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Author: Darlene Trew Crist
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Keywords: stone, spirits, gargoyles, american
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-05-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0609606859
ISBN-13: 9780609606858

American Gargoyles: Spirits in Stone is the first pictorial essay on the many gargoyles found in the United States, featuring unique stories and breathtaking full-color photographs of these monstrous but delightful angels with a sense of humor. A number of books have showcased the medieval gargoyles of Europe, but never before has one been devoted to the thousands of gargoyles that peer down from American buildings. Lewd or ferocious, holy or humorous, these astonishing carvings are distinguished by fine artistry, vivid imagination, and spiritual mystery.American Gargoyles puts us face-to-face

Authors:Darlene Trew Crist, Gail Scowcroft, James M. Harding
Publisher: Firefly Books
Keywords: marine, life, survey, global, ocean, census, world
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-09-17
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1554074347
ISBN-13: 9781554074341

"[A] distillation of a decade of exploration, magnificently illustrated and eloquently written. Some will treasure World Ocean Census as a valuable reference, others as a place to find white-knuckle adventures." -- From the foreword by Sylvia Earle An insider’s description of the comprehensive Census of Marine Life and what it reveals about a seriously threatened ecosystem. The Census of Marine Life was launched in 2000 with the goal of producing the first-ever ocean census by 2010. Two thousand scientists from 82 nations agreed to the mandate to answer three important questions:

Authors:Stephen A. Crist, Stephen A. Crist, Roberta Montemor
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: eastman, studies, music, interpretations, methods, musicology, sources, historical
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1580463010
ISBN-13: 9781580463010

How do we know what notes a composer intended in a given piece? -- how those notes should be played and sung? -- the nature of musical life in Bach’s Leipzig, Schubert’s Vienna? -- how music related to literature and other arts and social currents in different times and places? -- what attitudes musicians and music lovers had toward the music that they heard and made? We know all this from musical manuscripts and prints, opera libretti, composers’ letters, reviews in newspapers and magazines, archival data, contemporary pedagogical writings, essays on aesthetics, and much els

Authors:Darlene Clark Hine, Earnestine Jenkins, Darlene Clar
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: manhood, history, black, male, blacks, volume, diaspora, construction, masculinity, reader, men, question, vol, rights
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 1999-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253213436
ISBN-13: 9780253213433

Each of these essays illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders. The essays describe the expectations and demands to struggle, to resist, and facilitate the survival of African American culture and community. Black manhood was shaped not only in relation to Black womanhood, but was variously nurtured and challenged, honed and transformed against a backdrop of white male power and domination, and the relentless expectations and demands on them to struggle, resist, and to facilitate the survival of African-American

Author: Grant Trew
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: test, pack, reading, listening, toeic, tactics
Published: 2007-11-22
List price: $57.25
ISBN-10: 0194529592
ISBN-13: 9780194529594

Developed for the new TOEIC Listening and Reading Test. Content is authorized by ETS and contains official TOEIC test items.

Author: Grant Trew
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: test, pack, writing, speaking, toeic, tactics
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $36.75
ISBN-10: 0194529525
ISBN-13: 9780194529525

Tactics for TOEIC Speaking and Writing Tests Pack is authorized by Educational Testing Service (ETS) and contains official TOEIC items. This complete preparation course will help students develop the necessary skills to do well on the new computer-based Speaking and Writing tests. It focuses on building the range and understanding of language use, and awareness of key-testing strategies needed to get a high score. The Pack includes a Student Book, Class Audio CDs, Key and a Tapescripts booklet.

Authors:Dylan Tomlinson, Winston Trew,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: policies, discriminatory, health, social, welfare, anti, review, opportunities, minimising, oppression, critical, equalising
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-12-29
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0415250870
ISBN-13: 9780415250870

This book clarifies the distinctions between three key concepts - Anti-Racist Practice (ARP), Anti-Discriminatory Practice(ADP) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP). Critically and constructively analysing these three approaches to practice it reappraises their potential in the light of emerging equality issues in the health service. With contributions from leading teachers and practitioners in the field, Equalising Opportunities provides students and practitioners in health and social care with a clear overview of an area where there is much confusion and imperfect understanding.
  
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