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Building background knowledge for academic achievement research on what works in schools / by Marzano, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…The importance of background knowledge -- Six principles for building an indirect approach -- Tapping the power of wide reading and language experience -- Building academic background knowledge through direct vocabulary instruction -- Six steps to effective vocabulary instruction -- Defining an academic vocabulary -- Setting up a schoolwide or districtwide program -- Technical notes -- Vocabulary -- Mathematics terms -- Science terms -- English language arts terms -- History -- General history terms -- U.s. history terms -- World history terms -- Geography terms -- Civics terms -- Economics terms -- Health terms -- Physical education terms -- The arts -- Arts general terms -- Dance terms -- Music terms -- Theater terms -- Visual arts terms -- Technology terms.…”
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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…Thomasson -- Evaluating art / Alan Goldman -- Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern -- Art and the moral realm / Noël Carroll -- Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill -- The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen -- The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson -- The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen -- The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis -- The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut -- The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson -- The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott -- Tragedy / Susan Feagin -- The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. …”
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The plasma universe by Suplee, Curt

Table of Contents: “…-- Irving Langmuir -- Forces and Feedbacks -- 2. Music and Dance of Plasmas -- Langmuir Waves (plasma oscillations) -- Alfven Waves Down the Line -- Rough Ride from the Sun -- Hannes Alfven -- 3. …”
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America's Japan and Japan's performing arts cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 / by Thornbury, Barbara E.

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"The stage's glory" John Rich, 1692-1761 /

Table of Contents: “…Tomko -- Pierrot strikes back : Francois Nivelon at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden, 1723-1738 / Jennifer Thorp -- Musical theatre. Good for the Garden : the composition of Handel's Ariodante / Donald Burrows -- "Heathen gods and heroes" : singers and John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson -- The Beggar's opera in London's theatres, 1728-1761 / Jeremy Barlow -- Beyond The Beggar's opera : John Rich and English ballad opera, 1728-1736 / Berta Joncus and Vanessa L. …”
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The plays to 1942 Mulatto to the sun do move / by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…A poetry play from slavery through the blues to now - and then some! With singing, music, and dancing (1938) -- Six satires (1938) -- The sun do move (1942).…”
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Fernando Alonso the father of Cuban ballet / by Singer, Toba

Table of Contents: “…Musicals, Mordkin, Balanchine, and the birth of ballet theatre -- 5. …”
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Systematic and engaging early literacy : instruction and intervention / by Culatta, Barbara, Hall-Kenyon, Kendra, Black, Sharon (Sharon J.)

Table of Contents: “…: print awareness in school, home, and community -- Exploring squiggles on the page: teaching and practicing letter knowledge skills -- Providing children with tools: phonological awareness and accompanying skills -- Using tools to make meaning: phonics and decoding strategies -- Using sounds and letters to form words: developmental spelling -- Bringing stories to life: approaches to understanding and enjoying narratives -- Learning about the world: exploring and comprehending expository texts -- Collaborating with children's first teachers: integral role of parents in children's literacy -- Enriching language and literacy: integrating visual arts, music, dance, and drama -- Assessing students' needs and progress: use of data to adjust instruction -- Learning and improving together: collaborative professional development -- Applying systematic and engaging practices: planning units and lesson activities.…”
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Re-thinking Renaissance objects

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley -- Finding fame : painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy / Michelle O'Malley -- Set in stone : monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence / Meghan Callahan and Donal Cooper -- Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 / Norbert Jopek -- New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A / Nick Humphrey and Martino Ferrari Bravo -- Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement / Elizabeth Miller and Alun Graves -- Dancing, love, and the 'beautiful game' : a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes / Paula Nuttall -- Sharing and status : the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Kirstin Kennedy -- Scattered knives and dismembered song : cutlery, music and the rituals of dining / Flora Dennis.…”
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The whiskey merchant's diary an urban life in the emerging Midwest / by Mersman, Joseph J., 1824-1892

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : Two immigrant families and their start in America -- Jenkins's boarding house : 8 November 1847-31 December 1847 -- Theater and circus : 1 January 1848-11 March 1848 -- Music and dancing : 12 March 1848-29 April 1848 -- The Miami and Erie Canal : 30 April 1848-5 May 1848 -- Cigars and saloons : 6 May 1848-9 August 1848 -- In charge of the store : 10 August 1848-1 October 1848 -- Mosher's boarding house : 2 October 1848-28 November 1848 -- Farewell to Cincinnati : 17 December 1848-17 February 1849 -- Starting in St. …”
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The Basque country a cultural history / by Woodworth, Paddy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…: the transformation of a tough city -- From the music of labour, to music as a labour of love -- Obaba in Asteasu : the Basque village as a literary universe -- Serious fun : fiestas in Laguardia -- Don't mention the war : the dark side of Basque and Spanish politics -- Bay of Biscay : whales, Belle Epoque, decapitated geese, sexual politics -- Navaree, heartland or hinterland? …”
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Sisters at Sinai new tales of biblical women / by Hammer, Jill

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Performance, iconography, reception studies in honour of Oliver Taplin /

Table of Contents: “…: theatre and society in the early fifth-century West / Barbara Kowalzig -- The Odyssey as performance poetry / Oswyn Murray -- Performance and rivalry : Homer, Odysseus, and Hesiod / Adrian Kelly -- Performing the will of Zeus : the [actual symbol not reproducible] and the scope of early Greek epic / William Allan -- Theatrical Furies : thoughts on Eumenides / Pat Easterling -- Aeschylus' Eumenides, chronotopes, and the 'aetiological mode' / Martin Revermann -- Star choruses : Eleusis, Orphism, and new musical imagery and dance / Eric Csapo -- The last word : ritual, power, and performance in Euripides' Hiketides / Athena Kavoulaki -- Intimate relations : children, childbearing, and parentage on the Euripidean stage / Froma I. …”
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We know how this ends : living while dying / by Kramer, Bruce H., 1956-

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T.S. Eliot in context

Table of Contents: “…Music David Fuller; 15. Radio Michael Coyle; Part III. …”
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Racing the Great White Way : Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway / by Johnson, Katie N.

