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The first comprehensive annotated bibliography of North American Indian music available, including 1,497 items dating from 1535 to 1995. The guide gathers information from the fields of anthropology, folklore, ethnomusicology, and dance, covering sources that include scholarly articles, books, bibl

This special issue of "Mass Communication & Society" examines international communication history.

The goal of this book is to facilitate the development of more encompassing theories and more effective treatments for this depression by fostering dialogue and enhancing the integration of work across the boundaries of separate fields.

The goal of this handbook, which applies proven techniques derived from bilingual/bicultural classrooms, to teaching literacy in the twenty-first century, is to help teachers increase their understanding of bilingual learners in order to maximize instruc

A comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of personal epistemology from a psychological and educational perspective. Both theory building and empirical research have grown dramatically, and this work has here been pulled together in a single volume.

The aim of this book is to present results of scientific research on how digital information should be designed and how artifacts or systems containing digital content should maximize usability, and to explain how context can influence the nature and effectiveness of digital communication.

This work investigates subjects such as: reading aloud; reading aloud picture and chapter books; reading poetry aloud; sharing stories through the use of props; and storytelling.

Presents techniques that are used by productive writers, and applies them to the dissertation process. This book provides advice on working with dissertation advisors and committee members, presents techniques for the prewriting and writing stages of the dissertation, sets out a system for keeping on schedule, and advocates enlisting peer support.

A companion to "Gender Equity Right from the Start", this volume contains student materials needed for the activities as well as extensive print, electronic, organizational, and other resources for further information.

Focusing on virtual reality (VR), the authors of this book have gathered a team of engineers, social scientists and cultural theorists to give their views of this area of human communication in this medium. Issues such as how virtual reality influences perception of reality are discussed.

Covers flavor and the information age food/flavor interactions. This book also covers flavoring materials and flavor potentiators; changes to food flavors during processing; off-flavors in foods; performance of flavors during processing and storage; and, applications of flavorings in processing.

Influential minorities have existed in some form in all human societies. Throughout history, such elites have evoked varied responses--respeet. hos-tility, fear. envy, imitation, but never indifference. While certain elite groups have been of only passing historical importance, strategic elites, whose mem-bers are national and international leaders, today are ultimately responsible for the realization of social goals and for the continuity of the social order in a swiftly changing world.

Presents an easy-to-understand introduction to the field of eye care. Starting with an illustrated description of ocular anatomy, this book sweeps you into the workings of vision with hardly a blink, where you'll learn what happens when light meets the eye.

This collection challenges the reader to re-examine the influence of 18th- and 19th-century Scottish rhetoric, often credited with shaping studies in psychology, philosophy and English literature. The essays discuss the contributions of Adam Smith and Hugh Blair, and the significance of sermons.

Examines the aqueous chemistry of vanadium (V). Focusing on its oxidation state, this book highlights the use of 51V NMR spectroscopy. It covers reactions of vanadium with biologically important ligands such as amino acids, peptides, and sulfhydryl ligands. It reviews vanadium's role in biological systems.

Offers the basis for improvements to the model for hazard assessment. This book reviews the scientific underpinnings of the use of persistence as applied to metals, including bioavailability, and the use of bioaccumulation to evaluate aquatic species and aquatic-linked food chains. It examines toxicity procedures as used within PBT approaches.

Plant interactions are an important set of processes that structure plant communities and regulate diversity. This book gives a summary of the understanding of the field, with an emphasis on positive interactions and spatial and temporal gradients. It addresses key issues in plant ecology and anthropogenic impacts through reviews and syntheses.

Integrating physical modeling, mathematical analysis, and computer simulation, this book explores a variety of specific and practical instrumentation design situations. It discusses several technologies for implementing vibration isolation. It focuses on instruments for various applications, from geophysics to mechanical and aerospace engineering.

With significant applications in drug delivery and formulation science, colloids offer the same advantages of typical materials used for release but can be tailored to specific bulk material properties such as release profiles. This book presents the various findings on the application of colloidal properties in drug delivery systems.

While worker safety is often touted as a company's first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Lean takes a proactive approach - it is not contingent on legislation. This book looks at the power of Lean improvement on the universal topic of safety.

Tells the true story of how, armed with only Lean improvement methodologies, a specially trained Toyota Lean expert purchased a business he knew nothing about, applied Lean techniques, and succeeded in doubling sales and increasing profitability, before he finally sold the thriving business. This work recounts his successes and failures.

Provides an account of ecological indicators for assessing the health of a wide-range of ecosystems. This text provides a fresh approach to environmental management and sustainable development. It details a framework for selecting, evaluating, and validating ecological indicators of ecosystem health assessment.

Addresses the aspects of public IT projects while emphasizing a common theme: Information technology initiatives are neither simple nor routine. This title covers issues such as network governance, cross organizational integration and operability, enterprise architecture design, development, and management.

Explains how to perform complex mathematical tasks with MATLAB[registered] programs. This book describes simple functions such as differentiation, integration, and plotting. It addresses advanced topics, including programming, producing executables, publishing results directly from MATLAB programs, and creating graphical user interfaces.

The steady evolution of wireless communication technologies continues to pave the way for the implementation of innovative services and devices used in modern vehicles. This book examines traditional and advanced automotive antennas, including the specific principles, designs, and techniques used to reduce antenna dimensions.

Based on Hiroyuki Hirano's classic "5 Pillars of the Visual Workplace" and modeled after the Shingo Prize-winning "Shopfloor Series for Lean Manufacturers", this work adopts a reader-friendly format to impart the information needed to understand and efficiently implement lean methodology in a healthcare setting.

Discusses the refining of lube oil base stocks, chemistry of additives, the formulation technology of lubricants, and the performance of important finished products. This title provides an examination of base stocks, including its processing, oxidation stability, chemistry and performance of additives, and its interfacial properties.

Exploring topics such as conceptions of victimhood, secondary and hidden victimization, and social services for victims along with more recent issues, this handbook deals with the themes such as restorative justice, the use of government-sponsored crime victimization surveys, compensation and restitution schemes, and victims' rights legislation.

The identification of unknown individuals and the estimation of age, race, and gender are among the chief functions of forensic dentistry. This book covers topics such as: forensic dental radiography; age estimation; jurisprudence and legal issues; history of forensic dentistry; and, cases, including September 11th and Hurricane Katrina.

Offers an overview of water chemistry and covers the characteristics of commonly encountered mineral scales. This book addresses the formation and control of different scales in various systems and examines the developments in membrane-based separation processes. It includes coverage of a range of bacterial species, including Legionella.