Bøker av Mark Evans

Classical music, jazz, film scores, and the masterpieces of musical theater are in danger of fading into an undeserved oblivion. This crisis extends not only to music, but also to an ignorance of good books, art, theater, and films. Students are emerging from school unfamiliar with our past and unprepared for our future This crisis is exacerbated by our vanishing history, a decline in language, and a pervasive celebrity culture. If this problem is not solved, our nation's cultural and artistic heritage will be irretrievably lost. "Mark! My Words" by Mark Evans is the first book to address the challenge of this crisis. The author, a composer, writer, and broadcaster presents compelling evidence that change and progress are not synonymous and that "new and improved" often means a bigger box and fewer corn flakes .He explains why we have become a nation of hares instead of tortoises. In today's high tech world, students are emerging from school:¿Unfamiliar with any music other than what they've encountered through social media ¿Unable to write, spell, or speak using the English language correctly. ¿As experts on the lives of celebrities, but ignorant of the most basic facts of American history. ¿Spending countless hours texting, tweeting, and downloading on the latest digital devices, but without reading any book that hasn't been assigned to them in years. ¿With a healthy respect for the present, but a complete disdain for the past. In "Mark! My Words" readers will encounter:¿True achievers in the arts who are ignored while we celebrate the accomplishments by geniuses of self-promotion. ¿Teenagers who are mesmerized by pop culture and say they would rather be the assistant to a celebrity than president of a university or a successful business enterprise. ¿Composers of classical music who have turned music into mathematics and have lost their audience as a result, while great composers are dismissed and ridiculed by critics. ¿Promoters of rock, pop, and rap music that have corrupted our musical culture while crying all the way to the bank. ¿Modern artists who promote the credo "Art is what you can get away with." ¿Graduates of prestigious colleges who are who are unfamiliar with the great events of American history, and who can't tell the difference between the words of Thomas Jefferson and those of Karl Marx. ¿Librarians who are busy taking our best books off the shelves of their libraries. ¿Teachers who smile and nod while children make mistakes in reading. ¿Lawyers and government bureaucrats who can't write a simple English sentence ¿English professors who have never read a play by Shakespeare. But "Mark! My Words" isn't just about our cultural problems; it also offers solutions to those problems. You'll meet real heroes in "Mark! My Words" like the inner city teacher who changed the lives of her students by starting her own school. You'll celebrate the achievements of composers, writers, and artists who have stood for integrity in an age of cultural confusion. The solution cannot be found in academia, government, or the entertainment industry. It can be found in our own energy, inspiration, and resolve. This book is dedicated to the proposition that we should pursue "cultural conservation," devoting the same energy to preserving our cultural resources that we devote to preserving our natural resources. "Mark! My Words" details what we can do as a society and what you can do as an individual to embark on an exciting journey of discovery that can truly impact your daily life. If you are a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, a student, or someone who cares about music, books, art, language, and our history as a nation, you will want to read this book.

Classical music, jazz, film scores, and the masterpieces of musical theater are in danger of fading into an undeserved oblivion. This crisis extends not only to music, but also to an ignorance of good books, art, theater, and films. This crisis is exacerbated by our vanishing history, a decline in language, and a pervasive celebrity culture. If this problem is not solved, our nation's cultural and artistic heritage will be irretrievably lost. "Mark! My Words" by Mark Evans is the first book to address the challenge of this crisis. The author, a composer, writer, and broadcaster presents compelling evidence that change and progress are not synonymous and that "new and improved" often means a bigger box and fewer corn flakes .He explains why we have become a nation of hares instead of tortoises. In today's high tech world, students are emerging from school: - Unfamiliar with any music other than what they've heard on MTV. - Unable to write, spell, or speak using the English language correctly. - As experts on the lives of celebrities, but ignorant of the most basic facts of American history. - Spending countless hours texting, tweeting, and downloading on the latest digital devices, but without reading any book that hasn't been assigned to them in years. - With a healthy respect for the present, but a complete disdain for the past. In "Mark! My Words" readers will encounter: - True achievers in the arts who are ignored while we celebrate the accomplishments by geniuses of self-promotion. - Teenagers who are mesmerized by pop culture and say they would rather be the assistant to a celebrity than president of a university or a successful business enterprise. - Composers of classical music who have turned music into mathematics and have lost their audience as a result, while great composers are dismissed and ridiculed by critics. - Promoters of rock, pop, and rap music that have corrupted our musical culture while crying all the way to the bank. - Modern artists who promote the credo "Art is what you can get away with." - Graduates of prestigious colleges who are who are unfamiliar with the great events of American history, and who can't tell the difference between the words of Thomas Jefferson and those of Karl Marx. - Librarians who are busy taking our best books off the shelves of their libraries. - Teachers who smile and nod while children make mistakes in reading. - Lawyers and government bureaucrats who can't write a simple English sentence - English professors who have never read a play by Shakespeare. But "Mark! My Words" isn't just about our cultural problems; it also offers solutions to those problems. You'll meet real heroes in "Mark! My Words" like the inner city teacher who changed the lives of her students by starting her own school. You'll celebrate the achievements of composers, writers, and artists who have stood for integrity in an age of cultural confusion. The solution cannot be found in academia, government, or the entertainment industry. It can be found in our own energy, inspiration, and resolve. This book is dedicated to the proposition that we should pursue "cultural conservation," devoting the same energy to preserving our cultural resources that we devote to preserving our natural resources. "Mark! My Words" details what we can do as a society and what you can do as an individual to embark on an exciting journey of discovery that can truly impact your daily life. If you are a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, a student, or someone who cares about music, books, art, language, and our history as a nation, you will want to read this book.