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Catalogue raisonné as memoir a composer's life / by Argento, Dominick

Table of Contents: “…B. 1994" -- Valentino dances -- Spirituals and Swedish chorales -- Miss Havisham's fire (revised) -- Valse triste -- Walden pond -- A few words about Chekhov -- Reverie (reflections on a hymn tune) -- Miss manners on music -- The vision -- The Bremen town musicians -- Sonnet 64 (in memoriam 9/11/01) -- Orpheus -- From a composer's journal -- Discography.…”
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Talking the walk & walking the talk : a rhetoric of rhythm / by Shell, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Anatine Quacks -- 5. Mind the Music -- CHAPTER SEVEN: SIGN LANGUAGES -- 1. Ma Bell's "Let your Fingers do the Walking" in The Yellow Pages [1962] -- 2. …”
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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 7: Ecstasies of Pain and Near-Death Experiences -- Bob Flanagan: Super-Masochist -- The Nature of Pain -- Ritualistic Violence in Music and Dance -- Sadomasochism -- Playing with Death and Resurrection -- To Humiliate and to be Humiliated -- Playing with Death Through Starving, Purging, and Mutilating the Self -- Initiation into the Tribe -- Body Modifications -- Needle Freaks, Piercing Junkies, and Tattoo Addicts -- Our Cultural Obsession with Skin -- The Tribe of Lambs Who Lay Down for the Slaughter -- Bodily Self-Harm, Body Modifications, and Suicidality -- Beware the Gurus and Shamans of Pain -- Raellyn Gallina, Queen of Blood Sports -- Fakir Musafar -- Chapter 8: Religious Ecstasies -- Sri Ramakrishna's Ecstasies -- Sacred Erotica and Ecstatic Seizures -- Ecstatic Stigmatics and Holy Anorexics -- Born-Again Ecstasies -- Speaking Tongues and Snake Handling Ecstasies -- The Spiritual Ecstasies of Generations X and Y -- The Oceanic Experience: Riding the Waves or Going Under? …”
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The Arab world unbound tapping into the power of 350 million consumers / by Mahajan, Vijay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface Introduction Part I Discovering the Arab World Chapter 1 Drinking Red Bull in Dahiye The Arab market is vibrant and globally interconnected Arab consumers control more spending power than you think The shadow economy Shades of India and China Arab wealth beyond the crude oil Arab wealth beyond the abaya Household spending in the Arab World Consumer brands in both Israel and the Arab countries Chicken fights: Local competition in the Arab market The global emergence of Arab brands A worldwide hub: The Arab world is globally connected The Arab world is neither CNN's nor Al Jazeera's Chapter 2 The Diversity of the Arab World No harm in haram Not all the consumers in Arab countries are Arab The diversity of Arab consumers Segmenting the Arab consumer markets Embracing the diverse habits of Arab consumers The language differences The market dominance of Saudi Arabia and the GCC Think regional, act local Chapter 3 Islam Matters: How the Five Pillars of Islam impact consumers in the Arab World The difference between culture and religion Why shahada matters Why salah matters Why sawm matters Why zakat matters Why hajj and umrah matter Islam in the everyday Part II Tapping the well of Arab consumers Chapter 4 The shabab: tapping the Arab youth market The shabab demographic dividend The shabab crave the best brands, wherever they come from The shabab generation is molding the consumer market The shabab generation is changing the Arab workforce The shabab and education The shabab and marriage Chapter 5 Tapping the Arab Middle Class The rise of the middle class is changing the Arab consumer markets Identifying the Arab middle class Tapping into Arabia Two Tapping into Arab consumer power at all levels Urbanization, modern trade and Arabia Two Arabia Two and the balance between tradition and modernity Chapter 6 Tapping into the Arab women market Arab women have money to spend Educated women are reshaping the Arab market The Arab woman as a consumer Inside and outside: The dual identities of Arab women Tapping into the Arab beauty market The Arab woman as wife and mother The veil doesn't hide the Arab woman's mind Arab women as business leaders Arab women are reshaping the region on their own terms Chapter 7 Tapping into the Arab technology market The spread of Internet use opens up new paths to consumers The rise of social media Tapping into Arab e-commerce Using technology to recapture a Golden Age On the go: The market for mobile phones Building the high-tech industry in Jordan The technological Arab spring Chapter 8 Tapping into the Arab media and entertainment market Television advertising in the Arab world Arab cinema and film Dancing in the desert: Music in the Arab world Art in the Arab world Books and bookstores The birth of an Arab superhero Chapter 9 Tapping into the Arab diaspora Linking the diaspora to the Arab world Remittances constitute a critical piece of many Arab economies Tapping into the Arab diaspora The Arab diaspora has made a name for itself Tapping into opportunities around the world You can go home again The diaspora is bringing different worlds together Part III Conclusion Rebranding the Arab World Yalla Arabia! …”
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