This timely second edition explores recent developments which strongly endorse play as an integral part of the curriculum.

Is music the patriarchy's most powerful weapon in constructing and controlling sexual roles? If you scratch an opera queen, will you find a lesbian? "Queering the Pitch" aims to provoke readers into questioning what it is that makes music pleasurable, and how it is shaped by notions of sexuality and sexual identity. A collection of gay and lesbian work in music and musicology, this book contains a wealth of diverse approaches which signal a controversial advance in the field. Musicologists, scholars, academics, critics, performers and composers examine the areas of musical education, voice and listening, history and biography, as seen through an interdisciplinary and political eye. The essays cover a broad range of topics: lesbian experience and the process of making music; the part gay choruses play in the personal, political and theoretical understanding of what it means to be gay; and a discussion of the way specific musical elements configure female or lesbian adolescent sexuality. Readings of musical works are given - such as Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" and little-known 17th-century songs - as well as discussions of modern gay composers.

Back cover: Meet hannah Jacobs. A young woman living in the 1940's. she goes from rags to riches, from country bumpkin to a millionaire

This text provides a guide to the array of fish, corals and invertebrates found in the South China Sea. With full colour photographs, identification details, and at-a-glance information of 275 species, this text presents a practical guide for divers, snorkellers, and underwater photographers.

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Provides instructions for a variety of projects, including science experiments, handicrafts, recipes, and magic tricks. (view table of contents)

Provides easy-to-follow instructions, rated as to level of difficulty, for fifty sleight-of-hand tricks using cups, balls, cards, handkerchiefs, ropes, hats, balloons, and other props

Includes step-by-step directions, with information on the necessary props and preparation, for a variety of magic tricks

Product Description: Describes how nine British elementary teachers ranging from novices to experts are trying to integrate theories about a play- based curriculum into their classrooms. Emphasizes the variety of approaches they use and the constraints they encounter...read more

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Product Description: With newly recovered information about women composers as well as an updated listing of available scores and recordings, this edition brings together musical and biographical material about 25 composers from the 11th to the 20th centuries; discusses each composer in context and analyzes the conditions required for women to compose and for their works to survive...read more

Product Description: Book by Wood, Elizabeth

When Morgan Ross, mother of four children, turns to her friend and one-time lover, Annie, after her husband Duncan retreats into his business, Duncan claims she is an unfit mother and institutes a custody battle for the children

Pictures and a very simple text explore all a child's favorite toys--books, kites, boats, balloons, and blocks.

A young child details all his favorite articles of clothing, from shoes and shirts to bathing suits and pajamas

The tale of Mother Goose, and her son Anton, who brought the Goose that laid the golden egg back from the market

A little old woman's efforts to care for her dog are frustrated by the animal's contrary and mischievous nature

Illustrates the increasingly slender relationship between Luis's house and the people, animals, and events taking place in the countryside around it

Retells the misadventures of Simple Simon, who tries to do all sorts of things, but never does get them quite right

A guide to growing herbs in containers and gardens, with instructions on drying herbs and using them to make pomanders, pot-pourri, and tea.

Presents the concepts of such prepositions as through, under, and over in a story about an active rabbit

Experiments illustrate the characteristics of liquids and their reactions in mixtures.