examinations of the instruments, trends, recordings, producers, and performers who have helped to popularize blues music. Selected discography. 50 illustrations.  (less)

provides an in-depth look at the realities of being a middle-class black parent, living, working, and raising children in a predominantly white community, through first-hand interviews. The candid responses of both parents and children about their lives and experiences raise many important issues that have immediate relevance for black families regardless of where they live.  (less)

compelling book by paleontologist Dale Guthrie. The 1979 find of a frozen, extinct steppe bison in an Alaskan gold mine allowed him to undertake the first scientific excavation of an Ice Age mummy in North America and to test theories about these enigmatic frozen fauna.BRBRThe 36,000-year-old bison mummy, coated with blue mineral crystals, was dubbed Blue Babe. Guthrie conveys the excitement of its excavation and shows how he made use of evidence from living animals, other Pleistocene mummies, Paleolithic art, and geological data. With photographs and scores of detailed drawings, he takes the reader through the excavation and subsequent detective work, analyzing the animal's carcass and its surroundings, the circumstances of its death, its appearance in life, the landscape it inhabited, and the processes of preservation by freezing. His examination shows that Blue Babe died in early winter, falling prey to lions that inhabited the Arctic during the Pleistocene era.BRBRGuthrie uses information gleaned from his study of Blue Babe to provide a broad picture of bison evolutionary history and ecology, including speculations on the interactions of bison and Ice Age peoples. His description of the Mammoth Steppe as a cold, dry, grassy plain is based on an entirely new way of reading the fossil record.BR/divDIVPrefaceBRAcknowledgmentsBR1. The Curse of the Frozen MammothsBR2. Unearthing Blue BabeBR3. Reconstructing Blue Babe's DeathBR4. Reconstructing Blue Babe's AppearanceBR5. Tracking Down Blue Babe's Missing HumpBR6. Steppe Bison EthologyBR7. Steppe Bison Ecology and PhylogenyBR8. The Mammoth SteppeBR9. Arguments and Controversies about the Mammoth SteppeBR10. Bison Hunting on the Mam@B  (less)

So he spends 20 years and all of his money  to build a tower to the sun. Using the largest rock in the world as the foundation, workers pile stone upon stone, beam over beam, building atop building, until the old man sits on top of the tower with his great grandson and feels the warmth of the sun shine on his face. Though now penniless, he is indeed, a rich man. Lush with the intricate detail that has become his hallmark, Colin Thompson's art invites repeated examination and yields its secrets subtly. His tower is an extraordinary pastiche of architectural prototypes from Stonehenge, Greek temples and the leaning tower of Pisa to the Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum. This is Thompson's most provocative pictorial fantasy to date--and a moving fable for the environmentally conscious of all ages.  Colin Thompson is fast becoming a cult.  His incredibly detailed pictures, packed with bizarre touches, worlds within worlds, and wondrous visual jokes, are addictive.  Colin's bookb/bbiRuby/i/bb/b, an international hit, was linked to a contest with a real vintage automobile as the prize.  His earlier titles includeb/bbiThe Paper Bag Prince/i/bb/bandb/bbiLooking for Atlantis/i/bb/b.  After leaving art school, and subsequently, the London School of Film Technique, Colin worked for a time at the BBC before moving to the Outer Herbrides, where he began twenty years of self-employment in ceramics.  Colin now works full time as an author and illustrator.    (less)

for this text), and the book aggressively pursues its musical goals. Together, the authors have created a compelling and consistent text that synthesizes keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity.Preliminary Chapter. 1. Intervals. 2. Pentascales. 3. Root Position Triads. 4. Extended Use of Intervals, Pentascales, and Triads/Dominant Seventh. 5. Chord Shapes/Pentascales with Black-Key Group. 6. Scalar Sequences/Modal Patterns/Black-Key-Group Major Scales. 7. White-Key Major Scale Fingerings/Blues Pentascale and the 12-Bar Blues. 8. White-Key Minor Scale Fingerings/Diatonic Harmonies in Minor. 9. The ii-V7-I Progression. 10. Secondary Dominants/Styles of Accompanying. 11. Harmonic Implications of Common Modes. 12. Diatonic Seventh Chords in Major and Minor/Secondary Seventh Chords. 13. Altered/Borrowed Triads. 14. Altered Seventh Chords/Extended Harmonies (Ninth, Thirteenth). Glossary. Index of Titles. Index of Composers.  (less)

the technological limitations of East German communism. Though unfair and oversimplified, the famous image from the early 1990s of the rear of a Trabi protruding from a dumpster seemed to imply that the car, like the system which had produced it, had been consigned to the dustbin of history. /PPBut as Raymond G. Stokes points out in Constructing Socialism, eastern Germany in 1945 was one of the most highly developed, technologically sophisticated industrial areas in the world. Despite the evident failings of its technology by the late 1980s, the German Democratic Republic maintained advanced technological capability in selected areas. If the system itself was fundamentally flawed, what explains successes under the very same system? Why could the successes not be repeated in other areas? And if examples of success are so isolated, how did East Germany last as long as it did?/PPTo answer these questions, Constructing Socialism examines the system of innovation that delivered some minimal level of technological excellence into the East German economy and industry. Focusing on success rather than failure, Stokes offers a general history of East German technology between 1945 and 1990. He combines an overview and synthesis of emerging scholarly literature with an examination of newly opened archival material in order to explore issues that include automation, standardization, technology transfer and technological tourism, and espionage. Constructing Socialism investigates specific technologies and machines but also emphasizes the people who designed and implemented them and the cultural context and meanings of technological systems./P  (less)

