Author: Susan Thomas
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: havana, lyric, stage, gender, race, zarzuela, performing, cuban
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0252033310
ISBN-13: 9780252033315

On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana’s Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad in the tight pants, boots, and riding jacket of a coachman. Standing alongside a gilded carriage and a live horse, the blackfaced, cross-dressed actress sang the premiere of Eliseo Grenet’s tango-congo, "Ay Mamá Inés." The crowd went wild. Montaner’s performance cemented "Ay Mamá Inés" as one of the classics in the Cuban repertoire, but more importantly, the premiere heralded the birth of the Cuban z

Authors:Thomas R. Dye, Susan A. MacManus,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: 13th, communities, states, politics
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2008-03-20
List price: $124.40
ISBN-10: 0136025358
ISBN-13: 9780136025351

Politics in States and Communities is distinguished by its focus on politics, its comparative approach, its concern with explanation, its interest in policy, and its focus on conflicts in states and communities and the structures and processes designed to manage conflict.   Several themes are carried on throughout the book that emphasize the importance of politics at the state and community level including the “conflict management” theme which emphasizes the sources and nature of conflict in society, how key decision makers act in conflict situations, and how “politicos” emerge and

Author: Susan Thomas Smeby
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: history, series, postcard, wanakena, lake, cranberry
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-03-05
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738509698
ISBN-13: 9780738509693

In the northwest corner of the Adirondack Park lie Cranberry Lake and the village of Wanakena. This remote area was the last-settled part of New York State; from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, its name evoked the very essence of wilderness. Initially, sportsmen, naturalists, and artists flocked to the area. By 1900, summer tourism was booming. The logging industry followed, to harvest the virgin timber; after that, the state purchased the mostly cleared lands. Today, seventy-five percent of the lake’s shoreline is state owned, and the Five Ponds Wilderness, south of Wanakena, is one o

Author: Susan Gregory Thomas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: harms, minds, parents, manipulates, consumer, culture, baby
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0618463518
ISBN-13: 9780618463510

An investigative journalist examines how marketers exploit infants and toddlers and the broad, often shocking impact of that exploitation on our societyIt’s no secret that toy and media corporations manipulate the insecurities of parents to move their products, but Buy, Buy Baby unveils the chilling fact that these corporations are using -- and often funding -- the latest research in child development to sell directly to babies and toddlers. Susan Gregory Thomas offers even more unnerving epiphanies: the lack of evidence that “educational” shows and toys provide any educational benefit at

Authors:Susan H. Rodger, Thomas W. Finley,
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub
Keywords: automata, package, languages, formal, interactive, jflap
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-02-27
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0763738344
ISBN-13: 9780763738341

JFLAP: An Interactive Formal Languages and Automata Package is a hands-on supplemental guide through formal languages and automata theory. JFLAP guides students interactively through many of the concepts in an automata theory course or the early topics in a compiler course, including the descriptions of algorithms JFLAP has implemented. Students can experiment with the concepts in the text and receive immediate feedback when applying these concepts with the accompanying software. The text describes each area of JFLAP and reinforces concepts with end-of-chapter exercises. In addition to JF

Authors:Susan M. Stine MD, MD Thomas R. Kosten MD,
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: dependence, opiate, treatments, new
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1997-05-16
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1572301902
ISBN-13: 9781572301900

Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Text on the current understanding of the scientific basis of opiate addiction. Covers the latest treatment methods, including traditional and new pharmacotherapies. 18 U.S. contributors. DNLM: Narcotic Dependence--therapy.

Authors:Susan Nolan, Thomas Heinzen,
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Keywords: sciences, behavioral, statistics
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0716750074
ISBN-13: 9780716750079

What do Florence Nightingale, a failed Antarctic expedition, the Guinness Ale Company, and the Challenger space shuttle disaster have in common? Discover the answer in this new statistics textbook for the behavioral sciences. In Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Susan Nolan and Tom Heinzen convincingly convey the social power and the personal benefits of statistical reasoning while faithfully teaching its underlying mathematical principles. Chapter-specific narratives let students encode and retain their learning through vivid associative memory hooks that all carry the same message: St