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Master teacher Stewart Gordon offers advice for musicians on conquering the demands of performance. It spans all aspects of the performance process from the planning and preparatory stages, through the actual performance, evaluation, and cultivation of a life devoted to performance.

Used in conjunction with the corresponding client workbook, this therapist guide offers effective treatment strategies for ADHD that follow an empirically-supported treatment approach. It provides clinicians with effective means of teaching clients skills that have been scientifically tested and shown to help adults cope with ADHD.

Laying out foundations for a "science of morals", this book uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. Beginning with individuals: rational decision-makers with the ability to emphasize with one another, it also generates different insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy.

Develops a theory about the role of anaphora in the formulation of general syntax. This monograph shows that the complementary distribution of forms that support anaphoric readings is not accidental. It also shows that anaphora-specific principles are universal, and that the patterns of anaphora across languages arise from lexical properties.

The first part of this book is an exploration of the ways in which computationally assisted science is fundamentally reshaping science. The second part provides a new account of empiricism suitable for contemporary science, whose purpose is to reconcile a modest but selective scientific realism with scientific empiricism - two approaches long opposed to one another.

This highly original exploration of the paradoxical nature-and the paramount importance-of workplace bonds examines the complex issue of how law can further realize the democratic possibilities of working together. In linking workplace integration and connectedness beyond work, Estlund suggests a novel and promising strategy for addressing some of the profound challenges facing American society.

Using a different conception of how the meaning of a sentence relates to the information asserted and conveyed by utterances, this book argues that the meaning of a linguistically simple name is its referent. It also shows that a meaning of a partially descriptive name is a compound, which includes a referent and partial description.

Batterman examines a form of scientific reasoning called asymptotic reasoning, which he argues has important consequences for our understanding of the scientific process as a whole. He simplifies some of the more complex questions about universal behaviour, demonstrating a an understanding of the underlying structures that ground them.

This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book first published by Fortress Press in 1988 as Maenads, Matyrs, Matrons, Monastics. It collects translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion (pagan, Jewish, and Christian) in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE.

This work examines racial impersonations - blackfaces - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others.

This is the first book of case studies on animal ethics. It deals with important social controversies involving the human use of animals and analyses the moral issues involved. An excellent introduction to ethical theory provides a framework to the 16 original case studies, which include the use of animals in research, testing, and education, as food, as companion animals, and in religious rites.

Addresses the future for the African black rhino, and describes the author's own experiences of ecological fieldwork in Africa while accompanied by a small child. The text displays a mixture of practical conservation issues, economic considerations and personal commitment.

This book presents the history of the development of fibre optic technology, explaining the scientific challenges that needed to be overcome, the range of applications and future potential for this fundamental communications technology. The author has followed and reported the development closely for the past 20 years, and is better placed than anyone to write the definitive history of the field.

Takes a historical and philosophical approach to examine how scientists were able to use scientific methods to test the reliability of thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of thermometers; and how they came to measure the reliability and accuracy of these instruments without a circular reliance on the instruments.

In this objective approach to the sociobiology debate, John Alcock illuminates how sociobiologists study behavior in all species. He provides an analysis of case histories that include the topics sexual jealousy, beauty, gender difference, and rape.

Some feminists see the cultural imagery of women as a fundamental threat to female autonomy because it enshrines procreative heterosexuality as well as the relations of domination and subordination between men and women. This title is about this cultural imagery and how once it is internalized it shapes perception, reflection, judgement and desire.

Developing a virtue ethics inspired by moral sentimentalism, this book argues that a reconfigured and expanded 'morality of caring' can offer a general account of right and wrong action and also of social justice. It also shows how a motive-based 'pure' virtue theory can also help understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.

Christians often disagree with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture and worship style. Yet they usually lack theology of art or taste to deal with aesthetic disputes. This provocative book offers an "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgement.

Focuses on the design and analysis of ecological experiments, concentrating on statistical approaches. This edition covers power analysis, logistic regression, randomization tests, and empirical Bayesian analysis. Each chapter presents a statistical technique or set of techniques in the context of resolving an ecological issue.

This work investigates the historical context, meaning, and expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and its colonies. Weddle focuses primarily on one historical moment - King Philip's War, which confronted the New England Quakers with the practical need to define the parameters of their peace testimony.

This work explains hyperspace and multidimensional geometries in an effort to help readers to manipulate, visualize, and think about the higher spatial dimensions that all serious physical theories since relativity have required.

This study of the year in which "Ulysses" and "The Waste Land" were published aims to put these works in the context of the other cultural productions of 1922. It claims that relations between aesthetic modernism and modern culture are closer and more complex than recent criticism allows.

At the century's end, many societies are moving from authoritarian rule to democracy, and the question arises: should a society punish its ancien regime? Ruti Teitel explores the recurring question of how regimes should respond to evil rule, arguing against the view favouring punishment.

Fought at a strategic crossroads in the Cold War, Algeria's war for independence was a harbinger of the contemporary era. In this history, Mathew Connelly shows how the rebels harnessed the forces of globalisation to break up the French empire and how it created the conditions of the postcolonial world. It is being published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war.

This study aims to quantify the social costs of gun violence in order to help policy makers determine how many and which violence programmes to support. The authors offer detailed information about how the burden of gun violence is distributed in the US.

Focusing on Prussia from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848, this book boldly reinterprets the origins of German nationalism by tracing its links to eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought. It also presents a new perspective on the role of discourse in historical change, emphasizing how the concept 'nation' transformed the horizon of Prussian political debate.

Antonaccio presents the first systematic analysis of Murdoch's moral philosophy to date. The book advances a distinctive thesis about the underlying structure of Murdoch's thought, suggests a new interretive method for reading her philosophy, and outlines the significance of her thought in the context of current debates in ethics.

This is a compact and comprehensive overview of the many teaching methods, strategies, materials, and assessments available for choral sight-singing instruction. It takes the mystery out of teaching music reading. Topics covered include practical strategies for teaching and assessment.

Medusa, the Gorgon who turns those who gaze upon her to stone, is one of the most popular and enduring figures of Greek mythology. After reminding readers of the story, this study looks at the interpretations of the myth that have been given through the years and offers its own suggestions.

This is a study of Bartok's opera "Bluebeard's Castle". It adopts a broad approach to the study of opera by introducing, in addition to the expected music-dramatic analysis, topics of an interdisciplinary nature that are new to the field of Bartok studies including a literary study of the libretto.