Author: Professor Robert V. Hine Professor John Mack Fara
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: history, series, western, lamar, american, short, frontiers, west
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300117108
ISBN-13: 9780300117103

Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history courses. Now Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher offer a concise edition of their classic, freshly updated. Lauded for their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand survey of the colorful history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century.Frontiers introduces the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of different ethni

Author: Professor Clive DimmockProfessor Allan David Walk
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: diversity, culture, leadership, educational
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 076197170X
ISBN-13: 9780761971702

`Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker’s books is a valuable addition to the overcrowded literature on leadership. This is a useful and important book because citizenship, globalization and the tensions with nationality should be the concern of all who lead any school; even monofaith, monoethic and monolingual schools’ - Tim Brighouse, TES Friday ’The authors offer a rigorous and systematic analysis based on careful definition, illustration and discussion which demonstrates the importance of understanding culture, leadership and their interaction in different contexts: in doing so t

Authors:Paul Henry Lang, Professor Alfred Mann, Professor Ge
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: performance, musicology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-08-25
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300068050
ISBN-13: 9780300068054

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of America`s foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of music

Authors:Professor Tony Bush, Professor Les Bell, David Middl
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: management, amp, leadership, educational, principles
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-05-05
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1848602103
ISBN-13: 9781848602106

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, this Second Edition of this classic book brings together many leading international authors on educational leadership, with brand new chapters from leaders in the field – Ken Leithwood, Paul Begley, Allan Walker and Alma Harris. Providing an overview of essential topics within the field, this book adopts an international perspective and offers conceptual and empirical insights. 

Author: Professor Robert V. HineProfessor John Mack Farag
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: history, lamar, western, series, interpretive, west, new, american
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2000-01-11
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0300078358
ISBN-13: 9780300078350

A survey of frontier history, tracing the story from the first Columbian contacts between Indians and Europeans to the multicultural encounters of the modern southwest. It provides details about topics such as western landscapes, environmental movements, literature, arts and film.

Authors:Craig Calhoun, Professor Chris Rojek, Professor Brya
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: sociology, handbook, sage
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2006-07-18
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0761968210
ISBN-13: 9780761968214

`This is a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of sociology’s ’state-of-the-art’. It will set the terms of debate for the next decade’ - John Urry, Lancaster University, U.K.`The profession of sociology was blessed by abundance of excellent handbooks. The one edited by Craig Calhoun, Christ Rojek and Bryan Turner was preceded by outstanding sociology handbooks, the most eminent ones by Robert Farris and E Lee published in 1964 and a more recent one by Neil Smelser in1988. The volume by Farris and Lee not only served as an introductory text to the discipline, but con

Author: Professor Donald GreenProfessor Bradley Palmquist
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: social, identity, voters, parties, political, hearts, minds, partisan
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0300092156
ISBN-13: 9780300092158

In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities. The authors maintain that individuals form partisan attachments early in adulthood and that these political identities, much like religious identities, tend to persist or change only slowly over time. Scandals, recessions, and land