twighlight through the year and the ability of human vision to misinterpret patterns of lines under certain conditions. more...
Incredible Cats
Random House 2012; US$ 13.34Have you ever thought your cat was 'almost human'? If so, you'd only be partly right, as the remarkable abilities of these creatures make them not so much human as superhuman. Every cat, from the humble tabby to the rare Persian, is capable of mental, physical and even extrasensory feats unique in the animal kingdom. They can predict the weather,... more...
The Imagining of Community in European Art and Architecture, 1140-1617
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 149.95This book takes up six sets of works of art that imagine community. These works do not illustrate concepts of community or make community an explicit theme. Nevertheless, the particular techniques and structure of each work project an imagining of community that is unique to the piece. Studying the six sets together opens prospects for re-imagining... more...
Music in Search of Itself
The Edwin Mellen Press 2004; US$ 139.95Many contemporary composers and music critics say in an offhand way that all music written in the past quarter century is about musicthat it is reflexive and self-referential in some significant sense. It is music in search of an understanding of itself. This book tries to deepen the understanding of music about music as well as music itself... more...
The Imagining of Community in Works of Beethoven, Verdi, and Shostakovich
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 139.95This book takes up pieces of music that imagine community. These works do not illustrate concepts of community or make community an explicit theme. Nevertheless, the particular techniques and structure of each work project an imagining of community that is unique to the piece. Studying the pieces together lays the groundwork for re-imagining the relation... more...
The Theology of Handels Messiah, Beethovens Credo, and Verdis Dies Irae
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 139.95In pieces of music set to biblical or liturgical texts, the musical connections of one passage or one movement to one another. In a musical sense, these texts have a meaning and significance that can be and often distinct from the meanings achieved by syntactic relationships. Sometimes the syntactic meanings are lost in the musical repetitions and... more...
The Spirituality of Mozarts Mass in C Minor, Bachs Mass in B Minor, and Messiaens Quartet for the End of Time
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 159.95This book is based around reports from people who have listened to certain pieces of sacred music (that is, pieces with a liturgical text or biblical allusions) and have said that hearing the music is itself an encounter with the divine. While relating to the music, these people find that relating to the music is a relation to God. The music as such... more...
The Imagining of Community in the Arts of Guatemala
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 149.95This book studies three types of Guatemalan art that represent imagines of community. The particular techniques and structure of each set of works project an imagining of community that is unique to those pieces. Studying the pieces together lays the groundwork for re-imagining the relation of arts and society. This book contains nineteen color photographs. more...
Modeling Ordered Choices
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 42.00A synthesis of developments in ordered choice modeling over the past fifty years. more...