This book is perfect for Level 1 students. This helps with the Level 1 exams as it contains the important grammar at this level. It can be used for self-study or in a classroom setting.

This is suitable for advanced level students of English. It is excellent for the Level 2 Reading and Writing exams as it matches the syllabus. This book can be used in a class or for self-study as answers are in the back.

¿Desea disfrutar de alimentos fritos, a la parrilla y horneados sin usar mucho aceite? ¿Quisiera disfrutar de alimentos deliciosos sin consumir demasiadas calorías? ¿Está buscando un aparato de cocina que le proporcione una alternativa más saludable a sus alimentos fritos favoritos y le ayude a perder peso? Entonces este libro de cocina de freidoras de aire es para usted! La freidora de aire cocina la comida frita rápidamente sin añadir grasa, calorías o culpa. Si le gustan los alimentos fritos pero no está de acuerdo con el desorden y las calorías grasas, le encantará la freidora de aire. Este libro de cocina presenta fáciles y deliciosas recetas cuidadosamente seleccionadaa que usted puede cocinar en su freidora de aire. Usted no necesita ser un experto en la cocina para cocinar deliciosas comidas para sus seres queridos.Las freidoras de aire son fáciles de usar y le permiten cocinar sin aceite. Estas recetas fritas al aire usan sólo una cuarta parte de aceite que la comida frita normal. Con una freidora de aire, usted puede reducir las calorías en más de un 60% e incluso más cuando se trata de grasas saturadas. La freidora de aire es su boleto a los alimentos fritos más saludables que aún saben crujientes y deliciosos y le deja muy poco que limpiar. Este libro de cocina de freidora de aire es un libro de cocina imprescindible para cualquier persona que tenga una freidora de aire.Dentro de este libro descubrirá Recetas saludables y familiares que puede hacer sin pasar horas en la cocina!Recetas fáciles para freidoras de aire que le ayudarán a mantenerse saludable y a perder peso rápidamente.Recetas rápidas y sencillas de desayunoRecetas de almuerzo que satisfacen el paladarRecetas de guarniciones simples y sabrosasRecetas de bocadillos y aperitivosDeliciosas recetas de pescado y mariscoRecetas sabrosas de aves de corralRecetas de carne que hacen agua la bocaRecetas de verduras saludables y deliciosasDeliciosas recetas de postresEntonces, ¿qué estás esperando? Obtenga su copia ahora y disfrute de una cocción sin problemas con su freidora de aire!

This book is excellent for self-study or class use. It consists of 12 mock papers which will help students with English exams, particularly 11+ and school entrances exams as well as SATS. It builds inference and vocabulary deduction and develops recognising parts of speech and literary devices required at this level.

A hilarious, chaotic, Dickensian caper for the stage, based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.

A major new reference volume - The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism is the premier collection of material on a comprehensive range of topics in contemporary liberalism. Liberal theory has been caricatured by its critics as an abstract, unworldly, trivial philosophical navel-gazing pursuit. The Companion counters this view by showing how liberalism can tackle wide-ranging practical concerns that urgently demand attention in twenty-first century politics. Rather than presenting contemporary liberalism simply and narrowly as a survey of what its main academic protagonists have said over the past 30 years, the guiding principle of the volume is to conceptualise it primarily as a set of themes and approaches informed by the challenges to the practice of liberal politics.Issues such as human rights, citizenship, nationalism, feminism, international communities, supranational orders, post-communism and ecocentrism take their place alongside the more familiar and well-worked themes of justice and justification as topics for liberal theorising. The reader is vividly shown the ways in which liberalism engages directly with the problems of practical political life today.This wide-ranging account of contemporary liberal thinking places the emphasis on agenda-setting, showing that contemporary liberalism is live - relevant, proactive, continuously engaged and adaptable - and that the problems faced by the liberal order are sufficiently complex and perplexing to demand the serious, rigorous philosophical reflection offered by contemporary liberal political theory.The Companion allows the reader to explore liberalism's contemporary relevance and to look to its likely future developments. With contributors including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden, Richard Bellamy, Rex Martin, Margaret Canovan, Diana T. Meyers, and Kate Soper, this large, definitive edition will be a must-buy for all libraries and a key reference tool for