showed, at an early age, a great aptitude for all sports, especially cricket and rugby. Although he eventually became a Sports MedicineDoctor, his first introduction to the specialty was as a patient. Aged seventeen, he sustained a severe head injury while playing rugby for his school's first fifteen. After months of recuperation, the injury ended his playing of rugby, but excused him from sitting his Higher School Certificate examination. It is reported he was admitted to Sheffield University Medical School because of the unfortunate injury and because he was good at sport. At university, his academic life flourished. He was a regular member of the University's cricket team, being awarded five blues and was elected President of the University's Athletic Council. His standard of wicket keeping was such that the then Yorkshire County Cricket Captain, Norman Yardley, recommended him to Glamorgan. He played briefly for the Glamorgan Club and Ground eleven, before his clinical studies prevented his commitment to a professional cricket career. On qualifying as a doctor, aged twenty-three, Neil became House Surgeon in the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. There he worked for Sheffield's senior consultant surgeon, Blacow Yates, who was also Chairman of Sheffield United Football Club. Two years National Service followed at Catterick where his medical profession was forgotten. He became a full time cricketer in the summer and a rugby referee in the winter. In 1959, he entered General Practice at Redcar in North Yorkshire. Fortuitously, two years later, he met the then England Manager, Walter Winterbottom. Impressed by his attitude to Sports Medicine, Winterbottom quickly involved him in the medical aspects of The Football Association. Aged thirty-one, Neil @N¸Që…¸ÿ¾Û€  (less)

prospect of dwindling salaries and prestige. This landmark book presents a comprehensive examination of the status of women in public relations and proposes concrete ways to achieve greater parity in education and practice. The authors integrate the theoretical literature of public relations and gender with results of a major longitudinal study of women in the field, along with illuminating focus group and interview data. Topics covered include factors contributing to sex discrimination, how public relations stacks up against other professions on gender-related issues, challenges facing women managers and entrepreneurs, the experiences of ethnic minority professionals, the salary gap, the glass ceiling, and how to foster solutions on individual, organizational, and societal levels. This volume is an essential resource for public relations professionals, scholars, and educators. Students of public relations, mass communication, organizational sociology, management, and women's studies will find it an informative and accessible text.br/divDIV1.The Purpose of This BookbrWhy This Book?brResearch QuestionsbrA Snapshot of Women in Public RelationsbrA Few Words about 'Objectivity'brPRSA's Initiatives on Women in Public RelationsbrWhat Do We Mean by 'Women'?br2.Understanding the IssuesbrIntroduction to the IssuesbrThe Pay GapbrExplaining the ProblemsbrThe Feminist FallacybrDenial of the ProblembrWhy the Feminist Fallacy and Denial of Gender Bias PersistbrThree Feminist Positionsbr3.Parallels with Women in Diverse FieldsbrWomen in the ProfessionsbrWomen in Blue-Collar WorkbrConcluding Thoughtsbr4.Women in Management and EntrepreneurshipbrWomen in Business Managementbr@@Ê=p£×ÿ¾Û€  (less)

the paneled wall opposite the jury box, the court reporter's carmine-tipped fingers playing over her stenotype machine, Mrs. Perrine's experienced eyes watching me across the defense table.brbrIt was nearly noon on the second and last day of her trial. I was the final witness for the defense. Her attorney had finished questioning me. The deputy D.A. waived cross-examination, and several of the jurors looked at him with puzzled frowns. The judge said I could go.brbrFrom my place on the witness stand I'd noticed the young man sitting in the front row of spectators. He wasn't one of the regular trial-watchers, housewives and pensioners filling an empty morning with other people's troubles. This one bad troubles of his own. His brooding blue gaze stayed on my face, and I had the uncomfortable feeling that he might be willing to share his troubles with me.brbrHe rose from his seat as I stepped down and intercepted me at the door. "Mr. Archer, may I talk to you?"brbr"All right."brbrThe bailiff opened the door and gestured urgently. "Outside, gentlemen. Court is still in session."brbrWe moved out into the corridor. The young man scowled at the automatically closing door. "I don't like being pushedbraround."brbr"I'd hardly describe that as being pushed around. What's eating you, friend?"brbrI shouldn't have asked him. I should have walked briskly out to my car and driven back to Los Angeles. But he had that clean, crewcut All-American look, and that blur of pain in his eyes.brbr"I just got thrown out of the Sheriff's office. It came on top of a couple of other brushoffs from the local authorities, and I'm not used to th?özáG®ÿ¾Û€  (less)