Product Description: Adult Sabbath Lessons for all 7th Day Sabbath observers. These lessons cover a myriad of topics including Festival Days social and economic issues that effect 7th day Sabbath believers

Product Description: This collaborative literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding current developments in Europe, particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World War II...read more

Product Description: It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the lives of four Catholic women - Dorothea of Montau (1347-1394) and Margery Kempe of Lynn (c. 1373-c...read more

Product Description: In the same absorbing style that characterized his bestseller Lost Hollywood, David Wallace presents a the Prohibition-era personalities and events that made New York City the cultural and financial capital of the world. Sex, sin, song, work, sports, play—all these aspects of New York and more are told through a rich array of anecdotes and “inside” profiles of the individuals that personified them in a defining decade...read more

What does realism about the quantum state imply? What follows when quantum theory is applied without restriction, if need be, to the whole universe? These are the questions which an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists debate in this volume. All the contributors are agreed on realism, and on the need, or the aspiration, for a theory that unites micro- and macroworlds, at least in principle. But the further claim argued by some is that if you allow the Schrodinger equation unrestricted application, supposing the quantum state to be something physically real, then this universe is one of countlessly many others, constantly branching in time, all of which are real. The result is the many worlds theory, also known as the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics.The contrary claim sees this picture of many worlds as in no sense inherent in quantum mechanics, even when the latter is allowed unrestricted scope and even given that the quantum state itself is something physically real. For this picture of branching worlds fails to make physical sense, let alone common sense, even on its own terms. The status of these worlds, what they are made of, is never adequately explained. Ordinary ideas about time and identity over time become hopelessly compromised. The concept of probability itself is brought into question. This picture of many branching worlds is inchoate, it is a vision, an error. There are realist alternatives to many worlds, some even that preserve the Schrodinger equation unchanged. Twenty specially written essays, accompanied by commentaries and discussions, examine these claims and counterclaims in depth. They focus first on the question of ontology, the existence of worlds (Part 1 and 2), second on the interpretation of probability (Parts 3 and 4), and third on alternatives or additions to many worlds (Parts 5 and 6). The introduction offers a helpful guide to the arguments for the Everett interpretation, particularly as they have been formulated in the last two decades.

Product Description: Working across professional and disciplinary boundaries, young people and youth workers collaborate to create powerful learning environments in communities, schools, and other settings. This book explores how youth work, as a critical and problem-posing pedagogy, enables young people to transform their lives...read more

Product Description: Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature – primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland – as well as in the related fields of Old Germanic, medieval French and Renaissance Italian literature...read more

Product Description: No time to research the many wonders of Boston? This pocketsize guide directs you to the main attractions of this remarkable and historic city, including many that are overlooked even by the seasoned Bostonian. With this resource in hand, you'll leave feeling you've truly sensed the pulse of Boston...read more

Product Description: Freedom of speech is alive and well in the blogosphere, but at what price? One Nation Under Blog explores the enormous significance and potential impact of Web logs on every aspect of our lives. From our children's comments on MySpace, to an employee's discussion of internal corporate issues, to fabricated statements about a presidential candidate--blogs can change lives forever with the click of a mouse...read more

Product Description: Freedom of speech is alive and well in the blogosphere, but at what price? One Nation Under Blog explores the enormous significance and potential impact of Web logs on every aspect of our lives. From our children's comments on MySpace, to an employee's discussion of internal corporate issues, to fabricated statements about a presidential candidate--blogs can change lives forever with the click of a mouse...read more

Product Description: Connect with and captivate concert audiences as never before with Reaching Out, the groundbreaking new guide to audience engagement and interactive performance for musicians. Author David Wallace shares the techniques he has taught at The Juilliard School and used with orchestras and conservatories around the world for reaching out to any audience regardless of demographics and musical expertise and enriching their concert experience through interaction...read more

Product Description: Fleeing Nazi persecution, half of Europe's creative talents, including screen legend Greta Garbo and composer Igor Stravinsky, were, in Arnold Schoenberg's words, "driven into paradise," settling in Los Angeles. It was the greatest flight of European cultural and intellectual talent in history, and for a time made Los Angeles a cultural capital...read more

A Hollywood historian explores twenty-five extraordinary buildings and homes from Hollywood's Golden Age, offering in-depth, behind-the-scenes tours of these spectacular theaters, hotels, restaurants, and homes of such filmdom luminaries as Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, and Gloria Swanson.

A visual guided tour of coastal Malibu's most significant architectural structures includes profiles of houses by such individuals as John Lautner, Richard Meier, and Frank Gehry, in a collection of mostly unpublished photographs taken over the course of the historian author's seventy-five-year career. 15,000 first printing.

A tour of Hollywood in the first half of the twentieth century follows the dawn of the studio era while tracing the lives of its biggest stars and players. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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A history of Hollywood traces the influence of the East Coast establishment on the evolving film industry as it tours such intriguing monuments as Marion Davies's 'Xanadu by the Sea,' the Hollywood Canteen, the Brown Derby, the Copacabana, and Pickfair. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Crime is a matter of interpretation, and never was this truer than in he Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and pressures were continually forced to rethink what a crime was -- and what was a crime. This collection undertakes a thorough exploration of shifting definitions of crime and changing attitudes toward social control in medieval Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Chaucer's encounters with the great Trecento authors Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch facilitate the testing and dismantling of time-honored terms such as medieval, Renaissance, and humanism. The author argues that no magic curtain separated medieval London and Westminster from Renaissance Florence and Milan; as a result of his Italian journeys, all sites were interlinked for Chaucer as parts of a transnational nexus of capital, cultural, mercantile, and military exchange...read more

Product Description: The world's least developed countries (LDCs) are the logical place to look for the emergence of more environmentally sustainable systems of production. Through their direct investments, according to David Wallace, western multinationals can play a major role in achieving this...read more

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