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In Inner Sound, author Jonathan Weinel traverses the influence of altered states of consciousness on audio-visual media, explaining how our subjective realities may change during states of dream, psychedelic experience, meditation, and trance.

If Your Adolescent Has ADHD: An Essential Resource for Parents provides the up-to-date information and down-to-earth support that parents need. The book is an authoritative guide to teen ADHD, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, school interventions, and parenting strategies. It addresses common concerns, such as driving, curfews, extracurricular activities, and homework.

Dawn of the DAW examines DIY recording studio practices past and present, with a focus on the concept of "the studio as musical instrument" the evolving role of the producer, and the implications of these practices for the field of music education.

A study of one of the most important Polish thinkers, an intellectual who framed understandings of modern nationalism and socialism.

The BRICS (China, Russia, India, Brazil, and South Africa), an exclusive international club, perceive an ongoing global power shift and contest the West's pretensions to permanent stewardship of the liberal economic order. Against expectations, they have exercised collective financial statecraft with remarkable success to seek reforms, influence, and leadership roles.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Honing in on the significance of the symphony in contemporary culture, this book establishes a dialog between Beethoven's world and ours. In particular, it outlines what is special about the Ninth in millennial culture, where music is encoded not only as score but also as digital technology.

The Second Edition of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs offers updated accounts of music educators' experiences, featured as vignettes throughout the book. An accompanying Practical Resource includes lesson plans, worksheets, and games for classroom use.

Catherine Bowler's Blessed represents the first attempt to examine the twentieth-century American prosperity gospel movement as a whole, seeking to introduce readers to its major figures and features.

In this revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) Jeffery N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide an excellent introduction to this significant global power.

Using new archival discoveries and interviews, Honest Bodies illustrates how Anna Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism internationally from the 1930s to the 1960s. Author Hannah Kosstrin argues that Sokolow's dances embodied the relationship between Communist ideals and Jewish culture.

The Bible in American Life is a sustained, collaborative reflection on the ways Americans use the Bible in their personal lives. It also considers how other influences, including religious communities and the internet, shape individuals' comprehension and engagement with scripture.

Every aspect of having and raising a child leads to profound and challenging philosophical questions. The Philosophical Parent is a companion for parents and parents-to-be that explores the myriad worries that come with making and raising children. Kazez explores eighteen perplexities, arguing for a novel view of the parent-child relationship, with implications at every stage of parenthood.

In Unusually Cruel, Mark Morje Howard shows how far outside the norm-and how different from systems in other advanced, industrial democracies-US prisons are.

This Guide offers a framework and concrete recommendations for interpreting and implementing the Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate the ability of print disabled individuals to create, read, and share books and cultural materials in accessible formats.

A thought-provoking examination of the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as ways to overcome it, Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides a wide-ranging overview of the key questions and issues.

Today, the essay film has become a key cultural reference point. This book shows how the essay film's disjunctive method comes to be realized at the level of medium, montage, genre, temporality, sound, narration, and framing. It situates the essayistic urge within processes of filmic thinking that thrive in gaps.

Ungoverning Dance examines recent contemporary dance in continental Europe. Placing this in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, it argues that dancers are developing an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies. It attests to the persistence of alternative ways of thinking and living.

In Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas, renowned performer and pedagogue Stewart Gordon addresses textual issues, Beethoven's pianos, performance practices, composer's indications, and the composer's development, pointing to patterns of structure, sonority, keyboard technique, and emotional meaning. In addition, each sonata appears in a helpful outline-chart format for easy-access reference.

Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept is the first comprehensive study of a text and its history in Buddhist studies, from ancient India to the present day and across a range of countries and languages. The volume editors translate and study an influential epistemological work and its commentarial trajectory.

The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic philosophers to the Neoplatonists and their adoption by the Church Fathers.

Americans have an ambivalent relationship to guns. The debate over the role of guns and gun regulations in American society tends to be acrimonious and misinformed.

In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles.