Author: Alison Tokita and David W. HughesAlison McQueen T
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: soas, musicology, series, music, japanese, research, companion, ashgate
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754656993
ISBN-13: 9780754656999

Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten upwards. As a result, now most Japanese have a far greater familiarity with Western (or westernized) music than with traditional Japanese music. Traditional or classical Japanese music has become somewhat ghettoized, known and practised only by small groups of people in social stru

Author: A. McQueen
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: methods, systems, model, toxicology, vitro
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1989-10-15
List price: $159.95
ISBN-10: 0936923237
ISBN-13: 9780936923239

The past several years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the development and use of in vitro systems in pharmacology and toxicology. This volume consists of information on all major in vitro models which have been developed and are currently being used to identify and study toxic and pharmacological phenomena. These models include methods for isolating and culturing cells, tissue slices, and perfused organs for the liver, kidney, lung and heart. The advantages and disadvantages for each model are examined closely and examples of how each model is used are also provided. Toxicologists, phar

Author: Humphrey McQueen
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Keywords: britannia, new
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 0702234397
ISBN-13: 9780702234392

’Cock-eyed and parochial’ Donald Horne labelled this provocative book when it was first published - a few years after his own celebrated Lucky Country.This stimulating new edition of Humphrey McQueen’s irreverent classic charts the origins of the Australian Labor Party. In tracing the social forces that produced the ALP, he shows it was anti-socialst from the very start. Along the way he reveals a colonial passion for pianos and uncovers the proto-fascist ideas behind Henry Lawson’s popular writings. An expanded Afterword brings the ALP into the current phase of globali

Author: Moira McQueen
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Keywords: catholics, concerned, guide, matters, bioethics
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0826435106
ISBN-13: 9780826435101

Bioethics Matters is an essential resource for Catholic dealing with medical and end-of-life issues. This succinct guide clearly sets out Catholic teaching on today’s debated issues: stem cell research, reproductive technologies, euthanasia and much more. By presenting real-life situations, this guide provides readers with examples of Catholic ethical decision-making in action. The purpose is to show how Catholic teaching can help people today navigate their way through tough decisions and choices. Lay people deserve to be as educated as possible in Catholic teaching. Lay people today ha

Author: Holly McQueen
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: novel, fashionable, fabulously
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2010-05-25
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 143913796X
ISBN-13: 9781439137963

Twenty-eight-year-old Isabel Bookbinder has figured some things out:she’s moved in with her loving lawyer boyfriend, and despite her mother’s adoration of all things matching, she’s finally discovered her true calling—fashion design. After all, she knows her Manolos from her Louboutin, her Pucci from her Prada, and she’s always poring over fashion magazines (the celebrity pages of fashion magazines, that is). She’s even landed a position with Nancy Tavistock, editor at top fashion magazine Atelier, and creative muse to hot designer Lucien Black.So learning from the very best, the f

Author: Holly McQueen
Publisher: Atria Books
Keywords: novel, confidential, confetti
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2011-03-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1439193347
ISBN-13: 9781439193341

Having realized that fashion design may not be the best profession for her, Isabel Bookbinder has made another career move - this time, into the world of wedding planning! She’s still the ditzy, adorable heroine that we love, and her early misadventures include brides being delivered to the wrong ceremony, brides not actually turning up at all – that sort of thing! But despite all that, she is really beginning to get quite good at her job. She’s landed a big celebrity client, and she’s moved in with her perfect lawyer boyfriend, Will - and this time, it’s for good.

Authors:K.E. Weber, Annie McQueen,
Publisher: Magic Bean
Keywords: fiction, reading, guided, dogs
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 1998-02-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1863743294
ISBN-13: 9781863743297